Carrier partition arrangement

Claim 1

A partition arrangement for a carrier carton formed of foldable sheet material, such as paperboard or the like, for enclosing a plurality of bottles disposed in side-by-side relation, comprising; (a) a bottom wall; (b) at last one vertical wall foldably joined to and upstanding from said bottom wall; (c) a partition structure formed from material of said vertical wall and said bottom wall, including: (i) a first member having a vertical element foldably joined at an end edge to said vertical wall on a first fold line, and a horizontal element foldably joined at one edge to said bottom wall, foldably joined at another edge to a lower edge of said vertical element, and disposed in face-to-face relation with said bottom wall; (ii) a second member foldably joined at an end edge to said vertical wall on a second fold line located parallel to but spaced laterally from said first fold line; (iii) said second member being formed from material of said first member and other material of said vertical wall; (iv) said members being folded out of the plane of said vertical wall with their respective end portions positioned in face-to-face relation with each other between a pair of adjacent bottles to provide a partition structure of two-ply thickness.