Wrap-around carrier with improved locking means
AssigneeRiverwood International Corporation
InventorGlen R. Harrelson
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Abstract
A wrap-around carrier having primary and secondary locks for connecting the bottom panel flaps together. The female locking openings are contained in female locking flaps which have been folded out of one of the bottom panel flaps through an angle of 180.degree.. The corresponding male locking tabs are connected to a male locking panel. The bottom panel flaps are spaced apart, with the male and female locking panels spanning the space between the flaps.
Claims17
In a carton including a panel formed from first and second panel flaps which are mechanically attached to each other, the improvement comprising:
- the first and second panel flaps having spaced interior ends;
- at least one female locking panel connected by a fold line to the first panel flap, the female locking panel and the first panel flap lying in different but substantially parallel planes, the female locking panel extending past the interior end of the first panel flap;
- the female locking panel containing a locking opening therein;
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- a locking tab connected to the second panel flap;
- the locking tab extending into the locking opening in locking engagement therewith.
A wrap-around article carrier, comprising:
- opposite side panels connected to a top panel and a bottom panel;
- the bottom panel being comprised of a first bottom panel flap connected to one of the side panels and a second bottom panel flap connected to the opposite side panel;
- the first and second bottom panel flaps having spaced interior ends;
- at least one female locking panel connected by a fold line to the first bottom panel flap, the female locking panel and the first bottom panel flap lying in different but substantially parallel planes, the female locking panel extending past the interior end of the first bottom panel flap;
- the female locking panel containing a locking opening therein;
- a male locking panel connected to the interior end of the second bottom panel flap by a fold line;
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- a locking tab integral with the male locking panel and extending into the primary locking opening in locking engagement therewith.
A blank for forming a wrap-around carrier, comprising:
- a centrally located top panel section;
- a side panel section connected by a fold line to opposite edges of the top panel section;
- a first bottom panel flap connected by a fold line to one of the side panel sections and a second bottom panel flap connected by a fold line to the other side panel section;
- the first and second bottom panel flaps having outwardly extending ends;
- at least one female locking panel connected by a fold line to the first bottom panel flap, the female locking panel fold line being spaced from the end of the first bottom panel flap and being substantially parallel to the first bottom panel flap fold line;
- the female locking panel containing a locking opening therein;
- a male locking panel connected by a fold line to the end of the second bottom panel flap, the male locking panel fold line being substantially parallel to the second bottom panel flap fold line;
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- a locking tab integral with the male locking panel, the locking tab extending into the locking opening in locking engagement therewith in a carrier formed from the blank.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.