Recloseable tear strip carton having cover lock

• US 3,310,223 A
• Filed: 04/27/1965
• Issued: 03/21/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 04/27/1965
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: James River Corporation of Virginia (KOCH Industries Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Kenneth T. Buttery
• Inventors: Buttery, Kenneth T.
• Application Number:
  US04/451,186
• Time in Patent Office: 693 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

Claims

1. A CARTON FORMED OF AN INTEGRAL BLANK CUT AND SCORED TO PROVIDE A BOTTOM MEMBER, A REAR WALL MEMBER, A FRONT WALL MEMBER, AND END WALL FLAPS ATTACHED TO SAID MEMBERS, A COVER HINGEDLY CONNECTED TO THE UPPER EDGE OF SAID REAR WALL MEMBER AND PROVIDED WITH COVER FLAPS COMPRISING COVER ENDWALLS AND A COVER FRONT WALL, SAID COVER END WALLS BEING PROVIDED WITH DETACHABLE MEANS SECURING SAID COVER END WALLS TO SAID END FLAPS AND SAID COVER FRONT WALL BEING PROVIDED WITH DETACHABLE MEANS SECURING SAID COVER FRONT WALL TO SAID FRONT WALL, SAID COVER FRONT WALL BEING PROVIDED AT EACH END WITH AN END FLAP COMPRISING A GLUE FLAP AND A RETAINING FLAP HINGEDLY CONNECTED AND FOLDED OVER AND FLUED TO SAID GLUE FLAP, A LOCK FLAP AT EACH END OF SEAID COVER FRONT WALL HINGEDLY CONNECTED TO THE FREE EDGE THEREOF, EACH OF SAID LOCK FLAPS ALSO BEING HINGEDLY CONNECTED AT ONE END TO AN END OF ONE OF SAID RETAINING FLAPS, WHEREBY SAID LOCK FLAPS ARE MAINTAINED IN FACETO-FACE RELATIONSHIP WITH THE INNER SURFACE OF SAID COVER FRONT WALL, SAID FRONT WALL MEMBER BEING PROVIDED AT EACH END OF THE FREE EDGE THEREOF WITH A LOCK FLAP HINGEDLY CONNECTED THERETO ADAPTED INTERLOCKINGLY TO ENGAGE AND RETAIN THE LOCK FLAPS OF SAID COVER FOR PREVENTING SAID COVER FROM OPENING.