Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.a.

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Nimco Corporation

David R Anchor

Tommy Bo Ljungstrom

Mauro Morandi

Russell Stacy-Ryan

Jerry G Bachner

Tommy B Ljungstrom

Tommy Bo-Goran Ljungstrom

Tommy Bo Goran Ljungstrom

Paul Anderson

Sheila Moss

Craig Boyd

Chris Moss

Russell Stacey-Ryan

Matt Aho

An apparatus for attaching a spout having a flange to a preformed hole in an open-ended container. The apparatus comprises of an applicator system and a mandrel. The applicator system is able to translate a linear motion to an arc motion. The mandrel is attached to the applicator system. The mandrel is adapted to releasably engage the spout.

Spout applicator

Packaging container

An easy-opening, liquid-tight package has an interior space for storage. The package includes a front wall, a rear wall opposing the front wall, a pair of opposing side walls, a bottom wall and a top wall opposing the bottom wall. A seal wall is contiguous with the top wall and extends from a juncture of the top wall and the seal wall. The seal wall has an edge that is opposite the juncture. The seal wall is sealed to the front wall at an exterior surface of the front wall. At least one line of weakness is formed in the top wall, extending from the seal wall at the edge into the top wall. The line of weakness defines a cover portion of the top wall. The cover portion is formed from a portion of the seal wall and a portion of the top wall. When the top wall and seal wall are separated along the line of weakness, the cover portion is separable from the package to define an open area for accessing the interior storage space of the package. A blank for the package is also disclosed.

Package with easy-opening cover portion

Gable top carton with angled corners

A filling system for filling soup into gable top cartons is disclosed wherein the dripping of soup from the fill tube is substantially diminished by the present invention. The filling system includes a product tank, a knife-gate valve, a pump mechanism, a fill tube with a circumferential recessed area, and a sealing cone with a cutting edge. The cutting edge of the sealing cone prevents particulates from interfering with the sealing of the fill tube by the sealing cone. The knife-gate valve prevents the flow of product from the product tank during filling of a carton. The product tank may have an agitating means for evenly distributing the particulates throughout the soup.

Fill system for particulates

Beveled edge carton

Substantially parallelepipedic packaging and gable-top containers for liquid contents, for example milk, are manufactured by folding and sealing of laminated packaging material and include two substantially planar end portions, as well as four vertical wall panels. The volume of the packaging container may be increased in relation to the area of the packaging material employed in that the vertical wall panels, the primary wall panels, are supplemented with secondary wall panels which are defined by straight, vertical fold lines which, at the upper and lower ends of the panels, respectively, merge into pairwise converging diagonal fold lines which intersect at a point. In a blank for the packaging containers, the wall panels are defined throughout the greater part of their length, by straight, parallel, vertical fold lines.

Packaging container and a blank for producing the same

The present invention is an eight-sided carton and a blank therefor. The carton has eight side panels, a gable top structure and an inverse pyramidal bottom. The carton may have an octagonal cross-section. A plurality of diagonal score lines provide for a graceful transition from the gable top structure to the side panels, and from the side panels to the inverse pyramidal bottom. The blank has a plurality of vertical score lines which form the edges and the apices of the eight-sided carton.

Eight sided gable top carton

A retainable access tab for a laminate for a carton blank is disclosed. The retainable access tab may have a predetermined configuration such as keyhole configuration or a hourglass configuration. The retainable access tab extends the length of a roof panel of a carton which is formed from the carton blank. In this manner, a shortened straw may be utilized to access the entire contents of the carton. The retainable access tab provides a hygienic environment for accessing the contents of the carton by revealing a previously untarnished surface for penetration of the straw. The retainable access tab has a hinge which allows it to be retained to the carton after insertion of a straw, In this manner, the potential for littering is decreased and the potential for greater recycling is increased by the present invention.

Retainable access tab for a flowable material container

A gable-top carton and a corresponding carton blank are set forth. The upstanding fin of the carton comprises a centrally disposed depressed region that facilitates stacking of the cartons on top of one another in a manner that results in a more even load distribution on the fins of the lower cartons than obtained when stacking conventional gable-top cartons. A further advantage is realized in the corresponding carton blanks in that the corresponding blanks may be disposed in a top-to-top manner along the width of a web of material whereby savings in material and production costs results.

Stackable gable top carton and corresponding top interlocking carton

Eight-sided carton

A blank for forming a gable top carton is set forth which reduces the surface area of the carton for a given carton volume. The carton blank comprises a generally rectangular body having an upper section, a mid section, and a lower section, each of the sections being separated from each other by one or more generally horizontal score lines. The upper section of the rectangular body comprises a plurality of score lines for defining a gabled top of the resulting carton while the lower section of the rectangular body comprises a plurality of score lines for defining a folded bottom section of the resulting carton. The mid section of the rectangular body comprises a plurality of score lines for defining four sidewalls of the resulting carton. Adjacent sidewalls are separated from one another by a first score line partially extending from the upper section and a second score line partially extending from the lower section. The endpoints of the first and second score lines are separated from one another to thereby allow the resulting carton to bulge.

Gable top carton and carton blank having reduced surface area per unit

A gable top carton and its corresponding carton blank are disclosed. The carton includes curved side creases that are defined by curved score lines that divide one or more side panels from a top gabled structure and/or a bottom structure.

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Union, IL, United States of America

David R Anchor