Reclosable angle spout carton

• US 3,133,688 A
• Filed: 09/12/1962
• Issued: 05/19/1964
• Est. Priority Date: 09/12/1962
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Norman J. Asman
• Original Assignee: Norman J. Asman
• Inventors: Asman, Norman J.
• Application Number:
  US04/223,174
• Time in Patent Office: 615 Days
• US Class Current: 229/215
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/703 the score-lines or incisions extending in the body of the tubular container
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/745 Spouts formed by deforming or tearing parts of the upper wall, combined with a deformation of a part of the body of the container

Claims

1. A RECLOSABLE DISPENSING CARTON FORMED OF A SINGLE BLANK SUITABLY CUT AND SCORED TO PROVIDE A PAIR OF OPPOSED MAIN PANELS, EACH OF SAID MAIN PANELS HAVING ONE OF A FIRST PAIR OF OPPOSED BIASED SCORE LINES EXTENDING FROM A TOP EDGE AND INTERSECTING ONE OF A SECOND PAIR OF OPPOSED BIASED SCORE LINES EXTENDING FROM A LATERAL EDGE NEAR ONE CORNER THEREOF;

A PAIR OF OPPOSED SIDE PANELS HINGEDLY CONNECTED TO THE LATERAL EDGES OF SAID MAIN PANELS, ONE OF SAID SIDE PANELS TERMINATING AT ITS UPPER END ALONG A LINE EXTENDING BETWEEN THE POINTS WHERE SAID SECOND PAIR OF BIASED SCORE LINES INTERSECT SAID LATERAL EDGES;

A PAIR OF BOTTOM CLOSURE FLAPS HINGEDLY CONNECTED TO ADJACENT ENDS OF SAID MAIN PANELS;

A PAIR OF TOP CLOSURE FLAPS HINGEDLY CONNECTED TO ADJACENT ENDS OF SAID MAIN PANELS AND EACH HAVING A TRANSVERSE SCORE LINE THEREIN EXTENDING FROM ONE MAIN PANEL TO THE OTHER BETWEEN THE POINTS OF INTERSECTION OF SAID FIRST PAIR OF BIASED SCORE LINES WITH SAID TOP EDGES;

A SPOUT FRONT PANEL CONNECTED TO THE UPPER END OF SAID ONE SIDE PANEL AND ALSO TO THE LATERAL EDGES OF SAID MAIN PANELS INTERMEDIATE SAID ONE SIDE PANEL AND SAID TOP EDGES;

AND A TEAR OUT PORTION AT THE SAID CORNER DEFINED BY LINES OF WEAKNESS IN SAID TOP CLOSURE FLAPS, SAID MAIN PANELS AND SAID SPOUT PANEL.