Abstract: This relates to a mailing envelope which may be utilized by one of the express mail services. The envelope is distinguished over existing envelopes by being provided with two closure flaps which permit the envelope to be utilized twice and possibly as a return envelope. In the first usage, the first closure flap is folded to an out of the way position beneath the second closure flap and becomes usable only after the second closure flap has been removed. The envelope also includes a removable label panel to which the second closure flap is initially bonded and is removed with the second closure flap when the envelope is first opened so as to permit the use of the second closure flap in the reclosing of the envelope and also to provide new surface to which mailing instructions, etc. may be applied.

Abstract: A clamshell type carton bottom having integrally connected thereto a domed top with upper portions of side and front panels of the carton bottom defining seats on which there are seated seat members carried by side and front panels of the top and reversely turned so as to slope upwardly and outwardly while the side and front panels slope downwardly and outwardly. Each side panel of the bottom adjacent the front panel of the bottom is provided with a cut line which defines stop means so as to limit the movement of the top into the bottom when the carton is being closed. Further, the bottom front panel is provided with a locking flap which carries a locking tab which engages over the front seat member of the top to lock the top in place relative to the bottom.

Abstract: This relates to a carton for packaging a product which is to be processed in a microwave. The carton includes a top wall which is hinged to a portion of a rear wall and has a glue flap bonded to a removable portion of a front wall. The carton is formed of a delaminatable web with the top wall having transversely spaced score lines in opposite faces thereof whereby the carton is openable by removing the removable portion of the front wall and then peeling a major portion of the top wall from border portions thereof to open the carton. After the product has been removed, the top wall is swingable into the interior of the carton to form a support platform for the product. The support platform is positioned a predetermined distance above the bottom wall of the carton to provide for a maximum efficiency of the heating of the product within a microwave oven.

Abstract: A vending and reclosure device for powder and granular products. The device is formed of two container panels disposed in overlying relation with respect to each other with an inner one of the two panels having dispensing openings therethrough and the outer one of the panels having formed therein a closure flap which is normally initially free at one end and is connected to the outer panel along sides thereof by way of lines of weakening having projecting curved intermediate portions which, when ruptured permit the closure flap to be pivoted at a hinged end thereof out of the plane of the outer panel and away from overlying relation with respect to the dispensing openings in the inner panel. The inner panel is provided with cut lines generally aligned with the lines of weakness. When the closure flap is removed the lines of weakness define curved projections along the opposite sides thereof and the cut lines in the inner panel define shoulders behind which the projections can lock.

Abstract: A carrier for cups. The carrier is formed from a flat blank to have a flat folded state from which it may be readily erected by pressing together on opposite ends. In addition to a base having a bottom, the carrier has an upstanding combined separator and handle. As a result, the upper configuration of the blank is one wherein like blanks in inverted relation and longitudinally shifted may be nested. The nesting may either be a positive nest where there is waste at one end of each of two blanks or two adjacent blanks may be longitudinally and transversely shifted relative to one another to provide a major nesting while having a minimum amount of waste material between two opposed blanks. With this arrangement, the blanks may be formed endlessly in end-to-end relation along an elongated web.

Abstract: An easy set-up tray wherein in addition to the usual well defined by a tray for receiving food products, there is a top panel for receiving other products, including containers for drinks and the like. Each tray is of a one-piece construction and is provided in a substantially flat knocked-down state. When it is desired to erect or set-up the tray, side panels thereof are grasped and pulled apart with the result that the tray automatically erects and is locked in its erected or set-up position. The top panel is connected to the side panels by reversely foldable connecting panels so as to provide for a rigid structure.

