Divider panel for stacked cans

A paperboard divider arrangement for being positioned between and separating pairs of vertically stacked cans, each stacked pair of cans having a lower can including a top and a stacked upper can including a bottom, said divider arrangement comprising:

• an elongate paperboard divider strip formed of at least two divider pads extending along the length of said strip;
• wherein each of said at least two divider pads has a predetermined number of seat areas defined therein for being singularly received between the top of each lower can and the bottom of each upper can for each respective pair of the pairs of cans;
• each of said at least two divider pads having a pair of spaced ends;
• said at least two divider pads being joined at their adjacent ends along perforated score lines to adjacent ones of said at least two divider pads end to end along the length of said strip;
• and wherein said predetermined number of seat areas of said divider strip is wholly divisible by the numbers 2, 3, and 4.

A paperboard divider arrangement for being positioned between and separating pairs of vertically stacked cans, each stacked pair of cans having a lower can and a stacked upper can, said divider arrangement comprising:

• an elongate paperboard divider strip formed of a plurality of divider pads extending along the length of the strip;
• wherein each said divider pad has a predetermined number of seat areas defined therein for being inserted between respective upper can of each stacked pair of cans;
• wherein each of said divider pads has a pair of spaced ends;
• wherein said divider pads are joined together along a spaced series of perforated score lines at their adjacent ends in end to end fashion along the length of said divider strip;
• and wherein said predetermined number of seat areas along the length of said divider strip is wholly divisible by the numbers 2, 3, and 4.