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US 11,027,877 B2Granted
Locking carton
AssigneeDiamond Packaging
InventorIlce Nakovski
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Abstract
A locking carton, locking mechanism and method includes an insert including a bridge having at least one pair of locking tabs at the ends thereof and material cutouts in the bottom panel and side walls adjacent to the bridge and an outer sleeve including at least one pair of locking notches corresponding to the at least one pair of locking tabs when in a locked position.
Claims12
A locking carton comprising:
- an insert comprising a top panel and a bottom panel connected by a front wall, back wall and two side walls, wherein the bottom panel is comprised of a flexible bridge having two ends and a respective tab at each;
- and
- an outer sleeve comprising a top panel and a bottom panel, connected by a back wall and two side walls, wherein the side walls comprise at least one pair of notches corresponding to the bridge tabs when in a locked position.
A locking mechanism, comprising:
- a flexible bridge having two ends and a respective tab at each end in a bottom panel of an insert wherein the bridge is moveable between a relaxed position and a flexed position;
- and
- at least one pair of notches in a sleeve corresponding to the tabs when in a locked position.
A method comprising:
- sliding an end of an insert comprising a bridge having two ends and a respective tab at each end into a sleeve causing the bridge to flex from a relaxed position to a flexed position until the tabs at the ends of the bridge protrude through corresponding notches of the sleeve causing the bridge to move from the flexed position to the relaxed position, thereby locking the insert within the sleeve.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.