Abstract: In the manufacture of a package used to hold liquids, wherein the package has a perforated or punched-out rip-out opening or a point at which a drinking straw can be inserted, wherein a cardboard web is coated on one or both sides, printed and processed into packages, the improvement which comprises advancing the web past a station prior to coating, and at such station punching or perforating the web at predetermined intervals at predetermined points while simultaneously applying to or impressing into the web register marks, whereby such register marks serve to ensure proper location of the subsequently applied print relative to the punched or perforated points. This differs from prior processes in that it involves perforating the cardboard web prior to both coating and printing, and thus is a simpler process resulting in a superior product.

Abstract: In a cardboard blank for a gas-tight and liquid-tight folding box, especially one printed externally, carrying on the cardboard surface which is to be the inside of the box a full-surface layer of heat-sealable plastic, the improvement which comprises an additional plastic layer positioned between the full-surface plastic layer and the cardboard, the additional layer being provided only over portions of the surface including the seam areas, the thickness of the full-surface plastic layer together with the local additional plastic layer being sufficient for tight, hot-sealed seams. The additional layer can be hot melt printed onto the cardboard, before application of the full-surface layer, at the same time the cardboard is printed and/or die cut. By providing the additional layer only in critical areas such as seams or fold lines, a thinner full-surface layer can be provided with an overall economy of plastic.