Abstract: A longitudinally-opening container having a faceted tubular body is disclosed. The tubular body is formed by splitting a tube longitudinally, or from a single sheet of paperboard folded to form two end openings. End caps that cover each end opening are split in half along a central axis, forming sections having confronting edges along the median axis and bounded on either end by respective sections of the end caps. The container opens longitudinally into two trays connected by a living hinge. The living hinge is formed by a taped seam or a longitudinal fold in the body. The living hinge aligns the confronting edges to engage releasable locking means on those edges when the container closes. The locking means holds all the edges of the container in substantial alignment with each other.

Abstract: A bulk bin, multi-sided container includes a bottom portion with tabs that automatically pops into position when the container is erected from the flat state. The container preferably includes a sidewall section having six panels which is attached to a bottom section having six sides with six tabs therein. Two of the tabs of the bottom section are attached adhesively to cut-out portions on the bottom inside of two opposing panels of the sidewall section in such a fashion that a portion of the tabs adjacent to the attached tabs lie inside of the multi-sided container when the container is in the flat state. This structure automatically forces the remaining nonattached tabs to pop into proper alignment and position when the extreme edges of the flat sidewalls are squeezed towards each other. A top having a similar structure can be erected quickly and placed on top of the container. The container and its top can be erected in a matter of seconds.

Abstract: A box-shaped carton having additional rectilinear corners for holding a plurality of glassware articles, which has increase vertical and/or horizontal stiffness for storing and stacking purposes. The carton includes at least five side panels to form at least one additional flat edge from the increased rectilinear corners for displaying printed material about the stored articles. The carton also can be folded into a sleeve when fully glued together. A blank for forming the carton is also provided.

Abstract: A paperboard container is formed from a single piece with appropriate cuts, score lines and slots to become, when in the erected condition, a food container for holding food items such as pizzas. Top and bottom panels are provided as are appropriate side panels. Front angled corners are constructed where triangular panels and upstanding tabs create a receiving pocket for accepting the locking flap hinged to the top closure panel.

Abstract: A foldable hand-held container includes a generally frusto-conical body formed from a single sheet of foldable material having two opposed inner wall members and two opposed outer wall members each having a plurality of panels defined by a plurality of diverging, equidistant fold lines. The container may be lined with a superabsorbent material to allow the container to be used as a cuspidor. A method for forming such a container is also disclosed.

Abstract: A partitioned meal tray or container for holding food products is formed from a blank, and comprises a planar base and a plurality of sidewalls, the tray or container further comprising a plurality of internal partitions running parallel to the planar base. Each of the internal partitions has its first end joined either to a respective corner of the tray or to a respective sidewall of the tray, second ends of the internal partitions being joined together. Two embodiments of the tray are hexagonal in shape, while a third embodiment of the tray is pentagonal in shape. Further embodiments of the tray are formed by provision of an additional tray which is insertable into an upper portion of the main tray, the additional tray being supported from below by internal partitions in the main tray. Ends of the internal partitions, adjacent to the corners or walls to which they are connected, comprise a pair of flared tabs which are connected to the corner or wall by glue, adhesive or other means.

Abstract: A type of container allowing use of one or more sections of recessed cover edge that can be used for creating a uniquely shaped cover, thereby (a) providing a cover that can be shaped into the contour of a company logo or other unique graphic element and (b) providing a container that can be differentiated from competitors' containers and can be designed for extra strong memorability. The box is typically used for packaging relatively flat food products such as pizza and the like; however, it can serve other purposes, as well.

Abstract: A multi-side container prepared from a single blank of paperboard includes a base panel foldably connected to a row of inner side walls. The base panel is also foldably connected to a row of outer side walls which encircle the inner side walls to form a double wall construction. A lid panel is foldably connected to the outer side walls and is bonded to the outer side walls. A tear line crosses at least some of the outer side walls separating an upper portion of the outer side walls from a lower portion. The tear line is capable of being broken to form a recloseable lid comprising the lid panel and upper portions of the outer side walls.

