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A shipping carton is converted to use as a display carton using perforated lines and precut openings that together define a line circumscribing the carton. At any location at which the perforated line crosses an edge of the carton of another perforated line, a precut opening provides a clean separat

A shipping carton is converted to use as a display carton using perforated lines and precut openings that together define a line circumscribing the carton. At any location at which the perforated line crosses an edge of the carton of another perforated line, a precut opening provides a clean separation. Additionally, no section of the perforated lines parallels an adjacent fold line.

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What is claimed is: 1. A method of making a carton for shipping and displaying a product, said method comprising: a) forming a cardboard blank for a carton, said forming step comprising the steps of: cutting a sheet of cardboard to form a blank for a carton, forming a plurality of fold lines in sai

What is claimed is: 1. A method of making a carton for shipping and displaying a product, said method comprising: a) forming a cardboard blank for a carton, said forming step comprising the steps of: cutting a sheet of cardboard to form a blank for a carton, forming a plurality of fold lines in said blank, forming a plurality of perforated lines and precut openings in said blank that define an opening line by which adjacent portions of said carton can be separated; b) folding said blank into a desired shape; and c) fastening at least one portion of said blank to a second portion of said blank to hold said blank in said desired shape; wherein said opening line crosses at least one fold line of said carton; wherein any portion of said opening line that crosses a fold line of said carton is formed by a precut opening. 2. The method of claim 1, wherein said step c) comprises gluing a first flap to a second. 3. The method of claim 1, wherein said step a) comprises cutting a sheet of corrugated cardboard. 4. The method of claim 1, wherein said perforated lines formed in said step a) do not parallel adjacent ones of said fold lines formed in said step a). 5. The method of claim 1, wherein step a) provides that at any point where two of said perforated lines intersect, an opening is cut. 6. The method of claim 1, wherein step a) provides that each of said perforated lines begins with a lead perforation having a length of ½ to 1 inch. 7. The method of claim 1, wherein the perforations and lands of said perforated lines created in step a) are ⅛ to ½ inches in length, with the exception of a lead perforation, which is longer.