Patent ID: 8672184

Claim:
A bag in box packaging comprising: an outer box having a plurality of walls defining an enclosure, and including a bottom wall and a dispensing wall with the bottom wall and the dispensing wall meeting at an edge, the dispensing wall having an opening toward the lower end thereof; an inner bag having a spout with a tap, the inner bag positioned within the outer box; a locating panel separate from and disconnected from the outer box, the locating panel having a front surface and a back surface, the locating panel including a central region having an upper edge and a lower edge opposite the upper edge, the central region being coupled to at least one of the inner bag, the spout and the tap, with a dispensing opening of the tap on the front surface of the locating panel and the bag on the back surface of the locating panel, an upper region extending above the central region from the upper edge with the front surface thereof slidably positionable along the dispensing wall and a lower region extending below the central region from the lower edge with the front surface thereof slidably positionable along on the dispensing wall, wherein the inner bag is placed within the outer box and with the locating panel slidably and rotatably orientatable from a stowed configuration to a dispensing configuration, in the stowed orientation, the central region of the locating panel is positioned at an oblique angle relative to each of the bottom wall and the dispensing wall, with the front surface of the upper region overlying an inner surface of the dispensing wall, and the front surface of the lower region overlying an inner surface of the bottom wall, such that the central region is oblique to both the upper region and the lower region, wherein the bottom wall, the dispensing wall and the locating panel define a tap region within the outer container within which the tap is positioned when in the stowed configuration, wherein the tap is accessible through the opening in the dispensing wall, and wherein directing of the locating panel from the stowed configuration to the dispensing configuration, the central region is rotated and translated relative to the dispensing wall while the front surface of the lower region of the locating panel slidably translates along the bottom wall toward the dispensing wall and while the front surface of the upper region of the locating panel simultaneously slidably translates along the dispensing wall away from the bottom wall until the central region of the locating panel substantially abuts the inner surface of the dispensing wall and the tap extends through the opening in the dispensing wall.