Carton For Bottles
AssigneeAmcor Limited
InventorsKym Artis, Graeme Hawke
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Abstract
According to the present invention there is provided a carton suitable for transporting bottles, the carton including: i) a series of side wall panels that are interconnected and form an enclosure and can be manipulated from an empty collapsed orientation for storage in a space saving manner to an assembled orientation into which bottles can be loaded; and ii) an internal wall structure positioned inside and connected to the side wall panels at pre-selected locations such that as the enclosure is manipulated from the collapsed orientation to the assembled orientation the internal wall structure is located in an operative position which defines separate compartments each adapted to receive a bottle and thereby avoid bottles loaded into the carton from contacting each other.
Claims17
A carton suitable for transporting bottles, the carton including:
- i) a series of side wall panels that are interconnected and form an enclosure and can be manipulated from an empty collapsed orientation for storage in a space saving manner to an assembled orientation into which bottles can be loaded;
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- ii) an internal wall structure positioned inside the enclosure and including a) a central divider that is connected to only one of the side wall panels and b) lateral dividers that extend from the central divider only and are connected to the side wall panels at pre-selected locations such that as the enclosure is manipulated from the collapsed orientation to the assembled orientation the central and lateral dividers are located in an operative position which define separate compartments each adapted to receive a bottle.
A method for packaging bottles into a carton including a) a series of side wall panels that are interconnected and can form an enclosure;
- and b) an internal wall structure positioned inside the enclosure, the internal wall structure including a central divider that is connected to only one of the side wall panels and lateral dividers that extent from the central divider only and are connected to the side wall panels at pre-selected locations, and the method includes:
- i) manipulating the orientation of the carton from a collapsed orientation in which the carton can be stored in a space saving manner to an assembled operative orientation in which the internal wall structure defines a series of compartments that are each adapted to receive a bottle and the internal wall structure is adapted to avoid bottles loaded into adjacent compartments from contacting each other;
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- ii) loading bottles into the compartments.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.