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US 5,333,777 AGranted
Container for stacks of sheets
OwnerOscar Rothinventor
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Abstract
A container of cardboard or other relatively stiff material has a square or rectangular bottom wall, two parallel sidewalls and two end walls at least one of which is shorter than the sidewalls. This renders it possible to gain access to the confined goods, such as one or more stacks of paper sheets or the like, even if the goods completely fill the container. The end walls are adhesively secured or stapled to flaps which are integral with the respective ends of the sidewalls and are bent toward each other to define a gap above the corresponding relatively short end wall or end walls. The distance between each pair of confronting flaps can exceed half the distance of the sidewalls from each other.
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A container comprising:
- a square or rectangular bottom wall having first and second side edges and first and second end edges;
- a pair of sidewalls, each of said sidewalls being attached to and upwardly extending from one of said side edges of said bottom wall, each of said sidewalls having a first height as measured from said bottom wall;
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- at least one end wall attached to and extending upwardly from one of said end edges of said bottom wall, said at least one wall having a second height less than said first height, each of said sidewalls further having a flap overlapping with and affixed to said at least one end wall, said flaps being spaced apart from each other, and said at least one end wall having an opening forming a handgrip portion.
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A container comprising:
- a square or rectangular bottom wall having first and second side edges and first and second end edges;
- a pair of sidewalls, each of said sidewalls being attached to and upwardly extending from one of said side edges of said bottom wall, each of said sidewalls having a first height as measured from said bottom wall;
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- at least one end wall attached to and extending upwardly from one of said end edges of said bottom wall, said at least one wall having a second height less than said first height, each of said sidewalls further having a flap overlapping with and affixed to said at least one end wall, said flaps being spaced apart from each other;
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- at least one withdrawable insert including a rectangular or square main portion inwardly adjacent said flaps between said sidewalls and having a third height which is less than or equal to said first height, said at least one insert having a handgrip portion remote from said bottom wall, a fold line between said main and said handgrip portions, and an opening in said handgrip portion.
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A container comprising:
- a square or rectangular bottom wall having first and second side edges and first and second end edges;
- a pair of sidewalls, each of said sidewalls being attached to and upwardly extending from one of said side edges of said bottom wall, each of said sidewalls having a first height as measured from said bottom wall;
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- at least one end wall attached to and extending upwardly from one of said end edges of said bottom wall, said at least one wall having a second height less than said first height, each of said sidewalls further having a flap overlapping with and affixed to said at least one end wall, said flaps being spaced apart from each other, a removable lid arranged to be placed on top of contents in the container between said sidewalls and including a main portion having marginal portions, a handgrip portion integral with one of said marginal portions of said lid main portion and said handgrip portion having an opening, and a fold line between said lid main portion and said handgrip portion.
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A container comprising a sheet of material having:
- a square or rectangular bottom wall having first and second side edges and first and second end edges;
- a pair of sidewalls, having a predetermined height, each of said sidewalls being attached to and folded upwardly from one of said side edges,
- an end wall attached to and folded upwardly from one of the end edges of said bottom wall, said end wall having a height less than that of each of said side walls,
- each of said side walls being adjacent to said at least one end wall and having a plurality of sections, said plurality of sections are folded to form a rectangular support column extending along the height of the respective sidewall, the columns of said respective sidewall being spaced from one another, said end wall being attached to said columns leaving a space between the columns above a top of said end wall to a top of the pair of sidewalls, and a headwall disposed between said sidewalls at one end of said sidewalls and engaging a flat portion of each of said columns, said headwall having a height that is approximately equal to a height of said sidewalls.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.