Container carrier package

Claim 1

A container package comprising, in combination carrier means including an endless section of flexible plastic material oriented to as to provide upper and lower layers joined by a pair of interconnecting side means, said upper layer including a plurality of spaced-apart upper apertures therein arranged in a predetermined pattern and said lower layer including a plurality of spaced-apart lower apertures therein, said lower apertures being aligned with the apertures of said upper layer, said container package further including a plurality of containers mounted within said endless section of flexible material, said containers being arranged in a pattern like that of said apertures with first ends of said containers extending through respective upper apertures for securing said containers within said carrier means, said containers having second ends receivable in said lower apertures in said lower layer of flexible plastic material, said second layer of said carrier means surrounding each of said lower apertures therein including an upwardly directed inner peripheral wall forming with adjacent similar peripheral walls a U-shaped double thickness portion serving as cushions preventing contact between adjacent containers and forming with corresponding side means substantially U-shaped exterior side cushions preventing contact therealong with external objects, and said cushions serving to wedgingly support the containers above the bottoms of the second ends thereof for transport.