Abstract: A reel-windable container carrier stock which is formed from a thin resilient plastics sheet material and wound upon a reel with substantial numbers of carriers in the strip for machine application of the strip to containers such as cans to form multipacks. The longitudinal center portion of each carrier in the strip is formed with certain curvilinear tabs to increase the mass of the plastics sheet material on each side of the longitudinal center line of the strip to provide that as the carrier is wound upon the reel the carrier will have a reel configuration with a central annular circumferential hump. That reel configuration provides for excellent high speed winding characteristics of the carrier stock.

Abstract: A plastic pouring spout including a container engaging body portion with a spout portion projecting therefrom and adapted for mounting in juxtaposition to the outer surface of a container within the end confines of the container in retracted position and slidable along the container to a position with the spout portion extended beyond the adjacent end of the container; and in which extended position, the opposite elongate edges of the spout portion may be brought together relative to one another by partial separation from the remnant container engaging body portion adjacent the container end surface to reduce the size of the spout portion for pouring of the container contents into a relatively smaller recipient orifice.