Patent ID: 7128209

Claim:
A shipping box and pallet assembly, comprising: a pallet having at least one slat with at least one extended end portion; and a box having side walls and a bottom adapted to rest on said pallet, and an attaching tab integral with said box and projecting downwardly from a side wall in substantial alignment therewith and past said at least one extended end portion of said at least one slat, said attaching tab having at least one slot therein for receiving the extended end portion of said at least one slat to hold the box to the pallet, wherein said box has two opposed side walls and two opposed end walls; a flap is foldably joined to a bottom edge of each side wall and each end wall, each said flap being joined to an associated wall along a respective fold line, said flaps forming said bottom; there are two attaching tabs, located on respective opposite sides of said box; each said respective fold line is interrupted over an area where two opposed flaps are foldably connected to associated walls; a series of cuts are made in said two opposed flaps, including two spaced apart cuts extending into said flaps from said respective fold lines, and a third cut extending between the ends of said two cuts remote from said respective fold lines, said interrupted area of said respective fold lines extending between said two spaced apart cuts, said cuts and interrupted areas defining said attaching tabs, whereby the attaching tabs extend integrally from an associated wall in coplanar relationship therewith; a fold extends between said two cuts, spaced from said third cut and from said interrupted area, and with said cuts defines a first attaching tab panel and a second attaching tab panel, said first attaching tab panel being adjacent said interrupted area and said second attaching tab panel being foldable about said fold to lie against said first attaching tab panel; and said at least one slot is in said first attaching tab panel.