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US 10,961,015 · App. 16/420,426 · Granted Mar 30, 2021

Locking folding carton

Inventor: Lesley Bethune-Bates (Rochester, NY)
Assignee: Diamond Packaging
B65D5/6691B65D5/6688
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 10,961,015
App. No.
16/420,426
Granted
Mar 30, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

A locking folding carton includes an insert having a product cavity and at one end a pull tab; and an outer carton having a hinged lid having an angled opening at one end and a finger notch at the other end, wherein the combined insert and carton allows for a voided space inside of the carton adjacent the pull tab end while the insert is within the carton in a closed position, and wherein the hinge and the geometry of the angled lid opening prevents the lid from being opened while the insert is within the carton in a closed position and wherein the insert is moveable within the outer carton to an open position with the voided space inside of the carton adjacent the angled opening end and wherein the hinge and the geometry of the angled lid opening allows the lid to be opened while the insert is within the carton in the open position.

Claims (10)

1. A locking folding carton comprising:

an insert configured to fit within an outer carton, the insert comprising a product cavity and having a pull tab at a first insert end; and

the outer carton comprising a hinged lid having an angled opening at a first outer carton end and a finger notch at a second outer carton end, wherein the combined insert and outer carton comprises a voided space inside of the carton adjacent the pull tab and second outer carton end with the insert pull tab inside the carton while the insert is within the carton in a locked position, and wherein the hinge and the geometry of the angled lid opening prevents the lid from being opened while the insert is within the carton in the locked position, and wherein the insert is moveable within the outer carton wherein the insert pull tab extends outside the carton to an unlocked position comprising the voided space inside of the carton adjacent the angled opening outer carton first end and wherein the hinge and the geometry of the angled lid opening allows the lid to be opened while the insert is within the carton in the unlocked position.

2. A locking folding carton comprising:

an insert configured to be moveable and fit within an outer carton, the insert comprising a product cavity and having a graspable member and adjacent void space at a first insert end; and

the outer carton comprising a hinged lid having an angled opening at a first outer carton end and a notch at a second outer carton end, wherein a locked position comprises the insert disposed within the outer carton with the graspable member and adjacent void space disposed at the second outer carton notch end and the hinged lid closed, and wherein an unlocked position comprises the insert disposed within the outer carton occupying the void space with the graspable member extending beyond the second outer carton notched end.

3. The carton of claim 2 , wherein the graspable end comprises a pull tab.

4. The carton of claim 2 , further comprising an open position wherein the hinged lid is open in the unlocked position.

5. The carton of claim 2 , wherein the hinged lid and the geometry of the angled opening prevents the lid from being opened in the locked position.

6. The carton of claim 2 , wherein the product cavity is exposed in the open position.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 3, 2019
From: BETHUNE-BATES, LESLEY
To: DIAMOND PACKAGING
Reel/Frame 049345/0105 →
Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 62675466 · May 23, 2018
Related Publication 20190359376A1 · Nov 28, 2019
Cited By (2)
US 12,304,707 US 12,420,995