Abstract: The present invention and its preferred embodiments relate to an article carrier which is shaped to provide satisfactory strength to hold the bottles securely but with a degree of flexibility so that the load transferred to the handle is absorbed by a carrier. The shape of the blank minimises the amount of paperboard required. The carrier can be applied to an array of bottles by hand or automatic machinery. It is anticipated that the invention can be applied to a variety of carrier and not limited to those of the basket carrier type.

Abstract: A handled foldable paperboard carrier is disclosed that includes peripheral walls defining an upwardly opening basket and a closed bottom joined to and extending between the walls. Stabilizers cooperate with the bottom to form a support base for the carrier, which stabilizers extend laterally outward from the walls and have base edges substantially coplanar with the bottom.

Abstract: A carrier is provided which is made of a carrier box and a separate partition assembly which is secured in the carrier box. The partition assembly is made from transverse and cross partitions which have interengaging slots and tabs which lock together to form the partition assembly without the use of glue. The carrier box is formed from a simple blank having wall panels and bottom panels. The bottom panels are glued together to form a glued bottom and are shaped so that the outer of the bottom panels meet along a junction that is offset from the center of the carrier bottom. In an alternative, and preferred embodiment, the carrier box is formed from a one piece blank and the partition is formed from a one piece blank. The partition includes a transverse partition or divider and at least one cross-partition or divider. The partition is formed from a blank, which is preferably a one-piece blanks. The blank includes a first body section, a second body section, and a handle forming section.

Abstract: A set-up basket style article carrier has a bottom panel, first and second opposed sidewalls attached to the bottom panel, riser panels, a handle attached to the riser panels, transverse partition straps extending between the riser panels and sidewalls, and tapered end panels attached to the riser panels. A blank for the article carrier has a bottom panel, a sidewall joined to the bottom panel along a horizontal fold line, a handle assembly panel joined to the sidewall along a horizontal fold line, a tapered end panel joined to the sidewall along a vertical fold line and to the handle assembly panel along horizontally extending fold lines, and a riser panel joined to the end panel along a fold line offset from vertical to accommodate taper in the tapered end panel.

Abstract: A multi-unit foldable carrier including a pair of opposed side walls, a pair of opposed end walls and a bottom wall, formed from two panels, adjacent to the side and end walls to form an open, generally rectangular container. A handle allows the carrier to be lifted and is formed from at least two panels extending upwardly from the bottom wall and also acting to divide the generally rectangular container into at least two sections. A divider construction is coupled to at least one of the side walls or one of the end walls for further dividing the rectangular container into more than two separate volumes. Each of the side walls, end walls, bottom wall panels, handle means and divider means is formed as sections of a single sheet of laminar stock demarcated by scored lines adapted to allow the sheet to be folded along the creased lines to form each of the sections. A multi-unit foldable carrier which is capable of receiving more than two items in the more than two volumes of the container is provided.

Abstract: A basket-style article carrier (10) with straight, non-stepped side walls (26, 72) and end walls (52/86, 112/122) wherein partition portions containing cell-forming partition straps (34a, 34b, 64a, 64b) are struck from a multiple-ply handle structure and are adhered to a central support member (104) which is also struck from the multiple-ply handle structure. The multiple-ply handle structure which includes handle panels (44, 46, 94, 96) lie within the perimeter of the side wall and end structure panels of the blank (16) for forming the carrier.

Abstract: A carrier is provided which is made of a carrier box and a separate partition assembly which is secured in the carrier box. The partition assembly is made from transverse and cross partitions which have interengaging slots and tabs which lock together to form the partition assembly without the use of glue. The carrier box is formed from a simple blank having wall panels and bottom panels. The bottom panels are glued together to form a glued bottom and are shaped so that the outer of the bottom panels meet along a junction that is offset from the center of the carrier bottom. In an alternative, and preferred embodiment, the carrier box is formed from a one piece blank and the partition is formed from a one piece blank. The partition includes a transverse partition or divider and at least one cross-partition or divider. The partition is formed from a blank, which is preferably a one-piece blanks. The blank includes a first body section, a second body section, and a handle forming section.

