Abstract: A combined consumer product and discount coupon delivery package, such as an egg carton, having a shallow recess for containing a pack of coupons. The recess is covered by a label cover which has an integral openable access panel to expose the coupons and permit their extraction.

Abstract: A product sleeve blank comprises a number of panels hingedly connected toher. The outside panels have interengagement structure associated therewith. One of the outside panels has a premium card detachably joined to an edge thereof along a perforation line. The sleeve blank is sized so that when this outside panel is folded about its hinge line with the adjacent panel, the premium card overlies a further panel between the hinge lines of that panel. The premium card may be affixed to this further panel and then the premium card detached from the outside panel with which it is associated so that the panels may be hinged and the inter-engagement structure engaged to form a sleeve. The premium card may be readily removed by a consumer by being peeled from the panel to which it is affixed.

Abstract: A box-like cigarette pack includes a lid with a tab that extends below the bottom of the lid. All or part of the tab may be made readily removable by providing a line of weakness between the removable tab and the remainder of the lid. The tab may be printed or embossed with any desired information and may form a coupon or coupon-like article when removed. Until removed, the tab may be somewhat of an impediment to easy removal of cigarettes or reclosure of the pack, thereby prompting the consumer to remove the tab as intended.

Abstract: This invention provides tamper-safety labeling that can easily be applied to a container and closure means to disclose the opening of the container. This labeling is a single piece one that has a generally parallel perforated tear strip and tab formed from the face stock and that allows the tear strip and usually perforated member to be formed and laminated to a release liner having a release thereon at least commensurate with adhesive positioned in the laminate on each side of the tear strip in the face stock. Also, the tear strip may run at any angle from the horizontal plane of the container to permit the tear strip to be removed to present different arrangements of the labeling on the container and may become a product or origin identification for the container.

Abstract: The book holder and books, includes a prismatic container having a cover with a foldable flap and a slot for viewing, a base, two side panels extending between the base and the cover and two end panels connected to the base and the side panels to close the container; a plurality of books accommodated in the container; and a rectangular strip having ends and passing underneath the books and extending over the base and both end panels, the ends of the strip extending beyond the end panels. The flap of the cover, which is insertable between the side panel and the books in the closed container, has a plurality of perforations subdividing it into a plurality of rectangular removable pieces, which are detachable to form bookmarks for the books. The books and/or the container can be of such size and have colors and patterns thereon which match the colors and patterns of a pack and/or of cigarettes to help induce consumers to buy books and to reduce smoking.

Abstract: A box-like cigarette pack has an outer member front wall which initially extends upward toward the top of the cigarettes within the pack. This extension may then continue over the top of the cigarettes in the pack. The outer member front wall is optionally weakened along the line which defines the standard location of the top of the outer member front wall. When the consumer first opens the pack, he or she can remove the extension by tearing or separating along this line of weakening. Thereafter, the pack is like a normal pack. Additional information can be printed on the extension or extensions of the outer member front wall. If provided, the portion which initially extends over the cigarette tops is a convenient size for use as a coupon or the like.

Abstract: A box-like cigarette pack includes an innerframe with a front wall having an initially lower portion which is folded up so that it projects into the cutout conventionally provided in the upper portion of the innerframe front wall. All or part of the folded-up portion may be made readily removable by providing a line of weakness between the removable part and the remainder of the innerframe. The folded-up portion may be printed with any desired information and may form a coupon or coupon-like article when removed. Until removed, the folded-up portion may be somewhat of an impediment to easy removal of cigarettes, thereby prompting the consumer to remove it as intended.

Abstract: A container device that facilitates secondary use of plastic grocery bags of the type having a pair of opposed upper integral straps for use as carrying handles. The container includes a pair of opposed supports for receiving the plastic bag's integral straps. Each one of the opposed pair of supports is made up of a hinged flap portion that is provided with slits in alignment with the hinge axis and that effect receiving respective ones of the integral straps. The flap member is provided with a securement member in the form of hook fastening material that can be secured to a mating securement member in the form of loop fastening material located on the outer surface portion of the container. The mated securement members effect positive support of an internally disposed plastic grocery bags.

Abstract: A retail coupon document contains two coupons which are hidden from a coupon user, the coupons being for different values. The user selects and pulls one of two intersecting pull strips, thereby revealing one of the coupons and destroying the other, depending upon which pull strip is selected. The pull strips are formed by perforated division lines which are so arranged that a downstream portion of each pull strip passes through one of the coupons. Thus, the revealed (non-destroyed) coupon will possess such downstream perforations. The perforated lines are configured such that each pull strip is less resistant to being pulled off in an upstream portion thereof than in a downstream portion thereof. This ensures that the revealed coupon will not be unduly weakened by the presence of perforations therein.

