Perforated collapsible box
AssigneePratt Corrugated Holdings, Inc.
InventorsGreg Sollie, Shifeng Chen
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Abstract
A collapsible box can include a top panel; a front panel hingedly attached to the top panel; a first side panel hingedly attached to the top panel and the front panel; a second side panel hingedly attached to the top panel and the front panel; a rear panel hingedly attached to the top panel, the first side panel, and the second side panel; and a bottom panel hingedly attached to the front panel, the rear panel, the first side panel, and the second side panel; and wherein the front panel defines a frame portion and a lower flap portion connected together by a front line of weakness; wherein the frame portion is coupled to the first side panel, the second side panel, and the bottom panel; and wherein the lower flap portion is coupled to the top panel.
Claims19
A collapsible box comprising:
- a top panel defining a top hinge;
- a front panel hinged to the top panel;
- a first side panel hinged to the top panel and the front panel;
- a second side panel hinged to the top panel and the front panel;
- a rear panel hinged to the top panel, the first side panel, and the second side panel;
- a bottom panel hinged to the front panel, the rear panel, the first side panel, and the second side panel and defining an internal cavity;
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- an access flap configured to provide access to an inner cavity through the top panel and the front panel when the access flap is folded about the top hinge.
A blank comprising:
- a front panel defining a frame portion;
- a first top subpanel coupled to the front panel by a front hinge;
- a second top subpanel that tapers away from the first top subpanel;
- a side panel coupled to the second top subpanel and defining a first side and a second side opposite from the first side, the first side coupled to the frame portion by a first side hinge;
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- a rear panel coupled to the second side by a second side hinge parallel to the first side hinge and perpendicular to the front hinge.
A blank comprising:
- a front panel defining a lower flap portion and a frame portion coupled together by a front line of weakness comprising a pair of side portions, a baseline portion extending between the pair of side portions, and a finger cutout portion extending downward from the baseline portion in a bathtub shape and defining a thru-cut that extends completely through the front panel;
- a first top subpanel coupled to the lower flap portion by a front hinge;
- a second top subpanel coupled to a side panel coupled to the frame portion, wherein the second top subpanel tapers away from the first top subpanel;
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- a rear panel coupled to the side panel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.