Boxes
CA 2244578 A1 · Owner: Allied Balfour Limited · Inventors: Ben-Haim, Amit
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
A box for solid and semi-solid food products is formed from a blank and has a body portion, a base portion and a lid portion the lid, portion having a tear-away strip for opening the sealed box. Side panels of the body portion have overlapping end flaps which lie across the top of the body portion and have creased lines running substantially parallel to the fold line which separates the flaps with either respective panels. The creased regions are pushed inwards towards their respective panels and the non-creased region of each flap lies substantially perpendicular to the side panels to form a suspended surface. This surface may support a spoon or other item and is covered by the overlapping …
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Why it's free to use
- Filed August 4, 1998. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended August 4, 2018.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by August 4, 2020.
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