Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Chernoff, Vilhauer, McClung & Stenzell LLP
  • Patent number: 6719191
    Abstract: A bliss-type, corrugated paperboard container having an open top for transporting and displaying fruit, vegetables and the like has a main piece, which provides a bottom element and opposed first side elements, and two bliss pieces which are adhesively attached to the main piece and provide opposed second side elements. The second side elements include an inner panel having extremities which are separated from the first side elements. Diagonal pieces, attached to the extremities of each inner panel, extend to the first side panels, and second side flaps extend from the diagonal pieces to overlie portions of the first side panels. An outer panel of the second side element extends between the first side elements. Indexing tabs have first ends which are connected to the inner panels and second ends which are connected to the outer panels. The indexing tabs are bent 180° between the first and second ends. The indexing tabs fit into slots located in the bottom of a stacked container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2004
    Assignee: Longview Fibre Company
    Inventors: Stephen M. Christensen, Thomas E. Rodgers