Container with hazard warning feature

Details Container with hazard warning feature Container with hazard warning feature

2007-06-26

2007-06-26

Mai, Tri M. (Department: 3781)

Envelopes, wrappers, and paperboard boxes

Paperboard box

Including a polygonal, nonrectangular wall

C206S459500, C206S459100

Reexamination Certificate

active

10209736

ABSTRACT:
The present invention includes a blank and container wherein the container includes truncated corner panels and the container is configured to attach or otherwise sit upon a supporting structure, such as, without limitation, a pallet. The truncated corners of the container coupled with the non-truncated corners of the supporting structure cause the corners of the supporting structure to extend beyond the perimeter of the container. Corner tabs having hazard-warning indicia upon an upper surface are configured to extend over the exposed supporting structure corners. Consequently, attention is drawn to the extended supporting structure corners thereby helping to prevent tripping over the pallet corners The indicia may be brightly colored stripes, solid fields or any other indicia. The indicia may be printed and formed in same process as printing labels on the container, thereby requiring no additional manufacturing steps.

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Questar Boxes (http://www.questarusa.com/boxes/boxes.htm).
The Wiley Encyclopedia of Packaging technology, 1986, pp. 204,216,217.

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