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US 4,047,660 AGranted
Composite package
AssigneeContainer Corporation of America
InventorsRichard L. Bell, John D. Desmond, Joseph J. Hart
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Abstract
A pilfer-resistant, composite package including a plastic cap member and a paperboard body member having integral flap means for retaining said cap member on said body member.
Claims5
In a two-piece, composite pagkage, the combination of:
- a. a body member formed of foldable paperboard and including a bottom wall and opposed pairs of side and end walls upstanding therefrom to form a boxlike structure open at the top;
- b. a cap member including a dispensing opening and a cover for said opening and defining a cover structure open at the bottom;
- c. said cap member including a depending skirt portion received within the upper portion of said body member;
- d. said body member including flap means foldably connected to an upper edge of at least one of said walls and extending over a portion of said cap member to retain said cap member on said body member;
- e. said flap means including a removable tab detachably joined thereto and overlying said cap member dispensing opening.
2 more elements
In a two-piece, composite package, the combination of:
- a. a body member formed unitary blank of foldable paperboard and including a bottom wall and opposed pairs of side and end walls upstanding therefrom to form boxlike structure open at the top;
- b. said opposed side walls having medial portions extending above the remaining portions of said walls and said end walls;
- c. a cap member formed of molded plastic and defining a cover structure open at the bottom;
- d. said cap member including a depending skirt portion received within the upper portion of said body member;
- e. said body member including a pair of flaps foldably connected to upper edges of said side wall medial portions and secured to each other in overlapped relation over said cap member.
2 more elements
In a two-piece, composite package, the combination of:
- a. a body member formed of foldable paperboard and including a bottom wall and opposed pairs of side and end walls upstanding therefrom to form a boxlike structure open at the top;
- b. a cap member formed of molded plastic and defining a cover structure open at the bottom;
- c. said cap member including a depending skirt portion received within the upper portion of said body member;
- d. said cap member presenting a peripheral shoulder adjacent said skirt portion for engagement with upper edges of said body member walls;
- e. said body member including flap means foldably connected to an upper edge of at least one of said walls and extending over a portion of said cap member to retain said cap member on said body member.
2 more elements
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.