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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 13, 1989
Filed:
Sep. 26, 1988
Prentice J Wood, Hapeville, GA (US);
The Mead Corporation, Dayton, OH (US);
Abstract
A heavy duty carrying handle for a can carton formed from a unitary blank and which includes interconnected bottom, top and side walls together with end closure structure and wherein the top wall is of double ply construction having inner and outer panels, the handle having a transverse elongated opening formed in the inner panel and having spaced apart side edges, a pair of transverse fold lines formed in the outer panel in near coincidence with the side edges of the transverse elongated opening, a pair of transverse handle flaps struck from the outer panel and respectively joined thereto along the transverse fold lines, the transverse handle flaps having coincidental transverse edges defined by a transverse perforated slit along which the handle flaps are separable to accommodate inward folding of the handle flaps through the transverse elongated opening.