Cup carrier

Abstract

A single folded fiberboard carrier for an even number of drinking vessels of varying shapes and sizes, having a central vertical suspending handle portion or section, and a pair of depending hinged apertured panels for clamping the conical or frusto-conical sides of drinking cups when suspended in the carrier, and for preventing tilting or spilling of the contents in the cups when the carrier is at rest and the cups are supported on their bottoms. The vertical handle portion is apertured for grasping with the fingers of one's hand and has depending therefrom tabs for engaging the rims of the smaller cups to prevent them from falling through their clamping apertures. Hinged divergently downwardly extending from each side of the handle portion are panels having elongated cup body engaging apertures, which may have inwardly extending tabs. At the outer edges of these diverging panels are hingedly supported downwardly and inwardly converging panels with elongated slightly smaller apertures vertically aligned with the apertures in the diverging panels. The bottom edges of the converging channels are hinged and joined together so that the carrier may be collapsed when not being used. One or more of the panels may be provided with an aperture for carrying straws for drinking the liquids in the carried cups.

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