| Carton is the name of certain objects
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| | rule are irregularly shaped products,
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| typically made from the material
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| | like televisions, in which case styrofoam
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| cardboard, the word's original (French)
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| | inserts are used to standardize the
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| meaning.
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| | shape.
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| Artistic design
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| | Materials
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| In art history, the carton (pronounced
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| | Despite the name, cartons can be made
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| the French way) was a drawing on ordinary
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| | from many materials, and in fact are
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| cardboard, used as life-size design for
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| | often a composite.
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| the manufacture in an atelier of a
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| | Most common is the familiar corrugated
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| valuable tapissery, such as a gobelin.
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| | cardboard, made by folding cardboard into
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| During the weaving it hung behind the
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| | a rough semblance of a sine wave, and
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| tapissery in the making, a time-consuming
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| | then pressing it between two more pieces
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| process thus in a creative sense
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| | of cardboard. Because of the triangular
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| simplified to 'mechanical'
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| | shape of the cavities, the addition of
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| painting-by-numbers.
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| | corrugation greatly increases the
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| As these were extremely valuable, often
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| | strength of the container.
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| commanded by the very richest art-buyers,
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| | Often, cartons are made out of a single
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| including princes who hung them in their
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| | piece of cardboard, when the strength of
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| palaces and even took them on their
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| | corrugated cardboard isn't needed. Quite
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| travels as prestigious displays of
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| | often this cardboard is waxed to form a
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| wealth, often with a visual message,
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| | moisture barrier. This may serve to
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| especially the world-famous Flemish
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| | contain a liquid product or keep a powder
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| ateliers were deemed worthy to have
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| | dry.
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| cartons made by some of the greatest
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| | Plastics are another common packaging
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| graphic artists of the time, including
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| | material since they can be molded in to a
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| such celebrated painters as Rubens.
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| | container of almost any shape.
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| Packaging cartons
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| | Content
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| Types of cartons
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| | A wide variety of products, mainly foods,
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| A carton is a type of packaging,
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| | are sold in cartons. The following are a
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| generally for food. They come in many
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| | few examples:
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| different shapes; milk cartons are
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| | Labeling
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| upright boxes with spouts, egg cartons
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| | The labels on cartons generally contain
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| are long boxes with cups to hold the eggs
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| | information. Much of this information is
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| upright.
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| | considered useful by many people, because
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| Egg cartons or trays are designed to
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| | it is very informative. For example, many
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| protect eggs while in transit. There are
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| | labels have featured the following:
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| three types of raw materials which are
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| | label - indicative of the name, contents
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| used in the manufacture of egg cartons:
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| | and producer of the carton.
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| recycled paper, styrofoam and, more
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| | nutritional information
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| recently, PET.
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| | contact instructions - how to contact the
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| In North America, the three largest
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| | manufacturer in a complicated way
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| producers of egg cartons are CKF Inc.,
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| | involving hand-drawn facsimiles.
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| Hartmann North America and Pactiv
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| | ingredients - exposes the public to terms
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| Corporation.
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| | like propylene glycol for the first time.
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| Packaging history
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| An early American packaging industry
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| | contests - again, hand drawn facsimiles
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| pioneer was the Kieckhefer Container
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| | are involved. Self-addressed stamped
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| Company, which was run by John W.
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| | envelopes are also often required.
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| Kieckhefer. The company excelled in the
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| | Faces of missing children
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| use of fibre shipping containers, which
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| | Beginning in the 1980s, milk cartons in
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| especially included the paper milk
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| | the United States had faces of missing
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| carton. In 1957, through an exchange of
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| | children printed on them with headlines
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| stock, the Kieckhefer Conatiner Co.
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| | such as "Have you seen me?" and
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| holdings were merged with the Weyerhauser
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| | descriptions of the children. The hope
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| Timber Company of Tacoma, Washington.
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| | was that these photos would lead to the
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| Shape
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| | recovery of the children, and over 1,400
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| Although quite often shaped like a
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| | children were found as a direct result of
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| cuboid, it is not uncommon to find
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| | this campaign.
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| cartons lacking right angles and straight
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| | Carton-pierre
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| edges, as in squrounds used for ice
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| | Under the French name of carton pierre
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| cream. The number of corners on any given
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| | ('stone carton') a substance which is
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| carton is a function of the product it
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| | essentially papier mâché is
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| contains. For example, a product with
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| | also largely employed as a substitute for
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| eight vertices would require a box also
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| | plaster in the moulded ornaments of roofs
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| with eight corners. Exceptions to this
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| | and walls.
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