Abstract: A basket carrier for beverage bottles. The end cells of the carrier are narrower than the interior cells, so that when the carrier is loaded the end bottles force out the end panels, creating a tight fit and rounded corners. The carrier is formed from a single blank. Fold lines may be provided in the end and side panels to facilitate forming the rounded corners.

Abstract: A bottle clip carrier having an upwardly extending handle. The carrier is comprised of upper and lower support panels, each having bottle neck openings and support tabs. In one embodiment the upper support panel is comprised of adhered overlapping flaps, each flap having a handle ply extending from it. In another embodiment the lower support panel is comprised of abutting flaps, each flap having a handle ply extending up through a slot in the upper support panel.

Abstract: A basket-style carrier containing openings in the side and end panels through which the lower portions of packaged articles can be seen. Flaps connected to one or more opening edges are folded into the interior of the carrier so as to block the pricing bar code on adjacent articles without obstructing the view through the openings. The openings extend down to the bottom panel but do not interfere with connections to riser panels connecting a handle panel to the end panels. The openings also allow the carriers to fit into molded packing trays of the type which include inwardly extending reinforcing elements. The carrier is designed to allow the reinforcing elements to extend into the carrier through the carrier openings.

Abstract: A basket-style carrier with an automatic bottom for containing and carrying a plurality of articles and having a reinforced, three-ply handle. The carrier comprises first and second end panels opposite each other and first and second side panels opposite each other and connected to the first and second end panels. The carrier also comprises an automatic bottom connected to the end panels and to the side panels. The central handle has first, second, and third handle panels secured to one another. At least one of the handle panels is connected to the first end panel, and at least another of the handle panels is connected to the second end panel. A plurality of partition strips are connected to and extend between the central handle and the first and second side panels. The first handle panel is positioned between the second and third handle panels.

Abstract: A basket-style carrier with means for maintaining the carrier open during loading. The carrier includes tabs foldably connected to the end panel sections at one end of the carrier. When the tabs are folded in at substantially right angles to the end panel sections, they engage a vertical support member to prevent the carrier from closing. When the articles being loaded reach the tabs, they fold the tabs up against the inside face of the end panel sections. The articles themselves maintain the carriers open at that point and the tabs are no longer needed for that purpose.

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 which exposes much of the end packaged articles. The carrier has narrow side panels which, with partition straps, form article receiving cells. End cells are formed by the partition straps, side straps extending out from the side panels and end straps connected to the side straps. The partition straps and the end straps are connected to a central support panel, which includes a handle panel portion. The end straps and side straps contact only small portions of the articles, allowing the remainder of the end articles to be viewed.

Abstract: A carton structure erectable by folding from a substantially flat blank includes two side panels, a bottom panel, two top panels, a center divider panel and two end panels, each extending from the bottom panel. Each end panel has slot means for engaging the center divider panel when the carton is erected. The carton structure further includes four reinforcing areas, each having a first edge connected by a first fold line to an end panel and a second edge connected by a second fold line to one of the side panels.

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: The article carrier for bottles and the like includes a bottom wall, opposed side walls joined to the bottom wall along opposite side edges thereof, and end wall panels joined respectively to the end edges of the side walls and extending inwardly of the carrier. A first pair of riser panels is foldably joined respectively to the end wall panels at one end of the carrier, is foldably joined to each other along a riser fold line, and extends medially inward of the carrier. A second pair of riser panels is foldably joined respectively to the opposite end wall panels and extends medially inward of the carrier. A pair of handle panels is foldably joined respectively to the first pair of riser panels and is foldably joined to each other along a handle fold line. The first pair of riser panels is provided with a plurality of elongated openings which lie with their axes of elongation along the riser fold line so as to extend into each of the first pair of riser panels.

