Automatic bottom hexagonal carton

Claim 1

AN AUTOMATIC BOTTOM HEXAGONAL CARTON COMPLETELY ERECTABLE QUICKLY AND SOLELY BY A SINGLE APPLICATION OF OPPOSITELY DIRECTED COMPRESSIVE FORCES ON THE FOLD EDGES OF SAID CARTON WHEN IN A COLLAPSED CONDITION, SAID CARTON, IN ITS COLLAPSED CONDITION, INCLUDING SIX SIDE PANELS JOINED ONE TO THE OTHER ALONG CREASE LINES BETWEEN ADJACENT PANELS AND MEANS FOR SECURING THE TWO MOST REMOTE PANELS TO ONE ANOTHER, A BOTTOM FLAP FLEXIBLY SECURED TO THE BOTTOM EDGE OF A FIRST SIDE PANEL, SAID BOTTOM FLAP BEING CREASED AT ITS MID-PORTION WHEREBY IT MAY BE FOLDED BACK UPON ITSELF, SAID BOTTOM FLAP HAVING A WIDTH AT ITS MID-PORTION LARGER THAN THE LENGTH OF THE FLEXIBLE CONNECTION BETWEEN SAID BOTTOM FLAP AND ITS ASSOCIATED SIDE PANEL, THE EDGES OF SAID BOTTOM FLAP THEREBY DIVERGING FROM THE BOTTOM EDGE OF SAID FIRST SIDE PANEL TO THE CREASE AT ITS MID-PORTION, AND THEN COVERGING FROM THE CREASE AT ITS MID-PORTION TO THE FREE EDGE A PAIR OF NOTCHES AT THE ENDS OF THE CREASE IN THE MID-PORTION OF SAID BOTTOM FLAP, A BOTTOM DUST FLAP FLEXIBLY SECURED TO THE BOTTOM EDGE OF ANOTHER SIDE PANEL, THE SIDE PANELS TO WHICH THE BOTTOM FLAP AND BOTTOM DUST FLAP ARE SECURED, AND CONSEQUENTLY SAID FLAPS, OVERLYING ONE ANOTHER IN A COLLAPSED CONDITION, SAID BOTTOM DUST FLAP LYING AGAINST THAT PORTION OF THE FOLDED BOTTOM FLAP BETWEEN THE CREASE AND ITS FREE END WHEN IN A COLLAPSED CONDITION. SAID BOTTOM DUST FLAP OVERLYING SUBSTANTIALLY THE ENTIRE BOTTOM AREA TO THEREBY PROVIDE A DOUBLE LAYER BOTTOM, SAID BOTTOM DUST FLAP FURTHER INCLUDING A LOCKING TAB PROJECTING OUTWARD FROM A SIDE OF THE BOTTOM DUST FLAP ALONG A CREASE LINE WHICH IS COEXTENSIVE WITH SAID BOTTOM DUST FLAP SIDE, THE MEANS FOR SECURING THE TWO MOST REMOTE END PANELS TO ONE ANOTHER BEING A GLUE FLAP EXTENDING ALONG THE EXPOSED EDGE OF ONE OF SAID END PANELS SAID LOCKING TAB LYING IN THE PLANE OF THE BOTTOM DUST FLAP IN A COLLAPSED CONDITION BUT PERPENDICULAR THERETO IN AN ERECTED CONDITION, SAID LOCKING TAB UNDERLYING THE GLUE FLAP IN AN ERECTED CONDITION, AND MEANS FOR SECURING THE BOTTOM FLAP AND BOTTOM DUST FLAP TO ONE ANOTHER IN THE OVERLAPPING AREA BETWEEN SAID FLAPS WHEREBY THE BOTTOM FLAP, AS IT UNFOLDS DURING THE APPLICATION OF OPENING FORCES TO THE COLLAPSED CONTAINER, PULLS THE BOTTOM DUST FLAP INTO POSITION.