Abstract: A tri-fold lid storage box which enables the user to convert available storage space underneath a bed into usable storage. The storage box is comprised of a separate box and lid, the box having a triple reinforced front panel for pulling the box outward, the lid having a specially designed lid which can fold back either 1/3, 2/3 or be completely removed. The lid is also removably attached to the storage box and is specially designed so the user may lock the lid into the 2/3 open position so that the user can view and manipulate the contents of the box without having to hold the lid open. The boxes are specially dimensioned so that they fully utilize the storage space available underneath a standard size bed.

Abstract: A container for nestably holding a sink for storing, shipping and displaying. The container forms from a blank of corrugated paperboard scored for folding to provide a back, two opposing side walls, and two opposing end walls. The back includes an opening for partially receiving therethrough the bowl of the sink. A pair of supports are each foldably attached along a first score to a respective one of the end walls. A plurality of sections in the support are defined by second scores. The support folds on the scores and bears against the bottom and the end wall. The sink sits on the support. Two containers are nested together by placing one container on the other. This positions the bottom side of the bowl of one sink in the bowl of the second sink.

Abstract: A container for the storage, transport and handling of bulk mail is provided. The container includes a top panel that is adequately secured in place thereby eliminating the need for a separate tray, elastic strap and sleeve. A plurality of containers, in combination with a pallet, top and bottom caps and side enclosures provide an improved method for the shipment of large quantities of bulk mail and eliminates the need for shrink wrapping conventional sleeves onto pallets.

Abstract: A cardboard box for storing and easily removing cards which box has a smooth flat bottom. The box has a bottom panel to which front and back panels are hingedly affixed. The back panel has a pair of end flaps, each of which have flaps extending from them. The front panel has a pair of end flaps and the top panel is hinged to the back panel and an outer front panel is also hinged thereto. When the box is folded the end flaps of the back panel fold around so that the bottom panel has an upper surface that is not interrupted by any flaps.

Abstract: A shipping and display carton which may be used for such applications as merchandising elongated items such as garden shears or garden loppers is formed without using glue, tape, staples, or the like and comprises a display tray and a slidable cover. The display shipper is configured to limit set up time at the point of purchase and provides for attractively displaying all items contained therein. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the display shipper comprises a tray having cut out portion configured to receive a pair of oppositely facing ramps on which the items are disposed, and a slidable cover. The tray, ramp, and cover, are each made from a blank of folding carton stock.

Abstract: A ventilated container for storing fresh produce is formed from a unitary continuous blank. The ventilated container includes a bottom wall, first and second opposing side walls, and first and second opposing end walls. The first and second side walls and the first and second end walls intersect with one another to form four inside corners of the container. The container forms a plurality of vents to permit air to flow through the container. Each of the first and second end walls is formed from an inner panel and an outer panel hingedly connected to each other along a substantially rigid upper ledge. The container includes four polygonal corner posts disposed adjacent the respective four inside corners of the container and extending from the bottom wall to a height of the upper ends of the respective corners.

Abstract: A storage box for documents, files or the like, and having a generally rectangular body (2) with one open side for access which is sloped or angled, relative to the opposite side. Three of the side edges of the opening are also inwardly flanged, and a slightly smaller lid (4) of co-operating shape is hinged to the fourth edge (6) or to the edge of an insert (30) which divides the interior into sections. The insert may divide the interior into two or more such sections depending on the application.

Abstract: A container for nestably holding a sink for storing, shipping and displaying. The container forms from a blank of corrugated paperboard scored for folding to provide a back, two opposing side walls, and two opposing end walls. The back includes an opening for partially receiving therethrough the bowl of the sink. A pair of supports are each foldably attached along a first score to a respective one of the end walls. A plurality of sections in the support are defined by second scores. The support folds on the scores and bears against the bottom and the end wall. The sink sits on the support. Two containers are nested together by placing one container on the other. This positions the bottom side of the bowl of one sink in the bowl of the second sink.

