Bottle carrier
AssigneeRiverwood International Corporation
InventorsRobert L. Sutherland, Randall L. Harris
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Abstract
A bottle carrier of the type employing support tabs at the periphery of bottle neck, openings for engaging the underside of shoulders on the bottles. The carrier is comprised of two plies, each containing aligned bottle openings and each opening being surrounded by support tabs. In one embodiment the support tabs of an opening in one ply are connected to the ply along fold lines which are at an angle to the fold lines of the tabs of the corresponding opening in the other ply so that the edges of the tabs engage the shoulder of a bottle at spaced points along the circumference of the shoulder.
Claims23
A carrier package for bottles having a neck portion which includes an outwardly projecting shoulder, comprising:
- a support panel comprised of upper and lower plies containing aligned bottle openings through which the necks of the bottles extend;
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- a plurality of support tabs connected to each ply by fold lines extending along portions of the periphery of each bottle opening, the support tabs of each ply having edges remote from the tab fold lines for engaging the underside of the bottle shoulders.
A carrier package containing bottles having a neck portion which includes an outwardly projecting shoulder, comprising:
- a support panel comprised of upper and lower plies of material containing aligned bottle openings through which the necks of the bottles extend;
- a plurality of support tabs connected to each ply by fold lines extending along portions of the periphery of each bottle opening, the support tabs having edges remote from the tab fold lines for engaging the underside of the bottle shoulders, the remote edges being substantially parallel to the fold line of the tab;
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- the tab fold lines of the openings in the upper ply extending transversely of the tab fold lines of the aligned openings in the lower ply, whereby the remote edges of the tabs of aligned openings in the upper and lower plies contact the shoulder of the bottle neck extending through the aligned openings at different points on the shoulder.
A blank for forming a carrier adapted to support bottles having a neck portion which includes an outwardly projecting shoulder, comprising:
- an upper support panel section containing bottle openings through which the necks of bottles may extend;
- at least one lower support panel section connected to at least one edge of the upper support panel section by a fold line and containing bottle openings through which the necks of bottles may extend, the bottle openings in the upper and lower support panel sections being located so as to be aligned when said at least one lower support panel section is folded into face-to-face relationship with the upper support panel section;
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- a plurality of support tabs connected to each support panel section by fold lines extending along portions of the periphery of each bottle opening, the support tabs having edges remote from the tab fold lines for engaging the underside of bottle shoulders.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.