Small animal carrying case
AssigneeWestvaco Corporation
InventorEarl F. Gilbert
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Abstract
A shipping container for small animals or the like is prepared from a cut and scored blank of paperboard that can be shipped and stored in knocked down condition, but readily set up to form an enclosure having main and side walls said container having top closure flaps arranged to form a combination top closure locking means and integral handle, the container further including a means at one corner of the lower end thereof for retaining and permitting external access to a cup or the like into which food or water may be placed.
Claims4
A shipping container for small animals prepared from a single blank of paperboard or the like and having an integral handle and an effective top closure locking means comprising:
- a. opposed pairs of main and side walls foldably connected to define a tube;
- b. closure panels foldably connected to the lower ends of said main and side walls consisting of a pair of full width panels connected to said main walls and a pair of half width panels connected to said side walls to define a triple wall bottom for said shipping container;
- c. closure flaps foldably attached to the upper ends of said main and side walls to define a top closure for said shipping container and an integral handle element, said top closure flaps further comprising a pair of substantially identical first flaps attached to the opposed main walls, each of said first flaps including main portions for covering the top of said shipping container and riser portions for forming the integral handle element of said shipping container wherein each of said riser portions each further contain a pair of matching male and female locking tabs and slots, a matching handhole cut out and handhole flap with locking tabs, a pair of hook-like projections at each end thereof which engage matching slots in said symmetrical second top closure flaps and a pair of slots inboard of said hook-like projections which engage matching slots in the ends of said second symmetrical second top closure flaps, and a pair of symmetrical second flaps attached to the opposed side walls, each of said second flaps including three separate panels that are folded over and engage the riser portions of said first flaps;
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- d. means cut from two adjacent main and side walls of said shipping container near the bottom of said shipping container for retaining a feeding/watering receptacle in the finally assembled container, said means further including a removable access panel for said feeding/watering receptable formed in the adjacent walls of said shipping container.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.