Abstract: This relates to providing internal compression in packages of the type utilizing a wrap around carton. Instead of utilizing locking cut outs provided for receiving articles to be packaged, special compression cuts are formed in the closure panels of a wrap around carton so that the compression cuts are independent of the locking cut outs thereby permitting one chain and lug arrangement to be utilized in conjunction with numerous types of packages. The lugs are carried by compression chains located in a plane below the support plane of the articles to be packaged with the lugs being pivotally mounted on pins and normally having downwardly sloping positions for engaging in the compression cuts when the closure flaps are in their generally vertical depending position. The lugs are swingable upwardly to generally horizontal positions with the closure panels. Each lug carries a finger having a nose particularly configurated for automatically entering and centering within a compression cut.

Abstract: This relates to an end structure for a carton, and more particularly to a carton for packaging a light bulb having a projecting base. The end structure is formed of two pairs of end panels, the first pair of end panels including two opposite disposed generally rectangular end panels having slot-like openings therein disposed in angular relation with respect to the connection between the respective end panel and a side wall of the carton. The other pair of end panels are also oppositely disposed and having sloping side edges disposed at a complimentary angle relative to the angle of the openings with respect to the fold line connecting it to the respective side wall. Each of the second end panels has a projecting tab which is lockable within the respective one of the openings.

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: This relates to a clasp lock for interlocking two overlapping closure panels of a carton. The clasp lock is made adjustable to compensate for different sizes of articles being packaged in the same carton. In order to effect the adjustment of the lock between the closure panels, the primary locking tab is of a stepped height and the closure panel carrying the primary locking shoulders is cut so that the primary locking shoulders are also stepped with respect to the free edge of the associated closure panel. In the interlocking of the closure panel portions, the primary locking tab will automatically engage the proper primary locking shoulder in accordance with the objects which are being packaged within the carton.

Abstract: This relates to a lock arrangement particularly adapted for use in locking together closure panels of paper board cartons and the like. The lock arrangement utilizes a conventional basic type of lock including a primary locking tab and a secondary locking tab. The primary locking tab engages in a cutout having as part of its boundary a straight line primary locking shoulder. The new feature of the lock arrangement is an arrangement for receiving the secondary locking tab. This arrangement is in the form of a cut line which will define an opening through the associated closure panel and also define a secondary locking ear for engagement beyond a prong on the secondary locking tab. The closure panel in which the cutout and the cut line are formed is provided adjacent the cut line either with an opening or a hinged locking flap with there being between the cutout and either the opening or the locking flap a narrow strap.

Abstract: A vending and reclosure device for powder and granular products. The device is formed of two container panels disposed in overlying relation with respect to each other with an inner one of the two panels having dispensing openings therethrough and the outer one of the panels having formed therein a closure flap which is normally initially free at one end and is connected to the outer panel along sides thereof by way of zig-zag lines of weakening which, when ruptured permit the closure flap to be pivoted at a hinged end thereof out of the plane of the outer panel and away from overlying relation with respect to the dispensing openings in the inner panel. The inner panel is provided with cut lines generally aligned with the lines of weakness. When the closure flap is removed the lines of weakness define pointed projections along the opposite sides thereof and the cut lines in the inner panel define shoulders behind which the projections can lock.

Abstract: This relates to providing internal compression in packages of the type utilizing a wrap around carton. Instead of utilizing locking cut outs provided for receiving articles to be packaged, special compression cuts are formed in the closure panels of a wrap around carton so that the compression cuts are independent of the locking cut outs thereby permitting one chain and lug arrangement to be utilized in conjunction with numerous types of packages. The lugs are carried by compression chains located in a plane below the support plane of the articles to be packaged with the lugs being pivotally mounted on pins and normally having downwardly sloping positions for engaging in the compression cuts when the closure flaps are in their generally vertical depending position. The lugs are swingable upwardly to generally horizontal positions with the closure panels. Each lug carries a finger having a nose particularly configurated for automatically entering and centering within a compression cut.

