Abstract: Carrier stock formed from a single sheet of resilient polymeric material, such as low density polyethylene, for machine application to substantially identical containers. The stock is severable, along transverse lines that are perforated, to form individual carriers with container-receiving apertures and additional apertures, as defined by band segments, and with integral handles. The additional apertures facilitate reconfiguration of the stock from an as-formed configuration to an application configuration. Band segments defining the container-receiving apertures at each end rank at each end rank at each edge row includes an outer cross segment, an outer edge segment, an inner cross segment, and an inner oblique segment. The inner cross segment extends from the outer edge segment to the margin of one of the additional apertures.

Abstract: A generally planar paperboard or polymeric sheet for stabilizing a rectangular array of substantially identical cans of a type having an openable end with a chime and for covering substantial portions of the openable ends of the arrayed cans. Pairs of parallel slits in the sheet define can-stabilizing strips. The sheet is clippable onto the cans in such manner that portions of the chimes extend into the paired slits and that each strip fits, without folding such strip, under portions of two adjacent cans. A package for merchandising such cans can be readily assembled by steps that include providing such cans in a rectangular array and clipping the sheet onto the cans in the specified manner.

Abstract: A package unit having a plurality of can-type containers. A pair of plastic strips each comprising eight container circling bands are elastically received by the containers. A single row of containers receives both plastic strips for connecting the containers in a twelve pack arrangement.

Abstract: An improved single piece plastic carrier for a plurality of filled and capped bottles in which the neck of each bottle to be carried by the carrier is received in an aperture in the top panel of the carrier and is supported by spaced apart tabs which extend radially inwardly from the aperture. Each such tab has a substantially greater arcuate extent than the tabs utilized in prior art carriers, and each such tab, therefore, is substantially less yieldable than such prior art tabs. The substantially reduced tab yieldability is particularly advantageous when the carrier is used in conjunction with bottles that are capped with tamper-indicating molded plastic closures, especially closures with a tamper-indicating band of the heat shrinkable type, because it will help to prevent the tab from being deflected upwardly under the tamper-indicating band, which could lead to the fracture of the band prior to any attempt to open the band.

Abstract: A cup carrier is provided having a plurality of circular cup engaging portions each supported by a support web at generally opposite sides of the cup engaging portions. The support webs each extend to a bail portion having a handle by which the cup carrier is carried. Certain ones of the support webs are formed by doubled back portions, and an elongating element is provided in a center support web so that each drink cup is supported independently and in a level condition.

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 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 beverage container holder having a unitary body, apertures therein adapted to receive said containers, and a handle for easy hand carrying.

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: A transporting apparatus comprises a bottomless container case, a removable railing bottom plate, and a removable railing rack. Goods are piled on the railing rack in a size according to the size of the bottomless container case. Quick and automatic connection means are provided therebetween both the removable railing bottom plate and the open end of the bottomless container case for quickly and automatically connect the former to the latter. When the bottomless container case is put to cover the goods on the railing rack and the railing bottom plate is inserted into the bottomless container case through a slot on the lowest sidewall of the container case, entire goods will be transferred from the railing rack onto the railing bottom plate automatically after the bottomless container case together with the railing bottom plate have been hoisted away from the railing rack to transport.

Abstract: A bottle carrier has a web formed with a hand grip opening and an array of fork tines that extend transversely beneath the hand grip opening. Walls extend uprightly from an open end of tine pairs to prevent bottles from sliding off the tines.

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: A molded plastic carrier for six bottles arranged in two side-by-side rows of three each (a "six-pack"), the carrier having a handle portion, three bottle grippers in a row on each side of the handle portion, and a loop for encircling the six bottles supported by struts below the level of the handle portion and grippers, the struts being specially positioned relative to the grippers for automatically centering the carrier on a cluster of six bottles in the initial stage of application of the carrier to the cluster by apparatus for automatically applying the carriers to the six-bottle clusters, to avoid breakage of carriers by the instrumentality of the apparatus which pushes them down on the bottles.

