Divisible carton and blank therefor

• US 4,039,120 A
• Filed: 03/26/1976
• Issued: 08/02/1977
• Est. Priority Date: 03/26/1976
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: H Goodman & Sons Incorporated
• Original Assignee: H Goodman & Sons Incorporated
• Inventors: Herzog, Milton W.
• Primary Examiner(s): Moorhead, Davis T.
• Application Number:
  US05/670,624
• Time in Patent Office: 494 Days
• Field of Search: 229/51 DB, 229/29 B, 229/28 R, 229/37 R, 229/15
• US Class Current: 229/235
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/5445 for dividing a tubular body into separate parts

Abstract

A carton and blank therefor has a transverse tear-strip and panel areas with adjoining ends flaps adapted to be erected adjacent the tear-strip so as to form carton dividers. When the tear-strip is removed, the dividers form end barriers across separated carton sections. Where the tear-strip provides margins for the carton dividers, the tear-strip and the erected dividers form a carton-stiffening channel.

Claims

1. A carton blank, including first and second pairs of elongated panels adjoining one another along parallel margins constituting opposite pairs of panels when the carton is erected, end closure flaps at the opposite ends of the panels for forming carton closures when the blank is erected, said panels and said flaps being divided from each other by score lines, said panels including a tear strip, the tear strip extending across all of said elongated panels spaced from the opposite ends thereof, said tear strip being defined by a pair of discontinuous rows of punctures, and first and second carton-divider areas included in the same one of said panels and disposed respectively at opposite sides of the tear strip, the ends of each carton-divider area being defined by the score lines along the panel containing such carton-divider area, the pair of panels adjoining said one of said panels including a pair of divider flaps extending from the ends of each said carton-divider area, said carton-divider areas and said divider flaps being demarked from their respective panels by lines of weakening including spaced-apart parallel hinge means for said carton-divider areas and respective hinge means for said divider flaps formed at an acute angle to said panel-dividing score lines, said lines of weakening and said hinge means being formed for adapting said carton-divider areas to be erected transverse to the carton and spaced apart at opposite sides of the tear strip for acting when erected as a U-shaped carton-stiffening structure, the width of each carton-divider area measured along its elongated panel being less than about half the width of each of the elongated panels containing its divider flaps and the distance from each carton-divider area to the closet end flap being a major part of the distance between that end flap and the tear strip for providing a substantial length of carton wall for containing articles when the carton is erected, and the carton-divider areas when erected and when the tear strip is removed constituting article-retaining barriers opposite the respective end closures formed by said closure flaps.

2. A carton blank in accordance with claim 1, wherein the rows of slits dividing the tear-strip from the rest of said one of said panels constitute part of said weakening lines of said dividing areas, said hinge means of each carton-divider flap intersecting one of said rows of slits.

3. A carton blank in accordance with claim 1 wherein those parts of the discontinuous rows of punctures which extend across said one of said panels constitute said parallel hinge means of said carton-divider areas.

4. A carton blank in accordance with claim 1, wherein said pairs of panels and said end flaps and said carton-divider areas are erected to constitute a carton and wherein two groups of articles are contained in the two portions of the container formed, respectively, between said erected carton-divider area and a corresponding set of erected end closure flaps, the erected carton-divider areas acting to retain the articles in the two portions of the carton when the tear strip is removed and the carton is thus divided.