EP0454450A1 - Porte-bouteilles - Google Patents

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EP0454450A1
EP0454450A1 EP91303715A EP91303715A EP0454450A1 EP 0454450 A1 EP0454450 A1 EP 0454450A1 EP 91303715 A EP91303715 A EP 91303715A EP 91303715 A EP91303715 A EP 91303715A EP 0454450 A1 EP0454450 A1 EP 0454450A1
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WestRock Packaging Systems LLC
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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
    • B65D71/40—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
    • B65D71/42—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 single layer element
    • B65D71/44—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 single layer element characterised by the handle

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  • This invention relates to a bottle carrier of the so- called top-gripping type which has no bottom wall but which grips and supports the bottles by engagement with neck portions of the bottles and which includes a peripheral band to maintain the bottles in close side- by-side relationship. More specifically the present invention is concerned with carriers in which bottle- neck receiving apertures are provided in a carrier top wall formed by a hinged connection between a pair of side walls of the carrier.
  • EP-A-O 051 968 discloses such a bottomless top-gripping carrier in which a plurality of bottles are accommodated, and maintained in close side-by-side relationship by means of a peripheral skirt.
  • the carrier has an end wall connecting together lower portions of the side walls at each end of the carrier and providing, together with lower portions of the side walls, a peripheral skirt to maintain the bottles in close side by side relationship and has at least one tie element connecting together upper portions of the side walls to limit movement of the upper portions away from one another.
  • the top of the carrier is formed to provide a roof-like structure and a tying band ties together lower portions of the side walls and the bottles.
  • the invention provides a carrier accommodating a plurality of articles, such as bottles, arranged in close side-by-side relationship, which carrier comprises a pair of opposing side walls flanking wall portions of the bottles, said side walls including mutually inclined upper portions hinged together adjacent the tops of the bottles and providing a top of the carrier, said top having a bottle-neck receiving aperture for each bottle and including bottle-neck engaging means to support the bottle when the carrier is lifted, characterized by end walls connecting together upper portions of said side walls at each end of the carrier and providing, together with upper portions of said side walls, a roof-like structure, and by tying means securing said side walls to said bottles and securing said bottles in side-by-side relationship to limit movement of the bottles away from one another.
  • the carrier may be adapted for two bottles, wherein a pair of bottle-neck receiving apertures is provided in said top and a hand gripping aperture is formed in said top.
  • FIG. 1 there is shown a flat blank 1 of paperboard (or other foldable sheet material) which is cut and scored and capable of being erected, in combination with a cooperating strap, to form a carrier for a pair of bottles as shown in Figure 2.
  • the blank 1 comprises a central strip 2 defined between a pair of parallel fold lines 3, 4.
  • Opposing upper side panels 5, 6 for the carrier are hinged to respective side edges of the central strip 2 along the fold lines 3, 4, while the lower side panels 7, 8 are hinged to the upper side panels 5, 6 along respective fold lines 9, 10.
  • the opposite ends of the central strip 1 and the opposite side edges of each of the panels 5, 6, 7, 8 are defined by respective common fold lines 12, 13 extending substantially the whole length of the blank 1.
  • the lower side panels 7, 8 project beyond the adjacent portions of the blank.
  • These projecting portions 15, 16 are formed at each side of the respective panel with a rectangular notch 17, 18, 19, 20, the mouths of which lie flush with the score lines 12, 13.
  • the side edges of these end panels 22, 23 are defined by fold lines 22a, 22b; 23a, 23b which are extensions of the fold lines 3, 4 which define the central strip 2.
  • each corner of the central strip 2 Radiating outwardly from each corner of the central strip 2, within the right angles defined between score lines 12, 13 and perpendicular score lines 22a, 22b and 23a, 23b, are a respective pair of fold lines 30d, 30e; 31d, 31e; 32d, 32e; 33d, 33e.
  • Each set of three triangular flaps comprises a pair of adjacent complementary tuck flaps 30a, 30b; 31a, 31b; 32a, 32b; 33a, 33b hinged to one another along fold lines 30d, 31d, 32d, 33d, and a triangular panel 30c, 31c, 32c, 33c which is on one side along fold line 30e, 31e, 32e, 33e to tuck flap 30b, 31b, 32b, 33b, and on the other along respective fold lines 22a, 23a, 23a, 23b to the associated end panel 22, 23.
  • triangular panel 30c is hinged to the side edge of end panel 22 along fold line 22a; tuck flap 30b is defined between fold lines 30d and 30e along which it is hinged to tuck flap 30a on one side and triangular panel 30c on the other; and tuck flap 30a is hinged on its other side to the side of upper side panel 5 along fold line 12.
