Container for produce and the like having releasably securable flaps
First Claim
1. A container for produce or the like comprising:
- a floor panel;
a pair of sidewalls;
at least one cover flap movable between open and closed positions and having at least one end tab;
a pair of endwalls to which said floor panel and said sidewalls are attached, at least one of said endwalls having a recess on a top surface thereof to receive said tab when said flap is in said closed position, said recess including an undercut portion adapted to interlock with said tab and prevent said flap from moving toward said open position; and
a joiner strip bendably connected to one of said sidewalls along one edge thereof and bendably connected to said flap along an opposite edge thereof, whereby said joiner strip permits both lateral and pivotal movement of said flap to engage and disengage said tab from said undercut portion.
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Abstract
A container for produce and the like is formed by a pair of endwalls and a wrapper. The wrapper is divided by score lines into a floor panel, a pair of sidewalls, a pair of cover flaps and a pair of joiner strips by which the flaps are connected to the sidewalls. The joiner strips permit the flaps to be shifted laterally as well as pivotally. Each flap has a tab at each end thereof that is received, when the flap is closed, in a recess between two lugs on one of the endwalls. The tabs can shift laterally as permitted by undercut portions of the recesses, and must be so shifted and then bowed before they can be withdrawn from the recesses so that the flaps can be opened pivotally.
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16 Claims
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1. A container for produce or the like comprising:
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a floor panel; a pair of sidewalls; at least one cover flap movable between open and closed positions and having at least one end tab; a pair of endwalls to which said floor panel and said sidewalls are attached, at least one of said endwalls having a recess on a top surface thereof to receive said tab when said flap is in said closed position, said recess including an undercut portion adapted to interlock with said tab and prevent said flap from moving toward said open position; and a joiner strip bendably connected to one of said sidewalls along one edge thereof and bendably connected to said flap along an opposite edge thereof, whereby said joiner strip permits both lateral and pivotal movement of said flap to engage and disengage said tab from said undercut portion. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A generally rectangular container for produce or the like comprising:
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a floor panel; a pair of parallel sidewalls extending upwardly; a pair of cover flaps each movable between an open position and a closed position, each of said flaps having an end tab on each of two opposite ends thereof; a pair of endwalls to which said floor panel and said sidewalls are rigidly secured, each of said endwalls having a pair of recesses that receive said tabs when said flaps are in said closed positions, said recesses having undercut portions adapted to interlock with said tabs to prevent said flaps from moving toward said open positions; and a pair of elongated joiner strips each bendably connected to one of said sidewalls along one edge thereof and bendably connected to one of said flaps on an opposite edge thereof, whereby said joiner strips permit both lateral and pivotal movement of said flaps to engage and disengage said tabs and said undercut portions. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A generally rectangular container for produce or the like comprising:
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a corrugated paperboard wrapper divided by scorelines into a floor panel, a pair of parallel sidewalls, a pair of elongated joiner strips of lesser width connected to the sidewalls, and a pair of cover flaps connected to said joiner strips, each of said cover flaps having a pair of tabs on opposite ends thereof; and a pair of expanded polystrene endwalls to which said floor panel and said sidewalls are rigidly connected, each of said endwalls having a pair of upwardly projecting end lugs and a center lug of equal height defining a pair of recesses in which said tabs can be received, each of said recesses having an entrance portion dimensioned to permit said tabs to enter said recesses when slightly bowed and a pair of undercut portions at opposite ends thereof positioned to interlock with said tabs to prevent said tabs from moving upwardly toward open positions.
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