US3114496A - Multi-unit package - Google Patents

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US3114496A
US3114496A US223609A US22360962A US3114496A US 3114496 A US3114496 A US 3114496A US 223609 A US223609 A US 223609A US 22360962 A US22360962 A US 22360962A US 3114496 A US3114496 A US 3114496A
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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
    • B65D71/0085—Packaging elements adhered to the articles, e.g. a carton sheet
    • 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

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  • This invention relates to a multi-unit package consisting of two containers rectangular in cross section, and arranged in standing side by side abutting relation. The invention has to do particularly with the joining of the containers to form the package and simultaneously providing a handle for manipulating and carrying the package.
  • the containers making up the package consist of cartons formed of paperboard and employed for the packaging of liquid products, such as milk.
  • liquid products such as milk.
  • the adhesive arrangement has many disadvantages.
  • the adhesive method requires that the unit cartons making up the package must be tightly pressed together for a period of three hours or more, to give the wet adhesive an opportunity to penetrate the abutting side walls of the cartons and to set. In the packaging of milk, this requires that the pairs of cartons have to be compressed by the insertion of wedges in the shipping case. This requires time and labor and, prior to the shipment of the filled cases from the dairy, the Wedges must be removed.
  • a handle has been provided in the form of a piece of stiif cardboard inserted between the abutting sides of the cartons, and adhered thereto by the wet adhesive.
  • the upwardly protruded semi-rigid handle prevents the multi-unit packages from being cased by an automatic casing machine. Also, when the cases are stacked one upon another in the refrigerator room, the rigid cardboard handles become bent over and often damaged to the extent that they will not subsequently serve as a supporting handle for the package.
  • This invention has as an object a multi-unit package embodying a novel arrangement wherein the handle is in the form of a thin strip of flexible material extending transversely of the package and having its end portions depending and bonded to the upper portions of the side walls of the unit cartons adjacent the junction thereof.
  • the handle member is bonded to the cartons in a fraction of a second and maintains the unit cartons in tight abutting parallel relation.
  • FIGURE 1 is a perspective view of a multi-unit package embodying my invention.
  • FIGURE 2 is a view, similar to FIGURE 1, showing a modified handle member.
  • FIGURE 3 is a view taken on line 33, FIGURE 2.
  • the cartons 10, 11, are formed of plastic coated paperboard and are square in cross sectional form.
  • the handle member consists of a strip 12 of thin, flexible material.
  • the strip may be formed of thermoplastic material, such as polyester, or it may be formed of high strength paper coated, at least on its under side, with thermoplastic material.
  • the strip 12 is of a length appreciably greater than the width of the cartons 10, 11.
  • the end portions 13 of the strip are positioned in overlapping relation to the upper portions of the side walls 15 of the carton 10 and the side walls 16 of the carton 11. That is, the end portions 13 of the strip 12 are positioned over the upper portions of the side walls at the junction formed by the abutting sides of the cartons.
  • These end portions 13 are fixedly bonded to the opposite sides of the cartons by being heat-sealed thereto while the cartons are positioned in abutting relation.
  • the intermediate portion of the strip is in the form of an arcuate shaped handle extending transversely above the package.
  • the bonded end portions 13 of the strip 12 serve to fixedly unite the cartons 10, 11, and maintain them in abutting relation.
  • the strip 12 may be formed with a weakened portion 15, as by a row of perforations extending in a direction lengthwise of the strip, medial the side edges thereof.
  • the ends 16 of the weakened area terminate adjacent the end portions 13.
  • the cartons may be separated by grasping the lower portions thereof and moving them in a direction away from each other. This provides sufficient leverage on the end portions 13 to cause the same to split in a direction lengthwise of the strip 12 from the lower edges of the portions 13 upwardly to the ends 16 of the perforations 15, and thereupon the handle 12 will completely separate. This arrangement leaves a narrow handle attached to each carton for the convenient manipulation thereof.
  • the heat sealing of the end portions 13 of the strip is effected substantially instantaneously upon movement of sealing irons into engagement with the end portions. This permits the formation of the multi-unit packages on a conveyor line on which the packages are being advanced at high speed.
  • the end portions 13 being bonded to the upper side Wall portions of both cartons is effective to fixedly join the cartons together to form the multi-unit package.
  • the strip 12 may be printed with indicia, or may be colored to make the handle more readily visible when the packages are arranged in a display case in the store.
  • the multi-unit packages may be handled and cased by an automatic casing machine and, when inserted in the cases, no wedging is necessary for effecting side pressure against the packages.
  • a package comprising a pair of containers arranged in upstanding side by side abutting relation, said containers being rectangular in cross section and of like dimension in the direction of the junction of the abutting sides of the containers, a strip of thin flexible material extending transversely of said containers above and parallel to the junction of the abutting sides thereof, the end portions of said strip extending downwardly in juxtaposition to opposite sides of the containers, the surface of said strip confronting said containers being coated with a thermoplastic material, said end portions overlapping the junction between the containers and being heat-sealed by said thermoplastic material to the upper portions of the side walls of both containers at opposite sides of said junction.

