Abstract: A container having an open end so that a part of an article in the container can be seen and touched. The container is formed from a single planar sheet having two portions. The first portion of the planar sheet is rectangular in shape and includes a plurality of main panels and a terminal panel with laterally extending perforations along the inner edges. The second portion of the planar sheet is attached to a free edge of one of the main panels of the first portion of the planar sheet along a perforation and forms an end member to close one end of the container when it is assembled. A series of elongated openings are located along the perforation at the inner edge of the terminal panels of the first portion of the planar sheet and a series of corresponding tabs are located along the free edge of the main panel at the other end of the planar sheet.

Abstract: An eight-sided box having uninterrupted top and bottom walls, which can be inexpensively manufactured as a single sheet of corrugaed cardboard and shipped in a flattened, knock-down configuration with the manufacturer's joint formed, and which can be quickly erected, filled and closed by a packager to provide a secure package. In a second embodiment locking ears are provided which virtually insure that the box cannot be inadvertently opened.

Abstract: A front loading corrugated container for the storage or shipment of garments on hangers. The container is erected from a unitary blank and has a four-sided tubular body which is closed at the top by a closure that is formed from flaps that are foldably attached to the tops of the sides of the body. Each of an opposed pair of top flaps has a secondary flap which is inturned with respect to the top flap to which it is attached to extend into the interior of the container through aligned slots in another of an opposed pair of top flaps, and the secondary flaps, which constitute an integral hanger bar, have aligned apertures for receiving garment hanger hooks and are supported along opposed sides by portions of each of the other opposed pair of top flaps which lie on the opposed sides of the slots therein.

Abstract: A dispensing apparatus for relatively flat packets such as individually packaged non-prescription drugs is disclosed. A housing having openings in the top and front walls thereof receives a plurality of vertically disposed magazines. The magazines each comprise a packet receiving tray member and a removable sleeve which partly encloses the tray member. An opening in the magazine is provided by the cooperation of an opening in a wall of the sleeve and the tray member. A liner is disposed in the tray member depending from the wall of the tray member and engaging the inner rear wall of the tray member. A shelf depends from the magazine opening at the lower end of the opening. An optional laterally disposed extension is provided at the bottom of the housing.

Abstract: A thin-walled easily opened container and method of making the same for commercial food products that includes congruent mating and overlapping sections crimped over a cover panel.

Abstract: A packaging and advertising device comprising a blank of readily foldable material having a transverse frangible tear line for dividing the blank into a header portion and a connected foldable box forming portion. The box forming portion is reversely folded upon itself in the knockdown position whereby the header portion and connected reversely folded box portion define an essentially flat insert which can be readily inserted between the pages of a periodical.The box forming portion is further prescored and/or die cut so that the same can be readily formed into a sealable box which can be readily separated from its header portion and used as a mailer or package for mailing various articles.

Abstract: A rigid, multipurpose, polyhedric structure which may be folded away on its own base has a base, a roof, vertical lateral surfaces (3), (4) and (5) provided with grooved fold lines extending along the diagonal of each lateral surface, and a side surface free on at least three sides, connected together by a continuous flexible layer. The base and the roof may be provided with fold lines or grooves extending along a diagonal of each. The surfaces can be made either from a multilayer material consisting of a continuous, flexible layer and rigid parts fixed to said layer or from plastic material and can be partially open and bordered.

Abstract: A one piece paperboard carton blank is folded into a rectangular shape for packaging and dispensing from a roll of individual plastic bags, particularly disposable milk bottles for feeding babies. The carton has a double wall front part which includes an inner top rigidly supporting a tab protruding in a direction opposite to the direction of withdrawal of bags from the roll. When a first plastic bag is withdrawn it starts to pull out a succeeding bag to which it is removably attached along a line of perforations. When the center of the perforated edge of the succeeding bag is impaled on the tab, further withdrawal of the succeeding bag is restrained and the first bag is readily separated to facilitate its dispensing and to place the leading edge of the succeeding bag where it may be easily reached for withdrawal.

Abstract: This invention relates to containers and methods of, and apparatus for, manufacturing containers. A container in accordance with the invention includes four walls (202-205, FIG. 1, or 301-303 and 305, FIG. 4), and a base (201, FIG. 1, or 306, FIG. 4). The base is constituted by two flaps (206 and 207 or 307 and 308) arranged so that they can be moved between a first position in which the container can be folded flat, and a second position in which they hold the four walls in a generally rectangular formation.The container may be manufactured by sealing six boards (4, 5 and 6) between two webs of PVC material drawn from supply rolls (50 and 51). The sealing is carried out by means of a welding process which also forms the boards (4 and 5) into hinged pairs. In further welding processes, boards (6) are hingedly connected to the boards (4 and 5). Finally, two pairs of boards (4 and 5) are hingedly connected together to form the four walls of the container. In the welding process, a raised portion (123, FIG.

Abstract: A box construction including a bottom, and a pair of end walls extend upwardly from opposed edges of the bottom. A side wall extends upwardly from the bottom and connects corresponding ends of the end walls, while a second side wall is hinged to the bottom and can be pivoted between an open position, where it is generally flush with the bottom, to a closed position where it connects corresponding ends of the end walls. Each end wall is formed with an inner section and an outer section and the ends of the hinged side wall are formed with inwardly extending flaps that lie in common planes with the inner section of the corresponding end walls when the hinged side wall is in the closed position. The inner sections of the end walls and the flaps are formed with mating abutments which releasably lock the hinged side wall in the closed position.