Reinforced container

Claim 1

A REINFORCED CONTAINER IN THE FORM OF A SLOTTED CARTON, THE CONTAINER HAVING TUBULARLY ARRANGED WALL PANELS WITH CLOSURE FLAPS ON ONE END THEREOF FORMED FROM A UNITARY FOLDABLE BLANK HAVING AN INNER PLY SECTION AND AN OUTER PLY SECTION WITH SAID SECTIONS IN FLATWISE FOLDABLY CONNECTED RELATION, EACH SECTION HAVING CORRESPONDING FOLDABLY CONNECTED UPRIGHT WALL PANELS AND END CLOSURE FLAPS, SAID SECTIONS PROVIDING A CONTAINER WITH TWO PLY THICKNESS THROUGHOUT THE WALLS PANELS AND CLOSURE FLAPS AND THE FOLD CONNECTIONS THEREBETWEEN, A PAIR OF SAID CLOSURE FLAPS DISPOSED IN MUTUALLY OPPOSED RELATION WITH THEIR RESPECTIVE END EDGES COMPRISED IN PART OF A FOLD CONNECTION DETERMINED BY PARALLEL LINES OF SCORING BETWEEN THE INNER AND OUTER PLIES THEREOF WITH SAID PLIES IN SLIDABLE RELATION, A MAJOR PORTION OF THE FLAP END EDGES BETWEEN SAID FOLD CONNECTIONS DETERMINED BY FREE CUT EDGES DEFINING A TAB STRUCK FROM THE INNER PLY AND COPLANAR WITH THE OUTER PLY, SAID END EDGE PORTIONS WHEN FOLDED BEING IN SUBSTANTIALLY ABUTTING RELATION ALONG THE MID-WIDTH OF THE CONTAINER, A SECOND PAIR OF SAID CLOSURE FLAPS INCLUDING INNER AND OUTER PLIES OF UNEQUAL LENGTH, EACH FLAP COMPRISING A SHORT PANEL AND A LONG PANEL OVERLYING EACH OTHER AND EACH OF SAID PANELS BEING FREE OF CONNECTION BETWEEN THE PLIES AND HAVING FREE END EDGES IN SUBSTANTIALLY ABUTTING RELATION WITH THE CORRESPONDING EDGE OF THE OPPOSED FLAP AND IN OFFSET RELATION BETWEEN THE PLIES, THE SAID PAIRS OF CLOSURE FLAPS BEING DISPOSED IN OVERLAPPING SECURED TOGETHER RELATION AND FORMING A FOUR PLY THICKNESS CLOSURE THROUGHOUT WITH THE FOLD CONNECTIONS TO THE UPRIGHT WALLS BEING OF TWO PLY THICKNESS AND LINES OF ABUTMENT BETWEEN FLAP END EDGES BEING IN OFFSET SPACED RELATION.