Special receptacle or package – Portable segregating carrier for plural cylindrical... – Pendent from handle
Patent
1999-04-06
2000-08-15
Foster, Jim
Special receptacle or package
Portable segregating carrier for plural cylindrical...
Pendent from handle
206162, B65D 7152
Patent
active
061021970
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to containers for articles and more particularly to basket style containers usually for carrying bottles.
2. Description of the Related Art
Basket style containers are known and normally have a central wall which leads into an upstanding handle portion. On each side of the central wall is an open topped compartment section for receiving a number of bottles. Further divider walls may also be provided inside each compartment section so as to define individual pockets for each bottle. When fully erected, the container has a base, a pair of end wall means generally perpendicular to the central wall and a pair of side walls generally parallel to the central wall and hingedly connected to the end walls.
It is common for the containers to be supplied to an end user, such as a beverage manufacturer, in a flat condition either fully glued or glued except for closing two base panels. The end user then runs the containers on a packing machine which opens the containers and inserts the bottles, having closed the base panels where necessary.
In the past, two basic types of container have been produced and each requires a different assembly technique prior to supply to the end user. The different assembly techniques are the result of the basic geometries of the container blanks for producing the two basic types of container. Different machines are, therefore, required to assembly the different blanks.
The first type of container is known as a four-crease basket, the four creases being the substantially vertical creases connecting the side walls and the end wall means at the four comers of the basket. This type of basket is formed from a generally L-shaped blank which results in significant wastage of paperboard and the necessity to glue or interlock the base panels during the packing stage.
The second type of container is known as a six-crease basket, the extra two creases being provided in the end wall means where they meet the central wall. The extra creases are generally parallel to the other four creases. This type of basket is formed from a generally rectangular shaped blank which reduces paperboard wastage and often has a formed base on opening from a flat condition.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
These two types of container will be described in more detail later in the specification.
According to a first aspect of the present invention there is provided a basket type carrier device having a lengthwise extending central wall, article receiving compartments on both sides of the central wall and a handle portion, each receiving compartment being defined by a base wall, a side wall substantially parallel to the central wall and a pair of end walls extending between and hingedly connected to the side wall and the central wall, the adjacent end walls of the two compartments being separately defined but secured together by means of at least one flap projecting without folding from one of the end walls which flap or flaps are adhesively secured to the other adjacent end wall so that each pair of adjacent end walls remain in the same plane as each other and are unable to hinge relative to each other due to said adhesive flap attachment between said adjacent end walls.
Preferably the securing of each pair of adjacent end walls relative to each other is by means of at least one flap projecting from one of the end walls which flap or flaps are adhesively secured to the other adjacent end wall and also the adhesive attachment of said flaps is located on the surface of the other end walls disposed on the inside of the carrier device. Conveniently a single flap secures each pair of adjacent end walls.
In preferred arrangements compartment dividers are folded out from the central wall and are adhesively secured to the side walls.
It is a preferred feature that the central wall comprises two panels lying flat against each other and hingedly connected along a top edge and incorporating handle apertures thereby to constitute at least a part of the handle po
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Foster Jim
Riverwood International Corporation
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