US3028065A - Molded pulp egg carton - Google Patents

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US3028065A
US3028065A US6441A US644160A US3028065A US 3028065 A US3028065 A US 3028065A US 6441 A US6441 A US 6441A US 644160 A US644160 A US 644160A US 3028065 A US3028065 A US 3028065A
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D85/00—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials
    • B65D85/30—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for articles particularly sensitive to damage by shock or pressure
    • B65D85/32—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for articles particularly sensitive to damage by shock or pressure for eggs
    • B65D85/324—Containers with compartments made of pressed material

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  • the present invention relates to improvements in a molded pulp egg carton of the type comprising an integral tray, cover, and locking flap, and more particularly to such a carton in which the front wall of the cover is planar and the locking flap has two elongated bulges each of which supports a locking projection.
  • a molded pulp egg carton having a tray provided with a plurality of cells, the tray having a cover integrally hinged to the side wall thereof and a flap integrally hinged to the other side thereof; when the noncellul-ar cover of the carton of the aforementioned patent is closed, the flap thereof extends upwardly within and adjacent to the front wall of the cover.
  • the cover in accordance with the said patent has proven to be generally strong, and as a consequence the breakage of eggs carried within the carton has been quite small.
  • the locking flap of the carton described in said application is similarly shaped, and in the closed position of the carton extends upwardly from the tray front wall and lies within the cover front wall, the frusto-conical sections of the curved front wall and of the locking flap being in register with each other.
  • the locking flap is provided with a pair of locking lugs, each of the lugs extending outwardly from the locking flap, and from an area thereof lying between two of the outwardly curved bays of the locking flap.
  • Each locking lug extends through a locking aperture provided in the cover front wall, the apertures being formed in the cover front wall between two of the outwardly curved bays thereof.
  • Patented Apr. 3, 1962 ice
  • the carton of the said application was further characterized by requiring special printing machines to eifect printing of the scalloped front and rear walls of the cover section.
  • An object of the present invention is to provide a molded pulp egg carton of the type comprising an integrally joined tray, cover and locking flap which may be securely locked and which may be closed and locked on automatic equipment, and which is also readily openable.
  • Another object of the present invention is the provision of a molded pulp egg carton having an integrally joined tray, cover and locking flap which is sufliciently strong to withstand normal cover loads and which may be readily opened.
  • a still further object of the present invention is to provide a molded egg carton which may be securely locked, easily opened and which will be sufficiently strong for the usual purposes.
  • Still another object of the present invention is to provision of an egg carton that is relatively strong, that may be closed by automatic machinery and when closed be securely locked, and which will afford maximum areas for printing without requiring special printing machinery.
  • FIG. 1 is a front elevation of an egg carton in accordance with the present invention in closed position.
  • FIG. 2 is a view similar to FIG. 1 but showing the egg carton in partially open position.
  • FIG. 3 is a perspective view of a part of the locking flap of the egg carton of FIG. 1.
  • FIG. 4 is a closed sectional view taken on the line 4-4 of FIG. 1.
  • FIG. 5 is a partial cross sectional view similar to FIG. 4, and showing the releasing of a locking lug of said carton.
  • FIG. 6 is a view similar to FIG. 2., but showing another embodiment of an egg carton in accordance with the present invention.
  • FIG. 7 illustrates still another embodiment of the invention.
  • FIG. 8 is a cross sectional view taken on the line 88 of FIG. 7.
  • FIG. 1 an egg carton 10 comprising a tray generally designated as 11 and a covergenerally designated as 20.
  • Tray 11 comprises a plurality of cells 12, and in the carton 10 which is illustrated there are two rows of cells, each row having six cells therein.
  • the cover 20 has a front wall 21 that is characterized by being planar from end to end thereof.
  • Cover front wall 21 is provided with a pair of spaced apertures 22 and 23 therein adjacent the upper margin thereof.
  • the end walls 24 and 25 of cover 20 are generally outwardly tapering, from the planar top 26 of cover 20 and the end walls 24 and 25 each has at the bottom thereof an outwardly extending generally horizontal flange, the flange of end wall 24 being designated 27 and the flange of end wall 25 being designated 27'.
  • Locking flap 30 is integrally joined to the upper margin of tray 11 at a hinge line 31.
  • Locking flap 30 has a pair of spaced elongated, outwardly curved bays 32 and 33 rising upwardly from the hinge line 31, and each of the bays 32, 33 has extending therefrom a locking lug,
  • the locking lug of bay 32 being designated 34 and the locking lug of bay 33 being designated 35.
  • locking fiap 30, and particularly the bay and locking lug construction thereof is clearly shown in H65. 3 and 4.
  • bay 33 rises directly from hinge line 31 and that the locking lug 35 thereof extends outwardly from it.
  • the junctures 37 between lugs 34, 35 and bays 32, 33 are so located that the outer surface of the bays and hinge line 31 beneath the bays are all in the same plane.
  • the bays 32, 33, see 32, in FIG. 4, for example, are inwardly curved at their upper ends to provide a generally horizontal portion 45 which is in substantial area con tact with the underside of top 26 of cover 20.
  • the tray 11 has, beneath each of the horizontal portions of the locking fiap 30, a corresponding horizontal shelf-like portion, portion 13 being visible in FIG. 4.
  • Each of the horizontal portions of the recesses 40, 41 and 42 rests upon a corresponding shelf-like portion, such as shelflike portion 13 to thereby elfect load transmission to the tray.
