Patent ID: 7743921

Claim:
A product shipping and display carton, comprising: a display box defined by a bottom panel and an upwardly extending wall panel together forming a product carrying enclosure, the upwardly extending wall panel defined by a front wall, a rear wall, and a pair of side walls, the display box having a volume which is accessible through an open top which is opposite the bottom panel, the wall panel having a product-restraining rail and a removable panel portion below the product-restraining rail defining a product viewing window in the display box, the removable panel portion connected to the wall panel and disposed in the product viewing window at a location spaced from the product restraining rail, thereby defining a portion of the product viewing window disposed between the removable panel portion and the product restraining rail and extending entirely from one of the pair of side walls to the other, the product viewing window having a length that is generally smaller than a length of elongated, tubular shaped product to be contained within the display box, the length of the product viewing window being generally perpendicular to the product-restraining rail, the product-restraining rail positioned on the wall panel to hold elongated, tubular shaped product within the display box and to allow a customer to remove elongated, tubular shaped product from the display box either through the open top of the display box or by grasping the elongated, tubular shaped product through the product viewing window and at least: a) displacing part of the elongated, tubular shaped product in a first direction outwardly through the product viewing window such that an opposing part of the elongated, tubular shaped product is disposed above the product-restraining rail and is moved inward within the display box, and b) displacing the elongated, tubular shaped product in a second direction until the opposing part of the elongated, tubular shaped product clears the product-restraining rail; and a shipping sleeve defined by a top panel and a downwardly extending wall panel together forming a telescoping enclosure, the shipping sleeve having an open bottom defined by a bottom wall panel edge opposite the top panel, the display box being positioned in the telescoping enclosure such that the open top and the upwardly extending wall panel are substantially covered by the shipping sleeve.