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Tray container with reinforced sidewalls

US4308985A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMay 12, 1980
Grant dateJan 5, 1982
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Expiry dateMay 12, 2000

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10S229/94
  • WIPO fieldHandling
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A tray-type container for processing and marketing a loaf of bread, or the like, and a method of forming the same is disclosed, which tray is formed from a single blank of paperboard having a coating of a heat sealable and heat resistant film material so as to provide, when fully set-up, a rectangular bottom wall with hingedly connected upstanding sidewalls integrally connected at the corners by pairs of triangular web members folded upon each other and against the outside faces of opposite sidewalls where they are secured in reinforcing relation by narrow top edge flanges folded into underlying relation with and sealed to narrow flanges at the top edge of the sidewalls with the film material being skip-cut at the top edge of the sidewalls so as to reduce buckling in the sidewalls which otherwise results due to the difference in shrinkage of the film and the paperboard material.

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