Reclosable tamper-proof carton

• US 3,206,103 A
• Filed: 07/17/1964
• Issued: 09/14/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 07/17/1964
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Smurfit Diamond Packaging Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kenneth D. Bixler
• Inventors: Bixler, Kenneth D.
• Application Number:
  US04/383,402
• Time in Patent Office: 424 Days
• US Class Current: 229/227
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/5415 the lines of weakness being provided in one or more closure flaps and in the container body so as to form after rupture a lid hinged to a side edge of the container body
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 206/807 Tamper proof

Claims

1. A BLANK FOR PRODUCING A TAMPER-PROOF, HINGED LID CARTON, SAID BLANK COMPRISING A ONE-PIECE, ELONGATED PLANAR ELEMENT SYMMETRICAL ABOUT ITS LONGITUDINAL AXIS, SAID ELEMENT INCLUDING ALTERNATELY-DISPOSED, RECTANGULAR FRONT, BOTTOM, REAR AND LID PANELS CONNECTED ON MUTUALLY PARALLEL FOLD LINES IN THE ORDER MENTIONED;

SAID FRONT PANEL INCUDING A SIDE MARGIN PARALLEL TO SAID FOLD LINES;

A CLOSURE PANEL HINGEDLY CONNECTED TO A FOLD LINE AT THE SIDE MARGIN OF SAID LID PANEL;

SAID PANELS INCLUDING SEGMENTAL, CO-LINEAR UPPER AND LOWER MARGINAL FOLD LINES TO WHICH SAID MUTUALLY PARALLEL FOLD LINES AND SIDE MARGINS EXTEND;

SAID FRONT AND REAR PANELS RESPECTIVELY INCLUDING INNER CLOSURE FLAPS CONNECTED TO THE UPPER AND LOWER SEGMENTAL FOLD LINES THEREOF, THE COMBINED LENGTH OF THE SAID INNER CLOSURE FLAPS AT THE RESPECTIVE ENDS OF SAID LAST-MENTIONED PANELS BEING AT LEAST EQUAL TO THE WIDTH OF SAID BOTTOM AND LID PANELS;

SAID BOTTOM AND LID PANELS INCLUDING OUTER CLOSURE FLAPS HINGEDLY CONNECTED TO RESPECTIVE UPPER AND LOWER SEGMENTAL FOLD LINES THEREOF;

SAID CLOSURE FLAPS CONNECTED TO SAID LID PANEL RESPECTIVELY INCLUDING AN INTERMEDIATE TEAR STRIP COMPRISING A PAIR OF SPACED PARALLEL PERFORATED LINES SPACED FROM SAID SEGMENTAL FOLD LINES AND EXTENDING THE ENTIRE WIDTH OF SAID CLOSURE FLAP;

SAID CLOSURE PANEL INCLUDING A TEAR STRIP PARALLEL TO AND SPACED FROM THE FOLD LINE AT THE SIDE MARGIN OF SAID LID PANEL;

SAID TEAR STRIP ON THE RESPECTIVE CLOSRE FLAPS AND PANEL BEING SPACED THE SAME DISTANCE FROM THE ADJACENT FOLD LINES;

SAID CLOSURE PANEL INCLUDING TAB ELEMENTS HINGEDLY CONNECTED TO THE SEGMENTAL FOLD LINES AT THE UPPER AND LOWER ENDS OF SAID CLOSURE PANELS;

SAID TAB ELEMENTS INCLUDING A PAIR OF ADJACENT SEGMENTS SPACED BY A CUT-LINE CO-LINEAR WITH ONE MARGIN OF THE TEAR STRIP ON SAID CLOSURE PANEL.