HINGED CONTAINER

• US 3,813,025 A
• Filed: 10/01/1971
• Issued: 05/28/1974
• Est. Priority Date: 10/02/1970
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Arieh Solomon
• Original Assignee: Arieh Solomon
• Inventors: Solomon, Arieh
• Primary Examiner(s): Moorhead, Davis T.
• Application Number:
  US05/185,510
• Time in Patent Office: 970 Days
• Field of Search: 229/2.5,44 206/45.19,41H,41.2B 220/31S
• US Class Current: 229/406
• CPC Class Codes: B65B 19/12 Inserting the cigarettes, or wrapped groups thereof, into preformed containers
• CPC Class Codes: B65B 5/06 Packaging groups of articles, the groups being treated as single articles
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 43/162 the container, the lid and the hinge being made of one piece B65D43/161 takes precedence

Abstract

A hinged container which consists essentially of interfitting inner and outer structural components which are coupled together by a hinge line, one of the components being formed so as to accommodate the container content. The invention also relates to methods of forming the constituent components and their assembly to form the container. Essentially the invention relates to a method for the simultaneous assembly of the container and its filling.

Claims

1. A hinged container comprising an outer pair of tray like sections, each outer section having a base portion, a pair of opposite side walls and a pair of opposite end walls, an adjacent pair of end walls of said outer sections being integrally coupled together at a common edge thereof remote from said base portions and constituting an outer hinge line, an inner pair of tray like sections fitting respectively in said outer pair of tray like sections, each inner section comprising a base portion juxtaposing the corresponding base portion of the corresponding inner section and having formed therein an aperture extending substantially along the width of the inner section, a pair of opposite side walls juxtaposing corresponding side walls of the corresponding inner section, an end wall juxtaposing the end wall of the corresponding inner section remote from the hinge line, a retaining strip formed integrally with side walls of the inner section and extending over said aperture in a plane spaced from the said base portion, the retaining strips of said inner sections being integrally coupled to each other about a common edge thereof constituting an inner hinge line, said inner sections being open ended adjacent to said inner hinge line, said inner and outer sections being secured together at their hinge lines so as to form a pair of complementary container portions which are pivotable about their common hinge to and from a position where the portions are juxtaposed.

2. A hinged container according to claim 1 wherein the side and end walls of the inner sections are constituted by double wall structures, each double wall structure comprising a pair of wall elements which are integrally connected at a common edge thereof.

3. A hinged container according to claim 1, wherein side walls of the outer structural component are of slightly less depth than side walls of the inner structural component.

4. A hinged container according to claim 1, wherein magnetic means are provided for releasably retaining the container portions in the closed position.