Shipper and display carton

• US 6,729,475 B2
• Filed: 02/14/2002
• Issued: 05/04/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 12/05/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
• Original Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
• Inventors: Yuhas, Andrew, Plante, Len La, Beer, Leonard
• Primary Examiner(s): Yu, Mickey
• Assistant Examiner(s): PICKETT, JOHN G
• Application Number:
  US10/075,420
• Publication Number:
  US 20020070145A1
• Time in Patent Office: 810 Days
• Field of Search: 206/746, 206/738, 206/739, 206/745, 206/747, 206/749, 206/750, 229/120.03, 229/120.08, 229/120.11, 229/120.011, 229/120.17, 229/120.13, 229/120.18, 229/240, 229/242, 493/310
• US Class Current: 206/746
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/52 External stands or display elements for contents
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/542 the lines of weakness being provided in the container body
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/5495 for separating interconnected containers

Abstract

The carton can be used both as a shipper carton and a display carton. The carton comprises two or more channels for containing products. The channels can be opened to maintain the integrity of the carton for use as a display carton by maintaining the integrity of the base wall, but with the removal of substantially all of the top wall of each channel and a significant portion of the sidewalls of each channel. The remaining part of the sidewalls, a rear wall and the base provide the structure for the use of the carton as a display carton. If used as a shipper, a tear strip on the base wall is removed and the carton fully opened and emptied. The carton is made from a unique carton blank and a unique folding of the panels of the blank to make the carton. In particular the abutting walls of the channels are of a unique structure with each having a separate sidewall and these separate sidewalls not connected to the base wall.

Claims

1. A shipper/display carton blank for producing a shipper/display carton having separate product channels comprising a contiguous blank comprised in a longitudinal dimension of a base panel, a first channel sidewall panel attached to said base panel, a first channel top panel attached to said first channel sidewall panel, a first channel other sidewall panel attached to said first channel top panel, a second channel sidewall panel attached to said first channel other sidewall panel, a second channel top panel attached to said second channel sidewall panel, and a second channel other sidewall panel attached to said second panel top wall panel, each of said panels having at least one flap on each transverse end, said base panel having a tear strip about medially transversely across said base panel, and a null tab on said first channel top panel, said null tab comprising score lines extending into said first channel sidewall panel and said first channel other sidewall panel.

2. A shipper/display carton blank as in claim 1, wherein said carton blank has a longitudinal dimension and said base panel has a glue flap on a longitudinal end of said carton blank.

3. A shipper/display carton blank as in claim 1 including a pull tab on said second channel top panel, said pull tab score lines extending onto said second channel sidewall panel and said second channel other sidewall panel.

4. A method of forming a shipper/display carton comprising:

providing a carton blank including in a contiguous array a base panel, a first channel sidewall panel, a substantially removable first channel top panel, a first channel other sidewall panel, a second channel sidewall panel, a substantially removable second channel top panel and a second channel other sidewall panel said base panel having a transverse glue flap on a side opposite said first channel sidewall panel;

folding said first channel sidewall panel upwardly at an angle of about 90°

to said base panel, said top panel outwardly at an angle of about 90°

to said first channel sidewall panel, and said first channel other sidewall panel downwardly at an angle of about 90°

to said first channel top panel to a position adjacent to said base panel to form a first channel of said shipper/display carton;

folding said second channel sidewall panel upwardly at a fold at an angle of about 90°

to said base panel, said second channel top panel outwardly at an angle of about 90°

to said second channel sidewall panel and said second channel other sidewall panel downwardly at an angle of about 90°

to said second channel top panel to a position adjacent said base panel to form a second channel of said shipper/display carton; and

attaching said transverse glue flap to said second channel other sidewall panel to form a first channel and a second channel of said shipper and display carton.

5. A method of forming a shipper/display carton as in claim 4 comprising forming a score line on said first channel top panel extending at least partially down and across said first channel sidewall panel and said first channel other sidewall panel, and forming a score line on said second channel top panel extending at least partially down and across said second channel sidewall panel and said second channel other sidewall panel.

6. A method of forming a shipper/display carton as in claim 5 herein each panel has attached flaps and comprising overlapping and adhesively sealing adjacent flaps to close said carton.