Compartmented dispensing carton formed from a single blank

• US 3,300,115 A
• Filed: 04/05/1965
• Issued: 01/24/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 04/05/1965
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Marvin L. Schauer
• Original Assignee: Marvin L. Schauer
• Inventors: Schauer, Marvin L.
• Application Number:
  US04/445,399
• Time in Patent Office: 659 Days
• US Class Current: 221/305
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2209/00 Provisions for used articles
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2571/00141 glued
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2571/0037 extending from at least a side wall
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2571/00487 and formed integrally with a partition
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2571/0058 The tear line defining a dispensing aperture provided with means for preventing the articles from freely exiting the wrapper, e.g. by rolling out
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2571/0066 formed from one single sheet
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2571/00728 the end walls being closed by gluing
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 71/36 having a tubular shape, e.g. tubular wrappers, with end walls

Claims

1. A UNITARY PAPERBOARD BLANK FOR FORMING A COMPARTMENTED DISPENSING CARTON, COMPRISING A VERTICAL RECTANGULAR BODY PORTION CONTAINING FIVE HORIZONTALLY SPACED VERTICAL FOLD LINES DEFINING, SUCCESSIVELY, A FIRST END PANEL, A FIRST SIDE PANEL, A SECONE END PANEL, A SECOND SIDE PANEL, AN INTERMEDIATE PANEL, AND A DIVIDER PANEL, SAID SIDE PANELS HAVING EQUAL WIDTHS AND SAID DIVIDER PANEL HAVING AN WIDTH NO GREATER THAN THAT OF SAID SIDE PANELS, SAID END PANELS ALSO HAVING EQUAL WIDTHS SAID INTERMEDIATE PANEL HAVING A WIDTH EQUAL TO APPROXIMATELY ONE HALF THE WIDTH OF SAID END PANELS;

SAID PANELS BING FOLDABLE ABOUT SAID VERTICAL FOLD LINES TO POSITIONS IN WHICH THE SIDE AND END PANELS ARE PARALLEL WITH EACH OTHER, RESPECTIVELY, TO DEFINE THEREBETWEEN A RECTANGULAR SPACE, IN WHICH SAID INTERMEDIATE PANEL IS PARALLEL WITH ANIN CONTIGUOUS ENGAGEMENT WITH SUBSTANTIALLY ONE HALF OF THE INNER SURFACE OF SAID FIRST END PANEL ADJACENT THE FREE EDGE THEREOF, AND IN WHICH SAID DIVIDER PANEL IS BETWEEN, PARALLEL WITH SAID SPACED FROM SAID SIDE PANELS;

SAID BLANK INCLUDING ALSO TOP AND BOTTOM FLAPS CONNECTED WITH THE UPPER AND LOWER HORIZONTAL EDGES OF AT LEAST SOME OF SAID PANELS AND FOLDABLE TO HORIZONTAL POSITIONS CLOSING THE UPPER AND LOWER ENDS OF SAID RECTANGULAR SPACE, RESPECTIVELY;

SAID BLANK CONTAINING MEANS DEFING A REMOVABLY DISCHARGE SECTION IN THE LOWER PORTION OF AT LEAST ONE OF SAID SIDE PANELS, COMPRISING FIRST AND SECOND SLOTS CONTAINED IN THE LOWER PORTIONS OF THOSE COMPANION PANELS CONNECTED WITH THE VERTICAL EDGES OF SAID ONE SIDE PANEL, RESPECTIVELY, AND A PAIR OF VERTICALLY-SPACED GENERALLY HORIZONTAL WEAKENED LINES EXTENDING COMPLETELY ACROSS SAID ONE SIDE PANEL AND PARTIALLY ACROSS SAID COMPANION PANELS, SAID WEAKENED LINES COMMUNICATING AT OPPOSITE ENDS WITH THE OPPOSITE ENDS OF SAID FIRST AND SECOND SLOTS, RESPECTIVELY.