  • each of the other three sets of triangular flaps 31a, 31b, 31c; 32a, 32b, 32c; and 33a, 33b, 33c are similarly arranged in the corners defined between end panel 23 and upper side panels 5 and 6, and between end panel 22 and upper side panel 6 respectively.
  • a small triangular aperture 36, 37, 38, 39 is struck in the corner of each of the angles subtended between fold lines 30e and 33e and fold line 12, and fold lines 31e and 32e and fold line 13 respectively.
  • the tuck flaps 30a, 31a, 32a, 33a are extended at their base so as to be integrally hinged to one end of a respective rectangular tuck flap 40, 41, 42, 43 along score lines 44, 45, 46, 47, which are simply extensions of fold lines 9 (44, 45) and 10 (46, 47).
  • the rectangular tuck flaps 40, 41, 42, 43 are also hinged along one side to the sides of adjacent side panels 7 and 8 along respective portions of full-length score lines 12 and 13.
  • the central strip 2 is formed with a pair of circular bottle-neck receiving apertures 50, 51 located towards opposite ends thereof and spaced apart at a distance corresponding to the diameter of the bottles to be received.
  • 51 To the periphery of each aperture 50, 51 is a circular set of eight retaining tabs 53 which are defined by eight radial cuts 54.
  • the radially inner edges of the tabs 53 of each bottle-neck receiving aperture 50, 51 define between them a respective smaller concentric central aperture 55, 56.
  • the tabs 53 are hinged to periphery of their associated apertures 50, 51 along circular fold line 57, 58, which accordingly itself defines the periphery of that aperture.
  • a handle arrangement comprising a fold line 60 which extends transversely along across the width of the central strip 2, traversing each of the fold lines 3, 4 and extending into each of the upper side panels 5, 6 where it intersects a bow-shaped cut 61 towards opposite ends thereof.
  • This cut 61 also extends transversely across the central strip 2 a short distance to one side of the fold line 60, and crosses each of the fold lines 3, 4 into panels 5, 6 where it curves towards and meets the opposite ends of the fold line 60 to define therewith a flap 62, hinged along fold line 60.
  • the flap 62 is formed with a pair of fold lines 62a, 62b which approximately bisect the outwardly facing right angles between the line 60, and each of the lines 3, 4 towards each end of the flap.
  • triangular tuck flaps 30a, 31a, 32a, 33a are folded inwardly about fold lines 12, 13 to lie in face-to-face contact with the inner surfaces of upper side panels 5, 6.
  • triangular tuck flaps 30b, 31b, 32b, 33b are each also folded down, along respective fold lines 30d, 31d, 32d, 33d, so as to lie in face-to-face relationship with tuck flaps 30a, 31a, 32a, 33a respectively to form a three-ply structure in each of these regions.
  • the end panels 22, 23 are then drawn outwardly to form, in conjunction with triangular panels 30c, 31c, 32c, 33c, a canopy structure at each end of the carrier. This is accomplished by folding triangular panels 30c, 31c, 32c, 33c relative both to tuck flaps 30b, 31b, 32b, 33b about fold lines 30e, 31e, 32e, 33e, and to their associated end panels 22, 23, by folding about fold lines 22a, 23a, 22b, 23b.
  • the carrier comprises a roof-like structure, formed by the central strip 2, upper side panels 5, 6, end panels 22, 23 and triangular panels 30c, 31c, 32c, 33c shaped to accommodate the tops of a pair of bottles B1, B2, and a pair of depending side walls provided by side panels 7, 8.
  • the caps C1, C2 of the bottles are forced upwardly into and through the bottle neck receiving apertures 50, 51, thereby deflecting the peripheral retaining tabs 53 which subsequently resiliently engage behind the rims 64, 65 of the bottle caps to secure the bottles B1, B2 against withdrawal.
  • the above-described roof-like portion of the carrier fits snugly over the tops of the bottles B1, B2, with the side panels 7, 8 hanging downwardly on each side parallel to, and in contact with, the side walls of the bottles.
  • a strip 66 of heat shrinkable plastics material is wrapped around the side walls of the bottles B1, B2 embracing also the lower edge of each of the side panels 7, 8 and engaging in the rectangular notches 17, 18, 19, 20 therein.
  • This strap 66 is then heat shrunk in position firmly to hold the bottles together and to secure the side panels 7, 8 in place against their side walls.
  • the notches 17, 18, 19, 20 in the side panels 7, 8 serve to prevent the plastic strap 66 from sliding out of position.
  • the loaded carrier can readily be lifted and carried using the handle feature located in the central strip 2 between the bottle caps C1, C2.
  • This provides a reinforced two-ply lip along fold line 60 by means of which the carrier can be lifted and carried by engagement of the fingers thereunder.
  • carriers in accordance with the present invention can be adapted to accommodate more than one pair of bottles.
  • the central strip 2 (and end panels 22, 23) laterally and providing therein further pairs of bottle neck receiving apertures at intervals corresponding to the diameter of the bottles, further pairs of bottles can be packaged.
  • the central strip 2 (and side panel 5, 6, 7, 8) can be elongated and formed with further bottle neck receiving apertures at bottle diameter intervals.
  • the height of the plastics strap 66 which need not necessarily be heat shrunk in order to provide a secure binding, is such as to obscure bar (price) code symbols on the individual bottles to encourage reading of a correct bar code symbol for the multiple pack appearing on the exterior of the carrier.

