Article carrier and blank therefor
AssigneeMeadWestvaco Packaging Systems, LLC
InventorPhilippe Lebras
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Abstract
An article carrier and a blank for forming an article carrier for carrying one or more articles comprising a plurality of panels for forming the opposed sides and ends of the article carrier including a pair of laterally spaced top wall panels hingedly connected to the opposed side walls. A carrying handle is hinged to the top wall panels. The handle is movable between a retracted position when the handle does not extend above the top of the articles and a deployed position whereby the handle protrudes above the article tops.
Claims14
An article carrier for carrying one or more articles, comprising a plurality of panels for forming opposed sides and ends of the article carrier including a pair of laterally disposed top wall panels hingedly connected to opposed side wall panels and a carrying handle hinged to the top wall panels, wherein the handle is movable between a retracted position and a deployed position which is at a higher elevation than the retracted position, wherein each of the top wall panels is sized and hinged to the handle and to a respective one of the side wall panels so that said each top wall panels flexes in such a manner that said each top wall panel is held in an arched form and under tension when the handle is in the retracted position and that the top wall panels are relieved from the tension and extend upwardly toward the handle when the handle is in the deployed position.
A blank for forming an article carrier for carrying one or more articles, the blank comprising a plurality of panels for forming the opposed sides and ends of the article carrier, said panels including a first side wall panel, a first end wall panel hingedly connected to an end edge of said first side wall panel, a second side wall panel hingedly connected to an end edge of said first end wall panel, a second end wall panel hingedly connected to an end edge of said second side wall panel, a pair of top wall panels hingedly connected to upper edges of said side wall panels respectively, a pair of intermediate panels hingedly connected to upper edges of said top wall panels respectively, and a pair of handle panels hingedly connected to upper longitudinal edges of said intermediate panels respectively, wherein the total width of said intermediate panels and said handle panels is greater than the distance between said end edge of said first side wall panel and said end edge of said first end wall panel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.