Patent ID: 7100770
Filing Date: 2006-09-05
Classification: B31B,B31F,B65D

Abstract:
1. A nestable cardboard container ( 1 ), having a downwardly tapering conical inner wall ( 2 ) and a downwardly tapering conical outer wall ( 7 ), said walls being joined at the upper rim of the container, said outer wall ( 7 ) at its lower end resting against the outside surface of the inner wall ( 2 ) with an inwardly turned edge ( 8 ) so as to form an air gap between said walls, the inwardly turned edge ( 8 ) being located at a distance above the bottom rim of the container, the inner wall ( 2 ) having an inwardly protruding creasing ( 4 ) extending in the circumferential direction, said creasing being located above the bottom of the container thereby forming an abutment for the inwardly turned edge ( 8 ) of a nesting further container, the arrangement of the inwardly turned edge ( 8 ) and the inwardly extending creasing ( 4 ) being such that in the nested state the inner nested container is maintained in position in the outer container without making the outer wall ( 7 ) of the inner container adhere to the inside surface ( 3 ) of the inner wall ( 2 ) of the outer container.