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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 1989
Filed:
Feb. 01, 1988
Frank J Weber, St. Louis, MO (US);
Ralston Purina Company, St. Louis, MO (US);
Abstract
A carton for packaging a wide variety of dry frangible materials preferably formed from a unitary blank of foldable sheet material comprising respective pairs of opposed major and minor sidewall panels, a glue panel foldably joined to one of the major sidewall panels having a pouring opening formed therein, a plurality of closure flaps foldably joined to the upper and lower end portions of each of the respective sidewall panels, all of the respective panels and closure flaps being foldably joined to each other to form a carton assembly, a movable closure member attached to one of the minor sidewall panels adjacent the top end portion thereof and adaptable to overlap the pouring opening when the respective panels are foldably joined together, the closure member being initially secured to the glue panel adjacent the pouring member, a tab member mounted for rotational movement adjacent the lower end portion of the closure member, a plurality of partial die cuts associated with the rear surfaces of the closure member for initially separating the closure member from adjacent the pouring opening when a pulling force is exerted on the tab member, the closure member being thereafter movable between a closed position covering the pouring opening and an open position angularly related thereto allowing access to such opening for product removal, the tab member being frictionally engageable with the pouring opening when the closure member is reposition to its closed position.