Four-pack bottle carrier

Claim 1

A four pack bottle carrier requiring minimal gluing and materials, which can be readily glued up with existing machinery, which will lie flat after gluing and prior to erection, and which can be folded flat again after use; said carrier comprising a single piece paperboard structure having: four side panels of substantially equal width, adjacent side panels being connected to each other by vertical fold line, each of the side panels consisting of upper and lower portions, the upper portions being divided from the lower portions by lower horizontal die cuts each of which extends horizontally only halfway through the width of an associated side panel, the upper portion of a first pair of opposed side panels being further provided with a full width upper horizontal die cut which divides the upper portion of each of the first pair of side panels into a top portion and an intermediate portion, the top portion above the full width die cut being glued to the upper portion of an adjacent one of a second pair of opposed side panels, and the intermediate portion between the lower and upper horizontal die cuts on said first pair of opposed side panels forming a bottle divider along with the glued top portion when the carrier is erected; a glue flap to one side of one of said panels; and two pairs of opposed bottom panels, the first pair of opposed bottom panels including a first portion connected to an adjacent side panel by a horizontal fold line, and a triangular glue flap secured to the first portion by another fold line, the triangular glue flap being glued to an adjacent bottom panel of the second pair of bottom panels.