Multi-layered container

Claim 1

A container comprising a sleeve of multiple layers of compressible material made by winding a compressible sheet layer around a mandrel, said sleeve having an outer surface and an inner surface and said sleeve having at least four flat sides with crushed corners between adjacent sides, said corners crushed from said outer surface to said inner surface, at least two opposing corners of said sleeve being bevelled corners, each of said bevelled corners having two spaced creases on the inner surface of the sleeve and an inner bevel surface between said creases, said beveled corners being crushed across the full width of said inner bevel surface, said creases each comprising a single line, each of said crease located directly adjacent to a flat inner surface of said sleeve, each inner bevel surface and associated creases together being substantially planar, and characterized wherein a triangular space bounded by said inner bevel surface and the inner surface of the adjacent sides of said sleeve is formed at each bevelled corner when each corner is in a fully closed position to allow the sleeve to be collapsed so fully closed folded corners have adjacent sides substantially parallel and in contact without substantial force applied.