Multiple property container carrier
AssigneeIllinois Tool Works Inc.
InventorWilliam N. Weaver
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Abstract
A multi-packaging device comprises a plastic sheet having a generally uniform thickness and alternating and discrete strips of different materials extending side-by-side and parallel with respect to an array of apertures, wherein each strip of the alternating and discrete strips of plastic sheet includes at least one distinct physical property that differs from each adjacent strip. Such distinct physical properties may include different moduli, different coefficient of frictions, different colors and/or different recycled material contents.
Claims20
A multi-packaging device for carrying an array of containers in a corresponding array of apertures, the multi-packaging device comprising:
- a plastic sheet having a generally uniform thickness made of alternating and discrete strips of different material extending side-by-side and parallel relative to each other and to the array of apertures, the array of apertures extending longitudinally across the plastic sheet, wherein each strip of the alternating and discrete strips of the plastic sheet includes at least one distinct physical property that differs from each adjacent strip.
A multi-packaging device for unitizing an array of containers, the device comprising:
- a sheet having a plurality of container receiving apertures arranged in adjacent rows and ranks;
- a first portion of the sheet having a first coefficient of friction and a first modulus;
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- a second portion of the sheet having a second coefficient of friction and a second modulus, the first coefficient of friction being different than the second coefficient of friction and the first modulus being different than the second modulus, the first portion and the second portion formed in alternating and discrete strips extending side-by-side and parallel relative to each other along a length of the multi-packaging device.
A package of containers comprising:
- a sheet having a plurality of interconnected bands forming an array of container receiving apertures extending longitudinally across the sheet, the sheet having a generally uniform thickness made of alternating and discrete strips of different material extending side-by-side and parallel relative to each other and to the array of apertures, wherein each strip of the alternating and discrete strips of the plastic sheet includes at least one distinct physical property that differs from each adjacent strip;
- a first portion of the sheet having a first coefficient of friction;
- a second portion of the sheet having a second coefficient of friction, the first portion of the sheet and the second portion of the sheet coinciding with different strips of the alternating and discrete strips;
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- a plurality of containers, each container of the plurality of containers positioned within a container receiving aperture of the array so that the first portion of the sheet is positioned on an inner portion of the package and the second portion of the sheet is positioned on an outer portion of the package.
A package of containers comprising:
- a plastic sheet having a generally uniform thickness made of alternating and discrete strips of different material extending side-by-side and parallel with respect to each other and an array of apertures, wherein each strip of the alternating and discrete strips of the plastic sheet includes at least one distinct physical property that differs from each adjacent strip;
- a plurality of containers, each container of the plurality of containers positioned within an aperture of the array so that one strip of the plastic sheet is positioned along an inner portion of the package and adjacent strips to the one strip are positioned along an outer portion of the package.
A multi-packaging device for unitizing an array of containers, the device comprising:
- a sheet having a plurality of container receiving apertures arranged in adjacent rows and ranks, the sheet having critical stress areas and non-critical stress areas and formed in adjacent, side-by-side, parallel strips of recycled material and virgin material;
- a portion of the sheet having the non-critical stress areas including recycled material.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.