Virginia M Mcdermott

US Patent:

57434476, Apr 28, 1998

Filed:

Oct 9, 1996

Appl. No.:

8/728360

Inventors:

Virginia B. McDermott - Ardmore PA

International Classification:

A45F 304

US Classification:

224153

Abstract:

A portable, variable capacity locker having detachable shoulder straps, wheels, a handle, at least one detachable compartment, and a expandable compartment, of which the intended primary use is for storage of books and schools supplies in lieu of a school locker. The locker defines a storage compartment having a top closure and an expandable lower portion. The expandable lower portion is defined by a flexible expansion sleeve, wherein the mating parts of a zipper, or other suitable closure, are respectively provided at the top and bottom edge of the expansion sleeve. By fastening together the top and bottom edges of the expansion sleeve, a circumferentially zippered wall is formed above the base. Thus, when the zipper is zipped and the sleeve is in a collapsed state, a functional and sturdy pack may be formed for shoulder transport by decreasing the storage compartment volume; when the expansion sleeve is in its expanded state (i. e. the zipper is unzipped), the sleeve is allowed to unfold to vertically enlarge the walls of the pack and increase the volume of the storage compartment.

US Patent:

57463697, May 5, 1998

Filed:

Aug 13, 1996

Appl. No.:

8/696155

Inventors:

Virginia B. McDermott - Ardmore PA

International Classification:

B65D 510

US Classification:

22912003

Abstract:

An improved paperboard carton including a dispensing mouth which when separated from the surrounding carton forms a dispensing mouth for dispensing single units of a row of units, the units typically being individually-wrapped and thinly profiled packages, such as teabags, sweetener packages and the like. The improvement comprises a series of perforations which have been added to create the mouth panel on a known carton pattern. The perforations permit release of the mouth panel from one of either of two end walls whereby a hinged mouth panel and an opening for single dispensing of the unit results. When two mouth panels are provided, the panels are located in positions diagonally opposed to one another on the opposing end walls. The end walls are defined as being the walls which bound each end of a row of arrayed units, whereby the face of the package is parallel with the end walls. The perforations may be placed on the end wall in a relationship to the face of the package which permits the fixed portion of the end wall from which the mouth opening has been released to slightly impede the top edge of the package and prevent it from falling out the carton.