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Picnic cooler container

  • US 4,328,923 A
  • Filed: 10/22/1979
  • Issued: 05/11/1982
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/22/1979
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A production blank for forming a picnic cooler having a lower beverage can or bottle retaining area and an upper ice retaining area when formed into a complete package, comprising:

  • (1) the lower beverage can or bottle retaining area formed with;

    a. a bottom panel having a plurality of side edges;

    b. a pair of opposed lower end panels hingedly attached to two opposed side edges of the bottom panel;

    c. a pair of side panels hingedly attached to the remaining two opposed side edges of the bottom panel;

    d. means, associated with the lower end panels and the side panels for joining the panels together; and

    (2) the upper ice retaining area is formed with;

    a. a pair of top side flaps hingedly attached to each side panel;

    (1) a first inner glue flap hingedly attached to one of the top side flaps, the first inner glue flap comprising a first elongated panel and a first pair of triangular shaped panels and having hingedly attached thereto on each side thereof a first top gusset panel;

    (2) a top end flap hingedly attached to each first top gusset panel;

    [a] an upper end panel hingedly attached to one side of each top end flap;

    the upper end panels forming a part of the lower retaining area whenever the blank is formed into a package;

    (3) a second pair of triangular shaped panels hingedly attached to the other side of each top end flap;

    (4) a second elongated panel hingedly attached to the pair of second triangular shaped panels;

    [a] an irregular shaped panel hingedly attached to each of the first and second elongated panels;

    one side of each of the two irregular shaped panels terminating opposite each other and spaced apart to form a central I-shaped panel which is hingedly attached on one side thereof to the first elongated panel and on the other side thereof to the second elongated panel;

    the two top side flaps in combination with the two top end flaps and the first and second inner glue flaps serving as a part of the upper ice retaining area whenever the production blank is formed into a complete package;

    the elongated panels and the irregular shaped panels serving as a removable cover to cover the tops of the cans or bottles packed in the cooler.

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