US4610353A
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Container for static-sensitive articles
Assignee: HY-CON PRODUCTS Inc A CORP OF MA
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Filing: 1985-03-25
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Granted: 1986-09-09
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Expires: 2005-03-25
Abstract
Abstract Container having walls in the form of corrugated board in which an electrically-conductive layer of carbon particles is dispersed through the webs and flute before the corrugated board is assembled.
Inventors
- 👤 William I. Young
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-10-27 16:57
CPC Classifications
H; H10; H10P; H10P72/00; H10P72/10; H10P72/19; H10P72/1908; B; B65; B65D; B65D81/00; B65D81/24; B65D81/30; H10P72/1922; H10P72/1924; H10P72/1926; H10P72/1928; Y; Y10; Y10S; Y10S428/00; Y10S428/922; Y10S428/923; Y10S428/924
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 4
Claim 1
Independent Claim
94 words
Container for use with an article which can be damaged by static electricity, comprising: (a) a plurality of walls forming a cell in which the article resides, each wall consisting of a sheet of corrugated board made up of an outer web, an inner web, and a corrugated flute web that is sandwiched between the inner and outer webs, each web being formed with a substantially uniform, electrically conductive dispersion of conductive carbon particles, wherein the walls have a surface conductivity and bulk conductivity in the range from 10 3 to 10 9 ohms/square.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
94 words
Container for use with an article which can be damaged by static electricity, comprising: (a) a plurality of walls forming a cell in which the article resides, each wall consisting of a sheet of corrugated board made up of an outer web, an inner web, and a corrugated flute web that is sandwiched between the inner and outer webs, each web being formed with a substantially uniform, electrically conductive dispersion of conductive carbon particles, wherein the walls have a surface conductivity and bulk conductivity in the range from 10 3 to 10 9 ohms/square.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
56 words
Container as recited in claim 1, wherein the container contains electrically-conductive foam plastic packing, consisting of a block of electrically-conductive foamed plastic packing enclosed in the container and having a conductivity in the order of 10 7 ohms/square, wherein the foam plastic is of the open-cell type and is impregnated with carbon particles during its manufacture.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
29 words
Container as recited in claim 2, wherein each web has a conductivity of 10 6 and the foamed plastic is selected from the class consisting of polyethylene and polyurethane.
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