Container

• US 3,905,541 A
• Filed: 06/18/1973
• Issued: 09/16/1975
• Est. Priority Date: 06/18/1973
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Sanger Works Factory, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Gerald C. Paxton
• Inventors: Paxton, Gerald C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Christian, Leonard D.
• Application Number:
  US05/370,981
• Time in Patent Office: 820 Days
• Field of Search: 229/23R,23C,16R,16A,41R,41B 206/503,509
• US Class Current: 229/122.22
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/005 Separate or attached stacking elements
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/323 and two further opposed body panels formed from two essentially planar blanks

Abstract

A container presenting smooth continuous internal surfaces to contents thereof, the container having a pair of spaced substantially congruent end walls with circumscribing peripheral edges providing successive angularly related substantially straight segments; and a unitary wall member wrapped about the end walls in conforming relation to the peripheral edges thereof having fold lines interconnecting corresponding angular junctures of the segments of the opposite end walls and flaps integral with the wall member folded outwardly over the end walls and bonded thereto.

Claims

1. A fiberboard container presenting smooth continuous internal surfaces to contents thereof comprising an elongated substantially rectangular wall member having spaced substantially parallel transverse first fold lines defining a rectangular bottom wall therebetween, a second transverse fold line outwardly spaced from each first fold line and therewith defining a rectangular side wall, and an end edge outwardly spaced from each second fold line and therewith defining a rectangular top wall portion, the wall member being bent substantially 90* at each said fold line and its end edges abutting in a common plane substantially parallel to the bottom wall;

a pair of spaced substantially identical end walls fitted between the bottom wall, side walls and top wall portions of the wall member in right angular relation thereto;

said bottom wall and side walls having flaps continuous with the wall member folded outwardly over the end walls and bonded thereto; and

said top wall portions having foreshortened flaps for the individual application of adhesive thereto for folding outwardly over the end walls and into bonding engagement therewith.

2. A fiberboard container presenting smooth continuous internal surfaces to contents thereof comprising an elongated substantially rectangular wall member having spaced substantially parallel transverse first fold lines defining a rectangular bottom wall therebetween, a second transverse fold line outwardly spaced from each first fold line and therewith defining a rectangular side wall, and an end edge outwardly spaced from each second fold line and therewith defining a rectangular top wall portion, the wall member being bent substantially 90* at each said fold line and its end edges abutting in a common plane substantially parallel to the bottom wall;

a pair of spaced substantially identical end walls fitted between the bottom wall, side walls and top wall portions of the wall member in right angular relation thereto;

said bottom wall, side walls and top wall portions having flaps continuous with the wall member folded outwardly over the end walls and bonded thereto; and

the bottom wall and each end wall having a downwardly disposed receptacle provided upwardly therein and each end wall having a tongue upwardly extended therefrom through a top wall portion positioned in correspondence to said receptacles to be received in the receptacles of a superimposed container, the flaps on the top wall portion extending to opposite sides of the tongues to strengthen said top wall portion where the tongues extend therethrough and the flaps on the bottom wall portion extending to opposite sides of the receptacles to strengthen the end walls and bottom wall where the receptacles are disposed therein.

3. A container comprising a pair of spaced end walls individually having peripheral edges composed of substantially straight segments successively interconnected at angular junctures;

an integral wall member wrapped about the end walls in conforming relation to the peripheral edgEs thereof and having fold lines interconnecting corresponding angular junctures of the end walls and defining a lid panel for the container;

construction flaps borne by the wall member and bonded to the end walls to form the container; and

lid flaps borne by said lid panel and foreshortened relative to the construction flaps for the individual receipt of a suitable bonding substance whereby the lid panel can be retained in conforming relation to corresponding peripheral edges of the end wall by bonding engagement of the lid flaps with said end walls subsequent to packing of the container.

4. The container of claim 3 wherein the construction flaps and lid flaps are folded outwardly over the end walls and bonded thereto to provide the container with smooth continuous internal surfaces.

5. The container of claim 4 wherein the wall member has a pair of lid panels having opposite end edges and individual lid flaps adapted to be bonded to the end walls to position the lid panels in a substantially common plane with the end edges thereof juxtaposed to seal the container.

6. The container of claim 5 wherein the end walls have tongue portions which extend through the lid panels when the container is sealed and said end walls and wall member have tongue receiving receptacles in corresponding segments of the peripheral edge adapted to receive the tongue portions of a second container on which said container is superimposed.

7. A container for automated assembling, packing and sealing comprising an elongated substantially rectangular wall member having spaced substantially parallel transverse first fold lines defining a rectangular bottom wall therebetween, a second transverse fold line outwardly spaced from each first fold line and therewith defining a rectangular side wall, and an edge outwardly spaced from each second fold line and therewith defining a rectangular top wall portion, said wall member being bent along each fold line to position its end edges in juxtaposition spaced from said bottom wall;

a pair of spaced, substantially congruent end walls fitted between the bottom wall, side walls and top wall portions of the wall member in right angular relation thereto;

construction flaps, dimensioned for engagement by adhesive applying means during assembly, borne by the bottom wall and side walls and folded outwardly over said end walls and bonded thereto; and

flaps borne by said top wall portions foreshortened to preclude engagement by said adhesive applying means during assembly while being dimensioned for engagement by second adhesive applying means subsequent to packing of the container.