Abstract: A lid for a tray, the lid being comprised of a light weight foldable material such as cardboard, is produced from a one-piece blank. The blank has a main body panel and eight side wall panels hingedly extending therefrom. Four of the side wall panels have protrusions for engaging slots in adjacent side wall panels when the lid is erected.

Abstract: The invention provides a lifting device for lifting a group of containers held together by a holding device. The lifting device is of cut and creased sheet material and has a tongue which is passed through an aperture or each of or several apertures in the holding device, and flaps of the tongues folded back onto the tongues spring out to rest against the containers and engage under the holding device so that lifting of the lifting device effects lifting of the containers by the flaps engaging under the holding device.

Abstract: The invention provides a holding device for one or more rows of bottles or the like. The device comprises essentially a sleeve of sheet material having upper and lower walls and side walls, and the device is applied to the containers by passing it over the containers so that the tops pass through apertures in the base wall and then apertures in the top wall. The containers are locked to the device by virtue of the device having locking tabs or a locking wall which folds upwardly by virtue of engagement with the containers, but locks under the container rims or beads on the caps of the containers or at the container mouths, preventing removal of the container by movement in an opposite direction. Preferably, there are two locking devices which engage the container rims or beads at opposite sides, and lie in an inclined position relative to the container axis.