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US 5,197,598 AGranted
Enclosed bottle carrier
AssigneeThe Mead Corporation
InventorsJames T. Stout, James B. DeMaio
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AssigneeThe Mead Corporation
InventorsJames T. Stout, James B. DeMaio
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A bottle carrier for packaging and gripping in a taut fashion a plurality of bottles includes top, bottom and side walls, each side wall having a substantially vertically disposed bottom portion and an inwardly inclined top portion foldably joined to the bottom portion to form a tubular structure, top end panels foldably joined to each end edge of the top wall together with a bottom end panel foldably joined to each end edge of the bottom wall and secured in overlapping relation with the associated top end panel. A first collapsible web is foldably joined to each end edge of each top end panel and to the end edge of each of the inwardly inclined top wall portion. A yieldable fold line formed in each collapsible web extends from the adjacent corner of the top wall downwardly in angular relation to the adjacent end edge of the associated inwardly inclined top wall portion.
A bottle carrier comprising top, bottom, and side walls, each side wall having a bottom portion and an inwardly inclined top portion, said top, bottom and side walls being interconnected to form a tubular structure, said top wall being rectangular, a top end panel foldably joined to each end edge of said top wall, a web structure foldably joined to each end edge of each of said top end panels and to an adjacent end edge of each of said inwardly inclined top wall portions, each of said webs structures having a yieldable fold line extending from an adjacent corner of said top wall and disposed in angular relation to the adjacent end edge of the associated inwardly inclined top wall portion so as to grip the necks of the corner bottles in a taut fashion, and a bottom end panel foldably joined to each end edge of said bottom wall and secured in overlapping relation with the associated top end panel.
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