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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 1982
Filed:
Apr. 04, 1980
James Montealegre, W. St. Paul, MN (US);
Champion International Corporation, Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
A carton with a plurality of cells and a handle and a blank for forming same have a collapsible arrangement for automatically forming a bottom, partitions and a handle. This arrangement includes bottom panels hingedly coupled to the bottom edges of the wall panels, divider panels separated into first and second sections hingedly coupled to two of the bottom panels at edges thereof remote from the wall panels, and a handle structure coupled to the divider panels at edges thereof remote from the bottom panels. This permits the carton to be shipped and stored in an essentially flat, collapsed configuration and then easily arranged to its assembled, expanded configuration by the application of inwardly directed forces against the side edges of the collapsed carton. These forces cause the bottom panels, divider panels and handle structure to move automatically with the movement of the side wall panels of the carton.