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US3044230A
US3044230A US787247A US78724759A US3044230A US 3044230 A US3044230 A US 3044230A US 787247 A US787247 A US 787247A US 78724759 A US78724759 A US 78724759A US 3044230 A US3044230 A US 3044230A
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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
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T24/00—Buckles, buttons, clasps, etc.
    • Y10T24/14—Bale and package ties, hose clamps

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  • Pasteboard has been used commonly for securing together ⁇ a plurality of containers, such as beer cans, but has not proved entirely satisfactory.
  • Pasteboard carriers are somewhat diicult to assemble with containers, and after assembly tend either to be too weak to resist separa- ⁇ tion of containers, as upon dropping of the package, or to be so strong that it is very ditiicult to separate the containers from the carrier.
  • Various metal clips also have been devised for securing containers together in adjoining relation. For various reasons, such clips have not seen extensive commercial use.
  • FIG. 1 is a plan view of the carrier in accordance with this invention as initially formed
  • FIG. 2 is a plan view showing the carrier after partial deformation thereof for association with a plurality of cans or other containers;
  • FIG. 3 is a perspective view of the package resulting from association of the carrier with a plurality of cans or the like;
  • FIG. 4 is an end view of the package of FIG. 3;
  • FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view along the line 5 5 in FIG. 3;
  • FIG. 6 is a perspective View of the carrier after association with the cans, but with the cans removed.
  • the carrier 10 comprises an elongated strap yor band of plastic sheet material, polyethylene being one preferred example.
  • the strip or band of plastic sheet material is provided with pairs of longitudinally elongated straight slits 12, spaced substantially uniformly longitudinally of the strap. The spacing between each pair of slits is substantially the spacing from each slit to the adjacent edge.
  • Each of the slits is terminated at its opposite ends by small circular holes 14. These holes prevent the slits from tearing on into the plastic material.
  • slits provided on the'longitudinal center line of the strip,including a pair of slits 16 extending in from the opposite ends of the strip and overlapping the adjacent pairs of apertures 12. These slits also are terminated by small circular holes 18. The ends of the strip are provided with V-shaped indentations 20 leading into the slits 18.
  • the carrier is stretched transversely to the configuration shown in FIG. 2.
  • the slits 12 open up tto more or less elliptical apertures.
  • the slits 22 open up to more or less diamond shaped apertures, and the V-shaped indentations 20 and slits 16 open up to large V-shaped indentations.
  • the material pulls in at 22 along the longitudinal sides of the strip, and provides an outward bow at 30 adjacent each of the apertures 12.
  • the carrier in the condition of FIG. 2, is associated with a plurality of containers 32, illustrated as cans of the usual cylindrical variety having upper and lower circumferential, protruding beads 34.
  • the material immediately around each aperture is stretched into a more or less cylindrical band 36 forming a surface engagement with the complementary can.
  • Another way of looking at it is that the material at 36 becomes lips protruding up from the plane of the carrier 10.
  • the bands or lips 36 lock beneath the beads 34, and tightly grip the cans 32. Accordingly, the cans cannot readily be Withdrawn downwardly.
  • the cans can be pushed completely through the carrier, lthe direction of deflection of the lips or bands 36 allowing the beads 34 at the bottoms of the cans to cam through the carrier without too much diiiculty.
  • the ⁇ apertures 22 readily can be grasped by the thumb and a nger for lifting and carrying of the package 38 comprising the containers 32 and the carrier 10.
  • FIG. 6 represents the shape of the carrier when it is applied to the cans, and does not necessarily represent the shape immediately after removal from the cans.
  • the apertures resulting from the slits 12 are stretched upon insertion of the cans.
  • the material at the margin of each aperture is circumferentially continuous and uninterrupted, whereby the lips or bands deformed from the plane of the carrier form a particularly tenacious or aggressive grip on the cans, resisting retrograde withdrawal.
  • the provision of the carrier only with slits, and very small terminating holes substantially eliminates scrap.
  • the carriers make a most eicient use of material.
  • the carriers in unstretched and described is set forth by Way of illustration only.
