Container assembly for ice-cream products
AssigneeField Container Company, L.P.
InventorJohn M. Sykora
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Abstract
A knock-down container assembly for packaging and containing ice-cream products wherein an articulated carton portion cooperates with an articulated cover portion through closure features which effectively lock the cover portion in place on top of the carton portion. Various protuberances or locking flaps in the carton portion cooperate with recesses or notched regions in the cover portion respectively to provide these locking features. The carton itself is constructed to contain either a standardized half-gallon volume of ice-cream products and is especially adapted for utilization on standard existing ice-cream product packing machinery.
Claims15
A knock-down container assembly for packaging and containing ice-cream products comprising:
- a first one-piece blank defining a knock-down rectangular carton portion and a second one-piece blank defining a knock-down cover portion for detachably fixed attachment to said carton portion;
- said one-piece, knock-down carton portion comprising a front panel, a back panel, and two side panels interposed therebetween;
- carton bottom formation means emanating from the bottom of said carton portion which, when articulated, form a bottom panel on said carton portion;
- carton closure means comprising a series of carton closure flaps,
- one or more of said closure flaps respectively emanating from the top end of one or more of said panels of said carton portion,
- said one or more of said carton closure flaps being folded outwardly and restrainably affixed in a substantially downward position to the top of said panel from which it emanates;
- said cover portion comprising a top panel and a plurality of cover side panels attached to said top panel;
- said cover portion, when articulated, having substantially the same shape as the top of said carton portion for telescopic receipt thereover and further being continuously leakproof and free of exposing apertures to preclude inadvertent leakage and contamination of said ice-cream products;
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- cover closure means carried by said cover portion and comprising recess means formed in one or more of said cover side panels juxtaposed proximate to said series of carton closure flaps upon receipt of said cover portion by said carton portion;
- said cover closure means positioned contiguous said outwardly folded panels of said carton portion upon telescopic fitment of said cover portion over said carton portion, said recess means being adapted to detachably and interlockingly receive one or more of said series of carton closure flaps respectively.
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