GB400843A - Packing for eggs and the like - Google Patents

Abstract

400,843. Boxes for eggs &c. LEVINE, H., 2151N, Uber Street, Philadelphia, U.S.A. March 25, 1933, No. 9006. [Class 18.] A packing for eggs &c. of the type in which an incised flat cardboard blank is folded to form a box of approximately W-shaped cross section with two rows of compartments separated by transverse walls, is characterized by the provision, in the top edge of the roofshaped bottom 13, of triangular incisions 22 having a nose 24 projecting into them, the transverse walls 15 having holes 26 disposed in such a manner that when the box is folded together the noses 24 will slip into the holes 26 and the box will be locked in the folded state. The incisions 22 have extensions 23 which may be slightly wider than the thickness of the walls 15 so as to allow lateral shifting of the walls to accommodate eggs of different sizes. The corners 27, which as shown protrude through slots 25 in the sides walls 11, 12, may be made integral with these walls by cutting the blank along the dotted lines 32, in which case the parts 19 together with the pointed portions thus attached to them may be painted to represent chickens' heads. A lid 28 is held in position by the edges being formed with tongues adapted to be introduced into the spaces 18. In place of the arrangement shown, in which the strip 20 is to be pasted or otherwise attached to the part 11, that part to the left of the line 7 may be formed on the righthand side of the blank so that the lines 10, 21 coincide, the bottom part 13 then consisting of two half portions held together by the transverse parts.