  • Cover 20 is hingedly connected to one side of tray 11 at hinge line 14, as may be seen in FIG. 4, and the tray 11 is preferably characterized by having upstanding posts therein, such as post 15 shown in FIG. 4, which engages with the underside of the top 26 of cover 20.
  • Tray 11 has at the ends thereof horizontally extending flanges 16 and 17.
  • the carton is manufactured by a pulp molding process, and the carton is then shipped to a desired point and filled with eggs, it being then in the opened position thereof, with the cover 20 being at one side of tray 11 and the locking flap 30 extending outwardly from the other side thereof.
  • the locking flap 3%) is rotated about hinge line 31 into the position shown in FIG. 4 and the cover 20 is rotated about the hinge line 14.
  • the bottom edge of cover front wall 21 will move downwardly past the locking lugs 34 and 35, at which point a camming action will take place between the said locking lugs 34 and 35 and the interior side of cover front wall 21, ifnecessary.
  • Cover 20 will thereupon continue to rotate until finally the apertures 22 and 23 will be in register with the locking lugs 34 and 35, respectively, and the interior surface of cover front wall 21 no longer being in contact with the locking lugs 34 and 35, these lugs 34 and 35 will be snapped through the apertures 22 and 23, respectively, by virtue of the natural resiliency of the pulp fibres in the hinge line 31, and in the locking flap 30.
  • the carton 10 will then be securely locked and the parts will occupy the position shown in FIG. 4, with the locking lugs extending through the apertures, as exemplified by locking lug 34 extending through aperture 22, and preventing opening pivotal movement of cover 29.
  • the load will be transmitted from the cover 20 into the tray 11 through horizontal flanges 26, 16 and 27, 17.
  • front wall 21 and cover 20 Because of the relatively great length and planar configuration of front wall 21 and cover 20, it is relatively easy to engage the lower edge of front wall 21, as by the thumb or thumb nail, opposite recess 41, and to defleet that portion of front wall 21 outwardly away from locking flap 30. Thus, front wall 21 will be bowed between its connections with the end walls 24 and 25 having its maximum deflection opposite recess 41.
  • the outward bowing of front Wall 21 is illustrated in FIG. 5, wherein it may be seen that aperture 22 is caused to be almost clear of locking lug 34, so that by a slight inward force on looking lug 34, it will disengage completely from aperture 22; locking lug 34 may be similarly quickly and easily disengaged from aperture 23 to thereby release the locking arrangement of the carton 10.
  • FIG. 6 there may be seen a carton 50 that is generally similar to the carton 16 of FIGS. 1-5, but wherein there is provided a locking flap 51 that has a single outwardly curved bay 52 provided with the two spaced looking lugs 53 and 54.
  • the carton 50 is otherwise substantially the same as the carton 10.
  • the locking flap may be flat, and without the bay or bays which are present in FIGS. 2 and 6.
  • the carton 60 of FIG. 7 has a locking flap 61.that is planar and has a pair of locking lugs 63 and 64.
  • the natural and inherent resiliency of the hinge of the locking flap 61 serves to urge the locking flap 61 into contact with the inner face of the cover front Wall, the locking lugs 63 and 64 thereby extending through the corresponding apertures in the cover front wall.
  • the locking flap 61 of FIG. 7 is provided with button-like indentations 65, each of which is in registry with a horizontal shelf-like portion 13, whereby transmission of load and a limitation on inward pivoting of the locking flap 61 is efiected.
  • FIGS. 7 and 8 has substantially the same security of closure and strength transmission characteristics as the embodiment of FIGS. 1 to 6, as will be understood.
  • an egg carton that is of a relatively strong construction, being made of molded pulp and having a tray with a cover and a locking flap integrally joined to opposite sides thereof, the carton being readily closed by automatic equipment and easily opened.
  • the carton of the present invention is so construoted that the easy and natural opening movements thereof presents itself to the housewife as the obvious and inherent manner of opening the carton.
  • the carton of the present invention is not only strongly and securely locked when in closed position, but is inherently and obviously easily opened.
  • the carton of the present invention provides the added advantage, in addition to those recited above, of providing a cover with a configuration, i.e., the planar front wall, that may be readily printed, as with advertising matter.
  • a molded pulp egg carton comprising a cellular tray, a cover hingedly connected to the tray along mutually adjacent edges and a locking flap integrally and hingedly connected to the tray along the side thereof opposite the side to which said cover is connected, said tray and said cover having at the ends thereof generally horizontally extending flanges in substantial surface and load transmit ting contact, said.
  • cover having a generally flat top and planar depending and outwardly tapering walls, the cover front Wall having a pair of spaced apertures therein adjacent the upper margin thereof, said locking flap having a pair of spaced elongated outwardly curved bays, rising upwardly from the hinge line connection thereof with said tray, said locking flap being recessed the width of said locking flap at each end of each of said bays and forming a substantial finger-receiving portion inwardly of the hinge connection of said locking flap and behind said front wall, a locking lug extending outwardly from each of said bays adjacent the top of said bays and for extending through one of said apertures, said tray having horizontal shelf-like portions adjacent and rearwardly of the hinge connection between said tray and said locking flap, said locking flap having horizontal portions at the bottom and top of each of the recesses thereof in substantial load transmitting engagement with the horizontal shelf-like portions of said bottom and the flat top of said cover, whereby loads on the cover of said carton will be transmitted through the end flanges and through the locking flap to said

