Basket carrier for bottles and blank therefor
First Claim
1. An article carrier for accommodating a plurality of articles, comprising a base, opposed side and end walls, and handle means by which the carrier can be lifted and carried, the handle means comprises a pair of opposed parallel upright guide panels and an upright handle member disposed at least in part between the guide panels for upward and downward sliding movement, wherein the handle member has a pair of shoulders and wherein an upper stopper for engagement with the shoulders is disposed along upper edges of the guide panels to limit upward movement of the handle member.
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Abstract
An article carrier (10) of the basket type is adapted to accommodate a plurality of articles, such as bottles (B). The carrier (10) comprises a base (22, 36), opposed side (14, 28) and end (12, 16; 26, 30) walls and a medial partition structure (52, 56, 62, 64) and handle means (H) by which the carrier (10) can be lifted and carried. The bottles (B) are received on both sides of the medial partition structure (52, 56, 62, 64) of the carrier (10). The medial partition structure (52, 56, 62, 64) is formed from a pair of internal medial partition panels (52, 56) hinged together along a first fold line (60) and having a pair of abutments (96) provided internally adjacent the fold line (60). A pair of external medial partition panels (62, 64) are attached to the internal medial partition panels (52, 56). The handle means (H) is formed of a first pair of handle panels (86, 88) hinged together along a second fold line (90) and having a pair of corresponding handle apertures (98) therein. The first pair of handle panels (86, 88) are slidably movable within the pair of external medial partition panels (62, 64) and have a pair of shoulders (94) arranged to correspond to the pair of abutments (96). The handle means (H) is therefore movable between a lower retracted position and an upper, extended position.
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21 Claims
- 1. An article carrier for accommodating a plurality of articles, comprising a base, opposed side and end walls, and handle means by which the carrier can be lifted and carried, the handle means comprises a pair of opposed parallel upright guide panels and an upright handle member disposed at least in part between the guide panels for upward and downward sliding movement, wherein the handle member has a pair of shoulders and wherein an upper stopper for engagement with the shoulders is disposed along upper edges of the guide panels to limit upward movement of the handle member.
- 7. An article carrier of the basket type for accommodating a plurality of articles, comprising at least one base panel, opposed side and end walls, a medial partition structure and handle means by which the carrier can be lifted and carried, said articles being receivable on both sides of said medial partition structure of the carrier, wherein said-medial partition structure is formed from a pair of internal medial partition panels hinged together along a first fold line and having a pair of abutments provided internally adjacent the fold line and a pair of external medial partition panels hinged together and attached to the internal medial partition panels, wherein the handle means is formed of at least a first pair of handle panels hinged together along a second fold line and having a pair of corresponding handle apertures therein, the first pair of handle panels being slidably movable within the pair of external medial partition panels and having a pair of shoulders arranged to correspond to the pair of abutments, wherein the handle means is movable between a retracted position where the second fold line is substantially collinear with the first fold line and an extended position where the pair of shoulders abut the pair of abutments and the handle apertures are further from the base of the article carrier than in the retracted position.
- 12. A blank for forming an article carrier of the basket type, the blank comprising a first series of main panels, hingedly coupled together for forming a first side panel a first pair of end panels and a first base panel of the carrier, a second series of main panels hingedly coupled together for forming at least a second side panel, and a second pair of end panels of the carrier, the blank including, at a first end thereof, a first internal medial partition panel hingedly connected to the first series of main panels and a second internal medial partition panel hingedly connected to the first internal medial partition panel and to the second series of main panels, each of the internal medial partition panels having an internal handle panel struck therefrom having a handle aperture therein, such that the internal handle panels are hingedly connected together and to provide a pair of shoulders on the internal handle panels and a pair of corresponding abutments on the internal medial partition panels, which abutments are spaced from the corresponding shoulders the blank further comprising a pair of external medial partition panels hingedly connected together and to the internal medial partition panels and being located, in the blank between the first and second series of main panels.
- 17. A basket style carton having a composite centre partition structure, the partition structure comprising a pair of partition panels and a pair of handle panels struck from the partition panels, wherein the partition panels are secured together along their coated sides and wherein the handle panels are secured together along their uncoated sides, the partition panels are interconnected along their common upper edge and folded about the upper edge to have the coated sides secured together, the handle panels are interconnected along their common upper edge and folded about the upper edge to have the uncoated sides secured together.
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19. (canceled)
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21. (canceled)
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