Tamperproof reclosable carton

Claim 1

In a paperboard carton including hingedly connected receptacle front, bottom, rear and cover panels and having cover end wall panels and a cover front panel hingedly connected to said cover panel, glue flaps hingedly connected to said rear panel, and receptacle end wall panels hingedly connected to said bottom panel, said cover end wall panels, said glue flaps and said receptacle end wall panels being adhered together into a unified end wall construction at each end of the carton, a tamperproof carton opening and reclosure construction comprising a. a front corner flap hingedly attached to the forward side edge of each of said receptacle end wall panels, said corner flaps being in overlying but unadhered relationship to respective end portions of said front panel, and b. an extension tab hingedly connected to a side edge of each front corner flap, said extension tabs being adhered to said bottom panel adjacent the hinge connection between said bottom panel and said front panel, c. said cover front panel being divided by a pair of transverse weakness lines into an upper section adjacent said cover panel, a central detachable section and a lower section, the combined width of said upper section and said central section being equal to the height of said receptacle front panel, d. said lower section of said cover front panel being in overlying, adhered relationship to said extension tabs and to a portion of said bottom panel between said extension tabs and adjacent the hinge connection between said bottom panel and said front panel, e. said upper section of said cover front panel being adapted, after removal of said detachable central section, to tuck between the outer surface of the carton front panel and the overlying, but unadhered front corner flaps, thereby effecting a reclosure of the carton.