Abstract: A collapsed carton tube comprising hingedly connected bottom, front, rear, cover, front flap wall panels, and a pair of end assemblies. The end assemblies include hingedly connected bottom, front, cover, rear, and front flap wall panel end flaps. The end flaps are moveable in the following order into a closed position over end portions of the tube. First, the bottom wall panel end flaps substantially close the tube end portions. Second, the front wall panel end flaps overlap a front portion of the bottom wall panel end flaps with a rear portion exposed. Third, the cover wall panel end flaps, including a recess in a rear lower corner thereof, overlap an upper portion of the front wall panel end flaps and an upper rear corner portion of the bottom wall panel end flaps, the recess leaving exposed an upper portion of the exposed rear portion of the bottom wall panel end flaps below the overlapped upper rear corner portion and rearwardly of the overlapped upper portion thereof.

Abstract: A carton package comprising a plurality of blanks of carton material cut and scored so as to provide one or more tray compartments and a separate lid part. The lid part includes a lid panel having a pair of opposed end edges defined by a pair of opposed parallel free marginal edge portions extending along the top of a pair of opposed ends of the package and a pair of opposed side edges defined by a pair of opposed parallel lid flap panel fold lines integral with a pair of lid flap panels folded downwardly along the lid flap panel fold lines in generally perpendicular relation to the lid panel so as to define substantially the entirety of a pair of opposed sides of the package.

Abstract: A carton package comprising a plurality of side-by-side tray compartments suitable to contain consumable contents therein and a lid part enclosing the tray compartments. Each tray compartment includes a bottom wall panel, side wall panels, and leak-tight integral corner connections between adjacent side wall panels. The lid part includes a planar rectangular lid panel defining package top and a pair of lid flap panels integral with the lid panel and folded perpendicular thereto to define substantially the entirety of a pair of opposed package sides.

Abstract: A package comprising a consumable product and a sealed container containing the consumable product. The container is made up of a folded and sealed sheet of carton material having an opening therein defining a product-viewing window and a sheet of clear film material disposed over the opening so as to close the opening while retaining the product-viewing capability of the window. The clear film sheet has a marginal periphery disposed in lapped relation to a marginal periphery of the carton sheet and a wave energy curable adhesive between the marginal periphery of the clear film sheet and the marginal periphery of the carton sheet in a cured by wave energy condition bonding the clear film sheet over the carton sheet opening so that the bond cannot be rebonded by the cured adhesive once the bond provided by the cured adhesive between the sheets has been broken. The container is erected from a flat blank consisting of the carton sheet, the film sheet and the cured adhesive.

Abstract: A plural compartment carton tray is constructed from a blank. The inner compartments are integrally interconnected and arranged in side-by-side relation to provide the carton blank with an exterior periphery having spaced exterior corners. At least two of the exterior corners having a gusset wall panel integral with adjacent side wall panels along two end fold lines extending in angularly related relation with respect to one another. The side wall panels are folded along the side fold lines in the same direction into an erected position while each of the gusset wall panels is folded along the associated angularly related end fold lines in opposite directions with respect to the associated pair of adjacent side wall panels so as to bring each gusset wall panel into surface-to-surface abutting relation with an end portion of one of the associated pair of adjacent side wall panels defined by one of the associated two end fold lines.

Abstract: A food package including a closed carton containing a food product, the closed carton including a carton tray and a carton closure.

Abstract: A carton tray formed from a flat carton blank including a bottom wall panel, four side wall panels integral with the bottom wall panel along four side fold lines and a gusset wall panel integral with each pair of adjacent side wall panels along two end fold lines extending from a corner point in angularly related relation with respect to one another. In erected condition, each gusset wall panel is brought into surface-to-surface abutting relation with an end portion of one of the associated pair of adjacent side wall panels defined by one of the associated two end fold lines.

