Patent ID: 7806313

Claim:
A shipping and display container having a bottom wall, opposed parallel sidewalls, opposed parallel end walls, and diagonal corner panels, wherein said container is made from a single unitary sheet of cut and scored foldable material, and wherein: said bottom wall comprises an octagonally shaped bottom wall panel ( 22 ) having opposed parallel side edges ( 21 a , 21 b ), opposed parallel end edges ( 23 a , 23 b ) extending perpendicular to the side edges, and mitered corners ( 25 a , 25 b , 25 c , 25 d ) connecting respective adjacent ends of the side and end edges; first and second substantially identical opposed parallel sidewall panels ( 24 a , 24 b ) are foldably joined to respective opposite said side edges of the bottom wall panel; first and second substantially identical opposed parallel outer end wall panels ( 26 a , 26 b ) are foldably joined to respective opposite said end edges of the bottom wall panel; first and second diagonal corner panels ( 28 a , 28 b ) are foldably connected along respective first edges thereof to respective opposite side edges of said first sidewall panel ( 24 a ), and third and fourth diagonal corner panels ( 28 c , 28 d ) are foldably connected along respective first edges thereof to respective opposite side edges of said second sidewall panel ( 24 b ), a bottom edge of each said diagonal corner panel coinciding with a respective said mitered corner of said bottom wall panel; first and second substantially identical inner end wall panels ( 30 a , 30 b ) are foldably joined along one side edge thereof, respectively, to a respective second edge of said first and second diagonal corner panels; first and second substantially identical intermediate end wall panels ( 30 c , 30 d ) are foldably joined along one side edge thereof, respectively, to a respective second edge of each of said third and fourth diagonal corner panels, said intermediate end wall panels being sandwiched between said inner and outer end wall panels to form triple thickness end walls; first and second inwardly folded rectangularly shaped inner top wall panels ( 34 a , 34 b ) are foldably joined to a top edge of respective said first and second intermediate end wall panels ( 30 c , 30 d ); and first and second inwardly folded hexagonally shaped outer top wall panels ( 32 a , 32 b ) are foldably joined to a top edge of respective said sidewall panels ( 24 a , 24 b ).