Abstract: A stackable berry container comprises a bottom wall, a pair of opposing side walls, and first and second opposing end walls. Each of the first and second end walls forms a respective set of small vents spaced along the lengths of the end walls adjacent the bottom wall. Each of the first and second end walls further forms a respective large opening above the respective set of small vents. Each of the first and second end walls includes a bowed inner panel and an outer panel hingedly connected to each other along a rigid convex-shaped ledge. Each of the side walls including an inner panel and an outer panel hingedly connected to each other along an upper transverse edge. A first pair of minor flaps extends from opposing ends of the inner panel of one of the side walls and a second pair of minor flaps extends from opposing ends of the inner panel of the other of the side walls.

Abstract: A shipping tray fashioned from a unitary blank of corrugated paperboard or the like and which is particularly adapted for the packaging of strawberries. The tray is provided with a separable longitudinal divider, also fashioned from a unitary blank of corrugated paperboard. The end structures of the tray are so formed that each tray end presents a slanting surface, with the divider panel also exhibiting a pair of opposed slanting surfaces. The slant of all of these surfaces fairly conforms to the slant of a conventional strawberry tray, to thereby minimize looseness of the strawberry trays in the tray of this invention. The divider panel, not being integral with the tray, need not be used. However, if used, the divider is easily inserted and taken out manually. Upstanding tabs at the tray ends are adapted to be received and fit into complementary recesses in the tray bottom, so as to thereby assist in aligning the trays when they are vertically stacked.

Abstract: A box for containing two or more vertically stacked products, such as pizzas, includes a plurality of vertical side panels, along with horizontal bottom and top panels. At selected corners where pairs of adjacent side panels come together there are formed knock-in tabs that act as shelf supports for an upper product. Each tab is formed by cutting two parallel slits through the box material. The tabs are pushed inwardly towards the inside of the box to provide shelf supports for a disk upon which a product is placed. The tabs provide for ventilation into the box. The top of the box has a pair of flaps and associated tuck tabs that cooperate with a locking roll-over on the front side panel of the box to provide for a quick and easy means of opening and closing the box.

Abstract: A collapsible, stackable, display tray with single-ply side walls and multi-ply end walls that each include a pair of outer flaps, an outer panel, a pair of inner flaps, an inner panel, and a pair of hollow corner posts connected to the inner panel and positioned between the inner flaps panel and the inner panel.

Abstract: A blank for forming a paperboard carton or breadtray having a bottom and four double ply walls with reinforced corners erected without stitches. Each corner has a double fold wrap around flap which is inserted through a slot in the adjoining wall and is captured between the plys. A reinforcing section folds down over the side section forming the two plys which are held together by a cutout which is inserted through a handle hole and locked by a tab inserted into the bottom section.

Abstract: A carton with triple-thickness sidewalls formed from a one-piece unitary blank includes sidewalls and endwalls extending from a floor. Lid members extending from the endwalls cover the carton interior and arrangements for locking the lids in a closed position are provided. The sidewalls and endwalls are interlocked with a locking post arrangement to prevent pull-out.

Abstract: A stackable container is formed from a unitary continuous corrugated or sold fiberboard blank for storage of shipped goods. The stackable container includes a bottom portion, first and second opposing side panels, a back panel, and a front panel. The side panels and the back panel have corresponding rigid ledges along uppermost edges of the panels which are capable of supporting another similar or identical stackable container on top of this one. The side panels and the back panel are made from a corresponding pair of planar layers. The ledge corresponding to each panel is connected to and bridges between the corresponding pair of planar layers. The front panel has a display opening for viewing and accessing contents of the stackable container. The stackable container also includes a lid used during shipment of the container.

Abstract: A Container for the storage, transport and handling of bulk mail is provided. The container includes a top panel that is adequately secured in place thereby eliminating the need for a separate tray, elastic strap and sleeve. A plurality of containers, in combination with a pallet, top and bottom caps and side enclosures provide an improved method for the shipment of large quantities of bulk mail and eliminates the need for shrink wrapping conventional sleeves onto pallets.

Abstract: A safety carton for pizza or the like is provided which consists of a rear wall that is hinged for connecting bottom and top panels together. The bottom and top panels each having rounded corners. Two opposed side walls and a fold over front wall are connected to and extend upwardly from the bottom panel. A pair of rear diagonal corner walls and a pair of front diagonal corner walls are each connected at one end to each side wall. A closure structure is connected thereto for selectively maintaining the top panel in a closed position.

