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US 3,977,518 AGranted
Bottle package
AssigneeFederal Paper Board Company, Inc.
InventorEdwin L. Arneson
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AssigneeFederal Paper Board Company, Inc.
InventorEdwin L. Arneson
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A wraparound type carrier package for a group of bottles arranged in row relation and transversely aligned pairs, which carrier is especially adapted for use in the marketing of bottled beverages, wherein the bottles are designed to be returned to the store or bottling plant for reuse or recycling, the package being formed from a flat blank of paperboard or similar foldable sheet material which is cut and scored so that it may be wrapped in the form of an open ended tube about the top and bottom of two rows of bottles in transversely aligned relation with the end margins of the end panels of the blank having co-operating, interengaging locking elements and having means for restraining top and bottom portions of the endmost bottles against movement out of the ends of the tube. A handle structure is provided by a pair of panels which are cut from the center of the material in the top wall forming panel and folded down about a common, transverse fold line into a generally vertical plane, leaving apertures in the top wall forming areas adjoining the handle structure through which bottles in these areas may be removed without otherwise disturbing the package.
In a wraparound type package for a group of bottles or the like arranged in double row relation and in transversely aligned pairs, a tubular container formed from a blank of foldable sheet material which is wrapped about the top, opposite sides and bottom of said group of bottles, said container comprising a top wall forming panel disposed on the top of the bottles, adjoining side wall forming panels extending along the outermost sides of the bottles in the two rows, and co-operating bottom wall forming panels folded beneath the bottles, which bottom wall forming panels have overlapped marginal portions with interengaging locking elements connecting said panels, means for restraining the bottles at the bottom thereof against movement out of the ends of the tubular container, means at the opposite ends of the top wall forming panel for restraining the endmost bottles against movement out of the ends of the container, and a handle forming structure extending in a vertical transverse plane which comprises panels cut in part from the top wall forming panel and disposed in downwardly folded relation from a transverse hinge line in the plane of the top wall forming panel, said handle panels being positioned between center pairs of bottles, and said handle panels having opposite end portions which are connected to the adjoining side wall forming panels by triangular web members and which are provided with finger accommodating apertures.
A carton for a package comprising an assembly of articles in the form of bottles which are arranged in double row, transversely aligned pairs and enclosed in said carton, said carton being in the form of a tube of foldable sheet material with connected wall forming panels which are disposed about the top, sides and bottom of the articles when the assembly of articles is enclosed in said carton, said carton having side and bottom wall forming panels with means for restraining the articles at the bottom against movement out of the ends of the carton, said carton having a top wall forming panel with means at the opposite ends to restrain top portions of the endmost articles against endwise displacement and a pair of handle panels which are taken from a center portion of said top wall forming panel and which depend from a transverse hinge line so as to extend downwardly between transversely aligned pairs of the articles which are disposed in the areas adjoining said handle panels, said handle panels co-operating in forming a handle structure depending in a plane extending transversely of the carton and enabling removal and replacement of the articles without destruction of the article restraining and carrying capabilities of the carton.
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