The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 21, 1981
Filed:
Nov. 15, 1979
Dick E Peeples, Capitola, CA (US);
Mervin Lohrbach, Anaheim, CA (US);
Champion International Corporation, Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
A self-locking, reusable carton, formed from a unitary blank of paperboard, comprising a tubular body portion, a plurality of top closure flaps and a plurality of bottom closure flaps. The top closure flaps include two flaps having L-shaped slits therein and a locking flap having a reduced-width locking tab at the end for reception in the two L-shaped slits. The bottom closure flaps include first and second flaps, each having a set of two L-shaped slits therein, and third and fourth flaps, the third flap being received in one of the slits in the first flap and in one of the slits in the second flap, and the fourth flap being received in the other of the slits in the first flap and in the other of the slits in the second flap.