Container for carrying bottles or the like

Claim 1

In a container for supporting bottles or the like composed of a unitary sheet of plastic and including a pair of laterally deformed walls defining pockets, said pockets having wall portions defining chambers for respectively receiving said bottles or the like, said wall portions being vertically fluted and defining a plurality of juxtaposed vertically extending semicylindrical members connected together along vertical edges thereof, a bottom for each of said pockets for pivotal movement relative to each other, said pockets being open at their upper ends, a pair of upstanding panels secured by their lower portions respectively to the innermost edges of the top end structure of said pockets, the improvement comprising: a first planar panel mounted in a plane parallel to a plane tangentially common to the semicylindrical members, said first planar panel extending beyond the centers of the outermost semicylindrical members to a line formed by the intersection of said first planar panel and a plane tangent to each of the endmost semicylindrical members at a point removed approximately 90* from the point of tangency of the plane parallel to said first planar panel, a second planar panel extending from each end of said first planar panel, vertically coextensive with said first planar panel and merging tangentially with the end semicylindrical members and gussets extending from the axially innermost ends of said semicylindrical members to the upper and lower edges of said planar panels.