Carton and blank for making the same

A carton made of one-piece of a lightweight foldable sheet material such as cardboard or paperboard for forming a carton having a base, a front wall, a rear wall, two side walls and a top, the top having a rear surface portion which is substantially horizontal and a front surface portion which slopes downwardly and forwardly away from the said rear surface portion and is suitable for receiving a dispensing spout, said carton blank comprising a row of hingedly interconnected wall panels for forming said front, rear and side walls of the carton, an array of base-forming panels on one side of the said row of wall-forming panels, front and rear top-forming panels hingedly connected to the respective front and rear wall-forming panels on a side of the row of hingedly interconnected wall panels opposite to the base forming panels, a hinge line between the front top-forming panel and the front wall-forming panel being nearer to the said base-forming panels than is a hinge line between the rear top-forming panel and the rear wall-forming panel, and respective arrays of tuck-forming panels hingedly connected between the front and rear top-forming panels and the side wall-forming panels by connection means, the connection means between the tuck forming panels and a side wall forming panel being by way of a two-section hinge line which has two contiguous sections at an angle to each other, a first section of said hinge line being substantially colinear with a hinge line between the rear top-forming panel and the rear wall-forming panel and a second section of said dine line extending obliquely inwardly to meet an adjacent end of a hinge line between the from top-forming panel and the front wall-forming panel.