| 摘要 |
A cardboard carrier for maintaining potted plants upright during shipment and handling is disclosed. The carrier is formed from a flat, rectangular cardboard blank having four parallel spaced apart fold lines that partition the blank into five rectangular panels. The carrier is assembled without staples or other fasteners by folding the blank about each fold line so that the central panel forms the bottom of the carrier, each panel contiguous to the central panel forms a side of the carrier and one of the outermost panels is superposed on the other outermost panel to form the top of the carrier. Each of the outermost panels include a circular central opening having inwardly extending tabular regions about the circumference thereof. The central openings come into alignment with one another when the container is folded so that a single circular opening having four equally spaced apart, inwardly extending tabular regions is formed. The potted plant is placed in the opening with the tabular regions contacting the walls of the pot or a decorative wrapping that is often placed around such potted plants. To support the superposed upper panels of the folded container substantially parallel to the bottom panel, one of the upper panels includes two tabular regions that are bent angularly downward to form braces that extend between the superposed upper panels and the lower panel.
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