A folding box made from boxboard, used for consumer quantities of product. A carton is not recognized as a shipping container.
A 4/5 bushel box or 1/2 field box.
a box made of cardboard; opens by flaps on top
a box made of thick paper
a light box or case for holding goods
Full-size model for a work of art, mostly used for frescoes, mosaics, stained-glass windows and draperies. The artist would draw or paint a sketch on the carton, usually paper. He himself or someone else would transfer the design onto the final underground. Well known cartons are the ones Raphael made for the draperies in the Sistine Chapel, for example this one.
Corrugated containers into which boxes or bulk packed envelopes are placed for shipment.
A shell egg packaging container, generally made of cardboard or foam, that encloses the egg on all sides. Cartons are designed to protect and restrain the movement of individual shell eggs during shipping and handling. The standard sized egg carton holds 12 eggs, referred to as a dozen eggs, the smaller sized carton holds 6, and the larger version holds 18 eggs.
Refers to a standard box of paper. The number of sheets in a carton varies for large printing sheets, but typically is 10 reams for cut-size papers (e.g. copy paper in a retail store). Some office products stores have recently introduced 5-ream "cartons," so it's wise to double-check how much paper to expect in your supplier's carton.
Shipping unit of paper containing anywhere from 500 to 3,000 sheets and weighing approximately 150 pounds.
Selling unit of paper weighing approximately 150 pounds (60 kilos). A carton can contain anywhere from 500 to 5,000 sheets, depending on the size of sheets and their basis weight.
a container made from folding boxboard and supplied flat for erection when filling.
Carton is the name of certain objects typically made from the material cardboard, the word's original (French) meaning.