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US 5,850,964 AGranted
Carton construction
AssigneeACCO Brands Corporation
InventorsW. John Rosenbaum, Mark A. Bendit
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Abstract
A unitary carton blank is constructed with a panel orientation facilitating easy set up of an open ended carton from a collapsed carton structure. Of the panels of the carton blank, includes only one panel, namely the bottom panel, requires a single fold line.
Claims11
A unitary carton blank comprising:
- a) an open ended body including a plurality of panel sections foldably connected together for forming said body, said panel sections including:
- i) a bottom panel section,
- ii) a pair of side panel sections, and
- iii) a pair of end panel sections;
- b) said bottom panel section includes at least one bottom panel;
- c) each of said pair of side panel section includes a side panel;
- d) each of said end panel sections includes no more than two end panels;
- e) each of said panels includes a top edge, a bottom edge, a left side edge and a right side edge;
- f) one of said side panels has the right side edge of one of said end panels foldably connected to the left side edge thereof;
- g) said one end panel has the right side edge of the other of said side panels foldably connected to the left side edge thereof;
- h) said other of said side panels has its bottom edge foldably connected to the top edge of said bottom panel and the right side edge of a second end panel foldably connected to the left side edge thereof;
- i) said bottom panel has a third end panel foldably connected, to one side edge thereof;
- j) said bottom panel includes a single diagonal fold line formed therein and extending diagonally from the bottom edge to the top edge thereof;
- and
- k) the remaining panels are free of any fold lines.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.