Abstract: A bottle carrier device utilizing a single sheet-like resilient carrier device with a plurality of outer rank and middle rank apertures adapted to be positioned midway of the body of the bottles for individually grasping the bottles. The outer rank apertures are elongated longitudinally while the middle rank apertures are elongated transversely. A pair of handles are created in diagonally opposed outer rank apertures.

Abstract: A carrier (10) for a bottle comprises a plurality of containers (11) each having side walls (12,13,15,16) upstanding from a corresponding basal edge (19,20,21,22) of an inverted pyramidal base portion (18). When a bottle is received in a container (11), weight of the bottle causes walls (23) of the base portion (18) thereof to diverge one from another with a result that the side walls (12,13,15,16) converge towards and firmly engage the bottle.

Abstract: A top loading carton made from a unitary sheet of inexpensive disposable material in which returnable beverage containers, such as bottles or cans, are collected and returned to a redemption center. The sheet is folded to form two adjacent bins each of which has a vertically disposed window in the front panel that permits the collected beverage containers to be readily counted and tabulated.

Abstract: A carrier for empty beverage cans comprising a carrier body having compressible projections extending from a working surface thereof to be thrust through the opening of the empty cans and having stripping means movably secured to the carrier body to allow convenient removal of cans from the projections. Handles permit the body to be hung against a wall and to conveniently move the stripper means from the carrier body. Projections of specific shape are disclosed.

Abstract: A container carrier adapted for receiving a plurality of containers for transportation of same is assembled from a unitary sheet of plastic. The containers are captured between retainer edges of transverse members forming a supporting web at the lower portion of the carrier. The panels function to clamp the containers in position upon seating of the containers in the carrier. In a filled configuration the carrier is supportable on a plurality of legs which are configured to cooperate with the transverse members for retainably capturing the containers.

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: A package for bottles utilizing a single sheet-like resilient carrier device positioned midway the body of the bottles and individually grouping the bottles. A pair of handles are created in diagonally opposite aperture designed to move upwardly between ranks upon association of bottles with the apertures.

Abstract: An article carrier comprising a bottom wall, a pair of side walls joined respectively to the side edges of the bottom wall, end wall panels joined respectively to the end edges of the side walls to form opposing end walls, riser panels joined respectively to the inner edges of the end wall panels, a multiple ply handle extending between the riser panels, and the width of the bottom wall being less than the width of the end walls.

Abstract: A returnable wrap-around beverage carrier and production blank for forming a carrier. The beverage carrier and production blank are formed in a one-piece construction and contain an inner double-walled longitudinal partition in the preferred embodiment which is formed from a partial side panel and is fixedly attached to the bottom wall of the carrier through a plurality of glue tabs. The two longitudinal partition panels of the preferred embodiment contain handle means for carrying the erected carrier after the top panel has been torn off and the bottles have been removed by the customer.

Abstract: A carrier for bottles is formed from a paperboard tube having top, bottom and end walls. The upper corners of the tube are gusseted so that the top wall may be swung downwardly on each side of a center line to form a center partition. The end walls have serially-connected, minor flaps and double thickness dividers which are swung inwardly around bottles at the four corners of the carrier with the dividers creating three cells on each side of the carrier. A major flap is hinged to each side of the bottom wall and is glued to the minor flaps to complete the formation of the carrier. The end walls are provided with a transverse fold line or crease which provides advantages in gluing of the carrier as well as the erecting of the carrier.

Abstract: The invention relates to azo dyes of the formula ##STR1## in which R is hydrogen, an alkyl radical having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, which can contain --O-- and --S--members and can be further substituted, or a cycloalkyl radical, R.sub.1 is hydrogen or C.sub.1-4 -alkyl, D is an aryl radical and Pz is a pyrazolone radical, the azo dye of the formula (1) containing one and not more than one strongly acid group conferring solubility in water, their preparation and their use for dyeing and printing textile material.

Abstract: A portable bottle storage device for storing bottles of wine, or the like, is disclosed which includes a main member comprising a sheet of plastic, cloth, or like material, and supporting means for hanging the sheet in a generally vertically extending plane. The supporting means includes an elongated rod to which the main member is secured, and a handle member in the form of a hook attached to the rod intermediate the opposite ends thereof. The hook opens toward the rear of the device, and is used for hanging the device from a closet pole, or the like. Elongated side members, which also may comprise sheets of plastic, cloth, or like material, are attached along parallel spaced lines to opposite sides of the main member to form vertically disposed and generally horizontally extending bottle-receiving pockets along opposite sides of the main member.

Abstract: A carrier is provided for use in manually carrying a plurality of articles arranged in a pair of substantially parallel rows. The carrier includes a base panel for subtending and supporting the rows of articles. End panels are foldably connected to and extend upwardly from first opposed peripheral segments of the base panel. Side panels are foldably connected to and extend upwardly from second opposed peripheral segments of the base panel. Interconnecting and spanning the distance between the upper portions of the end panels is an elongated hand-gripping unit. The unit defines a substantially vertical plane extending between the rows of articles. Foldably connected to and extending outwardly in opposite directions from the lower portion of the unit are article-retaining flaps. Each flap is provided with means for supportingly accommodating the necked portions of the articles of a row.

