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US 2006/0065555 A1Published application
Bottle carrier
OwnerJean-Michel Cambay, Alain Claisseinventors
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Abstract
A paperboard carton for carrying a plurality of bottles. The carton has a base panel, side panels, and handle panels extending upwardly from the side panels. Each handle panel includes a first handle sub-panel and a second handle sub-panel. The handle sub-panels are folded inwardly so that the second handle sub-panels are in a face-to-face relationship.
Claims32
A paperboard carton for carrying a plurality of bottles arranged in two or more rows and each having a neck portion topped with a closure, said carton comprising:
- oppositely disposed side panels;
- base panel means hingedly connected to the side panels and extending below the bottles;
- oppositely disposed top panels connected to the respective side panels, each top panel incorporating one or more openings for receiving said neck portions;
- handle panels extending from the respective top panels and being hingedly connected to each other at the top of the carton remote from the base along a top fold;
- the handle panels having aligned handle openings, each defined by first and second elongate handle sub-panels which are cut and folded out of the respective handle panel, each first handle sub-panel being hingedly connected to the handle panel along a first handle fold which is parallel to said top fold and each second handle sub-panel being hingedly connected to its associated first handle sub-panel along a second handle fold which is parallel to the first handle fold, the handle sub-panels being folded such that the two second handle sub-panels are folded inwardly to lie next to each other in face-to-face relationship.
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A paperboard carton for carrying a plurality of bottles, said carton comprising:
- oppositely disposed side panels;
- at least one base panel connected to at least one of said side panels;
- oppositely disposed top panels, one top panel being connected to each side panel, each top panel having at least one opening;
- and
- oppositely disposed handle panels, one handle panel being connected to each top panel, wherein said handle panels are operatively connected at a top of said carton, wherein
- each handle panel has a handle opening at least partially defined by a first handle sub-panel and a second handle sub-panel cut and folded out of said handle panel, and
- said first and second handle panels are folded such that said second handle sub-panels are folded inwardly in a face-to-face relationship.
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A paperboard blank, comprising:
- a first handle panel including a first handle sub-panel and a second handle sub-panel foldably connected to said first handle sub-panel;
- a second handle panel operatively connected to said first handle panel and including a first handle sub-panel and a second handle sub-panel foldably connected to said first handle sub-panel;
- a first top panel operatively connected to said first handle panel and having at least one opening;
- a second top panel operatively connected to said second handle panel and having at least one opening;
- a first side panel operatively connected to said first top panel;
- a second side panel operatively connected to said second top panel;
- and
- at least one base panel operatively connected to at least one of said side panels.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.