US3306485A - Article carrier - Google Patents

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US3306485A
US3306485A US385330A US38533064A US3306485A US 3306485 A US3306485 A US 3306485A US 385330 A US385330 A US 385330A US 38533064 A US38533064 A US 38533064A US 3306485 A US3306485 A US 3306485A
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    • 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
    • B65D71/0003—Tray-like elements provided with handles, for storage or transport of several articles, e.g. bottles, tins, jars
    • B65D71/0022—Tray-like elements provided with handles, for storage or transport of several articles, e.g. bottles, tins, jars formed by folding or erecting one blank, and provided with vertical partitions
    • 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
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    • B65D2301/10—Blanks mutually positioned to minimise waste material upon cutting out the individual blank from a continuous or large sheet
    • 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
    • B65D2571/00—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, pop bottles; Bales of material
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    • 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
    • B65D2571/00—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, pop bottles; Bales of material
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
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    • 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
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    • 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
    • B65D2571/00—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, pop bottles; Bales of material
    • B65D2571/00123—Bundling wrappers or trays
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    • 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
    • B65D2571/00—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, pop bottles; Bales of material
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    • 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
    • B65D2571/00—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, pop bottles; Bales of material
    • B65D2571/00123—Bundling wrappers or trays
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  • This invention relates to article carriers and more particularly to carriers of the type wherein a multi-ply handle is disposed medially of the carrier and wherein a plurality of article receiving cells are disposed in a row on each side of the handle.
  • the invention is directed primarily to a carrier wherein various panels from which the carrier is formed are constructed and arranged so as to provide a carrier of substantial structural strength and wherein a minimum of material is utilized.
  • Carriers of the type disclosed and claimed in United States Patent 2,537,452 owned by the assignee of this invention incorporate a multi-ply handle which extends the full length of the carrier.
  • Carriers of the type disclosed in the aforementioned patent are characterized by a high degree of ruggedness, by excellent merchandising appearance, and are economical to manufacture.
  • the blanks for such carriers nest in staggered fashion along a continuous web with but small wastage of material.
  • such blanks cannot be nested economically on the usual rectangular sheet of material because the length of the bottom panels is equal to the combined widths of the adjacent end and riser panels.
  • unused areas necessarily are wasted at each end edge of each sheet.
  • carriers of the type disclosed in Patent 2,537,452 may be modified in such a way as to reduce the amount of material required by a special nesting of the blanks from which the carriers are formed Without appreciably impairing the strength or merchandising function of the carrier.
  • An example of such practice is that disclosed and claimed in US. patent application Ser. No. 305,454, filed August 30, 1963, now Patent No. 3,203,585, and owned by the assignee of this invention.
  • carriers of the type disclosed in US. patent application Ser. No. 305,454 wherein the side walls are adjoinedto the bottom panels by a fold line rather than by a glue flap and a particular blank is arranged with respect to an adjacent blank from which the carriers are made with the so-called riser panel of one blank nested into the recessed handle panels of an adjacent blank.
  • the bottom of the finished carrier is integral with the side walls thereby rendering the carrier unusually sturdy and in addition the glue flap is eliminated at a point of substantial stress in the carrier.
  • elimination of the glue flap effects a saving of material and also eliminates the gluing operation at the bottom of the carrier.
  • the principal object of this invention is to provide an improved article carrier which is particularly characterized by a high degree of mechanical strength and which also is characterized by a minimum of material and in which the bottom of the carrier is integrally formed with the side walls along fold lines.
  • FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a set-up carrier constructed according to the invention
  • FIG. 2 is a plan view of one form of blank from which the carrier depicted in FIG. 1 is formed and wherein dotted lines are utilized to illustrate one nesting arrangement
  • FIG. 3 is a plan view of a blank similar to that depicted in FIG. 2 and to which stippling has been applied to indicate an application of glue
  • FIGS. 4, S, 6 and 7 represent successive stages through which the blank depicted in FIG. 2 is glued and folded to produce the finished collapsed carrier depicted in FIG. 7.
  • numeral 1 is used to designate one side wall of the carrier to which the end panels 2 and 3 are foldably joined along fold lines 4 and 5, respectively.
  • a bottom panel 6 is foldably joined along the bottom edge 7 of side wall 1.
  • a pair of riser panels 8 and 9 are foldably joined respectively to the end panels 2 and 3 along fold lines 10 and 11.
  • a pair of handle panel elements 12 and 13 are foldably joined respectively to the riser panels 8 and 9 along the fold lines 10 and 11.
  • the side Wall is provided with a high center section generally designated by the numeral 14.
  • a partition strip 16 which is foldably joined to handle panel 12 along fold line 17.
  • partition strip 18 is foldably joined to the high center section 14 along fold line 19 and is foldably joined to handle panel 13 along fold line 20.
  • partition strip 21 is foldably joined along fold line 22 to the high center section 23 of side wall 24.
  • Partition strip 21 is foldably joined to handle panel 25 along fold line 26.
  • partition strip 27 is foldably joined to the high center section 23 of side wall 24 along fol-d line 28 and is foldably joined to handle panel 29 along fold line 30.
