1. Field
This invention is in the field of shipping (and display) containers for food and other lightweight items, particularly for relatively inexpensive bags of frangible foods such as Tostitos®, potato chips and the like, wherein container weight must be minimized for many reasons including shipping and handling cost while providing protection against breakage and crushing of the items during transportation, diaplay and handling, e.g., by forklift trucks.
2. Prior Art
Heretofore the shipping and display containers for such food items having utilized fairly heavy materials, including wood sections, an unwieldly number of parts and excessive assembly time and effort, and further have not been entirely satisfactory from the standpoint of container strength, cost of container manufacture, customer appeal, free standing stability, ease of handling, special dimensional adaptation for enhanced transport efficiency, environmental considerations such as container reuseability, container construction material recycleability, or the like, and in particular, where corrugated board is used for the construction, the prior containers have failed to provide adequate resistance to deformation in general, and particularly to twisting deformation of the containers caused, for example, by jostling of the loaded containers by forklift trucks and the like.