Abstract: In heat-shrinkable polyester films, the content of 1,4-cyclohexane dimethanol is 10 to 50% by mole based on the polyhydric alcohol component and that the heat shrinkage factors of a 10 cm square sample of the films in (A) hot water of 75° C., (B) hot water of 85° C., and (C) hot water of 95° C. are 30 to 40%, 50 to 60%, and 65 to 77%, respectively. The films can be produced by drawing under specified conditions.

Abstract: A multilayer shrink film and methods of making same comprising one or more polyethylenic layers, one or more polystyrenic layer and polystyrene compatibilizing layers situate between each polyethylenic layer and polystyrenic layer wherein the polystyrene compatibilizing layers comprise less than 1% by weight substantially random interpolymer. The multilayer shrink films of the invention are produced using film biaxial orienting means.

Abstract: A container package assembly which comprises a first support member and a second support member, a plurality of containers, a top pad, and a membrane. The first support member having a first side, the second support member having a second side. The first support member and the second support member being arranged along a common plane wherein the first edge is immediately adjacent to the second edge. Each of the support members constructed and arranged to receive a predetermined number of containers thereon. A top pad positioned on top of the containers, the top pad dimensioned to extend over at least a portion of each of the support members. The support members, the predetermined number of containers and the top pad comprising an assembly, the assembly at least partially encapsulated by the membrane.

Abstract: A temporary packaging method and a resultant package are provided for comprising temporarily bonding containers on a flat base member to stabilize the containers for further packaging, the method comprising the steps of providing a base member, providing containers, temporarily bonding the containers to the base member with a hot melt adhesive, advancing the base member with containers through the packaging or handling system so that further processing of the containers may optionally be effected, encapsulating the base member and bonded containers with a plastic shrink film to complete the package, followed by release of the containers from the bond to base member within minutes after shrink wrapping, with the adhesive remaining bonded to the base member.

Abstract: A container package assembly which comprises a first support member and a second support member, a plurality of containers, a top pad, and a membrane. The first support member having a first side, the second support member having a second side. The first support member and the second support member being arranged along a common plane wherein the first edge is immediately adjacent to the second edge. Each of the support members constructed and arranged to receive a predetermined number of containers thereon. A top pad positioned on top of the containers, the top pad dimensioned to extend over at least a portion of each of the support members. The support members, the predetermined number of containers and the top pad comprising an assembly, the assembly at least partially encapsulated by the membrane.

Abstract: A packaged good article including an article, a packaging material and a tearable tape system. The packaging material is formed about the article. The tearable tape system is secured to the packaging material and includes at least a first section and a second section. The tearable tape system can assume a number of forms. Regardless, the first section is tearable relative to the second section. With this configuration, the tearable tape system is configured to be tearable from an initial, unopened state and an opened state. In the initial, unopened state, an area of the packaging material otherwise contacting the tearable tape system is intact. Conversely, in the opened state, the tearable tape system tears an opening through the packaging material, with the second section remaining secured to the packaging material. The second section, in combination with the packaging material, provides a handle for carrying the packaged good article in the opened state.

Abstract: A pack of articles (2) packaged using a plastic material film (3) having a preferred direction of tearing (D), a plurality of articles (2) being disposed side by side in one or more superposed layers, the film being folded over along a winding direction (E) around the articles which it retains, opening means being provided on the film to facilitate the tearing thereof. The means for opening the film (3) comprise a continuous zone of weakening (A), which zone is oriented transversely to the preferred direction of tearing (D), and forming a band (6) which surrounds the pack, this zone of weakening (A) having a mechanical strength which is sufficiently high to bear the traction stresses exerted on the film to retain the articles, but sufficiently low to permit opening of the film, without a tool, at any point whatsoever of the zone.

