CARTON HAVING STACKING STRENGTH-ENHANCING FEATURE

摘要

A method of forming a carton containing a group of articles, which method comprises disposing sets of articles on spaced apart loading panels of a carton blank so that the article sets are spaced apart with an unloaded further panel of the carton blank disposed between the article sets, the method comprising raising the spaced loading panels together with the respective sets of articles to transfer the sets of articles to the unloaded further panel so that said unloaded further panel becomes a loaded base of the carton and those spaced apart loading panels become opposed side panels of the carton.