Patent ID: 7757860

Claim:
A container blank that can be stored and shipped in a flattened condition and quickly and easily set up at a point of use without requiring use of separate fastening means to make a sift-resistant and leak-resistant container for transporting products, comprising a one-piece sheet of foldable material cut and scored to define: a bottom panel having opposite side edges defined by first and second spaced apart parallel fold creases extending transversely across said sheet of material, and opposite end edges defined by third and fourth spaced apart parallel fold creases extending perpendicular to said first and second fold creases and intersecting said first and second fold creases at locations inset from adjacent edges of said blank, the distance between the third and fourth fold creases defining a length dimension of said bottom panel; first and second side panels foldably joined along one edge thereof to said opposite end edges of said bottom panel along said third and fourth fold creases, respectively, said side panels each terminating in a free edge opposite said one edge; front and back panels foldably joined to said opposite side edges of said bottom panel along said first and second fold creases, respectively, said front and back panels having a length dimension greater than the length dimension of said bottom panel; corner panels integrally foldably connected between adjacent ends of said side panels and said front and back panels, said corner panels being joined to respective adjacent ends of said side panels along fold creases extending collinearly with said first and second fold creases, and joined to respective adjacent ends of said front and back panels along fold creases extending diagonally outwardly from the intersections of said first and second fold creases with said third and fourth fold creases to an adjacent end edge of a respective said front and back panel; a cup panel foldably joined to said front panel along an edge thereof opposite the edge connected to said bottom panel, said cup panel being adapted to overlie a front portion of a container erected from said blank and to rest on said free edges of said side panels; at least one cup receptacle being formed in said cup panel by cut elements configured to allow the insertion of a container into the at least one cup receptacle; and a top panel foldably connected to an edge of said back panel that is opposite the edge connected with the bottom panel, said top panel having a length dimension greater than the length dimension of the bottom panel, whereby in a container erected from the blank the top panel covers the container and rests on and is supported by said side panels.