RECLOSABLE COMPOSITE PACKAGE

• US 3,669,345 A
• Filed: 01/07/1971
• Issued: 06/13/1972
• Est. Priority Date: 01/07/1971
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Raymond A. Cole
• Original Assignee: Raymond A. Cole
• Inventors: Cole, Raymond A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Wood, Jr., M. Henson
• Assistant Examiner(s): Mar, Michael Y.
• Application Number:
  US05/104,730
• Time in Patent Office: 523 Days
• Field of Search: 229/44R,51TS,51TC,51D
• US Class Current: 229/101.2
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/5425 and defining after rupture a lid hinged to the upper edge of the container body

Abstract

The disclosure relates to a package for foodstuffs and the like including a sealed, reclosable pouch or bag carried by a sealed parallelepiped carton structure. The carton is opened by the removal of a tear strip and is so configured that the tear strip removal forms a telescopically reclosable, lockable chest-type cover, i.e., a cover which is adapted to completely overlap and be securely '"'"''"'"''"'"''"'"'locked'"'"''"'"''"'"''"'"' to the side and front walls of the opened carton upon hinging movement about a horizontal axis in the carton rear wall.

Claims

1. A parallelepiped carton structure having a rectangular bottom;

consecutively articulated, upstanding first side, front, second side and rear walls;

a glue flap connecting said first side and rear walls, and a top closing structure including a. upper end flaps articulated to the upper edges of said front and rear walls;

b. upper dust flaps articulated to the upper edges of said side walls;

c. said upper dust flaps having recessed, angular notch-forming, front corner portions;

d. a cover hinge line spaced below the upper edge of the rear wall and extending across the rear wall;

e. a locking element in said front wall and articulated along a hinge line in the front wall in the plane of said cover hinge line;

f. a horizontal tear line in said glue flap in the plane of said cover hinge line;

g. a tear strip extending completely across said first side wall and completely across said front wall and across said second side wall;

h. said tear strip being generally defined by spaced upper and lower tear lines;

i. the upper one of said tear lines extending from the free edge of said first side wall below the upper edge thereof, obliquely upwardly to the upper front corner of the carton, then straight across the entire upper edge of the front wall and then obliquely downwardly to approximately the center of the second side wall panel;

j. the lower tear line defining in part said locking element and extending from the edge of the first side wall completely thereacross and partially across the front wall in the horizontal plane of said cover hinge line and then extending generally parallel to the upper tear line and finally terminating in a horizontal portion, colinear with the initial portion, extending approximately halfway across the second side wall;

k. a vertical tear line connecting said upper and lower tear lines;

l. whereby the removal of said tear strip exposes said locking element and forms a telescopically reclosable, lockable chesttype cover which is adapted to completely overlap and be securely locked to the upper raw edges of the said and front walls of the carton upon hinging movement of said cover about said cover hinge line and the folding of said locking element.

2. The carton construction of claim 1, which further includes a. reclosable pouch means disposed within said walls.

3. The carton of claim 1, further characterized in that a. said cover hinge line is spaced below the upper edge of said rear wall a distance equal to the depth of said carton.

4. The carton of claim 1, in which a. said locking element is generally trapezoidal in shape;

b. the angular notches of said upper dust flaps are similar in shape to the oblique corners of said trapezoidal locking element and are abuttable therewith to lock telescopically said cover to said front wall after tear strip removal, locking element folding, and carton cover reclosing.