Classifications

• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
  • B65D71/00—Bundles of articles held together by packaging elements for convenience of storage or transport, e.g. portable segregating carrier for plural receptacles such as beer cans or pop bottles; Bales of material
  • B65D71/40—Bundles of articles held together by packaging elements for convenience of storage or transport, e.g. portable segregating carrier for plural receptacles such as beer cans or pop bottles; Bales of material comprising a plurality of articles held together only partially by packaging elements formed by folding a blank or several blanks
  • B65D71/46—Bundles of articles held together by packaging elements for convenience of storage or transport, e.g. portable segregating carrier for plural receptacles such as beer cans or pop bottles; Bales of material comprising a plurality of articles held together only partially by packaging elements formed by folding a blank or several blanks formed by folding a single blank into a tubular element
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
  • B65D71/00—Bundles of articles held together by packaging elements for convenience of storage or transport, e.g. portable segregating carrier for plural receptacles such as beer cans or pop bottles; Bales of material

Definitions

• the invention relates to carriers for articles such as bottles. More particularly the invention relates to carriers which grip the tops of bottles for example.
• interconnected panels including top, bottom and side panels, and article receiving apertures
• top and bottom panel which receive the neck of a bottle.
• sun burst features around the periphery of an aperture such that when a bottle is passed through the aperture the plurality of tabs which form the sun burst engage the underside of a bottle cap or protruding flange for example.
• a top gripping carrier of this type is disclosed in GB 2154197B.
• top gripping carrier is disclosed in EP 42720B1 wherein a triangular formation is shown having top and bottom apertures such that the load of a bottle is transmitted through the triangular side walls adjacent the aperture into the base panel thereby to provide a relatively rigid article gripping device.
• the invention seeks to avoid or at least mitigate these and other problems of the prior art. Accordingly, the invention provides an article carrier for packaging necked articles such as
• bottles comprising hingably interconnected top, bottom and side walls wherein the bottom
• the wall comprises an article receiving aperture adapted to receive the neck of an article and wherein the carton further comprises article retaining means disposed intermediate the bottom and top wall such that the top of the associated article is retained between the top and bottom of the carrier.
• the unsightly, damaged label can be screened from the view of a customer purchasing the packaged articles.
• a strong article retaining means can be provided within the carrier.
• the carrier of the invention can comprise article retaining means which comprises a retention panel having a bottle top receiving and retaining aperture.
• the rim of the bottle top receiving and retaining aperture can be upwardly convex so as to provide resistance against downward movement of an associated article engaged therein.
• the carrier can also comprise an upper support member interconnecting the retention panel and the top wall of the carrier.
• the retention panel can be hingably connected to the side walls of the carrier.
• a carrier according to the invention comprises a plurality of article receiving apertures and associated retaining means configured to carry a linear array of articles.
• the carrier can also comprise end closure means which at least partially obscure from view the tops of the articles retained in the carrier.
• the end closure means can be struck from that
• Another aspect of the invention provides a blank for forming a carrier according to the other aspect of the invention.
• the blank can comprise a series of hingably interconnected panel portions including longitudinally endmost securing tab, an intermediate panel for forming article retaining means, a central support panel, an upper panel portion, side panel, and base panel portion which panels are repeated about a transverse symmetry axis through one of the panels.
• Another aspect of the invention provides use of a blank according to another aspect of the invention to form a carrier of packaged articles.
• FIGURE 1 is a plan view of a blank for forming a carton according to the invention
• FIGURE 2 is an end elevation view of a carton according to the invention showing the article
• FIGURE 3 is an end elevation view of the carton shown in Figure 2 with an article loaded
• FIGURE 3a is a sectional plan view along line X-X of the carton shown in Figure 3;
• FIGURE 4 is an end elevation view of the carton shown in Figures 2 and 3 during removal of an article.
• FIG. 1 there is shown a carton blank 10 in a particular form of the invention which is adapted to produce a carton for carrying three necked articles such as bottles.
• blank 10 is symmetrical about a central transverse fold line 23.
• the blank comprises at one end a glue tab 12, hinged to an intermediate retention panel 14.
