US2717098A

US2717098A - Article carrier

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Publication number: US2717098A
Application number: US243058A
Authority: US
Inventors: Edwin L Arneson
Original assignee: Morris Paper Mills
Current assignee: Morris Paper Mills
Priority date: 1951-08-22
Filing date: 1951-08-22
Publication date: 1955-09-06
Anticipated expiration: 1972-09-06

Description

E. L. ARNESON ARTICLECARRIER Sept. 6, 1955 5 Sheets-Sheet l Filed Aug. 22 1951 INVENTOR. 54220012. drlzafiafz, BY

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United States- Patent ARTICLE CARRIER Edwin L. Arneson, Morris, 1., assignor to Morris Paper Mills, Chicago, 111., a corporation of Illinois Application August 22, 1951, Serial No. 243,058

Claims. (Cl. 220113) The present invention relates to an improved flexible paperboard carrier for bottles and other articles of uniform size and shape. More particularly, it is an object of the invention to provide such a carrier having its interior subdivided into cells by vertical, longitudinally and transversely extending partition members, of which the former are in part of six ply thickness, including two pairs of handle panels disposed in side-by-side relation to one another, and the latter comprise cross partition elements disposed on either side of the longitudinal partition and integrally hinged at one end to the two innermost plies thereof.

It is an object of the invention to provide an improved article carrier of the foregoing description which features a very strong and rigid handle of at least four ply thickness and a longitudinal partition panel constituted by the two intermediate plies of the handle, these intermediate plies each having a flexibly articulated series of cross partition panels integrally hinged thereto and adapted to extend outwardly beneath outer pair of plies of the handle to the respective opposed side walls of the carrier, to which certain panel elements of the respective series are adhesively secured, thereby to constitute a cross partition structure which subdivides the space on each side of the longitudinal partition into at least three article receiving cells.

Yet another object of the invention is to provide a flexible paperboard blank for an article carrier of the foregoing type.

The foregoing statements are indicative in a general way of the nature of the invention. Other and more specific objects will be apparent to those skilled in the art upon a full understanding of the construction and operation of the device.

A single embodiment of the invention is presented herein for purpose of illustration and it will be appreciated that the invention may be incorporated in other modified forms coming equally within the scope of the appended claims.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a top plan view of a flexible paperboard blank employed in manufacturing the improved carrier, illustrating the manner in which the blank is died out, cut creased and preliminarily glued;

Fig. 2 is a plan view illustrating the blank of Fig. 1 in the condition thereof following a first folding operation and showing a further application of adhesive;

Figs. 3 and 4 are plan views illustrating the article following successive later folding and gluing manipulations;

Fig. 5 is a plan view of the improved carrier in completed, knocked down condition;

Fig. 6 is a view in horizontal section along a line corresponding to line 66 of Fig. 7, showing the completed carrier in erected condition and indicating the extremely rigid, multiple thickness construction of the handle thereof;

Fig. 7 is a view in longitudinal vertical section along 2,717,098 Patented Sept. 6, 1955 line 7--7 of Fig. 6, further illustrating details of internal construction of the carrier; and

Fig. 8 is a view in transverse vertical section along line 88 of Fig. 7, showing the full depth article protection afforded by the improved carrier.

Referring now to Fig. l of the drawings, the flexible paperboard blank 10 from which the improved carrier is fabricated is symmetric about a longitudinally extending line represented by a medial crease 11 in its central bottom forming section 12, the section'12 being subdivided by this crease into two like, generally rectangular panels 13. In view of the symmetric character of the blank, only the parts appearing on one side of the medial crease 11 will be described, on the understanding that all parts and relationships of parts on the opposite side are the sameand are designated by corresponding reference numerals.

A longitudinally extending crease 14, which coincides with a side margin of the bottom section blank, serves to flexibly hinge to the bottom panel 13 a side wall forming panel 16 of rectangular outline.

Parallel creases

17, 18 at to crease 14 hingedly connect to the side wall panel 16 a pair of generally similar

end wall panels

19, 20, re-

spectively. A longitudinal partition flap 21 is hingedly hinged flap 23 is partially separated from flap 23 by a U-shaped slit 26 formed on crease 24 adjacent the upper portion thereof, for a purpose to be described.

An upper extension 18' of end wall-side wall crease 18 serves as a hinge for a transverse strap 27, which is separated from the side wall panel 16 by a horizontal slit 28. The opposite end of strap 27 is integrally hinged by a short crease 29 onto one end of a handle panel 30 which is of generally rectangular outline. At the opposite end of panel 30 an upwardly and outwardly angled slit 31 separates the same from the opposite end wall 19, and material is removed from the blank at 32 to separate panel 30 from the side wall 16 and end wall 19 between the

slits

28, 31. Both of these slits extend into and merge with the lower margin of opening 32.

Handle panel 30 is hingedly articulated to the longitudinal partition flap 21 by a short extension 22" of the end wall-flap crease 22. Panel 30 has a handhole 34 of conventional sort formed therein.

