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US 2003/0111523 A1Published application
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OwnerOlav Hauganinventor
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The invention relates to a case (1′) with or without a lid (2) and made from a substantially plane blank, which includes a central rectangular field (18;18′), to which e.g. via folding notches (19;19′ and 20;20′ and 24;24′ and 25;25′ respectively), arranged on the inner side (21;21′), upwardly foldable side walls (22;22′ and 23;23′) and end walls (26;26′ and 27;27′) respectively are attached, whereas the corner areas between walls adjacent to each other are filled with folding lugs (28;28′, 29;29′, 30;30′, 31;31′, 32;32′, 33;33′, 34;34′, 35;35′) which in pairs are mutually separated by means of substantially outwardly directed folding notches (44;44′, 45;45′, 46;46′, 47;47′), which are designed to be folded in pairs to abut an adjacent wall and be fastened to it. According to the invention the folding lug pairs are folded on the outside of an adjacent end wall and a handle element (17;17′) is folded around such an end wall in order to exert a press action of two walls adjacent to each other towards each other, the folding lug pairs being folded away in this way being enclosed, and the handle element is fastened to the outside of these pairs of folding lugs, their total thickness, inherent elasticity and mutual distance being utilized to achieve an increased gripping depth and obtain additional gripping means jointly with the handle means.
A case (1;1′) with a lid (2), particularly designed for packing, storing and transporting food stuffs, e.g. fresh fish, manufactured from a substantially plane blank, which includes a central rectangular field (18;18′), to which e.g. via folding notches (19;19′ and 20;20′ and 24;24′ and 25;25′), arranged on the inside (21;21′), upwardly foldable side walls (22;22′ and 23;23′) and end walls (26;26′ and 27;27′), respectively, are attached, whereas the corner areas bet-ween walls adjacent each other are filled with folding lugs (28;28′, 29;29′, 30;30′, 31;31′, 32;
A case according to any of claims 1 and 11-13, characterized in that, upon application of the protective tape, the lid is provided to be folded and glued, stapled or the like to obtain its finished shape, whereby said cuts are prevented from functioning, a strap-ping or the like being provided to be stretched around the lid applied on the case, straight above the section, which extends from the adjacent end wall and all the way to said hinge line, and that, in case of icing up, an inspection, a limited product removal or the like, the strapping is provi-ded to be displaced towards and past said hinge line and the protective tape being provided to be split along the cuts, the detached cover being provided to be lifted up towards the main field of the lid, a reclosure being provided to be effected by lowering the lid and pushing back the strapping to its original position to keep the cover in place and keep the lid and the case together, strappings suitably being provided to be placed around the two ends of finished packs.
A case according to any of claims 1 and 11-14, characterized by a cutting or a tearing element, which runs substantially in a central position straight across the main field of the lid and which continues straight through the borders or stepwise through the folding notch between the borders and the main field and through the borders to obtain foldable lugs, one or both end covers of the lid being provided to be kept in place, until the contents of the pack has been removed or even subsequent to such a removal, one or both main fields of the lid and the central covers formed by the adjacent border parts being provided to be opened up, possibly with a preceding folding of said lugs, in order to prevent, that the border parts will stop an opening up, one of several additional strappings, adhesive tape pieces or the like being provi-ded to be used to keep the covers in place after an opening up and a closing back, the lowe-ring of said border lugs being provided to contribute to a durable reclosure, the end covers or the central covers being provided to allow access to divided compartments in said case, e.g. one compartment for only ice.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.