Pillow box blank

• US 3,929,222 A
• Filed: 10/29/1974
• Issued: 12/30/1975
• Est. Priority Date: 10/29/1974
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Glen Matsuyama, William Paul Smith
• Original Assignee: Glen Matsuyama, William Paul Smith
• Inventors: Matsuyama, Glen, Smith, William Paul
• Primary Examiner(s): Price, William
• Assistant Examiner(s): Bernstein, Bruce H.
• Application Number:
  US05/518,407
• Time in Patent Office: 427 Days
• Field of Search: 206/45.14,45.31,806 229/8,16R,37R,87F
• US Class Current: 206/783
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/0209 the tubular body having a curved or partially curved cross-section
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/5007 formed by inwardly protruding of folded parts of the body
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 206/806 Suspension

Abstract

A one-piece blank is provided which may be composed of paperboard, or other suitable material, and which is used to form a pillow-pack type of carton. The carton has a generally ellipsoidal shape with reinforced end walls, and it has a pair of cover flaps which extend over the elliptical edges of the end walls and which are glued together along one side edge of the carbon. The carton is shaped to have two spaced and parallel upright rectangular support pedestals at one end so that it may be placed in a self-standing position on a horizontal surface. Also, a hole may be provided in the rear wall of the carton at the other end, so that it may be hung from a wall or bracket. The product contained in the carton is exposed through a window formed in one of the cover flaps of the carton, the window having side flaps which serve to hold the product firmly within the carton to prevent it from rattling around in the carton.

Claims

1. A one-piece blank for forming an ellipsoidal-shaped pillowpack carton having a first panel and a second panel, each panel having arcuately-shaped ends, said panels being separated by a scoreline extending from one of their ends to the other, one of the panels having arcuately-shaped scorelines at the first and second ends thereof each forming an ellipse with the corresponding arcuately-shaped end, and the other of the panels having an arcuately-shaped scoreline at the first end thereof forming an ellipse with the corresponding arcuately-shaped end, and each of the panels having transversely spaced slits therein at the first end thereof interrupting and extending outwardly from the corresponding arcuately-shaped scoreline into the corresponding ellipse and interconnected therein to define spaced and parallel support pedestals for the carton when the arcuatelyshaped ends are folded about the corresponding scorelines.

2. The one-piece blank defined in claim 1, in which one of the panels has slits and scorelines therein defining a pair of flaps which may be turned inwardly to support a product in the carton and to reveal an aperture in the panel through which the product may be exposed.

3. The one-piece blank defined in claim 1, in which the arcuately-shaped end at the second end of the other of said panels has a hole therein for hanging the carton.

4. The one-piece blank defined in claim 1, in which the other of the panels has a scoreline adjacent the outer edge thereof and extending from one end to the other to define a flap to be folded inwardly and glued to the outer edge of the first panel.

5. A one-piece blank for forming an ellipsoidal-shaped pillow-pack carton having a first panel and a second panel separated from one another by a scoreline extending from one end thereof to the other, said panels each having an arcuately-shaped scoreline at one end thereof defining elliptically-shaped end flaps for the carton, and each of the panels having transversely spaced slits at said one eNd thereof interrupting the scorelines and extending into the end flaps and interconnected therein to define support pedestals for the carton when the end flaps are folded about the corresponding scorelines.