Abstract: A type of box comprising three unique components: (1) an over-extending trapezoid-shape diagonal side wall, (2) a flapless corner interlock, and (3) a cover with parallel free side edges and obliquely disposed cover interlock flaps. The preferred embodiments have six side walls consisting of a rear wall, first and second opposing side walls, third and fourth opposing side walls extending obliquely from the first and second side walls, and a front wall opposing the rear wall. Also disclosed is a two-part cover interlock flap that engages with the third and fourth diagonal side walls.

Abstract: Dual bags including a primary bag for french fries coupled to a secondary bag for ketchup. The primary bag has a base, a front wall and a rear wall. The base is formed with side edges coming to an obtuse angle at an intermediate point. Glue-receiving strips extend outwardly from the side edges. Each wall has interior fold lines flaring outwardly and supplemental fold lines located laterally outwardly from the interior fold lines. Glue-receiving strips are located outwardly from the supplemental fold lines. The upper edge of the central extent of the front wall has a concaved curve and the upper edge of the central extent of the rear wall has a convex curve. The smaller secondary ketchup bag has a rectangular outer panel and a rectangular inner panel with a transverse fold line therebetween adapted to create a V-shape cross section when open for receiving ketchup.

Abstract: A container board for flat food products, made from a single piece of paper board such as a pizza, which includes a bottom wall surrounded by upright side walls and a pair of diagonally extending front corner walls is described and includes a lid portion having a top wall connected to a rearwardly disposed side wall of said bottom wall by a fold line forming a hinge. The lid portion is movable between a closed position covering the bottom wall and an open position. The lid walls are formed of a double ply having an upper edge provided with a top opening recess. The lid portion includes a top wall and said walls, the latter being conformed to be received in closely spaced relationship to the inner surfaces of the upright bottom side walls when the lid portion is in the closed position.

Abstract: Packaging containers for beverages, for example milk or juice, as well as blanks for producing the packaging containers, are often manufactured from paper-plastic laminate which, by fold forming and sealing, is given the desired container configuration, normally parallelepipedic. With the aid of a specifically designed pattern of fold or crease lines which divide the material into, for example, six side panels (1) and associated primary end panels (7) and secondary end panels (8), respectively, prismatic, preferably hexagonal containers may instead be produced using substantially known methods.

Abstract: A regressively tiered structure defining at least part of a package includes first and second tiers and a ledge. The first vertically-extending tier defines in plan a first hollow, polygonal, substantially closed figure having edges. The second vertically-extending tier defines in plan a second hollow, polygonal, substantially closed figure having edges, the second figure being in plan of appreciably smaller dimensions than and typically of the same configuration as the first figure. The horizontally-extending, generally planar, ledge is disposed intermediate to and connecting the edges of the first and second tiers which are disposed in generally a common plane, the ledge defining a plurality of overlapping ledge sides. The first and second tiers and the ledge are formed from a single sheet of flexible material.

Abstract: A carton for holding a plurality of filled containers in an end to end relationship formed from a unitary sheet of paperboard provided with cut and fold lines to divide the unitary sheet into a plurality of lengthwise extending sidewall panels and end flaps joined to each end portion of the lengthwise extending panels by fold lines and wherein a plurality of partially cut-out portions are formed in the lengthwise extending sidewall panels with spacer panels detachably secured to some of the lengthwise extending sidewall panels and joined to as associated lengthwise extending panel by a fold line so that the spacer panels may be folded to locations between adjacent ends of adjacent filled containers.

Abstract: A cigarette package is dimensioned to hold an array of cigarettes in multiple rows and comprises a plurality of vertical walls defining a hexagon in cross-section. The walls are dimensioned to bear against an array of cigarettes in the package and having the same cross-sectional shape as the package. The package has a distinctive external appearance while permitting twenty or twenty-five cigarettes to be accommodated in three or four rows in the array.

Abstract: This invention relates to a hexagonal paperboard carton that is tapered with an automatic bottom. Such structures of this type, generally, provide a peeling feature that allows the consumer to remove the carton from the product in a continual, spiral strip.

