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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 05, 2002
Filed:
Oct. 01, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Joseph C. Walsh, Longmont, CO (US);
Assignee:
Graphic Packaging Corporation, Golden, CO (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B31B 7/04 ; B32B 3/108 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B31B 7/04 ; B32B 3/108 ;
Abstract
Apparatus and method for forming a laminate comprising a relatively rigid material having an inner surface with at least one portion thereof comprising a central body portion and wherein the central body portion of a relatively flexible material, preferably fluid impervious, is secured to the central body portion of the relatively rigid material and the relatively flexible material has opposite edge portions not secured to other portions of the inner surface and to carton blanks formed therefrom. In some instances strips of another relatively flexible material are secured to the opposite edge portions but are not secured to the inner surface.