Carrier partition arrangement

A partition arrangement for a carrier carton formed of foldable sheet material, such as paperboard or the like, for enclosing a plurality of bottles disposed in side-by-side relation, comprising;

• (a) a bottom wall;
• (b) at last one vertical wall foldably joined to and upstanding from said bottom wall;
• (c) a partition structure formed from material of said vertical wall and said bottom wall, including:
• (i) a first member having a vertical element foldably joined at an end edge to said vertical wall on a first fold line, and a horizontal element foldably joined at one edge to said bottom wall, foldably joined at another edge to a lower edge of said vertical element, and disposed in face-to-face relation with said bottom wall;
• (ii) a second member foldably joined at an end edge to said vertical wall on a second fold line located parallel to but spaced laterally from said first fold line;
• (iii) said second member being formed from material of said first member and other material of said vertical wall;
• (iv) said members being folded out of the plane of said vertical wall with their respective end portions positioned in face-to-face relation with each other between a pair of adjacent bottles to provide a partition structure of two-ply thickness.