Container bottom and methods

US8061111B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• The Procter & Gamble Company · US

Inventors

• Gerard Laurent Buisson · Cincinnati, US
• James Calvin McIntyre · Arlington Heights, US
• Elizabeth Dominique Maczek · Mount Prospect, US
• James W. Settelmayer, Jr. · Cincinnati, US
• Douglas David Sena · Jackson, US
• Brian A. Miller · Jackson, US
• Benito Romanach · Mason, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 1, 2010
• Grant date: Nov 22, 2011
• Expiry date: Dec 1, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65D2577/205
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A method of loading a plurality of articles in a container. The method can include providing a container having a body and defining an interior chamber, providing a stack of articles comprising snack pieces having a convex surface, inserting the stack of articles at least partially into the interior chamber, and reorienting the leading article by forcing the leading article against the inner surface such that the convex surface of the article cooperates with the inner surface.