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• US 3,178,092 A
• Filed: 06/15/1964
• Issued: 04/13/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 06/15/1964
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Charles A. Munana, Manolo Fernandez
• Original Assignee: Charles A. Munana, Manolo Fernandez
• Inventors: Munana, Charles A., MANOLO FERNANDEZ
• Application Number:
  US04/375,107
• Time in Patent Office: 302 Days
• US Class Current: 229/112
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/2047 trapezoidal, e.g. to form a body with diverging side walls B65D5/2033 takes precedence

Claims

1. A ONE-PIECE BLANK FOR A PENTAHEDRONAL BOX COMPRISING A RECTANGULAR BOTTOM PANEL, FIRST AND SECOND RECTANGULAR SIDE PANELS HINGEDLY CONNECTED ALONG LONGITUDINALLY FOLDLINES TO THE BOTTOM PANEL, A RETENTION STRAP HINGEDLY CONNECTED ALONG A LONGITUDINAL FOLDLINE TO THE FIRST RECTANGULAR SIDE PANEL, A TOP PANEL HINGEDLY CONNECTE ALONG A LONGITUDINAL FOLDLINE TO THE SECOND RECTANGULAR SIDE PANEL, MEANS DEFINING A SLOT ADAPTED TO RECEIVE THE RETENTION STRAP AND DISPOSED BETWEEN THE SECOND RECTANGULAR SIDE PANEL AND THE TOP PANEL, A TUCK FLAP HINGEDLY CONNECTED ALONG A LONGITUDINAL FOLDLINE TO THE TOP PANEL, RHOMBIC FIRST INTERMEDIATE END PANELS HINGEDLY CONNECTED ALONG LATERAL FOLDLINES TO THE BOTTOM PANEL, RHOMBOIDAL INTERIOR END PANELS HINGEDLY CONNECTED ALONG LATERAL FOLDLINES TO THE FIRST RECTANGULAR SIDE PANEL, RHOMBIC EXTERIOR END PANELS HINGEDLY CONNECTED EACH AT ONE EDGE ALONG LATERAL FOLDLINES TO THE SECOND RECTANGULAR SIDE PANEL, MEANS DEFINING LOCKING SLOTS IN THE SECOND RECTANGULAR SIDE PANEL ADJACENT SUCH EDGE, RHOMBOIDAL SECOND INTERMEDIATE END PANELS HINGEDLY CONNECTED ALONG OBLIQUE DOUBLE FOLDLINES TO THE RHOMBIC EXTERIOR END PANELS AT THE OTHER EDGE THEREOF, END FLAPS HINGEDLY CONNECTED ALONG OBLIQUE FOLDLINES TO THE RHOMBOIDAL SECOND INTERMEDIATE END PANELS, AND MEANS DEFINING THREE-SIDED LOCKING TABS IN THE END FLAPS ADJACENT THE OBLIQUE FOLDLINES.