Wrap-around carrier with bar code blocking panels
AssigneeRiverwood International Corporation
InventorRobert L. Sutherland
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Abstract
A wrap-around carrier with end panel flaps which block the price code on adjacent packaged articles. The end panel flaps are connected to the side panels along angled fold lines which bias the end panel flaps in position against adjacent articles. This results in a small gap between the end panels and the bottom panel which is covered by flaps connected to the end panel flaps. The cover flaps are connected to tuck flaps which lie between the bottom panel and an associated cover flap. The articles rest on the cover flaps, holding them, and thus the connected end panel flaps as well, in place.
Claims2
A package comprised of a wrap-around carrier containing a plurality of rows of adjacent articles, each article having a top and a bottom, comprising:
- opposite side panels connected to a top panel, each side panel being connected by a fold line to a bottom panel flap, the bottom panel flaps being connected to each other to form a bottom panel, the bottom panel flaps and the side panels having opposite end edges;
- an end panel flap connected by a fold line to each of the end edges of the side panels;
- a bottom cover flap connected by a fold line to each end panel flap, each bottom cover flap extending into the interior of the carrier and engaging the bottom of an adjacent article;
- a tuck flap connected by a fold line to each bottom cover flap, each tuck flap also being connected by a fold line to an associated bottom panel flap;
- each tuck flap lying between an associated bottom cover flap and an associated bottom panel flap;
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- each side panel including a score line spaced from the fold line connecting the side panel to the associated bottom panel flap, said spaced score line including downwardly angled end portions which substantially intersect the fold line connecting the side panel to the associated bottom panel flap and the fold lines connecting associated end panel flaps to the side panel.
A blank for forming a carrier for packaging a plurality of rows of adjacent articles, comprising:
- a sheet having a centrally located top panel section;
- side panel sections connected to opposite sides of the top panel section by a fold line, the side panel sections having opposite end edges;
- a bottom panel flap connected to each side panel section by a fold line;
- an end panel flap connected by a fold line to each of the end edges of the side panel sections;
- a bottom cover flap connected by a fold line to each end panel flap;
- a tuck flap connected by a fold line to each bottom cover flap, each tuck flap also being connected by a fold line to an associated bottom panel flap;
- the bottom cover flaps and the tuck flaps being arranged so that in a carrier formed from the blank each bottom cover flap extends into the interior of the carrier beneath an adjacent article and the associated tuck flap lies between the bottom cover flap and the associated bottom panel flap;
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- each side panel section including a score line spaced from the fold line connecting the side panel section to the associated bottom panel flap, said spaced score line including angled end portions which substantially intersect the fold line connecting the side panel section to the associated bottom panel flap and the fold lines connecting associated end panel flaps to the side panel section.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.