US3913738A - Multi container package and carrier - Google Patents

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US3913738A
US3913738A US357057A US35705773A US3913738A US 3913738 A US3913738 A US 3913738A US 357057 A US357057 A US 357057A US 35705773 A US35705773 A US 35705773A US 3913738 A US3913738 A US 3913738A
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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
    • B65D71/50—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 comprising a plurality of articles held together only partially by packaging elements formed otherwise than by folding a blank
    • B65D71/504—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 comprising a plurality of articles held together only partially by packaging elements formed otherwise than by folding a blank the element being formed from a flexible sheet provided with slits or apertures intended to be stretched over the articles and adapt to the shape of the article

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  • Containers of various types have been arranged in package form as, for example, in so-called six-packs of cans or bottles held together by an apertured sheet of resilient and deformable plastic material with the plastic material around each aperture stretched to snugly engage associated can bodies beneath the top heads, or the bottles beneath the crimped caps, as the case may be.
  • the plastic sheet serves as the carrier for the package and finger holes or other handle means may be provided for handling and transport of the containers as a unit package from which one or more of the containers may be removed as desired for consumption or other use depending upon the contents of the containers.
  • strap-like sling arrangements with apertured ends for association with packaged containers and for association with articles of various types for carrying the same.
  • the present invention is concerned with the packaging and carrying of plural pouch-like containers of the type having closed pillow-like ends with diametral corner portions preferably projecting outwardly from the container body which may be cylindrical or also pillowlike.
  • the containers may be formed of flexible material, preferably a suitable plastic material, and the corner portions substantially maintain their shape and integrity until the container is opened.
  • the integrity of the corner portions is maintained by internal pressure within the container as by the contents, such as beer or carbonated beverages, pressurizing the containers.
  • An object of the present invention is to package a plurality of such containers by a carrier having end support members with paired recesses wedgingly receiving the corner portions at the ends of the containers for supporting the same in position for handling and transport.
  • Another object of the invention is to provide a reliable and inexpensive carrier from plastic sheet material with connected end sheet support members apertured in pairs according to number of containers in the package with the projecting corner portions of pressurized pouch-like containers wedgingly received in the corresponding apertures for support and transport.
  • a further object of the invention is to provide such a carrier with the apertures in the end supports shaped to firmly engage and hold the corner portions of the pouches without damage to the body material of the pressurized pouches.
  • FIG. I is a plan view of the carrier for the package
  • FIG. 2 is a side elevation of a typical form of pouchlike container to make up the package
  • FIG. 3 is a side elevation similar to FIG. 2 but showing the container at 180 rotation;
  • FIG. 4 is an end view of FIG. 3;
  • FIG. 5 is a side elevation ofa package of six pouches and associated carrier in position for storage and transport;
  • FIG. 6 is an end view of FIG. 5.
  • the carrier is shown as including a central straplike handle portion 10 connected to enlarged end support members l2, 14.
  • the carrier is formed of sheet material and preferably of resilient and deformable plastic material, such as a low density polyethylene material, although other materials of the desired characteristics may be used.
  • the end support members 12, 14 are in the sheet form and may be in various shapes and sizes depending on the number and shape of containers to be supported thereby.
  • the end support sheets l2, 14 have the confronting edges inclined away from each other and outwardly from the handle portion 10, and the longitudinal edges are scalloped to provide outwardly projecting portions 16, 16a on the sheet 12 and 18, 18a on the sheet 14, and the free terminal ends are cut away or recessed centrally
  • Each of the sheet support members 12, 14 is provided with pairs of recess means in the form of apertures 20, 22 and 24, 26 for the sheet 12 and 28, 30 and 32, 34 for the sheet 14.
  • the several pairs of apertures illustrated as six in number for a six pack of containers, are arranged at opposite sides of the longitudinal axis of the carrier and disposed at approximately 45 thereto, more or less.
  • the apertures 20, 24 in the sheet 12 are located in the area of the projecting side portions 16, 16a, respectively, and the apertures 28, 32 in the sheet 14 are located in the area of the projecting side portions 18, 18a, respectively.
  • Each of the apertures is of tear drop shape with the apical ends 20a, 22a and 24a, 26a of the sheet 12 apertures, and the comparable ends 28a, 30a and 32a, 34a of the sheet 14 apertures pointing toward one another, thus leaving the nicely curved portions 20b, 24b, 28b, 32b of the outer apertures facing outwardly and the curved portions 22b, 26b, 30b, 34b of the inner apertures facing the center axis of the carrier.
  • the pouchlike container includes a generally cylindrical body portion 36 (FIG. 4) terminating in closed end portions 38, 38a transversely sealed along top and botton edges 40, 40a projecting beyond the body portion 36 and forming corner projections 42, 42a and 44, 44a on the end portions 38, 38a, respectively.
  • corner projections extend beyond the body portion 36 and a paper overwrap 46 around the body portion 36.
  • This overwrap may carry suitable printing or the like but may be omitted when such printing or the like is directly applied to the material, usually a flexible plastic material, of the container body portion 36.
  • the overwrap may add some stiffness to the pouch body 36, this is not essential with the type of pouch which will hold gas under pressure and thus maintain the integrity and desired stiffness of the corner portions.
  • Such pouches are particularly useful in holding beer, carbonated beverages and the like providing internal pressure to pressurize the pouches with maintenance of the integrity of the corner projections which are utilized for holding the packages in the carrier as will be pointed out below.
  • FIGS. 5 and 6 there is shown a six pack of the pouches 36 shown in FIGS. 2, 3 and 4 in assembly with the carrier shown in FIG. 1.
  • the pouches '36 with their overwraps 46 are arranged in horizontal position and in pairs and with the corner projections angles in accordance with the angular disposition of the corresponding apertures in the end sheet support members l2, 14.
  • the distance between the projecting corners 42, 42a and 44, 44a is slightly greater than the distance between the rounded edges of a corresponding pair of apertures 24, 26 and 32, 34 respectively, for example.
  • Both series of apertures stabilize the pouches in packaged position and the round edges of the apertures reduces any tendency to cut into or fracture the pouches in the region of the corner portions.
  • corner portions may be stiffened in various ways for increased integrity, as by heat treatment, folding of the corners with extra layers of material for this purpose and the like; as well as by substantially completely filling the pouches with liquids or pulverulent materials and snug closing thereof to crowd such liquids or materials into the corner portions in the filled container for the desired maintenance of the stiffintegrity thereof for interlocking with the apertures in the end support sheets, just as the gas pressure, when filled with beer or carbonated beverages, serves to pressurize the pouches for this purpose.
  • a package of filled and sealed pouch-like containers each with closed ends presenting corner portions of maintained integrity and relative stiffness
  • carrier means including a pair of end support members connected by a strap portion, and each end member having groups of recess means with the recess means of each group oriented in accordance with the spacing arrangement of the corner portions of an adjacent container in the package and wedgingly receiving and interlocking with adjacent corner portions trapping the containers in the package for handling and transport.
  • the carrier means is in the form of a sheet of plastic material providing the end members in sheet form which are apertured to provide the recess means with the apertures oriented in accordance with the spacing arrangement of the corner portions which project therethrough for the wedging and interlocking association.
  • a carrier blank for supporting in package form a plurality of filled pouch-like containers each with closed ends having spaced projecting corner portions
  • each end portion having groups of recess means with the recess means of each group oriented in accordance with the spacing of the corner portions of an adjacent container in package form for wedgingly receiving the adjacent corner portions for support of containers in packaged assembly.
  • a package of plurality of filled and sealed pouchlike containers each of said containershaving a gener-. ally cylindrically body portion and closed endseach of which presents a pair of opposed corners projecting radially outwardly of the body portion, said body portion and closed ends of said containers being of substan:

