Patent ID: 7959062

Claim:
A reinforced carton handle structure comprising a carton wall panel hingedly connected along a first fold line to a linear series of at least two reinforcing panels hingedly connected one to the next, wherein each of the carton wall panel and reinforcing panels comprises a handle-forming region for forming a handle opening, the handle-forming regions of the carton wall panel and reinforcing panels being in registry with one another to provide said handle opening wherein one of the reinforcing panels in the linear series is hingedly connected along the first fold line to the carton wall panel and along a pair of spaced second fold lines to a next reinforcing panel of the linear series, said one reinforcing panel being defined in part by a free edge thereof spanning a space between the second fold lines, the second fold lines being closer to the first fold line than the free edge of said one reinforcing panel, wherein said one reinforcing panel is hingedly connected at opposed side edges thereof to first reinforcing flaps, said next reinforcing panel is hingedly connected at opposed side edges thereof to second reinforcing flaps, said first reinforcing flaps are hingedly connected to said second reinforcing flaps along said second fold lines respectively.