US 4,113,100 AGranted

Display carton

AssigneeStone Container Corporation

InventorsLawrence M. Soja, Daniel F. Stokes, Richard W. Beile

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Abstract

A display carton formed from a foldable, integral paperboard blank having top, front, bottom and rear walls joined together, each of said walls including a pair of side flaps hingedly connected to opposite ends thereof to form a display carton. The front and rear walls include a tear strip extending lengthwise across the walls and extending across the respective front and rear wall side flaps to form a continuous tear strip around the display carton. The top and bottom side flaps have a length less than the height of the carton to provide a gap aligned with the tear strip on each side of the carton. The tear strip is removable to separate the top portion from the bottom portion of the carton to expose the contents of the carton and to render the bottom portion of the sealed carton useable thereafter as a display tray holding the contents of the carton.

Claims1

Dependent claims

A folded display carton forming blank comprising two cartons end panels and two carton face panels, said panels each having opposed side edges and opposed end edges, one of said face panels being positioned between the two end panels with the opposed side edges of the one face panel being respectively integrally hinged to one side edge of each of the two end panels, the second of said face panels being integrally hinged to the second side edge of one of said end panels, the opposed end edges of the panels being generally aligned in two parallel rows along opposed longitudinal edges of the blank, each of said panels having a side flap integrally hinged to each of the opposed end edges thereof, the improvement comprising:

a. a tear strip formed diagonally across each of said face panels between the opposed longitudinal edges of the blank, each tear strips, at the opposed ends thereof, including continuations extending across the associated side flaps generally perpendicular to the longitudinal edges of the blank, said tear strips being mirror images of each other;
b. the side flap of a first end panel being longer than the side flap of the second end panel along a first longitudinal edge of the blank, the side flap of the second end panel being longer than the side flap of the first end panel along the second longitudinal edge of the blank;
c. the combined lengths of the end panel side flaps on each longitudinal edge of the blank, perpendicular to the longitudinal edge, being less than the face panel width between the opposed side edges thereof to define a gap between the side flaps on each longitudinal edge of the blank in the folded carton alignable with the tear strip continuations in the side flaps of the face panels on the same longitudinal edge of the blank.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.