Container carrier
AssigneeIllinois Tool Works Inc.
InventorLeslie S. Marco
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Abstract
A package for unitizing a plurality of containers that includes a flexible carrier having an array of container receiving apertures formed in longitudinal rows and transverse ranks wherein each container receiving aperture engages with a respective container of the plurality of containers and includes an outer band having a sufficiently narrow width to result in permanent yield following stretching engagement with and application to a respective container and a secondary package positioned with respect to the carrier and containers to form a unitized package.
Claims10
A package for unitizing a plurality of containers comprising:
- a flexible carrier having an array of container receiving apertures formed in longitudinal rows and transverse ranks wherein each container receiving aperture engages with a respective container of the plurality of containers and includes an outer band having a sufficiently narrow width to result in permanent yield following stretching engagement with and application to a respective container;
- and a secondary package positioned with respect to the carrier and containers.
A method of packaging a plurality of containers into a unitized package comprising:
- providing a flexible carrier having an array of container receiving apertures formed in longitudinal rows and transverse ranks with a plurality of corresponding containers;
- stretching the flexible carrier along outer bands of the container receiving apertures to permanently yield the outer bands to form a plurality of necked container receiving apertures;
- engaging the necked container receiving apertures with the corresponding containers;
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- applying a secondary package with respect to the carrier and containers.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.