Basket carrier for bottles having transverse dividers inserted through the bottom wall
AssigneePack Image, Inc.
InventorOrison W. Stone
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Abstract
A basket carrier having a bottom wall, opposed end walls, opposed side walls and a longitudinal central divider. A transverse slot is formed in the bottom wall. A U-shaped divider having vertical walls and a horizontal wall with a central crease in it is formed initially in a U-shape and thrust upwardly through a single slot in the bottom wall. When introduced, the horizontal wall spreads out to overlie a substantial portion of the bottom wall on each side of the slot where it is retained by the bottoms of bottles clamping it to the bottom wall on either side of the central divider.
Claims8
In a basket carrier for bottles and having a bottom wall, opposed end walls, opposed side walls and a central longitudinal divider, the improvement comprising a transverse divider structure comprising,
- a transverse slot formed across a major portion of said bottom wall,
- two inverted V-shaped slots in the lower portion of said central divider,
- a transverse divider element, said divider element being U-shaped and having vertical divider walls containing V-shaped slots which engage the central divider V-shaped slots to hold said divider walls in a vertical attitude,
- said transverse divider having a horizontal wall whose longitudinal dimension is substantially greater than the width of the slot in said bottom wall,
- said horizontal wall being transversely creased to permit the divider to be folded into a V for insertion into said carrier through said slot,
- after said transverse divider is inserted in said carrier, said horizontal wall spreads beyond said slot and a substantial portion of it overlies said bottom wall where it is retained by the weight of bottles on it.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.