US2302676A - Carrier - Google Patents

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Nov. 24, 1942.

W. B. CRANE CARRIER Filed April 17, 1939 2 Sheets-Sheet l Nov. 24, 1942. w. B. CRANE CARRIER Filed April 17, 1939 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Patented Nov. 24, 1942 v Walton B. Crane, West Los Angeles, Calm, as-

signorto Morris Paper Mills, Chicago, Ill., a corporation of Illinois r Application April 17, 1939, Serial No. 268,198

9 Claims. (01. 229-21) This invention relates to a new and improved Another important object of this invention isthe provision of a convenient carrying handle as an integral part of the bottle carton, which comprises a number of layers or thicknesses of the material of the carton, therefore providing assurance against the possible breaking or tearing of the handle.

A still further important object of the device of this invention is to provide a carrier for bottles having closed ends which securely hold the bottles in desired position at the ends of the carton as well as gripping the bottles at their sides.

Another and still further important object of this invention is the provision of bottle cartons which lend themselves readily to shipment or storage and also exhibit a major portion of all the bottles positioned therein when on display for sales purposes or the like.

Other and further important objects of the invention will be apparent from the disclosure in the accompanying drawings and following specification.

The invention, in a preferred form, is shown in the drawings and hereinafter more fully described. v

Fig. 1 is a plan view of a blank for making a carrier embodying the invention;

Fig. 2 is a sideview of a completed carrier made from said blank and shown in collapsed or folded condition;

for making a carrier made up from the blank of Fig. 7, the

bottles being omitted;

Fig. 9 is a section taken substantially on line 9-9 of Fig. 8; and

Fig. 10 isa section taken substantially on line Ill-l0 of Fig. 9. Y

As shown in the drawings: 7

The embodiment of the invention illustrated in Figs. 1 to 6' inclusive comprises a blank made of flexible cardboard or the like cut in the form shown in Fig. 1 and centrally scored for folding along a transverse line H' to provide a pair of side walls l2 for a bottle receptacle. Registering handholes H are formed at the tops of the side walls l2 by slotting out flaps l4 therefrom fover the openings I 3.

are provided as shown to permit of the folding of the handle parts into horizontal position as around their lower and side edges and folding said flaps upwardly and inwardly as shown in Figs. 2 and 3 to clearthe openings l3. This provides a handle having a gripping portion formed by the four thicknesses of the material Scored lines l5 and i6 indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. 5 so that a number of the carriers, containing the bottles, may be readily stacked in packages.

Each side wall I2 is provided at each of its opposite side margins withan end flap H which has an abutment flap l8 foldable along the oblique scored line is. As shown, the end flaps II are adapted and arranged to be folded inwardly onto the side walls to bring the corresponding abutment flaps l8 into surface engagement with each other when the blank is folded upon itself along line H, and said abutment flaps are then secured together .by means of staples '20, as best shown in Fig. 2. The endflaps ll i'orm strong end walls for the carrier and constitute load-carrying members as well as separators and retaining means for bottles carried in it. Each side wall is provided with an irregular shaped bottle receiving opening havin an outwardly flexible lower edge 2| and three upwardly extending recesses 22 at its top, the securing staples 20 being driven into place through these openings as shown in Fig. 2.

Each side wall I2 is conjoined at its bottom margin with a bottom wall portion 23 foldable along the scored line 24 and provided with an opening 25. Each bottom wall portion 23 is provided at its inner edge with a partition flap 2B foldable along thescored line 21 as indicated. In making up the carrier the flaps 28 are folded 1 inwardly onto the bottom portions and are secured together by means of staples 28 driven into place through the openings 25 as best shown in Fig. 2. 'x

The carrier thus produced is made up in collapsed or folded form as shown inFlgs. 2 and 3 in which condition it may be stacked with others for shipment and storage. To set up the carrier for use in carrying bottles, the bottom wall portions 23 are swung upwardly and inwardly on lines 24, thereby forcing the lower portions of the side walls l2 outwardly and forcing the partition walls 25 upwardly, thus forming a wedge shaped, receptacle having two compartments separated by the partition walls 28 and connected fiaps l8 and with the portions 23 forming a bottom on which the carrier may sit in upright position as best shown in Fig. 5. Then the bottles 29 are inserted bottoms first downwardly through the openings in the side walls, the outer sides of the bottles contacting and pressing outwardly the lower edge portions 2| below the openings and the inner sides of the necks of the bottles contacting and pressing inwardly the portions which define the edges of the recesses 2-2, as shown in Fig. 5, whereby said bottles will be nicely and firmly held in the carrier in two rows separated as indicated. In this way a bottle carrier is provided which permits of the removal or replacement of any one or more of the bottles without involving displacement of any of the adjacent bottles or the parts of the carrier itself. The end walls of the carrier are of strong and durable construction and afford adequate protection to and retention of the contained bottles and constitute load carrying members connecting the side wall portions which are below the bottle receiving openings, with the side wall portions which are above said openings. By virtue of the construction, extensive portions of the botles are displayed for identification and other purposes and a. number. of'the filled carriers can be stacked in pyramid and compact form for effective display. These carriers can be manufactured from comparatively light weight stock and still have adequate strength for the purpose and after return to the bottler may again be collapsed to fiat form to permit storage in small space until again required for use. Such carriers are capable of economical production in quantities and highly efficient in use, and due to the fact that the width of the side walls and the length and the width of the It permits any bottle to be removed without disturbing any others or without involving any unfolding of the carrier itself, and after removal of the bottles remains in set-up condition so that the empty bottles may be readily put back into it for return to the bottler. At the same time, after having been so set up and used, it may be readily collapsed to a fiat condition, after return to the bottler, for storage in small space I while awaiting re-use.