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DES46363U DE1964656U (de) 1962-09-14 1963-09-13 Eine aus zwei behaeltern bestehende verpackung.
GB36223/63A GB1008598A (en) 1962-09-14 1963-09-13 Improvements in or relating to packages

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US3221876A (en) * 1963-09-11 1965-12-07 Grover C Currie Package
US3684087A (en) * 1970-07-23 1972-08-15 Robert F Anderson Portable grilling apparatus
US4299324A (en) * 1979-10-22 1981-11-10 Dickens Robert E Folding beverage can container
US4471870A (en) * 1982-07-14 1984-09-18 Owens-Illinois, Inc. Package for holding a plurality of discrete container assemblies
FR2550169A1 (fr) * 1983-08-05 1985-02-08 Monoplast Sa Recipient, notamment pour produits laitiers, et machine pour la formation de tels recipients
US4509639A (en) * 1982-04-01 1985-04-09 Tri-Tech Systems International Inc. Multi-container carrier package and a method of assembly therefor
US4696403A (en) * 1986-09-16 1987-09-29 Sonoco Products Company Bottle bag
USD299431S (en) 1985-02-20 1989-01-17 Sprinter Pack Ab Carrier/package blank
USD299430S (en) 1985-02-20 1989-01-17 Sprinter Pack Ab Carrier/package blank
USD299433S (en) 1986-02-21 1989-01-17 Sprinter Pack Ab Carrier package blank
US4819410A (en) * 1985-11-14 1989-04-11 Elopak Limited Method and apparatus for attaching a handle to a group of cartons
US4872766A (en) * 1988-11-18 1989-10-10 Sonoco Products Company Two-compartment plastic bag
US4927042A (en) * 1989-03-30 1990-05-22 Ring Can Corporation Dispensing bottle container assembly including separable composite packages
EP0575276A1 (fr) * 1992-06-19 1993-12-22 Secs S.A. Procédé pour la solidarisation de conteneurs juxtaposés et/ou superposés
US5607072A (en) * 1993-03-05 1997-03-04 Gilbeys Of Ireland (Manufacturing) Limited Beverage containers
US5758818A (en) * 1997-03-28 1998-06-02 Mott's Inc. Dividable multi-compartment container
US6032791A (en) * 1998-10-16 2000-03-07 Illinois Tool Works Inc. Container carrier adapted for use with adhesive handle
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US3031359A (en) * 1957-02-04 1962-04-24 Blank Lawrence Pressure-sensitive adhesive tape handle construction
US3063845A (en) * 1958-08-25 1962-11-13 Graves Stambaugh Corp Sterilized liquid food product packaging and package resulting therefrom

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US3221876A (en) * 1963-09-11 1965-12-07 Grover C Currie Package
US3684087A (en) * 1970-07-23 1972-08-15 Robert F Anderson Portable grilling apparatus
US4299324A (en) * 1979-10-22 1981-11-10 Dickens Robert E Folding beverage can container
US4509639A (en) * 1982-04-01 1985-04-09 Tri-Tech Systems International Inc. Multi-container carrier package and a method of assembly therefor
US4471870A (en) * 1982-07-14 1984-09-18 Owens-Illinois, Inc. Package for holding a plurality of discrete container assemblies
FR2550169A1 (fr) * 1983-08-05 1985-02-08 Monoplast Sa Recipient, notamment pour produits laitiers, et machine pour la formation de tels recipients
EP0133834A1 (fr) * 1983-08-05 1985-03-06 Monoplast S.A. Récipient, notamment pour produits laitiers et machine et procédé pour la formation de tels récipients
USD299431S (en) 1985-02-20 1989-01-17 Sprinter Pack Ab Carrier/package blank
USD299430S (en) 1985-02-20 1989-01-17 Sprinter Pack Ab Carrier/package blank
US4819410A (en) * 1985-11-14 1989-04-11 Elopak Limited Method and apparatus for attaching a handle to a group of cartons
USD299433S (en) 1986-02-21 1989-01-17 Sprinter Pack Ab Carrier package blank
US4696403A (en) * 1986-09-16 1987-09-29 Sonoco Products Company Bottle bag
US4872766A (en) * 1988-11-18 1989-10-10 Sonoco Products Company Two-compartment plastic bag
US4927042A (en) * 1989-03-30 1990-05-22 Ring Can Corporation Dispensing bottle container assembly including separable composite packages
EP0575276A1 (fr) * 1992-06-19 1993-12-22 Secs S.A. Procédé pour la solidarisation de conteneurs juxtaposés et/ou superposés
FR2692629A1 (fr) * 1992-06-19 1993-12-24 Secs Sa Procédé pour la solidarisation de conteneurs juxtaposés et/ou superposés.
US5607072A (en) * 1993-03-05 1997-03-04 Gilbeys Of Ireland (Manufacturing) Limited Beverage containers
US5758818A (en) * 1997-03-28 1998-06-02 Mott's Inc. Dividable multi-compartment container
US6032791A (en) * 1998-10-16 2000-03-07 Illinois Tool Works Inc. Container carrier adapted for use with adhesive handle
US20050086910A1 (en) * 2003-09-16 2005-04-28 Chambers Prima S. Multiple packaged good article package
US7237671B2 (en) 2003-09-16 2007-07-03 General Mills, Inc. Multiple packaged good article package
WO2017013022A1 (en) * 2015-07-17 2017-01-26 Nestec S.A. Multiple-container composite package
US20180201423A1 (en) * 2015-07-17 2018-07-19 Nestec S.A. Multiple-container composite package
US10308410B2 (en) 2015-07-17 2019-06-04 Nestec S.A. Multiple-container composite package
US10569932B2 (en) 2016-06-15 2020-02-25 Wolf-Ruediger Pietsch Package for holding packaged goods

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