Abstract: This invention relates to a compound container which can completely be separated into paper and plastics upon abandonment thereof, whose volume can substantially be reduced upon abandonment, which permits the reduction of the amounts of paper and plastics to be used, which exhibits excellent resistance to falling impact, which has a high oxygen gas barrier properties or water vapor barrier properties. This compound container comprises an inner container of a plastic and an outer container of paper or mainly comprising paper, wherein the inner container is produced by blow-molding or stretch blow-molding a resin composition comprising at least two resins including a barrier resin.

Abstract: A spiral wound type composite container of the type that is typically used for packaging refrigerated pressurized dough products includes, as is typical in such containers, an inner liner, a body wall that is wound about the inner layer so as to define a butt joint, and a label member that is wound about the body wall so as to bind the body wall against expansion as a result of forces that are created by the pressurized contents of the container. As is also typical in such containers, the label member has a tab defined at one portion thereof and a predetermined lead path forming the tab so that a consumer can grasp the tab and tear the label member along the lead path, thereby removing enough of the label member from the body wall so that forces of pressurization will cause the body wall to separate and open.

Abstract: An improved display carton. The carton of the invention includes a front panel having lines of weakness extending from the top corners of the panel down to the scoreline defining the bottom of the front panel. Lines of weakness are also provided in one or more of the flaps defining the top of the carton. The flaps on the top of the carton do not completely close the carton so that a user may grasp the carton at the top and pull on the top panel to remove portions of the top and front panels and reveal the product within the case. A particularly advantageous feature of the invention,is the use of a cut in a scoreline to improve the compressive strength of the carton. The cut is made at the bottom of one or more columns of flutes at a point where the flute would otherwise bend due to the presence of a scoreline defining a fold. The cut causes a complete cut of the flute rather than folding; the complete cut results in an increase in compressive strength when compared to the folded flute.

Abstract: A box having a container space for retaining box contents is provided. The box is constructed of a foldable sheet material. The box includes first and second side panels, first and second edge panels, and first and second end flaps. All flaps and panels are foldable about associated fold lines to effect a box having sides and seal ends which together define the container space. A removable strip portion is provided on either an end flap or an edge panel to provide access to the container space. The removable strip portion is defined by interior and exterior partial cuts scored into the foldable material, including a plurality of aligned interrupted exterior cuts that are disposed for an extent coincidentally with an associated fold line. The removable strip portion thus constructed helps ensure folding of the associated flap or panel about the intended fold line while maintaining the strength and integrity of the folded edge.

Abstract: A box having a container space for retaining box contents is provided. The box is constructed of a foldable sheet material. The box includes first and second side panels, first and second edge panels, and first and second end flaps. All flaps and panels are foldable about associated fold lines to effect a box having sides and seal ends which together define the container space. A removable strip portion is provided on either an end flap or an edge panel to provide access to the container space. The removable strip portion is defined by interior and exterior partial cuts scored into the foldable material, including a plurality of aligned interrupted exterior cuts that are disposed for an extent coincidentally with an associated fold line. The removable strip portion thus constructed helps ensure folding of the associated flap or panel about the intended fold line while maintaining the strength and integrity of the folded edge.

Abstract: A box having a container space for retaining box contents is provided. The box is constructed of a foldable sheet material. The box includes first and second side panels, first and second edge panels, and first and second end flaps. All flaps and panels are foldable about associated fold lines to effect a box having sides and seal ends which together define the container space. A removable strip portion is provided on either an end flap or an edge panel to provide access to the container space. The removable strip portion is defined by interior and exterior partial cuts scored into the foldable material, including a plurality of aligned interrupted exterior cuts that are disposed for an extent coincidentally with an associated fold line. The removable strip portion thus constructed helps ensure folding of the associated flap or panel about the intended fold line while maintaining the strength and integrity of the folded edge.

Abstract: A reducible volume container includes a package wall made from a laminated material having interior surface and an exterior surface, with at least one tear strip formed in the package wall. At least one layer of the laminated material is a monoaxially oriented material disposed on an inner surface of the package wall. The tear strip is defined by a pair of generally parallel frangible tear lines. Each tear line includes a linear cut formed in the exterior of the package wall. The linear cut is disposed generally parallel to the axial orientation of the axially-oriented material, and each linear cut has a depth extending only partly through the thickness of the package wall.