Abstract: The method for forming a packaging (1) for a plurality of containers (2) arranged in lines and rows involves wrapping the group of containers with a section of heat-sealable plastic film (3), the two end flaps of which overlap so as to be able to be heat-sealed with one another. Pre-cut lines (5), parallel to the direction in which the film itself extends, are formed beforehand in the film. The pre-cut lines are positioned at a distance from one another and, in the finished packaging, each pre-cut line is arranged between two adjacent rows of containers. One side of the film used is provided, in the position where a longitudinal pre-cut lines is already present or is to be formed, with a strip-shaped area which is not heat-sealable when it comes into contact with the film itself. The width of the strips which are not heat-sealable is chosen so as to cover the maximum overlapping imprecision due to the packaging machines.

Abstract: A shampoo and hair conditioner containers indicating system for systems for distinguishing shampoo and hair conditioner containers. The system includes first and second raised letters. The first raised letter is configured to resemble the letter S and the second raised letter is configured to resemble the letter C. The first raised letter is adapted for attachment to a shampoo container. The second raised letter is adapted for attachment to a hair conditioner container. The first and second raised letters have tactilely distinguishable exteriors from one another.

Abstract: A multiple-container package that includes a plastic tray having a base with an integral peripheral wall, a plurality of pockets in the base and flange portions extending along opposite sides of the peripheral wall. A plurality of filled and closed containers, such as beverage containers, each has a lower end received in one of the tray pockets in an upper end spaced above the tray. A canopy in the form of a thin plastic sheet engages the upper ends of the containers, and is stretched taut over the containers. The side edges of the canopy sheet are secured to the undersides of the flange portions of the tray in such a way that residual stresses in the canopy sheet, which hold the containers in the tray pockets, exert shear stresses on the securement bond between the sheet and the tray flanges. A handle in the form of a thin flexible plastic strip is secured at opposite ends to lateral ends the tray and extends over the canopy for manually carrying the tray and package in horizontal orientation.

Abstract: A package (10) is disclosed including stacked, lower and upper trays (12, 14) each including end walls (22, 122) extending on opposite sides of a base panel (16, 116). The handgrips (26) of the end walls (22) of the lower tray (12) are aligned with the handgrips (126) of the end walls (122) of the upper tray (14) when it is stacked on the lower tray (12). The openings (38) in the ends of a shrunk film wrapper (36) are at least partially coincident with the upper peripheries of the handgrips (26, 126) for providing extra strength. Side walls (18, 118) are integrally connected to the base panels (16, 116) about fold lines (20, 120) and are secured to the end walls (22, 122) by tabs (28, 34, 128, 134). The trays (12, 14) are formed of paperboard and/or corrugated from one or more blanks.

Abstract: A pack (10) of bottles (14) comprises a plurality of layers (12). Each layer (12) has its bottles (14) packed in a close packed side-by-side array, the array being hexagonal. The layers (12) are packed in a sleeve (18) of a plastics material. The sleeve (18) is selected to have a perimetral dimension slightly less than a peripheral dimension of each layer (12) such that the layers (12), once packed in the sleeve, are constrained against movement.

Abstract: A unitary package comprising a plurality of individual inner packages juxtaposed with each other at one or more interfaces. At least some inner packages are wrapped in a wrapper and are peripherally disposed along at least first and second outside walls of the unitary package, defining these first and second outside walls. A first sheet of material having at least one line of weakness is juxtaposed with the first outside wall and interconnects all peripherally disposed inner packages by engaging each of them. Preferably, a second sheet of material is juxtaposed with the second outside wall interconnecting all peripherally disposed inner packages. Preferably, both sheets of material have a self-registering pattern of a plurality of lines of weakness running in both mutually perpendicular directions and comparatively closely spaced such that there is a high probability that at least one of these lines is positioned at the interface of the individual inner packages.

Abstract: The present invention relates to multiple packaging in the form of a one-piece or multi-piece blank of packaging materials for a plurality of containers are kept together so that they cannot be lost, wherein the blank consists of cardboard or tear-proof plastic and at least partially encloses the containers. For the attainment of the object, which consists in providing a novel multiple packaging which assures a considerable reduction of the packaging trash created by the packaging and thus a reduction of the amounts of packaging which must be accepted by the manufacturer, the invention proposes that the blank (5) be firmly connected, preferably glued, with each container (1) at least at one lateral surface, by means of which a display area (3) of the blank (5) is created, which is firmly connected with the container (1), the non-glued sections of the blank (5) form connecting links (6) between the adjoining containers (1), and the blank (5) can be separated in the area of the connecting links.

