Utility tote container

A material handling container comprising:

• a receptacle portion formed from a single sheet of semirigid material which is cut, scored, and folded to form a generally rectangular base platform from which a pair of substantially upright opposed side walls and a pair of substantially upright opposed end walls extend, said side and end walls being hingedly connected to said base platform and defining an open top when folded to a generally upright position;
• a pair of end panels at each end of said receptacle portion hingedly connected to the opposite ends of each of said side walls along generally vertically extending score line connections, each pair of said end panels being folded over the adjacent one of said end walls in abutting, parallel relation therewith;
• a pair of foldover panels at each end of said receptacle portion hingedly connected to the upper ends of each of said end panels along score lines traversing the upper ends of each of said end panels, said foldover panels being folded downwardly and inwardly thereover with the surface of said foldover panels substantially parallel to the surface of said end panels and secured by attachment means to said end walls therebetween;
• a pair of outer flaps defined by score lines extending lengthwise of said side walls adjacent the top extremities thereof and hingedly connected thereto, said outer flaps being folded downwardly to form upper stacking shoulders defined by said score lines along the top edges of said side walls;
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• a pair of inner flaps defined by score lines extending lengthwise of the outer edges of said outer flaps and substantially parallel therewith and hingedly connected thereto, each said inner flap being folded upward between the outer flap to which said inner flap is connected and the adjacent side wall, to form lower stacking shoulders, whereby the lower stacking shoulders rest on said upper stacking shoulders when a plurality of said utility tote containers are nested one inside the other.