US 9,850,022 B2Granted

Blank and methods of constructing a container from the blank

AssigneeWestRock Shared Services, LLC

InventorGayle Katherine Martinez

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Abstract

A blank of foldable sheet material is provided. The blank includes a bottom panel, a first bottom side panel and a second opposing bottom side panel extending from opposing side edges of the bottom panel, and a front panel extending from a front edge of the bottom panel. The front panel includes opposing side edges. The blank also includes a first and a second diagonal panel extending from a front edge of the first and second bottom side panels, respectively, and a third and a fourth diagonal panel extending from each side edge of the front panel. The third and fourth diagonal panels have a length greater than a length of the first and second diagonal panels. The blank includes a first and a second corner panel, wherein the first corner panel is hingedly connected to the first and third diagonal panels and the second corner panel is hingedly connected to the second and fourth diagonal panels.

Claims18

Dependent claims

A container formed from a blank of foldable sheet material and enclosing an interior volume, said container comprising:

a bottom panel;
a back panel extending from a back edge of the bottom panel;
a top panel extending from a top edge of the back panel;
a first bottom side panel hingedly connected to a first side edge of said bottom wall;
a second bottom side panel hingedly connected to an opposite second side edge of said bottom wall;
a front wall having an inner surface facing the interior volume, the front wall comprising a front panel extending from a front edge of the bottom panel;
a first major diagonal panel connected to a first side edge of the front panel along a first fold and extending to a first terminal edge proximate an inside surface of said first bottom side panel so as to define a gap between said first terminal edge and said inside surface of said first bottom side panel, wherein said first major diagonal panel extends at an obtuse angle relative to said front panel;
and
a second major diagonal panel connected to a second side edge of the front panel along a second fold and extending to a second terminal edge proximate an inside surface of said second bottom side panel so as to define a gap between said second terminal edge and said inside surface of said second bottom side panel, wherein said second major diagonal panel extends at an obtuse angle relative to said front panel.

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A method of constructing a container from a blank of foldable sheet material, the blank comprising a bottom panel;

a back panel extending from a back edge of the bottom panel;
a top panel extending from a top edge of the back panel;
a first bottom side panel hingedly connected to a first side edge of said bottom wall;
a second bottom side panel hingedly connected to an opposite second side edge of said bottom wall;
a front wall comprising a front panel extending from a front edge of the bottom panel;
a first major diagonal panel connected to a first side edge of the front panel along a first fold and extending to a first terminal edge;
a second major diagonal panel connected to a second side edge of the front panel along a second fold and extending to a second terminal edge;
said method comprising:
rotating the back panel, first bottom side panel, second bottom side panel, front panel, first major diagonal panel, and second major diagonal panel all upward with respect to the bottom panel to at least partially form the container such that the first terminal edge is proximate an inside surface of the first bottom side panel so as to define a gap between said first terminal edge and said inside surface of said first bottom side panel and the second terminal edge is proximate an inside surface of the second bottom side panel so as to define a gap between said second terminal edge and said inside surface of said second bottom side panel, and such that said first major diagonal panel extends at an obtuse angle relative to said front panel and said second major diagonal panel extends at an obtuse angle relative to said front panel.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/174,492Filed 6 Jun 2016 · continuation
Priority: 29 Feb 2008
Published: US 2016/0280414 A129 Sep 2016
Granted: 26 Dec 2017
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification10 codes

B65D 5/002
The container being formed by folding up portions connected to a central panel: having integral corner posts
B65D 5/0025
Having integral corner posts: the corner posts being formed as a prolongation of a doubled-over extension of the side walls
B65D 5/2019
The central panel having a non rectangular shape: with at least partially curved edges or the like
B65D 5/2033
The central panel having a non rectangular shape: polygonal having more than four sides, e.g. hexagonal, octogonal

Family

Application12/040,486Parent of this continuation · filed 29 Feb 2008
Application14/139,675Parent of this continuation · filed 23 Dec 2013
US 8,627,998 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 14 Jan 2014
Application14/715,284Parent of this continuation · filed 18 May 2015
US 9,033,208 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 19 May 2015
US 2016/0280414 A1Pre-grant publication · published 29 Sep 2016
US 9,359,102 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2009/0218388 A1Published application
US 2014/0110464 A1Published application
US 2015/0246744 A1Published application
US 9,850,022 B2This patent

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