Donald W Keel

US Patent:

7637372, Dec 29, 2009

Filed:

Jul 19, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/184943

Inventors:

Donald Wayne Keel - Flower Mound TX, US
Garrett William Kohl - Allen TX, US

Assignee:

Frito-Lay North America, Inc. - Plano TX

International Classification:

B65D 5/28
B65D 21/00

US Classification:

206509, 206511

Abstract:

A stackable display case for protecting products which are unable to support a compressive load. Such display case provides improved protection of products during shipping and sale. Such display cases are loaded with products, stacked three or more cases high, two per layer, on a pallet at a production facility before being shipped to warehouse style and other retail outlets. Such display cases allow products to be sold directly from pallets and require a minimal amount of manual labor compared to prior art shipping displays. Such display case provides visibility and accessibility from four sides of pallets, and from at least three sides of each display case. Such a display case requires substantially less manual labor at a manufacturing and shipping facility, and almost no manual labor at the point of sale.

US Patent:

20030141405, Jul 31, 2003

Filed:

Jan 29, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/058639

Inventors:

Donald Keel - Flower Mound TX, US

International Classification:

B65H023/04

US Classification:

242/548000, 242/615100, 242/615200

Abstract:

A spiral winder wrinkle remover capable of wrapping a material of varying thickness into a structurally stable, smooth coil. As a material is supplied to the spiral winder, the collecting device, such as a spool, rotates and oscillates linearly along the axis of rotation to distribute the material along the length of the collecting device and form a structurally stable coil of material. As the material is directed to the collecting device it is threaded through a tilting guide. The guide tilts with the linear oscillations of the collecting device and maintains a uniform tension across the width of the material. The oscillations and tilting guide ensure that a material, particularly if the material's thickness varies along its width, is wrapped into a structurally stable coil where the layers of the coil are wrapped smoothly, without folds or wrinkles.