Abstract: A dual bottle container has two bottles which are releasably interlocked together in side-by-side relation by a plateau on one of the bottles which engages a depression on the other bottle for transverse sliding movement. The plateau is bordered at opposite sides by rounded lip portions and the depression is bordered at opposite sides by rounded groove portions, the lip portions and the groove portions engaging each other to prevent undesired relative movement between the two bottles.

Abstract: Display packaging accepts different-sized, preferably generally cylindrical containers and holds them in fixed relative positions such that they are arranged along a common frontal plane and their labels can be read. The display packaging includes a sheet material that is folded to have a base section upon which the containers rest, a vertically-extending section, and a yoke section that projects forward from the vertically-extending section and includes a recess that fits around the top end of one container to properly position it so as to align with the other containers along a common frontal plane. A transparent film is wrapped around the sheet material and the containers to hold the containers in position.

Abstract: A packaging system is provided for a plurality of packages which are vulnerable to damage when cut into by a sharp instrument. The packaging system includes a rectangular container enclosing all of the packages and being formed of a rectangular lid and a rectangular tray configuration, preferably in a mating and nonoverlapping configuration, to form the container. A shrink wrap material is applied about the container and shrunk into engagement therewith so as to encircle the container in three dimensions and thus hold the lid and tray in the mating configuration. The shrink wrap material is suitably weakened to allow a manual tearing of the shrink wrap material to release the lid and hence open the container. The shrink wrap material is weakened by a longitudinal slot located adjacent the lid and extending from one side of the lid to an opposite side and two paired series of weakenings in the shrink wrap material.

Abstract: A package for releasably retaining a plurality of containers together as a unit comprises a plurality of sides composed of a material having a pre-determined molecular structure. At least one side has uniquely arranged, variably rupturable slits for selectively releasing containers. The slits are aligned substantially parallel with the molecular structure of the material.

Abstract: A dual container is disclosed having two bottles which are releasably interlocked together in side-by-side relation by a mortise and tenon. The bottles are held together to prevent undesired relative movement between the two bottles. A single cap covers both bottles. The cap has a separate outlet for each bottle which may be opened independently of each other.

Abstract: A package for releasably holding a plurality of containers comprises an arraying device, a plurality of containers, and encompassing means. The arraying device releasably holds the containers together to form a predetermined array. The containers have a bottom, and are insertable into the arraying device so that the arraying device is located proximate to the bottoms. The arraying device loosely retains the containers therewithin. The encompassing means surrounds the containers and the arraying device for retaining the containers.

Abstract: A package for cylindrical or polygonal bodies, in particular plastic or glass bottles for beverages and the like, of the type including a collar projecting under a bottle closure plug, comprises a top strip member which can be arranged, in a closed loop configuration, near the neck of the cylindrical bodies, under the projecting collar, so as to connect a set of bodies to form a pack which can be handled as an unit by using the strip member as a gripper, a coupling bottom member being moreover provided for coupling at the bottom the bodies.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to a shipper display providing for construction and system for shipping and displaying a rigid container. The shipper display includes a plurality of base cartons for receiving the containers while leaving a substantial portion of the length thereof exposed. Stacks of filled base cartons are supported on a pallet and covered by a top carton which couples to the top of the containers. The assembly is joined for shipping by strappings and stretch wrap, or by a shrink bag, which, together with the top carton, are removed for display. The container may be formed with spaced indented regions which cooperate with tabs in the base carton to help hold the containers in place.

