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US 4,264,031 AGranted
Folding, self-locking carton with separate lid including integral handle
AssigneeWestern Kraft Paper Group Willamette Industries, Inc.
InventorHenry R. Goebel
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Abstract
A folding carton having a bucket-like shape. The bottom of the carton body includes a locking flap which is operable to hold the bottom flat. Around the top of the carton is a plurality of holes. A separate lid includes tabs which are engageable in the holes. The lid further includes an integral handle by which the carton may be carried.
Claims16
For use with a carton having an open top and a plurality of holes in the rim of the top, an engageable lid comprising:
- (a) two cover panels, each configured and dimensioned to cover substantially half of the open top of the carton;
- (b) a handle panel hinged to each of the cover panels, the handle panels being hinged together and foldable to form a central rib above the cover panels;
- (c) the central rib having a hand hole therein to form an integral handle;
- (d) an extension formed integrally with the central rib, on each end thereof, configured to be engageable with two opposite holes in the rim of the top of the carton;
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- (e) a plurality of tabs extending outwardly from the periphery of the cover panels and insertable in and engageable with the holes in the rim of the carton.
3 more elements
A carton comprising in combination:
- (a) a carton body having an open top and a plurality of holes in the rim of the top;
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- (b) a lid comprising
- (1) two cover panels, each configured and dimensioned to cover substantially half of the open top of the carton,
- (2) a handle panel hinged to each of the cover panels, the handle panels being hinged together and foldable to form a central rib above the cover panels,
- (3) the central rib having a hand hole therein to form an integral handle,
- (4) an extension formed integrally with the central rib, on each end thereof, configured to be engageable with two opposite holes in the rim of the top of the carton, and
- (5) a plurality of tabs extending outwardly from the periphery of the cover panels and insertable and engageable with the holes in the rim of the carton.
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A polygonal folding carton having a locking bottom comprising:
- (a) a plurality of articulate side panels having two ends, a top edge and a bottom edge;
- (b) a glue flap hinged to one end of the side panels, the glue flap underlapping and attachable by adhesion to the other end of the side panels forming a tubular body;
- (c) a plurality of bottom support flaps hinged to the bottom edges of selected side panels, the bottom support flaps being adhesively engageable to provide a segmented bottom for the tubular body;
- (d) a bottom cover panel hinged to the bottom edge of one of the side panels, configured and dimensioned to substantially cover the segmented bottom;
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- (e) a locking flap hinged to the bottom cover panel configured to engage the glue flap in wedging abutment, holding the bottom cover panel in position at the bottom of the carton.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.