Shipping and display container

An easy opening shipping and display container, comprising:

• a bottom wall, a top wall, a front wall, and a back wall, each having side flaps at opposite ends folded inwardly to define opposite side walls;
• first frangible means securing said top wall to said back wall;
• and
• second frangible means securing said top wall to said side walls, whereby the first frangible means may be grasped and lifted to lift the top wall and break the second frangible means, completely freeing the top wall from the container by the single step of grasping and tearing out and lifting the first frangible means to pivot the top upwardly.

A method of assembling and erecting a blank to form a container having a bottom wall, a top wall, a back wall, a front wall, and opposite side walls, wherein the top wall and a portion of at least one of the back wall, front wall and side walls can be removed and separated from the container by the single step of tearing out and lifting a tear-out panel in one of the walls, comprising the steps of:

• cutting and creasing a one-piece blank of material to define a top wall panel, a bottom wall panel, a back wall panel, first and second front wall panels at opposite ends of the blank, and side flaps extending from opposite ends of the top, bottom, back and first and second front wall panels, and forming a frangible line transversely across the side flaps extending from opposite ends of the first front wall panel to define a first side flap portion and a second side flap portion, and forming a pair of frangible lines in the back wall panel to define a tear-out panel extending from the top wall panel into the back wall panel;
• folding the blank so that the first and second front wall panels at opposite ends of the blank lie against one another;
• expanding the folded blank into an open tubular configuration;
• first folding the side flaps connected to the first and second front wall panels and the back wall panel inwardly across the ends of the expanded blank;
• applying adhesive to a lower end portion of the side flap connected to the back wall panel, and to the first and second side flap portions connected to the first front wall panel and to the side flap connected to the second front wall panel;
• and
• then folding the side flaps connected to the top and bottom wall panels inwardly to secure the container in its erected condition.