Cup carrier
AssigneeDopaco, Inc.
InventorSimon Whitnell
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Abstract
A cup carrier with a basket having the general configuration of an upwardly opening diamond with a diagonally transverse partition and handle extending vertically above and dividing the basket into a pair of separate upwardly opening triangular compartments.
Claims18
A compartmented carrier for cups, said carrier comprising an upwardly opening basket including a bottom and peripheral walls extending substantially vertically from said bottom and defining a polygonal configuration with first diagonally opposed corner portions, partition means extending between said corner portions and forming two longitudinally aligned upwardly opening compartments to opposite sides of said partition means, said compartments each including first and second walls converging outward from said partition means at said first diagonal corner portions and forming a progressively narrowing configuration for each compartment outward from said partition means, said partition means extending above said basket and terminating in a handle vertically above said basket.
A handled foldable paperboard carrier comprising peripheral walls defining an upwardly opening basket having an open top, said basket including a closed bottom joined to and extending between said walls, said walls being substantially equilateral and end joined at corner portions forming first diagonally opposed generally oblique angles and second diagonally opposed generally acute angles to define a diamond configuration, and partition means spaced apart from said bottom and extending between and bisecting said first diagonally opposed oblique angle corner portions wherein a triangular compartment is formed to opposed sides of said partition means.
A handled foldable paperboard carrier comprising peripheral walls defining an upwardly opening basket, said basket including a closed bottom joined to and extending between said walls, said walls being substantially equilateral and end joined at corner portions forming first diagonally opposed generally oblique angles and second diagonally opposed generally acute angles to define a diamond configuration, and partition means extending between and bisecting said first diagonally opposed oblique angle corner portions wherein a triangular compartment is formed to opposed sides of said partition means and wherein said partition means extends above said basket walls and includes wall extensions integral with one of the walls of each compartment and extending upward therefrom in opposed relation to each other and at a lateral spacing substantially equal to a lateral spacing between said first diagonal corner portions and a pair of partition panels, each integral with and extending from a respective one of the spaced wall extensions transversely across said basket to the opposed wall extension.
A foldable paperboard blank for use in the formation of a two compartment carrier, said blank comprising four longitudinally joined wall panels with transverse fold lines between adjacent panels, said panels being aligned relative to adjacent panels, said panels having upper and lower edges, bottom panels integral with said wall panels along said lower edges with fold lines defined between said wall panels and said bottom panels, said wall panels comprising a first wall panel at a first end of said blank, a second wall panel longitudinally adjacent thereto, a third wall panel longitudinally adjacent said second wall panel, and a fourth wall panel longitudinally adjacent said third wall panel, said first wall panel having an outer edge with a glue flap integral therewith and foldable relative thereto along a fold line defined between said first wall panel and said glue flap, a first side wall extension panel integral with said first wall panel upper edge and extending upward therefrom, a first partition panel integral with said first extension panel and extending laterally therefrom with a fold line therebetween, said first partition panel overlying and extending laterally beyond said glue flap, a second side wall extension panel integral with said third wall panel upper edge and extending upward therefrom, a second partition panel integral with a second extension panel and extending therefrom with a fold line therebetween, said second partition panel extending laterally over said second wall panel and being separable from the upper edge thereof.
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