Bottle carrier

An upwardly opening collapsible carrier for a plurality of articles having the general form of beverage bottles which carrier is fabricated from a single elongate blank of foldable sheet material which is cut and scored so as to divide it into a series of integrally connected panels adapted to be folded and secured together so as to form a double row of upwardly opening article receiving cells disposed on opposite sides of a central article separating partition and handle forming structure, said central partition and handle forming structure comprising a pair of upstanding panels secured in face to face relation which are connected to each other at the top edges on an integral fold line and which are integrally connected in hinged relation at opposite ends to a handle reinforcing panel and a handle cover panel said handle reinforcing and cover panels being folded down along said top edges and secured to opposite outer faces of the handle forming top portions of said pair of upstanding panels, said central position and handle structure being hingedly connected at its opposite ends to vertical edges of a pair of hingedly connected foldable end wall forming panels each of which constitutes the inboard one of a pair thereof at the end of each double row of article receiving cells, the outermost vertical edge of the outboard one of said end wall panels being hingedly connected to the end edge of a vertical sidewall forming panel, and each sidewall forming panel being integrally connected in hinged relation at its bottom edge to the outboard edge of a pair of collapsible bottom wall forming panels which have their opposite edges integrally connected in hinged relation to the bottom edges of said full depth panels of said partition and handle structure, the cells in each of said double row of cells being defined in part by an upstanding partition wall which extends between the rows and which has opposite end portions hinged to adjoining vertical edges of said pairs of end wall panels so as to enable the double row of cells on each side of said central partition and separating wall structure to be folded, when empty, into flattened relation against said central separating partition and handle forming structure.

A cut and scored blank of foldable sheet material for fabricating a multi-cellular basket style carrier for articles having the general form of beverage bottles which are supported in a double row of cells arranged on opposite sides of a central partition and handle structure, said blank comprising a generally rectangular sheet of the material which is divided by a pair of parallel, transversely spaced, longitudinally extending, partly scored, partly cut lines, into a longitudinally extending central wall panel forming section and side marginal partition forming panel sections, said central section being divided by a series of parallel, longitudinally spaced transversely extending score lines into sidewall forming panels at opposite ends of the blank, bottom wall forming panels adjoining the sidewall panels and center partition and handle forming wall panels which are disposed on opposite sides of the central one of the transverse score lines which constitutes a transverse center line and divides the blank into two equal sections, the side marginal section at one side margin of the blank being cut and scored to provide end wall and partition forming panels extending from the sidewall and the partition and handle forming panels, respectively, on opposite sides of said transverse center line, and a handle forming panel interposed between the panels which extend from the adjoining center partition and handle forming panels and the side marginal section at the other side of the blank being cut and scored to provide end wall and partition forming panels extending from the sidewall and the partition and handle forming panels, respectively, on opposite sides of the transverse center line, and a handle forming panel interposed between the end wall and partition forming panels which extend from the partition and handle forming panels on said other side of the blank, said partition forming panels on said one side of the blank which extend from the partition and handle forming panels having cut therein cross partition panel members which are positioned to hinge about transversely spaced score lines which extend longitudinally of the blank.