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US 12,319,478 B2Granted
Box blanks, systems, and methods
AssigneeGbs Holdings LLC
InventorsBryan Justin Robert Crosby, Ammar Al Tawil
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Abstract
Box blanks, bag-in-box systems, and methods for forming bag-in-box systems from box blanks. The box blanks (100) include portions and flaps configured to fold and interlock with each other so as to improve structural integrity and reduce lateral deformation, have cross-corrugation and simplified fabrication, and have fewer or no internal edges or corners that may jeopardize the integrity of a bag of liquid or pourable powder contained therein.
Claims20
A blank for forming a box comprising:
- a rectangular central portion;
- a rectangular left internal portion extending from a first foldable boundary of the central portion;
- a rectangular right internal portion extending from a second foldable of the central portion, the second foldable boundary of the central portion being opposite the first foldable boundary of the central portion;
- a rectangular front external portion extending from a third foldable boundary of the central portion, the third foldable boundary of the central portion being adjacent to the first foldable boundary of the central portion and the second foldable boundary of the central portion;
- a rectangular back external portion extending from a fourth foldable boundary of the central portion, the fourth foldable boundary of the central portion being opposite the third foldable boundary of the central portion and adjacent to the first foldable boundary of the central portion and the second foldable boundary of the central portion;
- a first pair of external flaps comprising (i) a front-left external flap that is extending from a foldable boundary of the front external portion that is adjacent to the third foldable boundary of the central portion, and (ii) a front-right external flap that is extending from a foldable boundary of the front external portion that is opposite the front-left external flap;
- a second pair of external flaps comprising (i) a back-left external flap that is extending from a foldable boundary of the back external portion that is adjacent to the fourth foldable boundary of the central portion, and (ii) a back-right external flap that is extending from a foldable boundary of the back external portion that is opposite the back-left external flap;
- a bottom-left external flap extending from a foldable boundary of the left internal portion that is opposite to the first foldable boundary of the central portion;
- a bottom-right external flap extending from a foldable boundary of the right internal portion that is opposite to the second foldable boundary of the central portion;
- a front-bottom internal flap extending from a foldable boundary of the front external portion that is opposite to the third foldable boundary of the central portion;
- a back-bottom internal flap extending from a foldable boundary of the back external portion that is opposite to the fourth foldable boundary of the central portion,
- wherein when the blank is in a folded configuration:
- (i) the left internal portion is hidden by the front-left external flap of the first pair of external flaps and by the back-left external flap of the second pair of external flaps,
- (ii) the right internal portion is hidden by the front-right external flap of the first pair of external flaps and by the back-right external flap of the second pair of external flaps, and
- (iii) the front-bottom internal flap and the back-bottom internal flap are hidden by the bottom-left external flap and the bottom-right external flap.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.