US2372351A

US2372351A - Bottle holder

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Publication number: US2372351A
Application number: US498473A
Authority: US
Inventors: Edwin L Arneson
Original assignee: Morris Paper Mills
Current assignee: Morris Paper Mills
Priority date: 1943-08-13
Filing date: 1943-08-13
Publication date: 1945-03-27
Anticipated expiration: 1962-03-27

Description

Mamah @9450 E. L ARNESON BOTTLE HOLDER Filed Aug. 13, 1943 IPVVEINIZOR. Eda/m l. CZ/"F 3.51.77";

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Patented Mar. 27, 1945 BOTTLE HOLDER Edwin L. Arneson, Morris, 11, assignor to Morris Paper Mills, Chicago, 11]., a corporation of llllnois Application August 13, 1943, Serial No. 498,473

13 Claims. ('01. 229-52) This invention relates to improvements in hottle holders of the type designed for the packaging oi a plurality of bottles of beverage or the like for convenience in handling and transportation.

A general object of the invention is the provision of such a bottle carrier which may be made of paper board or similar sheet material and supplied to bottlers in a collapsed or knocked-down condition from which it may be set up quickly and easily and without requiring special apparatus or additional iastenings for so doing, and which comprises means for latching or locking it in its set-up condition so that bottles may be readily inserted into it and may be removed when desired without involving any unfolding, dismantling or mutilation of the carrier.

A further object is the provision of a carrier of such construction which is equipped with a handle formed integrally with the receptacle in which the bottles are carried and which handle may be formed of a plurality of plies of the sheet material, thereby to contribute to its strength. without requiring sheet material additional to that comprised within the area of the normal rectangular circumscription of the carrier blank. Yet another object is the provision of such a carrier which, after having been set up and latched in that condition, may be again collapsed to flattened form without involving any mutilation or injury such as to disqualify it for repeated use.

Other and further objects of the invention will be pointed out or indicated hereinafter, or will be apparent to one skilled in the art upon an understanding of it or use of it in practice.

For aiding in explanation of the invention I show in the-drawing forming a part of this speciflcation, and hereinafter described, certain forms in which the invention may be embodied. It is to be understood, however, that these are presented merely for purposes of illustration and arenot to be construed in any fashion for limiting the appended claims short of the true and most comthe art.

onto intermediate portions and certain of them secured by adhesive in such infolded positions;

Fig. 3 is a view of the completed carrier in its flat. collapsed condition, which is attained by a further fabricating operation in which it has been folded on itself and certain parts fastened to a which is as follows:

For providing a bottle carrier designed for the packaging and carrying of four bottles or similar articles, a blank of the form illustrated in Fig. 1 is made, by conventional cutting and creasing operations, from paper board or similar sheet material having the necessary strength and stiff ness. It will be observed that this blank lies entirely within an area of regular rectangular form and it is cut and creased to provide a bottom comprising identical sections l0 conjoined at a medial crease line a, said bottom having at each end an end flap H which is bisected by a crease line formed in prolongation of the line a. These end flaps may be bent to upstanding position with respect to the bottom along crease lines D. Crease lines o define the side marginal limits of the bottom and the lower marginal limits of identical side panel portions l2 and it which carry lateral flaps ll flexible to angular relationship to the portions l2 and H along lateral crease lines (1. These lateral flaps are marked off by oblique crease lines e into end wall sections I6 and tuck sections ll. Beyond the upper ends of the side panels, which ends are defined by crease lines I, are formed handle flaps which comprise medial sections I8 and lateral sections I9 which are conjoined along crease lines a on which the lateral sections may be folded inwardly onto adjacent surface portions of the medial sections. These handle sections are pierced by handle openings 20 and! l, the sheet material within the opening 20 being left conjoined to the medial section along a fold crease line It. The side panel portions i2 and H are pierced by bottle receiving apertures 22, the adjacent apertures being separated by a partition strip 24 which is foldable inwardly along crease lines It. Adjacent the lower ends, the end wall sections I! are provided with locking slots 25 disposed to receive locking tongues 28 which are formed on the end flaps i I.

