Patent ID: 6527167
Filing Date: 2003-03-04
Classification: B65D,Y10S

Abstract:
A container comprising:a plurality of panels defining a bottom, a laterally opposite front wall and a back wall, and longitudinally opposite end walls, the end walls having an outer end wall panel joined to the bottom, a ledge panel joined to the outer end wall panel, and an inner end wall panel joined to the ledge panel, at least one column-forming panel being joined to one of the inner and outer end wall panels, the column-forming panel being folded laterally inwardly and being expandable to form a hollow column supporting the ledge panel in the erected state of the container, further comprising inwardly folded bellows panels extending between the end walls and the front and the back and connecting the front and the back to the end walls such that when one of the front, the back and the end walls is pulled upwardly, said one pulls another from a knocked-down-flat configuration to an orientation perpendicular to the bottom.