Abstract: A returnable bottle carrier wherein paperboard is substantially completely wrapped about the bottles to provide top, bottom, side and end walls. Two spaced parallel scores are cut in the top wall and partway down the end walls to create a strap. X-shaped creases are formed in the end portions of said strap to relieve stresses. Lateral portions of the top wall are perforated and creased so that they can be torn away from the top wall and pressed into the carrier, thereby opening up the carrier for removable and replacement of bottles.

Abstract: A multi-packaging device for creating a package designed particularly for an array of bottle-like containers. A relatively flat sheet member is configured so that upon association of the sheet members with the array so that as the necks of each bottle are forced through slits in the device, the device is stressed and resiliently deformed to create end, side, and central panel portions that conform to the shoulders and necks of the bottles, thus creating a highly unitized and stable package.

Abstract: A bottle carrier is formed by means of first and second panels interconnected by a longitudinally extending fold line. The first panel is provided with a first pair of aperatures spaced longitudinally and symetrically positioned on opposite sides of a transverse line substantially perpendicular to the fold line while the second panel is provided with a second pair of aperatures (larger than the first pair) spaced longitudinally on the second panel symetrically on opposite sides of the transverse line. Connecting passages traverse the longitudinal fold line and connect adjacent of said first and second aperatures. These connecting passages slope from a first aperature towards the adjacent second aperature in a direction away from the transverse line.

Abstract: A crown support beverage carrier of the type designed to firmly retain two bottles within the carrier by holding the bottles in a sun burst bottle neck receiving opening. The carrier comprises an elongated inverted U-shaped upper section having formed therein at least two sun burst bottle neck receiving openings with a pair of side walls being hingedly attached to the inverted U-shaped upper section and a pair of end walls being hingedly attached to the pair of side walls.

Abstract: A carrier (10) for supporting a plurality of bottles by their necks includes a frame (12) having a plurality of openings (18) defined by interconnected hollow cylindrical sections (20, 22) for releasably receiving and retaining the bottles. Each opening (18) includes two portions of different widths, with the wide portion being bounded by the smaller cylindrical segments (20) and the narrow portion being bounded by the larger cylindrical sections. Other embodiments (32, 46) utilizing other arrangements of deformable hollow sections (42, 62 and 72) to define the bottle receiving opening are also disclosed.

Abstract: A carrier (10) for supporting a plurality of bottles by their necks includes a frame (12) having a plurality of openings (18) defined by interconnected cylindrical segments (20, 22) for releasably receiving and retaining the bottles. Each opening (18) includes two portions of different widths, with the wider portion being bounded by the smaller cylindrical segments (20) and the narrower slot portion being bounded by the larger cylindrical sections.

Abstract: A compact carton for beer bottles and the like is formed from a unitary blank and incorporates a dividing partition having a carrying handle formed therewith disposed centrally, vertically below the top of the carton; a display opening is defined in the top of the carton permitting a pleasing display of the carton contents and access to the handle. The filled cartons can be readily stacked one on top of the other for storage and transport and the contents can be readily removed by the customer through the display opening without breaking the carton apart. The carton has the additional advantage that it can be end-loaded.

Abstract: A multi-pack can carrying carton in which the side and top walls are perforated to provide removable panels which upon removal leave portions of the carton as a handle for the carton to carry returnable empty cans and to provide access openings into the carton, the access openings being shaped and strategetically located to improve visibility and accessibility.

Abstract: An integrally formed bottle carrier in which a plurality of openings is formed in a one-piece frame and each opening includes at least two pairs of diagonally extending bottle engaging and supporting ribs oppositely disposed within the opening, one pair being longer in length and adapted to be spread apart to facilitate the removal of a neck of a bottle and the other pair being shorter in length and serving as a fulcrum against which the neck of a bottle is pivoted to force the upper end between the two longer ribs.

