Envelopes – wrappers – and paperboard boxes – Paperboard box – Lifting or suspending element
Patent
1996-04-19
1997-12-23
Shoap, Allan N.
Envelopes, wrappers, and paperboard boxes
Paperboard box
Lifting or suspending element
229120011, 22912017, 206192, B65D 546
Patent
active
056999577
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
This invention relates to a multiple compartment, separable container. The container is formed to include multiple article receiving compartments which together provide a single carton unit adapted to be carried by a purchaser but which can be separated one from the next to form a plurality of carton compartment units.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,919,269 discloses a multiple compartment container which has two compartments each holding twelve beverage cans. The entire carton of twenty four cans may be easily transported. The carton is capable of being split to produce two individual carton units having twelve cans each. The separation of the individual compartments may be done at the point of sale so that smaller quantities of the product may be sold, or may be performed later by the purchaser at his convenience. In the multiple compartment container disclosed in this reference, separation of the individual containers one from the other does not cause either one of the separated containers to be opened but merely detaches the units so that they are separated from one another.
According to an aspect of the present invention there is preferably provided a multi compartment container for packaging a plurality of articles, such as bottles, which comprises two or more compartment units and a frangible connecting portion, said compartment units comprising a number of faces provided by a base panel, opposed side panels, opposed end panels and a top panel wherein certain adjacent panels of each of said compartment units are partly formed by said frangible connecting portion in said formed multi-compartment container and wherein removal of said connecting portion from said container causes at least partial separation of said units and provides access for removal of at least one of the articles contained in at least one of said units, wherein upon removal of said connecting portion at least part of each of said panel faces of each of said compartment units remains intact.
According to a feature of the invention, said adjacent panels may be top panels of respective ones of said units and said connecting portion is a cover portion of said container which bridges said units. In a preferred form the removal of the cover portion exposes at least one article in each of the compartment units thereby enabling removal of the one article form each of the units. Additionally, the compartment units preferably are attached in the formed container by a second frangible attachment means which may be a connecting tab which is frangibly hinged to one compartment unit of an adjacent pair of units and secured to the other unit of the adjacent pair.
In another preferred form of the invention the multi compartment container comprises at least one pair of adjacent compartment units in side by side relationship wherein a side panel of each of said units forms a keel in the base of the formed container which separates articles in each of the units of the adjacent pair.
In a further preferred form of the invention the cover portion comprises a handle for carrying the formed container. Also, the cover portion may comprise end tabs which are hingably attached to the cover portion and which tabs can be grasped and pulled thereby to remove said cover portion from the container. In a further preferred form of the invention a compartment unit comprises a frangible flap which is attached to a cover portion end tab and also frangibly hinged to an end panel of the compartment unit in the formed carton thereby providing additional attachment means between the compartment unit and the cover portion.
In a preferred form of the invention the cover portion is frangibly joined to the compartment units in the formed container along a perforate line which transverses the top of a compartment unit into an end panel thereof. Preferably the multi-compartment container is made from a single blank.
In another form the invention provides a multi-compartment container for packaging a plurality of articles such as bottles, comprises two or more compartment units and a frangibl
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Blin Patrick
Daniel Jean-Yves
Saulas Alain
McDonald Christopher J.
Shoap Allan N.
Suzuki Tsughiko
The Mead Corporation
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