Pepsico, Inc.

Frito-lay North America, Inc.

Menasha Corporation

Sonoco Development Incorporated

Douglas Machine Inc.

Sunitha Nair

Daniel Lee Mathews

Mike Pfeifer

Roberto Carlos Guerrero Kees

William Garrett Ehlebracht

Patrick Joseph Bierschenk

David Jackson Lestage

Frank Mathew Brenkus

Ronald Matthew Gust

Eduard Edwards

Martin Bernhard Dierl

Glen Bersamin

Stephen D Tyner

Leon J Krause

Valentine Tomaszewski

Johannes Bayer

John G Olmsted, Jr

Patrick Ryan Windley

Niklas Gustafsson

Bich-Van Pham

Parick Joseph Bierschenk

Ronald M Gust

A stackable pallet display system includes a tray portion having a rectangular bottom wall, corner posts extending upward from corners of the tray portion and an interior divider panel extending upward from the tray portion. The tray, corner posts and interior divider wall of the system can be folded from blanks of material.

Stackable pallet display

A snack food container having a square base, side walls substantially consisting of four right triangular panels and two isosceles triangular panels, and a flat, two dimensional end seal. The container is opened by use of a tear feature just below the end seal. The container is of paperboard construction and is resealable by virtue of a score line on each side of the container located below the end seal in combination with a horizontal cut through the container located below one score line. After opening, the container can be resealed by folding the container over the score lines towards the horizontal cut. An edge of the container is then secured in the horizontal cut.

Snack food container

A method and apparatus for making a structurally resilient package having a substantially box-shaped configuration is disclosed. A pillow pouch package is received onto a flighted conveyor. The pillow pouch package has a first squared end and an angular end located opposite to the first squared end. The pillow pouch package is received so that the first squared end rests on the flighted conveyor. Thereafter the pillow pouch package is conditioned at least in part by tamping the angular end with a tamping plate. The angular end of the package is subsequently heat treated to form a second squared end. A set of cooling plates is then applied to the second squared end to set the final shape and form the structurally resilient package having a substantially box-shaped configuration.

Apparatus and method for a structurally resilient package

A modular packaging system for shipping and displaying palletized products is provided. The packaging system comprises a plurality of vertically stacked trays for holding the products and corner posts extending between vertically adjacent trays for spacing and supporting the trays. The corner posts and trays are locked together in a number of ways to strengthen and stabilize the system. The system is strong enough not only to support the weight of the products on the trays and withstand the vibration and impact forces that can occur during shipping, but to withstand the weight of one or more units stacked on top.

Dividerless palletized packaging system with interlocking tray and corner posts

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Dallas, TX, United States of America

Sunitha Nair