Packaging

A packaging carton formed from a blank of stiff but foldable board material and containing at least two rows of identical cylindrical cans, which carton is of right parallelepipedic shape and includes (a) a handle which extends parallel to and is intersected by a median plane lying between said at least two adjacent rows of cans, and (b) a precursor of an access flap to gain access to the packaged cans, the access flap being delineated by said handle and by two spaced-apart lines of perforations defining respective lines of weakness, the handle including reinforcing material which lies in the said median plane and which extends completely across one wall of the carton and at least partly across two of the walls of the carton adjacent to the said one wall, the reinforcing material being located between handle-defining cuts in the board material which encroach onto said two adjacent walls to define the reinforced handle, the handle forming an obstruction to free passage of packaged cans through the opening revealed by the access flap when the latter is created by tearing the board material along the lines of weakness and displacing the board material along a hinge line extending between said lines generally parallel to the handle.

A black for packaging a plurality of rows of cylindrical cans having selected outside dimensions, said blank including wall panels defining four walls of a carton and further panels defining two sides of the carton, one of said wall panels including spaced-apart cuts defining a carrying handle therebetween, the blank also including lines of spaced-apart perforations providing respective lines of weakness defining a precursor of an access opening, a length of reinforcing tape being located between the handle-defining cuts, and the two spaced-apart lines of weakness each terminating at the first one of the handle-defining cuts, to define an access flap adapted to be displaced along a hinge line generally parallel to said cuts between said lines of weakness.

A blank for packaging a plurality of rows of cylindrical cans of a selected diameter comprising panels for defining four walls of a carton, at least one of said panels including spaced-apart cuts defining a carrying handle, wherein a length of reinforcing tape is located between the handle-defining cuts, and two lines of weakness defining a precursor flap for an access opening, said lines being spaced apart by a distance greater than the selected diameter and originating at points spaced from a first of said cuts to provide a hinge line therebetween which is spaced from said first of said cuts less than the selected diameter and from the second of said cuts greater than the selected diameter, and each terminating in said first of the handle-defining cuts.