FOLDED BOX BLANK

• US 20120228370A1
• Filed: 05/26/2009
• Published: 09/13/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/29/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nestec SA (Nestle SA)
• Original Assignee: Nestec SA (Nestle SA)
• Inventors: Faulon, Loic, Scholl, Peter
• Application Number:
  US12/994,506
• Publication Number:
  US 20120228370A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 229/183
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/3685 by folding the blank to U-shape to form the base and opposite sides, the remaining sides being formed by extensions of these opposite sides

Abstract

A folding box blank (1) having a plurality of base portions (2, 3, 30, 31, 32, 33) and at least four side wall portions (10, 11, 14, 15, 16, 17) hinged thereon, wherein the in each case two base portions are arranged symmetrically with respect to one another.

Claims

1. A folding box blank having a plurality of base portions and at least four side wall portions hinged thereon, wherein two base portions are symmetrically positioned with respect to one another.

2. The folding box blank as claimed in claim 1, wherein a line of symmetry is in the form of a base folding line.

3. The blank as claimed in claim 2, wherein the side wall portions are symmetrically positioned with respect to the base folding line.

4. The blank as claimed in claim 1, wherein connecting portions are hinged on outer side wall portions.

5. The blank as claimed in claim 1, wherein a plurality of base portions are provided in a longitudinal direction of the base folding line.

6. The blank as claimed in claim 5, wherein outer base portions have a contour which is in a form selected from the group consisting of a portion of a circle and a gusset and is directed toward an inner base portion.

7. The blank as claimed in claim 6, wherein the greatest dimension of the contour is positioned in the direction of the side wall portions.

8. The blank as claimed in claim 6, wherein the outer base portions of folding lines which extend from the point at which the contour meets the base folding line to the outer edges of the outer side wall portions.

9. The blank as claimed in claim 6, wherein barbs are provided in a region of the point at which the contours meet the base folding line.

10. The blank as claimed in claim 5, wherein barbs are provided at an outer border of the outer base portions in a region of the base folding line.

11. The blank as claimed in claim 1, comprising a central base portion, which has an increasing longitudinal extent starting from adjacent side wall portions.

12. The blank as claimed in claim 11, wherein a length of the base portion is greater in a region of the base folding line than in a region of the side wall portions.

13. The blank as claimed in claim 11, wherein a constriction in the contour of the central base portion is provided in a region of the base folding line.

14. The blank as claimed in claim 11, wherein barbs are provided on the base portions in a region of the base folding line.

15. A folding box produced from a blank having a plurality of base portions and at least four side wall portions hinged thereon, wherein two base portions are symmetrically positioned with respect to one another, during the assembling of the blank which has been pre-folded in the form of a W, the base portions engage with one another and together form an at least approximately planar base, and in the process engage firmly with one another.