Package with surrounding binder
AssigneeBrasseries Kronenbourg
InventorsBenoit Hamelin, Brigitte Constant
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Abstract
A cardboard package for a group of bottles or any containers of a generally cylindrical shape has a flat binder encircling its lateral surfaces. The binder is held in the plane of equilibrium of the full package by deformable structures on each of the corners of the lateral surfaces. When the binder is pulled the deformable structures collapse thus reducing the periphery of the package and the excess loop of the binder can be used as a handle.
Claims15
In a package for containers of generally cylindrical shape, the package being of generally parallelpiped shape and formed from a blank sheet of material, one surface of the package having non-destructive means of access to the interior of the package, the package having an encircling binder around its lateral surfaces, the binder lying on a plane perpendicular to the axes of the containers and passing through the center of gravity on the package when full, the binder being held in position by a deformable re-receiving structure adjacent at least one corner of the package, the improvement wherein said deformable receiving structure defines a binder receiving notch that includes a primary notch-forming portion and a supplementary notch-extending portion adjacent to and extending from said primary portion with said plane, said primary portion defining a first notch length with said binder defining a first package perimeter and said supplementary portion being deformable to move said primary portion to a displaced position and increase the length of the notch as said binder diminishes the package perimeter engaged by the binder to form a handle for carrying the package.
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