Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
229198200 | Miscellaneous joint construction | 15 |
20090152337 | CARTON HAVING INTERCONNECTED FLAPS - A cardboard box with four side panels, four bottom flaps and four top flaps is provided. Adjacent bottom flaps and adjacent top flaps are provided with living hinges so that the flaps may be stored adjacent the body of the box. Additionally, during loading the top flaps are held adjacent the body of the box to move the flaps out of the way and make the box more convenient to load. The hinges may be broken apart to allow the flaps to be moved to the closed and sealed position. | 06-18-2009 |
20100001056 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MAKING, SHIPPING AND ERECTING BOXES - A cardboard box with four side panels, four bottom flaps and four top flaps. The box is made from a blank having a first height measured between the outermost edges of the top and bottom flaps. The flaps are rotated into abutting contact with the exterior surface of the panels thereby reducing the overall height of the box to the height of the panel. Adjacent pairs of top and bottom flaps are provided with living hinges that enable them to remain in this position when the box is collapsed. The collapsed box is shipped through the mail in this diminished size and then erected into a box of the same height as the panels. | 01-07-2010 |
20110226847 | PACKING BOX, CORRUGATED CARDBOARD BLANK SHEET AND RULING WHEEL ASSEMBLY - An object of the present invention is to provide a packing box having its ridge(s) collapsed so that there would be no body bulging occurring in the box and potential serpentine folding line would be avoided. | 09-22-2011 |
20120024941 | Improved Containers - A blank for a box made from an expandable material which is initially moulded generally flat in which, where folds forming hinges are to be made to enable the formation of the box, the tooling which defines the shape of the blank is such as to provide a thickness of the expanded material less than the thickness of the major part of the blank where the folds are to be made having defined edges generally in the direction of each fold the fold and subsequently applying pressure along the area where folds are to be permitted to reduce the thickness of the this blank without removing material therefrom thereby providing hinges to permit formation of the box. The invention also provides a method of making the blank and a box made from the blank. | 02-02-2012 |
20120061457 | Carton With Angled Corner Panels - A carton formed from a blank of foldable sheet material having two pairs of upstanding generally parallel sidewall panels and two upstanding diagonal corner panels. The corner panels are hingedly foldably connected to the sidewall panels intermediate and adjoining the sidewall panels. One pair of sidewall panels is attached to shaped flaps, which have one edge that abuts and rests against an adjoining sidewall panel and another edge that abuts and rests against an adjoining diagonal corner wall panel. The other pair of sidewall panels are hingedly foldably connected to cover forming flaps at their upper and lower edges to form the bottom and top panels of the carton. A reinforcing filler of styrofoam or other filler material may be used to support the bottom and top panels of the carton and diagonal corner wall panels. | 03-15-2012 |
20120193405 | SUSPENSION PACKAGING ASSEMBLY - A suspension package assembly can include a package member, a stretchable retention member, and a closure device disposed on the stretchable retention member. The package member and a stretchable retention member cooperate to suspend at least one article. At least one article can be held securely between the retention member and a base member of the foldable member. The pocket of the retention member can be positioned over the foldable portions of the package member. The foldable portions can fit into the pockets and then can be folded so as to generate tension in the retention member. | 08-02-2012 |
20120248179 | CARTON AND BLANK THEREFOR - An arrangement for locking together two panels ( | 10-04-2012 |
20130008940 | PACKAGING - A carton includes one or more fold-guiding mechanisms. Each fold-guiding mechanism is positioned to facilitate folding of the carton. Each fold-guiding mechanism comprises two weakened lines that diverge from a first location on the carton and that converge on a second location on the carton. The first and second locations are spaced apart and are positioned on a notional line defining a primary deformation region of the respective fold guiding mechanism | 01-10-2013 |
20130037604 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FORMING A REINFORCED BOX STRUCTURE - The present invention relates to reinforced box structures. A blank for forming a pre-stiffened box structure is provided. The blank comprises a box portion having a base and side panels for providing a box structure, a stiffening panel extending integrally from a given one of the side panels, and a line of weakness delimiting the stiffening panel from said given side panel. The blank is operable into a pre-stiffened configuration wherein the given side panel is folded to position the stiffening panel to substantially overlap and be secured to the base of the box portion. When the folded side panel is pivoted about the line of weakness, a free end of the side panel is biased away from the secured stiffening panel and thereby separates from the stiffening panel along the line of weakness. | 02-14-2013 |
20130126594 | REINFORCED PACKING CONTAINER - A container has a plurality of panels integrally arranged with respect to a set of orthogonal x, y and z axes, the z-axis defining a direction line in which the container is configured to support a stacking load. The panels are folded to define a form having a plurality of folded edges oriented perpendicular to the z-axis. At least one of the plurality of folded edges has a cutout region having a planar edge oriented perpendicular to the z-axis. The plurality of panels includes a plurality of cut edges oriented and disposed inline with respective ones of the plurality of folded edges. At least one of the plurality of cut edges has a projection disposed contiguous and planar with a respective panel. The projection includes a planar edge oriented perpendicular to the z-axis, the planar edge being disposed within an adjacently disposed cutout region. | 05-23-2013 |
20150060536 | Adjustable Volume Storage Container - A rectangular storage container comprises four parts, two of which are releasably coupled to each other to respectively form a bottom section and a top section such that, when assembled together, the bottom section and top section can move telescopically with respect to each other in a first dimension, and the respective two parts that are attached to form the bottom section and top section can additionally move with respect to each another in a second dimension, to enable adjustment of the volume of the storage container in two dimensions. | 03-05-2015 |
20150307225 | LOCKING ARRANGEMENT, CARTON, BLANK AND METHOD - A locking arrangement secures together first and second panels. The arrangement includes locking tabs ( | 10-29-2015 |
20150321786 | Reinforced Packing Container - A plurality of integrally arranged panels include a first panel and a second panel with a fold line therebetween. A compression reinforcement feature has a planar edge oriented orthogonal to a first planar surface of the first panel and perpendicular to a z-axis that defines a stacking load direction, the planar edge being disposed at a distance away from the fold line of half a thickness of the first panel, the first panel having a void between the fold line and the planar edge. The compression reinforcement feature is formed by at least four cut lines that define at least a portion of a closed perimeter of a cutout. One of the cut lines defines a location of the planar edge of the compression reinforcement feature. | 11-12-2015 |
20160144997 | Child Resistant Packaging - A method for controlling the delamination of a package at the exposed edges of the package is disclosed. A carton is formed with a panel comprising at least one exposed edge, at least one partial depth cut proximate to the exposed edge, and a removable section positioned between the exposed edge and the partial depth cut. The separation of the removable section from the carton leaves an exposed edge with a reduced thickness, inhibiting delamination of the panel from the rest of the carton. | 05-26-2016 |
229198300 | Including separate securing element | 1 |
20090321506 | STRUCTURES FOR SECURING CONTAINERS - Disclosed herein are improvements to fold-over structures in containers comprising two leaves foldably connected to each other along a folding line and a flap sandwiched by the two leaves when they fold together. A slot can be cut along the folding line and the flap can have an extension that is insertable into the slot to prevent the lateral movement of the flap along the long axis of the slot. One leaf can have a locking tab insertable into a slit cut in the container when the two leaves fold together in spaced parallelism to each other. An outer edge of the locking tab can extend beyond the corresponding end of the slit to secure the locking tab once inserted into the slit. The container can have a hand hole cut through both leaves and in alignment with the flap at least along the upper edge of the hand hole. | 12-31-2009 |