• the retention panel 14 is hinged to a central support panel 16 along fold line 15 which is interrupted by three article top receiving apertures 36 struck from panels 14 and 16.
• Central support panel 16 is hinged to top wall panel portion 18 which in turn is hinged to side panel 20.
• Panel 20 is hinged to base panel portion 22 which in turn is hinged to a second base panel portion 24 along interrupted fold line 23. Due to the reflective symmetry about fold line 23, carton blank 10 therefore comprises side panel 26, upper panel portion 28, central support panel 30, intermediate retention panel 32 and a further glue tab 34.
• the base of the carton comprising panels 22 and 24 comprise article neck receiving apertures
• the end closures 40 are hinged to the base panels 22 and 24 along fold lines 54 and comprise two main panel portions 42 and 44 hingably connected along that part of fold line 23 which extends into the end closures 40.
• the main panels 42 and 44 comprise lateral tabs 48 and 52 hingably connected to but partially cut from the main end closure panels by cuts 46 and 50 respectively.
• FIG. 2 shows a carton 11 constructed from blank 10 in which all the carton panels are clearly indicated. It is evident therefore that glue tabs 12 and 34 are adhered to the inside faces of side panels 20 and 26 respectively. The positioning of the glue tabs is such as to bring central support panels 16 and 30 together so that they can be adhered to one another as shown in Figure 2.
• the carton is formed having an upper wall comprising panels 18 and 28, side walls comprising side panel 20 and 26, and a base wall comprising panels 22 and 24.
• the carton 11 comprises article retaining means 60 intermediate the top and bottom walls.
• the article retaining means comprises retention panels 14 and 32, and central support panels 16 and 30 which are formed within the carton to provide apertures to receive article tops and retain each article in the carton until it is removed for use.
• an aperture is created by two associated apertures 36 from panels 14 and 32 as can be seen from Figure 3a.
• Means 60 is connected to the top wall of the carrier 11 along fold lines 17 and 29 and to the side walls 20 and 26 along fold lines 13 and 33. In this example the fold lines 13 and 33 are disposed
• carton 11 in its initial position has its top panels 18 and 28 inclined to the horizontal by an angle which is less than that of the intermediate retention panels 14 and 32.
• a bottle top C is passed through an aperture 38 with little resistance but in order for the cap C to pass through the aperture in intermediate retention panels 14 and 32, the rim 37 of the aperture 36 needs to flex outwardly and only minimal resistance to this movement is presented provided that the carton 11 is made of a blank of suitable resilient material such as medium calliper paperboard, for example.
• the carton 11 is positioned so that the top panels 18 and 28 are substantially horizontal or parallel with the top cap of the bottle, and substantially parallel to base panels 22 and 24. Since the base wall is wider than the top wall of the carton 11, the side walls 20 and 26 are inclined to the vertical so as to contour the neck of the bottle. However, the configuration of the internal bottle retaining means 60 is such that intermediate retention panels 14 and 32 are inclined at an angle relative to the planes of the top and bottom panels of the packaged carton. As can be seen from Figure 2, side panel portions 20a and 26a are larger than central support panels 30 and 16 respectively. In order to remove a bottle B from the carton 11, it is necessary for the bottle caps C to pass
• the carton provides the various advantages of enabling good bottle retention in a carton whilst providing a carton which also hides from view that part of the bottle label L adjacent the bottle cap C which can be unsightly from a marketing or aesthetic point of view or which may, for example be furnished with a single product bar code.
• a carton made from paperboard or similar material can of course carry printed matter such as product designation or advertising material thereby enhancing the point of sale presentation of the product.
• the carton can also comprise end closures 40 which as shown schematically in Figure 3 act to obscure the majority of the end view of the bottle neck retained in the carton 11 and particularly that part of the label L directly below the bottle cap C.
• end closures 40 can be put into position simply by passing a bottle through the associate aperture 38 and by causing the end closure 40 to pivot about hinge line 54. The end closure 40 is then raised to an upright position wherein friction tabs 48 and 52 fold about hinges at opposite ends of cuts 50 and 46 thereby to retain the end closure 40 in its upright position.
• the end closure 40 can be contoured at its upper end 56 so as to marry the shape of the underside of intermediate panels 14 and 32 in the formed carton 11. This enables complete screening of the end beneath the intermediate panels 14 and 32 and above the bottom walls 22 and 24 and also enables a further resistance against movement of the intermediate panels 14 and 32 when trying to withdraw a bottle B from carton 11.

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