Container construction

• US 3,146,933 A
• Filed: 11/25/1960
• Issued: 09/01/1964
• Est. Priority Date: 11/25/1960
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Arlington Moore George
• Original Assignee: Arlington Moore George
• Inventors: ARLINGTON MOORE GEORGE
• Application Number:
  US04/071,642
• Time in Patent Office: 1,376 Days
• US Class Current: 229/160
• CPC Class Codes: B31B 50/46 and interconnecting side walls
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/2047 trapezoidal, e.g. to form a body with diverging side walls B65D5/2033 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/244 and the gussets folds connected to the outside of the container body B65D5/247, B65D5/248 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 229/905 Frozen food

Claims

1. IN A CONTAINER FORMED OF FOLDABLE SHEET MATERIAL HAVING THERMOPLASTIC PROPERTIES AND HAVING FOUR OPPOSING SIDE WALLS FORMED AND CONNECTED FROM AN INTEGRAL BOTTOM BASE WALL, THREE OF THE SIDE WALLS HAVING TOP END CLOSURE FORMING FOLDABLE ELEMENTS, COMPRISING SAID OPPOSING SIDE WALLS EACH BEING CONNECTED WITH THE OTHER AT SUBSTANTIALLY A RIGHT ANGULAR FORMED CORNER JUNCTION WHEREIN ONE PAIR OF THE OPPOSING SIDE WALLS BEING OVERLAPPED IN PART BY ARTICULATED END FREE PROJECTED FLANGES OF WALL MATERIAL AND FURTHER ARTICULATED FROM THE PROJECTED FLANGES OF THE OTHER PAIR OF ADJACENT SIDE WALLS WHEREBY, A SHORT LOWER CORNER END PLEAT IS FORMED AT EACH OF THE CORNER ENDS OF SAID BOTTOM BASE WALL AND SIDE WALLS, THE SHORT PLEAT BEING SECURED BY THE ARTICULATED UPPER ELONGATED PROJECTED FLANGES FROM SAID OTHER PAIR OF ADJACENT SIDE WALLS AND IN HEAT COMPRESSED SEAM FORMING RELATIONSHIP.