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US 5,207,375 AGranted
Container made from one-piece blank
AssigneeInland Container Corporation
InventorJack A. McClure
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Abstract
A carton formed from a one-piece unitary blank includes sidewalls and endwalls extending from a floor. Lid members extending from the endwalls cover the carton interior and arrangements for locking the lids in a closed position is provided.
Claims14
Carton apparatus formed from a one-piece blank, comprising:
- a floor;
- a first panel;
- a plurality of wall members coupled end-to-end, at least one wall member comprising a wall panel having a generally planar portion with a side edge extending between a pair of said wall members and the wall panel hingedly connected to the first panel along a wall-panel-fold-line;
- a lid panel;
- a locking flap comprising a stem portion depending from the lid panel and at least one ear member spaced from the lid panel and laterally extending from the stem portion, the ear member including a locking-flap-locking-edge generally facing toward the lid panel;
- hinge means hingedly connecting the lid panel to one of the wall members so as to mount the lid panel for movement toward and away from the wall-panel-fold-line to thereby move the locking flap toward and away from the wall panel;
- a retention tab having a free corner, struck out from the wall panel with cut line so as to be hingedly joined thereto and so as to have a retention-tab-locking-edge adjacent the free corner, a portion of the retention tab which includes at least the free corner being biased by folding of the first panel about the wall-panel-fold-line, for movement away from the plane of the wall panel planar portion to bring the retention-tab-locking-edge away from the wall panel for engagement with the locking-flap-locking-edge;
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- the locking-flap-locking-edge moved into engagement with the retention-tab-locking-edge as the lid panel is moved toward the wall-panel-fold-line.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.