Reinforced paperboard box

Claim 1

In a paperboard box for relatively large pieces of cut-up meat, that is adapted to be set-up, filled with meat and closed, using adhesive materials, on automatic equipment, that has reinforced side walls and end walls, and that is formed from: a generally rectangular, bottom panel (11); a pair of upstanding, generally rectangular, side wall panels (12), foldably connected to opposite edges of the bottom panel (11); a pair of upstanding, generally rectangular, end wall panels (13), foldably connected to opposite edges of the bottom panel (11); a pair of upstanding, generally rectangular, side wall reinforcing flaps (15), each foldably connected to an upstanding edge of one of the end wall panels (13) and located inwardly of and in face to face contact with one of the side wall panels (12); a pair of upstanding, generally rectangular, end wall reinforcing flaps (14), each foldably connected to an upstanding edge of one of the side wall panels (12) and located outwardly of and in face to face contact with one of the end wall panels (13); a pair of generally rectangular, side closure flaps (16), each foldably connected to the upper edge of one of the side wall panels (12) and disposed substantially perpendicular to the side wall panels (12); and a pair of generally rectangular, end closure flaps (17), each foldably connected to the upper edge of an end wall reinforcing flap (14) and disposed substantially perpendicular to the end wall panels (13); the improvement which comprises: a pair of support tabs (19), each underlying one of the end closure flaps (17) and the pair of side closure flaps (16) and each having disposed substantially perpendicular to the end wall panels (13) along a cut and scored fold line (20) between the upper edge of each end wall panel (13) and each support tab (19).