Glass bottle carrier with divider
Glass bottle carrier with divider
A flat glass bottle carrier is provided with an integral and depending bottle divider panel which makes the carrier particularly useful for carrying glass bottles. The divider flap extends between adjacent pairs of glass bottles and prevents glass clinking sound or banging together of the glass beverage bottles as they are carried by a consumer.
This invention relates to a carrier particularly adapted for glass bottles containing soft drinks or the like. Relatively small liquid containers, such as metal cans and both glass and plastic bottles are packaged in flat, horizontal paperboard carriers, the paperboard often being reinforced by one or more folded glass bottle supplier, with the main panel of the carrier being provided with a plurality of bottle or can receiving openings. The periphery of each opening is defined by the free ends of tips of resilient fingers, the fingers engaging beneath the chime of a metal can, or in the case of a plastic or glass bottle, beneath the bottle cap or beneath an integral and annular abutment on the neck of the bottle.
While serving to group and transport by the consumer a typical small group of glass bottles, such as four or six, the past constructions of this general type suffer the disadvantage that there is glass to glass bottle manufacturer contact when carrying or transporting the multiple bottles of soft drinks or the like. Consumers generally do not like the sound of glass clinking or banging together, often giving at least some of them an insecure feeling or sensation. This insecurity or annoyance, it is believed, prevents them from purchasing as many glass bottles as they otherwise would.
According to the practice of this glass bottles a generally conventional paperboard bottle carrier is provided with a downwardly depending divider panel and with a hand or finger receiving opening generally rectangular in configuration, with the longitudinal axis of an oblong opening in the main portion of the flap carrier being generally parallel with the plane of the divider panel. The divider panel extends downwardly from the flat or upper portion of the carrier and extends to a location between adjacent glass bottles of the carrier. The entire construction is formed of a unitary blank of paperboard or other stiff, resilient, and foldable sheet material .
A flat glass bottle carrier is provided with an integral and depending bottle divider panel which makes the carrier particularly useful for carrying glass bottles. The divider flap extends between adjacent pairs of glass bottles and prevents glass clinking sound or banging together of the glass beverage bottles as they are carried by a consumer.
This invention relates to a carrier particularly adapted for glass bottles containing soft drinks or the like. Relatively small liquid containers, such as metal cans and both glass and plastic bottles are packaged in flat, horizontal paperboard carriers, the paperboard often being reinforced by one or more folded glass bottle supplier, with the main panel of the carrier being provided with a plurality of bottle or can receiving openings. The periphery of each opening is defined by the free ends of tips of resilient fingers, the fingers engaging beneath the chime of a metal can, or in the case of a plastic or glass bottle, beneath the bottle cap or beneath an integral and annular abutment on the neck of the bottle.
While serving to group and transport by the consumer a typical small group of glass bottles, such as four or six, the past constructions of this general type suffer the disadvantage that there is glass to glass bottle manufacturer contact when carrying or transporting the multiple bottles of soft drinks or the like. Consumers generally do not like the sound of glass clinking or banging together, often giving at least some of them an insecure feeling or sensation. This insecurity or annoyance, it is believed, prevents them from purchasing as many glass bottles as they otherwise would.
According to the practice of this glass bottles a generally conventional paperboard bottle carrier is provided with a downwardly depending divider panel and with a hand or finger receiving opening generally rectangular in configuration, with the longitudinal axis of an oblong opening in the main portion of the flap carrier being generally parallel with the plane of the divider panel. The divider panel extends downwardly from the flat or upper portion of the carrier and extends to a location between adjacent glass bottles of the carrier. The entire construction is formed of a unitary blank of paperboard or other stiff, resilient, and foldable sheet material .