Stackable packing tray with diagonal corners

• US 20070051789A1
• Filed: 07/27/2006
• Published: 03/08/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 07/27/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Paper Company
• Original Assignee: International Paper Company
• Inventors: Panduro, Edmundo, Fry, Stanley
• Granted Patent: US 8,205,787 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 229/175
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/0015 the container being formed by folding up portions connected to a central panel
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/6629 the lid being formed by two mating halves joined to opposite edges of the container body
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 229/919 Reinforced wall

Abstract

This invention relates to stackable, open-topped, partially-lidded, and/or fully-lidded shipping and/or display container, and more particularly to a corrugated paperboard stackable container for shipping and displaying products such as, for example, agricultural produce.

Claims

1. A container, having one or more side walls, one or more one end walls, and a bottom wall, said bottom wall cooperating with one or more side walls and with one or more one end walls to define an interior space, said container comprising,

a lid extending from at least one of said one or more end walls, said lid being foldable relative to said one or more end walls so as to be moveable between an open position and a closed position, wherein said lid at least partially covers said interior space when in said closed position;

at least one self closing feature formed in said lid, said self closing feature being foldable relative to said lid so as to be moveable between an unlocked position and locked position; and

at least one notch formed in said end wall for receiving at least one of said at least one self closing features when said self closing feature is in said locked position.

2. The container according to claim 1, wherein the one or more of the side walls is longer than one or more of the end walls.

3. The container according to claim 1, wherein the end wall comprises one or more end panels and one or more flaps.

4. The container according to claim 3, wherein the one or more flaps are the one or more flaps comprise at least one major flap and at least one minor flap.

5. The container according to claim 4, wherein the one or more side walls comprise one or more side wall panels.

6. The container according to claim 5, wherein the at least one of the one or more flaps are foldably connected to the one or more side wall panels.

7. The container according to claim 4, wherein at least one of the one or more end walls comprises the at least one notch.

8. The container according to claim 4, wherein at least one major flap or at least one minor flap comprises the at least one notch.

9. The container according to claim 4, wherein the end wall comprises the at least one notch.

10. The container according to claim 3, wherein the at least one notch is formed in an upper edge of the one or more end panels or in an upper edge of the one or more flaps.

11. The container according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the one or more end walls comprises one or more flaps and at least one of the one or more side walls comprises one or more side wall panels;

and at least one of the one or more flaps is foldably connected to at least one of the one or more side wall panels.

12. The container according to claim 11, wherein at least one end wall comprises at a first flap comprising a first notch.

13. The container according to claim 12, wherein the first notch is formed from a cut out portion of the first flap.

14. The container according to claim 13, wherein the first notch is formed from a cut out portion of a top edge of the first flap.

15. The container according to claim 11, wherein the first flap further comprises a second notch.

16. The container according to claim 11, wherein the end wall comprises a second flap.

17. The container according to claim 16, wherein the second flap comprises a first notch.

18. The container according to claim 17, wherein the first notch is formed from a cut out portion of a top edge of the second flap.

19. The container according to claim 17, wherein the second flap further comprises a second notch.

20. The container according to claim 17, wherein the first flap and the second flap are contiguous in a manner that aligns the first notch of the first flap with the first notch of the second flap.

21. The container according to claim 20, wherein the first and second flaps are foldably connected.

22. The container according to claim 17, wherein the first flap and the second flap project towards each other.

23. The container according to claim 11, wherein the self closing feature comprises at least one web that is in frictional contact with the at least one notch when the self closing feature is in the locked position.

24. The container according to claim 23, wherein the self closing feature further comprises a fold over flap that is foldably connected to the web, wherein the fold over flap is folded against the interior surface of the end wall when the self closing feature is in the locked position.

25. The container according to claim 23, wherein the self closing feature further comprises a fold over flap that is foldably connected to the web, wherein the fold over flap projects toward the bottom wall when the self closing feature is in the locked position.

26. The container according to claim 1, wherein the lid comprises at least one fastening feature and a top edge of the side wall comprises at least one means for receiving the at least one fastening feature when the lid is in the closed position.

27. The container according to claim 26, wherein at least one of the one or more side walls comprises one or more side panels and the at least one means for receiving the at least one fastening feature is foldably connected to at least one of the one or more side panels.

28. The container according to claim 26, wherein the one or more side panels are foldably connected.

29. The container according to claim 26, wherein the fastening feature comprises a fastening flap moveable so that it projects toward the bottom wall when the fastening flap is in its locked position and the lid is in its closed position.

30. The container according to claim 26, wherein the fastening feature comprises at least one fastening flap moveable such that it projects toward the bottom wall when the at least one fastening feature is in its locked position and the lid is in its closed position;

at least one cut out portion to define an opening that is capable of receiving at least one means for receiving the fastening feature when the at least one fastening feature is in a locked position and the lid is in a closed position; and

at least one fastening tab that projects away from the bottom wall and is in frictional contact with the at least one means for receiving the at least one fastening feature when the at least one fastening feature is in a locked position an the lid is in a closed position.