Patent ID: 6364202
Filing Date: 2002-04-02
Classification: B65D,Y02W,Y10S

Abstract:
An easy-opening collapsible container, formed from a blank of fibrous sheetmaterial, comprising a bottom wall; a pair of opposed side walls foldably connected to and extending upwards at substantially a right angle from said bottom wall; a front wall foldably connected to and extending upwards at substantially a right angle from said bottom wall; a rear wall foldably connected along a rear edge fold line to said bottom wall and foldably connected along an opposed fold line to a top wall, said rear wall folded upwards at substantially a right angle to said bottom wall and said top wall disposed in a substantially parallel relationship to said bottom wall; a pair of opposed side extension flaps foldably connected to and extending downwards at substantially a right angle from said top wall, said pair of opposed side extension flaps being adhesively secured to said pair of opposed side walls; a front extension flap foldably connected to and extending downwards at substantially a right angle from said top wall, said front extension flap being adhesively secured to said front wall; a fingerhole disposed within said top wall; and a plurality of lines of weakness disposed within said top wall and extending from said fingerhole to each comer of said top wall, which lines of weakness function as severance lines when a force is applied to said top wall via said fingerhole such that said top wall disassociates along said lines of weakness and said sidewalls, front wall and rear wall fall outwardly toward the plane of said bottom wall.