Composite package

US5765711A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Container Specialties, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Ralph W. Johnson · Hawthorn Woods, US
• Gerald Williams · Indianapolis, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 30, 1996
• Grant date: Jun 16, 1998
• Expiry date: Sep 30, 2016

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65D77/0426
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A composite package comprising a paperboard container and a preformed receptacle positioned within the container. The receptacle includes vertical front, rear, first and second side walls, and a top wall extending across the vertical walls. A pouring spout and a handle are formed on the top wall, the pouring spout being adjacent the front wall and the handle extending between the pouring spout and the rear wall. The paperboard container includes front, rear and first and second side walls adjacent the front, rear and first and second side walls of the receptacle respectively. Each wall of the paperboard container has two end-portions separated by a mid-portion. The paperboard container also includes a top flap assembly having first and second side flaps connected to and folded substantially perpendicular to the first and second side walls, two front flaps, each front flap connected to an end-portion of the front wall, and two rear flaps, each rear flap connected to an end-portion of the rear wall. The front and rear flaps are folded substantially perpendicular to the front and rear walls.