Abstract: A stacker device for packages of a plurality of identical plastic or paper containers supported in a tray or box, for the purpose of providing compressive load-bearing capability of the package. The stacker is composed essentially of stiff sheet material laminated together into a unique structure which is collapsible for ease of storage and shipment and feeding into automated packaging equipment. It functions to impart load-bearing strength to the package and serves as a divider or partition for separating at least some of the containers.

Abstract: A package for cans of soft drinks, beer and the like is described. The package comprises a single long sleeve of shrink wrap plastic film within which the cans are stacked one on top of the other. A gap is arranged in the center of the stack so that the sleeve can be folded in half and the juxtaposed sides thereof are joined together by hot glue, and thus forming a handle between the two stacks. In an alternative embodiment the stacked cans are simply held by means of a gummed stretch tape around each pair of cans at the junction thereof.

Abstract: A multi-unit multipackage for beverage type containers or receptacles made of a number of small multipackages such as the well known six-pack, which small multipackages are assembled in vertical stacks and made in to larger multipackages, which larger multipackages are assembled into trays. Features of the multi-unit multipackage inure to the benefit of beverage producers, distributors, retailers and consumers.

Abstract: A multiple pack for a plurality of cylindrical containers of uniform design and size arranged in at least two longitudinal rows in juxtaposed upright manner. The multiple pack envelope comprises a rectangular cardboard blank in the form of a strip provided with transverse folding lines. The stripe-like blank forms a base surface and two facing, upwardly foldable side or end wall surfaces joined to the base surface and having a height the same as or less than the height of the containers. A surrounding band crossing the upwardly folded side or end wall surfaces and the two uncovered ends or sides of the multiple pack at approximately the mid-point of the container height acts as the sole means for holding together of and for one or two-handed carrying of the multiple pack.

Abstract: A combination, or distributor package including upper and lower groups of sub- packages of containers each created by a unitary multi-packaging device, a thin, flexible sheet separating the upper group from the lower group and a tightly, tensioned, envelop around the top, bottom and sides of the groups created by a spirally applied stretch film.

Abstract: A length of tape 3 is bonded to a heat shrinkable film 2, and the film 2 is weakened along the edges of a central portion of the length of tape 3. The film 2 is then wrapped around an article or articles, has its two opposite ends sealed together, and is heat shrunk around the article or articles causing access openings 6, 7 in the sheet in the weakened areas along the central portion of the tape that can then be used as a handle for the resultant package 1.

Abstract: A unitized package of a plurality of generally cylindrical containers, such as cans or bottles, is disclosed. The package is sufficiently rigid to maintain a stable configuration upon handling even when the package is constituted by a relatively large number of containers. The unitized package comprises several independent, integral container cells of equal size that are held contiguous to one another by a resilient film ribbon under tension. The resilient film ribbon is in contact with the packaged containers about the periphery of the package along a major portion of the container cylindrical body portion length dimension. A particularly well suited film ribbon material for the foregoing purposes is oriented polypropylene film about 3 to 5 mils thick.

Abstract: A can package comprising a plurality of cans, preferably twelve, including a flat carrier in the form of a sheet having openings stretched over the upper ends of the cans and a tubular banding strap of plastic material stretched about the periphery of the group of cans and bonded along one edge to the periphery of the carrier. The band includes an integral handle.

Abstract: A unitary package for retaining and handling a plurality of generally elongate containers arranged in array includes an arranging structure in which an apertured sheet of resiliently deformable material has a plurality of apertures within which respective lower end portions of the containers are gripped in mutually spaced apart relationship. A film envelope is stretched over the container array and bonded to the sheet of the arranging structure to provide tensioned cohension between the sheet and the envelope which cooperate to produce structural integrity of the package and handling as a stabilized unit without relative skewing of the containers.

Abstract: A spacer tray 2 for containers 32 is formed of a plastic sheet material and is shaped to provide a plurality of container-bottom receptacles 4. Each container-bottom receptacle 4 is shaped to receive at least a part of a bottom portion of a container 32. A container spacer wall 30 is located between each pair of adjacent container-bottom receptacles 4 to maintain bottom portions of containers seated in the receptacles spaced apart from one another. The spacer tray 2 can include nesting-binding interference structures 40, 42 to prevent two spacer trays placed one atop the other from binding when one tray is rotated 180 degrees relative to but otherwise aligned with the other tray.

