Patent ID: 7849663

Claim:
The method of assembling a crate having a planar base panel, and four side walls, each of said side walls having a first panel member and a second panel member, said first panel member and said second panel member; a top end cap and a bottom end cap, said top end cap and said bottom end cap having a plurality of lateral flaps, comprising the steps of: a—positioning said first panel member and second panel member in contact with the periphery of said base panel, said first and said second panel members being positioned in a plane perpendicular to the plane of said base panel, each of said first panel member and said second panel member having a first subpanel, a second subpanel and a third subpanel, and wherein each of said first subpanel and third subpanels are positioned to form a right angle with said second subpanel, each of said first subpanels having a width at least slightly less than the width of each of said third subpanels, b—positioning said first subpanel of said first panel member exterior of, and overlying the third subpanel of said second panel member and said first subpanel of said second panel member exterior of, and overlying the third subpanel of said first panel member, c—positioning said first subpanel of said first panel between a first of said plurality of lateral flaps of said bottom end cap and said third subpanel of said second panel, d—positioning said first subpanel of said second panel between a second of said plurality of lateral flaps of said bottom end cap and said third subpanel of said first panel, said first subpanel of said first panel being releasably secured between said third subpanel of said second panel and said first of said plurality of lateral flaps of said bottom end cap, each of said third subpanel having a peripheral edge positioned at the intersection between a second subpanel and a first subpanel, such that the third subpanel of the first panel member is in an abutting relationship to said second subpanel of said second panel member, and such that the third subpanel of the second panel member is in an abutting relationship to said second subpanel of the first panel member and forming a crate having two opposing reinforced corners formed of two subpanels; e—positioning said top end cap on the top of said first panel member and said second panel member in a plane parallel to the plane of said base panel, said top end cap having a plurality of lateral flaps, f—positioning at least two of said plurality of lateral flaps of said top end cap superjacent with and exterior to a subpanel of a panel member and in a plane parallel to the plane of the subpanel to which it is superjacent.