Patent ID: 7086578
Filing Date: 2006-08-08
Classification: B65D

Abstract:
1. A triangular package comprising a carton enclosing a space between generally parallel sidewalls disposed in mutually spaced apart relation between two upstanding end walls and a base wall, each end wall being joined to said base wall at an opposing corner and to each other at a third corner, the enclosed space containing a plurality of cans each having a cylindrical wall, said plurality of cans arranged in a mutually stacked relation in a triangular array supported on sides of said cans by said base wall with the array of cans being arranged in fitted relation between the carton sidewalls and the end walls such that: each can has mutually opposed ends positioned in generally co-planar relation with, and adjacent to, a corresponding one of said side walls, and a plurality of said cans located along a periphery of the array are arranged with their corresponding cylindrical walls in contacting relation with adjacent of said carton walls, the cylindrical wall of each can located at a lower corner of the array being constrained between one of said carton end walls and the base wall forming a corresponding one of said opposing corners, with one of the carton upstanding end walls having provision therein for an opening therethrough into the enclosed space, said opening is proximal to but spaced upwardly from the one of said opposing corners formed by the one upstanding end wall and the base wall to form a panel that, with the carton positioned in supported relation on the base wall, restrains any of said cans at the corresponding corner of the array from unassisted egress from the closed space and said opening being sized and positioned to expose only one of said cans located in said associated corner of said carton for the selective removal thereof; and to otherwise interfere with the passage of any more than one of said cans at a time from said enclosed space through said opening, the base wall being free of any obstruction, other than an intervening one of said cans, which would interfere with another of said cans on said base wall moving toward said opening.