Special receptacle or package – For plural beverage-type receptacles
Patent
1997-06-11
1998-07-07
Fidei, David T.
Special receptacle or package
For plural beverage-type receptacles
206158, 53398, B65D 7500
Patent
active
057755035
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The invention relates to a carrier for articles such as bottles and more particularly to top gripping carriers which engage, for example, the underside of bottle caps thereby to retain the bottle within the carrier.
It is known to provide top gripping (or clipping) carriers for carrying two bottles of the PET soft drinks type. U.S. Pat. No. 4,403,689, U.S. Pat. No. 4,378,879, U.S. Pat. No. 4,339,032, U.S. Pat. No. Des. 271,944 and U.S. Pat. No. Des. 271,749 disclose article carriers of this type. For example, U.S. Pat. No. 4,339,032 discloses a blank for forming a bottomless bottle carrier wherein the crowns of the bottles are engaged in apertures located on a central fold line between adjacent upper panels of the carton and the sides of the blank are folded downwardly about the fold line prior to engaging the apertures with the underside of bottle tops passed therethrough.
The carton of U.S. Pat. No. 4,339,032 comprises side walls having upper portions just described with article receiving apertures. Additionally lower portions of the side walls are foldably attached to a series of panels which form side skirts in the carton. Ends of the skirts are glued to the inside of a lower portion of the opposite side panel to that to which the skirts are foldably attached. Also, an internal panel is provided which is foldably attached to the upper portions of the side walls but which rotates inwardly in forming the carton to provide an upper reinforcing panel. Therefore, the carton disclosed by Wood in U.S. Pat. No. 4,339,032 undergoes a series of folding operations and gluing operations in order to form a substantially complete carton prior to loading articles therein. When substantially formed, the carton is lowered onto a pair of bottles until the retaining apertures engage the caps of the bottle thus providing a bottomless carton having side and upper walls and end skirts.
The invention seeks to avoid or at least mitigate various problems of the prior art and according to one aspect of the invention there is provided a carton blank for forming an article carrier of the top gripping type comprising hingably interconnected first and second end panels, first and second side panels and an upper panel having means for cooperating with an article to retain the article in a formed carrier, wherein the first end panel, first side panel, second end panel and second side panel are hingably interconnected in series about an aperture through which an article is passable in packaging the article during formation of the carrier.
The first end panel can be hingably connected to said first side panel via a gusset panel. The gusset panel can be hingably attached to a fold panel which is hingably attached to said first side panel along a fold line, said fold panel enabling relative folding of the first end panel and first side panel during formation of the carrier. The first end panel and second side panel can be connected via a gusset panel and preferably a fold panel. The second end panel and first side panel can be connected via a gusset panel and preferably a fold panel, and the second end panel and second side panel can be foldably connected via a gusset panel and preferably a fold panel.
Preferably an inner panel can be hingably attached to the first side panel and extending into said aperture which inner panel comprises end edges for cooperating with associated end panels during the formation of the carrier. A second such inner panel can be hingably attached to the second side panel.
Another aspect of the invention provides a method of forming an article carrier of a top gripping type from a blank comprising hingably interconnected first and second end panels, first and second side panels and an upper panel having means for cooperating with an article to retain the article in a formed carrier, wherein the first end panel, first side panel, second end panel and second side panel are hingably interconnected in series about an aperture, the method comprising the steps of passing an article through the aperture, folding the s
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Drew Michael V.
Fidei David T.
The Mead Corporation
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