While I have illustrated and described the preferred forms of construction for carrying the invention into effect, these are capable of variation and modification without departing from the spirit of the invention. I therefore do not wish to be limited to the precise details disclosed, but desire to cover by Letters Patent all such variations and modifications as fall within the scope of the appended claims.

I claim:

1. A knocked-down bottle carrier for packaging a plurality of bottles standing upright, combottom do not materially exceed the length and width of the contained group of bottles, a number of the filled containers may be packed in a case or tray of standard size.

In the modified form of construction illustrated in Figs. 7, 8, 9 and 10, the openings in the side walls have their lower edges 2 l somewhat differently shaped and their upper edges provided with recesses 2? which are somewhat shallower and wider in form. Also in this modification, the material removed from the blank for the formation of the bottle receiving openings is left joined thereto along the scored or fold line-3| to form a flap 30 which may be folded downwardly against the inner surface of the adjacent side wall as best indicated in Fig. 9. The fiap 30 is also provided with scored lines 32 along which it may be again folded to form transverse partitions 33, and the vertical partitions 26' are provided with notches or recesses33' to receive the ends of the partitions 33 as indicated. Otherwise the modified form of construction is practically identical with prising a sheet of paper board or the like shaped and creased to form a receptacle having a bottom on which the bottles may stand and side walls flexibly connected at their lower ends to opposite side margins of said bottom and provided at their upper ends with a handle whereby the receptacle may be carried when set up with the side walls in upwardly converging relationship, end flaps integrally connected to the lateral margins of the side walls and flexible angularly relative to the side walls to positions over. the ends of the bottom, said end flaps being provided with oblique creases subdividing them into tapering end wall portions and abutment fiaps foldableto angular relationship to said end wall portions along said creases, said side walls being formed with bottle-receiving openings spaced above their lower ends and below their upper ends and of size to admit the intended bottles bottom first, said end flaps extending past the outer ends of .said openings and forming connections between portions of the side walls which are below said openings and portions of the side walls which are above said openings and constituting load-carrying members for sustaining the weight of bottles resting on the bottom when the set-up receptacle is supported by the handle.

2. A bottle carrier comprising a bottom, and

' side walls forming acute angles with the bottom and joined to form an acute angle at their top, end walls between the side walls and the bottom, said end walls being formed by fiaps projecting fromv each lateral end of the side walls, the pairs of flaps thus formed having in-turned portionsin face-contacting relation along the me.- dial plane of the device, apertures in the side walls for the reception of bottles, aligned openings in the joined upper portions of the side walls forming a handle, the lower and upper portions of the side walls adjacent the apertures adapted to yield outwardly and inwardly upon insertion of'a bottle. and means joining the contactingpairs of flaps together, said carrier being collapsible to substantially fiat condition by folding the bottom along approximately its medial por-' which bottles may be inserted bottoms first to standing position on the bottom, the outennost lateral portions of said apertures extending to the end walls, the end walls being integrally but flexibly connected with lateral margins of the side walls below and above said outermost lateral portions of the apertures, and the side walls being provided at their upper ends with a handle whereby the carrier and its contents may be supported pendulously, the sheet being creased to permit the side walls to be folded together and the end walls being foldable inwardly against the inner surfaces of the folded side walls, to collapse the device.

4. A bottle carrier as specified in claim 3 and wherein said in-tumed portions of the end flaps extend throughout the greater portion of the height of the end walls and serve to stiffen them.

5. A bottle carrier as specified in claim 3 and wherein said 'in-turned portions of the end flaps extend upwardly and downwardly past the outermost margins of the bottle'receiving apertures and stiffen the structure vertically.

6. A bottle carrier comprising the structure specified in claim 3 and wherein the bottle receiving apertures in the side walls extend continuously across the side walls from one end wall to the other.

7. A bottle carrier comprising the structure specified'in claim 3 and wherein said in-tumed portions of the end flaps extend inwardly between portions of opposite bottle receiving apertures to a distance sufiicient to intervene between adjacent bottles in opposite apertures.

8. A bottle carrier comprising the structure specified in claim 3 and wherein lnturned portions of end flaps which are in face-contacting relation are connected to each other.

9. A bottle carrier comprising the structure specified in claim 3 and wherein portions of the side walls which are below the bottle receivin apertures are resiliently flexible outwardly by.-

bottles inserted therein and exert resilientpressure inwardly against bottles standing upright on the bottom and projecting through said apertures.

WALTON B. CRANE.

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