Basket-type carrier for bottles

In a carrier blank having, serially, a bottom wall, a first end wall connected by a crease to said bottom wall, a panel having a central crease and forming a center partition and connected to said first end wall, a second end wall connected at one end to said panel and at the other end by a crease to said bottom wall, means forming side walls, and a gusset integrally connecting said panel to said end walls on each side of said central crease, the improvement comprising:

• a transverse fold line parallel to said bottom wall creases intermediate the ends of each of said end walls,
• said carrier in a flat folded condition having said center partition-forming panel overlying said bottom wall and said end walls being folded upon themselves along said fold lines, whereby said carrier can be erected by simultaneously applying opposing inward pressure on said end walls and downward pressure on said panel on each side of said central crease.