Abstract: A lock flap closure arrangement for one-piece, collapsible, tray-type, paperboard container which container includes a tray and a cover hinged to the tray. The closure arrangement includes a tray cover with at least one lock flap having a T-shaped lock tab hinged thereto with a major port ion adapted to be inserted into a complementary receiving opening in an adjacent area of the tray.

Abstract: A tray-cover, corner closure arrangement for a hexagonal, one-piece, collapsible, tray-type, paperboard container with diagonal front corners. The container includes a tray, with front end and tray side wall panels interconnected by a four section gusset, and a cover hinged to the tray and including a pair of corner lock tabs adapted to be inserted between the tray corner gussets and the tray bottom wall panel.

Abstract: A one-piece, collapsible, tray type, paperboard container with one or more truncated corners, each of which includes a pair of vertical side walls, with adjacent ends spaced from each other and interconnected by a three-piece gusset. The gusset includes first and second sections, foldably joined to each of the side walls, and a corner section, foldably joined to each side section. The corner section is folded in face-to-face relation with one of the side sections and positioned against an inner surface of one of side walls in interlocking engagement therewith.

Abstract: A container with an improved closure system and other improved features made of a single-faced paperboard blank formed of a corrugated paperboard layer and a substantially flat paperboard layer. The blank has scored lines or cuts which define a bottom portion, a cover, a cover support and four side walls. The boundaries of the side walls are defined by a plurality of substantially parallel scores and cuts that meet at a plurality of points so as to form side walls which have generally triangular ends. The improved closure system comprises at least one locking tab integrally formed in the cover and which has a plurality of flutes and at least one locking receptacle integrally formed in the bottom portion and which has an edge. Each corresponding receptacle and tab positionally coincide when the container is assembled so that a flute of the locking tab engages the flat paperboard layer by the edge of the receptacle to facilitate a closure.

Abstract: A one-piece, collapsible, tray type, paperboard container, with truncated front corners. The container includes a pair of hingedly interconnected tray and cover members, each having a pair of side wall panels, and a pair of closure flaps with side portions that overlap the ends of the cover side wall panels to maintain them in place against the outer surfaces of the tray side wall panels when the container is in a closed condition.

Abstract: In a first embodiment, a flip top container of partially irregular hexagonal transverse cross section is formed from a unitary blank of paperboard or other stiff, foldable and resilient sheet material. In a second embodiment of the container, another unitary blank of paperboard is employed to form a cigarette container having the same partially irregular hexagonal transverse cross sectional shape, except that a panel having tongue which is reclosable after opening is employed in lieu of a flip top closure.

Abstract: A rectangular-parallelepiped packaging box having three folding lines, in each of at least one of four corners of top and bottom faces of the box, interconnecting three ridgelines which meet at each of the four corners. At these corners are formed concaved sections by folding pointed corners inward along the folding lines. A worker, therefore, can easily insert the hands into the concaved sections and lift the box. During transport, the worker grips the box firmly with the fingers put in the concaved sections, and therefore there will not occur such a hazard that the box slips off the hands and down.

Abstract: A shipping carton for five legged chair bases is disclosed. The shipping carton is hexagonal with rectangular sides and four obtuse corner angles and two acute corner angles. The configuration of the carton allows for more efficient loading of a standard truck trailer or other shipping vehicle. In addition, the load has more stability and structural integrity than pentagonal cartons previously used for shipping five legged chair bases. The shipping carton of the present invention is economically formed from a single flat sheet of foldable material such as corrugated paperboard.

Abstract: A system for construction of a multi-sided solid shaped carton, package, or similar multi-sided structure including a flat blank having multiple polygon shaped faces, each face hingably connected to at least one other face, having free edges of the faces connectable to free edges of other faces to form a multi-sided carton, a first edge forming element for connecting a first pair of free edges with a first degree of holding force, and a second edge forming element for connecting a second pair of free edges with a second degree of holding force which is greater than said first degree of holding force. A unique symbol code is used for drawing attention to the preferred starting point of construction, for designating the appropriate correspondence between tab and slotted flap edge forming elements, and for designating the preferred order of assembly.

