Garment box

Claim 1

An integral fold-up box for garments or the like comprising a square or rectangular bottom wall; a pair of upstanding, opposed, side walls joined to said bottom by way of fold-up creases, each of said side walls extending the full length of the bottom and carrying a tab at each end joined to the side wall by way of a fold-in crease, each tab being disposed at a right angle to the side wall and extending in the direction of the opposing side wall, each tab and its associated side wall thereby forming a corner for the box; a pair of upstanding, opposed, end walls joined to said bottom by way of fold-up creases, each of said end walls having a trapezoidal shape with long and short parallel sides, the long parallel side of the trapezoid extending the full width of the bottom and being joined thereto; a pair of tuck-in flaps joined to said short parallel sides of each of said end walls by way of fold-down creases, each of said flaps also having a trapezoidal shape with long and short parallel sides, the long parallel side of each flap coinciding with and being joined to the short parallel side of each end wall; and each of said end walls carrying a tuck-in slot disposed parallel to said parallel sides of the end wall, said slot being slightly longer than said short parallel side of the tuck-in flap whereby disposition of the marginal edge of the short parallel side of the flap within the slot locks the opposing corner tabs at each end of the box between the end wall and its associated tuck-in flap.