Beverage-can carry-carton easy grab finger-aperture

摘要

An ergonomic handling improvement for popular beverage-can cartons of the 12-pack and 20-pack paperboard sleeve type carton presenting six ad-graphics bearing panels extending in parallelpied manner around perifery of the internally enshrouded cans; a conventional perforated carry-handle typically located mid-way along the right/side-panel is intended to enable the shopper to lift the carton into their shopping-cart. However, in most instances a shopper finds this carry-handle is not initially accessible, owing the usually tightly packed array of the retail-store shelves. Disclosed is a novel finger-aperture grab-hole critically located atop the vertical spatial-void defined by the foremost quad-cluster of cans, conveniently enabling the shopper to readily snag the carton using one or two fingers, and thereby withdraw the carton from amongst the intimately packed array; whereupon the shopper is able to thereby access the existing carry-handle, and optionally use coordinated effort of both secured hand holds to lift the carton away to their shopping-cart.

主权项

1.) An improvement for beverage-can cartons of the sort having a smooth imperforate top-surface posing difficulty for a shopper to acquire such carton from amongst a tightly stacked retail-store shelf; the improved carton comprising:
a parallelpied arrangement of integrally formed paperboard panels imprinted exteriorily with brand-identification graphics and fold-scoring at appropriate intervals enabling it to extend substantially around the snugly grouped beverage-cans, thereby including a top-panel and an opposed bottom-panel, opposed left and right side-panels, a front-panel formed from a pair of opposed overlapping closure-flaps and an opposed rear-panel also formed from a pair of opposed overlapping closure-flaps; and a primarily perforated circular or oval tab formation having a partially scored portion thereto serving provisionally as a flexile hinge, whereto a shopper may punch-in said tab causing said perforation to avulse enabling said tab to hingedly depend into a vertical spatial-void centered thereunder owing the fixed quad-cluster grouping of vertically disposed beverage-can axes, as to thereby provide a novel finger-aperture means; whereto shopper may thus insert one or more fingers of their hand through said finger-aperture and down into said vertical spatial-void, and upon bending their inserted finger at the second-joint thereby effectively forming an L-shaped finger-snag means by which said carton is thereby acquired by slidably withdrawing the selected carton outward from the shelf-front to which the adjoining cartons remain aligned.