International Paper Company

Paul D Richardson

Jonathan T Beales

A package for a plurality of thin walled, nested and stacked thin walled plastic tub containers and their tops. A paperboard carton is provided with an opening in its bottom panel through which the lower part of the nested stack of tubs extends. In use, the consumer opens two main roof panels, removes the desired number of tubs and tops, then reinserts the remaining nested tubs and tops back into the carton. The consumer then fastens the free ends of the two roof panels together by means of a tongue and slit latching arrangement. The two roof panels are initially held together by adhesive, the adhesive force being broken upon initial opening of the carton roof.

Nested container package

A wrap-around carrier to package a linear series of gable-top liquid cartons is formed from a one piece paperboard blank conformed so that an end flap will cover a major area of an end of the erected carrier to inhibit damage, loss, or pilferage of an object such as a straw temporarily secured to an otherwise exposed side of a contained carton. The top panel is provided with a longitudinally running tear strip, conveniently wide enough to form a returnable card or a coupon, the coupon provided with advertising or other indicia on one or both of its surfaces.

Gable top carton wrapper

A one piece paperboard carton blank is folded into a rectangular shape for packaging and dispensing from a roll of individual plastic bags, particularly disposable milk bottles for feeding babies. The carton has a double wall front part which includes an inner top rigidly supporting a tab protruding in a direction opposite to the direction of withdrawal of bags from the roll. When a first plastic bag is withdrawn it starts to pull out a succeeding bag to which it is removably attached along a line of perforations. When the center of the perforated edge of the succeeding bag is impaled on the tab, further withdrawal of the succeeding bag is restrained and the first bag is readily separated to facilitate its dispensing and to place the leading edge of the succeeding bag where it may be easily reached for withdrawal.

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Cincinnati, OH, United States of America

Paul D Richardson