Reclosable carton

Claim 1

IN A PAPERBOARD CARTON HAVING A BOTTOM AND A THEREFROM UPSTANDING PLURALITY OF SIDE AND END WALLS, ONE OF THE MENTIONED SIDE WALLS HAVING OPPOSITE END FLAPS IN HINGED CONNECTING RELATION THERETO AND ADAPTED, WHEN THE CORTON IS ERECT, TO BE IN SURFACE TO SURFACE CONTACT WITH THE MENTIONED CARTON END WALLS, A CLOSURE COVER IN HINGED CONNECTION RELATION WITH AND ALONG AN EDGE OF THE OTHER OF THE CARTON SIDE WALLS, THE COVER HAVING A FLAP ALONG AND IN HINGED CONNECTING RELATION TO ONE EDGE OF THE COVER AND SPACED FROM AND EXTENDING PARALLEL TO THE MENTIONED HINGED CONNECTION OF THE COVER AND THE MENTIONED OTHER SIDE WALL OF THE CARTON; THE PROVISION OF A FLAP OF A SUBSTANTIALLY M-SHAPE FLAP HAVING A BODY SPINE PORTION AND END LEG PORTIONS AT OPPOSITE ENDS OF THE BODY SPINE PORTION AND EXTENDING FROM THE UPPERMOST EDGES OF THE END FLAPS, THE BODY SPINE PORTION BEING OF AN ELONGATED SHAPE EXTENDING A LENGTH SUBSTANTIALLY EQUAL TO THE LENGTH OF THE FIRST MENTIONED CARTON SIDE WALL, THE FLAP HAVING A PAIR OF LINEALLY EXTENDING SCORES BY WHICH THE LEG PORTIONS ARE SET OFF FROM AND ARE IN HINGED CONNECTING RELATION TO THE MENTIONED END FLAPS TO THEREBY SUPPORT THE FLAP BODY SPINE PORTION IN SPACED PARALLEL RELATION TO THE UPPERMOST EDGE OF THE FIRST MENTIONED CARTON SIDE WALL, THE M-SHAPE FLAP HAVING A SECOND PAIR OF LINEALLY EXTENDING SCORES THAT ARE ALIGNED WITH THE LINES OF HINGED CONNECTIONS BETWEEN THE MENTIONED END FLAPS AND THE FIRST MENTIONED CARTON SIDE WALL AND BY WHICH THE FLAP BODY SPINE PORTION IS SET OFF FROM THE RESPECTIVE END PORTIONS, THE BODY SPINE PORTION OF THE FLAP HAVING A TONGUE SUBSTANTIALLY EQUAL IN LENGTH TO THE DISTANCE BETWEEN THE MENTIONED SECOND PAIR OF SCORES AND EXTENDING FROM THE BODY SPINE PORTION INTO THE SPACE BETWEEN THE END LEG PORTIONS TOWARD THE MENTIONED UPPERMOST EDGE OF THE FIRST MENTIONED CARTON SIDE WALL AND ADAPTED, WHEN THE FLAP IS MOVED ON THE FIRST MENTIONED PAIR OF SCORES, TO LOCATE THE LEG PORTIONS THEREOF IN CONTACT WITH THE SURFACES OF THE MENTIONED END FLAPS AND TO SUPPORT THE BODY SPINE PORTION IN A DOWNWARDLY SPACED BUT PARALLEL RELATION WITH THE UPPERMOST SIDE EDGE OF THE FIRST MENTIONED CARTON SIDE WALL AND IN CONTACT WIHT THE INSIDE SURFACE THEREOF TO SUPPORT THE TONGUE EXTENDING UPWARD TOWARD THE MENTIONED UPPERMOST SIDE EDGE OF THE FIRST MENTIONED CARTON SIDE WALL, ADHESIVE SECURING MEANS BETWEEN AND IN ENGAGEMENT WITH THE INNER SURFACE OF THE FIRST MENTIONED CARTON SIDE WALL AND THE THERETO FACING SURFACE OF THE MENTIONED FLAP BODY SPINE PORTION TO THEREBY SUPPORT THE BODY SPINE PORTION AGAINST MOVEMENT AND THE TONGUE FOR LIMITED MOVEMENT RELATIVE TO THE FIRST MENTIONED CARTON SIDE WALL WHEN THE CLOSURE FLAP IS INSERTED BETWEEN THE TONGUE AND THE FIRST MENTIONED SIDE WALL OF THE CARTON, IN WHICH THE FIRST MENTIONED CARTON SIDE WALL HAS AN UPPERMOST RE-ENTRANT EDGE PROVIDING A SHALLOW ELONGATED NOTCH EXTENDING NEARLY THE ENTIRE LENGTH OF THE FIRST MENTIONED CARTON SIDE WALL AND, IN ADDITION, HAS TWO SLITS EXTENDING INWARDLY FROM POINTS ON THE NOTCH FORMING REENTRANT EDGE SPACED FROM EACH OTHER FORMING THEREBETWEEN A LIP FLAP ON THE NOTCH FORMING RE-ENTRANT EDGE OF THE FIRST MENTIONED CARTON SIDE WALL IN ENGAGEMENT WITH THE TONGUE AND IN AN AREA OVER WHICH THE TONGUE EXTENDS.