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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 1996
Filed:
Feb. 02, 1995
Scott P Wuerfel, Memphis, TN (US);
Ring Can Corporation, Memphis, TN (US);
Abstract
A composite package including a plastic bottle mounted in an outer paperboard box. The bottle has a pouring spout adjacent its front wall and an elongated handle extending from the pouring spout to its rear wall. The box includes a top end flap assembly having minor side flaps and front and rear flaps which fold over onto the side flaps. The minor flaps include front cutout sections which provide clearance around the spout and rearward portions having full bearing support areas extending from the cutout section to the rear wall, the bearing support areas resting directly on top of the handle of the bottle to provide load bearing support for the flaps during the gluing process. The side minor flaps also include elongated slots extending generally parallel to and alongside the handle and the rear flap has laterally spaced elongated slots which overlie the slots in the side flaps to provide cooperating hand openings on both sides of the bottle handle so that the handle may be grasped and liquid may be poured from the bottle through the spout.