Bottle carrier with gusseted ends

Claim 2

A package comprising a double row assembly of bottles in a tubular carton, said bottles being arranged in transversely aligned pairs, said carton being fabricated from bendable sheet material so as to provide a top wall with apertures for receiving portions of the bottle tops, depending integral side walls and a bottom wall with relatively small, upstanding divider panel members arranged between the bottles of each pair thereof for separating bottom portions of the bottles, said side walls having relatively small end panels hinged to the bottom portions of the vertical edges thereof which are in the form of gussets and which are folded into engagement with vertical wall portions of the end bottles so as to retain the bottles against movement of the bottom portions thereof out of the ends of the carton, said end wall gusset panels having integrally hinged bottom panels which are integrally connected to the associated bottom wall panels by generally triangular foldable webs adjacent the junction of the side and bottom wall panels which webs are infolded so that they are disposed between the top face of the bottom wall and the bottom faces of said gusset bottom panels, said gusset bottom panels having free end portions extending inwardly a sufficient distance to engage in edge abutment with an upstanding divider panel thereby to hold said gusset bottom panels in position and prevent unfolding of said gusset forming panels.

Claim 3

A package as set forth in claim 1 wherein said gusset bottom panels are hinged to the bottom edges of said gussets and include end extensions which are disposed in overlapped and paired relation with their outer edges in engagement with the endmost upstanding divider panel members.

Claim 4

A blank for fabricating an open ended tubular carton which is adapted to enclose, when set up, a plurality of bottles arranged in double row forming relation and in longitudinal and transverse alignment, said blank comprising a generally rectangular sheet of relatively stiff, bendable material which is divided by longitudinally spaced, transversely extending crease lines into a center top wall forming panel, adjoining side wall forming panels at opposite edges thereof, and bottom wall forming panels at opposite ends of the blank, said blank end panels having marginal portions at the ends of the blank which are provided with locking tabs and apertures adapted to be interengaged to lock the panels beneath the bottles and to form the bottom wall of the carton when set up, said side wall forming panels being creased along opposite side edges to provide relatively small integral gusset forming panel members of generally triangular configuration which are adapted to be folded, when the carton is set up, into generally vertical and transverse planes so as to snugly engage bottom portions of the vertical walls of the end bottles in the rows thereof and said end panels being cut to provide relatively narrow panels which are integral with the gusset forming panels and connected to said end panels by integral web portions which are adapted to be folded so that they are disposed between bottom portions of the end bottles and the top faces of the bottom wall forming panels with the outer edge portions of said narrow panels adapted to be disposed in edge abutting relation with endmost locking tabs.

Claim 5

A blank for fabricating an open ended tubular carton which is adapted to enclose, when set up, a plurality of bottles arranged in double row forming relation and in longitudinal and transverse alignment, said blank comprising a generally rectangular sheet of relatively stiff, bendable material which is divided by longitudinally spaced, transversely extending crease lines into a center top wall forming panel, adjoining side wall forming panels at opposite edges thereof, and bottom wall forming panels at opposite ends of the blank, said blank end panels having marginal portions at the ends of the blank which are provided with locking tabs and apertures adapted to be interengaged to lock the panels beneath the bottles and to form the bottom wall of the carton when set up, said side wall forming panels being creased along opposite side edges to provide relatively small integral gusset forming panel members of generally triangular configuration which are adapted to be folded, when the carton is set up, into generally vertical and transverse planes so as to snugly engage bottom portions of the vertical walls of the end bottles in the rows thereof and said end panels being cut to provide relatively narrow panels which are integral with the gusset forming panels and connected to said end panels by integral web portions which are adapted to be folded so that they are disposed between bottom portions of the end bottles and the top faces of the bottom wall forming panels with the outer edge portions of said narrow panels adapted to be disposed in edge abutting relation with endmost locking tabs.

Claim 6

A blank as set forth in claim 3 wherein said side wall forming panels have side marginal extensions separated therefrom by score lines which converge in the direction of the ends of the blank so as to provide said gusset forming panels.

Claim 7

A blank as set forth in claim 4 wherein said bottom wall forming end panels are subdivided by a pair of triangularly related score lines and a cutting line at each side of the blank so as to provide said narrow panels.

Claim 8

A blank as set forth in claim 3 wherein said bottom wall forming end panels have side marginal portions scored and cut to provide said narrow panels which are adapted to hinge into flat engagement with the bottom wall and edge abutting relation with the endmost locking tabs when the carton is set up into tubular form.

Claim 9

A carton for a row of cylindrical articles which are adapted to be disposed in upright position in said carton, said carton being fabricated from a blank of foldable sheet material which is cut and creased so that it may be folded into tubular form with a top wall forming panel, depending side wall panels and bottom wall forming panels having upstanding members for separating the bottom portions of the articles, said side wall panels having relatively small panels hinged to the lower portions of the vertical edges thereof which are folded against portions of the vertical walls of the end articles when the latter are positioned therein so as to form gusset members which restrain the bottom portions of the articles against movement out of the carton, and said gusset members having relatively small, integrally hinged panels at the bottom thereof which are connected to the bottom wall panels by integral webs folded so as to lie on the bottom wall forming panels where they are between bottom portions of the end articles and the bottom wall forming panels, and said integrally hinged panels having free end portions positioned in edge abutting engagement with said upstanding article separating members whereby said gusset members are held against movement outwardly of the carton ends.

Claim 10

A carton for a row of cylindrical articles which are adapted to be disposed in upright position in said carton, said carton being fabricated from a blank of foldable sheet material which is cut and creased so that it may be folded into tubular form with a top wall forming panel, depending side wall panels and bottom wall forming panels having upstanding members for separating the bottom portions of the articles, said side wall panels having relatively small panels hinged to the lower portions of the vertical edges thereof which are folded against portions of the vertical walls of the end articles when the latter are positioned therein so as to form gusset members which restrain the bottom portions of the articles against movement out of the carton, and said gusset members having relatively small, integrally hinged panels at the bottom thereof which are connected to the bottom wall panels by integral webs folded so as to lie on the bottom wall forming panels where they are between bottom portions of the end articles and the bottom wall forming panels, and said integrally hinged panels having free end portions positioned in edge abutting engagement with said upstanding article separating members whereby said gusset members are held against movement outwardly of the carton ends.