Abstract A carrier for bottles or the like arranged in package form, such as a six-pack, and particularly designed for bottles of the molded glass envelope type with thin and substantially uniform wall thickness, and wherein the bottom of the bottle, which is often of non-supporting configuration, is capped with a cup-like base member or coaster of less brittle material for protecting the bottle and providing a self-supporting base therefor; the carrier being in the form of a sheet of suitable material, as plastic, with one or more vertical walls lapped with the side walls of the base members and secured thereto by releasable fastening means by which the package may be supported for transport by grasping handle grip means adjacent the tops of the packaged bottles; the handle grip means being adjacent the top of a single vertical wall disposed between rows of bottles in the package, or being on a horizontal shelf portion joining two vertical walls in which case the vertical walls are disposed exteriorly of the bottles and joined to corresponding exterior side wall portions of the cup-like base members.
A carrier package of two rows of bottles of the type having a thin-walled contents envelope and a cup-like protective base member on each of said envelopes separate and apart from each other, comprising sheet means including a horizontal shelf larger than the area of said two rows of bottles and two substantially rectangular attachment portions, said attachment portions connected along opposite edges of said horizontal shelf to depend therefrom over the opposite sides of said two rows of bottles and lap the side wall portions of each of the cup-like base members, said sheet means being formed of a resilient deformable plastic material and said horizontal shelf having apertures therein of a peripheral extent smaller than the peripheral extent of the necks of said bottles below the caps thereof, the apertures of said horizontal shelf being stretched and applied over said bottles with the material of said horizontal shelf circumferentially resiliently gripping the bottle necks, means directly connecting the lapped areas of said attachment portions to the side wall portions of each of said base members by separate releasable fastening means for each base member for permissive and selective removal of individual bottles from the package, and a handle grip portion formed in said horizontal shelf between the necks of said bottles.
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Dependent Claim
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A carrier package of two rows of bottles of the type having a thin-walled contents envelope and a cup-like protective base member on each of said envelopes separate and apart from each other, comprising sheet means including a horizontal shelf larger than the area of said two rows of bottles and two substantially rectangular attachment portions, said attachment portions connected along opposite edges of said horizontal shelf to depend therefrom over the opposite sides of said two rows of bottles and lap the side wall portions of each of the cup-like base members, said sheet means being formed of a resilient deformable plastic material and said horizontal shelf having apertures therein of a peripheral extent smaller than the peripheral extent of the necks of said bottles below the caps thereof, the apertures of said horizontal shelf being stretched and applied over said bottles with the material of said horizontal shelf circumferentially resiliently gripping the bottle necks, means directly connecting the lapped areas of said attachment portions to the side wall portions of each of said base members by separate releasable fastening means for each base member for permissive and selective removal of individual bottles from the package, and a handle grip portion formed in said horizontal shelf between the necks of said bottles.