Nesting box with reduced lid flares

USRE33384E · kind E · reissue

Assignee

• Buckhorn Inc. · US

Inventors

• Daniel R. Miller · Cincinnati, US
• Thomas P. Deaton · Mason, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 25, 1989
• Grant date: Oct 16, 1990
• Expiry date: Aug 25, 2009

Classification

• Technology area (CPC —): General

Abstract

In a plastic molded tote box having one lid or opposed lids that will shingle with other lids in the open position when the box and like boxes are nested, the maximum horizontal dimension for the shingled lids, as measured outwardly from the adjacent box side wall (lid flare), is reduced by tapering the lid rib structure toward the hinge, and/or by tapering the outboard lid skirt toward the hinge, and/or by flaring one or more lid flanges, particularly the inboard flange. The latter two structural features permit increased nesting of the lid side skirts or channels, which in the closed position of the lid overlie the box side walls.