Wrap-around carton with dispensing feature
Abstract
A carrier package (150), comprising a carrier and containers located therein, said carrier (150) comprising a top panel (20), two side panels (50,60), a bottom panel (30), first and second upper (54a,64a) and lower (56a,66a) gussets at least partially closing an upper and a lower part of a first and a second end of the carrier (150) respectively, and a dispenser pattern (100) extending at least partially across each of the top panel (20), the bottom panel (30), and at least one of the side panels (50,60), with the dispenser pattern (100) defining a dispenser flap (70) that is at least partially removable from a remainder of the carrier (150) so that a dispenser opening through which the containers (C) can be dispensed is defined by the remainder of the carrier (150) in response to the dispenser flap (70) having been at least partially removed from the remainder of the carrier (150).

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Numbers
- Publication
- 1908700
- Publication, DOCDB
- 1908700
- Publication, EPODOC
- EP1908700
- Application
- 7024266
- Application, DOCDB
- 07024266
- Application, EPODOC
- EP20070024266
Titles3
- German
- Umwicklungspappe mit Ausgabeelement
- English
- Wrap-around carton with dispensing feature
- French
- Cartonnage enveloppant doté de caractéristiques de distribution
Classification
- CPC, 14
- B65D71/34
- B65D71/14
- B65D2571/00141
- B65D2571/0016
- B65D2571/00166
- B65D2571/00172
- B65D2571/00277
- B65D2571/00302
- B65D2571/00444
- B65D2571/00574
- B65D2571/0066
- B65D2571/00759
- B65D2571/00765
- B65D2571/00845
- IPC, 1
- B65D71 00
Designated states31
- Contracting states, 31
- Austria
- Belgium
- Bulgaria
- Switzerland
- Cyprus
- Czechia
- Germany
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Spain
- Finland
- France
- United Kingdom
- Greece
- Hungary
- Ireland
- Iceland
- Italy
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Latvia
- Monaco
- Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
and 7 moreShow fewer
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- Sweden
- Slovenia
- Slovakia
- Türkiye