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US 4,231,326 AGranted
Dog food container and feeder
OwnerDavid P. Hagerinventor
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A dog food container and feeder that is formed from a single precut-perforated cardboard blank which has panels foldable to provide a front, rear and end walls, a top closure, a bottom closure and an inclined panel to direct the food toward the container front wall. The container front wall and a front reinforcing panel have fold lines and perforations defining a tray formable portion that can be separated from the remainder of the front wall by the purchaser of a filled container to provide a discharge opening and folded into a rectangular tray joined to the bottom closure at a fold line and have the tray and front walls retained in vertical conditions by tabs joined to the tray front wall and the reinforcing panel and extended through slots in the tray side walls. One of the top closure panels is foldable to a horizontal condition to be in overhanging relationship to the tray and has tabs to be folded and extended through slots in the front wall to retain the top closure panel in a horizontal condition.
A shipping container feeder for containing feed, comprising a front wall, a rear wall, a bottom closure flap, and side walls joined to one another to form a generally rectangular box shaped bin having an interior and a generally rectangular tray that includes a rectangular bottom wall having one edge integrally joined to the bottom closure flap to extend away from the front wall, a front edge and opposite side edges, a tray vertical front wall joined to the front edge, and opposite tray vertical side walls joined to the side edges, tab means for joining the tray front wall to the tray side walls, a vertical reinforcing panel in the bin interior abutting against the bin front wall and tab means for joining the reinforcing panel to the tray side walls, the bin front wall and panel having openings therethrough to permit flow of feed from the bin interior to the tray.
A shipping container feeder for containing animal feed comprising a top closure flap, a bottom closure flap, a front wall, a rear wall and side walls joined together to form a generally rectangular bin, said rear and front walls having lower edges, a first vertical reinforcing panel abutting against the rear wall and having an upper edge and a lower edge integrally joined to the rear wall lower edge at a first fold line and an inclined panel having a lower edge adjacent the front wall and an upper edge integrally joined to the rear reinforcing panel upper edge at a second fold line, said front wall having line means thereon delineating a tray portion separable therefrom to form a feed opening and foldable into a tray to receive feed through the feed opening, said inclined wall portion being inclined downwardly toward said tray portion, said line means including a third fold line on the front wall parallel to the second fold line, spaced parallel fourth and fifth fold lines extending perpendicular to the third fold line to in part define a tray bottom wall, and separation line means on opposite sides of the fourth and fifth fold lines to in conjunction with the fourth and fifth fold lines define tray side walls.
A shipping container feeder for containing animal feed comprising a top closure flap, a bottom closure flap, a front wall, a rear wall and side walls joined together to form a generally rectangular bin, said front wall and rear wall each having upper, lower and first and second side edges, said front wall having a main body portion and line means thereon delineating a tray portion separable from the main body portion to form a feed opening and foldable into a tray to receive feed through the feed opening, said line means including fold lines delineating a tray bottom and separation lines that in conjunction with the fold lines delineate tray front and side walls.
A container feeder for shipping and feeding animal food of a single piece construction and that includes a top closure flap, a bottom closure flap, a front wall, a rear wall, a first side wall and a second side wall joined together to form a rectangular box shaped bin and having interior surfaces, the front and rear walls having lower edges, a rear vertical reinforcing panel in abutting relationship to the rear wall interior surface and having an upper edge and a lower edge joined to the rear wall lower edge at a fold line, the height of the rear reinforcing panel being much less than the height of the rear wall, an inclined panel extending between the side walls and having an upper edge joined to the rear panel upper edge, a lower edge adjacent the front wall lower edge and side edges adjacent the side walls and a vertical front reinforcing panel in the bin interior in abutting relationship to the front wall and having a top edge at an elevation intermediate that of the front wall top edge and the rear panel upper edge, and a lower edge joined to the inclined panel lower edge at a fold line, said front panel and front wall each having line means delineating a feed opening, the front wall line means including line means delineating wall portions foldable into a tray for receiving feed from the bin.
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