Box-shaped container of synthetic resin material
AssigneeFranz Delbrouck GmbH
InventorKlaus Delbrouck
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Abstract
A box-like container for transporting packaged fruits and vegetables has a bottom whose central member can be pulled upwardly to cause the flaps at the bottoms of the side walls to be pulled upwardly and inwardly and the side walls to be pulled inwardly into a frustopyramital configuration enabling the box to be nested in a like box. Film hinges are provided between the side walls of a rectangular frame which itself is hollow and of rectangular cross section. Other film hinges are provided between the flaps and a central member.
Claims20
A reusable box, especially for the transportation of objects such as packages of fruit and vegetables, said box comprising:
- a substantially rectangular plastic gripping frame defining a mouth of the box and having four limbs;
- four plastic side walls pivotally connected to respective ones of said limbs at upper edges of said side walls and extending downwardly from said limbs;
- respective flat flaps connected to said side walls and extending inwardly therefrom and forming parts of a bottom of said box;
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- a planar central bottom-forming member hinged to inner edges of said flaps and substantially coplanar with said flaps in a stacking position wherein said side walls are substantially vertical and a plurality of the boxes can be stacked with their respective side walls in mutual alignment, said central bottom-forming member being displaceable upwardly toward said frame to draw said side walls inwardly and permit one of said boxes to nest within another of said boxes.
A reusable box, especially for the transportation of objects such as packages of fruit and vegetables, said box comprising:
- a substantially rectangular plastic gripping frame defining a mouth of the box and having four limbs;
- four plastic side walls pivotally connected to respective ones of said limbs at upper edges of said side walls and extending downwardly from said limbs;
- respective flat flaps articulated to said side walls and extending inwardly therefrom and forming parts of a bottom of said box;
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- a planar central bottom-forming member hinged to inner edges of said flaps and substantially coplanar with said flaps in a stacking position wherein said side walls are substantially vertical and a plurality of the boxes can be stacked with their respective side walls in mutual alignment, said central bottom-forming member being displaceable upwardly toward said frame to draw said side walls inwardly and permit one of said boxes to nest within another of said boxes.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.