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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 13, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 22, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Jerry E. Buchanan, Acworth, GA (US);
Assignee:
Technical Developers, Inc., Marietta, GA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65D 3/316 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65D 3/316 ;
Abstract
A convertible package and bowl type container (,) has two overlaying sheets joined along their side edges by side seals (,) and folded to form container sides (,), container ends (,), a generally square bottom (,). The container has an elongated openable seal along the top of the two sides. The sides are of a height of between one to two times that of the major side dimension of the bottom. The container is reconfigurable between a closed configuration with the top seal closed and an open, self standing configuration with a squared off open top.