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A preformed blank of corrugated sheet material for assembly of a container for fresh produce, and a container assembled from such blank and comprising a bottom, side walls reinforced at least at the corners of the container for enhancing its vertical compressive strength, a pair of top walls having

A preformed blank of corrugated sheet material for assembly of a container for fresh produce, and a container assembled from such blank and comprising a bottom, side walls reinforced at least at the corners of the container for enhancing its vertical compressive strength, a pair of top walls having container closure tabs formed therein and cooperating with registrable slots therein for frictional closure of the container. Each top panel has a pair of parallel elongated hand carry slots registrable with each other in a closed container position, the adjacent parallel edges of at least one pair of slots being connected to the sheet material and the remainder of the slot peripheries being perforated to form a pair of push-in flaps. At least one side wall has opening patterns spaced apart in the vertical and horizontal directions for visual inspection of the container contents and facilitating air circulation within the closed container.

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A container for packaging, transporting and enhancing quality maintenance of fresh produce of a predetermined weight corresponding to a predetermined number of individual produce items of preselected size, the container being assembled from a flat sheet of corrugated paperboard material comprising a

A container for packaging, transporting and enhancing quality maintenance of fresh produce of a predetermined weight corresponding to a predetermined number of individual produce items of preselected size, the container being assembled from a flat sheet of corrugated paperboard material comprising a bottom panel, a plurality of side panels forming the front, back and end walls of the container and having top edges defining a mouth of the assembled container, the side panels comprising longer primary front and back panels and a pair of shorter primary end panels, each primary side panel having a pair of lateral edges extending along a vertical corner of the assembled container and two pairs of secondary side panels each connected along one edge thereof to a vertically-extending lateral edge of a primary side panel and juxtaposed and secured to the interior surface of an adjoining primary side panel thereby reinforcing the vertical compressive strength of the adjoining primary side panel and a corresponding vertical corner of the container, a first top panel connected along one edge thereof to an upper edge of a first longer side panel and having on an opposed edge thereof a closure flap insertable, in closed position of the first top panel, into the container mouth in frictional engagement with the interior surface of a second longer side panel, a second top panel adapted in closed position of the assembled container to overlie the first top panel and having a primary closure tab insertable in a primary closure slot in the first top panel in a closed position of the second top panel, a secondary closure tab comprising an inner portion formed from the material of the first longer side panel and having one end thereof hingedly connected thereto and the other end thereof hingedly connected to an outer portion formed from the material of the first top panel and, in a closed position of the second top panel, extending above the exterior surface thereof and insertable in a secondary closure slot formed in the primary closure tab, each of the top panels being provided with a pair of parallel, elongated and spaced-apart hand carrying slots located substantially in the inertial center of the container and registrable with such slots in the other top panel in a closed position of the container, at least one of the side walls of the container having opening patterns spaced apart in the depth and length directions of the assembled container and providing means for visual inspection of the container contents and facilitating convective air circulation within the closed container and through such openings resulting from thermal differences inside and outside the container.