Double thickness separator for bottle carriers

Claim 1

A SEPARATOR FOR USE IN A BOTTLE CARRIER ADAPTED TO SEPARATE ROWS OF BOTTLES AND ADJACENT BOTTLES IN EACH ROW COMPRISING AN ELONGATED BODY ADAPTED TO EXTEND BETWEEN TWO ROWS OF BOTTLES, SAID ELONGATED BODY COMPRISING FIRST AND SECOND PANELS DISPOSED IN BACK-TO-BACK RELATIONSHIP AND INTEGRALLY CONNECTED TOGETHER ALONG A PAIR OF COOPERATING EDGES SAID FIRST PANEL HAVING PARTITION ELEMENTS PERTIALLY STRUCK FROM THE CENTRAL POARTION THEREOF AND BEING HINGEDLY CONNECTED TO SIAID FIRST PANEL ALONG SPACED ALIGNED LINES, OPPOSED EDGES OF SAID FIRST PANEL PARTITION ELEMENTS BEING SEPARATED ALONG A ZIG-ZAG LINE WHEREBY THE COMBINED LENGTH OF SAID FIRST PANEL PARTITION ELEMENTS IS GREATER THAN THE LENGTH OF THE SPACE FROM WHICH SAIF FIRST PANEL PARTITION ELEMENTS ARE STRUCK, SAID SECOND PANEL HAVING PARTITION ELEMENTS PARTIALLY STRUCK FROM CENTRAL PORTIONS THEREOF AND BEING HINGEDLY CONNECTED TO SAID SECOND PANEL ALONG SPACED ALIGNED LINES, THE PARTITIN ELEMENTS OF SAID FIRST PANEL BEING IN BACK-TO-BACK RELATIONSHIP TO THE PARTITION ELEMENTS OF SAID SECOND PANEL TO THUS FORM COMPOSITE PARTITION MEMBERS, THE HINGE CONNECTIONS OF SAID FIRST AND SECOND PANEL PARTITION ELEMENTS OF EACH PARTITION MEMBER BEING COOPERATIVELY ADJACENT EACH OTHER FOR MOVEMENT OF THE COMPOSITE PARTITION MEMBERS OUT OF THE PLANE OF SAID ELONGATED BODY TO POSITIONS EXTENDING LATERALLY TO EACH SIDE OF SAID ELONGATED BODY, AND THE OVERALL LENGTH OF EACH OF SAID PARTITION MEMBERS BEING GREATER THAN THE LENGTH OF EITHER OF THE PARTITION ELEMENTS FORMING SAID PARTITION MEMBER.