Patent ID: 8459449

Claim:
A carton for shipping and storing a quantity of cut sheets of paper, comprising: a carton base portion having a bottom wall, opposed upstanding front and back walls and opposed upstanding end walls all of substantially uniform height, each joined along a bottom edge to a respective edge of the bottom wall, and an open top; a lid telescopically engaged over the open top, said lid having a top wall with depending end flanges, a depending front flange that extends downwardly over an upper portion of the front wall when the lid is in closed position, and a depending back flange attached to the carton back wall; a glue strip extending along a bottom edge of said lid front flange, said glue strip being adhesively attached to said base portion front wall and removably attached to said lid front flange by a tear strip; said base portion front wall being unsecured to adjoining end walls and being pivotable about its bottom edge downwardly and away from the carton to an open position when the lid is moved upwardly away from said front wall, thereby exposing the cut paper at the top and one side to permit easy access to paper contained in the carton for rapid unloading of the paper from the carton; said front wall having inwardly turned tuck-in flaps on opposite ends thereof which tuck into the carton in contiguous, parallel, overlapping relationship with adjacent end walls when said front wall is in closed position; and a carry handle on said lid, said carry handle comprising a flexible strap directly secured at its opposite ends to a base plate located beneath said lid top wall, and a separate insert panel between said base plate and said lid top wall, said flexible strap projecting through aligned openings in said insert panel and said lid top wall, wherein the carry handle is free of direct attachment to the lid.