Packing and displaying carton, and blank plate therefor

• US 4,519,538 A
• Filed: 06/14/1984
• Issued: 05/28/1985
• Est. Priority Date: 08/12/1983
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Namio Omichi
• Original Assignee: Namio Omichi
• Inventors: Omichi, Namio
• Primary Examiner(s): MOY, JOSEPH MAN
• Application Number:
  US06/620,600
• Time in Patent Office: 348 Days
• Field of Search: 229/27, 229/28 R, 229/28 BC, 229/15, 206/427, 206/44 R
• US Class Current: 206/746
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/5253 Containers initially closed but folded about a central axis to display the contents in two or more cells
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/5475 for dividing a "cross-like" container body into separate parts
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/5495 for separating interconnected containers

Abstract

A packing and displaying carton as well as a blank plate for election thereof, said carton having two neighboring compartments to independently or commonly accommodate goods therein and a double walled partition for the compartments, which partition serves as a reinforcement for a bottom and side panels of the carton, when said carton is used for transportation and reservation of the goods and provides a displaying window for the goods, when said carton is divided along a double wall of the partition into two separate displaying units.

Claims

1. A packing and displaying carton with two neighboring compartments, which comprises a front panel connected to one side of a first bottom panel;

a first pair of two side panels, each connected to remaining opposite sides of said front panel and connected to remaining opposite sides of said first bottom panel;

a rear panel connected to one side of a second bottom panel;

a second pair of two side panels, each connected to remaining opposite sides of said rear panel and connected to remaining opposite sides of said second bottom panel;

a first reinforcing panel, one side thereof being connected to a remaining side of said first bottom panel and opposite sides being connected to remaining side of each side panel for said first pair; and

a second reinforcing panel, one side thereof being connected to a remaining last side of said first reinforcing panel, another side opposing to the first side being connected to a remaining side of said second bottom panel, and remaining two sides being connected to remaining side of each side panel for said second pair;

said reinforcing panels being connected each other with a weakened line and having an area surrounded by another weakened line.

5. A packing and displaying carton as claimed in claim 1 wherein said box has a lid dimensioned to cover the top of said box, with end flaps on at least two opposite margins of the central panel of said lid to fold down and cover portions of at least two panels of said box, said central panel of said lid having two spaced weakened lines extending across said lid panel to provide a tear strip to enable opening of said box.

2. A blank plate suitable for election into a packing and displaying carton with two neighboring compartments, which consists of a first section and a second section connected by central two folding lines to said first section and divided from said first section by a cut line formed between the central folding lines, each of said sections comprising a front or rear panel, a half section of both side panels connected to opposite sides of said front or rear panel, and a half section of a bottom panel connected to a remaining side of said front or rear panel;

each half section of said side panel having a flap at a side opposing to the side connected to said front or rear panel and corresponding flaps in each of said first and second sections being made contact with each other to serve as a reinforcing and partitioning member, when said first and second sections are turned by folding same along said central folding lines for election of said blank plate into a carton.

3. The blank plate as claimed in claim 2, wherein each half section of said side panel has another flap at a remaining side opposing to the cut line side, which is to be folded along the side to reinforce the bottom panel.

4. The blank plate as claimed in claim 2 or 3, wherein each half section of said side panel has an area surrounded by a weakened line and a folding line, which is to be turned to hold the reinforcing and partitioning flap when the blank is elected into the carton.