Container for providing easy access to beverage cans
OwnerC. Brown Lingamfelterinventor
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Abstract
A container having a multiplicity of cans therein. The container disclosed is modified from a rectangular, closed wall container to a container with part of the walls removed, thereby allowing easy access to the cans of the container. Applicant discloses a unique relationship between the walls of the opened container and the size of the beverage cans. Applicant also discloses a method for constructing a closed container that may be easily modified to remove the cans of the container.
Claims6
A container for holding a multiplicity of cylindrical cans, each can of the multiplicity of cylindrical cans being similarly dimensioned and having a diameter and height, the container comprising:
- a rear wall with a height defined by a whole multiple of can diameters each can diameter being about 6.6 cm;
- a front wall having an upper lip with a height less than the rear wall by a difference of about 1.5 can diameters;
- a bottom wall with a length defined by a whole multiple of can diameters;
- a top wall with a length at least 6.6 cm less than the length of the bottom wall;
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- two side walls, the side walls joining the front wall and top wall at angle exceeding about 90° the side walls separated by the height of a can, the height being about 12.5 cm;
- wherein the upper lip of the front wall is longitudinal to the longitudinal cans when the cans are within the container.
A method for modifying a carton for holding a multiplicity of similarly dimensioned cylindrical cans, each can having a diameter and a height, the method of modifying the container as follows:
- providing a rectangular paper container having six rectangular walls including two side walls having about the same dimensions and a front wall and a rear wall, the front wall and the rear wall having about same dimensions and a top wall and a bottom wall, the top wall and bottom wall having about the same dimensions and being separated by a distance equal to the height of a can;
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- scoring some of the paper of the container to define a section of the container, the removal of which will leave the container with a front wall having a height less than the rear wall by a difference of about 1.5 can diameters and a top wall with a length at least 6.6 cm less than the length of the bottom wall;
- and the side walls joining the front wall and top wall at angle exceeding about 90° the side walls separated by the height of a can, the height being about 12.5 cm.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.