Multi-cup package

Claim 1

A MULTI-CONTAINER PACKAGE COMPRISING: (A) AT LEAST ONE ROW OF A PLURALITY OF UPRIGHT CONTAINERS HAVING AN INTERMEDIATE PORTION THEREOF OF LARGER CROSS SECTION THAN THE LOWER END THEREOF; (B) AN OPEN-ENDED SLEEVE ENCLOSING SAID ROW WITH THE END CONTAINERS IN SAID ROW AT THE OPEN ENDS OF SAID SLEEVE; (C) SAID SLEEVE BEING FORMED FROM A SINGLE ELONGATED CARDBOARD BLANK HAVING SIDE EDGES EXTENDING LONGITUDINALLY THEREOF; (D) SAID BLANK BEING TRANSVERSELY SCORED AND FOLDED TO FORM A LONGITUDINALLY EXTENDING SERIES OF PANELS INCLUDING A CENTRAL PANEL, A PAIR OF SIDE PANELS ALONG OPPOSITE ENDS OF SAID CENTRAL PANEL AND A PAIR OF TERMINAL END PANELS ALONG OPPOSITE ENDS OF SAID SIDE PANELS; (E) SAID CENTRAL PANEL HAVING AT LEAST ONE ROW OF SPACED APERTURES THEREIN OF SMALLER CROSS SECTION THAN SAID INTERMEDIATE PORTION OF SAID CONTAINERS AND EACH OF SAID APERTURES EXTENDING PARTIALLY INTO SAID SIDE PANELS AND RECEIVING SAID LOWER END OF ONE OF SAID CONTAINERS THERETHROUGH; (F) SAID SIDE PANELS EXTENDING ACROSS AND IN ENGAGEMENT WITH THE OPPOSITELY OUTWARDLY FACING SIDES OF SAID INTERMEDIATE PORTIONS OF SAID CONTAINERS; (G) SAID TERMINAL END PANELS EXTENDING OVER AND IN ENGAGEMENT WITH THE ENDS OF SAID CONTAINERS OPPOSITE SAID LOWER END THEREOF; AND (H) MEANS SECURING SAID TERMINAL END PANELS TOGETHER MAINTAINING SAID CONTAINERS WITHIN SAID APERTURES.