Patent ID: 6152359
Filing Date: 2000-11-28
Classification: B65D

Abstract:
A one piece blank of foldable sheet material cut and scored so that it is divided into a series of connected wall forming panels which when assembled provides an oval folding carton with an automatic closing bottom for packaging an article, wherein the blank comprises:(a) first, second, and third rectangular wall panels of substantially equal size positioned in lateral alignment and connected by vertical fold lines, each wall panel having a top, a bottom, and two sides;(b) first and second rectangular supporting shoulders of substantially equal size foldably connected to the first and second rectangular wall panels, respectively; wherein the first and second rectangular supporting shoulders have a top, a bottom, and two sides, and the tops of the first and second supporting shoulders are connected to the bottoms of the first and second rectangular wall panels, respectively; and(c) first and second oval bottom closing flaps of substantially equal size foldably connected to the first and second supporting shoulders, respectively, for automatically closing the carton; wherein the first and second oval bottom closing flaps have a top, a bottom, and two sides, and the second bottom closing flap contains a reverse fold, the top of the first and second oval bottom closing flaps being connected to the bottom of the first and second rectangular supporting shoulders, respectively.