Carton partition arrangement

In a basket-style carrier carton, formed of foldable paperboard, for holding a plurality of packaged articles arranged in two side-by-side rows, the combination of:

• a. opposed pairs of side and end walls and a bottom wall hingedly interconnected to form a box-like structure open at the top;
• b. a longitudinally extending center partition member, for separating said rows of articles from each other, hingedly attached to said end walls and said bottom wall;
• c. a plurality of transversely extending partition members, for separating the articles of each row from each other, each comprising:
• i. a vertical divider element having one side edge hingedly attached to said center partition member and extending in a direction normal to said center partition member;
• ii. a horizontal gusset element having one edge hingedly attached to said bottom wall and having another edge hingedly attached to a lower edge of said vertical divider element and being operable to maintain said vertical divider element in position when the carton is in erected condition.