Package With Easy Access Opening

• US 20110049143A1
• Filed: 08/26/2010
• Published: 03/03/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 08/26/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Graphic Packaging International Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Graphic Packaging International Incorporated
• Inventors: Sohoni, Priyamvada, Woodham, L. Roseann
• Granted Patent: US 8,998,069 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 220/6
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/36 specially constructed to allow collapsing and re-erecting without disengagement of side or bottom connections
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/70 Break-in flaps, or members adapted to be torn-off, to provide pouring openings B65D5/74 takes precedence

Abstract

The present package is formed from a bag construct that entirely surrounds a blank construct and that can be folded from a flat configuration to a carton configuration. The blank construct has five sides, including four sides and a bottom side, and an open top. The bag construct surrounds all four sides, the bottom, and the open top. The package includes a dispensing flap that provides access to contents, and the dispensing flap can be hinged about a hinge line or that can be removed entirely from the package. Any variance in density of product in the package can be accommodated by the stiff, yet flexible, sides of the package.

Claims

1. A package comprising:

a first construct formed of a first material;

a second construct formed of second material;

the second construct being attached to a first portion of the first construct;

the second construct being foldable to define interior sides and a bottom of the package and the first construct being foldable to define a top, exterior sides, and an exterior surface of the bottom of the package; and

,

a dispensing flap defined by a first tear line and a second tear line in the top and by a third tear line and a fourth tear line in one side of the sides;

wherein the dispensing flap is separable along the first tear line, the second tear line, the third tear line, and the fourth tear line; and

wherein the dispensing flap can be hinged to allow the dispensing flap to be opened and reclosed.

2. The package of claim 1 wherein a hinge line is disposed in the top.

3. The package of claim 2 wherein the hinge line is along and collinear with the fold line connecting the top and a second side of the package.

4. The package of claim 2 wherein the dispensing flap is removable from the package along the hinge line.

5. The package of claim 1 wherein the first construct entirely surrounds the second construct.

6. The package of claim 1 wherein the dispensing flap comprises a substantial entirety of the top.

7. A method of forming a carton, the method comprising:

providing a blank construct and a bag construct, the blank construct including a series of sides connected along fold lines to a bottom, the blank construct at least partially connected along a plurality of the series of sides to the bag construct, with at least one side of the blank construct not being connected to the bag construct, wherein the bag construct surrounds the blank construct;

folding the blank construct and bag construct from a flat configuration to a carton configuration, wherein the folding comprises positioning the plurality of sides of the blank construct substantially perpendicular the bottom side, with two of the sides being substantially parallel; and

,

closing the carton by (1) folding the at least one side substantially perpendicular the bottom side, and then (2) folding the bag construct in a closed configuration.

8. The method of claim 7 wherein the bag construct includes a dispensing flap defined by at least one tear line.

9. The method of claim 8 wherein the four sides of the blank construct, when folded in the carton configuration, define an open top, and wherein the dispensing flap includes at least a section of one of the series of sides and at least a section of the open top.

10. The method of claim 7 wherein the blank construct is adhered to the bag construct.

11. A package comprising:

a blank construct attached to an interior of a bag construct;

the blank construct including a first blank side, a second blank side, a third blank side, and a fourth blank side, each connected along fold lines to a bottom blank side;

the bag construct including a first bag side, a second bag side, a third bag side, and a fourth bag side, each connected along fold lines to a bottom bag side;

the bottom blank side being connected to the first bag side and the first blank side being connected to the bottom bag side;

wherein the first blank side, the second blank side, the third blank side, and the fourth blank side are configurable in a carton configuration (1) to each be perpendicular to the bottom blank side and (2) to form an open top covered by the fourth bag side.

12. The package of claim 11 wherein the blank construct and bag construct are connected by an adhesive.

13. The package of claim 11 wherein at least a portion of the second blank side and the third blank side are connected to the second bag side and the third bag side.

14. The package of claim 11 wherein the bag construct includes a dispensing flap.

15. The package of claim 14 wherein the dispensing flap is defined by at least one tear line that extends into the second bag side and into the fourth bag side.

16. The package of claim 14 wherein the dispensing flap includes the substantial entirety of the fourth bag side.

17. The package of claim 16 wherein the dispensing flap can be hinged about a fold line.

18. The package of claim 16 wherein the dispensing flap is entirely separable from the package.