Patent ID: 7614992

Claim:
A method of making and loading a box comprising the steps of: (a) providing a box with: a pair of endwalls and a pair of sidewalls, a top endwall flap extending from a top edge of each endwall and a bottom endwall flap extending from a bottom edge thereof; a top sidewall flap extending from a top edge of each sidewall and a bottom sidewall flap extending from a bottom edge thereof; a first hinge connecting a first one of the bottom sidewall flaps to a first one of the bottom endwall flaps; a second hinge connecting a first one of the top sidewall flaps to a first one of the top endwall flaps; a flexible joint extending between each adjacent pair of endwalls and sidewalls such that a first pair of said joints are flat when the box is in a first collapsed position and a second pair of said joints are bent when the box is in the first collapsed position; (b) printing information onto one or more of the top and bottom endwall flaps and top and bottom sidewall flaps when the box is in the first collapsed position; (c) rotating the box to a second collapsed position where the first pair of said joints are bent and the second pair of said joints are flat; (d) rotating the bottom endwall and bottom sidewall flaps from a position adjacent the endwalls and sidewalls to a position away from the endwalls and sidewalls; (e) erecting the box such that the sidewalls and endwalls are substantially 90° from each other; (f) breaking the first hinge; and (g) rotating each of the bottom sidewall flaps and bottom endwall flaps through 90° to close off access to a bottom end of the box.