Twin carton package with removable portions

• US 4,485,926 A
• Filed: 08/17/1982
• Issued: 12/04/1984
• Est. Priority Date: 08/17/1982
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Container Corporation of America (Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Container Corporation of America (Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation)
• Inventors: Lenzmeier, Thomas E.
• Primary Examiner(s): Garbe, Stephen P.
• Application Number:
  US06/408,734
• Time in Patent Office: 840 Days
• Field of Search: 229/70, 206/602, 206/627
• US Class Current: 229/120.011
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/009 the container body comprising a set of interconnected cells, e.g. hinged one to another
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/422 as an extra panel or panels folded against or inside the container B65D5/4237 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/4229 in the form of a detachable panel
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 206/831 Detachable coupon

Abstract

A package comprising a pair of twin cartons joined to each other by an integral connecting panel having removable portions.

Claims

1. A package including a pair of articulated cartons joined to each other by an integral connecting panel having separate detachable portions, said package being formed from a unitary blank of foldable sheet material, such as paperboard, and comprising:

(a) a pair of similar cartons disposed in side-by-side relation and each carton including a pair of front and rear wall panels and a pair of side wall panels having front and rear side edges foldably joined to and extending between respective front and rear wall panels to form therewith a tubular structure open at the ends;

(b) an integral panel extending across the rear wall panels of said cartons, in face-to-face relation therewith, and including;

(i) a pair of sections having remote side edges foldably joined to corresponding rear edges of respective carton side wall panels and having adjacent side edges separably joined to each other along a perforated severance line to facilitate separation of said pair of cartons from each other;

(ii) each of said connecting panel sections including one of said detachable portions defined by a pair of transversely spaced weakened lines of tear, said weakened lines being disposed inwardly of said corresponding rear edges of the respective side wall panels;

(iii) each of said connecting panel sections being of a width and height which is smalller than said rear wall panels;

(c) means for closing the ends of said carton structures.

2. A blank of foldable sheet material, such as paperboard, for use in forming a package which includes a pair of carton structures joined to each other by an integral connecting panel, said blank being cut and scored to provide in series connection:

a first carton glue flap;

a first carton rear wall panel;

a first carton first side wall panel;

a first carton front wall panel;

a first carton second side wall panel;

an integral connecting panel;

a second carton second side wall panel;

a second carton front wall panel;

a second carton first side wall panel;

a second carton rear wall panel;

a second carton glue flap;

all of the aforementioned flaps and panels being joined to each other along parallel and spaced fold lines;

closure flaps joined to end edges of said first and second carton rear wall and side wall panels;

said integral connecting panel including a pair of panel sections joined to each other on a perforated severance line;

each of said panel sections including a detachable portion defined by a pair of parallel weakened lines of tear; and

each detachable portion being of a width and a height which is less than the width and height of each of said rear wall panels.