Blank for heavy duty paperboard vegetable carton

Claim 1

A flat unitary corrugated paperboard blank for forming a vegetable carton, said blank including panels identified by their ultimate position and function in the carton and/or their shape, said blank comprising: top front flap, rectangular front panel, rectangular outer bottom panel, rectangular back panel and top back flap all of substantially equal width and consecutively articulated to one another along parallel fold lines, said front and back panels being of substantially identical size and shape; substantially identical trapezoidal first and second end panels articulated to said back panel along parallel fold lines, the fold lines between said back panel and said trapezoidal first and second end panel being substantially perpendicular to the fold line between said back panel and said outer bottom panel; first and second top end flaps articulated to said first and second trapezoidal end panels along fold lines that intersect the fold line between the back panel and the top back flap at an obtuse angle; first and second substantially identical rectangular inner bottom panels articulated respectively to the first and second trapezoidal end panels along fold lines that intersect the fold line between the back panel and the outer bottom panel at an obtuse angle and that are parallel to but longer than the fold lines between the corresponding first or second end panel and its respective top end flap, the fold lines between said first and second trapezoidal end panels and the corresponding first or second inner bottom panels being substantially equal in length to the distance between said front and back panels; and first and second trapezoidal inner partition panels articulated respectively to said first and second inner bottom panels along fold lines that are respectively parallel to and equal in length to the foldable connections between the corresponding first or second inner bottom panel and the respective trapezoidal end panel, said trapezoidal inner partition panels being substantially identical in size and shape to said first and second trapezoidal end panels, the distance from the fold lines at the top of the first and second trapezoidal end panels intersecting the fold line between the back panel and the top back flap at an angle and the corresponding top edge defining line of the corresponding first or second trapezoidal inner partition panel being less that the distance from the fold line between the top front flap and the rectangular front panel and the fold line between the rectangular back panel and top back flap whereby said blank may be erected to form a carton of substantially trapezoidal cross section for storing vegetables.