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WO1995006604A1 (fr) * 1993-09-01 1995-03-09 Edqvist Haakan Emballage et son procede de production
EP0696995A1 (fr) * 1994-03-02 1996-02-21 Riverwood International Corporation Conditionnement maintenant des bouteilles par le col et flan correspondant
EP0712367A1 (fr) * 1994-06-14 1996-05-22 Riverwood International Corporation Carton de transport a coins arrondis et flan correspondant
US5653340A (en) * 1993-09-23 1997-08-05 The Mead Corporation Wraparound package with peripheral strap
US5775486A (en) * 1993-09-01 1998-07-07 Edqvist; Haakan Package and method for producing said package

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US4190149A (en) * 1979-02-12 1980-02-26 The Mead Corporation Article carrier and blank therefor
US4304329A (en) * 1980-09-02 1981-12-08 Johns-Manville Corporation Crown support carrier
EP0051968A1 (fr) * 1980-11-10 1982-05-19 The Mead Corporation Porte-bouteilles
US4378878A (en) * 1981-08-19 1983-04-05 Manville Service Corporation Crown support carrier
US4378879A (en) * 1981-02-05 1983-04-05 Manville Service Corporation Crown support beverage carrier
GB2187161A (en) * 1986-02-22 1987-09-03 Packaging Innovation Group Ltd Packaging an array of cylindrical objects
EP0352589A1 (fr) * 1988-07-25 1990-01-31 4P Nicolaus Kempten GmbH Flan pour coiffe de groupage

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US4190149A (en) * 1979-02-12 1980-02-26 The Mead Corporation Article carrier and blank therefor
US4304329A (en) * 1980-09-02 1981-12-08 Johns-Manville Corporation Crown support carrier
EP0051968A1 (fr) * 1980-11-10 1982-05-19 The Mead Corporation Porte-bouteilles
US4378879A (en) * 1981-02-05 1983-04-05 Manville Service Corporation Crown support beverage carrier
US4378878A (en) * 1981-08-19 1983-04-05 Manville Service Corporation Crown support carrier
GB2187161A (en) * 1986-02-22 1987-09-03 Packaging Innovation Group Ltd Packaging an array of cylindrical objects
EP0352589A1 (fr) * 1988-07-25 1990-01-31 4P Nicolaus Kempten GmbH Flan pour coiffe de groupage

Cited By (7)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
WO1995006604A1 (fr) * 1993-09-01 1995-03-09 Edqvist Haakan Emballage et son procede de production
US5775486A (en) * 1993-09-01 1998-07-07 Edqvist; Haakan Package and method for producing said package
US5653340A (en) * 1993-09-23 1997-08-05 The Mead Corporation Wraparound package with peripheral strap
EP0696995A1 (fr) * 1994-03-02 1996-02-21 Riverwood International Corporation Conditionnement maintenant des bouteilles par le col et flan correspondant
EP0696995A4 (fr) * 1994-03-02 1997-01-29 Riverwood Int Corp Conditionnement maintenant des bouteilles par le col
EP0712367A1 (fr) * 1994-06-14 1996-05-22 Riverwood International Corporation Carton de transport a coins arrondis et flan correspondant
EP0712367B1 (fr) * 1994-06-14 1999-04-21 Riverwood International Corporation Carton de transport a coins arrondis et flan correspondant

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GB9009614D0 (en) 1990-06-20
ES2074227T3 (es) 1995-09-01

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