Patent ID: 7285082

Claim:
A method for manufacturing a box from a box material, wherein a blank is cut out, which includes side wall panels mutually interconnected through side wall fold lines, and end wall panels attached to the side wall panels by respective end wall fold lines, the method comprising: bounding the end wall panels by two opposite free edges and a free end wall edge located opposite the respective end wall fold lines; attaching a flexible material strip at least to the end wall panels through bonding; providing recesses in at least one of the end wall panels for exposing adhesive for attaching the flexible material strip to the corresponding end wall panel, and the adhesive for interconnecting the end wall panels, and the adhesives in communication at the recesses; and providing a pour opening in the box, wherein some of the recesses are offset away from their corresponding end wall fold line such that an end wall fold line area is defined between the end wall recesses and a fold line in which the pour opening is provided, wherein the recesses in the at least one end wall panel are offset away from an end wall fold line connecting the at least one end wall panel to a side wall and are offset away from a free end wall edge on the at least one end wall panel such that the recesses are disposed directly between the end wall fold line connecting the at least one end wall panel to a side wall and the free end wall edge on the at least one end wall panel.