Special receptacle or package – For plural beverage-type receptacles – Four-sided wrapper
Patent
1995-06-02
1997-08-05
Garbe, Stephen P.
Special receptacle or package
For plural beverage-type receptacles
Four-sided wrapper
206194, B65D 7106, B65D 7146
Patent
active
056533403
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The present invention relates to a package of the wraparound kind accommodating a plurality of articles, such as bottles, in which retention means for preventing dislodgement of the end-most bottles is required in addition to retention means provided by the carton itself.
Hence, a carton of the present invention comprises the combination of a wraparound carton and a strap, preferably a peripheral plastics strap secured around the midriff of the carton for maintaining the bottles in a closely clustered unit. One feature of a carton according to the invention is that it is shorter than the overall unit of bottles so that the end-most bottles are at least partially exposed to view. Due to its relatively short length the overall cost of this type of package is considerably lower than a full length carton which does not require a securing strap. In order to prevent vertical displacement of the securing strap, which, with a considerable variety of bottle shapes causes the strap to be slackened, the carton includes integral restraining means for cooperation with the strap to prevent the strap from being displaced out of position towards the tops or bottoms of the packaged articles.
GB1,580,966 discloses a wraparound bottle carrier which has a strap portion and a pair of inwardly folded flaps joined to the opposite end edges of each side wall of the carton. The inwardly folded flaps do not however cooperate with the strap in order to restrain movement thereof but are provided as integral parts of the retention structure of the paperboard wrapper provided to resist endways dislodgement of the heel portion of the endmost bottles in the package.
EP-454,450 discloses an article carrier of the top gripping type in which side panels thereof are held secured to the adjacent faces of the bottles by means of a circumferential strap. The strap is prevented from being displaced in a direction along the axis of the bottles by notches formed in the edges of the side panels.
None of these references suggests either alone or in combination, that an inwardly folded end flap of a carton may be engaged with a midriff carton strap to prevent displacement of the strap. Moreover none of the references suggest that a folded flap may engage a portion of a midriff strap extending between adjacent articles of the carton.
The present invention provides a wraparound carton accommodating a plurality of articles, such as bottles, in which the endmost articles in the carton are retained from dislodgement by a strap encircling said plurality of articles and wherein the carton includes integral restraining means which cooperate with said strap to limit any substantial displacement of the strap towards the top or base of the carton.
Embodiments of the invention will now be described, by way of example, with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:
FIG. 1 is a plan view of a blank for accommodating a group of eight bottles in which upper strap retention flaps are provided;
FIGS. 2a and 2b are schematic end views of the end most bottles in cartons according to the invention;
FIG. 3 is a schematic side view of a carton and strap combination for a carton accommodating six bottles;
FIG. 3a is a schematic side view of the carton shown in FIG. 3; and
FIG. 4 is a plan view of another blank having both upper and lower strap retaining flaps.
Referring first to FIG. 1 of the drawings there is shown a carton blank 10 formed from paperboard or similar foldable sheet material and which comprises a first base panel 12 a first heel retention panel 14, a first main side wall panel 16, a first upper side wall panel 18, a top wall panel 20, a second upper side wall panel 22, a second main side wall panel 24, a second heel retention panel 26 and a second base panel 28 hinged one to the next along transverse fold lines 30-44 respectively.
The carton blank is adapted to wrap a group of eight bottles formed in two rows of four bottles each and to this end the carton is of the so called "neck through" wraparound variety and includes bottle neck receiving apertu
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Garbe Stephen P.
Suzuki Tsugihiko
The Mead Corporation
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