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AssigneeWestRock Packaging Systems, LLC
InventorsMartinus C.M. Bakx, John M. Holley, Jr., Kyle Schumaker, Bradford J. Walling
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Abstract
An arrangement for locking together two panels (50, 60) the arrangement comprising a first and second male tabs (39a, 39b) and a first and second female tabs (43) wherein the first and second male tabs are hinged to a first panel by a first and second hinged connection (41) respectively, and the first female tabs are hinged to a second panel by a third hinged connection the first and second hinged connections being divergent with respect to one another.
Claims18
An arrangement for locking together first and second panels, the arrangement comprising a first and second male tabs struck from the first panel and at least one female tab wherein the first and second male tabs are hinged to the first panel by first and second fold lines respectively and extend from the first and second fold lines substantially toward a free end edge of the first panel, and the at least one female tab is foldably connected to the second panel and defines at least one locking aperture in the second panel when folded out of a plane of the second panel, the first and second fold lines being divergent with respect to one another and extend divergently toward the free end edge of the first panel, and wherein the first and second male tabs are foldable about the first and second fold lines into a deployed position wherein the first and second male tabs are received in the at least one locking aperture to secure the first and second panels together, and wherein the at least one female tab has first and second distal edges which are not parallel to one another, the first and second male tabs abut at undersides thereof on the first and second distal edges respectively when the first and second male tabs are in the deployed position.
An arrangement for locking together first and second overlaid panels, the arrangement comprising a male lock formed in the first panel and a female tab formed in the second panel, the male lock is separable along a cut line into first and second male tabs, the first and second male tabs and female tab each comprising a base portion foldably connected to a respective one of the first and second panels, the female tab defining a locking aperture in the second panel when folded out of a plane of the second panel, in which the first and second male tabs are foldable into a deployed position where the first and second male tabs are received in the locking aperture and are spaced apart from each other with said female tab inserted between the first and second male tabs, wherein the cut line defines adjacent edges of the first and second male tabs, wherein the adjacent edges are in contact with each other when the first and second male tabs lie in a plane of the first panel and wherein the adjacent edges are spaced apart from each other and engage the female tab when the first and second male tabs are in the deployed position.
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