Abstract: A flanged tray and preform for making it. The preform includes a cut and scored paperboard blank having a polygonal bottom forming base panel. Each edge of the base is foldably joined to a radially outwardly extending, regular trapezoidal sidewall forming panel. The radially outermost portion of each sidewall panel carries a horizontal flange forming flap. The preform also includes a thin plastic sheet adhered to one surface of the paperboard blank. The plastic sheet covers the blank and extends over radially extending gaps between the side edges of next adjacent sidewall panels. The preform is placed in a female die with the plastic film facing upwardly. A male die presses the preform downwardly to form it into a tray having a peripheral, horizontally extending flange. The step of permanently attaching the plastic film to the paperboard blank may be carried out concurrently with the step of deforming the blank in the die.

Abstract: A clam shell carton having a hexagonal tray with a similarly configured hexagonal cover integrally hinged thereto. The tray and cover, outward of hinge joined inner walls thereof, include alternating high and low peripheral walls with projecting locking lugs on selected ends of the high walls. The high and low walls on the cover respectively overlap the low and high walls on the tray with the locking lugs on the cover releasably interlocking with the locking lugs on the tray.

Abstract: A carton including a hexagonal tray with a complementary hexagonal cover integrally hinged thereto for closing thereover. A dual locking system between the tray and cover includes projecting locking lugs coplanar with the front wall of the tray and extending beyond adjoining tray side walls for interlocking engagement with corresponding lugs on side walls of the cover which extend beyond the cover front wall. The locking assembly also includes headed upwardly extending tabs on selected tray side walls which engage through corresponding slots in the cover top panel to lock the top panel downwardly against the upper edges of the side walls from which the tabs project.

Abstract: A container for a food product, such as pizza, has a bottom, two side walls, a rear wall and a front wall, all formed from a single blank of paperboard. A lid folds over the rear wall. Lid flaps depend from the lid on each side for insertion on an interior side of each of the side walls. The lid flaps have a retaining portion of greater height and a recessed portion. Diagonal corner walls extend between the side walls and the front wall. A slot locates in each corner wall for receiving a tab depending from the lid to lock the lid in a closed position. The slot and tabs have lower edge that incline in opposite directions.

Abstract: Container apparatus is formed of integral paperboard and has a tubular body formed by a series of foldably interconnected sidewalls to form a hollow passageway between open ends. An internal divider wall is formed in the passageway between the open ends by a simple folding of the tubular body.

Abstract: In a carton comprising a tray and a removable cover, peripheral walls on the cover and tray overlapping and engaging each other. Outwardly projecting locking lugs on the cover and tray walls cross each other and interlock upon a movement of the cover to a closed position over the tray and provide spaced points of interlock about the periphery of the carton.

Abstract: A dispensing container is disclosed. The container can be formed from a unitary prescored blank. The container comprises first and second main panels, four major side walls and at least one minor side wall which extends between to adjacent major side walls and cuts the corner that would otherwise be formed by the two major side walls. The minor side wall is constituted by a first, inner minor side wall panel connected to the first main panel and disconnected from the second main panel and a first, outer minor side wall panel connected to the second main panel and disconnected from the first main panel. A content dispensing device is associated with the minor wall so that it does not extend beyond the corner which would otherwise be formed by the two adjacent major side walls. The container can be shipped with the dispensing element in place. In applications involving liquid products, a liquid impervious liner is provided on the inside of the container.

Abstract: A hexagonal basket-style carrier formed from a unitary blank. Each side panel is connected to a triangular bottom panel section forming a segment of the bottom panel of the carrier. The bottom panel sections are connected by triangular tuck panels having folds which extend up into the interior of the carrier on opposite sides of the handle to divide the carrier into cells. Tabs on the ends of the handle are connected with slots in the carrier to hold the handle and bottom panel in place.

