Basket-type carrier for bottles and method of forming the same
AssigneePack Image, Inc.
InventorOrison W. Stone
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Abstract
A carrier for bottles is formed from a paperboard tube having top, button and end walls. The upper corners of the tube are gusseted so that the top wall may be swung downwardly on each side of a center line to form a center partition. The end walls have serially-connected, minor flaps and double thickness dividers which are swung inwardly around bottles at the four corners of the carrier with the dividers creating three cells on each side of the carrier. A major flap is hinged to each side of the bottle wall and is glued to the minor flaps to complete the formation of the carrier.
Claims18
A basket carrier for bottles comprising,
- four panels initially forming a tube having top, bottom and end walls,
- the top wall having at each of its four corners a gusset connection to a respective end wall,
- said top wall and gussets being folded inwardly along a central fold line to form a two-ply center partition,
- said end walls having minor flaps folded inwardly and said bottom wall having major flaps folded upwardly to form side walls spaced from said center partition, thereby providing pockets on both sides of said center partition for the receipt of bottles.
A basket carrier comprising,
- a bottom wall,
- two end walls hinged to said bottom wall,
- two side walls hinged to said bottom wall,
- and a two-ply center partition extending between said end walls, each ply of said partition being connected by a gusset structure at each end to respective end walls.
In a paperboard carrier having a center partition, a handle in the center partition comprising,
- an elongated cushion tab cut from the upper portion of said center partition,
- said cushion tab being connected to said partition by a shallow elongated arcuate score,
- said curved score limiting rotation of said cushion tab to about 90.degree. thereby providing a large flat finger-engaging surface as well as a memory causing said tab to return generally to the plane of said partition after finger pressure is removed.
The method of forming a bottle carrier comprising the steps of,
- forming a paperboard tube having a top wall, a bottom wall and two end walls, said top and end walls having gusset structures at the four upper corners of said tube,
- plowing both sides of said top wall partially downwardly to an inclined attitude,
- thrusting bottles horizontally into the four corners of said carrier against said inclined wall portions to swing said wall portions to a vertical attitude, thereby forming a two-ply center partition for said carrier,
- and forming side walls around said bottles.
The method of forming a bottle carrier comprising the steps of,
- forming a paperboard tube having a top wall, a bottom wall and two end walls,
- forming a center partition from said top wall which is perpendicular to said end walls,
- each said end wall having at opposed vertical edges a serially-connected minor side flap and divider,
- inserting bottles into four corners of said carrier against said partition,
- swinging said minor side flaps inwardly to a position parallel to said center partition,
- horizontally inserting a center bottle into each side of said carrier, said center bottle engaging and swinging said dividers inwardly about 90.degree. with respect to said minor flaps to separate the corner bottles from said center bottles,
- said bottom wall having projecting major flaps,
- and swinging said major flaps upwardly and gluing them to said minor flaps.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.