Carrier carton

A carrier carton, for packaging a plurality of similar articles, formed from an essentially flat blank of paperboard, comprising:

• a. an opposed pair of end walls;
• b. an opposed pair of side walls;
• c. a top wall;
• d. a bottom wall;
• e. each of said walls being foldably connected along a score line with at least a portion of at least one other adjacent wall of said walls to form said essentially flat blank when said carton is in the unerected condition;
• f. the upper portions of each of said end walls and said side walls sloping downwardly and outwardly from said top wall thereby each of said upper portion forms an obtuse angle interiorly of said carton with said top wall;
• g. said top wall extending beyond at least the upper portion of the first of said end walls defining an eave-like projection of said top wall over said upper portion of said first end wall when said carton is in the erected condition;
• h. said eave-like projection including an opening therethrough sufficiently large to accept a human finger, said opening passing essentially only through said projection whereby light is essentially prohibited from entering said carton and said carton may be lifted by use of said opening, said eave-like projection being comprised of two layers of said paperboard wherein the lowermost layer of said two layers is formed from an extension of said top wall folded downwardly upon itself along a score line to define the lower surface of said eave-like projection;
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• i. at least the first of said end walls including two flaps, a first of said flaps defining at least part of the upper portion of said first end wall, the second of said flaps defining at least part of the lower portion of said first end wall, said flaps meeting each other in an obtuse angle, and one of said flaps including a pull tab connected with the end thereof by a score line, said pull tab overlying the other of said flaps and being adhesively secured thereto.