Multiple blank bottle carrier

Claim 1

A compartmented bottle carrier constructed from two identical blanks of corrugated paperboard which separately form individual containers that are adhered together, each of said containers comprising a pair of opposed side walls and a pair of opposed end walls connected to one another along parallel fold lines, and a plurality of bottom closure flaps foldably connected along a common score line to the bottom end of said side and end walls, the improvement wherein the individual containers each have a manufacturers joint formed from two overlapping panels located substantially midway of one of their side walls, the first of said overlapping panels having a length substantially equal to one half of the width of said side wall and the second of said panels having a length that is greater than one half the width of said side wall, said first overlapping panels being arranged to lie exteriorly of said second overlapping panels in each case so that when the two individual containers are adhered together along the side walls containing their manufacturers joints, the ends of the first overlapping panels of the two individual containers butt one another to form one continuous wall.