Abstract: A coupon document includes top and bottom paper panels releasably secured together around their peripheral edges. An exposed outer side of the top panel has first and second intersecting perforation lines. A hidden inner side of the bottom panel has first and second overlapping coupons imprinted thereon in a general L-shape such that the document can be folded and torn along either of the perforation lines to reveal one of the coupons and destroy the other coupon. The bottom panel is free of intersecting perforation lines which could weaken the revealed coupon.

Abstract: A package for food products which includes, in combination, a clear container having recloseable means for retaining the food product until it is consumed, and a unitary blank folded to envelope the container which is configured to have first and second ends, securing means to attach the first and second ends to each other thereby resulting in the blank enveloping the clear product carrying container, separating means enabling the opening of the unitary blank, a detachable label secured to the clear container which tears away from the unitary blank when it is opened by the actuation of the separating means, and a window positioned to permitt viewing by the consumer of the recloseable means of the clear container.

Abstract: An integral, detachable, promotional coupon is formed, at least in part, by a hinged tuck flap extending from an inner major end-closure flap of a carton. The coupon may be confined to the hinged tuck flap or it may extend onto a portion of the inner major flap. The hinged tuck flap may be folded down into the carton in a vertical position, perpendicular to the inner major flap or it may be folded back upon the inner major flap in a horizontal position between the inner and outer major flaps. The top major flap may be glued to the inner major flap without affecting the detachable coupon.

Abstract: A carton made from a planar blank by gluing a glue tab hingedly connected to one panel to the inner surface of the adjacent panel. A coupon is hingedly connected to the glue tab by a tear line. Thus, at least a portion of the coupon makes planar abutting contact with the inner surface of the panel to which the glue tab is glued.

Abstract: A wrap-around carrier to package a linear series of gable-top liquid cartons is formed from a one piece paperboard blank conformed so that an end flap will cover a major area of an end of the erected carrier to inhibit damage, loss, or pilferage of an object such as a straw temporarily secured to an otherwise exposed side of a contained carton.The top panel is provided with a longitudinally running tear strip, conveniently wide enough to form a returnable card or a coupon, the coupon provided with advertising or other indicia on one or both of its surfaces.

Abstract: By providing prize award holding means cooperatingly associated with a container shell which is closed in the conventional mammer, a container assembly is achieved for randomly distributing prize awards to consumers in association with any liquid, semi-liquid, wet or moist product, without fear of consumer detection of the prize bearing containers. In accordance with the present invention, the container assembly may incorporate the actual product along with the prize award or may comprise a simulated product container bearing the prize award without the actual product, but being completely indistinguishable from non-prize bearing, product-holding containers.

Abstract: By providing a prize award holder cooperatingly associated with a container shell which is closed in the conventional manner, a container assembly is achieved for randomly distributing prize awards to consumers in association with any liquid, semi-liquid, wet or moist product, without fear of consumer detection of the prize bearing containers. In accordance with the present invention, the container assembly may incorporate the actual product along with the prize award or may comprise a simulated product container bearing the prize award without the actual product, but being completely indistinguisable from non-prize bearing, product-holding containers.

Abstract: There is disclosed a packaging comprising a pocket made of sheet material, the pocket defining an enclosure for holding merchandise and having at least one sealed edge. One or more detachable compartments are formed by extensions of the sheet material beyond the at least one sealed edge. A seal along at least one edge of the extensions closes the compartment. A promotional message is carried by the detachable compartment, and a perforation line extends parallel to the at least one sealed edge of the pocket on each compartment side thereof to make the compartment detachable from the pocket by a consumer. The extensions are folded back towards the sealed edge to form at least one sheet of the sheet material enclosed by the compartment. The pocket remains functional when the compartment is detached.

Abstract: Paper stock is unwound, printed, folded, laminated and cut to form inserts. The laminated inserts are applied to an overwrap at an appropriately spaced interval. The resultant overwrap can then be wrapped around cigarette packs to provide each pack with an insert without slowing down production.

