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One piece interlocking outfold container

  • US 4,488,675 A
  • Filed: 04/01/1983
  • Issued: 12/18/1984
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/01/1983
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. An outfold container, comprising a one piece cutout of a sheet of corrugated material forming a rectangular box and a cover for said body, said rectangular box having a bottom wall, a front wall, a back wall, a pair of side walls and an open upper end, said back wall including at least two thicknesses of said corrugated material, said cover having a rectangular top wall hingedly connected along a back edge thereof with an upper edge of said box back wall, a pair of side walls connected to opposite side edges of said top wall and extending perpendicular therefrom and a front wall connected to a front edge of said top wall and to side edges of said cover side walls and extending perpendicular therefrom, said cover being pivotable between a container open position away from said open upper end of said box and a container closed position whereat said cover side walls extend across and to the interior of respective ones of said box side walls, said cover front wall extends across and to the exterior of said box front wall and said cover top wall extends across and closes said open upper end of said box, said cover and box front and side walls having substantially the same height, whereby when said cover is closed, front, back and side walls of said container are each of at least two thicknesses of corrugated material and said container has increased stacking strength, wherein said box back wall has an outer back wall and two strengthening flaps each extending from a respective side wall substantially halfway across an interior surface of said outer back wall, said box front wall has an outer front wall and a pair of strengthening flaps each extending from a respective box side wall substantially halfway across an interior surface of said box outer front wall, and said cover front wall has an outer fron wall and a pair of strengthening flaps each extending from a respective cover side wall substantially halfway across an interior surface of said cover outer front wall, whereby when said cover is closed said container has back and side walls of double thickness and a front wall of quadruple thickness, and wherein each corner between said rectangular box front and side walls is slotted between an upper end and a point spaced from a lower end thereof, and each corner between said cover front and side walls is opened between a lower end and a point spaced from an upper end thereof, said slots accommodating the connected portions of said cover front and side walls and said openings accommodating the connected portions of said box front and side walls when said cover is moved to said container closed position.

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