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NL122114D NL122114C (fi) 1960-02-03
NL128762D NL128762C (fi) 1960-02-03
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US6441A US3028065A (en) 1960-02-03 1960-02-03 Molded pulp egg carton
GB44671/60A GB898079A (en) 1960-02-03 1960-12-29 Improvements in a molded pulp egg carton
CH47261A CH381604A (de) 1960-02-03 1961-01-16 Eierschachtel
FI610125A FI42292C (fi) 1960-02-03 1961-01-27 Munarasia muovatusta puumassasta
BE599640A BE599640A (fr) 1960-02-03 1961-01-30 Boîte à oeufs en pâte moulée
LU39721D LU39721A1 (fi) 1960-02-03 1961-02-01
DED35332A DE1174689B (de) 1960-02-03 1961-02-02 Eierkarton aus geformtem Papierstoff
NL6615676A NL6615676A (fi) 1960-02-03 1966-11-07

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US3191844A (en) * 1964-08-06 1965-06-29 Alfred E Comstock Molded egg carton
US3215327A (en) * 1965-03-19 1965-11-02 Keyes Fibre Co Locking aperture for molded pulp container
US3217963A (en) * 1963-09-30 1965-11-16 Molded Container Corp Molded pulp carton with latch post closure
US3245600A (en) * 1963-11-01 1966-04-12 Paul D Friday Lid lock carton
US3259294A (en) * 1963-03-12 1966-07-05 Skandinavisk Emballage Aktiese Moulded pulp packing and method for producing same
US3325349A (en) * 1964-03-18 1967-06-13 Diamond Int Corp Method and mold for controlling stock thickness in a pulp molding operation
US4582248A (en) * 1982-10-22 1986-04-15 Packaging Corporation Of America Upwardly molded locking flange on carton
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US3185370A (en) * 1959-10-05 1965-05-25 Diamond Int Corp Molded pulp egg carton
US3259294A (en) * 1963-03-12 1966-07-05 Skandinavisk Emballage Aktiese Moulded pulp packing and method for producing same
US3217963A (en) * 1963-09-30 1965-11-16 Molded Container Corp Molded pulp carton with latch post closure
US3245600A (en) * 1963-11-01 1966-04-12 Paul D Friday Lid lock carton
US3325349A (en) * 1964-03-18 1967-06-13 Diamond Int Corp Method and mold for controlling stock thickness in a pulp molding operation
US3191844A (en) * 1964-08-06 1965-06-29 Alfred E Comstock Molded egg carton
US3215327A (en) * 1965-03-19 1965-11-02 Keyes Fibre Co Locking aperture for molded pulp container
AU576306B2 (en) * 1982-10-22 1988-08-25 Packaging Corporation Of America Molded egg carton
US4582248A (en) * 1982-10-22 1986-04-15 Packaging Corporation Of America Upwardly molded locking flange on carton
US5816409A (en) * 1992-08-06 1998-10-06 Moulded Fibre Technology, Inc. Molded pulp fiber interior package cushioning structures
US5656135A (en) * 1993-02-16 1997-08-12 Moulded Fibre Technology, Inc. Molded product manufacturing apparatus and methods
US6048440A (en) * 1993-02-16 2000-04-11 Moulded Fibre Technology, Inc. Molded product manufacturing apparatus and methods
US6276531B1 (en) 2000-03-01 2001-08-21 Pactiv Corporation Molded fiber nestable egg tray packaging system
USD966904S1 (en) * 2018-08-24 2022-10-18 Tekni-Plex, Inc. Egg carton with bubble cell pockets
NL2026849B1 (en) * 2020-05-27 2022-01-11 Huhtamaki Molded Fiber Tech Bv Packaging unit from a moulded pulp material with elevated lock and method for manufacturing such packaging unit
US11912494B2 (en) * 2020-05-27 2024-02-27 Huhtamaki Molded Fiber Technology B.V. Packaging unit from a moulded pulp material with elevated lock and method for manufacturing such packaging unit

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