Claims
- 1. A two-cell bulk container comprising
- a two-cell bulk container body wherein each cell has three outside walls and a common wall with the opposite cell,
- said cells of the container body each including a sleeve formed from four serially joined sleeve wall panels and means securing the end wall panels of each series of sleeve wall panels together and wherein one wall panels of the respective sleeves are bonded face-to-face to form the common wall,
- said three outside walls of each cell being serially hinged at a respective pair of vertical score lines with the middle wall of said three outside walls between the pair of vertical score lines forming a respective end wall of the two-cell body,
- two sets of three bottom panels hinged at horizontal score lines on the bottom edges of the respective three outside walls forming two side bottom panels and an end bottom panel on each cell,
- the two side bottom panels of said three bottom panels of each set being hinged to the opposite sides of the end bottom panel of said three bottom panels,
- said two side bottom panels of each set having respective partial diagonal score lines extending at one end from the respective corners defined by the vertical and horizontal score lines,
- said two side bottom panels of each set further having respective cuts extending from the distal edges of the side bottom panels to the other ends of the partial diagonal score lines such as to form partial bellows corners at each bottom end of the two-cell bulk container,
- a pair of center bottom panels hinged on the bottom edge of the common wall free of and separate from the two sets of three bottom panels,
- said end bottom panels and said center bottom panels being folded inwardly across the bottom of the respective cells and having sizes to close the bottoms of the cells and overlap one another with the end bottom panels on top of the center bottom panels when the container is upright, and
- said pair of center bottom panels being sandwiched between the respective end bottom panels and fold-in portions defined by the partial diagonal score lines and cuts to secure the end bottom panels to the center bottom panels.
- 2. A two-cell bulk container as claimed in claim 1 wherein the partial diagonal score lines extend less than 40% of the width across the two side bottom
- 3. A two-cell bulk container as claimed in claim 1 wherein the side bottom panels, the end bottom panels, and the center bottom panels all have equal widths.
- 4. A two-cell bulk container as claimed in claim 1 wherein
- the one sleeve wall panels bonded face-to-face are one end panels of the respective series of sleeve wall panels,
- the means securing the end wall panels of each sleeve together includes an inside joint flap hinged on the one end panel of each series of sleeve wall panels,
- the container body includes a pair of liners each formed from three serially joined liner wall panels bonded on the inside of the other sleeve wall panels of the respective sleeves,
- each of said pair of sleeves includes an integral exterior joint flap on the other end wall panel of the four sleeve wall panels,
- said exterior joint flaps being secured to the wall panels adjoining the one panels of the opposite sleeves.
- 5. A two-cell bulk container as claimed in claim 4 wherein the inside joint flaps of the sleeves are joined to the inside surfaces of one end panels of the respective liners to offset the hinges between the one sleeve panels and inside joint flaps relative to the hinges between the one sleeve panels and the sleeve panels adjoining the one sleeve panels.
- 6. A two-cell bulk container as claimed in claim 4 including three top flaps hinged on the respective upper edges of the wall panels of each of the pair of liners.
- 7. A two-cell bulk container as claimed in claim 1 including a top cap.
- 8. A two-cell bulk container as claimed in claim 1 including a slip sheet.
CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION
This application is a continuation-in-part of our co-pending application Ser. No. 694,756 filed June 10, 1976 which is incorporated herein by reference.
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Continuation in Parts (1)
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