  • the end panels 31 and 32 are foldably joined to side wall 24 along fold lines 33 and 34, respectively.
  • Rise-r panels 35 and 36 are foldably joined to end panels 31 and 32 respectively along fold lines 37 and 38.
  • Bottompanel 6 having a medial fold line 39 is foldably joined to side wall 24 along fold line 40.
  • Handle panel 41 is foldably joined to handle panel 29 along a medial fold line 42 while a lap panel 43 is foldably joined to handle panel 25 along a fold line 44.
  • the blank there depicted is constructed so that the handle panels 29 and 41 are recessed inwardly from fold lines 11 and 38 along their outer edges as generally designated by the letters A and B.
  • the outer end edges of handle panel 25 and of lap panel 43 are recessed inwardly from fold lines 10 and 37 as designated generally by the letters C and D.
  • the riser panels such for example as 8 and 9 mayhave their edges E and F configured so that such edges generally conform to the edges A and B of panels 29 and 41.
  • riser panels such as 8 and 9 by suitable nesting are in effect taken from the handle panels of an adjacent blank and one blank may be nested alongside an adjacent similar blank with a minimum of waste.
  • the blank on the left is depicted in solid lines whereas the outline of a blank on the right is depicted in dotted lines.
  • the blank on the left depicted in FIG. 2 may be nested with the blank on the right by simply arranging the blank on the right in reversed side-by-side relation so that the edge F of riser panel 9 of the left hand blank lies in complementary relation to the edges A and B of handle panels 29 and 41 of the right hand blank and so that the bottom edge of end panel 3 of the right hand blank coincides with the top edge of riser panel 36 of the left hand blank.
  • material is in effect taken from the right hand end of the handle panels 29 and 41 of one blank and is utilized to form at least a part of the riser panel 9 of 3 an adjacent similar blank.
  • auxiliary panel 45 is formed in handle panel 25 and is held in place by a fold line along its lower edge as viewed in FIG. 2.
  • Handle panels 29 and 41 are provided with hand gripping apertures 46 and 47 respectively.
  • riser panels 35, and 8 are folded over against handle panel 25 and handle panel element 12 respectively along the upper portions of their respective fold lines 37 and 10. This operation causes the riser panels to be aflixed to the handle panel 25 and to handle panel element 12. Simultaneously with this folding op eration the end panels 31 and 2 are swung over along their respective fold lines 33 and 4 and the handle panel 25 and handle panel element 12 are thus elevated and swung over so that the auxiliary panel 45 coincides generally with the hand gripping aperture 46 and handle panel 29. In like fashion, lap panel 43 swings over into face contacting relation with handle panel 41.
  • This folding operation causes the partition strip 21 to swing over along fold line 26 so that the partition strip 21 lies flat against the center portion 23 of side wall 24. Simultaneously partition strip 16 folds over along fold line 15 so that the strip lies fiat against the high center portion 14 of side wall 1. Upon completion of this folding operation the blank appears as indicated in FIG. 4.
  • the riser panels 36 and 9 are swung over along their respective fold lines 38 and 11 so that the riser panels lie flat against the end panels 32 and 3 and so that the inner ends of the riser panels 36 and 9 are afiixed securely to the right hand portions of handle panel 29 and of handle panel element 13 respectively.
  • the blank appears as depicted in FIG. 5.
  • locking notches 46 and 47 are formed at the ends of fold line 39 in bottom panel 6. These notches cooperate with notches 48 and 49 formed in riser panels 35 and 36 respectively in known manner.
  • An article carrier formed from a blank adapted for side-by-side nesting with a reversed adjacent blank, each blank comprising a pair of handle panels foldably joined together along a medial fold line, a first riser panel foldably joined to one of said handle panels along a fold line generally normal to said medial fold line, an end panel foldably joined to said riser panel along a fold line which is aligned with the fold line between said first riser panel and said one handle panel, a first side wall panel foldably joined to said end panel along an edge thereof remote from said first riser panel, a bottom panel foldably joined to said first side wall along an edge thereof generally normal to the fold line between said first side wall and said first end panel, a second side wall panel foldably joined to said bottom panel along an edge thereof which is opposite the said first side wall panel, a second end panel foldably joined to an end edge of said second side wall panel which is generally aligned with the fold line between said first end panel and said first side wall, and a second riser panel foldably joined to said second end wall panel

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CH1029965A CH459873A (fr) 1963-08-30 1965-07-22 Ebauche pour former un support d'articles
ES0315772A ES315772A2 (es) 1964-07-27 1965-07-24 Perfeccionamientos introducidos en dispositivos portaarticulos.
AT693365A AT264364B (de) 1964-07-27 1965-07-27 Träger für Gegenstände
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US5458234A (en) * 1994-09-21 1995-10-17 Riverwood International Corporation Basket-style article carrier
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US3412894A (en) * 1967-06-29 1968-11-26 Mead Corp Article carrier
US4240545A (en) * 1979-10-01 1980-12-23 The Mead Corporation Article carrier
US4930629A (en) * 1989-10-18 1990-06-05 Indiana Carton Corp. Carrier carton with selectively positionable separators
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