Shipper and display carton

• US 20020043554A1
• Filed: 06/07/2001
• Published: 04/18/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 06/14/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
• Original Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
• Inventors: Beer, Leonard, White, Charles Raymond
• Granted Patent: US 6,510,982 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 229/235
• CPC Class Codes: A47F 5/112 hand-folded from sheet material
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/5445 for dividing a tubular body into separate parts
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 229/925 Finger opening, e.g. slit, aperture

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.

Claims

1. 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 sidewalls and said rear panel.

2. A shipper/display carton as in claim 1 wherein said rear panel has a glue flap on an edge thereof opposite an edge attached to one of said two side panels.

3. A shipper/display carton as in claim 1 wherein said rear panel has an opening adjacent an upper edge thereof.

4. A shipper/display carton as in claim 3 wherein said opening is a grip opening whereby an upper part of the carton can be removed.

5. A shipper/display carton as in claim 1 wherein between said spaced point and an intersection of said sidewalls and said adjacent flaps, there is a slit separating said sidewalls from said adjacent flaps.

6. A shipper display carton as in claim 1 wherein between said spaced point and an intersection of said sidewalls and said adjacent flaps, there is a gap separating said sidewalls from said adjacent flaps.

7. A shipper/display carton as in claim 1 wherein the carton contains a plurality of containers.

8. A shipper/display carton as in claim 1 wherein the weakened area across a lower part of said front panel is sinusoidal in shape.

9. A shipper/display carton as in claim 1 wherein said weakened area is comprised of one of a plurality of serrations, perforations and slits.

10. A carton blank having a front panel and a first side panel, a rear panel, and 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 extending substantially diagonally across said side panel, and terminating at a point a spaced distance from the intersection of said sidewalls an said rear panel.

11. A carton blank as in claim 10 wherein said rear panel has an aperture adjacent an upper edge thereof.

12. A carton blank as in claim 10 wherein said rear panel has a glue panel hingedly attached to a free end thereof.

13. A carton blank as in claim 10 wherein said weakened area is comprised of one of a plurality of serrations, perforations and slits.

14. A carton blank as in claim 10 wherein said first side panel and said second side panel are separated from said adjacent flaps throughout said spaced distance.

15. A carton blank as in claim 14 wherein said first and second side panel are separated from said adjacent flaps by a slit.

16. A carton blank as in claim 14 wherein said first and second side panel are separated from said adjacent flaps by a gap.