Shipper and display carton
AssigneeColgate-Palmolive Company
InventorsCharles Raymond White, Leonard Beer
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Abstract
There is described a shipper/display carton that has high structural integrity as a shipper carton, is easy opening, and is functional as a display carton. The carton comprises a front panel with a weakened area near a bottom edge, two side panels, each having a weakened area extending substantially diagonally across the sidewall, and a weakened area across a top edge of the rear wall. Additionally, there can be a further weakened region where the rear panel weakened area intersects the weakened areas of the side panels. There is a grip aperture in the rear wall. Due to the placement and structure of the weakened areas, the carton with these weakened areas is sufficiently strong to function as a shipper carton.
Claims15
A shipper/display carton comprising a front panel, two side panels and a rear panel, each of the front panel, rear panel and side panels having two flaps attached thereto at edges not attached to another panel, a weakened area across a lower part of said front panel and extending therefrom diagonally upwardly across each of said side panels, and reaching the top of each side panel at a point a spaced distance from the intersection of said side panels and said rear panel, said weakened area being further weakened from said point a spaced distance from the intersection of said side panels and said rear panel to said rear panel.
A carton blank having in a contiguous relationship a front panel, a first side panel, a rear panel, and a second side panel, each panel being hingedly attached to an adjacent panel, each of said front panel, rear panel, first side panel and second side panel having a flap attached to a free edge thereof, said front panel having a weakened area, said weakened area extending substantially diagonally across said first side panel and said second side panel, and extending to a point a spaced distance from the intersection of said side panels and said rear panel, said weakened area from said point a spaced distance from the intersection of said side panels and said rear panel to said rear panel being further weakened.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.