Abstract: Laminated packaging material includes a corrugated inner ply, a paperboard outer ply having a detachable coupon portion outlined with a perforated die cut, an adhesive between facing surfaces of the outer ply and the corrugated inner ply for adhering the facing surfaces to one another, and an adhesion-preventing agent on the detachable coupon portion of the facing surface of the outer ply for preventing adhesion of the detachable coupon portion to the corrugated inner ply. The laminated packaging material may be manufactured according to a first sequence of steps wherein the adhesion preventing agent is applied to the detachable coupon before the detachable coupon is outlined with a perforated die cut, and the adhesive is applied only to the corrugated inner ply.

Abstract: There is disclosed herein a window-style bag which includes a removable coupon overlying and a transparent window-forming area where the consumer may view the contents of the bag. The coupon section overlies the transparent window-forming film and the bag aperture which forms the window. The coupon is intended for removal, and when so removed, the window viewing area is opened or enlarged, and the bag's structural integrity is substantially unaffected. In practice, the viewing section may be polygonal but is usually rectangular, but the coupon may be secured along two, three or four sides to the bag.

Abstract: A wrap around body either in the form or of an actual cup or a label applied to a container is made from a paper blank which wraps around itself for more than 360.degree. providing a main body portion and an overlap portion. The wrap around body includes first and second spaced apart secured regions where the blank is secured to itself. The first secured region defines a free end on the overlap portion and the second secured region is located inwardly away from the free end of the overlap portion. The first secured region is releaseable under force thereby providing a liftable flap back to the second secured region. This liftable flap is useable for a number of different functions. It may itself be a coupon or a number of coupons and removable from the remainder of the wrap around body or it may be used to hide prize winning information provided either on the undersurface of the flap or on the body normally covered by the flap.

Abstract: There is provided herein a bag construction of multi-ply construction wherein a pair of inner and outer plies form a front panel, a back panel, and a pair of side panels each joined to the front and back panels, and bottom panel joined to each of the front, back and side panels. An open top provides for access to the interior of the bag and access to a primary compartment. The improvement comprises only the outer ply of the front panel being die cut along a first edge and perforated along the second, third and fourth edges so as to form a secondary pocket for insertion of the items into the bag and so that a coupon-like section can be removed along the die cut and perforations so as to form an integral but removable coupon-like section. In another embodiment the coupon-like section includes a plurality of smaller removable sections separated by perforation lines.

Abstract: A shopping organizer device is set forth providing a receptacle formed with a rigid forward and rear wall, and communicating spaced parallel pleated accordion side walls with an associated pleasted bottom wall including a series of dividers container therewithin wherein each divider includes an upwardly extending tab of a first dimension to receive category labels thereon. A plurality of spaced abutment portions are positioned at each end of the upper portion of the forward wall and are of a height equal to the first dimension and are received within spaced ears secured to an interior surface of a pivoted lid to rigidly and securely orient a lid relative to the forward wall and provide a portable and secure organization when not in use.

Abstract: A coupon organizer for organizing and transporting coupons to a grocery store is formed from a box-shaped rectangular housing having a hinged cover. A latch mechanism is provided for securing the cover in a closed position and a carrying handle is mounted on an upper exterior surface of the cover. A plurality of spaced hook and loop fastening members on an interior surface of the cover removably secure various coupon accessory items including folding scissors, note pads, a writing instrument and a calculator. In a second embodiment of the invention, a retractable waste receptacle is pivotally mounted on an exterior surface of the housing and is secured in an operative position by a pivotal thumb latch.

Abstract: A carton formed from a carton blank in which an end closure comprises at least three flaps hingedly connected to the carton front, back, and side walls, including the major flaps opposite one another and a minor flap having printing or other marking thereon for detachment as a coupon or for the commercial use. The minor flap carrying the printing or marking extends a substantial distance into the end closure opening.

Abstract: A carton structure for use in forming a lined carton wherein an insert is retained and positioned between the carton blank and the liner so as to permit removal thereof without opening the liner.

Abstract: In a carton a premium card is formed integrally with a glue flap of the carton along a weakened tear line so that it extends within the container space of the carbon in a face-to-face relationship with respect to an adjacent side wall. The premium card has a glue tab connected thereto at a point remote from the glue flap. The glue tab is adhesively secured to the inner face of the adjacent side wall of the carton to retain the card in an intimate face-to-face relationship with respect to the adjacent side wall. The card is detachable by tearing along weakened tear lines which connect it to the glue tab and the glue flap so as to be removable.