Abstract: A take out carton and a blank for forming the same is disclosed having a gabled top portion and unique locking closure which provides additional stability for the carton. More particularly, a carton is disclosed having a tubular side wall and an auto-erecting lock bottom. The subject carton further includes a pair of opposed top panels, each having a pair of tab receiving apertures disposed adjacent the side edges thereof. A pair of opposed closure panels are provided each including a base triangle and two side triangles. Each side triangle further includes a central fold line defining a pair of minor triangular portions. The carton has a generally inverted truncated pyramidal configuration to permit stacked nesting of the plurality of cartons. In the closed condition of the carton, the top edges of the top panels are in abutting relationship to define the gabled top configuration.

Abstract: A returnable container for bottles wherein the bottles are substantially completely enclosed in the container. The container is adapted to be opened to remove the bottles while retaining sufficient structural integrity to form a container for the return of the bottles. The container is formed as a tube having a bottom wall, two end walls, a top wall with side walls enclosing the bottles within the tube. An internal brace consisting of a cross panel glued to the top wall and depending centrally located panels provide an inverted channel-shaped beam which braces the container against collapse even after the side walls have been substantially completely destroyed to open the container.

Abstract: A returnable beverage bottle carrier is prepared from a one-piece blank of corrugated paperboard or the like without the aid of stitching, gluing or stapling. The carrier is in tray form with a handle that divides the carrier into two equally sized carrying compartments, and has three thicknesses of material on each of its four sides, a double thick bottom and a handle portion of at least two thicknesses.

Abstract: A container is provided having interior longitudinal and transverse partitions arranged between objects. The longitudinal partition is formed by two superimposed flaps which are of integral one-piece construction with two bottom walls, two side walls, a top wall and end walls. At least the top wall is provided with two spaced apart transversely extending rows of perforations to define a transverse handle. Transverse cuts are formed in spaced relation to the rows of perforations and extend part way down each side wall and the area of the top wall between each row of perforations and the adjacent cut may be removed completely or folded under the handle to reinforce the handle. Additional lines of perforations are formed to permit the removal of the remaining portions of the top wall on opposite sides of the handle along with portions of the side and end walls to obtain access to the objects in the container.

Abstract: A one-piece, integrally molded plastic carrier adapted for supporting a plurality of bottles (such as beverage bottles) in a space envelope which is essentially the same as that space previously utilized by cardboard cartons. In an embodiment for carrying six bottles, a pair of non-planar handle supports extend upwardly from the base, with each of the supports resting in the central space between groupings of four bottles that are arranged to form a "square". The handle supports may be generally cylindrical or T-shaped, or a combination thereof; but in any case they are non-planar. The moment of inertia of the handle supports is high, so that the stiffness of the carrier is correspondingly high. A substantial slot is provided in the base between the two handle supports, and the slot is sized so that two bottle carriers may be nested together--with the handle of one carrier passing through the slot and into the bottom of another carrier.

Abstract: Structure for maintaining article carrier handle elements in proper relative orientation during carrier formation and comprising a handle panel (8), a hand flap (11) struck from the handle panel and foldably joined thereto along a horizontal fold line (12), a connecting element (14) joined at one end to the handle panel and at the other end to one end of the hand flap, the upper (16) and lower (17) edges of the connecting element being angularly disposed to the horizontal fold line and downwardly inclined from the one end of the hand flap, and the hand flap being adapted to swing out of the plane of the handle panel during transport of the carrier and thereby to cause the connecting element to rotate.

Abstract: A variable pressure spray apparatus is provided having a pressurizable fluid storage vessel connected to a pressurized gas cylinder. The spray apparatus is self contained and does not require an external power supply. A hand pulled support cart is adapted to support a removable tray that is capable of carrying the storage vessel and the pressurized cylinder. The combination of the cart and tray with the spray apparatus permits an operator to carry his equipment with him to previously inconvenient and inaccessible locations with regards to conventional spray equipment.

Abstract: A generally rectangular wraparound type blank includes a longitudinal generally medially disposed handle interconnected at its ends with side wall forming panels to the bottom of each of which a bottom forming panel is foldably joined and to the diagonal end edges of which web panels are foldably joined and in turn interconnected with the end edges of end wall forming panels via supplementary side wall forming panels. The handle is held in fixed relation atop a group of articles and the ends of the blank are elevated so as to elevate the end wall forming panels and their associated supplementary side wall forming and web panels following which the end wall forming panels are folded outwardly and downwardly into enveloping relationship relative to the group of articles while the ends of the blank are folded downwardly and underneath the group of articles and secured together.

Abstract: A returnable wrap-around carrier for a plurality of objects such as beer bottles or the like of the type wherein the purchaser of the beer bottles places a deposit on the bottles for the return thereof to the storekeeper. The carrier and the bottles contained therein are completely enclosed affording protection to the bottles from light rays and protection from the bottles dropping out of the carrier. The carrier contains a built-in handle formed partly in the top panel of the carrier and partly in the central interior partition formed within the carrier. When the full pack of bottles .[.are.]. .Iadd.is .Iaddend.transported in the carrier to the purchaser's home, both handle means are used. Thereafter the top panel of the carrier may be completely removed from the side panels to expose the central partition handle which may be used to return the carrier and the empty bottles to the store for deposit.