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US 4,260,100 AGranted
Container closure
AssigneeWeyerhaeuser Company
InventorRonald W. Hoffman
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Abstract
A closure construction for a hexagonal or octagonal container utilizing hinged closure panels having integral tuck-in flaps.
Claims4
A closure for a container comprising
- a pair of closure panels hingedly connected to opposing first side walls, each of said closure panels having first side edges alignable with the upper edge of second side walls adjacent said first side wall, and
- second side edges alignable with third side walls adjacent said second side walls,
- tuck-in flaps hingedly connected to said closure panels by score lines along said first side edges, said tuck-in flaps having a radial outer edge, the radius of said tuck-in flap being less than that width of a side wall, the edge of said tuck-in flap opposite said score line being defined by a slit between said tuck-in flap and said second side walls,
- said closure panels overlapping in said closed container, one of said closure panels having a notch in its outer edge alignable with a tongue in the outer edge of the other of said closure panels.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.