Cartons or boxes

• US 3,193,175 A
• Filed: 05/13/1963
• Issued: 07/06/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 05/21/1962
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Arthur Moreton Douglas
• Original Assignee: Arthur Moreton Douglas
• Inventors: ARTHUR MORETON DOUGLAS
• Application Number:
  US04/280,022
• Time in Patent Office: 785 Days
• US Class Current: 229/144
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/18 by folding a single blank to U-shape to form the base of the container and opposite sides of the body portion, the remaining sides being formed primarily by extensions of one or more of these opposite sides, e.g. flaps hinged thereto B65D5/36 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/241 and the gussets folds connected to the inside of the container body B65D5/247 and B65D5/248 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/242 the gussets folds comprising more than two gusset panels

Claims

3. A CLOSED BOX FORMED BY FOLDING A SINGLE FLAT BLANK HAVING WEAKENED LINES THEREON, SAIDBOX INCLUDING A LID PANEL, A TRAY PANEL, A BACK WALL JOINING SAID LID AND TRAY PANELS, SIDE WALLS ON EACH SIDE OF SAID TRAY PANEL, SIDE WALLS ON EACH SIDE OF SAID LID PANEL OVERLAPPING SAID FIRSTMENTIONED SIDE WALLS, THREE ESSENTIALLY TRIANGULAR GASSETS ON EACH SIDE AND INTERPOSED BETWEEN SAID BACK WALL AND SAID SIDE WALLS TO PROVIDE PIN-HOLE FREE CORNERS AT ALL FOUR BACK CORNERS OF THE BOX, A FRONT WALL ON SAID TRAY PANEL. A FRONT WALL ON SAID LID PANEL OVERLAPPING SAID TRAY FRONT WALL, TWO GUSSETS ON EACH SIDE INTERPOSED BETWEEN SAID LID FRONT WALL AND THE ADJACENT LID SIDE WALL, WHEREBY PINHOLE FREE CORNERS ARE PROVIDED AT THE FRONT CORNER OF THE LID, SAID TRAY FRONT WALL HAVING SIDE EDGES, SAID SIDE EDGES BEING TAPERED TO FACILITATE ENTRY OF THE TRAY FRONT WALL BETWEEN THE LID FRONT WALL AND THE ADJACENT LID GASSETS, AND SAID TRAY FROM WALL BEING INSERTED BETWEEN SAID LID FRONT WALL AND SAID GASSETS ASSOCIATED WITH SAID LID FRONT WALL.