Carton

• US 3,164,316 A
• Filed: 05/21/1962
• Issued: 01/05/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 05/21/1962
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Vernon H. Collins, William A. Wurster
• Original Assignee: Vernon H. Collins, William A. Wurster
• Inventors: Wurster, William A., Collins, Vernon H.
• Application Number:
  US04/196,229
• Time in Patent Office: 960 Days
• US Class Current: 229/228
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/46152 formed in closure flaps of a container formed by folding a blank to U-shape to form the base and opposite sides, the remaining sides being formed by extensions of these opposite sides

Claims

10. A CARTON COMPRISING TOP AND BOTTOM WALLS;

A FIRST END WALL EXTENDING BETWEEN SAID TOP AND BOTTOM WALLS, SAID FIRST END WALL HAVING A SERIES OF DISCONTINUOUS SLITS THEREIN FORMING A HANDLE HAVING A PIVOTABLE CONNECTION WITH SAID FIRST END WALL, SAID FIRST END WALL HAVING A TEAR STRIP THEREIN EXTENDING ACROSS SAID HANDLE PORTION, SAID TEAR STRIP BEING IN THREE ALIGNED PORTIONS WHICH ABUT AT THE SIDE EDGES OF SAID HANDLE PORTION AND FORM A PAIR OF TEAR STRIP MEMBERS EXTENDING OUTWARDLY OF SAID HANDLE AND A REINFORCING MEMBER FOR SAID HANDLE, SAID HANDLE HAVING A HAND HOLE FORMING FLAP THEREIN BETWEEN SAID REINFORCING MEMBER AND SAID PIVOTABLE CONNECTION, SAID FLAP BEING PIVOTABLE TOWARD SAID INFORCING MEMBER, SAID FIRST END WALL BEING DIVISIBLE INTO TOP AND BOTTOM SECTIONS BY SAID TEAR STRIPS AND SAID HANDLE;

A SECOND END WALL OPPOSITE SAID FIRST END WALL AND EXTENDING BETWEEN SAID TOP AND BOTTOM WALLS, SAID SECOND END WALL HAVING A TRANSVERSE SCORE LINE THEREIN DIVIDING SAID SECOND END WALL INTO TOP AND BOTTOM SECTIONS, SAID TRANSVERSE SCORE LINE AND SAID TEAR STRIP BEING IN A PLANE THAT IS SUBSTANTIALLY PARALLEL WITH SAID TOP AND BOTTOM WALLS;

AND SIDE WALLS EXTENDING BETWEEN SAID TOP AND BOTTOM WALLS AND BETWEEN SAID END WALLS, SAID SIDE WALLS BEING DIVISIBLE INTO TOP AND BOTTOM SECTIONS ALONG A LINE OF DEMARCATION EXTENDING BETWEEN SAID TRANSVEERSE SCORE LINE AND SAID TEAR STRIP.