restaurant might utilize a paperboard and plastic bag in box style carton in lieu of a returnable thermos to allow customers to carry multiple servings of branded coffee for use at meetings at location remote from the retail shop dispensing the beverage. Similarly, a restaurant may provide soup in a paperboard and plastic bag in box container.
Most of these containers have provided a paperboard outer shell with an opening for a spout on a front vertical panel or forward directed angled panel. When the opening is on the front vertical panel, in order to fill the bag, the container is rested on its back. In these designs, a handle, if any, protrudes from the top of the paperboard box. Paperboard bag in boxes have been shipped to customersin three general fashions. In one fashion the box is shipped as a paperboard blank to be folded and assembled with the plastic bag at the retail location. In a second form, the components are shipped and the assembly requires the use of adhesives. In a third form, the bag is inserted into an assembled box which is collapsed and shipped to the retail location where it need only be expanded to its full size by unfolding. The use of unassembled paperboard blanks is not entirely satisfactory since retail establishment employees must be trained to the proper assembly of the box and bag structure. Heretofore, the collapsed assembled boxes have also suffered from shortcomings in that the handle structures have not been sturdy and the box must necessarily