Abstract: The disadvantages of conventional carton for packaging cut sheets of paper such as the facts that fingers or finger nails are injured upon opening the carton, tearing requires a large force, the removal of the cut sheets is difficult, the beauty of surroundings is spoiled, movement of the carton is required, and industrial wastes are produced are solved by the present invention. A pair of opening face cut lines such as threaded lines, zipper and the like are formed on two selected faces of the rectangular parellelepiped carton, and a trigger cut line such as a threaded line, zipper and the like is formed on this one face or another face. The trigger cut line is connected to the opening face cut lines. The trigger cut line and the opening face cut lines are torn off after cutting and raising a part of the trigger cut line. The face having the opening face cut lines is used as an opened face.

Abstract: A dispensing closure lid having a tear-away tab for use with a container. The tab itself is configured with an outwardly extending grasping member. The pull tab is defined by a distinct sequence of slits and perforations. The slits have a greater length than the perforations. The specific sequence of slits and perforations facilitates removal of the tab from the container mouth and provides for a clean separation of the tab from the land surface of the container and the remaining lid without tearing into the lid.

Abstract: A blank for a sleeve type casing with a cover for receiving a recording medium which is formed by punching out a plastic sheet and folding a punched sheet along ruled lines formed in it, and which has a U-shaped notched portion for finger touch at an edge for forming a part of an opening of the casing, wherein the blank has a cover flap with an insertion flap so that the cover flap covers the opening when the blank is formed into a box-like body and a seam-like cut line having a central portion of a U-shape and side portions extending linearly from both ends of the U-shape central portion so as to extend along the root portion of the cover flap.

Abstract: A box blank can be used for American boxes (10), the main flaps (20, 20', 22, 22') of which have dimensions practically equal to the opening of the box and which are glued to each other to close this box. The outer top flap (20) has a perforation (30) located in the vicinity of the fold and the inner top flap (22) has a first cutout (40) adapted so as not to interfere with the pressing down of the middle part (36) of the perforation (30) during the opening of the box, and a second cutouts (42, 44) adapted so as not to interfere with the tearing off of the outer top flap 20 when the box is opened completely.

Abstract: The outer surface of an article is covered with a wrapping film, and both ends of the wrapping film are lap-welded by heating, so that a body seal section is created. An unbonded part is formed on the periphery of the edge of an upper overlapping film of the wrapping film along the marginal line of the same. This unbonded part extends between the marginal line of the upper overlapping film and the edge of the body seal section. A slit is formed in the vicinity of the unbonded part at right angles to the marginal line of the upper overlapping film. A weakly bonded part, where the upper overlapping film and the lower overlapping film are weakly bonded to each other, is formed to be adjacent to the opposite side of the unbonded part of the body seal section relative to the slit, and extends from that side of the unbonded part to a predetermined length along a marginal line of the upper overlapping film.

Abstract: A reducible volume container includes a package wall having an interior surface and an exterior surface, with at least one tear strip formed in the package wall. The tear strip is defined by a pair of generally parallel frangible tear lines. Each tear line includes a pair of generally parallel creases formed on the interior surface of the package wall, and a linear cut formed in the exterior of the package wall. The linear cut is disposed in an area between the parallel creases and has a depth extending only partly through the thickness of the package wall.

Abstract: A container made of double faced corrugated board incorporates a tear tape (10,27) for opening it which is secured to the inside surface of walls (1,2,3,4,22) of the container. The tear tape is arranged to be pulled through one or more lines of weakness (14,23) formed in the outside of the board in alignment with the tear tape, the one or more lines of weakness not extending through the board.

Abstract: A tearstrip opening for the closure flap of a paperboard container is formed by a single line of tear and an adjacent delamination area located within the closure flap. The tearstrip is applied to one or more of the closure flaps of the container as required. The tearstrip is removed by the combined action of separation of the paperboard along perforations which define the single line of tear and ply separation of the paperboard adjacent to a partial depth cut line of weakness spaced from the single line of tear. When removed, the tear strip releases the closure flap from a side wall of the container while leaving a portion of the closure flap still attached to the side wall.

Abstract: A shipping/display container that may be opened without having to use a knife or other sharp instrument, and a blank for forming such a container. The container blank includes a plurality of side panels foldably connected together in a longitudinal series, and a connecting flap foldably connected to a first end of the side panels. The side panels form a line of weakness extending substantially completely across each of the side panels, and the connecting flap forms a notch extending from the first end of the side panels. To form the container, the connecting flap is connected to the second end of the side panels, forming the side panels into a continuous side wall for the container; and as this is done, the notch in the connecting flap is positioned over the end portion of the line of weakness.

