Plastic reinforced produce container

Claim 1

In a generally rectangular container with rigid rectangular, reinforcing end frames at opposite ends thereof, the container having rectangular bottom, opposed side and end walls, and lids which are respectively hinged along longitudinal edges thereof to the upper edges of said opposed side walls, said lids having opposite longitudinal swinging edges, said rectangular end frames comprising integral, coplanar, upper, lower and side flanges parallel with the end walls of the container and lying thereadjacent, and rectangular integral upper, lower and side flanges, integral with and projecting perpendicularly from said coplanar flanges from the outer margins thereof, whereby to provide reinforcing caps receiving therein the corresponding end walls of the container and end portions of said bottom walls, with the perpendicular side flanges thereof lying closely adjacent said side walls of said container: horizontal upwardly facing and downwardly facing surface areas formed on the exterior sides of said upper and lower perpendicular flanges, the upwardly facing surface areas on said upper perpendicular flanges being at substantially the level of the underside of the hinged lids when said lids are closed, said lids having transverse end edges, and substantially coplanar tabs projecting laterally therefrom from positions generally proximate to said longitudinal swinging edges of the lids, so as to be movable to positions overlying said upwardly facing surface area on said upper perpendicular flanges, two catch means mounted on the upper perpendicular flange of each end frame, said tabs being cooperable with said catch means, one with each, to releasably catch said lids in said overlying positions, said hinged lids having corner portions, including said tabs, scored across with crease lines which are on the undersides thereof when the hinged lids are folded out and downward, and the side walls of the container having slots located for reception of said tabs when the lids are bent outwardly and down alongside the side walls of the container, said score lines enabling inward bending of said corner portions thereon and entry of said tabs into said slots.