Flip-top cartons
CA 2023664 C · Owner: Tobacco Research And Development Institute Limited · Inventors: Lamm, Klaus Peter
Overview
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A carton (11) with parallel flat front and rear surfaces joined by curved sides and a flip-top lid (10) hinged to the carton. The carton is composed of two superimposed layers adhesively secured at a joint line at lapped edges. The outer layer is slit along its front surface parallel to the carton ends and along upwardly extending curves around the sides to a fold line parallel to and raised above the front slit and the inner layer (12) has a cutout in its front surface above the front slit of the outer layer. The cutout curves upwardly short of the sides where tags (13) are cut out of the sides of the inner layer and the outer layer overlaps the inner layer at the carton ends. Top and …
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- Filed August 21, 1990 and granted March 18, 1997. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended August 21, 2010.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by August 21, 2012.
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