Title: Article carrier

Abstract: A collapsible carrier for bottled beverages which is formed from a blank of paperboad or similar material and which is cut and creased so that it may be folded and glued to provide, when set up, a bottom wall, upstanding side and end walls, and a handle and partition structure which includes a longitudinal center partition and cross straps extending on opposite sides thereof which divide the carrier into bottle receiving cells, the longitudinal partition including a handle portion at the top and inturned riser panels at the ends thereof which connect the same to the end walls. The carrier is collapsible on corner hinge lines with bottom wall forming panels extending from the side walls in disconnected relation and having interlocking elements for connecting these panels when the carrier is set up and the panels are moved into coplanar bottom wall forming relation.

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Inventors: Arneson, Edwin L. (Hillsdale, NJ, US)

Application Number: 281999
Filing Date: 1972-08-18
Publication_date: 1976-09-21
Assignee: Federal Paper Board Company, Inc. (Montvale, NJ)
Primary Class(es): 206/178 206/171, 206/186, 229/117.12
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US Patent Ref:

2537615	Jan, 1951	Arneson	229/28.
2587808	Mar, 1952	Arneson	220/113.
2645403	Jul, 1953	Arneson	220/113.
2785827	Mar, 1957	Forrer	220/113.
3589593	Jun, 1971	Weiss	206/65.
3752356	Aug, 1973	Forrer	220/115.

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Primary Examiner: Price, William
Assistant Examiner: Shoap, Allan N.
Attorney: Greenawalt; Guy A.