Envelopes – wrappers – and paperboard boxes – Paperboard box – Including a polygonal – nonrectangular wall
Patent
1992-06-12
1993-04-27
Elkins, Gary E.
Envelopes, wrappers, and paperboard boxes
Paperboard box
Including a polygonal, nonrectangular wall
229148, 229906, B65D 566, B65D 4316
Patent
active
052054764
ABSTRACT:
A paperboard clamshell carton includes a tray and a cover, hingedly connected and latched in the closed position by cooperating latching members. Detents, extending forwardly from adjacent the upper corners of the front wall of the tray, and detent engaging slots and tabs in the cover, located adjacent the lower corners of the front wall of the cover, releasably engage when the cover is folded shut over the tray. The forwardly extending detents are of double thickness, being formed by overlapped extensions of the glue flaps and side walls of the tray.
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24 photographs of prior art boxes, Exact dates unknown.
Elkins Gary E.
Perseco Division of The HAVI Group LP
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