Carton and blank and method of forming the carton from a blank

• US 5,097,958 A
• Filed: 10/19/1990
• Issued: 03/24/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 10/19/1990
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fold-Pak Corporation (The Westervelt Company, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Somerville Packaging
• Inventors: Arnold, Sherry, Josephs, Patricia
• Primary Examiner(s): Marcus, Stephen
• Assistant Examiner(s): MCDONALD, CHRISTOPHER
• Application Number:
  US07/599,982
• Time in Patent Office: 522 Days
• Field of Search: 229/160, 229/145, 229/905, 206/608, 206/611, 206/615, 206/626, 206/624
• US Class Current: 229/227
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2301/10 Blanks mutually positioned to minimise waste material upon cutting out the individual blank from a continuous or large sheet
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/5435 and defining after rupture a lid hinged to the side edge of the container body
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 229/905 Frozen food

Abstract

A blank and carton and method of carton construction for packaging ice cream or the like. The blank includes a front, bottom, rear, cover and closure flap hingedly connected in the order named. Each front bottom rear cover and closure flap includes right and left end flaps hingedly connected to its respective panel. Membrane flaps are hingedly connected to the right and left end flaps of the bottom panel for forming a lip when the carton is constructed to prevent the accidental escape of liquid from the interior of the carton.

Claims

1. A blank for forming a carton for packaging ice cream or the like comprising:

a) connected cover, front, bottom and rear panels;

b) said cover and bottom panels having front, rear, left and right edges;

c) said front and rear panels having each having top, bottom, left and right edges;

d) a closure flap hingedly connected to said front edge of said cover panel;

e) said rear panel being hingedly connected at its top edge to said rear edge of said cover panel;

f) said bottom panel being hingedly connected at its rear edge to said bottom edge of said rear panel;

g) said front panel being hingedly connected at its bottom edge to said front edge of said bottom panel;

h) said panels each including left and right end flaps connected to said left and right edges respectively forming hinge lines therebetween;

i) said left and right end flaps including top, bottom, rear and front edges;

j) said left end flaps being dimensioned such that when folded, the left end of the carton is substantially sealed;

k) said right end flaps being dimensioned such that when folded, the right end of the carton is substantially sealed;

l) a closure panel connected to said cover panel;

m) said closure panel including top, bottom, left and right edges;

n) said closure panel being connected along its top edge to said front edge of said cover panel;

o) said closure panel including left and right end glue tabs hingedly connected to its left and right edges and a tear strip extending across said closure panels and parallel to said top edge of said closure panel;

p) said left and right end tabs including extensions spaced laterally from said closure flap for providing a larger adhesive application surface area, and

g) wherein said tear strip includes a top edge and a bottom edge and said extensions terminate between said top edge and said bottom edge of said tear strip.