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Patent D610904 Issued on March 2, 2010. Estimated Expiration Date:

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March 2, 2024. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Telescope container with recessed ends
Patent #: 3951329
Issued on: 04/20/1976
Inventor: Turner

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Inventors

Assignee

The Procter & Gamble Company

Application

No. 29337474 filed on 05/22/2009

US Classes:

D09/432Rectangular or square

Examiners

Primary: Spear, Robert M
Assistant: Acker, Karen

Claims

CLAIM The ornamental design for a box, as shown and described.

Description

FIG. 1 is a front perspective view of a box, incorporating our new design;

FIG. 2 is a front elevational view thereof;

FIG. 3 is a rear elevational view thereof;

FIG. 4 a right side elevational view thereof;

FIG. 5 is a left side elevational view thereof;

FIG. 6 is a top plan view thereof; and,

FIG. 7 is a bottom plan view thereof.

The broken lines in the drawing represent unclaimed environmental material.

The dotted sections in the drawing represent translucent material.

Field of Search

Polygonal in plan

Upwardly diverging or converging walls

Rectangular or square

Folded or sheet material (16)

BOX OR PACKAGING CONTAINER

Pull tab or tear strip opening

Specific flow director or spout

Swinging closure (2)

Plural (15)

Rotating into enclosure

Planar top parallel to base

For tissue or folded sheet material

Rectangular or square depression

Folded blank box

Folded blank box

Including tissue "dispensing" means

ARTICLE IN TONGUE OR FOLD APERTURE

Content folded with blank

Plural

Folded blank

Aperture

Portion moves to expose content

FOLDED BLANK HAVING POSITIONING MEANS THEREIN

PAPERBOARD BOX

Variable volume

Top or bottom wall includes four folded flaps or panels

Automatic bottom (i.e., multipart bottom wall forms automatically during erection of collapsed box)

Collapsible along supplemental fold line

Flat anticollapse element overlies supplemental fold line

Including anticollapse feature

Bottom wall collapses outwardly

Two opposed sidewalls fold inwardly and downwardly

Two other opposed sidewalls fold outwardly and downwardly

Two opposed sidewalls and the bottom wall fold upon themselves

Compartmented

Partition unitary (i.e., of one-piece construction) with and folded from a box wall

Sidewall

Bottom wall

Partition folded from a downwardly extending sidewall extension

Partition folded from bottom wall

Partition cut and folded from a box wall

Partition folded from a sidewall

Collapsible compartments formed by partitions permanently attached to each other

Self-sustaining container-like compartment-forming structure

Plug-type closure

For an access opening formed by a cut-out in a box wall

Closure includes slit or aperture to receive a projection from a box wall

Foldable wall extension (e.g., closure flap)

Extensions of adjacent box walls hingedly attached together

Plural extensions mechanically interlocked with each other

Flange or flap includes a portion of a folded corner connector (i.e., "corner fold" or "corner flap")

Reusable hinged closure

Reusable hinged closure includes interlocking closure flaps hingedly attached to opposite box walls

Reusable closure

BOX FOR PREPARED OR PROCESSED FOOD

Compartmented fast food holder or lap tray

Stacking of collapsed container or blank

MATING CONTAINER BLANKS

Compartmented bottle carrier

No waste (i.e., edge-to-edge blanks)

Three or more blanks with alternating orientations

Plural blanks for making a single container

NONREUSABLE BOX HAVING MEANS TO FACILITATE COLLAPSING OR DISASSEMBLING FOR DISPOSAL OR FOR RECYCLING OF THE BOX MATERIAL (E.G., "KNOCKDOWN" TYPE)

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