The blank being formed as above described,

adhesive may be applied to the stippled areas shown in Fig. 1, and then the lateral sections it and I! are folded inwardly onto adjacent portions of the parts to which they are connected, the lateral sections is thus becoming adhesively attached to portions of the medial handle sections it. As thus folded, the device has the form shown in Fig. 2.

panelsbecome attached to one another by means of the adhesive in the stippled areas.

This completes the fabrication of the device, it being new in the flat folded or collapsed form illustrated in Fig. 3, in which form it may be stacked and packaged compactly for storage and shipment.

When it is desired to erect such a. carrier, the side panel portions are swung apart by swinging the bottom sections to apart from each other into coplanar relationship. As the side panels are swung apart, the end wall sections it are swung outwardly between them to positions where they attain approximately right angular relationship to the side panel portions i2 and H. The tuck flap sections H at the same time assume positions where they extend inwardly between the side panels in substantially right angular relationship to the end wall sections it. This brings the side panels and end wall sections to approximately I the relationship shown in Fig. 4. Thereupon the end flaps II are swung upwardly along fold creases b to positions where they engage the outer surfaces of the end wall sections, and then by pressing them and the end wall sections slightly inwardly, the latching tongues 26 are inserted in the slots 25 so that they form a retentive interlock retaining the end flaps ii in upstanding position and the end wall sections IS in approximately coplanar relationship and securing the side panel portions i2 and id in upwardly converging angular relationship. The upstanding position of the end flaps il also retains the bottom sections ii) in coplanar relationship. In Fig. 4 the device is illustrated in a condition wherein the end flap at the far end of the figure has been interlocked with the end wall sections bymeans of the locking tongues 26, While the end flap II at the near end is in process oi being swung to its upstanding position.

The device as thus set up retains its form with very definite stability. Bottles of the size and form for which the device is designed may be introduced bottoms first through the bottle receiving' apertures 22 to positions where they stand upright on the bottom, in which positions they are retained by the gripping engagement of the lower portions of the side panels against their lower ends. The inwardly extending tuck flaps i7 form separators between the bottles which are in opposite apertures and the partition strips 24, which are swung inwardly on lines It when the bottles are introduced, form separators between the bottles which are abreast of each other.

The modified form shown in Fig. 5 contains the characterizing features of that above described, but is designed for; the packagin of six bottles After having been used for the packaging of v one load of bottles, the carrier may be collapsed simply by drawing the end flaps. ii outwardly so as to disengage the locking tongues 26 from the slots 25, and then pressing the end wall sections inwardly between the side panels and folding the bottom sections it against each other along the medial crease line a. The carrier may again be set up from this collapsed condition for return.

I claim:

1. A collapsible bottle carrier comprising sheet material formed and folded to provide a 17908;)? tacle having a bottom with side panels flexibly conjoined at their lower ends to. opposite side margins of the bottom, end flaps flexibly conjoined to opposite end margins of the bottom, and lateral flaps flexibly conjoined to lateral margins of the side panels, the adjacent lateral flap'o of opposite side panels being flexibly connected to each other so as to fold into abutment with each other between the side panels, the lateral flaps being foldable to and from positions where they extend angularly from the side panels to form end wall sections over end portions of the bottom, and the end flaps being foldable to and from positions where they extend upward at an angle from the bottom and abut lower portions of said end wall sections thereabove, each end him being provided with parts for interlocking with respective abutting end wall sections to secure them in such abutting relationship and retain the end wall sections against swinging inwardly and the end flaps against swinging outwardly, and the receptacle being provided at its upper end with a handle whereby it may be supported pendulously.

' 2. A bottle carrier as specified in claim 1 and wherein the receptacle is formed of a unitary blank of sheet material.

