Octagonal carton for pizza pies or the like
AssigneeStone Container Corporation
InventorsKenneth J. Zion, Richard H. Johnson
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Abstract
An octagonal carton formed from an integral prescored blank having a bottom wall with at least three side walls attached thereto. An opposite pair of the side walls include diagonal corner wall structures which are foldable with the side walls to form diagonal corner walls. The lid is attached to the third wall and is foldable over the two opposite side walls and secured to a fourth side wall attached to the bottom wall or secured by a wall on the lid edge to the bottom wall to form the fourth side wall. The lid and fourth wall structures include various securing structures to secure the carton when erected.
Claims20
A shallow carton for flat food products, such as pizza pies formed from a one-piece paperboard blank to provide an octagonal tray having a bottom wall, a pair of upstanding opposing side walls, a third upstanding wall having a cover hingedly connected thereto at one end of the tray and a fourth wall attached at least to said cover or bottom wall opposite said third wall, each of said side walls having foldable panel means at opposite ends thereof disconnected from said third and fourth walls and connected to said bottom wall and one of said side walls forming four diagonal corner walls for the tray of the erected carton, said cover being foldable to overlie said walls to close the carton.
An integral paperboard blank adapted to be selectively folded to form an octagonal tray open at an upper end and a hinged cover adapted to be folded to overlie said open upper end and secure the carton in a closed condition, said blank including a bottom wall panel, a pair of side wall panels hingedly secured along opposite side edges of the bottom wall, a first end wall panel hingedly secured along a third side edge of the bottom wall having a cover panel hingedly secured thereto along an edge thereof opposite the said third edge, a second end panel hingedly connected to an edge of the cover or bottom wall, said side wall panels each having corner panel formations at opposite ends thereof clear of said end panels constructed and arranged to be folded into four diagonal corner formations to render the tray octagonal when the blank is folded to erect the carton, each said corner panel formation being connected to said side wall panels and said bottom wall panel.
A shallow carton for flat food products, such as pizza pies formed from a one-piece paperboard blank to provide an octagonal-like tray having a bottom wall, a pair of upstanding opposing side walls, a third upstanding wall having a cover hingedly connected thereto at one end of the tray and a fourth wall attached at least to said cover or bottom wall opposite said third wall, each of said side walls having at least one foldable panel means at opposing facing ends thereof disconnected from said third and fourth walls and connected to said bottom wall and one of said side walls forming diagonal corner walls for the tray of the erected carton, said cover being foldable to overlie said walls to close the carton.
An integral paperboard blank adapted to be selectively folded to form an octagonal tray open at an upper end and a hinged cover adapted to be folded to overlie said open upper end and secure the carton in a closed condition, said blank including a bottom wall panel, a pair of side wall panels hingedly secured along opposite side edges of the bottom wall, a first end wall panel hingedly secured along a third side edge of the bottom wall having a cover panel hingedly secured thereto along an edge thereof opposite the said third edge, a second end panel hingedly connected to an edge of the cover or bottom wall, said side wall panels each having corner panel formations at opposing facing ends thereof clear of said end panels constructed and arranged to be folded into a pair of diagonal corner formations to render the tray octagonal-like when the blank is folded to erect the carton, each said corner panel formation being connected to said side wall panel and said bottom wall panel.
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