Abstract: This relates to a tray which is useful for many purposes and wherein the tray may be shipped in a knocked-down state and is readily erected by an ultimate user manually or automatically. The tray includes a base panel having upstanding side walls which are not connected at their remote ends to one another. The side walls remain in upstanding positions by means of a simple locking flap arrangement. In the original blank state, each side wall is defined along a respective edge of a base panel by an inner sidewall panel and outer sidewall panel, the two sidewall panels being connected together along a fold line and the inner sidewall panel being connected to the base panel along a fold line interrupted at regular intervals by C-shaped caddy cuts. The flat blank is partially erected by the manufacturer by folding the outer sidewall panels beneath the inner sidewall panels and gluing them together in face-to-face relation.

Abstract: This relates to tamper resistant cartons wherein the outermost closure flap is provided with a sealing flap of which at least a portion functions as a tuck flap and which tuck flap passes between a front panel and a terminal inner panel with a tuck flap portion being bonded on its inner surface to the outer surface of the inner terminal panel in an inaccessible position whereby the carton cannot be opened without rupturing the same to the extent that tampering would be apparent.

Abstract: This relates to a closure panel and lock arrangement for cartons of the wrap around type. The customary secondary lock includes at least one, and preferably two, male locking tabs which have a locking projection on one side only of a narrow neck and defining a locking shoulder. The male locking tab is associated with a separate female locking slot in an inner closure panel immediately adjacent its folded connection with a side panel of the carton wherein the female locking slot is formed by a single knife arrangement forming first and second cut lines without the removal of material. The shapes of the cut lines provide for automatic opening of the female locking slot when the inner closure panel is folded relative to an adjacent side panel and there is defined a flexible locking ear which will lock behind the shoulder of the male locking tab.

Abstract: This relates to a flip top box type carton wherein there is a top portion which is rupturable relative to the remainder of the carton so as to permit the top end of the carton to open. The carton, however, is so constructed wherein when reclosed, it is light-tight. The carton is particularly adapted to have received therein an inner carton in which a film package is placed. The carton is of a construction wherein it may be erected in situ around the inner carton containing the film pack. The sides of the carton are so constructed at the lines of rupture therealong wherein inner side panels have projecting portions which both facilitate the reclosing of the carton without hang up of the top portion and also to make the corners light-tight.

Abstract: This relates to a carton for dispensing plastic film wherein the carton is provided on a front wall of the bottom thereof with adhesive to hold the projecting portion of the plastic film in place after a preceding portion had been severed from the roll. In lieu of the customary adhesive spot, there is a printed, registered, continuous film coating of adhesive on the front wall. There is also a resist coating applied to the opposite face of the front wall so that when the carton is in a blank form and recently coated cartons overlie one another, the front panel of one carton not stick to the rear surface of the front panel of the next carton. The release or resist coating is in a pattern whereby when a reinforcing flap carried by the front panel is reversely turned and glued in place, it will stick to the rear surface of the front panel.

Abstract: This relates to a closure panel and lock arrangement for cartons of the wrap around type. There are two features. In lieu of the usual primary lock, an outer closure panel is merely provided with divider tabs which extend through suitable apertures in an inner closure panel and extend between articles disposed in adjacent rows within the carton. The inner closure panel may be provided with a female locking slot for receiving the divider tab. There is a locking arrangement similar to the customary secondary lock and utilizing a male locking member of the usual type.

Abstract: This relates to a lock arrangement for locking together closure panels of cartons, particular cartons of the wrap around type. The lock arrangement includes a primary lock panel which carries a primary lock arrangement including a projecting primary locking tab which is disposed on one side of a semicircular cut out or aperture and wherein there is a locking ear on the opposite side of the aperture. The other closure panel, which is the inner closure panel carries a secondary lock arrangement which includes a secondary locking tab which is connected to the secondary flap along a hinge line and is separated therefrom by an offset partial cut line so as to define a locking shoulder.When the lock arrangement is formed, the primary locking tab is locked behind a shoulder on the inner closure panel defined by the displacement of the secondary flap and the primary locking tab extends through the aperture and is locked behind the locking ear.