Patent ID: 8281981
Filing Date: 2012-10-09
Classification: B65D

Abstract:
1. An easy opening shipping and display container, comprising: a bottom wall, a top wall, with first and second front wall panels, and a back wall, each having side flaps at opposite ends folded inwardly to define opposite side walls; the first front wall panel comprises a major front wall panel having a height from its folded connection with the top wall panel that is substantially the same as the height of the back wall panel; the second front wall panel comprises a minor front wall panel having a height substantially less than the height of the major front wall panel; a first side flap portion of the side flaps extending from opposite ends of the major front wall panel is larger than a second side flap portion; the side flaps extending from opposite ends of the minor front wall portion are shaped and sized generally complementary to the size and shape of the second side flap portions; the first and second front wall panels each having a side flap extending into said side wall and being secured together by attachment of said side flaps with side flaps on the top and bottom walls, respectively; first frangible means securing said top wall to said back wall, said first frangible means comprises a tear-out panel integral with the top wall and extending from a front edge of the top wall and into the back wall; and second frangible means securing said top wall to said side walls, whereby the first frangible means may be grasped and lifted to lift the top wall and break the second frangible means, completely freeing the top wall from the container by the single step of grasping and tearing out and lifting the first frangible means to pivot the top upwardly and wherein said second frangible means comprises a line of perforations connecting together the side flaps on the first and second front wall panels, wherein by grasping and tearing out the tear-out panel and lifting the tear-out panel to pivot the top upwardly, the lines of perforations in the side walls that connect the first and second front wall panels together are broken, thereby completely removing the top of the container in a single step and wherein the side flaps include first side flaps ( said first side flaps ( said first portions ( said fourth side flaps are folded and secured to said third side flaps and to said fifth side flaps.