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Food carton having cylindrical lower portion

  • US 20020084319A1
  • Filed: 12/13/2001
  • Published: 07/04/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/13/2000
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A food carton of an inverted truncated generally conical configuration comprising front and rear walls, each wall having a base edge, a top edge and opposed side edges diverging upward from said base edge to said top edge, the side edges of each of said front and rear walls being foldably joined to the corresponding side edges on the other of said front and rear walls;

  • said front and rear walls, in a first folded configuration of the carton, being in flat parallel overlying relation to each other, said front and rear walls, in a second erected use configuration, each being outwardly convex relative to the other and between the opposed side edges thereof; and

    a bottom wall extending between and having opposed ends edges foldably joined to the front and rear walls in closely spaced relation above the base edges thereof, said bottom wall, in the second use configuration, forcibly retaining said outwardly convex front and rear walls in a slightly tapering substantially cylindrical configuration along at least a lower extent of said carton upward from the base edges of said front and rear walls.

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