Envelopes – wrappers – and paperboard boxes – Paperboard box – Compartmented
Reexamination Certificate
2005-05-17
2005-05-17
Elkins, Gary E. (Department: 3727)
Envelopes, wrappers, and paperboard boxes
Paperboard box
Compartmented
C229S198200, C229S904000, C229S906000, C229S933000, C229S936000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06892932
ABSTRACT:
A blank and carton that provides for efficient, cost-effective, sanitary packaging of food products such as breadsticks, chicken wings, pizza slices, and the like. Structural arrangements include (a) a flap-free side wall with a non-folding front-wall-engagement tab, (b) two mated blanks each having a side wall with a free rear end disposed at an acute angle to a bottom edge of the side wall, (c) a side-wall-locking ancillary panel for retaining a side wall of a carton in an upright position, (d) an article-retaining structure attached to a side wall, (e) three mated blanks each having an article-retaining structure attached to a side wall, with the blanks being matable in two mating relationships and alignable at the ends, (f) a closed carton having an article-retaining structure that's at least partially exposed to view, and (g) an article-retaining structure comprising a cup-holding panel attached to a top edge of a wall and having a hole-opening flap disposed in a downward-extending position and with an edge of the flap disposed in close proximity to the bottom panel, thereby providing support for the cup-holding panel.
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