The Procter Gamble Company

The Proctor 'gamble Company

Jun You

Kenneth Stephen McGuire

Lee Mathew Arent

Scott Kendyl Stanley

Andrew Paul Rapach

Joseph Craig Lester

Kory Adam Gunnerson

Susana E Borrero

Benjamin G Hesford

Benjamin Jacob Clare

Marc Richard Bourgeois

Charles John Berg, Jr

Mark Armstrong

Dominique Celine Ignace Marie Geeraert

Jason M Earl

Stephen Michael Truesdell

Tadayoshi Ishihara

Anthony Ogg

Donald Joseph Cox

Ken McGuire

Emily Charlotte Boswell

Gavin John Broad

Richard Matthew Giachetto

Marko Stojanovic

Karl William Vanderbeek

Lee Matthew Arent

Mark Levandoski

James T Boesken

Kunie Kolb

Kevin Joseph Wood

Joseph Neltner

Glenn Anthony Lauer

Charles John Berg

Kenneth Stephen Mcguire

Ken Mcguire

Package having a flexible inner sheet having a first surface and a second surface. The package has an article reservoir for accepting an article to be shipped. The expansion chambers can be inflated or otherwise expanded to provide structure to the package and to protect the article in the article reservoir. The inner sheet of the package includes a shrinkable material that can be activated to immobilize articles disposed in the article reservoir.

Flexible package and method of manufacture

Package

A shipping package having a flexible inner sheet having a first surface and a second surface. The package has an article reservoir for accepting an article to be shipped and one or more expansion chambers. The expansion chambers can be inflated or otherwise expanded to provide structure to the package and to protect the article in the article reservoir.

Shaped flexible shipping package and method of making

A container including a longitudinal overlapping seam extending from an end seam and a mold part line extending from the closed end of the container to the open end of the container. The container wall consists of a one-piece thermoplastic substrate.

Container having coordinated mold part line and longitudinal seam

Non-durable self-supporting flexible containers with easily variable sizing. Line ups of flexible containers have similar sizes, shapes, and constructions, but hold differing amounts of fluent product at unexpected fill heights.

Flexible containers with easily variable sizing

A flexible package having first, second, and third flexible material layers, with the second flexible material layer being disposed between the first and third flexible material layers; a product receiving chamber having a product receiving chamber outer circumference defined by the first flexible material layer; a plurality of spaced first seals disposed around a package circumference, the first seals sealing the first, second and third flexible material layers together; a plurality of spaced second seals disposed around the product receiving chamber outer circumference, the second seals sealing the second and third flexible material layers together; a plurality of inner expansion chambers, each one of the plurality of chambers being defined between adjacent ones of the first seals; and a plurality of outer expansion chambers, each one of the plurality of chambers being defined between a second seal and an immediately adjacent first seal.

Flexible package

In methods of making disposable, flexible containers for fluent products, methods of sealing the flexible containers when such containers include expansion materials, are disclosed. The methods include forming a partially completed container blank that has layers of flexible materials. The layered structure includes a first space for a fluent product, and a second space for an expansion material. The methods of sealing the flexible containers include adding an expansion material into the second space and pressing parts of at least some of the layers together to close off the second space.

Methods of sealing flexible containers with expansion materials

Methods of opening and adding expansion materials to containers made from flexible materials. The methods involve forming a partially completed container blank that may have four layers of flexible materials. The partially completed container blank may be opened by separating a portion of the first layer from a portion of the second layer by bending portions of the second, third, and fourth layers toward a first direction; and dosing the partially completed container blank, by adding an expansion material out of a dispenser and into a space disposed between a portion of the first layer and a portion of the second layer.

Methods of adding expansion material to flexible containers

Flexible containers with structural support frames including bottom support structures.

Flexible containers with bottom support structure

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West Chester, OH, United States of America

Jun You