Abstract: A container for a flat food product is formed from a one-piece blank to provide a multisided container having a front panel, first and second opposing side panels, third and fourth opposing side panels, first and second perforated portions interconnecting said first and third opposing side panels and said second and fourth opposing side panels, respectively, a rear panel, and a top. The six-sided design provides less air space in the container, thus contributing to the maintenance of the temperature of the food product contained therein. Lock tabs located on minor flaps of the front panel secure the first and second opposing side panels into an upright position by interlocking under portions of the side panels. The perforated portions provide continuity between the side panels, and automatically provide hot air ventilation outlets when the container is assembled.

Abstract: A paperboard container is formed from a single piece with appropriate cuts, score lines and slots to become, when in the erected condition, a food container for holding hot food such as pizzas. Top and bottom panels are provided as are appropriate side panels. At the back side panel on each side thereof panels are provided whereby two opposed triangular flaps are folded back over an angle of 180.degree. to form a multi-layer construction to add to the strength. In another embodiment, front angled corners are constructed where triangular panels are created as is a generally rectangular antislide panel which, when the bottom receptacle portion is formed will be inclined inwardly within the interior of the container to form an antislide barrier.

Abstract: A display carton for holding and displaying an article formable from a unitary blank includes a tubular container structure and a tubular drawer structure by which an article is displayed by opening and closing the drawer structure. With the drawer structure in its closed position, the carton comprises a polyhedron and preferably, a prism having a pair of opposed parallel faces or bases which may be triangular, hexagonal, etc. and a corresponding plurality of lateral faces in the shape of parallelograms. A blank for forming a display carton is also disclosed.

Abstract: A container made of a single-faced paperboard blank formed a corrugated paperboard layer and a substantially flat paperboard layer has scored lines or cuts which define a bottom portion, a cover, a cover support and four side walls. The boundaries of the side walls are defined by a plurality of substantially parallel score and slits that meet at a plurality of points so as to form side walls which have generally triangular ends. The container has four external vents for moisture to pass from the interior of the container to the outside, and three internal vents to allow moisture to pass from the interior of the container to the space between the corrugated and flat paperboard layers.

Abstract: The invention is a hexagonal garment box including a novel hanger apparatus formed by flaps of two opposing walls of said box. The hanger apparatus includes a hanger bar formed from a foldable flap, supported by a slot in an opposing wall of said box and another flap from the opposing wall which extends over the hanger bar to secure and hold any hangers placed between the two flaps in position within the garment box.

Abstract: This relates to a beverage dispenser and more particularly to a disposable carton in which a bag containing a selected beverage may be mounted to facilitate the dispensing of the beverage. The carton is of a four piece construction including a tubular multi-sided carton body, a base on which the beverage bag is supported, a support slidably mounted in the carton body for supporting the filler of the beverage bag, and a cap. All necessary components of the carton automatically lock together when folded and no adhesives are required. There is also a cup holder which may be selectively mounted on the carton or which may be supported independently of the beverage dispenser adjacent the beverage dispenser.

Abstract: A packing box, in particular for pastries or cakes, is prepared from a cut-out and grooved blank.The box is characterized in that: each flap (201-206; 401-404) is formed from a lower part (201A-206A; 401A-404A) and a tab (201B-206B; 401B-404B) and each lower part (201A-206A; 401A-406A) is bordered over at least part of its length and on at least one of its sides by a strengthening strip (201E, 201F-206E, 206F, 401E-401F) connected to the base by a fold line. The homologous strengthening strips of the two adjacent flaps are joined by a fold line (300, 501, 502, 503, 504) and when the flaps are raised, the two strengthening strips project into the space of the box and approach the fold lines so as to form a ridge between the two flaps.The invention relates to cardboard boxes.

Abstract: A container composed of semiflexible body and two semiflexible end caps wherein the body and the end portions fit together in a rigid manner to provide a rigid container. Although a firm latching between the body and the end caps is afforded, they can be disassembled if desired. In a preferred manner, the end caps are composed of a semiflexible plastic material, and the semiflexible body is composed of fiberboard. The container is durable so that several of the units can be stacked upon each other. It also offers versatility in that the fiberboard body can be divided with different panel portions so as to afford a display type container.

