Shipping and dispensing container

• US 3,944,128 A
• Filed: 01/06/1975
• Issued: 03/16/1976
• Est. Priority Date: 01/06/1975
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: International Automated Machines Incorporated
• Original Assignee: International Automated Machines Incorporated
• Inventors: Hogan, Thomas E.
• Primary Examiner(s): Moorhead, Davis T.
• Application Number:
  US05/538,791
• Time in Patent Office: 435 Days
• Field of Search: 229/17 B, 229/7, 221/305
• US Class Current: 229/221
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/722 having an alternating movement co-operating with incised or scored openings near the bottom-edges of the bodies of tubular containers

Abstract

A shipping and dispensing container having a panel at the lower end of the container front wall adapted to be tilted outwardly to provide a dispensing trough or spout.

Claims

1. A shipping and dispensing container formed of a one piece blank of generally rectangular shape and having front, rear, top and bottom walls and a pair of opposite end walls, said front, rear, top and bottom walls each consisting of a panel of single thickness hingedly connected together by fold lines at their adjacent edges, each end wall comprising four panels hingedly connected by a fold line, one with each of said top, bottom, front and rear walls, said front wall having a score line extending generally horizontally thereacross intermediate the upper and lower ends thereof, the end wall panels connected to the front wall each being severed along a line extending downwardly and rearwardly from the adjacent end of the score line on the front wall and then upwardly and rearwardly to the free edge of the last-mentioned panel, the portion of each of the last-mentioned panels below said severed line being folded inwardly perpendicular to the plane of the front wall and defining an inner surface portion of the container, the end wall panels connected to the bottom wall being folded upwardly to overlie said inwardly folded panel portions, the end wall panels connected to the top wall being folded downwardly to a plane perpendicular to the top wall and defining an inner surface portion of the container, the portion of each end wall panel connected to the front wall above said severed line being folded inwardly perpendicular to the plane of the front wall with the lower end portions thereof overlying said upwardly folded end panels and the upper portions thereof overlying said downwardly folded end panels, the end wall panels connected to the rear wall being folded forwardly to overlie the upwardly and downwardly folded end wall panels so that the container assumes the shape of a cube, means securing said walls together to retain said cubical shape, said front wall being adapted to be severed along said score line so that the portions thereof below said severed lines are substantially free so that they can be tilted outwardly to a position wherein the upwardly and rearwardly extending severed edges of said lower portions of said end panels engage the inner face of the front wall above said score line and thereby form a dispensing trough at the lower portion of said front wall.

2. A container as called for in claim 1 wherein the width of the end wall panels connected to the bottom wall is equal to at least the vertical dimension between said bottom wall and said score line.

3. A container as called for in claim 1 wherein the radial distance between the lower front corner of each end panel connected to the front wall and all points along said downwardly and rearwardly extending line of severing is not greater than the vertical dimension between said score line and the lower edge of the front wall.

4. A container as called for in claim 1 wherein all of said end wall panels are of the same width.

5. A container as called for in claim 4 wherein the height of the container is at least twice the width of the end wall panels.

6. A container as called for in claim 5 wherein the front to back dimension of the container is equal to twice the width of the end wall panels.

7. A container as called for in claim 6 wherein said score line on the front wall is disposed below the horizontally extending centerline thereof.