EP2266890A1 - Bottle Carrier - Google Patents
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- EP2266890A1 EP2266890A1 EP10167245A EP10167245A EP2266890A1 EP 2266890 A1 EP2266890 A1 EP 2266890A1 EP 10167245 A EP10167245 A EP 10167245A EP 10167245 A EP10167245 A EP 10167245A EP 2266890 A1 EP2266890 A1 EP 2266890A1
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- bottle carrier
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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
- B65D71/06—Packaging elements holding or encircling completely or almost completely the bundle of articles, e.g. wrappers
- B65D71/08—Wrappers shrunk by heat or under tension, e.g. stretch films or films tensioned by compressed articles
- B65D71/10—Wrappers shrunk by heat or under tension, e.g. stretch films or films tensioned by compressed articles and provided with inserts
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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
- B65D71/70—Trays provided with projections or recesses in order to assemble multiple articles, e.g. intermediate elements for stacking
Abstract
A bottle carrier (10) includes a base wall (12) and a pair of side walls (14) extending upwardly from side edges of the base wall (12). Front and rear openings are defined at front and rear ends of the base wall (12). Upper edges of the side walls (14) may protrude outwardly to form lips (18). A plurality of bottles (30) may be supported on the base wall (12) between the side walls (14). A wrap (32) may be wrapped around the bottles (30) and the side walls (14) to retain the bottles (30) in the carrier (10). The wrap (32) may include a tear strip (34) to facilitate removal of the wrap (32) from the carrier (10).
Description
- The present invention relates generally to bottle carriers.
- Bottles, such as beverage bottles, are often shipped to stores in a short corrugated cardboard tray. The bottles are shrink-wrapped to the tray. The bottles, tray and shrink wrap are shipped as a unit. The cardboard tray is often not recycled. Further, for sale of individual bottles, it is not easy to remove the bottles from this package and put them on a shelf.
- It is therefore desirable to provide an arrangement which addresses the above described problems and/or which more generally offers improvements or an alternative to existing arrangements.
- According to the present invention there is therefore provided a bottle carrier as described in the accompanying claims.
- In an embodiment, and aspect of the invention a bottle carrier includes a base wall and a pair of side walls extending upwardly from side edges of the base wall. Front and rear openings are defined at front and rear ends of the base wall between the side walls. Upper edges of the side walls may protrude outwardly to form lips.
- A plurality of bottles may be supported on the base wall between the side walls. A wrap, such as shrink-wrap, may be wrapped around the bottles and the side walls, below the lips of the side walls to retain the bottles in the carrier. The wrap may include a tear strip to facilitate removal of the wrap from the carrier. After removing the wrap, the bottles can be slide off the base wall onto a shelf. The carrier can then be recycled.
- The present invention will now be described by way of example only with reference to the following figures in which:
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Figure 1 is a perspective view of a bottle carrier according to one embodiment of the present invention; -
Figure 2 is a bottom perspective view of the bottle carrier ofFigure 1 ; -
Figure 3 shows the bottle carrier ofFigure 1 with a bottle placed therein and with shrink-wrap; -
Figure 4 illustrates the bottle carrier with a plurality of bottles therein and with shrink-wrap retaining the bottles in the carrier; -
Figure 5 shows a pair of stacked, loaded bottle carriers; -
Figure 6 shows a first step in unloading the bottles from the bottle carrier; -
Figure 7 shows a second step in unloading the bottles from the carrier; and -
Figure 8 shows a third step in unloading the bottles from the carrier. - A
bottle carrier 10 according to one embodiment of the present invention is shown inFigures 1-8 . - Referring to
Figures 1 and 2 , thebottle carrier 10 includes abase 12 andside walls 14 extending upward from side edges of thebase 12. Theside walls 14 can be integrally formed with thebase 12, such as by thermoforming, injection molding or other suitable process. Theside walls 14 can include large window openings 16 (i.e. the area of thewindow openings 16 is larger than the remaining area of the side walls 14). Alip 18 projects outwardly from the uppermost edges of theside walls 14. As shown, theside walls 14 may extend solely from the side edges of thebase 12 and nothing extends upward from a rear edge of thebase 12. Further, the front edge of thebase 12 may also be free of any upward protrusion, as are the rounded corners of thebase 12. The upper surface of thebase 12 is generally flat and smooth, other than an optional, but advantageous, hole 20 (or other handle) formed near one at least end of thebase 12. As shown inFigure 2 , cap-receiving recesses 22 are formed in the lower surface of thebase 12. - Referring to
