Dispensing carton for nestable cups

A blank made from foldable paperboard or similar sheet-like material adapted to be folded into a tubular carton suitable for containing and dispensing a stacked array of nestable cups or the like, said blank comprising:

• a substantially rectangular sheet of said paperboard, said sheet having parallel top and bottom edges and parallel lateral edges arranged at right angles to said top and bottom edges;
• four side wall panels defined by three vertically oriented fold lines spaced intermediate said lateral edges and arranged parallel thereto, said side panels having substantially equal width;
• closure flaps hingedly connected along said top edge of said blank to said wall panels and adapted to be folded to form a top closure for said carton in the finally erected configuration;
• bottom closure flaps hingedly connected along said bottom edge to said side panels and adapted to be folded into a bottom closure for said carton in its finally erected configuration;
• means formed integral with said blank and extending across the lower end of said blank for effecting removal of the lower portion of said blank including said bottom closure to provide access to said cups in the final erected configuration of the carton;
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• a layer of expanded foam plastic on at least one of said side walls positioned near the lower end thereof, said layer attached near the adjacent vertically oriented fold lines leaving a section of said plastic unattached near the center of said side walls.