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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:
Sep. 01, 1998
Filed:
Jul. 08, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Noel J Mertz, Ballwin, MO (US);
Assignee:
Jefferson Smurfit Corporation, Clayton, MO (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
229196 ; 229149 ; 229177 ;
Abstract
A closure arrangement for a one-piece, foldable, paperboard container with tray and hinged cover, the tray side wall panels have, foldably joined to their front edges, corner flaps adapted to lie against the inner surface of the tray front wall, and each of the corner flaps are scored to allow a portion of the flap to be deflected, as its related side wall panel is canted inwardly, to facilitate insertion of lock tabs projecting upwardly and downwardly from the corner flaps into related receiving openings of the tray top panel and bottom wall panel.