Folding carton with prefitted interior wrapping

Claim 1

A method for making a flattened foldable carton with a prefitted interior wrapping liner, the method comprising the steps of: die-cutting a flat blank for the carton to a predetermined length and width and to create side wall corner connections; tacking a central portion of a sheet of wrapping material to the blank at a location thereon selected to be the bottom of the carton; creasing the blank and sheet of wrapping material to create side wall fold lines, a four-sided hinged border between the carton bottom and side walls, wherein said wrapping material has a border-corresponding peripheral crease around the central portion of the wrapping material; folding the creased blank to erect the side walls to be normal to said carton bottom wherein said wrapping material has untacked remaining portions of the sheet being folded at said peripheral crease to create a pair of overlapping side flaps in one direction and folded end flaps in the transverse direction capable of being folded to overlie said overlapping side flaps in a combined flattened arrangement over said carton bottom; securing the die cut corners of the side walls to form a continuously connected side wall around the carton bottom; and, folding the carton side walls at said fold lines toward the carton bottom to overlie side wall-adjacent margins of the folded wrapping material and thereby securing the wrapping material in a folded arrangement between the side walls and carton bottom; said carton and folded wrapping material thereby being provided in a generally flattened arrangement.

Claim 2

A method for making a flattened foldable carton with a prefitted interior wrapping liner, the method comprising the steps of: die-cutting a flat blank for the carton to a predetermined length and width and to create side wall corner connections; tacking a central portion of a sheet of wrapping material to the blank at a location thereon selected to be the bottom of the carton; creasing the blank and sheet of wrapping material to create side wall fold lines, a four-sided hinged border between the carton bottom and side walls, wherein said wrapping material has a border-corresponding peripheral crease around the central portion of the wrapping material; folding the creased blank to erect the side walls to be normal to said carton bottom wherein said wrapping material has untacked remaining portions of the sheet being folded at said peripheral crease to create a pair of overlapping side flaps in one direction and folded end flaps in the transverse direction capable of being folded to overlie said overlapping side flaps in a combined flattened arrangement over said carton bottom; securing the die cut corners of the side walls to form a continuously connected side wall around the carton bottom; and, folding the carton side walls at said fold lines toward the carton bottom to overlie side wall-adjacent margins of the folded wrapping material and thereby securing the wrapping material in a folded arrangement between the side walls and carton bottom; said carton and folded wrapping material thereby being provided in a generally flattened arrangement.