Locked container

• US 3,105,626 A
• Filed: 12/08/1961
• Issued: 10/01/1963
• Est. Priority Date: 12/08/1961
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Frank Mccormick, Oskar Dorfmann
• Original Assignee: Frank Mccormick, Oskar Dorfmann
• Inventors: Mccormick, Frank, OSKAR DORFMANN
• Application Number:
  US04/158,035
• Time in Patent Office: 662 Days
• US Class Current: 229/151
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/26 with extensions of opposite sides mutually interlocking to lie against other sides

Claims

4. A CONTAINER COMPRISING A SINGLE PIECE OF FIBROUS MATERIAL CUT AND SCORED TO FACILITATE ERECTION INTO A CLOSEABLE RECTANGULAR ENCLOSURE HAVING A FRONT AND REAR WALL AND A COVER HINGEDLY CONNECTED TO THE TOP EDGE OF THE REAR WALL AND HAVING A FLAP HINGEDLY CONNECTED TO ITS FRONT EDGE AND MEANS COMPRISING A CUTOUT TAB ON SAID FRONT WALL WITH LATERAL EARS AND A SLIT IN SAID FLAP FORMING A TAB WITH LATERAL EARS, THE TAB ON THE FRONT WALL PASSING THROUGH THE SLIT ON SAID FLAP SO THAT THE EARS OF SAID FIRST TAB ENGAGE IN SAID SLIT, AND TEAR LINES IN SAID FLAP EXTENDING UPWARDLY FROM THE ENDS OF SAID SLIT TO DESTROY SAID LOCKING ENGAGEMENT WHEN SAID TEAR LINES ARE SEPARATED, SAID MEANS LOCKING THE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIALLY CLOSED POSITION WHILE PERMITTING LIMITED HINGING MOVEMENT BETWEEN FULLY CLOSED POSITION AND A PARTIALLY CLOSED POSITION.