Dispensing carton for plastic bags
AssigneeInternational Paper Company
InventorPaul D. Richardson
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Abstract
A one piece paperboard carton blank is folded into a rectangular shape for packaging and dispensing from a roll of individual plastic bags, particularly disposable milk bottles for feeding babies. The carton has a double wall front part which includes an inner top rigidly supporting a tab protruding in a direction opposite to the direction of withdrawal of bags from the roll. When a first plastic bag is withdrawn it starts to pull out a succeeding bag to which it is removably attached along a line of perforations. When the center of the perforated edge of the succeeding bag is impaled on the tab, further withdrawal of the succeeding bag is restrained and the first bag is readily separated to facilitate its dispensing and to place the leading edge of the succeeding bag where it may be easily reached for withdrawal.
Claims14
A one piece paperboard blank for a carton to contain plastic bags in a roll and from which to dispense such bags individually, said blank comprising:
- (a) top (10), back (12), bottom (14), front (16), inner top (18) and inner front (20) panels in the order named from one end of the blank to the other and foldable with respect to each other;
- (b) said top panel having score lines (10s) along which its inner part (10i) may be severed from its outer parts (10o);
- (c) at least one of said top, back, bottom, and front panels having a pair of side flaps (10f,12f, 14f, 16f) foldably attached along its side edges (10e, 12e, 14e, 16e);
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- (d) said inner top panel having a tab (25) defined by a slit (25s) in the inner front panel, said tab being arranged to be disposed generally in the plane of the surface of the inner top panel in the erected carton.
A rectangular paperboard carton to contain plastic bags in a roll and from which to dispense such bags individually, said carton comprising:
- (a) top, back, bottom, front, inner top, inner front and side panels formed from a one piece blank;
- (b) the lower edge of the inner front panel being secured to the bottom panel;
- (c) the inner top panel having a relatively rigid tab projecting horizontally into the carton for impaling the leading edge of a succeeding bag along a line of weakness to allow a first bag to be detached from it along said edge and thereby dispensed from a roll of said bags;
- (d) the end edge of the top panel being secured to the inner top panel;
- (e) said top panel having score lines along which its inner part may be severed from its outer parts and broken away from the inner top panel;
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- (f) said inner part of the top panel being insertable downwardly into the carton while a first bag is being withdrawn from a roll of said bags to cause said leading edge of said succeeding bag to be impaled on said tab.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.