Relating to container carriers
AssigneeBritish Polythene Limited
InventorStephen Bates
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Abstract
A clip type carrier for packaging articles of the type having a rim, bead, chime, undercut, waist or the like. The carrier comprises a first layer having a plurality of generally circular apertures and a second layer having a plurality of respective locking apertures. The locking apertures are provided with a plurality of locking tabs for engaging under an article rim in use. An aggregate effective aperture diameter, being approximately the generally circular aperture minus twice the thickness of the locking tabs, is greater than the diameter of the container rim, causing formation of a reinforcing rim at the periphery of the generally circular aperture once applied.
Claims19
A clip-type carrier for packaging articles of the type having a rim, chime, waist, undercut or the like, the clip-type carrier comprising
- a first layer having a plurality of generally circular apertures and
- a second layer having a plurality of respective locking apertures, the locking apertures are provided with a plurality locking tabs which fold through the generally circular apertures and engage an article rim or the like in use,
- wherein an interior periphery of the circular apertures of the first layer is formed with or configured to provide a reinforcing rim which supports the locking tabs so as to resist deformation thereof, the reinforcing rim having an inner edge offset in a vertical direction relative to the rest of the first layer so as to be located closer to an inner end of each of the plurality of locking apertures in the vertical direction compared to the rest of the first layer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.