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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 2003
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2000
Edward John Giblin, Hopatcong, NJ (US);
Corinne Saso, Ridgefield Park, NJ (US);
Jeannine Desmond Griffiths, Kinnelon, NJ (US);
Richard Chalmers, Crystal Lake, MI (US);
Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc., Greenwich, CT (US);
Abstract
Tablets and other relatively fragile consumer products can be transported in a carton with little or no compromise to their integrity by providing bottom flaps of the carton with slits for cushioning the carton. Preferably, at least two adjacent flaps include the slits. Instead of slits, perforated lines or non-linear lines can be used. However, in a preferred embodiment, the carton is a corrugated carton and the slits run parallel to the lines of corrugation. More preferably, the corrugation includes troughs and the slits are imposed in the fiberboard parallel to and opposite the troughs of the corrugations.