Patent ID: 8517250

Claim:
A multi-layered container comprising a stack of trays; each tray comprising a bottom panel, front, back and side panels extending upwardly from the bottom panel, each of the side panels includes a pair of inner locking tabs spaced apart from one another; horizontal shoulder panels attached to the upper edge of each of the front and back panels, the horizontal shoulder panels being in a plane parallel to the bottom panel, each of the horizontal shoulder panels includes a pair of outer locking tabs wherein the outer locking tabs engages with the corresponding inner locking tabs to hold the side panels and back panels in vertical position; a separate parallelogram sleeve being sized for the stack of trays comprising a top panel, a pair of rigid and un-creased side panels and a bottom panel, the sleeve top panel being in surface contact with the horizontal tray shoulder panels ( 40 , 48 ) to form multi-layered horizontal areas on a top side of the multi-layered container, the sleeve side panels being congruent with the tray side panels, the sleeve bottom panel being congruent with one or more of the tray bottom panels, and a glue panel being attached to the top panel and glued to an outside of one of the un-creased side panels forming the sleeve which has a rectangular inner shape wherein the sleeve permits partially or fully removal of one of the stacked trays in a longitudinal direction.