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US 7,913,837 B2Granted
Carrier and method
AssigneeSJV Food & Beverage Carriers, Inc.
InventorAngelo V. Cuomo
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Abstract
One embodiment of the carrier has a central vertical support panel structure with two foldable receptacles extending outwardly from the vertical support panel structure. The outside wall of each receptacle is extended upwardly and bent over to cover the receptacle, and the top portions of those walls are joined together to form a carrying handle structure, either with or without the upper portion of the vertical support panel structure. The portions of the outside walls forming the covers can have openings to receive the necks of bottles such as wine and beer bottles to give added lateral support for the bottles. A simplified embodiment uses only one of the foldable receptacles and has two lateral side walls which extend upwardly and join together to form a handle structure.
Claims12
A carrier comprising
- a receptacle having four side walls joined together along vertical fold lines, and a bottom wall joined to said side walls along horizontal fold lines,
- said side walls comprising two end walls opposite one another and two lateral walls opposite one another, said lateral walls being substantially longer than said end walls, and taller than and extending above said end walls,
- each of said lateral walls having an upper edge and a handle structure adjacent said upper edge,
- said bottom wall comprising a plurality of flanges, each extending downwardly from the lower edge of one of said side walls,
- each of two of said flanges extending from opposite ones of said side walls being secured to an adjacent one of said flanges so that said flanges fold upwardly into said receptacle when said carrier is folded, and fold downwardly to form said bottom wall when said carrier is unfolded,
- one of said flanges extending from one of said lateral walls being shaped and positioned to engage one of said end walls within said receptacle when said carrier is partially unfolded and prop said carrier open to deter relapse of said carrier to a folded position.
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A carrier comprising
- a receptacle having four side walls joined together along vertical fold lines, and a bottom wall joined to said side walls along horizontal fold lines,
- said side walls comprising two end walls opposite one another and two lateral walls opposite one another,
- said lateral walls being longer than said end walls, and
- at least one of said lateral walls being substantially taller than and extending above said end walls,
- said one lateral wall having an upper edge and a handle structure adjacent said upper edge,
- said bottom wall comprising a plurality of flanges, each extending downwardly from the lower edge of one of said side walls,
- each of two of said flanges extending from opposite ones of said side walls being secured to an adjacent one of said flanges so that said flanges fold upwardly into said receptacle when said carrier is folded, and fold downwardly to form said bottom wall when said carrier is unfolded,
- one of said flanges extending from said lateral walls spanning substantially the entire distance between said lateral walls when said carrier is unfolded, said one flange being dimensioned and positioned to engage one of said end walls within said receptacle, when said carrier is partially unfolded and prop said carrier open to deter relapse of said carrier to a folded position.
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A blank for forming a foldable carrier, said blank comprising
- (a) first and second vertical support panels, each of said panels having first and second opposed longitudinal side edges, and two opposed transverse end edges,
- (b) first and second end-wall panels, each having first and second longitudinally-extending opposed side edges and transversely-extending opposed end edges, said end edges of said support panels being substantially longer than said end edges of said end-wall panels,
- (c) one of said end edges of each of said first and second end-wall panels being secured to one of said end edges of one of said support panels along a fold line,
- (d) the other of said end edges of one of said first and second end-wall panel being secured to a second end edge of one of said support panels along a fold line,
- (e) a first one of said transverse edges of each of said end-wall panels and said support panels being aligned with one another to define a bottom plane for said carrier,
- (f) a bottom flange extending from each of said one transverse edges, each of said bottom flanges being shaped to be joined selectively with other of said bottom flanges to form an automatically-unfolding bottom wall structure joined with said side-walls to form a receptacle when said carrier is unfolded;
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- at least one of said bottom flanges extending from one of said support panels being shaped and positioned to automatically interfere with one of said end wall panels to deter the relapse movement of said carrier and hold the carrier open when it is partially unfolded.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.