Abstract: A disposable litter box is defined by a foldable closed container and includes a supply of litter. The box is adapted to be unfolded into a unitary litter box having a continuous outer perimeter of even height for defining an open topped litter box for use by pets and the like. After use is completed, the box may be refolded to confine the soiled litter, which may then be readily disposed. Visual indicators are provided to facilitate closing the box.

Abstract: A pilfer proof container made from a one piece die cut which is folded into the container which has a generally rectangular configuration with the lid locked into position by way of a locking arrangement between a score or opening in the front panel of the container and a flange member coupled to the lid.

Abstract: A re-usable, recyclable, reversible carton is made from recyclable plastics material and is formed from a carton blank adapted for erection without the need for additional closure devices such as glue or staples. The plastics material may be polyethylene and printing on at least one surface may be by use of UV inks on a roughened surface with a view to maximum longevity of the printing. The carton is erected from a knock-down carton blank having releasable engagement tabs and slots to releasably maintain the carton in an erected condition. A two part lid is provided, each part of which may be folded down the side of the carton to allow for the possibility of using the carton for open storage.

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: A reusable, recyclable carton is made from recyclable plastics material and has a closure which does not require glue, staples or other non-recyclable closing elements. The plastics material may be polyethylene. The carton is erected from a knock-down carton blank having releasable engagement tabs and slots to releasably maintain the carton in an erected condition. A two flap lid is provided, the flaps meeting on a line joining opposing walls of the carton. A flange rises from each of the opposing walls adjacent the joining line of the lid flaps. The flange is joined to its respective wall along only part of its length so that it has free ends. The flange may be bent over to overlie the lid flaps and its ends may be tucked into slots in the lid flaps for that purpose.

Abstract: A single piece corrugated paperboard blank is cut and scored to provide a field erectable container without the use of any additional elements for locking pieces together. The container is one having inclined side walls so that the produce, such as asparagus or green onions, which is stacked in a vertical orientation may be packaged and held in place during shipment. The bottom of the erected container is larger than the top and an integral opposed strapping arrangement is provided whereby a plurality of flaps or panels are arranged to be folded into an orientation and locked in place to provide a field erected container which has great vertical stacking strength. Sufficient cooling vents are provided as are opposed hand holds. Upstanding stacking tabs are also provided so that one packed container may be stacked atop another and be substantially held in place.

Abstract: An apparatus for storing and dispensing unfolded files comprising a tray which has side walls, a bottom, and an open top is provided. The tray is adapted to store a stack of the unfolded files thereon. A plastic film is wrapped around the tray and unfolded files contained therein to retain the unfolded files in a tray and to form a package. Upon removal of the plastic film, the unfolded files may be removed from within the tray. Methods for storing and dispensing the unfolded files are also provided.

Abstract: A container for receiving and containing items to be disposed of, such as medical waste (used syringes, needles, and the like), is assembled from a blank, and comprises bottom, front, rear, top and end panels. The top panel has a front flap provided with opposing flap tucks which, when the container is assembled, are inserted into spaces between respective end panels and respective minor flaps of the front panel, thereby securing the top panel against inadvertent opening. The top panel also has a syringe-shaped opening which serves as an access to an inner flap of the front panel below so that, when an item to be disposed of is deposited through the opening onto the inner flap, and when a force is exerted on the inner flap from above, the inner flap rotates downward, and the item is deposited in the container. The inner flap is biased to a closed position so that, upon removal of the force, the inner flap rotates back to the closed position.

Abstract: A carton for a single layer of tomatoes or the like is formed of single thickness corrugated fiberboard which is doubled over at fold lines along opposing walls is provided. The fold lines lie in differing planes so that each of two opposing walls have relatively long recesses at the upper portions thereof with a doubled thickness of fiberboard below such recesses. The other opposing walls include a double thickness along substantially the entire length of the wall. Corner members extend across the top corners of the carton to strengthen the carton as well as to facilitate stacking of cartons. Optional upstanding tabs facilitate stacking. The recesses promote airflow over tomatoes or the like held in the carton.

