Abstract: An article carrier which includes a handle connected to and extending between opposite side panels. End panels of the carrier are divided into halves by vertical fold lines, and the handle includes a fold line which lies in the same plane as the end panel fold lines. This construction allows a collapsed carrier to be squared up from a folded condition. The carrier may take the form of a wrap-around carrier having a top panel or an open-top basket-style carrier.

Abstract: A basket-style carrier for packaging six bottles or other articles in two adjacent rows. Partition panels connected to opposite side panels are formed from partition flaps foldably connected to the upper edge of the side panels of the carrier. The partition flaps are adhered to the side panels and the partition panels are adhered to the central handle panel.

Abstract: A basket-style carrier for packaging four bottles or other articles in two adjacent rows. A partition panel connected to opposite side panels is formed from a cutout in the body of a central handle panel. The layout, glue pattern and partition panel formation permits the carrier to be rapidly formed.

Abstract: A basket-style carrier constructed so as to maintain the carrier open during loading. One of the sections forming an end panel of the carrier includes a retaining tab extending across an opening in the adjacent end panel section. This prevents the end panel from collapsing about the fold lines connecting the end panel sections to the handle panel support structure during loading. The opening extends into the adjacent handle panel support structure, allowing the retaining tab to freely move through the opening in the support structure as the carrier is opened from collapsed condition.

Abstract: A carrier with both a bottom panel and an upper panel containing openings through which the necks of packaged bottles extend. The upper panel is comprised of adjacent sections foldably connected to a central handle panel and to an intermediate panel. The latter panel also contains bottle openings and is foldably connected to a central vertical support panel. The arrangement permits loading by placing bottles on the bottom panel and pushing down on the handle panel, which causes the upper panel sections to pivot down over the bottles. Support tabs may surround the bottle openings in the upper panel to engage shoulders on the bottle necks.

Abstract: A paperboard carton having an improved locking bottom. The disclosed carton has a collapsed position and an expanded position. In its expanded position, it has a square flat bottom which includes four flaps. A first pair of floor flaps, foldably attached along the bottom edges of opposite sidewalls have tabs which interlock when the carton is in the expanded position. The second pair of floor flaps, foldably attached along the bottom edges of the remaining opposite sidewalls, are relatively large and overlie the first pair of flaps and overlap each other when the carton is in the expanded position. Each of the first pair of floor flaps is divided into two sections by a foldline when extends from a corner of the expanded carton.

Abstract: A carrier for carrying a predetermined number, generally six, bottles. The carrier is made from two parts: a stiff plastic frame and a flexible plastic bag. The frame is made up of a rectangular collar, and a lattice which divides the frame into a network of two rows, each row having three compartments. The frame is also provided with a handle connected to the top of center lattice divider between the two rows. The bag is rectilinear, and the cross-section of its open end matches the collar of the frame. When assembled, the top, open end of the bag is glued or welded to the collar and hangs from the frame. The assembled unit thus provides a plastic carrier, with a handle into which can fit six bottles. The corners of the collar and lattice network of the frame can be hinged so that an empty carrier can be made compact by collapsing the carrier on itself.

Abstract: A multi-celled article carrier suitable for conveying articles such as cans and bottles, and a method for manufacturing the article carrier are disclosed. The article carrier preferably comprises four cells defined by a bottom wall, two side panels and two end walls. The article carrier is divided into cells by the combination of a medial partition extending from end wall to end wall and by a transverse partition extending from side panel to side panel to form four distinct cells. The medial partition further comprises an integral perforated handle consisting of two handle portions which cause the article carrier to become erected when united to form the perforated handle.

Abstract: A collapsible storage rack for holding beverage cans is described. The rack contains a top cover and a bottom cover, both of which are slidably attached to the rack. When the top cover is in its open position, beverage cans can be loaded into the rack. When the bottom cover is in its open position, beverage cans can be discharged from the rack. When both covers are in their closed positions, any beverage cans therein are securely retained in the rack and may be transported in the rack.The storage rack contains frame members which are connected to each other in such a manner that the height of the rack can be varied.

