US 12,330,852 B2Granted

Nested beverage carton layout

AssigneeWestRock Packaging Systems, LLC

InventorsJulien D. Merzeau, Dominique Perrin, Nicolas Teillol

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Abstract

A packaging carton for packaging one or more articles and to blanks (100, 200, 1000) for forming the packaging carton. The carton and blanks comprise a plurality of panels for forming the carton including a top panel (108), a bottom panel (112), a first side panel (110), and a pair of partial side panels (106, 114). Each of the bottom panel, the first side panel, and the first partial side panel has a first and a second end flap hingedly connected thereto in opposition from each other, and the partial side panels adhere together to form a complete second side panel to enclose an interior volume for containing articles. The end flaps of the blank (100, 200, 1000) define an edge shape which is configured to be nested with the edge of an identical blank.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A blank for forming a carton, the blank comprising:

first, second, and third portions arranged along a longitudinal axis of the blank, the first portion having a blank maximum width, the second portion having a blank minimum width, the third portion being disposed between the first and second portions and having a primary width, the blank maximum width, the blank minimum width, and the primary width each extending perpendicularly to the longitudinal axis, the primary width being a dimension measured along a center axis of the blank, the center axis being perpendicular to the longitudinal axis and passing through a midpoint along a length of the blank, wherein the primary width is equal to or less than a half of a sum of the blank maximum width and the blank minimum width;
a plurality of panels hingedly connected together to define an interior of the carton when the blank is erected into the carton, the plurality of panels including a top panel, a bottom panel and a pair of opposed bottom end flaps hingedly connected to opposed side edges of the bottom panel, wherein the first portion comprises the bottom panel and the bottom end flaps and wherein the second portion comprise the top panel.

A blank for forming a carton, the blank comprising:

first, second, and third portions arranged along a longitudinal axis of the blank, the first portion having a blank maximum width, the second portion having a blank minimum width, the third portion being disposed between the first and second portions and having a primary width, the blank maximum width, the blank minimum width, and the primary width each extending perpendicularly to the longitudinal axis, the primary width being a dimension measured along a center axis of the blank, the center axis being perpendicular to the longitudinal axis and passing through a midpoint along a length of the blank, wherein the primary width is equal to or less than a half of a sum of the blank maximum width and the blank minimum width;
a pair of opposed free side edges each extending generally transversely with respect to the center axis, at least part of at least one of the free side edges (E1) being symmetrical about a point of symmetry (PS), wherein the point of symmetry is located at an intersection of the center axis and the at least part of the at least one of the free side edges of the blank.

A packaging carton comprising a plurality of panels defining an interior volume for containing articles, including:

a bottom panel;
a first partial side panel hingedly connected to a first side of the bottom panel;
a first side panel hingedly connected to a second side of the bottom panel;
a top panel hingedly connected to the first side panel;
and
a second partial side panel hingedly connected to the top panel;
wherein each of the bottom panel, the first side panel, and the first partial side panel has a first and a second end flap hingedly connected thereto in opposition from each other;
wherein the first partial side panel and the second partial side panel are adhered together to form a complete second side panel enclosing the interior volume with the top panel, the bottom panel, the first side panel and the second side panel;
wherein a plurality of the end flaps fold together and are adhered to form an at least partially enclosed end of the interior volume;
wherein the first end flaps define a first edge and the second end flaps define a second edge, wherein the first edge is configured to be complementary to a mirror image of itself such that it can be nested and abut with or nearly abut with the first edge formed by the first end flaps of an identical packaging carton when in its blank form, and wherein the second edge is configured to be complementary to a mirror image of itself such that it can be nested and abut with or nearly abut with the second edge formed by the second end flaps of the identical packaging carton when in its blank form.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/413,888Filed 9 Dec 2019 · us provisional application
Priority: 14 Dec 2018
Published: US 2022/0055812 A124 Feb 2022
Granted: 17 Jun 2025
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

B65D 71/36
The packaging elements , e.g. wrappers being formed by folding a single blank: having a tubular shape, e.g. tubular wrappers, with end walls
B65D 2301/10
Details of blanks: blanks mutually positioned to minimise waste material upon cutting out the individual blank from a continuous or large sheet
B65D 2571/00141
Integral with the wrapper: glued
B65D 2571/00444
Holes: for fingers