A container for food articles including a tray upon which the articles can be stacked, and opposed side members hingedly secured to the tray to retain the articles in the stacked disposition. The side members are moveable between an open position where the articles can readily be stacked or removed from the tray, and a closed or raised position where the sides are secured in place and the articles are restrained from lateral movement relative to the tray due to the inward shape of the side membe...

A molded food packaging tray for use in packaging meats, fish, poultry and other comestibles in conjunction with a transparent overwrap film. The inventive packaging tray is provided with a novel peripheral lip structure which will aid in preventing the collapse or fracture of the tray side walls in view of pressures exerted by the overwrap film when applied to the tray in an automatic tray overwrap machine.

A packaging device comprising a pair of shells adapted to be assembled into closing engagement to define an enclosure for an article of merchandise. A hanger element is releasably securable to the packaging device, extending through a slot defined in the upper part thereof. The hanger element includes means to prevent displacement or removal thereof when the two shells are assembled. The hanger element can be dispensed with leaving the packaging device essentially unblemished, whereby the packag...

An aerosol dispensing system includes a container having a valve-controlled opening for dispensing the container contents, which include hydrocarbon-adsorbent solids such as silica, hydrocarbon propellant adsorbed on such solids, and a weight ratio of hydrocarbon propellant to adsorbent solids ranging up to about 65 parts by weight of the contents, and a liquid composition that may include water, organic oils, alcohols, dispersed and dissolved metals, and metal salts. Water-encapsulating silica ...

The packaging machine illustrated and described herein is adaptable to loading bottles or cartons into cases. The machine includes a frame, a spider mechanism rotatably mounted on the frame for transporting containers to be loaded, a guide plate located adjacent the edge of the path of the spider mechanism and extending along a predetermined circumferential lower portion thereof, a chute for conveying cases past the guide plate, an opening formed through a wall of the chute adjacent the upper ed...

A packaging machine for automatically packaging articles in a honeycomb structure which includes mechanisms for providing a honeycomb structure in an expanded condition in a loading station. The articles to be packaged are directed into the loading station, dropped into the expanded honeycomb structure, and the articles and honeycomb are subsequently dropped into the container. This is automatically done on a repeated basis until the container is filled, after which the container is automaticall...

Method and apparatus for multipackaging bottle-like containers as they are continuously moved through the apparatus. Continuously moving jaw stations incorporating opposing pairs of upstanding shell-like stretching members coact to continuously highly stretch a tube of thermoplastic material and release the stretching force after the plurality of bottles to be packaged are placed within the perimeter of the stretched tube.

This invention provides an apparatus for over-wrapping or bulk packaging of commodities on a pallet or the like supporting surface. The apparatus comprises a supporting surface on which commodities are adapted to be over-wrapped or bulk packaged with a sealable flexible wrapping material, a movable enclosure surrounding the supporting surface and forming an open-topped chamber with said supporting surface. The aforesaid chamber is adapted to receive flexible packaging material, and the movable e...

Packaging apparatus is described for forming a series of containers from an elongated strip of film and for disposing materials, illustratively a liquid, into each of the containers. The packaging apparatus comprises a supply of the film, a mechanism for withdrawing the film from the supply and for advancing the film along a path, and a mechanism disposed at a first station adjacent the path for shaping the film into the series of containers. A material injection mechanism is disposed at a secon...

A package comprising a body for containing the article(s) to be packaged, the body having a first opening closed by closure means movable to permit access into the interior of the body for removal of the article(s) contained within the body and a second opening for permitting insertion of article(s) into the interior of the body.