Abstract: A packaging arrangement which is especially adapted for marketing bottled beverages wherein a package is formed by securing on the top portions of a plurality of bottles in row arrangement a carrier device formed by folding a cut and scored blank of paperboard, or similar material, into a tube with a triangular cross section, which device is secured on the bottle tops by engaging the neck of each bottle in a position defining aperture in the base forming bottom panel of the device and placing downwardly directed side portions of a flange formation adjacent the top of each bottle in engagement with upwardly facing edge formations defining the lower extremities of oppositely disposed apertures in the associated upwardly converging sidewall forming panels of the tube, with the tube, in several forms thereof, having a double ply handle upstanding from the juncture of the sidewall panels and also in several forms thereof having foldable panels providing more than a single ply of material at the bottle engaging edg

Abstract: A single piece semi-rigid plastic carrier for glass containers is provided with the carrier comprising a planar top panel, which includes gripping means and a plurality of apertures adapted to supportingly receive a plurality of containers for holding same in a multipack assemblage, a generally sinusoidal type peripheral wall extends downwardly from the outer margins of the planar top panel and merges with a peripheral skirt which skirt, in turn, merges with a lip which is generally parallel to the planar top panel.

Abstract: A reusable carrier for cans which comprises a thin sheet of resilient plastics material with can-receiving frusto-conical openings having wide bottom ends and narrow upper ends permitting machine application of the carrier onto the cans by a single press-on operation.

Abstract: An integrally formed bottle carrier for carrying a row of bottles side by side by their necks in which the bottles are locked into and removed from a plurality of uniformly spaced split collars which are mounted within individual frames interconnected in a single row by one or more longitudinally extending rigid bridging bars.

Abstract: A protective packaging for bottles having different neck lengths includes a support block having circular recesses that receive the bottle bottoms, and a unitary, box-shaped bottle-neck-receiving retainer. The retainer has a flat bottom which serves as a web to support a plurality of inverted cups into which the bottle necks project. Each cup is frangible, and when the closed upper end is broken of, the remaining truncated conical cup wall receives a bottle neck that is too long to be accomodated completely within the unbroken cup, as can a shorter necked bottle. In this way both short and long necked bottles can be securely contained together in a single protective package.

Abstract: A device for carrying and storing bottles is disclosed. The device generally has a holder frame utilizing a series of parallel rails inside the frame. The rails form between them uniform gaps and the edges of the rails have edge portions which yield upon introduction of the bottle neck and then squeeze the neck into a locking arrangement when the bottle is moved in a direction perpendicular to the plane defined by the holder. The edge portions comprise two strip lids which run parallel to each other, but which diverge and are formed of a soft yielding material.

Abstract: Multipackaging devices made of a resilient plastics-material such as low density polyethylene. The devices are made in strip form and are integrally interconnected longitudinally of the strip for continuous machine application to adjacent rows of containers with selective transverse severance of the applied strip to form individual packages of selected members of containers. The strip comprises a row of bands along each side thereof with intersecting and diagonally arranged substantially straight-line band segments extending between the side bands. The band segments cooperate with each other and with the side bands to define additional intermediate bands between the side bands. The strip is substantially narrower than the width of the rows of containers so that substantial transverse stretching of the strip is required to apply the side and intermediate bands to the rows of containers.

Abstract: A packaged linear array of bottles or like containers having reduced neck portions with applied caps, and including a carrier of sheet plastic material having side walls diverging downwardly from an apical fold line interrupted by longitudinally spaced openings receiving the inserted neck portions with edge portions of the openings in supporting engagement beneath outward annular shoulder means as provided by the closure caps or by outward rib means on the containers below the ends of the neck portions, and further including longitudinally spaced strap elements connecting the lower edges of the side walls substantially between adjacent openings and contoured to engage adjacent surface portions of containers inserted in the carrier for stable transport and handling of the package.