B65D5/5445

PACKAGING
20200262606 · 2020-08-20 ·

A display carton includes a base tray having upstanding front, side and rear walls and a cover which is detachably connected to the base tray along lines of weakness. The cover includes an inner front wall positioned above the front wall of the base tray and an outer front wall which is provided by a distal end of a forwardly extending lid of the cover. The inner front wall comprises left and right portions which are connected together by a line of weakness. A bottom end of the outer front wall is tucked into a slot formed between a bottom edge of the inner front wall and a top edge of the front wall of the base tray.

Shelf-ready shipper display system

A shelf-ready shipper display system having a tray portion, a hood portion, and one or more zones of weakness that enable the hood portion to be separated from the tray portion so that the shipper display system can be converted from a shipping configuration to a display configuration. In certain embodiments, the shipper display system is made from a single blank. In some embodiments, the shipper display system includes a reinforcement panel that is also capable of being separated from the tray portion as the shipper display system is converted from the shipping configuration and to the display configuration.

TEAR OPEN PACKAGE ASSEMBLY AND METHOD
20200247578 · 2020-08-06 ·

A tear open container as shown and described herein. The tear open container may include a plurality of panels including a rear, left, front, right, top, bottom and include a dieline including perforations to allow a user to separate the container into a top portion and a bottom portion. The remaining bottom portion may be configured to store and display articles, such as binders, on a shelf. The top portion may be discarded. A tab and pull flap may be defined by the dieline and allow the user to easily remove the top portion from the bottom portion. The user may depress the tab to grasp the pull flap and perforate the remaining portions along the dieline.

MULTIVARIABLE PERFORATED ADJUSTABLE HEIGHT BOX
20200223578 · 2020-07-16 ·

A multivariable perforated adjustable height box is provided with improved folding, bending, and separation of adjacent panels. The multivariable perforated adjustable height box may include a box, columns, rows, glue tabs, column scores, row scores, perforations, cuts, skips, and bundle breakers. Perforation patterns may be irregular, angled, shifted, or otherwise configured to increase usability, strength, and/or other aspects of the packaging. A method to produce a packaging device with improved folding, bending, and separation of adjacent panels using the multivariable perforated adjustable height box is also provided.

CONVERTIBLE SHELF-READY SHIPPING CONTAINER
20200223581 · 2020-07-16 ·

A shelf-ready shipping container, including a cardboard shipping box, the cardboard shipping box including a base tray, a removable top formed continuously with the base tray, a tear strip disposed at an interface of the base tray and the removable top, where tearing away the tear strip separates the removable top from the base tray. The base tray includes a bottom panel and sidewall panels, where the base tray is separable into a first shelf-display tray and a second shelf-display tray along an interface between the first shelf-display tray and the second shelf-display tray, where the interface is defined by a weakened portion of the base tray.

CARTON WITH REMOVABLE TOP PORTION
20200207508 · 2020-07-02 ·

A carton having a removable top portion is described herein, with the carton having a front panel, a rear panel opposite the front panel, and first and second side panels each extending between the front and rear panels. A pattern of panel lines of weakness extends about the front, rear, first side and second side panels and is configured to be ruptured to permit a top portion of the carton to be at least partially removed. The pattern includes a pair of diverging lines of weakness in each of the first side and second side panels. The diverging lines of weakness each are closer together toward a front of the carton as compared to the rear of the carton such that a greater force is required to rupture the pair of diverging lines of weaknesses in each of the first side and second side panels adjacent the rear side panel as compared to adjacent the front side panel.

Shipping and display carton, blank and associated method
10696447 · 2020-06-30 · ·

A combination shipping carton and display stand contains a number of items such as pouches, bags, containers or products to be displayed for retail sale, distribution or other purposes. The carton serves as a shipping container for transport and/or storage of the products. When the products are to be displayed for retail sale or distribution, an upper shipping portion of the carton is removed by tear strips to expose the products in a display stand. The products are arranged and maintained in an orderly fashion by a pair of wedges inside of the carton and formed by the carton material to cant the products for enhanced display to the consumer.

Carton with integral display tag
10696445 · 2020-06-30 · ·

A blank for a carton includes: a sheet of material defining a plurality of panels separated by a plurality of fold lines, the panels defining an enclosure including first perforation lines which demarcate a separation of the enclosure into a lower portion and an upper portion; the panels within the lower portion defining an open-top enclosure; and the upper portion including second perforation lines defining a display tag.

Product Engagement Packaging System, Display, and Method

A method of providing a convertible packaging having a storage configuration and a display configuration is described herein. The package is made from a package blank having panels adhesively engaged together to form the package. The assembled package having an interior defined by a plurality of walls within which a plurality of product containers may be stored and eventually displayed. The bottom and/or two opposing walls of the package have a pattern of discrete material depositions adhesively deposited thereon. The depositions each have a height as measured from the wall that they are mounted upon. The presence and height of the opposing depositions providing a mechanical engagement surface against which an adjacent product container is biased or held against, to prevent the product container from falling forward or out of the package when the package is in the display configuration, even as individual product containers are removed from the package by customers.

Method and Apparatus for Collateral Use of Bottle Packaging
20200180844 · 2020-06-11 · ·

In a box system for storing bottles therein that includes a box, at least one longitudinal divider sheet and at least one latitudinal divider sheet. The divider sheets are divided into a plurality of coaster units. Each coaster unit is printed with collateral branding indicia. The coaster units are separated by visually perceptible separation lines, which may be perforated to facilitate separation of the coaster units so that when the coaster units are separated they are usable as drink coasters. The box may also be printed with coaster units.