Patent ID: 9216839
Filing Date: 2015-12-22
Classification: B65D

Abstract:
1. A cardboard box construction, comprising: a cardboard carton blank having opposing first and second panels, opposing third and fourth panels, opposing first and second flaps, opposing third and fourth flaps, a first fold line between the first panel and the first flap, a second fold line between the second panel and the second flap, a third fold line between the third panel and the third flap, and a fourth fold line between the fourth panel and the fourth flap; a rod; a hole passing through an outwardly-disposed surface of the first flap and/or the first panel and at the first fold line and providing access from a box exterior to corrugations of the first flap; the cardboard carton blank and the rod being configured such that the rod can be positioned in an operative position extending between the first and second flaps, and within corrugations of both of the first and second flaps and holding the first and second flaps in folded-down closed positions with distal edges of the first and second flaps adjacent one another, the third and fourth flaps folded inside of the first and second flaps and the rod extending across a divide between the adjacent distal edges; and the rod being configured to be positioned into the operative position by inserting an end thereof from the box exterior into the hole and thereby into the corrugations of the first flap and pushing the end through the first flap, across the divide and into corrugations of the second flap and to the operative position.