Patent ID: 8281979

Claim:
A one-piece carton dimensioned to package conventional size twelve-ounce beverage cans in three-can-high configurations such as twelve-packs and eighteen-packs comprising: a hollow carton comprised of a plurality of panels and including a front end closure structure, the hollow carton adapted to receive and store a plurality of cans therein; a tear out section formed by a linear array of serrations on at least a portion of the front end closure structure, the serrations forming a tear out section border at every location where the tear out section adjoins a carton panel, wherein tearing the linear array of serrations completely separates the tear out section from the carton and forms a dispenser opening, and wherein portions of the dispenser opening are shorter than the diameter of a can at the dispenser opening; a front lower flap hingedly attached to a lower panel of the hollow carton, the front lower flap having an upper edge spaced from a line formed by the hinged attachment of the front lower flap to the lower panel, wherein the distance between the upper edge and the line formed by the hinged attachment is less than the diameter of the can; and a solely-one fold line on solely the front lower flap, the fold line located at a length from the line formed by hinged attachment that provides folding the upper edge in upon the front lower flap, provides the upper edge contacting the front lower flap to form a folded flap, and further provides folding the folded flap into the hollow carton along the line formed by the hinged attachment of the front lower flap to the lower panel to a point under the cans at the dispenser opening, wherein the folded flap is in contact with the lower panel and supported by the lower panel to form a can stop barrier to militate against inadvertent ejection of the can at the dispenser opening from the hollow carton and wherein the can stop barrier consists solely of the front lower flap and is located entirely within the carton to secure the position of the can at the dispenser opening substantially within the carton.