Abstract: A bowl shaped container having a polygonal shaped bottom section; rectangular, square, or trapizoidal side sections; and top closure material which folds down in a spirling fashion, which may or may not lock, included in the design. The container will be preferably formed from a single sheet of foldable material, which, through a unique folding process, creates the bottom, side panels and top closure. The description defines an open bowl shaped polygonal container with top covering material which folds down toward the center of the top of the container in a generally spiral fashion. The container provides a receptacle which can be closed through a folding action, and can be reopened to the near flat state again without great effort.

Abstract: A device for protecting growing plants constructed from corrugated plastic and folded in the form of a straight or tapered hexagonal column having two hinged lid panels which may be opened to provide ventilation or closed to provide protection for the plant.

Abstract: A decorative, foldable cardboard basket for hand carrying and displaying selected items is disclosed. The basket comprises a central receptacle having connected side walls, end walls and a bottom section with linear fold lines in its end walls and bottom section that enable it to assume an essentially flattened configuration, and a bottom member for holding the receptacle in its opened, erect configuration. A pair of side panels of flexible material which may be provided with a distinctive design shape and graphics are attached to and extend above the side walls, each panel having an opening within an upper portion that forms a handle for the basket.

Abstract: A lighter-than-air toy balloon storage container is provided which is shaped to resemble a toy space station, aircraft hanger, or the like in order to integrate the storage container into the overall toy construction. The container may be formed in the shape of an octahedron from a one-piece cardboard or paperboard blank with top, bottom, side and end walls. One or both of the end walls may be hinged to permit insertion or withdrawal of the associated balloon toy, the latter shaped to resemble a toy flying saucer or the like. One or more of the container walls may also be provided with transparent inserts, as well as indicia enhancing the unique appearance of the container.

Abstract: A collapsible, self-standing, liquid resistant, drinking cup formed from a unitary blank of uncoated paperboard and having a bottom wall member and a pair of side wall members that are interconnected at their side edges and that have certain lower edges joined to the bottom wall member and other lower edges disposed below the bottom wall member to support the erected cup on a horizontal surface.

Abstract: A packing device comprising elements which are composed of a bottom, a top panel, at least one end wall and side walls and which are hingeably connected together substantially along the longitudinal ribs of their bottoms to form a continuous row of elements. The packing device has been made from one unitary blank and the row of elements can be rolled up from its flat extended position to a closed polygonal block in which the interconnected bottoms and the combined side walls of the elements form the casing and the end faces, respectively, of the block.

Abstract: A hexagonal carton including four upstanding sidewall panels and two diagonally opposed corner panels. The entire carton is formed from a single blank. The corner panels include minor flaps hingedly foldably connected thereto which interact with minor flaps foldably hingedly connected to the adjoining sidewall panels to form a rigid interlocked cover panel which withstands lateral pressures exerted on the sidewall panels of the carton. Major flaps are foldably hingedly connected to two of the sidewall panels to form a cover panel to cover the interlocking minor flaps.

Abstract: A pack for fluid media, comprising a tube (1) forming side walls (2, 3) as well as a cover (5) and a base, which cover and base are fitted to end edges (4) of the tube (1) is provided. At least the side walls (2, 3) and the base are made of plastics-coated carrier material incorporating paper, cardboard or the like, and the base is formed by folded-over wall panels which are formed integrally with the tube (1), providing two mutually oppositely disposed double-walled triangular panels which are in communication with the interior of the pack. The cover (5) is also formed by folded-over wall panels (6) which are formed integrally with the tube (1) and edges (7) of the wall panels (6) are fluid-tightly connected together by injected bridges (8) of plastics material.

Abstract: An envelope element, and envelope blank and an envelope formed from the envelope blank, which is capable of protecting an article which is inserted therein against an impact imparted thereto from the outside, and obtaining an internal space therein in conformity with the shape of the article when it is inserted thereinto, and retaining the article stored stably therein. The envelope blank includes a cardboard having a relief portion, and has a front section having a pair of side edges and an end edge, and also a back section joined to the other end edge of the front section through a creasing line and also having a pair of side edges and an end edge. The portion which surrounds the creasing line is provided with relief portions.