One-piece shipping container with cut-case protection

Claim 1

A corrugated container formed from a unitary blank and having economical cut-case protection, said container comprising: (a) a pair of end walls and a pair of side walls integrally connected in alternating side-by-side relation; (b) said end walls each having an integrally connected bottom closure flap, which flaps together form an outer coplanar section of a bottom closure; (c) at least one of said end walls having an integrally connected top closure flap; (d) said side walls each having integrally connected at its top end a side wall liner flap of substantially the same dimension as said side walls folded inwardly into face-to-face contact with said side walls; (e) said side walls each having a bottom closure flap integrally connected by a first score line and which flaps together form an inner coplanar section of said bottom closure; (f) said bottom closure flaps of said side walls each having a partial end wall liner flap integrally connected therewith along a second score line perpendicular to the associated said first score line and adjacent an end thereof; (g) said partial end wall liner flaps being located at the same end of said container and folded at an angle of about 90° with said bottom closure flaps of said side walls, forming coplanar portions of a partial end wall liner across the lower part of one of said end walls; and (h) printed matter on said container indicating that the container is opened by cutting across said lower part of one of said end walls, adjacent the partial end wall liner, and across the side walls.