Abstract: A package comprising a consumable product and a sealed container containing the consumable product. The container is made up of a folded and sealed sheet of carton material having an opening therein defining a product-viewing window and a sheet of clear film material disposed over the opening so as to close the opening while retaining the product-viewing capability of the window . The clear film sheet has a marginal periphery disposed in lapped relation to a marginal periphery of the carton sheet and a wave energy curable adhesive between the marginal periphery of the clear film sheet and the marginal periphery of the carton sheet in a cured by wave energy condition bonding the clear film sheet over the carton sheet opening so that the bond cannot be rebounded by the cured adhesive once the bond provided by the cured adhesive between the sheets has been broken. The container is erected from a flat blank consisting of the carton sheet, the film sheet and the cured adhesive.

Abstract: A carton comprising a cover structure formed from a cut and scored flat blank of carton material. The cover structure includes a top wall having a plurality of side walls extending therefrom along a straight common fold line therebetween within a plane defining an interior included angle with the top wall of less than 180.degree.. The cover structure includes a plurality of over center toggle action tabs having indicia operatively associated with each tab. Each over center toggle action tab is defined by cuts and edge lines formed in the top and side walls so as to contain a predetermined length of the common fold line therebetween which divides the tab into two tab sections. The cuts enable the peripheral edge portion of the tab defined thereby to move toward and away from the adjacent cut top and side walls while the peripheral edge portions of the tab defined by said edge lines hinge with respect to the adjacent top and side walls.

Abstract: A flat blank of foldable sheet material cut and scored to be erected and secured into a container comprising a pair of peripheral wall forming sections and a bottom wall forming section integrally interconnecting the peripheral sections in spaced relation. The interconnection between the bottom section and peripheral sections is along straight parallel fold lines. The bottom section has a plurality of flaps formed integrally with the remaining periphery thereof between the corresponding ends of the parallel fold lines. The interconnection between the bottom section and each of the flaps is along a straight fold line defining a portion of the periphery of the bottom section. Each peripheral section includes opposed side portions disposed outwardly of the associated parallel fold line.

Abstract: A carton partially erected from a cut and scored flat blank of paperboard for receiving a product horizontally therein so as to be fully erected into a closed product containing carton comprising a horizontal bottom panel of generally rectangular configuration, a front panel hinged to and extending horizontally forwardly from the forward edge of the bottom panel, a rear panel hinged to and extending vertically upwardly from the rear edge of the bottom panel, a cover panel hinged to and extending forwardly from the upper edge of the rear panel in parallel coextensive relation to the bottom panel, a closure panel hinged to and extending horizontally forwardly from the forward edge of the cover panel, a rear end flap hinged to each end of the rear panel and extending forwardly therefrom in generally perpendicular relation thereto, a bottom end flap hinged to each end of the bottom panel and extending vertically upwardly therefrom in abutting relation to the associated rear end flap, a cover end flap hinged to ea

Abstract: A fast food containing and serving device comprising a thin wall structure erected from a paperboard blank so as to be movable (1) from a tray defining position wherein the same can be stored in a stacked nested relationship with a multiplicity of similar thin wall structures into a closed container defining position wherein fast food or the like can be contained therein and (2) from the closed container defining position back into a tray defining position wherein the same can be used in serving the fast food or the like contained therein. The movement of the thin wall structure between the tray defining position and the closed container defining position is facilitated by a pair of spaced fold lines extending in the central portion of the flat bottom wall thereof between the central portions of the associated pair of side walls thereof and four cooperating fold lines in the central portions of each side wall.

Abstract: A carton tray formed from a flat carton blank including a bottom wall panel, four side wall panels integral with the bottom wall panel along four side fold lines and a gusset wall panel integral with each pair of adjacent side wall panels along two end fold lines extending from a corner point in angularly related relation with respect to one another. In erected condition, each gusset wall panel is brought into surface-to-surface abutting relation with an end portion of one of the associated pair of adjacent side wall panels defined by one of the associated two end fold lines.