Abstract: A portable receptacle capable of securely and orderly receiving returnable beverage containers for storage and transport is disclosed. The receptacle includes a frame structure definitive of at least one module that is sized to receive a plurality of returnable cans and/or bottles. The module has an outwardly facing open end to facilitate insertion of containers therein, and an at least partially sealed end opposed thereto for positioning the containers. Orienting means are provided for angling containers positioned within the module downwardly from the open end to the at least partially sealed end such that any residue fluid retained within the containers remains therein and such that the containers remain within the receptacle when in transport.

Abstract: A baby bottle caddy carrying container is set forth wherein the container is formed with an interior flexible matrix of four compartments formed of wall structure of a flexible, relatively thin first thickness spaced from an exterior wall surface of a second greater thickness. The spacing between the first and second wall structure provides for acceptance of containers of cooling medium therewithin. The relatively thin first wall structure accommodates bottles of complementary square cross-sectional configuration wherein the bottles positionable within the matrix of compartments provide rigidity to the carrying case and accommodates varying size bottles to vary the spacing between the first and second walls. A third wall shell structure of a third thickness less than the first wall thickness is in surrounding relationship to provide strength and support to the carrying container of the instant invention.

Abstract: A tray particularly useful by fast food establishments and the like for serving various products. The tray is formed from a tube formed in a flat state for storage and shipment and being readily erectible. A central portion of the top of such tube is provided with suitable product receiving openings which may open into a receptacle or which receive drink cups. At one or more ends of the tray, there is a compartment which is defined by an end of the initial tube which is pivoted from a longitudinal position to an upstanding position. The tray may have one or more internal stiffeners to prevent the collapse thereof when in tube form and stacked. Numerous embodiments are envisioned although only a limited number of alternatives is specifically disclosed.

Abstract: A multi-cellular carrier which includes a body having ends, sides, a bottom and an open top, and a divider assembly dividing the body into a plurality of cells, the divider assembly being directly integrally connected to one of the ends. The carrier is formed from a blank which includes a body forming blank portion and a divider assembly forming blank portion which are integrally joined together. When the two blank portions are longitudinally aligned, one handle panel may be carried by the divider assembly blank portion for telescoping between two handle panels carried by the body forming blank portion. On the other hand, when the two blank portions are disposed at right angles to one another so as to have an L-shape for internesting of two blanks for economy purposes, the divider assembly forming blank portion will have two handle panels.

Abstract: A system for aligning portions of a carrier blank during the folding of a carrier blank into a folded carrier wherein an abutment tab having an abutment edge is provided in one portion of the carrier blank with the one portion having a first linear edge and wherein an abutment edge is provided in a second portion of the carrier blank with the second portion having a second linear edge so that when the first and second portions of the carrier blank are moved into adjacent relationship, the abutment edges move into a contacting relationship to guide the first and second linear edges into a superposed and aligned relationship.

Abstract: A portable cooler which may be carried in back-pack style is adapted to store and automatically dispense a number of cans of beverage. The cooler is comprised of a box-like chamber having self-supporting thermally insulative material on its exterior surfaces. One or more removable coolant-confining containers are positioned within the chamber, each container having a serpentine contour of horizontally elongated recesses adapted to hold beverage cans and permit their vertical descent to a door positioned adjacent the bottom of the chamber. The chamber is held within a snug-fitting fabric carrying jacket having a zippered lid and closure for the door, and carrying straps.