Abstract: The present invention sets forth an adapter for filter cartridges and a mating cartridge which provides sealing means between the cartridge and the adapter and sealing means between the adapter and a filter head to which it is to be installed, and means for installing the adapter on a cartridge and for installing the adapter in the filter head with an aligning and locking means that ensures that all parts are appropriately positioned for proper function and at the same time will prevent physical disengagement and/or a break in the flow path from the cartridge to the filter head when the cartridge and adapter are properly installed in the filter head.

Abstract: A foldable display tab is disclosed which is readily adhered to the removable top section of the plastic overwrap of a package. The display is folded flat for shipment, is movable to an upstanding position for point-of-sale display and is easily removable by the consumer after sale by tearing off the top portion of the overwrap without affecting the integrity of the remaining overwrap. The display tab carries a commerical message highly visible when standing up.

Abstract: Packaging article comprising a form having at least one straight side for identification data to be provided thereon and an envelope attached to the straight side of the form. The envelope is internally liquid proof and has an open side and an interior for containing an article or mass therein. A self adhesive seal is provided at the open side for enabling the envelope to be manually closed at the open side so as to make the interior liquid tight after location of an article or mass therein.

Abstract: A carrier device for unitizing a plurality of containers comprising annular bands defining a plurality of apertures generally arranged in ranks and rows. Annular bands defining adjacent pairs of apertures in a given row being integrally connected by webs and bands defining apertures in a given rank being integrally connected by spaced webs. Spaced webs present margins defining spaces. The tab is connected to a marginal portion of one side of the space by non-detachable means and is frangibly connected to a marginal portion of an opposite side of the space by frangible or detachable means.

Abstract: This invention is a box including several sets of index strips, each strip indicated with the name of a different food or non-food item, and snap-on indicators that clip on selected ones of the index strips, to indicate items needed to purchase.

Abstract: This relates to a food scoop having a false bottom defining in the bottom portion of the scoop a hidden chamber in which a prize or the like may be hidden. The construction of the scoop is such that it may be supplied in a completed folded state and may be easily erected at the site. Further, the hidden compartment is accessible as the scoop is being erected so that the selected prizes, etc. may be inserted into the compartment before the compartment moves into the bottom of the scoop. One of the sides of the scoop is provided with an easy opening feature so that access may be had to the hidden compartment by the purchaser of the product.

Abstract: A paper cup or similar disposable thin-walled fluid container with a removable or pop-out portion in its sidewall containing redemption information is disclosed wherein the pop-out portion is formed by a series of surrounding perforations in the sidewall, which perforations are sealed against fluid leakage by being filled with the protective material, such as wax, that is used to coat the sidewall to protect it against the fluid in the container. The perforations may outline an integral portion of the sidewall or when the redemption indicia is to be obscured, separate portions at the opposite edges of the sidewall blank may be outlined, which portions will cooperate to form the pop-out portion as part of the sidewall seam when the edges are overlapped and joined. In the latter instance, the perforations extend into the sidewall beyond the limits of the seam so that an opening will occur in the sidewall when the pop-out portion or a part thereof is removed to view the prize indicating indicia.

Abstract: An improved egg carton comprising a container having a plurality of cup-shaped receptacles aligned in a plurality of rows, each of which are conformed to and adapted to receive a vertically positioned egg. A plurality of posts are positioned between the rows of eggs. The carton also includes a pair of upper sidewalls integrally hinged along hinge lines on opposite sides of the container. The upper sidewalls are normally biased toward a substantially horizontal position to permit eggs to be placed in the receptacles. The upper sidewalls have a sufficient length to extend at least to the outer edge of the first and last eggs in the rows of eggs and have a height sufficient to extend above the upper ends of the eggs when the upper sidewalls are aligned in a vertical position. A hot sealant is applied to the hinge lines, causing the upper sidewalls to remain in the vertical position. A clear plastic film is forced over and around upper portions of the eggs extending out of the container.

Abstract: A carton construction for containing and dispensing an insert is disclosed. The insert is attached to the interior surface of a partially detachable tab. The insert so positioned can be removed from the container without destroying the integrity of the carton or disturbing its contents.

Abstract: Two master sets of seven seventh cut cards having labels denoting major grocery categories thereon. Fourteen subsets of physically smaller cards. Each subset has seven seventh cut cards with labels denoting grocery subcategories and each subset being related to one major card. In a given set each master card may be a different color. The subset cards are preferably the same color as the associated master card.One set of master cards and associated subset cards may be placed in one pocket of a purse and the other cards in another other pocket of the same purse.