Abstract: An egg packer with the eggs picked up from a slotted conveyor by a conveyor of rollers having pockets formed between each of the rollers and an adjacent parallel rod, carried up an incline while being rolled and travelling toward its small end, and contacting a guide tongue as it goes over the top of the roller conveyor which guide retards the large end of the egg causing it to pass point down into a retainer for transfer to a clam-shell transfer means which shuttles the egg between the retainer and a receiving pocket therebelow, while adjusting the horizontal spacing between eggs during their descent to the receiving pockets.

Abstract: Carton construction comprising an outer sleeve member and at least one inner tray member adapted to be inserted within the outer sleeve member to provide an assembled container and closure. Each of the inner and outer members being formed from separate blanks of pasteboard or like material provided with a finished and/or printed surface on one side of each of the blanks and an unfinished surface on the opposite side of the blanks. Each of the inner and outer members in the respective assembled condition thereof having no exposed or visible raw edges along the exterior thereof.

Abstract: A carton for dispensing sheet material having a cutting edge formed on the edge of the carton blank and folded in the closed carton with the cutting edge protected by the tear strip, until said tear strip is removed, though protruding over a carton edge in the path of the sheet material.The cutting edge is formed by treating with an indurating agent or application of a polystyrene strip.