Fruit Box (Patent No: 716435)

Inventor: Hinde and Dauch Limited

Location: Toronto, ON

Comments: N/A

Description:
THE EMBODIMENTS OF THE INVENTION IN WHICH AN EXCLUSIVE PROPERTY OR PRIVILEGE IS CLAIMED ARE DEFINED AS FOLLOWS:

1. A one-piece blank for forming a carton, the carton having an upper surface and a lower surface and being adapted to be stacked with other like cartons, the upper surface of one carton interengaging the lower surface of an adjacent upper carton to tend to prevent relative transverse sliding of adjacent cartons in a stack of such cartons, the blank being horizontally and vertically cut and scored to define four primary panels in vertical side-by-side relation and a plurality of secondary panels, the primary panels being, in vertical descending order; a top panel, a first side panel having two opposed vertical edges and an upper edge that is cut to define two opposed shoulders each having a horizontal upper edge and a vertical inner edge, and each disposed near a vertical edge of the first side panel, the top panel being fold ably connected to the first side panel along a horizontal fold line which extends between the inner edges of the shoulders and which fold line is located below the upper edges of the shoulder a bottom panel and a second side panel, the top and bottom panels each being of less width than either of the side panels, the bottom panel being separated from each of the first; and second side panels by two spaced horizontal fold lines, the width of each shoulder being substantially equal to the difference between the width of a side wall panel and the bottom panel, the blank being folded inwardly and normally about each of the horizontal fold lines to define a top, two side walls and a bottom of the carton, selected ones of the said secondary panels forming two opposed sets of four secondary panels each, the secondary panels in each set being, in vertical descending order: an upper secondary panel having a tab formed by cutting and folding the panel upon itself along a horizontal fold lin1o, and intermediate secondary panel serving as an upper bearing surface of the carton, an end secondary panel fold ably connected to the first side panel along a vertical edge of the first side panel, and a lower secondary panel having an aperture to register with said tab, each of the said secondary panels in a set being separated from an adjacent secondary panel in the same set by a horizontal fold line, the blank being folded normally about said fold line to define an inverted U-shaped sleeve constituted by the upper secondary panel, the intermediate secondary panel and the end secondary panel, each end secondary panel being folded inwardly and normally upon a corresponding vertical edge of the first side panel, so that each intermediate panel is disposed above the upper edge of adjacent shoulder and each lower secondary panel overlaps the said bottom primary panel, the tab of the upper secondary panel then being received by the registering aperture in the lower secondary panel, the said second side primary panel having a secondary panel fold ably connected to each of its opposed vertical edges, the said secondary panel being received within the U-shaped sleeve when the blank is folded to erect the carton.

2. The invention claimed in claim 1 wherein the top panel has a foldable locking flap and the second side panel has a foldable slotted flap to releasably receive the locking flap when the carton is erected.

3. The invention claimed in claim 2 wherein each upper secondary panel has a slot in its outer edge and the slotted flap has a tab for registry with said slot when the carton is erected.

4. The invention claimed in claims 1, 2 or 3 wherein each end secondary panel and each secondary panel that is foldably connected to the second side panel has a hand aperture, said aperture being in registry with each other when the carton is erected.

5. The invention claimed in claims 1, 2 or 3 wherein the first and second side panels and the top panel have ventilation apertures.

6. The invention claimed in claims 1, 2 or 3 wherein the top panel has an opening covered by a transparent sheet for exposing the contents of the carton to view.


Ridout & Maybee,
111 Richmond Street West, Toronto 1, Ontario.


Patent Attorneys of the Applicant.