Sleeve style beverage package

Claim 1

A sleeve-style beverage package, comprising: (a) a bottom panel; (b) a pair of side panels hingedly attached to opposite sides of the bottom panel; (c) a pair of overlapping outer and inner top panels hingedly attached to opposite sides of the side panels; (d) end flaps hingedly attached to opposite sides of the side panels; (e) top and bottom glue flaps hingedly attached to opposite sides of the top and bottom panels; (f) adhesive means, formed on the top and bottom glue flaps, for adhesively securing the end flaps to the glue flaps to enclose the ends of the package; (g) primary top panel locking means formed on the overlapping top panels to lock the top panels together the primary top panel locking means comprising a plurality of male tabs on the outer top panel and a plurality of female tab receiving slots on the inner top panel; and (h) handle means, formed in each overlapping top panel, the handle means comprising an elongated opening in the outer top panel designed for receipt of four fingers and an opening in the inner panel designed for receipt of a thumb, said finger opening and said thumb opening being adjacent and defining therebetween a double layered handle section and said finger opening and said thumb opening each having a handle tab hingedly secured thereto adjacent said double layered handle section to be folded down along the double layered handle section when fingers and a thumb are inserted into said finger and thumb openings and said handle means further comprising in part secondary top panel locking means to secondarily lock the top panels together, said secondary top panel locking means comprising a secondary male locking tab on said outer top panel which overlays the thumb opening and is inserted into the thumb opening when a thumb is inserted into the thumb opening.