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US 4,098,403 AGranted
Beverage carrier
AssigneeSweetheart Plastics, Inc.
InventorPaul Davis
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Abstract
A cup carrier having a band made of resilient plastic material and having a plurality of cup engaging sections, each of which is intended to surround more than half the circumference of a cup. A web for supporting the cups from the bottoms is suspended beneath the band by a plurality of downwardly converging strips. The carrier is nestable with other identical carriers.
Claims7
A cup carrier comprising
- an upper band adapted to engage the side walls of a plurality of cups intermediate their tops and bottoms,
- said band forming at least two cup engaging sections each being generally arcuate in shape and having an angular extent of more than 180.degree. so as to surround more than half the circumference of the cup, said cup engaging sections being flexible to enable the sections to be flexed outwardly to effectively increase their diameter so that they may receive any one of a plurality of different cups of a diameter greater than the normal diameter of each section,
- a plurality of strips connected and extending downwardly from spaced points on the band,
- a web connected to the strips for supporting the bottoms of cups in the carrier,
- said band, strips and web being integrally molded of a plastic material,
- and said strips converging in a downwardly direction enabling identical carriers to be nested with the band, strips and web of one carrier being disposed in close proximity to the band, strips and web of another carrier.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.