Two-bottle package and bag

Claim 2

A package of two bottles comprising, a bag substantially enveloping two bottles in an upstanding side-by-side abutting relationship, said bag formed of a resilient elastic plastic material and comprising a band portion encircling a substantial vertical extent of the body portions of both of said bottles and substantially tensioned horizontally circumferentially about the body portions of both of said bottles, a bottom wall connected to the lower edges of at least two opposed sections of said band portion and extending beneath a substantial portion of the bottom walls of both of said bottles, a pair of upper wall portions, each of said upper wall portions comprising a bifurcated member of two strips integrally joined to a common base section, the common base section of said bifurcated members integrally connected to opposed sections of the upper edge of said band portion, the two strips of each bifurcated member straddling the upper neck portion of one of said bottles beneath the cap portion thereof, and the two strips of both of said bifurcated members being secured together and gathered substantially to a point substantially midway between the upper neck portions of said bottles sufficiently to substantially tension said bifurcated members between said point and said band portion.

Claim 3

In a package of two bottles each of which has a body portion and a neck portion tapered to a small diameter cap portion and a bag substantially enveloping said two bottles to hold said bottles together in an upstanding side-by-side relationship with the body portions of said bottles in firm abutment and to permit said package to be carried by the top central portion of the bag with said bottles depending therefrom, the improvement of said bag formed of a resilient elastic plastic sheet material of a thickness such that the material is subject to tearing when the weight of said bottles is supported from a single thickness limited area of the sheet material, said bag comprising a plurality of band areas integrally interconnected and arranged to cooperatively permit said package to be carried by the top central portion of the bag with said bottles depending therefrom and substantially absent any tearing tendency of said sheet material under the depending weight of said bottles on said material of said bag, one of said plurality of band areas comprising said sheet material stretched and tensioned horizontally circumferentially in a band about the body portions of both of said bottles, a second of said band areas comprising said sheet material in a band extending beneath said bottles between at least two opposed edges of the lower edge of said one of said plurality of band areas, a third of said band areas comprising two band sections connected to the upper edges of said one of said plurality of band areas with each of said band sections extending circumferentially about one of said bottles more than one-half of the diameter of the body portion of said bottles and on each side of a line perpendicular to and through the longitudinal axes of said bottles, said two band sections of said third of said band areas further extending in a stretched and tensioned condition upwardly over the neck portions of said bottles and being bifurcated to extend on opposite sides of the neck portions of said bottles below the cap portions thereof to a common connection substantially midway between said bottles, and holding means for holding said two band sections at said common connection in a gathered stretched condition and for providing said top central portion of the bag for carrying of the package thereat.

Claim 4

In a package of two bottles each of which has a body portion and a neck portion tapered to a small diameter cap portion and a bag substantially enveloping said two bottles to hold said bottles together in an upstanding side-by-side relationship with the body portions of said bottles in firm abutment and to permit said package to be carried by the top central portion of the bag with said bottles depending therefrom, the improvement of said bag formed of a resilient elastic plastic sheet material of a thickness such that the material is subject to tearing when the weight of said bottles is supported from a single thickness limited area of the sheet material, said bag comprising a plurality of band areas integrally interconnected and arranged to cooperatively permit said package to be carried by the top central portion of the bag with said bottles depending therefrom and substantially absent any tearing tendency of said sheet material under the depending weight of said bottles on said material of said bag, one of said plurality of band areas comprising said sheet material stretched and tensioned horizontally circumferentially in a band about the body portions of both of said bottles, a second of said band areas comprising said sheet material in a band extending beneath said bottles between at least two opposed edges of the lower edge of said one of said plurality of band areas, a third of said band areas comprising two band sections connected to the upper edges of said one of said plurality of band areas with each of said band sections extending circumferentially about one of said bottles more than one-half of the diameter of the body portion of said bottles and on each side of a line perpendicular to and through the longitudinal axes of said bottles, said two band sections of said third of said band areas further extending in a stretched and tensioned condition upwardly over the neck portions of said bottles and being bifurcated to extend on opposite sides of the neck portions of said bottles below the cap portions thereof to a common connection substantially midway between said bottles, and holding means for holding said two band sections at said common connection in a gathered stretched condition and for providing said top central portion of the bag for carrying of the package thereat.

Claim 5

A bag for multipackaging two bottles each of which has a body portion and a neck portion tapered to a small diameter cap portion, said bag formed of a resilient elastic plastic sheet material of a thickness such that the material is subject to tearing when the weight of said bottles is supported from a single thickness limited area of the sheet material, said bag comprising three band areas integrally interconnected and arranged to cooperatively permit said bag to be carried by the top central portion of the bag with said two bottles depending therefrom in an upstanding side-by-side relationship in said bag and substantially avoiding any tearing tendency of said bag under the weight load of said bottles, the first of said three band areas comprising an annular band of a circumferential extend capable of encircling the body portions of both of said bottles with said bottles in a firm side-by-side abutting relationship, the second of said three band areas comprising a bottom band of two flaps which extend from opposed lower edges of said annular band and have lengths sufficient to enable the extending ends thereof to be heat sealed together beneath said bottles, the third of said three band areas comprising two band sections connected in opposed relationship to the upper edges of said annular band with each of said band sections having a transverse width greater than one-half of the diameter of the body portion of said bottles, and each of said band sections being bifurcated and of a length permitting a gathering and common connection of the ends of said sections midway between said bottles below the cap portions thereof with said sections in a stretched condition and with the bifurcated portions of said sections on opposite sides of the neck portions of said bottles below said cap portions.

Claim 6

A bag for multipackaging two bottles each of which has a body portion and a neck portion tapered to a small diameter cap portion, said bag formed of a resilient elastic plastic sheet material of a thickness such that the material is subject to tearing when the weight of said bottles is supported from a single thickness limited area of the sheet material, said bag comprising three band areas integrally interconnected and arranged to cooperatively permit said bag to be carried by the top central portion of the bag with said two bottles depending therefrom in an upstanding side-by-side relationship in said bag and substantially avoiding any tearing tendency of said bag under the weight load of said bottles, the first of said three band areas comprising an annular band of a circumferential extend capable of encircling the body portions of both of said bottles with said bottles in a firm side-by-side abutting relationship, the second of said three band areas comprising a bottom band of two flaps which extend from opposed lower edges of said annular band and have lengths sufficient to enable the extending ends thereof to be heat sealed together beneath said bottles, the third of said three band areas comprising two band sections connected in opposed relationship to the upper edges of said annular band with each of said band sections having a transverse width greater than one-half of the diameter of the body portion of said bottles, and each of said band sections being bifurcated and of a length permitting a gathering and common connection of the ends of said sections midway between said bottles below the cap portions thereof with said sections in a stretched condition and with the bifurcated portions of said sections on opposite sides of the neck portions of said bottles below said cap portions.