Patent ID: 7104435

Claim:
A carton, comprising: a top wall, a pair of opposed side walls connected to opposed side edges of the top wall, an end wall interconnecting the side walls, a bottom wall interconnecting respective lower edges of the side walls; and an article-dispenser including a removable corner portion defined by severance lines formed respectively in the top wall, the side walls and the end wall; wherein the severance line in each of the side walls comprises a concave section for defining a recess in said each side wall upon removal of the corner portion; wherein each of the side wall severance lines substantially continuously curves downwardly from the top wall to a lowest point along said concave section thereof and extends upwardly from the lowest point to the end wall to be continuous with the severance line in the end wall; and wherein said each side wall severance line extends to a connection of a respective one of the side walls with the end wall at a distance above the bottom wall generally equal to a half of the height of the carton, and said lowest point of said each side wall severance line is spaced at a distance above the bottom wall less than a half of the height of the carton.