Abstract: The invention disclosed herein relates to a packaging try with a thermoformed inner lining. The packaging tray includes, internally, in each corner, a corner panel which is inclined toward the bottom of the tray such that it approaches the center of the bottom. The corner panel is inclined at an obtuse angle with respect to the bottom and to the walls which define the corner. Also disclosed is a unitary packaging tray blank from which the packaging tray is constructed.

Abstract: A package for carryout food such as pizza includes a polygonal shaped tray and a separate lid. The tray is prepared from a single blank of paperboard or the like and includes a generally polygonal shaped bottom panel with integral side wall segments. At least four opposed side wall segments are provided with slotted false interior walls which support and retain the separate lid in place after the food is packaged.

Abstract: The box according to the invention has a panel (12) provided with folding lines (15, 16). The panel (12) is joined along a line (17) to a base portion (1) of the box and along another line (18) to an upright wall (2) of the box. In the collapsed state, the panel (12) bears on the base portion (1) and the upright wall (2) and the box is flat. In the put up state, the panel (12) extends for the major part at a certain distance from the base portion (1) and said wall (2) in order to form a buffer.

Abstract: A container for friable or granular material facilitates unfilled flat shipment of the container plus later user articulation, deployment and filling towards secure material containment. At least one containment cell is seated upon a bottom panel of a tray having side and end flaps for restrainably securing the cell. Emanating outwardly from the tray end flaps at attachment flap fold regions are attachment flaps that envelope interpositioned ones of juxtaposed cell end walls to restrainably secure them. With at least a portion of a side wall of an articulatable cell preliminarily attached to a tray side flap that may be articulated with respect to the bottom panel, folding the tray side flap down to a first position generally coplanar with the bottom panel enables the cell to collapse into a pair of juxtaposed stacked layers.

Abstract: A factory sealed packing container for housing a plurality of tubes is formed from a one-piece, die-cut blank of raw material that is cut, scored and foldable for easy set-up by hand or automatically into the assembled container.

Abstract: A container includes a rectangular tray and a removable lid. Each short side of the tray is constructed of two closely spaced walls or partitions and the lid is provided with extensions each of which projects through a slot in the narrow connecting section that joins each pair of short side walls and extends into the space therebetween. With a plurality of these tray in a stack, the connecting sections provide ledges on which each of these trays supports the adjacent higher tray. For each pair of short side walls, the inner one thereof is provided with a panel at both ends thereof. Each panel has an end or distal section that overlaps and is cemented to the adjacent long side wall and a joining or connecting section that extends diagonally between this long side wall and the main central section of the short wall. These joining sections serve to support the adjacent upper tray in the stack.

Abstract: A foldable carton particularly useful for packaging produce. The carton includes a central panel and a pair of opposed exterior end panels and a pair of interior end panels affixed to the exterior end panels. A pair of supplementary interior end panels are affixed to each of the interior end panels and a supplementary interior end panel flap is affixed to each supplementary interior end panels. The carton has a pair of opposed side panels affixed to the central panel formed with a plurality of spaced apart side panel ventilation holes. A pair of side panel flaps are affixed to each end the side panels and a pair of opposed cover panels with ventilation holes are also affixed to the side panels. Forming the foldable carton involves folding the supplementary interior end panel flaps to overlie the supplementary interior end panels, folding the supplementary interior end panels to overlie the interior end panels and folding the side panel flaps to overlie each other.

Abstract: A package in the form of a tray, carton or case has at least a base, side walls and end walls, a support formed by two panels positioned within the package, one adjacent each of end walls, or side walls, protrusions, and/or recesses on each panel of a size so that with the packages positioned in a stack, vertically adjacent protrusions and/or recesses are in contact without substantial compression of the packaging material positioned between vertically adjacent panels, and positioned apertures in the package to receive protrusions. The package in a preferred form also includes lugs provided at each corner of one face, the lugs being angled and the package also having corresponding cut-outs so that in a vertical stack the lugs of one package are positioned in the cut-outs of a vertically adjacent package.

Abstract: A collapsible, self-locking carton, formed from a unitary blank of foldable paperboard, that is divided into two separate types of compartments for holding two different types of food items, one compartment having a horizontal wall with a central opening for holding a cylindrical item such as sauce cup, and the other component being a well with higher walls for holding taller elongated objects such as pretzels.

