US 12,709,447 B2Granted

Systems and methods for locking packaging container

AssigneeAll Packaging Company

InventorChristopher Chambers

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Abstract

The technology disclosed herein includes a method of manufacturing a packaging apparatus including an outer sleeve and an inner sleeve. The method includes assembling the outer sleeve including a first glue lap and a bottom panel. Assembling the outer sleeve includes applying at least two glue lines on the first glue lap. Assembling the outer sleeve also includes folding the first glue lap onto the bottom panel such that the at least two glue lines adhere the first glue lap to the bottom panel. The method also includes assembling the inner sleeve using a second folder/gluer. The inner sleeve comprises a locking tab configured to interface the locking ridge of the outer sleeve to secure the inner sleeve within the outer sleeve. The method further includes assembling the packaging apparatus by inserting the inner sleeve into the outer sleeve.

Claims14

Dependent claims

A method of manufacturing a packaging apparatus including an outer sleeve and an inner sleeve, the method comprising:

assembling the outer sleeve, the outer sleeve comprises a first glue lap of the outer sleeve, two side panels of the outer sleeve, a top panel of the outer sleeve, and a bottom panel of the outer sleeve, wherein the first glue lap of the outer sleeve is directly attached on a first side of the first glue lap to one of the two side panels of the outer sleeve in an unassembled configuration, wherein assembling the outer sleeve comprises:
applying glue on the first glue lap of the outer sleeve;
and
folding the first glue lap of the outer sleeve onto the bottom panel of the outer sleeve such that the glue adheres the first glue lap of the outer sleeve to the bottom panel of the outer sleeve, wherein the first glue lap of the outer sleeve and the bottom panel of the outer sleeve form a locking ridge of the outer sleeve, wherein the locking ridge comprises a cut-out of the first glue lap that extends from a second side of the glue lap opposite the first side of the first glue lap;
and
assembling the inner sleeve, the inner sleeve comprises a locking tab of the inner sleeve configured to interface the locking ridge of the outer sleeve to secure the inner sleeve within the outer sleeve, the locking ridge of the outer sleeve and the locking tab of the inner sleeve at least partially define a locking mechanism.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 18/299,681Filed 12 Apr 2023 · continuation in part
Priority: 15 Oct 2019
Published: US 2023/0242308 A13 Aug 2023
Granted: 18 Aug 2026
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

B65D 50/066
Requiring the combination of different actions in succession: whereby parts of the container or closure having to be deformed, i.e. bi-stable movement
B65D 5/38
Rigid or semi-rigid containers of polygonal cross-section, e.g. boxes, cartons or trays, formed by folding or erecting one or more blanks made…
B65D 5/5007
Integral elements for containers having tubular body walls: formed by inwardly protruding of folded parts of the body
B65D 2215/02
Child-proof means: requiring the combination of simultaneous actions

Family

Application62/915,602Us provisional application · filed 15 Oct 2019
Application17/071,884Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 15 Oct 2020
US 2023/0242308 A1Pre-grant publication · published 3 Aug 2023
US 11,628,990 B2Parent of this continuation-in-part
US 2021/0107712 A1Published application
US 12,709,447 B2This patent

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