Handle panel 30 is integrally hinged along its upper margin toa further handle and longitudinal partition defining panel 35 by means of a longitudinally extending crease 36. This panel also has a handhole 37 formed therein, and it includes an outwardly extending longitudinal partition panel member 38 of reduced width as an integral uncreased extension thereof. Panel 38 is inwardly recessed from the left of the blank, as indicated at 39 and has hingedly articulated to the opposite, right hand end margin thereof, by means of a transversely extending crease 40, an articulated series 41 of cross partition panel elements. These include a first cross partition element 42 joined to panel member 38 by crease 40, a second panel element 43 joined to panel 42 by a transverse crease 44, and a third cross partition element 45 integrally hinged to the second or intermediate panel 43 by means of a transverse crease 46. End cross partition element 45 carries a glue lap 47, integrally hinged thereto by a transverse crease 48.

Wardly about crease 44, causing the glue lap 47 to adhere to the longitudinal partition panel 38. This leaves the blank in the condition illustrated in Fig. 2.

Next, adhesive is applied to the exposed upper surface of panel element 43 and to the handle panel 35, as stippled in Fig. 2, whereupon panel 35 and appended cross partition structure 41 is folded upwardly, inwardly and downwardly about longitudinal handle crease 36, to the position illustrated in Fig. 3 of the drawings, in which the

panels

30, 35 are adhered together and the partition panel element 43 is adhered to side wall panel 16.

After this the longitudinal partition flap 23 is partially coated with adhesive and the strap 27 is coated, as shown by stippling in Fig. 3. End wall panel 20 and flap 23 are then folded upwardly, inwardly and downwardly about crease 18 to adhere the flap to handle panel 35 and the strap to the end wall, the article now being as shown in Fig. 4. Adhesive is now applied to one of the infolded longitudinal partition and handle members 35 and to the upper exposed surface of

partition flaps

21 and 23, as

illustrated by stippling in Fig. 4, and the glued blank is then folded about its medial bottom section crease 11 to the completed condition illustrated in Fig. 5 of the drawings, in which the pair of inner handle and longitudinal partition plies 35, as well as the respective pairs of

flaps

21, 23 are firmly secured to one another.

The blank is erected to the article receiving position illustrated in Fig. 6 by applying compressive force to its opposite end margins, represented by the

creases

18, 22 on each of the carton sections 15. The shaped slit 26 in the longitudinal partition flap 23 at the crease line 24 avoids hindrance to movement of cross partition panel 42 as it moves away from the longitudinal partition into 90' relation to the longitudinal partition panel 38, extending to the side wall panel 16. Referring to Figs. 6 and S,

it is seen that a very rigid, board-like handle, generally designated 50, is aiforded, while the cross partition element constituted by

panels

42 and 45 of structure 41 furnish full depth article protection for bottles disposed in the carrier. This cross partition structure is very firmly anchored at its opposite ends in the longitudinal partition and handle structure, by means of the integral hinge 40 and the glue lap 47 which is built into the longitudinal partition structure, as shown in Figs. 6 and 7. The carrier is a very sturdy and rugged one indeed, and the blank 10 fromwhich it is fabricated may be processed without difliculty'on existing folding and gluing machinery.

Iclaim:

l. A flexible paperboard article carrier blank comprising a side wall forming panel having end wall panels hinged by transverse creases to opposed end margins thereof, a handle panel separated by a cut from said side wall forming panel and integrally hinged by means including transverse creases to margins of said respective end wall panels, and a handle and partition defining unit hinged by a longitudinal crease to a margin of said handle panel remote from said side wall forming panel, said last named unit including a handle panel immediately adjoining said longitudinal crease, a longitudinal partition forming panel integral with said last named handle panel, and a cross partition structure including a series of at least three panels integrally hinged by transverse creases to a margin of said longitudinal partition panel and to one another.

2. A flexible paperboard article carrier blank in accordance with claim 1, in which said means integrally hinging said first named handle panel to said end wall panels includes a strap separated by a cut from said side wall forming panel and integrally hinged at its ends to said first named handle panel and to one of said end wall panels.

3. A flexible paperboard article carrier blank comprising a side wall forming panel having end wall panels hinged by transverse creases to opposed end margins thereof, a handle panel integrally hinged by means including transverse creases to margins of said respective end wall panels, and a handle and partition defining unit hinged by a. longitudinal crease to a margin of said handle panel remote from said side wall forming panel, said last named unit including a handle panel immediately adjoining panels, units and structures defined in claim 3, and a bottom forming panel disposed between and integrally connected by longitudinal creases to corresponding margins of said side Wall panels.

5. A flexible paperboard article carrier blank in accordance with claim 3, in which said means integrally hinging said first named handle panel to said end wall panels includesa strap separated by a cut from said side wall forming panel and integrally hinged at its ends to said first named handle panel and to one of said end wall panels.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNETED STATES PATENTS 2,395,711 Arnold Feb. 26, 1946 2,525,686 Kowal Oct. 10, 1950 2,535,741 Lighter Dec. 26, 1950 2,537,615 Arneson Jan. 9, 1951 2,630,264 Holy Mar. 3, 1953