Easy closure carton

Claim 1

In a generally rectangular, paperboard carton having a bottom, four side walls and a top opening, a reclosable closure structure for said top opening comprising: 1. first and second flaps each hingedly joined to the upper edge of opposite side walls and adapted to be folded along each said edge into a plane substantially normal to said side walls to overlap each other and assume a closed position, said first flap being provided with a locking tab and said second flap being provided with a slit for receiving said locking tab when said flaps are moved to closed position; 2. a pair of webs, each of said webs being hingedly joined along hinge lines to a side edge of each of said first and second flaps and also hingedly joined to the upper edge of a side wall contiguous with those to which said first and second flaps are hinged, each of said webs having two lines of weakening extending from each corner formed by the intersection of the upper edges to said side walls to the free edge of said web and at an angle with the upper edge of the side wall to which said web is joined, each said hinge line on one of said webs being shorter than the hinge lines of the other said web, and said weakening lines of the web having the shorter hinge lines being shorter than the weakening lines of said other web, whereby when said flaps are moved to closed position said webs are inwardly folded on said weakening lines and are urged by said flaps into closure locking position with said web having the shorter hinge lines requiring less force to move from the closure locking position to the open position than the force required to so move the other said web.