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US 3,942,631 AGranted
Multi-unit packaging method and package
AssigneeFederal Paper Board Company, Inc.
InventorsRobert L. Sutherland, Frederick E. Naumann
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AssigneeFederal Paper Board Company, Inc.
InventorsRobert L. Sutherland, Frederick E. Naumann
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A system for supplying to jobbers, in packaged form, quantities of bottled or canned beverages, or other products, similarly packaged, which enables the jobbers to readily convert the cartons, in which the packaged products are shipped, into display cases or trays, by removing portions of the shipping containers without disturbing the contents, so as to display and provide access to the multi-unit packages, and wherein the multi-unit packages are formed by tightly wrapping a cut and scored paperboard blank about the top, bottom and sides of an assembly of the bottles or cans which wrapper blank is provided with tear lines or areas near the bottom on opposite sides of the wrapper which enable the major portion of the wrapper to be torn off by an upward pull on top portions of the wrapper without the need for access to the sides thereof and which leaves the individual bottles or cans undisturbed but accessible for ready removal individually.
A method of packaging for use in supplying bottled or canned products to a distributor which comprises enclosing a group of the individual product units, which are arranged in double row, transversely aligned pairs, in a wrapper forming blank, which blank is cut and scored to provide a package having a top wall, oppositely disposed side walls, and a bottom wall, with both side walls of said package having tear strip areas adjacent the bottom side edges thereof, which tear strip areas are formed so as to resist tearing under normal lifting of the package by grasping the top wall while enabling the top portions of both side walls to be torn loose by an upward pull which applies an upwardly directed force to the top portion of each side wall while upward movement of the product units is restrained, and enclosing one or more of the packaged groups in a shipping container of the tubular type having bottom and top closure elements and having in the peripheral side walls tearing or cutting lines which enable the uppermost portion of the container to be readily separated and removed from the remainder thereof so as to leave a display tray with the contents remaining therein and the top portions thereof exposed for ready removal of the entire top portions of the package wrapper, when desired, without removal of the package from the tray and without full access to at least one of the wrapper covered side walls of the package.
A package comprising an outer shipping container of generally tubular form with top and bottom closure flaps connecting the top and bottom edges of peripheral side walls, said side walls having tearing or cutting lines which enable the topmost portions of said container to be readily separated from the bottommost portions so as to leave an open tray and expose the contents, and one or more packages of product units in the form of bottles or cans enclosed in said shipping container, which packages comprise a group of said product units arranged in a row, or in a double row with the product units aligned in pairs transversely, and a wrapper of paperboard, or the like, enclosing said product units which wrapper provides a top wall, depending side walls and a side wall connecting bottom wall, said side walls having tear line formations therein spaced a relatively short distance from the bottom wall which resist tearing under normal lifting of the package by grasping the top wall but which enable the top portions of the wrapper to be torn away by exerting a predetermined upward pull on the top portions of said side wall panels while restraining the upward movement of the product units.
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