  • a carrier blank adapted to be distorted for carrying a plurality of containers or the like having peripheral enlargements at one end and in side by side substantially abutting and parallel relation, comprising av substantially unsupported sheet of plastic material, said sheet of'plastic material being resilient, deformable, and elastic and having a plurality of pairs of slits therein identical in size and longitudinal spaced and aligned, the slits of each pair being spaced and aligned transversely, said sheet having a plurality of intermediate slit means disposed in said sheet between the individual slits of a pair and of such f ⁇ longitudinal disposition and dimension to be in overlapping relation with more than one pair of slits, all of 4said slits beingropenable upon transverse stretching thereof whereby the margins of each slit of the pairs of slits form.
  • a carrier blank adapted to be distorted for carrying a plurality of containers or the like having peripheral enlargements at one end and in side-by-side substantially abutting and parallel relation, comprising a substantially unsupported sheet of plastic material, said sheet of plastic material being resilient, deformable, and elastic and having a plurality of pairs of slits therein identical in size and longitudnally spaced and aligned, the slits of each pair being spaced and aligned transversely, said sheet having a plurality of intermediate slits each of which lies on the longitudinal center line of the carrier blank and overlaps the pairs of slits ⁇ at its opposite ends, the slits of each pair respectively being positioned laterally .substantially midway between the longitudinal center line and the corresponding longitudinal edges of the carrier, each intermediate slit being of such longitudinal dis-V position ⁇ and dimension to be in ⁇ overlapping relaton with more than one pair of slits, all of said slits being openof said carrier to form circumferentially

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US3101108A (en) * 1960-05-31 1963-08-20 Robert C Ingoldt Tube retainer
US3314712A (en) * 1965-01-27 1967-04-18 Owens Illinois Inc Container carrier
US3383828A (en) * 1965-05-19 1968-05-21 Illinois Tool Works Method and apparatus for assembling carriers to containers
US3385626A (en) * 1966-09-21 1968-05-28 Mitchell S. Wozniak Plastic sheet carrier device
US3488911A (en) * 1965-09-23 1970-01-13 Illinois Tool Works Method and apparatus for producing a covered top container
US3612595A (en) * 1969-11-12 1971-10-12 Haynes Mfg Co The Container handle
US3628305A (en) * 1969-12-29 1971-12-21 Illinois Tool Works Method and apparatus for applying carriers onto containers
US3653610A (en) * 1969-12-17 1972-04-04 Illinois Tool Works Container carrier
US3738698A (en) * 1971-02-08 1973-06-12 Container Corp Finger hold detail for article group carriers and method and apparatus for forming same
US3785484A (en) * 1972-04-12 1974-01-15 Grip Pak Inc Container package
US3792562A (en) * 1972-01-10 1974-02-19 Container Corp Method of packaging grouped articles
US3830361A (en) * 1972-11-13 1974-08-20 Illinois Tool Works Carrier and package formed thereby
US3900103A (en) * 1973-02-02 1975-08-19 Illinois Tool Works Packages of containers
US3946862A (en) * 1974-07-16 1976-03-30 Illinois Tool Works Inc. Container package
US3966044A (en) * 1975-03-31 1976-06-29 Grip-Pak, Inc. Scrapless plastic sheet multi-packaging device
US3968621A (en) * 1972-05-05 1976-07-13 Illinois Tool Works Inc. Method of packaging using extruded net
US4018027A (en) * 1975-06-02 1977-04-19 Byron V. Curry et al. Heat installed multi-pack carrier machine
US4033457A (en) * 1975-01-17 1977-07-05 Illinois Tool Works Inc. Reel-windable container carrier stock
US4103811A (en) * 1973-05-14 1978-08-01 Illinois Tool Works Inc. Article carrier and method of making same
US4301918A (en) * 1980-05-19 1981-11-24 Illinois Tool Works Inc. Container carrier preform
US4330058A (en) * 1980-06-13 1982-05-18 Illinois Tool Works Inc. Container carrier preform strip