Figures 3 and 4 ,bottles 30, such asbeverage bottles 30, are placed on thebase 12 of thecarrier 10. A wrap, such asshrink wrap 32, is wrapped around thebottles 30 andside walls 14 to secure thebottles 30 to thecarrier 10. Thewrap 32 may be of the same material and type as the plastic shrink wrap currently used for containing large packs of beverage bottles in corrugated cardboard trays. Thewrap 32 is retained on theside walls 14 in part by thelips 18 at the uppermost edges of theside walls 14. Referring toFigure 4 , thewrap 32 includes atear strip 34 with tear lines 36 (weakened portions, such as perforated portions) to facilitate removal of thewrap 32. - As shown in
Figure 5 , the loadedcarrier 10 can support a similar loadedcarrier 10 thereon, with the caps of thebottles 30 received in therecesses 22' of the base 12' of the upper carrier 10' to increase the stability of the stack. - The loaded
carriers 10 andbottles 30 are shipped to a store in this manner. At the store, thecarrier 10 andbottles 30 can be set on a shelf. Thetear strip 34 is then pulled downward as shown inFigure 6 , thereby separating thetear strip 34 from the remainder of thewrap 32 along thetear lines 36 and thereby splitting thewrap 32 permitting thewrap 32 to be removed, as shown inFigure 7 . - The
carrier 10 is then slid out from under thebottles 30 by pulling on thehandle 20 in thebase 12, leaving thebottles 30 on the shelf in the store. Thus, thebottles 30 can be loaded onto the store shelves more easily than with prior art methods. Thecarrier 10 can then be reused or recycled. - In accordance with the provisions of the patent statutes and jurisprudence, exemplary configurations described above are considered to represent a preferred embodiment of the invention. However, it should be noted that the invention can be practiced otherwise than as specifically illustrated and described without departing from its spirit or scope.
Claims (15)
- A bottle carrier (10) comprising:a base wall (12); anda pair of opposed side walls (14) extending upward from side edges of the base wall (12), the side walls (12) defining an open front end and an open rear end of the carrier.
- The bottle carrier (10) of claim 1 wherein each side wall (14) includes a large opening (16) therethrough.
- The bottle carrier (10) of claim 1 or 2 further including a plurality of cap-receiving indentations (22) on a lower surface.
- The bottle carrier (10) of claim 1 or 2 wherein the base (12) includes a plurality of cap-receiving indentations (22) on a bottom surface.
- The bottle carrier (10) of any preceding claim further including a plurality of bottles (30) on the base (12).
- The bottle carrier (10) of claim 5 further including a wrap (32) around the bottles (30) and the exterior of the side walls (14).
- The bottle carrier (10) of claim 6 wherein the wrap (32) includes a tear strip (34).
- The bottle carrier (10) of any preceding claim wherein the sidewalls (14) each include a lip (18) projecting outwardly from an upper edge.
- The bottle carrier (10) of claims 6 or 7 wherein the sidewalls (14) each include a lip (18) projecting outwardly from an upper edge, and the wrap around the bottles (30) and the exterior of the side walls (14) is below the upper lips of the side walls.
- The bottle carrier (10) of any of claims 6 to 9 wherein the front and rear openings are sufficiently large for the plurality of bottles (30) to slide out of the bottle carrier (10) after removal of the wrap (32).
- The bottle carrier (10) of any preceding claim wherein an upper surface of the base wall (12) is generally flat and smooth.
- The bottle carrier (10) of any preceding claim wherein the base wall (12) includes a rear edge with no upward projections along the rear edge, and/or a front edge with no upward projections along the front edge.
- The bottle carrier (10) of any preceding claim wherein the base wall (12) includes rounded corner edges between the side edges and front and rear edges, with no upward projections along the rounded corner edges.
- The bottle carrier (10) of any preceding claim wherein the base wall (12) and side walls (14) are thermoformed from a single sheet of plastic.
- The bottle carrier (10) of any preceding claim wherein the base wall (12) includes at least one hole (20), or other handle, preferably formed near one at least end of the base 12.
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- 2010-06-24 MX MX2010007084A patent/MX2010007084A/en not_active Application Discontinuation
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DE1586611A1 (en) * | 1967-07-22 | 1970-06-25 | Eckes Fa Peter | Standing, stacking and disposable transport packaging for bottles, cans and the like. |
DE2159258A1 (en) * | 1971-11-30 | 1973-06-07 | Carstens Kg Johannes | PACKAGING, IN PARTICULAR FOR BOTTLES |
US4050579A (en) * | 1976-11-01 | 1977-09-27 | Arenco Machine Company, Inc. | Package for orienting a plurality of articles |
EP0610100A1 (en) * | 1993-02-05 | 1994-08-10 | Formold Limited | Storage and stacking tray for articles |
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US20070215505A1 (en) * | 2006-03-17 | 2007-09-20 | Walker Terry D | Shrink-Wrap Packaging Incorporating Reinforced Integral Handle |
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