Abstract: A self-locking corner structure for trays, cartons, lids, or the like has a generally plainer main panel and first and second side panels foldable along fold lines relative to the main panel to positions normal to each other and to the main panel to form a corner structure. One of the side panels has a flap portion at one end thereof foldable along a fold line to a position parallel and with one of its side surfaces adjacent to the other side panel, the flap portion having a sloping edge. The other of the side panels has a tab portion foldable along a sloping fold line generally parallel and adjacent to said sloping edge with the side panels positioned normal to the main panel and normal to each other and with the flap folded to a position parallel to the other side panel.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a blank and carton for packaging ice cream or the like comprising hingedly connected cover, rear, bottom and front panels. Left and right end flaps extending from each of the cover, rear, bottom and front panel end flaps. A pocket means formed in each of the carton ends for receiving a portion of the cover panel end flaps adjacent the rear panel for reforming the carton subsequent to the initial opening thereof. The pocket means includes rear panel end flaps forming exterior liners and the corresponding front and bottom panel end flaps forming interior liners. Membrane flaps are hingedly connected to the front panel and left and right front panel end flaps for forming a substantially continuous lip along a portion of the outer periphery of the carton.

Abstract: A pet litter box, including a device for locking the box after it has been used and re-closed, is formed from a single foldable blank. When the box is closed or re-closed it has inter-laying first and second halves, each having bottom and sidewall portions. The halves are connected to one another by a joining portion, and joining sidewalls. Each of the sidewalls of the first half carries a tab. The sidewall portions of the second half each define a diagonal crease, and the pair of joining side-wall portions each define a diagonal crease and a pair of vertical creases. When the box is fully open its first, second and joining portions define an open tray. After the system has been used the box can be re-closed and locked. During re-closing the joining sidewall portions and the two sidewalls of the second half all fold inwardly at their creases, thereby forming a pair of slots between the pairs of creases on each side.

Abstract: A ventilated grape box and a one-piece blank for forming it. The blank is formed from corrugated paperboard and is cut and scored to permit it to be folded into a stackable grape box without the need for fasteners. The upper edges of both ends of the box are provided with upstanding stacking tabs which are adapted to fit in complementary recesses in the lower edges of an identical box stacked above it. Each of two upper closure panels is provided with tabs which frictionally engage certain end panels to thereby maintain the upper closure panels closed after the box is filled with grapes. Certain end forming panels are folded to define a triangular column at each inside corner of the box, to thereby increase stacking strength.

Abstract: A portable disposable spray hood for receiving an article to be spray coated and capturing overspray from an aerosol container type spray device used to spray coat the article is formed from a plurality of connected panels foldable relative to each other between a set-up position wherein the panels cooperate to define the hood and a collapsed position wherein the panels cooperate to form a shallow box containing a supply of disposable paper liners used to line the base portion of the hood in its set-up condition.

Abstract: A convention box is folded from a single flat sheet of cardboard, corrugated board or other similar rigid material, to form a disposable yet durable attache case that can be handed out to attendees at a convention or meeting. Side panel members attached to a back panel fold over tabs that are associated with top and bottom panels to lock the box into a rigid, rectangular shape, and also provide rigidity to the side panels. The handles for the convention box are formed as handle halves each formed in a respective front and rear top panel. A slot can be provided in the rear panel for insertion of literature without having to open the box.

Abstract: An octagonal tray and one-piece blank for forming it. The tray is formed from corrugated paperboard and is provided on at least its interior bottom and wall surfaces with a wax coating. The tray includes vertically disposed posts at its end walls, the posts increasing the vertical stacking strength of the tray and also reducing the requirement that the trays be accurately vertically aligned when stacked one on top of the other. The tray is manually erected by folding along hinge or fold axes formed in the blank. Crushed ice is placed among and on fish or poultry within the tray for example, with the tray then being lidded for shipment.

Abstract: A package for horticultural items with a receptacle includes a container having a base portion for supporting the receptacle and side portions connected to and extending upwardly from the base portion about the receptacle. A flexible sleeve engages the container side portions to support the container and enclose the horticultural item. The sleeves are supported on a pedestal having flexible straps for spreading the sleeves and allowing removal of a sleeve for packaging the horticultural item.