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Cardboard packaging

  • US 5,722,583 A
  • Filed: 07/19/1996
  • Issued: 03/03/1998
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/26/1995
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A box made of stiff, foldable packaging material which comprises two separable subsidiary boxes (10, 11), which are folded out of a common one-piece blank, each of said subsidiary boxes including a from wall (12, 13), a back wall (21, 22), a base wall (27, 28), and side walls (23, 24, 25, 26), with the front wall (12) of one of said subsidiary boxes (10) and the from wall (13) of the other of said subsidiary boxes (11) adjoining one another before being separated, and connected to one another along an upper folding edge (14), means for weakening the material along said fold line to permit the separation of said subsidiary boxes, each of said side walls (23, 24, 25, 26), formed of pairs of individual folding tabs (33-35, 32-34), one of said pairs of said folding flaps joined to the front wall (12), back wall (21), and base wall (27) of one of said subsidiary boxes (10) and the other of said pairs of folding flaps joined to the from wall (13), back wall (22), and base wall (28) of the other of said subsidiary boxes (11), characterized in that:

  • said side flaps (32 to

         35) connected to said front walls (12,

         13) and back walls (21,

         22), are dimensioned such that, in the folded position and forming the finished package, the width of said side flaps (32 to

         35) corresponds to approximately half the width of the associated side walls (23 to

         26),the respective base walls (27,

         28) of both of said subsidiary boxes (10,

         11) are connected laterally to base flaps (36,

         37) folded into the plane of the respective adjacent side wall (23 to

         26), andthe side flap (32 to

         35) of both of said subsidiary boxes (10,

         11) are connected to the base flaps (26,

         27) in the areas facing the base walls (27,

         28).

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