Patent ID: 7743968
Filing Date: 2010-06-29
Classification: B65D

Abstract:
1. A carton blank comprising: a top panel, a first side panel, a bottom panel, and a second side panel respectively joined along a plurality of fold lines, the top panel including handle openings defining a handle; a reinforcing panel contiguous with the second side panel, the reinforcing panel including a pair of opposed reinforcing openings dimensioned to align with the handle openings, wherein a first elongate extension cut out extending from the first tapered end of a first reinforcing opening of the reinforcing openings; a second elongate extension cut out extending from the second tapered end of the first reinforcing opening; a third elongate extension cut out extending from the first tapered end of a second reinforcing opening of the reinforcing openings; and a fourth elongate extension cut out extending from the second tapered end of the second reinforcing opening, wherein each of the first, second, third and fourth elongate extension cut outs is in the reinforcing panel, each of the first, second, third and fourth elongate extension cut outs is wider than a slit, and for each elongate extension cut out of the first, second, third and fourth elongate extension cut outs, the elongate extension cut out has