CONTAINER WHICH COMPLETELY ENCLOSES ARTICLES

• US 3,578,238 A
• Filed: 07/28/1969
• Issued: 05/11/1971
• Est. Priority Date: 07/28/1969
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Joseph F. Schillinger, Thomas B. Moser
• Original Assignee: Joseph F. Schillinger, Thomas B. Moser
• Inventors: Schillinger, Joseph F., Moser, Thomas B.
• Application Number:
  US04/848,402
• Time in Patent Office: 652 Days
• US Class Current: 206/427
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2301/10 Blanks mutually positioned to minimise waste material upon cutting out the individual blank from a continuous or large sheet
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2571/00141 glued
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2571/00444 for fingers
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2571/00567 defining a narrow removable strip
• 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

Abstract

A carton or container which fully encloses the contained articles. The carton has finger holes placed along one side edge of the carton allowing one of the articles to be grasped when the carton is carried by use of the finger holes. There are no cutouts for the caps or base of the articles, so that the container tightly encloses them. The container has a design which allows the container blanks to be nested on the web prior to cutting.

Claims

1. In a blank which forms an article container, finger hole construction comprising a top panel, a side panel, hingedly attached to said top panel forming a hinged joint, a pair of arcuate slits extending across said hinge joint and into said top panel and said side panel, a score line extending from each end of said slit to a common point on said hinge joint, an additional pair of score lines extending from said common point to points on the interior of said arcuate slit, one of said latter score lines coinciding with the hinge joint.

2. The blank of claim 1 in which the slits are in the exterior edge of the flaps formed by said slits and said score lines.

3. The blank of claim 2 in which said flaps are spaced from each other.

4. In a blank which forms an article container having a top panel, a bottom panel, a pair of side panels, and a pair of end panels, the improvement comprising said side panels and said end panels having score lines therein adjacent and parallel to the edges of said bottom panel.

5. The blank of claim 4 in which the side edges of said side panels and end panels taper outwardly from the edges of said bottom panel to said score line.

6. The blank of claim 4 in which one of said panels is formed by a pair of panels having a combined length greater than the length of said panel and being fixed together in said container, and one of said pair of side panels or end panels also comprises pairs of panels having a combined length greater than the length of said panel in the formed container.

7. In a blank which forms an article container having a top panel, a bottom panel, a pair of side panels, and a pair of end panels, the improvement comprising the length and width of said top panel being smaller than the length and width of said bottom panel, and the side edges of said side panels and end panels tapering inwardly toward said top panel and away from said bottom panel.

8. The blank of claim 7 in which one of said panels comprises a pair of panels having a combined length greater than the length of said panel and being fixed together in said container, and one of said pair of side panels or end panels also comprises pairs of panels having a combined length greater than the length of said panel in the formed container.

9. The blank of claim 8 in which the outer edges of said pair of panels comprising said end or side panels conform to the shape of the side edge of said undivided side or end panels whereby adjacent blanks will nest.

10. The blank of claim 7 in which said side panels and said end panels have score lines therein adjacent and parallel to the edges of said bottom panel, and the side edges of said side panels and end panels taper outwardly from the edges of said bottom panel to said score line and inwardly from said score line to said top panel.

11. The blank of claim 6 in which the outer edges of said pair of panels comprising said end or side panels conform to the shape of the side edge of said undivided side or end panels whereby adjacent blanks will nest.