Tenneco Packaging Inc.

Pactiv Corporation

Richard C Sweeney

John P DuBois

Thomas J Hayes

Scott D Brown

H Bernard Kirkland

Bernie P Kimball

John K Westberg, Ii

Set of ribs for container

A cupholder for holding containers is provided with a number of container-holding cavities. Each of the container-holding cavities includes pairs of gripping flanges that extend inwardly toward centers of the cavities. The flanges include gripping points that extend toward each other and exert a gripping force along a bottom of an inserted container. The gripping flanges are pliable to accept a variety of inserted container sizes, but resilient enough to exert a container-holding force against containers inserted into the container-holding cavities.

Cup holder having frusto-conical cavities

A door guard for protecting a door assembly including a door frame and moldings positioned about a door. Guide channels are provided on the base of the door guard for receiving tightening straps to secure the door guard to the door assembly. Raised ridges are provided on the outer side panels of the door guard to receive the tightening straps and communicate tightening pressure to the door guard. A raised block is provided on an inside surface of the door guard to maintain separation of the moldings in response to the tightening pressure. A pad is provided on an outside surface of the door guard to cushion the end of the door assembly.

Door guard

A beverage cup carrier includes multiple pockets arranged in laterally spaced relation. Each pocket includes a bottom wall, a plurality of conical side wall portions, and a plurality of circumferentially spaced webs. The side wall portions encompass the bottom wall and extend upwardly and outwardly therefrom. The side wall portions are circumferentially spaced from each other and form surface portions of a curved surface of an imaginary inverted cone. The webs interconnect the side wall portions and extend radially inward from the curved surface of the imaginary inverted cone. Each of the webs includes a flat central section and a pair of opposing side sections connecting the central section to adjacent ones of the conical side wall portions. The central section extends upwardly and outwardly from the bottom wall. The pair of opposing side sections of each of the webs form surface portions of a curved surface of a respective imaginary upright cone. The central section of each of the webs defines a truncated parabolic conic section of the respective imaginary upright cone. Each of the webs is vertically spaced from the bottom wall to define a respective first elongated slot therebetween. An outwardly curved rim portion is disposed above and spaced from the central section of each of the webs to define a respective second elongated slot therebetween. A plurality of denesting lugs interconnect the bottom wall and respective ones of the side wall portions.

Beverage cup carrier

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Falmouth, ME, United States of America

Richard C Sweeney