Sonoco Development Incorporated

Sonoco Products Company

Wim Van De Camp

John F Whitehead

David E Rhodes

Tony Rummage

Arnold B Floyd, Jr

Troy W Johnson, Jr

William David Decker

James R Martin

Bruce Arthur Moon

Honor S Bonds

Robert D Bacon, Jr

Susan Bell

A paper-based plant pot comprises a container formed from a sheet of paper-based material wrapped about an axis, opposite edge portions of the sheet being secured to each other, the container having a side wall that encircles the axis and a bottom wall formed by a plurality of bottom panels of the sheet folded inwardly from a lower edge of the side wall and engaging one another. The sheet comprises a paperboard substrate formed of natural cellulose fibers, an internal sizing composition incorporated into the paperboard substrate so as to render the paperboard substrate substantially resistant to saturation by liquid water, and a thermoplastic polymer layer on one of the major surfaces of the paperboard substrate. The thermoplastic polymer layer faces an interior of the container and forms an inner surface thereof for contact with soil or other growing medium placed in the container.

Paper-based plant pot, and blank for making same

A concrete column forming tube is provided for receiving poured concrete therein to produce a concrete column and which eliminates spiral seam lines and other undesirable characteristics on the outside surface of the formed concrete column and provides a construction which may be easily removed from the concrete column. The forming tube includes a spirally-wound cylindrical paper tube including multiple plies of paper adhered together, a centrifugally-cast plastic coating sprayed on an inside wall surface of the spirally-wound paper tube for producing an inside coated surface having a thickness and smoothness sufficient to eliminate spiral seam lines and other undesirable characteristics, and a tear strip positioned between the inside surface of the cylindrical paper tube and the plastic coating before centrifugal-casting and extending longitudinally of the forming tube over the entire length thereof and having a predetermined width and readily detachable from the plastic coating. In producing a concrete column, the forming tube may be removed from the produced concrete column by pulling the tear strip from one-end of the forming tube to the other to tear open and remove a section of the cylindrical paper tube and produce a longitudinally-extending gap of a width equal to the predetermined width of the tear strip to receive therein a device for cutting through the plastic coating.

Concrete column forming tube having a tear strip therein

A concrete column forming tube and method of making same for receiving poured concrete column therein to produce a concrete column is characterized by a smooth inside coated surface in the forming tube to eliminate spiral seam lines and other undesirable characteristics on the outside surface of the formed concrete column. The tube is formed from spirally-wound plies of paper adhered together and has a centrifugally-cast epoxy resin coating sprayed onto the inside surface of the spirally-wound tube while the tube is rotating to produce a smooth inside coated surface on the forming tube.

Concrete column forming tube having a smooth inside coated surface

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Meerssen, Netherlands

Wim Van De Camp