Consumer products and methods for operating the same
AssigneeThe Procter & Gamble Company
InventorsLaurens BEELEN, Clara Sophie Lea NG PAK LEUNG, Adelheid Elisabeth Caroline LESAGE
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Abstract
A consumer product including a detergent product and a container including the detergent product contained therein, the container being made of a paper-based material and including a box and a lid configured for removably covering the opening of the box as the lid assumes a closed position. The box includes a top flap hinged to a sidewall and foldable between an open orientation and a closed orientation, the top flap having a distal edge separated from the sidewall by a distance corresponding to up to and excluding 90% of a distance between the sidewall and an opposite sidewall.
Claims15
A consumer product comprising a detergent product and a container, the container being made of a paper-based material and comprising:
- a box containing the detergent product, wherein the box comprises:
- a base;
- a plurality of sidewalls extending from the base, each sidewall having a top edge opposite the base;
- an opening opposite the base;
- and
- a top flap hinged to the top edge of a first sidewall of the plurality of sidewalls, the top flap being foldable between an open orientation and a closed orientation, wherein the top flap covers at least part of the opening when in the closed orientation, the top flap having a distal edge separated from the top edge of the first sidewall by a distance corresponding to up to and excluding 90% of a distance between the first sidewall and a second sidewall of the plurality of sidewalls opposite the first sidewall;
- and
- a lid configured for removably covering the opening of the box as the lid assumes a closed position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.