Abstract: A four-pack bottle carrier requiring minimal gluing and materials, which can be readily glued up with existing machinery, which will lie flat after gluing and prior to erection, and which can be folded flat again after use. The carrier which is formed from a single piece of paperboard includes four side panels (12, 14, 16, 18) of substantially equal width, a side glue flap (26), and two pairs of opposed bottom panels (66, 68 and 80, 82). The upper portion of the side panels are provided with suitable die cuts (34, 36, 38, 40, 42) and cutouts (56, 62, 64) which facilitate the forming of the bottle dividers (94, 96) and a combined handle and bottle dividers when the bottle carrier is glued up and erected.

Abstract: A fragile article such as an electric lamp having a glass bulb of spherical, paraboloidal or general pear-shaped configuration is protectively packaged by inserting it into snug slip-fitted relationship with an open-ended hexagonal sleeve-like carton of boxboard or other suitable packaging material. Parts of opposing walls of the carton are cut, scored and interconnected to provide a foldable flap assembly that is automatically actuated when the carton is expanded from collapsed condition and is then converted in "snap-like fashion" into a laterally-extending platform that locks the carton in its fully-erected tubular configuration. The platform is provided with a suitable aperture which frictionally grips the basal end portion of the inserted lamp and thus holds the lamp in loaded position within the carton.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to cartons with separaters which, where the articles to be separated are deep, comprise a lower arrangement of separaters according to the invention in co-operation with a higher arrangement of separaters of known form and supported from a stiff central separater according to the invention. The lower and upper separaters erect automatically when the carton walls are moved from the flat condition to the rectangular condition, the lower ones are extensions of the known Crash-bottom style and arranged to interact together according to the invention to erect the separater forming extensions for separating two or more articles such as glass bottles.

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: A basket carrier with plural cells in a single row, the carrier including a novel handle panel structure and a novel automatic floor structure. The novel handle panel structure incorporates a panel system by which a handle panel is positioned in a plane normal to the carrier's side walls when the carrier is erected, and parallel to the carrier's side walls when the carrier is knocked-down. The novel automatic floor structure prevents substantial sagging of the floor when the carrier is erected and loaded.

Abstract: A compartmented container for returnable beverage cans made from plastic sheet is disclosed. The container of the present invention comprises a plurality of spaced apart parallel upright walls including a pair of opposed side walls joining the spaced apart upright walls at an outside edge thereof. A bottom wall extends along the bottom of the container and joins the bottom edges of the upright walls, side edges of the bottom wall spaced in a distance from the opposed side walls. Fold lines are formed transversely along the bottom wall between upright walls, and upright fold lines are formed along the side wall between upright walls. The container is foldable along the fold lines collapsing to a thin planar configuration with the upright walls abutting.

Abstract: An upwardly opening tray-like carrier carton is disclosed for packaging a plurality of articles having the general form of beverage bottles, which carrier is fabricated from a pair of blanks of foldable sheet material which are cut, scored, folded, and glued up, so as to provide connected panels which form, when set up, a partitioned carton structure comprising a double row of upwardly opening bottle receiving cells disposed on opposite sides of a central bottle separating partition and handle forming panel assembly. The assembly is characterized by an upstanding partition wall extending between the rows of cells on each side of the partition and handle forming assembly which is hinged at its opposite ends to pairs of foldable end wall panels so as to enable the cells on each side of said central partition and handle forming panel assembly to be collapsed, when empty, and to be folded into flattened relation against said partition and handle forming assembly.

Abstract: A collapsible basket for carrying side-by-side grocery bags or the like has a rectangular shaped, vertically-extending framework between the lower ends of which are pivotally secured inner end portions of a pair of opposed rectangular bottom panels the outer ends of which have pivotally secured thereto lower end portions of opposed side panels. The upper end corners of the side panels are linked to each other and to central portions along the length of the handle member at each side to provide substantially parallel guide mechanism operation of the side panels with respect to the axial plane of the handle, thereby to permit compact collapsing of the bottom and side panels against each side of the handle member. The lower end of the frame member is provided, centrally along its length, with an inwardly-collapsible handle for use in carrying the container in inverted position when collapsed.