Abstract: A new score line configuration having easy opening characteristics for opening an ice cream carton and the like, has the characteristic of avoiding premature separation particularly during set up of the carton.

Abstract: A nestable octagonal tray having tapered, glued side walls of low height. The tray has an octagonal bottom panel, four trapezoidal side walls each attached at its shorter parallel edge to the bottom panel, four trapezoidal side flaps each attached at its longer parallel edge to the bottom panel, and eight substantially rectangular glue flaps each attached along its base to one of the non-parallel sides of the trapezoidal side walls. The side flaps and glue flaps are adhered in overlapping relation.

Abstract: A carton with a reclosable hinged cover formed by laterally spaced cut score lines in its top panel and front glue flap. The cut score lines in the glue flap flare upwardly to form arrow locking tabs which may be pushed through the cover opening so that the shoulders of the tabs lock under the front edge of the top panel. In the preferred form, the cut score lines forming the shoulders of the locking tabs extend only a portion of the way through the thickness of the paperboard and the cut score lines forming the cover portions in the top panel and glue flap are of the inside-outside double cut score type which provides partial thickness locking tabs and an overlapping cover.

Abstract: A composite frame-like holder for a plurality of articles such as containers, a blank for the composite holder, and a method of forming the holder from the blank. The composite holder is an aggregate of singly or multiply severable holder units which can be severed from the composite in a manner that maintains the integrity of the severed unit and of the remaining composite. Each unit has a sloping leg panel with an aperture for receiving an article, a vertical side panel and a top panel foldable over the article and having means adjacent its edge for securing it to the holder unit. The method includes folding the blank along its center line to place its sections in superimposed, substantially mirror-image juxtaposition, securing one section to the other along their center strips, severing the center line, depositing containers in leg panel apertures and securing the containers to the thereby formed holders.

Abstract: A two-piece paperboard carton for retaining and dispensing cigarettes and the like, comprising a shell and a slide receptacle inserted into the shell. A simple motion of pulling down on the shell is sufficient to open the slide receptacle while an opposite action is effective to close the receptacle.