Article display and dispensing container with vertical troughs

Claim 1

An article display and dispensing container system comprising: (a) an outer container extending in a vertical longitudinal direction and transverse direction including a frontal panel and a rear panel displaced each from the other and joined each to the other by a pair of transversely displaced side panels, said outer container further including a top panel hingedly coupled to an upper section of said rear panel and a bottom panel secured to lower sections of said frontal, rear and side panels, a plurality of score lines extending transversely in the lower section of the frontal panel, said score lines further extending arcuately in at least one of said sidewalls defining a removable shelter strip member for forming an article removing aperture when said shelter strip member is removed from said frontal panel; and, (b) a plurality of vertically directed underboard members adjacently located within said outer container, each of said underboard members having a generally U-shaped cross-sectional contour forming an underboard base member and a pair of transversely inclined underboard sidewalls forming a vertically directed inclined wall trough for insert of articles therein, articles being mounted one upon the other within said inclined wall troughs for removal through said article removing aperture, each of said underboard member sidewalls having an arcuate recess formed therein within a lower section thereof for ease of removal of said articles.