Bottle carrier

A carrier for bottles or the like in two rows of one or more per row, comprising

• two bottom panels for supporting the bottoms of the bottles,
• handle means in an upper central position,
• an outer face panel extending upward from the outer edge of each bottom panel and connected by spaced strips to said handle means,
• center panel means to which the bottom panels are connected at their inner edges and which extends upward between the rows, said handle means being connected to said center panel means,
• lift struts connected to the bottom panels at points spaced longitudinally of the bottle rows on such bottom panels and within the outer halves of the bottom panels, the struts connected to each bottom panel extending upward and inward across the center plane of the bottle row on such bottom panel and having their upper ends connected to said handle means for lift by said handle means.

A carrier for bottles or the like in two rows of one or more per row, comprising

• bottom, center, outer and top panels forming two bottle-receiving containers on opposite sides of a handle plane,
• handle means in such plane connected to such containers at the top thereof, said center panels being connected to said bottom panels and said handle means,
• said container-defining panels having a quadrilateral configuration in end elevation, and being collapsible by folding opposite pairs of sides thereof against each other,
• and lift struts coupled to and extending from said handle means diagonally downward and outward across the center planes of the bottle positions in such containers and having lift connections to the bottom panels of such quadrilateral containers at points within the outer halves of the bottle positions,
• at least one of said pairs of sides and said lift struts being variable in effective length to permit such collapsing.

A carrier for bottles or the like, comprising

• container means for containing one or more bottles, said means including a plurality of panels and having an erected condition and being movable to a collapsed condition,
• a lift handle for said carrier comprising a plurality of handle layers connected to different panels of the container means, and slidable relative to each other upon collapsing of the container means, said handle layers having hand grip openings which come into registry when the container is in erect condition and being operative to hold the container in erect condition when secured against relative sliding from such registry relation,
• and a handle flap connected to the top edge of a handle layer and foldable downward, thence through the registering hand grip openings of the handle layers and thence upward, so as to secure the relatively slidable layers against sliding movement and thereby secure the carrier in erected condition,
• said handle flap having ears at its lateral edges which extend laterally from the flap so as to overlap handle layer face areas at opposite ends of the hand grip openings and thereby secure the flap in such folded condition.