US4484378A (en) * 1982-03-19 1984-11-27 Nifco Inc. Binder for binding a bundle of elongated bodies
US4974726A (en) * 1990-05-07 1990-12-04 Illinois Tool Works, Inc. Clip-on sheet for beverage cans and package using same
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US5099632A (en) * 1990-05-07 1992-03-31 Illinois Tool Works Inc. Clip-on sheet for beverage cans, package using same, and package assembling method
US6122893A (en) * 1998-12-22 2000-09-26 Illinois Tool Works Inc. System and apparatus for packaging a uniform group of container having a range of diameters
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US6964144B1 (en) 2000-11-16 2005-11-15 Illinois Tool Works Inc. System and apparatus for packaging containers
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US3101108A (en) * 1960-05-31 1963-08-20 Robert C Ingoldt Tube retainer
US3314712A (en) * 1965-01-27 1967-04-18 Owens Illinois Inc Container carrier
US3383828A (en) * 1965-05-19 1968-05-21 Illinois Tool Works Method and apparatus for assembling carriers to containers
US3488911A (en) * 1965-09-23 1970-01-13 Illinois Tool Works Method and apparatus for producing a covered top container
US3385626A (en) * 1966-09-21 1968-05-28 Mitchell S. Wozniak Plastic sheet carrier device
US3612595A (en) * 1969-11-12 1971-10-12 Haynes Mfg Co The Container handle
US3653610A (en) * 1969-12-17 1972-04-04 Illinois Tool Works Container carrier
US3628305A (en) * 1969-12-29 1971-12-21 Illinois Tool Works Method and apparatus for applying carriers onto containers
US3738698A (en) * 1971-02-08 1973-06-12 Container Corp Finger hold detail for article group carriers and method and apparatus for forming same
US3792562A (en) * 1972-01-10 1974-02-19 Container Corp Method of packaging grouped articles
US3785484A (en) * 1972-04-12 1974-01-15 Grip Pak Inc Container package
US3968621A (en) * 1972-05-05 1976-07-13 Illinois Tool Works Inc. Method of packaging using extruded net
US3830361A (en) * 1972-11-13 1974-08-20 Illinois Tool Works Carrier and package formed thereby
US3900103A (en) * 1973-02-02 1975-08-19 Illinois Tool Works Packages of containers
US4136771A (en) * 1973-05-14 1979-01-30 Illinois Tool Works Inc. Article carrier and method of making same
US4103811A (en) * 1973-05-14 1978-08-01 Illinois Tool Works Inc. Article carrier and method of making same
US3946862A (en) * 1974-07-16 1976-03-30 Illinois Tool Works Inc. Container package
US4033457A (en) * 1975-01-17 1977-07-05 Illinois Tool Works Inc. Reel-windable container carrier stock
US3966044A (en) * 1975-03-31 1976-06-29 Grip-Pak, Inc. Scrapless plastic sheet multi-packaging device
USRE29873E (en) * 1975-03-31 1979-01-02 Grip-Pak Systems, Inc. Scrapless plastic sheet multi-packaging device
US4018027A (en) * 1975-06-02 1977-04-19 Byron V. Curry et al. Heat installed multi-pack carrier machine
US4301918A (en) * 1980-05-19 1981-11-24 Illinois Tool Works Inc. Container carrier preform
US4330058A (en) * 1980-06-13 1982-05-18 Illinois Tool Works Inc. Container carrier preform strip
US4484378A (en) * 1982-03-19 1984-11-27 Nifco Inc. Binder for binding a bundle of elongated bodies
US4974726A (en) * 1990-05-07 1990-12-04 Illinois Tool Works, Inc. Clip-on sheet for beverage cans and package using same
US5099632A (en) * 1990-05-07 1992-03-31 Illinois Tool Works Inc. Clip-on sheet for beverage cans, package using same, and package assembling method
US5088269A (en) * 1990-11-26 1992-02-18 Nigrelli Systems, Inc. Process and apparatus for producing a sanitary carrier for a plurality of containers
US6122893A (en) * 1998-12-22 2000-09-26 Illinois Tool Works Inc. System and apparatus for packaging a uniform group of container having a range of diameters
US6964144B1 (en) 2000-11-16 2005-11-15 Illinois Tool Works Inc. System and apparatus for packaging containers
US20040005429A1 (en) * 2002-07-03 2004-01-08 Slaters Arthur R. Index control of punched carriers for containers
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US11247820B2 (en) * 2018-04-05 2022-02-15 British Polythene Limited Container carriers

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