Container with Inclined Walls, Stacking Tabs and Reinforced Corners

A one-piece container formed from a single unitary blank of corrugated paperboard, the one piece container comprising:

• a bottom wall, opposed side walls and opposed end walls, one of either the side walls (12, 13) or the end walls (14, 15) being inwardly inclined;
• stacking tabs (18) on a top edge of the inwardly inclined walls, the stacking tabs extending coplanar with the associated inclined wall;
• tab locks in the bottom wall in positions to receive the stacking tabs of a subjacent container with the associated inclined wall;
• reinforcing corner posts (40) each of which extending diagonally across each interior corner of the container and are formed by respective folded corner post panels (41) on opposite side edges of each end wall, each of the respective folded corner post panels (41) being divided by spaced apart parallel folds (42) and (43) into respective first, second and third panels (44), (45) and (46), the first panels positioned contiguous to the associated end wall (14 or 15), being folded perpendicular to the associated end wall and adhered to an adjacent inner end surface of an adjacent side wall (12 or 13), the second panels (45) being folded at an acute angle to the first panels (44) so that they extend diagonally across the interior corner of the container, and the third panels (46) lie against and are adhered to an inner surface of the adjacent end wall.

A blank for making a container having a bottom wall, opposite inclined end walls, opposite side walls, a full depth corner post in each corner, stacking tabs on upper edges of the end walls, and tab locks in the bottom wall for receiving the stacking tabs, wherein said blank comprises:

• a central bottom wall panel;
• a side wall panel foldably joined to each opposite side edge, of said bottom wall panel;
• a end wall panel foldably joined to each opposite end edge of said bottom wall panel;
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• corner post panels foldably joined to opposite ends of each said end wall panel, said corner post panels each comprising a first panel foldably joined to an end of an associated said end wall panel, a second panel foldably joined to said first panel, and a third panel foldably joined to said second panel, wherein said first panels are adapted to lie against and be adhered to an inner end surface of an adjacent said side wall panel, said second panels are adapted to extend diagonally across a corner, and said third panels are adapted to lie against and be adhered to an inner surface of an adjacent said end wall panel in a container erected from said blank.