Abstract: A package or container for articles of merchandise of generally rectangular shape, having four sides and two ends, in which one or more of the sides are formed of any transparent material extending across the full width and length of the box or container, thereby rendering the entire contents of the container visible, the remainder of the container being formed of any suitable material such as conventional cardboard materials or the like, or board, paper, plastic, foil, or even wholly of transparent materials.In addition a package is disclosed having novel end closure means which is characterized by an absence of any inturned closure flap thereby leaving the interior of the package free of any obstruction, and also having endwise extensions exteriorly of the package.

Abstract: The articles are enclosed in pockets, formed and sealed in plastic windows, of a foldable paperboard blank which has window openings on opposite sides of a fold line, the blank being covered on one surface by a heat-deformable and heat-sealable plastic sheet, at least over that area having the openings or windows formed therein. A blank support, a molding station and a blank discharge station are arranged along a linear blank travel path at substantially equal spacings from each other. A carrier is oscillatable in a vertical plane including the center line of the travel path, and carries air-released vacuum pick-up means at longitudinal spacings substantially equal to the spacings between the support and the stations. The carrier is oscillated between a first position and a second position. In the first position, a first vacuum pick-up means grips a blank on the support and a second vacuum pick-up means grips a blank, which has already been heated and has pockets formed therein, at the molding station.