Carrier package and method of assembly

Claim 1

IN COMBINATION, A CONTAINER CARRIER HAVING A RELATIVELY THIN WEB PORTION, SAID WEB PORTION DEFINED SPACED APERTURES OF PREDETERMINED SIZE, AND INITIALLY GENERALLY U-SHAPED HANDLE MEANS HAVING A BASE PORTION AND A PAIR OF GENERALLY PARALLEL LEG MEANS EXTENDING THEREFROM, EACH OF SAID LEG MEANS HAVING TRANSVERSELY DEFORMABLE END PORTIONS ADAPTED TO BE UPSET AFTER INSERTION IN SAID APERTURES, THE TRANSVERSELY DEFORMABLE END PORTIONS ON EACH OF SAID LEG MEANS HAVING FIRST AND SECOND PARLLEL PORTIONS JOINED AT THE TERMINAL END THEREOF, AND GROOVE MEANS FORMED IN SAID FIRST PORTION AT A POSITION INTERMEDIATE THE LENGTH OF SAID SECOND PORTION, SAID GROOVE MEANS PROVIDING A PRESTRESSED PORTION FOR QUICK DEFORMATION OF SAID SECOND PORTION AND A PART OF SAID FIRST PORTION AS A UNIT TO A POSITION PARALLEL WITH SAID BASE PORTION TO PRESENT AT LEAST A PAIR OF TRANSVERSELY EXTENDING FINGER PORTIONS ON EACH LEG MEANS FOR UNDERLYING GENERALLY OPPOSED AREAS IMMEDIATELY ADJACENT EACH APERTURE OF THE WEB PORTION TO PREVENT WITHDRAWAL OF SAID LEG MEANS THEREFROM.