Abstract: A cluster package comprising at least one articles, a wrap of sheet material enclosing the article therein, and a generally rectangular reinforement patch affixed to a portion of the wrap. The reinforcement patch has a pair of openings defined therein in spaced relation to each other. These openings may serve as fingerholes for the engagement with fingers for the transportation and/or handling of the cluster package.

Abstract: A package of a tray carrying relatively heavy objects such as an array of beverage cans, and a tube securely circumferentially applied about the tray. The tray has end walls that extend to the tops of the objects in the tray and the upper portions of the end walls are foldable outwardly away from the objects and have hand holds. The ends of the tube securely lap over the tops of the end ranks of objects. That arrangement permits the tray to be carried in a depending hanging condition from either upper end wall portion without having the objects fall from the tray.

Abstract: An easily accessible container is disclosed having a wrapping material wrapped around products or product holders and further having a pull tab for ease of removing the material. The pull tab may further act to bind ends of the wrapping material prior to removal of the material by consumers.

Abstract: A package and method of packaging and dispensing a plurality of bottles or other like articles. The packages include a tray for supporting a plurality of bottles and a band around the perimeter of the bottles. A shrink wrap is placed around the bottles, band and tray. The tray is filled by placing the open edge adjacent the exit port of shaker dispensing table. The bottles are dispensed from the tray by moving the band to cause the bottles to slide over the open edge of the tray onto a receiving table.

Abstract: A multi-unit package with a paperboard tray carrying a plurality of articles over which extends a flexible film sheet whose opposite ends overlap the upstanding side walls of the tray. The overlapping ends of the film sheet are bonded to the tray by their own substance under heat and pressure. The film sheet may be heat shrunk to keep it taut.

Abstract: The present invention is a protective packaging system for a plurality of containers (12) having a top protective cover (2) for engaging and protecting the top end closures (62) of the plurality of containers (12), and an enclosing material (14), such as shrink wrap (14), disposed about a plurality of containers (12) having the top protective cover (2) disposed thereon for maintaining the top protective cover (2) in contact with the top end closures (62) of the containers (12).

Abstract: Multipackages, packaging elements, and the method for making the multipackages wherein the containers of the multipackages are primarily containers having a generally cylindrical shape such as commonly used beverage bottles and cans and wherein the containers are arranged in the well known six or eight pack configurations. The package making elements are a pair of circumferentially continuous bands made from elastic plastic film materials capable of being highly stretched below the elastic limits thereof. The bands are applied in a highly tensioned condition, as opposed to known shrink film arrangements, about the group of containers with the axis of one band disposed vertically and with the axis of the other band disposed horizontally and longitudinally of the group to make a stable package capable of being carried by a person grasping the upper portion of the band arranged with its axis disposed horizontally.

Abstract: A stack display system, for use in association with a multiplicity of essentially similar, essentially rigid products, the stack display packaging system comprising, a support platform, defining a front, back and sides of the display, at least one layer of product and product packaging, each layer comprising a lower support, adapted to be supported by one of a group consisting of the support platform and a lower layer, product bottom receiving forming part of the lower support adapted to receive and support bottoms of the products in a predetermined relationship to each other, and a plurality of products the bottoms of which are received in the product bottom receiving, and enclosure around the back and at least part of the sides of the layers, extending vertically from a lowermost lower support.

Abstract: A heat sealing layer is provided for multiply tubular film preferably of the type having an inner shrink layer of an irradiatively cross-linked ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer, a core barrier layer of vinylidene chloride-vinyl chloride copolymer, and an outer abuse layer of an ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer, the sealing layer being melt bonded onto the shrink layer and being composed of a propylene ethylene random copolymer. Heat seals formed in making bags from the improved film demonstrate enhanced high temperature strength and grease resistance. An associated method for making the tubular film is also provided.

