Abstract: A disposable carton accommodates food and drinks of a type commonly associated with fast food restaurants and spectator events. The carton includes a bottom and sidewalls which cooperate to form an upwardly opening box configuration. Overlapping top panels are selectively interconnected to partially enclose the carton. At least one skewed intermediate panel is disposed between a sidewall and a top panel.

Abstract: An improved reclosure carton and blank are provided. The blank uses a minimum of paperboard material in achieving a properly supported top that can easily and repeatedly be opened and closed. The ease of opening the carton is facilitated by pairs of alignment embossments and debossments on portions of adjacent inner and outer first side panels. The top of the carton is supported in its closed condition by top support panel which includes an aperture through which the material stored in the carton can be dispensed. The slide panel then is foldably disposed over the top support panel so as to selectively enable complete closure of the aperture therein. Inner and outer top closure panels then securely close the carton.

Abstract: A paperboard carton, of improved end sealability, has two end flaps with debossed portions, a third end flap with an embossed portion, and a fourth, planar, end flap captured between the debossed and embossed flaps. The debossed end flaps comprise an opposed pair connected to the narrower side panels of the carton, while the embossed and planar flaps are connected to the relatively wider front and back panels respectively. Due to the effectiveness of the end closure, substantial flap overlap is no longer required for adequate sealing and it is possible to substantially reduce the length of the end flaps connected to the side panels and the back panel, as compared to those of a conventional carton of the same overall size.

Abstract: A closure for a cylindrically shaped ice cream carton or the like includes a unitary circular shaped plastic lid provided with a depending skirt portion. The top surface of the lid includes an upwardly and inwardly extending concentric bead inwardly tapered on its outer surface to enhance retaining a plurality of similar lids in stacked relation. The bead rigidifies the lid, enhances nested stacking of lid-carton assemblies and provides a locking and protective recess for labels containing printed indicia. The skirt of the lid includes a lower outwardly tapered inner surface portion for mating with the outer surface of the bead to enhance nested stacking of the lids and to enable the lid to be grasped and readily removed from tight fitting engagement with an ice cream carton. An upper, inner annular recessed portion of the lid skirt accommodates expansion of the ice cream carton without the lid popping off the carton.

Abstract: A lid insert is provided for releasable connection to a plastic lid having a subtantially flat top surface and an upwardly and inwardly projecting peripheral bead disposed above and spaced from the top surface of the lid. The lid insert is made of paperboard material having a planar configuration generally corresponding to the configuration of the flat top surface of the lid. The periphery of the planar lid insert includes a plurality of alternating indents and nodes. The area defined by the outermost points of the insert is greater than the area defined by the upwardly and inwardly projecting bead. This peripheral configuration of alternating nodes and indents facilitates the initial placement of the insert on the lid and enables the insert to compensate for the different expansion characteristics of the lid and the lid insert.

Abstract: A closure for a cylindrically shaped ice cream carton or the like includes a unitary circular shaped plastic lid provided with a depending skirt portion. The top surface of the lid includes an inverted V-shaped bead extending concentric with and inwardly spaced from the outer circumference of the lid to provide a bead for retaining a plurality of similar lids in stacked relation, precluding them from slipping inwardly relative to each other. The top surface of the lid also includes a depressed centrally located area, which rigidifies the lid and provides a recess for labels containing printed indicia. The skirt of the lid includes a bottom, outwardly flared portion enabling the lid to be grasped and readily removed from tight fitting engagement with an ice cream carton and an upper, recessed portion to accommodate expansion of the ice cream carton without the lid popping off the carton.

Abstract: A protective package for a stacked array such as nestable potato chips or similar articles where it is desired to provide protection for the objects by spacing them away from the sides of the carton, which includes a rectangular tube-like carton lined with shrinkable plastic film which surrounds the array and is shrunk to suspend the array away from the sides of the carton, the film being attached to diagonally opposite corners of the carton.

Abstract: A package for taco shells of the type which are a thin crisp tortilla of a generally circular shape which is folded upon itself leaving a radius of curvature across the folded mid section of the taco shell. The package includes a nested array of the shells which are located within a tray having two diagonally oriented and inwardly folded flaps which position the shells against one another in the nested array and which, in combination with a shrink film covering over the taco shells and the tray, reduces breakage of the shells during shipment and storage.