Abrégé

A container, movable between collapsed and expanded conditions, has a plurality of walls connected between bottom and top structures. A first wall of the plurality of walls includes first and second sections that connect together at a fold line about which the sections are rotatable between first wall collapsed and expanded conditions. The first section is connected to the bottom structure and the second section is connected to the top structure. The first wall is expandable by rotation of the first section relative to the second section in a first direction of rotation about the fold line from the first wall collapsed condition and into engagement with an abutment at the first wall expanded condition which arrests further rotation of the first section relative to the second section. The first wall is maintained in the first wall expanded condition by a load applied to the first wall.

Classes IPC  ?

• B65D 5/36 - Réceptacles de section transversale polygonale rigides ou semi-rigides, p. ex. boîtes, cartons ou plateaux, formés en pliant ou montant un ou plusieurs flans de papier spécialement conçus pour permettre le repliage et le retour à la position dressée sans dégager les raccordements latéraux ou du fond
• B65D 5/50 - Éléments internes de support ou de protection du contenu
• B65D 5/66 - Couvercles articulés
• B65D 5/42 - Détails des réceptacles ou des flans de réceptacles pliables ou dressables

Abrégé

A container (10) having a collapsed condition and an expanded condition. The container (10) having a bottom structure (11) and a top structure (12) and a plurality of walls (13 – 16) connected to the bottom and top structures. A first wall (13) of the plurality of walls (13 – 16) comprising first and second sections (13a, 13c) that connect together at a fold line (13a) about which the sections (13a, 13c) are rotatable between first wall collapsed and expanded conditions. The first section (13b) is connected to the bottom structure (11) and the second section (13c) is connected to the top structure (12). The first wall (13) is expandable by rotation of the first section (13b) relative to the second section (13c) in a first direction of rotation about the fold line (13a) from the first wall collapsed condition and into engagement with an abutment (24) at the first wall expanded condition. Engagement of the first wall (13) with the abutment (24) arrests further rotation of the first section (13b) relative to the second section (13c) about the fold line (13a) in the first direction of rotation. The first wall (13) being maintained in the first wall expanded condition by a load applied to the first wall by the top and bottom structures (11, 12) that resists rotation of the first section (13b) relative to the second section (13c) in a second direction of rotation opposite to the first direction of rotation.

Classes IPC  ?

• A47G 23/06 - Plateaux pour le service
• B65D 5/36 - Réceptacles de section transversale polygonale rigides ou semi-rigides, p. ex. boîtes, cartons ou plateaux, formés en pliant ou montant un ou plusieurs flans de papier spécialement conçus pour permettre le repliage et le retour à la position dressée sans dégager les raccordements latéraux ou du fond
• B65D 5/30 - Réceptacles de section transversale polygonale rigides ou semi-rigides, p. ex. boîtes, cartons ou plateaux, formés en pliant ou montant un ou plusieurs flans de papier en repliant les parties reliées à un panneau central sur chaque côté pour former le corps du réceptacle, p. ex. en forme de plateau avec languette et fente ou raccordements similaires entre les côtés et les prolongements des autres côtés
• B65D 71/72 - Plateaux munis de projections ou de renfoncements afin de rassembler plusieurs objets, p. ex. éléments intermédiaires pour l'empilage formés en pliant un ou plusieurs flans, les objets étant insérés dans des ouvertures d'une paroi
• B65D 1/34 - Plateaux ou réceptacles analogues peu profonds