Abstract: A multi-unit package comprising a cellulosic tray with a group of articles in the tray and a flexible film sheet extending over the group of articles and overlapping the tray side walls where the film sheet has been first bonded to the outside of the tray side walls while leaving an unattached skirt portion between the first bond and the edge of the film sheet and where the unattached skirt portion has been heat bonded to the outside of the tray side walls subsequent to the first bond to cause the skirt portion to lie in juxtaposition with the outside of the tray side walls to enhance the effective transparency of the skirt portion. The method and apparatus for forming the package is also contemplated by the disclosure.

Abstract: A plastic bottle 4 for beverage or other liquid has a liquid container 6, a top closure 10, and a base cup 8. The base cup 8 includes an interlock band 12 surrounding it to permit two bottles to interlock. The base cup also includes a bottle stacking support 30 to permit a first bottle 4 to rest upon the top closure 10 of a second bottle 4. A rectangular array of such bottles can be surrounded laterally by a binding such as a sheath of plastic shrink-wrap film 5 to form a readily transportable bundle 2. The bundles 2 can be stacked in multitiered structures for warehousing.

Abstract: A package and a method of packaging which involve a set-up carton or container devoid of sharp points at the corners thereof whereby an overwrap of a heat-shrinkable plastic applied to the carton is not subjected to stress forces at the package corners. An intermediate paper overwrap can be optionally utilized which is likewise not subjected to stress forces at the package corners.

Abstract: A plastic shipping and display package and a method of making the shipping and display package are disclosed for use in packaging an array of articles in closely spaced relation. The shipping package includes a layer of thermoplastic polymeric material that forms a molded-in-place tray resting on a lower article-contacting surface. The tray has support pockets for the article to be shipped, the pockets being formed by placing the articles in the polymeric material while it is still moldable and allowing the material to set. An upper article-contacting surface prevents vertical movement of the articles and, in conjunction with the tray, movement by the articles within the shipping package is virtually eliminated. The article-contacting surfaces can be the end closures of a corrugated container or formed from flat, structurally rigid materials that can be enclosed in some outer overwrap, such as a shrinkwrap, to envelope the array of articles.

Abstract: A multi-package of a group or array of bottles and a packaging device which covers and supports the array of bottles on all six sides of the array. The device includes side walls and end restraining means integrally connected to top regions and bottom supporting means. The bottom supporting means contacts at least portions of the bottoms of all the bottles in the array and the perimeter defined by a combination of the side walls and end restraining means is not substantially less than the perimeter of the array. The top region includes at least a pair of opposed, generally oblong holes that facilitate telescopic association with at least two bottles in the middle ranks of the array and permits tightening in the vertical direction in the array.

Abstract: The invention provides a package comprising a plurality of primary containers, such as bottles or cans, connecting means for holding said containers clustered together to form a unit, and an outer sleeve of paperboard passing around at least one such clustered unit, said outer sleeve providing handle means by which the package can be grasped and carried.

Abstract: The invention relates to materials and method for forming composite packages comprising a first flexible material (11) and a second relatively rigid material (12) which are connected together without the use of additional connecting materials. The connection is achieved by causing the flexible material (11) to be deformed to cooperate in tension with interrupted zones (19) of the relatively rigid material (12). Many different packages may be formed for a variety of uses but the invention is particularly suitable for connecting a heat shrinkable plastic body part to a paperboard or like sheet material end part.

Abstract: A multiple compartment banding sleeve is proposed in the form of a cylindrical band of heat shrinkable material, e.g., PVC, which is divided into two or more envelopes by longitudinal seams. The sleeve may be used to wrap, protect and display a grouping of similar or dissimilar items.

Abstract: Disclosed is a multiple container merchandising package comprising a group of similarly shaped containers held together in side-by-side fashion by a plastic overwrap comprising an opaque, uniaxially oriented, laminated, composite sleeve of thermoplastic foam and a thermoplastic film.