US2395711A - Collapsible bottle carrier - Google Patents

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Feb. 26, 1946. ARNOLD COLLAPSIBLE BOTTLE CARRIER Filed Jan. 5, 1945 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 gwumvtm Berna/"0 Arno l0 1 Feb. 26, 1946. ARNOLD 2,395,711

COLLAPS IBLE BOTTLE CARRIER Filed Jan. 5, 1945 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 awe/who's Berna/"0 Arno/d Patented Feb. 26, 1946 UNITED] STATES PATENT OFFICE Application January 5, 1945, Serial No. 571,417

4 Claims. (01. 229-52) This invention relates to a bottle carrier and it consists in the constructions, arrangements and combinations herein described and claimed.

It is a particular object of the invention to provide a combined bottle carrier and display carton, which may be formed from a single blank of sheet material.

It is also an important object of the invention to provide a novel construction of blank wherein those portions of the assembled carrier which support the greatest weight of the bottles being carried is reinforced to such an extent that liability of breakage of the carrier is avoided.

It is a still further important object of the invention to provide a carrier which may be formed from card-board or other suitable material of a required weight, which may be fed through a proper cutting machine in web form, the web being cut and scored in a manner to minimize waste of the web.

It is also an object of the invention to provide a carrier the blank of which may be maintained in fiat collapsed condition, permitting ready handling and shipping, the blanks being readily assembled in finished form with but little effort and by inexperienced persons.

Additional objects, advantages and features of invention will be apparent from the following description considered in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a perspective view of a carrier constructed in accordance with the invention.

Figure 2 is a plan view of the blank.

Figure 3 is a side elevation of the assembled carrier.

Figure 4 is a top plan view thereof.

Figure 5 is a perspective view illustrating one stage of assembly of the carrier.

. Figure 6 is an end view of the carrier illustrating the final interlocking step of assembling the blank.

Attention is first invited to Figure 1, wherein strength.

Reference is now made to Figure 2 of the drawings, for an understanding of the construction of the blank, wherein it will be seen that the blank is of substantially rectangular shape and in actual practice, the blank has a measurement smaller size. Where larger bottles are to be accommodated, the dimensions will be increased in I will be described.

proportionto the size of the bottles. A flap i5 is formed upon one side of the length pithe blank .and uponthe opposite side a flap I6 is provided, formed as integral parts of the blank, each of the.flaps being scored along respective lines ll coextensive with the longitudinal edges of the blank. The flaps l5 and i6 arelocated medially of the length of the blank and project from the blank a distance of four and one-half (4%") inches and seven (7) inches in length. The flaps l5 and It will constitute the base of the carrier when assembled. The flap It includes a tongue l8 adapted to be inserted through a slot I9 formed at the base of the flap it, when the flaps are brought into overlapped relation, as

The blank is cut away centrally thereof substantially in the form of an octagon, opposite angles 20 being seven (7) inches long, or the width of the flaps l5 and It, and extend parallel to the longitudinal edges of the blank. From the terminal ends of the anglesZD, the cut-away portion is defined by angles 2!, of four inch lengths, the opening or cut-away part being completed by the angles 22 which will be seen to extend parallel to the width of the blank. A line of scoring 23 is formed in the blank coincident with respective angles 22 terminating at the longitudinal edges of the blank, The panels it are thus formed, a pair at each side oi. the cut-away.

portion'or opening formed in the blank. The

panels it are scored as at 2t, these lines of scoring extending parallel to the longitudinal edges of the blank.

Elongated opening 25 are formed in three of the panels It, while in the fourth panel is formed with a similar opening 25' partially blanked out, leaving a flap 26 which is employed to interlock the panels it in the assembled carrier, as well as to reinforce the openings 25 when the device is being carried.

In order that the compartments l2 and it may be provided with spacers or separators, preventing contact between bottles, the blank is formed with fiaps 2i, struck out on lines coincident with respective lines of scoring 2& aligned with respective horizontal edges of the flaps l6 and it. The flaps 2? are scored along respective lines it shipment or storage, and when it is desired to assemble a carrier, the blank may be lightly folded along the scored lines 13, 24, 2!, 2!, and along scored line 30. The folds along lines 23 and 28 being in a direction to present the panels I! so as to overlie the octagon shaped cut out portion of the blank.

The panels M at the lower portion of the blank, as seen in Figure 2, will now be referred as 3|, and these panels will be first folded inwardly above the cut-out portion of the blank, the fold being along lines 23 and 28 and the material 32 between these lines of fold will constitute end walls of respective compartments i2 and II. The panels M at the opposite side of the blank are folded inwardly so as to lie fiat upon the blank portion 3! as shown in Figure 5. In this position of the blank, the second lines 24 are in registry permitting ready folding to bring the two uppermost panels it into abutting fiat relation, the direction of fold being .indicated by an arrow in Figure 5. The openings 2525' will also be in registry. The fiap I is now folded along the scored line I! so as to extend across the bottoms of compartments i2 and I3 when the fiap It may be folded to-assume a position fiat upon the flap l5; and finally the tongue i8 is inserted into the slot IS. The carrier is thus assembled except for folding the fiap 26 inwardly through registered openings 25, and folding the fiapszl inwardly of respective compartments I2 and i3.

It will be noted that by forming the cut-out portion ofthe blank in the shape described, the angles 2i define tapered upper edges on the side walls 32 of the compartments l2 and it, allowing ample clearance for placing and removing bottles from the compartments. 4

The openings 33 of the front walls 34 will permit display of the merchandise and-the spaces from a single blank of sheet material, comprising a handle consisting of tour panels folded to lie in parallel relation, the inner two of said panels having respective end wall flaps, a side wall connecting the end wall flaps upon respective sides, bottom wall flaps flexibly connected to respective side walls and movable to a position across said four panels and beyond, one of said bottomv walls having a slot, the other of said bottom walls having a tongue for insertion through said slot, said side walls having partition walls foldable in the direction of said panels defining bottle cells and said panels having aligned hand hold openings.

2. The structure of claim 1, in which one of the outermost panels is provided with a flap bendable through the aligned hand hold openlngs.

3. In a portable carrier for bottles, formed from a single blank of sheet material, said blank having a. medial opening of substantial size, a pair of panel members flexibly connected at opposite sides of said opening, said panels being foldable along a line co-extensive with the adjacent boundary of the opening to lie over said opening one above the other, a second line of fold inwardly of and parallel to the first line of fold, the space between said lines of fold forming end walls of respectivecompartments of an assembled carrier, the space between said second lines of fold forming respective side walls of a compartment, a pair of fiap members flexibly connected to said blank and a pair or a width corresponding to the distance between said second two lines of fold, each of said flaps having a line of fold coincident with respective edges of the blank, one of said flaps having a slot, the other of said fiaps having a tongue, said fiaps being folded in overlying relation for 40 disposition of the tongue within the slot, said as are suitable for display of advertising matter.

While I have shown and specifically described the invention, this is by way of illustration only,

and I consider as my own, all such modifications in construction as fairly fall within the scope of the appended claims.

I claim: 1. In a portable carrier for bottles, formed fiaps tormlnga bottom wall for the compartments, said panel members each having a line of fold intermediate their lengths, whereby the four panels may be moved to present the two uppermost panels into parallel abutting relation.

4. The structure of claim 3 in which the opening is of substantially octagonal shape certain angles of which define inclined end edges on said end walls.

BERNARD ARNOLD.

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