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Oval folding carton with automatic closing

  • US 6,152,359 A
  • Filed: 06/15/1999
  • Issued: 11/28/2000
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/15/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A one piece blank of foldable sheet material cut and scored so that it is divided into a series of connected wall forming panels which when assembled provides an oval folding carton with an automatic closing bottom for packaging an article, wherein the blank comprises:

  • (a) first, second, and third rectangular wall panels of substantially equal size positioned in lateral alignment and connected by vertical fold lines, each wall panel having a top, a bottom, and two sides;

    (b) first and second rectangular supporting shoulders of substantially equal size foldably connected to the first and second rectangular wall panels, respectively;

    wherein the first and second rectangular supporting shoulders have a top, a bottom, and two sides, and the tops of the first and second supporting shoulders are connected to the bottoms of the first and second rectangular wall panels, respectively; and

    (c) first and second oval bottom closing flaps of substantially equal size foldably connected to the first and second supporting shoulders, respectively, for automatically closing the carton;

    wherein the first and second oval bottom closing flaps have a top, a bottom, and two sides, and the second bottom closing flap contains a reverse fold, the top of the first and second oval bottom closing flaps being connected to the bottom of the first and second rectangular supporting shoulders, respectively.

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