Abstract: A basket carrier of the type including a base having a plurality of handles projecting upwardly therefrom, the handles also functioning as partitions so as to divide the base into a plurality of individual spaces for receiving cups, bottles and the like. The same basic basket carrier can be formed from two different blanks. It has been found that by providing two different blanks, a full nesting of the blanks may be obtained so that the blanks may be formed from a web with substantially no loss, thereby reducing the amount of paperboard required to form the blanks. The resultant carriers differ primarily in that one carrier includes one double handle and two single handle arrangements and the other carrier has two double handle arrangements. The carriers differ also in the manner in which the various portions are connected together by way of different arrangements of glue flaps.

Abstract: A carrier for cups. The carrier is formed from a flat blank to have a flat folded state from which it may be readily erected by pressing together on opposite ends. In addition to a base having a bottom, the carrier has an upstanding combined separator and handle. As a result, the upper configuration of the blank is one wherein like blanks in inverted relation and longitudinally shifted may be nested. The nesting may either be a positive nest where there is waste at one end of each of two blanks or two adjacent blanks may be longitudinally and transversely shifted relative to one another to provide a major nesting while having a minimum amount of waste material between two opposed blanks. With this arrangement, the blanks may be formed endlessly in end-to-end relation along an elongated web.

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 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 collapsible hand carrier for bottles of standard size. When fully erected, the carrier has a box-like form and an internal array of cells to accommodate the bottles. The structure of the carrier is formed of flexible panel material and is defined by a pair of side panels provided with complementary handle extensions, a pair of end panels hingedly joined to the end edges of the side panels, and a bottom panel hingedly joined to the bottom edges of the side panels and disconnected from the end panels. The end and bottom panels each include a center fold to create a gusset whereby the carrier may readily be collapsed into the flat state for storage or shipment, or expanded into the erected state for use as a carrier. Cut into each corner of the carrier formed at the junctions of the side and end panels is a pair of parallel slots.

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 cellular basket-style carrier has a pair of side walls (2, 3) one of the side walls (2) having a base panel (5) hinged thereto and the other of the side walls (3) having a connecting flap (10) hinged thereto and joining the base panel to the other side wall (3). Medial panels (14, 14a; 18, 18a) together provide both a central longitudinal partition structure (5) of the carrier and transverse partition structures on either side of said longitudinal partition structure. Each of the medial panels (18, 18a) associated with the other of the side walls (3) has a separator panel (46, 46a) hinged thereto which together provide a multiply separator (M) centrally of the carrier in the plane of said longitudinal partition structure.

Abstract: This relates to a display carton which is divided into a plurality of cells by way of a cellular separator arrangement. The cellular separator arrangement includes front to rear extending partition members and transversely extending transverse separators. All are cut from a single blank panel and are integrally hinged to one another an associated side, front and rear panels. In the blank there is cut from a single panel carton components in the form of a front panel, a side panel, a rear panel portion a side panel portion, the partition members and the transverse separators.

Abstract: A collapsible carrier for bottled beverages which is formed from a blank of paperboard or similar material, cut and creased so that it may be folded and glued to establish, when set up, a bottom, upstanding side and end walls, and a handle and partition structure which includes a longitudinal center partition and three cross partitions on opposite sides thereof to divide the carrier into eight bottle receiving cells with the cross partitions providing two plies of blank material between points of bottle contact and with the center partition providing two plies of material between transverse pairs of 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: An article carrier for use in conjunction with fragile articles arranged in at least two rows of at least two articles each is provided with a partition insert structure arranged to afford double thickness separation between adjacent articles and includes a pair of vertically disposed main panels arranged in back to back disposition together with a horizontally disposed spacer panel foldably joined along its side edges of the bottom edges of the main panels by serpentine fold lines to establish pockets adjacent the articles for affording cushioning action. At least one partition strip may be interconnected with one of the main panels at one end thereof and to a partition panel at the other end thereof.