Carton blank
AssigneeGraphic Packaging Corporation
InventorAmy Kirchhoff
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Abstract
A carton for holding a plurality of filled containers in an end to end relationship formed from a unitary sheet of paperboard provided with cut and fold lines to divide the unitary sheet into a plurality of lengthwise extending sidewall panels and end flaps joined to each end portion of the lengthwise extending panels by fold lines and wherein a plurality of partially cut-out portions are formed in the lengthwise extending sidewall panels with spacer panels detachably secured to some of the lengthwise extending sidewall panels and joined to as associated lengthwise extending panel by a fold line so that the spacer panels may be folded to locations between adjacent ends of adjacent filled containers.
Claims18
A carton blank comprising:
- a unitary sheet of a paperboard material having a length and a width;
- a plurality of cut lines and fold lines in said unitary sheet for dividing said unitary sheet into a plurality of lengthwise extending sidewall panels having opposite end portions and a lengthwise extending glue tab panel;
- an end flap joined to each end portion of each of said plurality of lengthwise extending sidewall panels by a fold line;
- a plurality of spaced apart at least partially cut-out portions formed in said unitary sheet;
- each of said plurality of spaced apart at least partially cut-out portions being space from the next adjacent one of said plurality of spaced apart at least partially cut-out portions in the lengthwise direction;
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- at least a portion of each of said plurality of spaced apart at least partially cut-out portions being located in a widthwise direction in a plurality of said plurality of lengthwise extending sidewall panels.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.