Patent ID: 6976618

Claim:
A tubular carton sleeve comprising a first sheet superimposed at least in part on a second sheet, said first sheet providing an inner wall of said sleeve and said second sheet providing an outer wall of said sleeve, first and second opposing ends of said first and second sheets being interengaged to provide a join, the second ends of the first sheet and the second sheet being connected together by means of a fold line, the second ends of the first sheet and the second sheet further comprising a cut out line between the first sheet and the second sheet to form a cut-out space, wherein at said join, the first end of the inner wall is in a face to face relationship with the second end of said inner wall in said cut-out space and the first end of said outer wall is in a face to face relationship with the second end of said outer wall, and in which the inner wall at the second end comprises a second marginal flange extending along a portion of the edge thereof and protruding from the fold line in a direction away from the second end of the outer wall.