Abstract: A laminated film bag is made of laminated films each composed of an outermost layer formed of a polyester resin film, an innermost layer formed of a polyolefin resin film and an intermediate layer formed of an aluminum foil, the polyolefin resin film has formed thereon score lines having a depth of 1/20 to 2/3 of the thickness of the polyolefin resin film and an opening width of 0.5 to 7 mm, at intervals of 1 to 15 mm.

Abstract: The invention relates to lids of easy-opening cans for perishable foodstuffs, and a method of obtaining them. These lids are composed of a metal foil and a plastics film, the metal foil having a mechanical non-traversing pre-incision corresponding to a tearing line and the thermo-shrinkable plastics film having a continuous depression situated opposite the mechanical pre-incision. The pre-incision and the depression, obtained by the action of heat, makes it possible to avoid the defects known as "feathering" and the plastics film is less expensive and more resistant to corrosion than is conventional lacquer.

Abstract: A container holder adapted to releaseably retain a plurality of similarly configured containers and adapted to permit release of each container individually.The holder is comprised of a central panel portion and a plurality of retaining portions. Each of the retaining portions has a pull tab that corresponds to it. The pull tab is joined to its respective retaining portion along the margin. The pull tab has a scoreline of a selected length proximate the pull tab so that the pull tab can be operated to release the loop-like structure thus preventing wildlife from becoming entangled in unruptured rings of plastic containers once the package is discarded.

Abstract: The invention concerns an essentially hermetic wrapping, in particular a tubular pouch wrapping, comprising two strip-like edge zones of the wrap material that are joined together by sealing, and two incisions 4, 18, 24, 28 are present in at least one of the two said edge zones, the wrap material forming a grip tab between said two incisions by means of which a tear-open region is pulled off when the wrapping is being opened.

Abstract: A reclosable article case has a main portion which receives a plurality of articles and a closed top comprising inner closure flaps and outer closure flaps. One or more of the outer closure flaps include a tearback tab formed by weakened lines. A base portion of this tearback tab lies immediately over some of the articles in the case while an outer portion of this tearback tab overlies an inner closure flap. Tearing back the tearback tabs provide direct access to at least a portion of the upper parts of all articles within the case for purposes of marking same with tickets or the like. The tearback tabs are then unfolded back to their original flat state, and then tucked underneath an edge of the inner closure flap over which each previously overlied, thus reclosing the article case.

Abstract: A carton and blank for forming the same are disclosed and includes a bottom panel, a top panel, side walls extending substantially perpendicularly away from the bottom panel toward the top panel with the side walls being connected to the bottom panel about a periphery thereof, and overlapping side walls extending substantially perpendicularly away from the top panel toward the bottom panel from predetermined peripheral edges of the top panel. An opening device is formed in the top panel for permitting access to an interior of the carton with the opening device including an opening force receiving mechanism in the form of a lifting tab is integrally formed in one of the overlapping side walls of the top panel for providing an initiation point for the opening device.

Abstract: A paperboard carton blank including a first panel having side walls connected thereto by scored fold lines formed between a respective one of the side walls and a respective edge of the first panel is disclosed. A second panel is provided having a side wall connected thereto by a scored fold line formed between the side wall and an edge of the second panel. A seal flap is provided and extends a predetermined distance from a predetermined edge of one of the side walls of the first panel, the predetermined edge of the side wall being that edge which extends adjacent to a predetermined edge of the second panel of a carton formed from the blank. The blank also includes opposing end panels connected to each of the side walls and the first and second panels with each of the end walls having at least one die cut edge.

Abstract: A paper bag containing flexible articles maintained in a state of compression in a direction substantially parallel to their thickness. In a particularly preferred embodiment, the bag totally encloses the stack of compressed flexible articles and exhibits a substantially rectilinear shape. The bag preferably includes an opening device in one of the side panels. The opening device contains an internal reinforcement sheet made of biodegradable and/or recyclable material. The reinforcement sheet provides additional support for the opening device that is under tension created by the compression of the flexible articles. At the lowermost end of the opening device there exists a loose flap which creates an aperture in the side panel when a manual grasping force is applied to the tear flap. The bag preferably includes a carrying device provided in an extension of the top panel of the paper bag.