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US4185744A (en) * 1978-12-15 1980-01-29 Fbm International, Inc. Carton for tapered wall containers
US5137209A (en) * 1990-08-10 1992-08-11 The Procter & Gamble Company Bayonet handle package
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US2070414A (en) * 1935-02-01 1937-02-09 George W Snell Handle for paper cups
US2514858A (en) * 1948-03-03 1950-07-11 Harry Z Gray Carton carrier
US2669351A (en) * 1950-04-03 1954-02-16 Goodyear Tire & Rubber Package for liquids
US2745545A (en) * 1951-01-06 1956-05-15 Waldorf Paper Prod Co Bag support
US3116947A (en) * 1960-10-13 1964-01-07 Robert C Beitel Container carrier
US3297220A (en) * 1966-01-24 1967-01-10 Edgar T Leeberg Bottle pack carrier
US3331501A (en) * 1966-05-19 1967-07-18 Lilly Co Eli Protective sleeve for bagged products

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US2030996A (en) * 1933-11-16 1936-02-18 Ruben B Lustig Display apparatus
US2070414A (en) * 1935-02-01 1937-02-09 George W Snell Handle for paper cups
US2514858A (en) * 1948-03-03 1950-07-11 Harry Z Gray Carton carrier
US2669351A (en) * 1950-04-03 1954-02-16 Goodyear Tire & Rubber Package for liquids
US2745545A (en) * 1951-01-06 1956-05-15 Waldorf Paper Prod Co Bag support
US3116947A (en) * 1960-10-13 1964-01-07 Robert C Beitel Container carrier
US3297220A (en) * 1966-01-24 1967-01-10 Edgar T Leeberg Bottle pack carrier
US3331501A (en) * 1966-05-19 1967-07-18 Lilly Co Eli Protective sleeve for bagged products

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US4090343A (en) * 1972-10-17 1978-05-23 Tetra Pak Developpement Sa Package intended for pressurized contents
US4185744A (en) * 1978-12-15 1980-01-29 Fbm International, Inc. Carton for tapered wall containers
US5137209A (en) * 1990-08-10 1992-08-11 The Procter & Gamble Company Bayonet handle package
WO2014062400A1 (en) * 2012-10-18 2014-04-24 Illinois Tool Works Inc. Container package
US9957093B2 (en) 2012-10-18 2018-05-01 Illinois Tool Works Inc. Container package

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