Transporting/dispensing package for plural beverages
AssigneeBIB Pak, Inc.
InventorJames F. Geshay
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Abstract
A transporting/dispensing package for plural beverages including a carton (10), a pair of flaccid bags (12, 14) within the carton each bag having a fill spout (34, 36) secured to one of two sections (56, 58) of a spout-securing panel and a dispensing device (30, 32) secured to a front panel (22), and a bag-separation panel (46) between the bags. A pre-erected carton formed of a unitary blank and two flaccid bags, such pre-erected carton being easily erectable to form a package, and a method for transporting and dispensing more than one beverage.
Claims27
A beverage transporting and dispensing package comprising:
- a carton having front and rear panels and first and second spaced side panels extending between the front and rear panels, the panels having upper and lower portions and together defining a chamber and an upper opening;
- a spout-securing panel extending into the upper opening, the spout-securing panel having upper and lower surfaces;
- two flaccid beverage bags within the chamber, each having top and bottom portions;
- a fill spout attached to the top portion of each bag, each fill spout extending through and secured with respect to the spout-securing panel;
- a dispensing device attached to the bottom portion of each bag, each dispensing device extending through and secured with respect to the lower portion of the front panel;
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- a bag-separation panel extending between the bags.
A unitary corrugated cardboard blank erectable into a carton for transporting and dispensing two beverages, comprising:
- a first rear-panel section, a first side panel, a front panel, a second side panel, and a second rear-panel section all in contiguous ordered seriatim relationship, the rear-panel sections being non-contiguous with respect to each other and having non-contiguous overlap portions which, when adhered to one another, form a rear panel of the carton;
- each of the panels and rear-panel sections having upper and lower edges and upper and lower portions and each rear-panel section also having a lateral edge terminating its overlap portion;
- first and second non-contiguous spout-panel sections contiguous with the first and second rear-panel sections, respectively, along the upper edges thereof, the spout-panel sections having non-contiguous overlap portions which, when adhered to one another, form a spout-securing panel of the carton;
- a bag-separation panel contiguous with one of the rear-panel sections along the lateral edge thereof;
- each of the spout-panel sections having a pre-cut fill aperture therein to accommodate fill spouts of two beverage bags;
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- the front panel having a pair of pre-cut dispensing apertures in the lower portion thereof to accommodate dispensing devices of the two bags.
A method for providing two beverages in amounts for consumption by multiple persons by their selective dispensing over an extended time, comprising:
- providing a unitary non-erected carton that is erectable to form an upright carton enclosing two flaccid bags in horizontally-adjacent side-by-side positions on either side of a bag-separation panel, the upright carton having a lateral wall and a pair of dispensing devices, one on each of the bags, extending through and secured to a lower portion of the lateral wall;
- erecting the carton;
- filling the two bags with two beverages and closing the bags;
- transporting the filled carton to the place of use;
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- selectively dispensing the two beverages to cups held beneath the two dispensing devices.
A beverage transporting and dispensing package comprising a unitary erectable carton which, in erected condition, has (a) a lateral wall with a lower portion, (b) two flaccid beverage bags enclosed in the carton in horizontally-adjacent side-by-side positions, (c) a bag-separation panel between the bags, and (d) a pair of dispensing devices, one on each of the bags, extending through and secured to a lower portion of the lateral wall.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.