Daniel P Bell

US Patent:

62445022, Jun 12, 2001

Filed:

Jul 29, 1999

Appl. No.:

9/363392

Inventors:

Mark Eugene Hollar - Houston TX
Daniel T. Bell - Houston TX

Assignee:

Weyerhaeuser Company - Federal Way WA

International Classification:

B65D 548

US Classification:

229120011

Abstract:

A dividable container that includes an outer container component having a bottom section, an intermediate section which includes two opposing side walls and two opposing end walls, and a top cover, the outer container having a perforation line which is positioned so as to extend about the opposing side walls, top section and bottom section so as to provide two sub-container components upon separation along the perforation line, and the side wall further including handle flap sections. The container also includes a first divider and a second divider, each of the dividers including a back wall, a pair of side panels spaced apart by the back wall and a bottom segment, the first divider having a back wall flush or essentially flush with the perforation line and a handle reception opening for reception of a handle flap from one of the handle flap sections, and the second divider having a back wall flush or nearly flush with the perforations and on an opposite side of the perforation line as that of said first divider, and the second divider includes a handle reception opening for reception of a handle flap from another of the handle flap sections. There is also described a method of forming the outer container component and an internal dividers and assembling these components so as to provide an easily dividable box. There is also described a method for separating the undivided box into its two sub-containers following interlocking the two components with the handle flaps.