3. A bottle carrier as specified in claim 1 and wherein the bottom has a medial fold crease parallel WIth ltS side margins and the side panels are connected at their upper ends and are toldable together when the bottom is folded on its medial crease, the side panels being provided with bottle-receiving apertures through which bottles may be inserted to standing positions on the bottorn.

- 4. A collapsible bottle carrier comprising sheet material formed and folded to provide a receptacle having a bottom and a pair of like side panels flexibly conjoined at their lower ends to respective opposite side margins of the bottom, end flaps flexibly conjoined to opposite end margins of the bottom, and lateral flaps flexibly conjoined to lateral margins of the side panels. the bottom having a medial fold crease on which it maybe folded to swing the lower ends of the side panels toward each other to collapse the assembled receptacle to flattened form, the lat eral flaps being foldable to and from positions where they extend angularly from the side panels to form end walls over end portions of the bottom and; the end flaps being ioidable to and from positions wherethey extend upwardly irom the bottom and abut outer surface portions of saidend walls thereabove, each end flap being provided with parts interlocking with respective abutting end wall sections to secure them in overlapping relationship whereby to hold the end walls against swinging inwardly, there being a' connection between upper end portions of the side panels and the receptacle being provided at its top with a handle whereby it may be supported pendulously. v

5. .A bottle carrier as specified in claim 4 and wherein the end flaps are integrally conjoined to the bottom along the end margins of the latter and when in their upwardly extending positions serve to hold the bottom against folding on its media] fold crease.

6. A bottle carrier as specified in claim 4 and wherein the end flaps are creased in alignment with the bottom fold crease to permit their being folded when the bottom is folded, the said interlocking parts being disposed on both sides of the end flap fold creases and serving to resist flexion of the end'flaps thereon. v

7, A bottle carrier as specified in claim 4 and wherein the side panels are provided with bottlereceiving apertures extending into proximity with the end wall sections, and the end flaps form connections between the lower portions of the end wall sections when said interlocking parts are enneed with them.

8. A bottle carrier as specified in claim 4 and wherein the lateral flaps are marked of! by oblique fold creases to form tuck sections next to their outer margins and end wall sections next to the side panels, the tuck sections of adjacent lateral flaps resting in face abutment with each other when the end wall sections are in angular relationship to the side panels and serving to stiffen theend wall sections vertically.

9. A blankfor a bottle carrier comprising a sheet of paper board shaped and creased to provide a bottom and opposite side panels flexibly conjoined to opposite side margins of the bottom and havinglate'ral flaps flexibly conjoined to their lateral margins, medial handle sections conjoined to the outer ends of the side panels and lateral handle sections conjoined to the opposite lateral margins of said medial handle sections and each of width not exceeding one-half that of the conjoined medial section, said lateral flaps and lat eral handle sections being formed from sheet portions of like width beyond the lateral margins of the side panels;the blank being creased to define fold lines on which the lateral flaps may be swung to angular relationship to the side panels and the lateral handle sections may be folded inwardly onto the medial handle sections, and the bottom being provided with a crease on which it may be folded to place the opposite side walls in coinciding relationship.

10. A blank for a bottle carrier as specified in claim 9 and comprising also end flaps conjoined toend margins of the bottom along crease lines on which they are foldable to angular relationship with the bottom.

11. A bottle carrier formed from a blank as specified in claim 9 and wherein the blank is folded to place the medial handle sections in coinciding relationship with the lateral handle sections between them and the medial handle sections and lateral handle sections are fastened together to form a multi-ply handle.

12. A bottle carrier formed from a blank as specified in claim 9 and wherein the blank is folded so that the medial handle sections are in coinciding relationship, said medial handle sections being fastened together with the lateral v flaps are folded to angular relationship to form end'walls over end portions of the bottom, and wherein the blank comprises end flaps conjoined to end margins of the bottom along fold lines on which said end flaps are folded angularly from the plane of the bottom into overlapping relationship with the lateral flaps.

' EDWIN L. ARNESON.