High-protection egg carton cellular configuration

Claim 1

A molded egg carton structure comprising a bottom tray section and a top cover section movably secured to said bottom tray section, said bottom tray section including a plurality of contoured walls defining egg receiving cavities open at the top and arranged in two adjacent rows of six each, transversely adjacent cavities in said rows constituting a cavity pair, transverse walls and longitudinal walls separating said individual cavities, said longitudinal walls located between said rows of cavities comprising (a) upwardly extending projecting tips positioned centrally of said tray section intermediate centrally located cavity pairs; and (b) longitudinally extending wall members, each of said wall members separating two adjacent cavity pairs, said longitudinally extending wall members being located at opposite ends of said tray section, said longitudinally extending wall members being further characterized by having a continuous longitudinally extending, upper edge said continuous upper edge lying in substantially the same plane as the top edge of said tray section and; said transverse walls comprising (a) at least one continuous wall member extending continuously transversely across said bottom tray section, perpendicular to and intermediate at least two cell pairs; and (b) upwardly extending projecting tips, located centrally, intermediate at least two adjacent cells in said longitudinally extending cell rows.