End loading beer box

• US 3,294,279 A
• Filed: 03/01/1965
• Issued: 12/27/1966
• Est. Priority Date: 03/01/1965
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: CIP, Inc.
• Original Assignee: John W. Kidd
• Inventors: Kidd, John W.
• Application Number:
  US04/436,031
• Time in Patent Office: 666 Days
• US Class Current: 206/166
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/46032 Handles with anchoring elements, e.g. formed by folding a blank B65D5/46064 takes precedence; straps B65D5/46024
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/48048 Single partition formed by folding one or more blanks and provided with flaps fixed to or maintained by parts of the container body B65D5/4804 takes precedence

Claims

1. A CARRIER, SAID CARRIER INCLUDING A BOTTOM, SIDE PANELS AND A TOP, SAID TOP HAVING MEANS DEFINING HANDLE RECEIVING OPENING THEREIN, A HANDLE SLIDABLY RETAINED WITHIN SAID CARRIER, A HANDLE RETAINING AND CARRIER DIVIDING MEMBER SECURED TO SAID CARRIER AND WITHIN SAID CARRIER WITH ITS TOP PORTIONS ADJACENT TO AND SPACED FROM THE UNDERSIDE OF SAID TOP, SAID TOP INCLUDING A STRUCTURALLY WEAKENED PORTION, SAID HANDLE RETAINING MEMBER INCLUDING MEANS PREVENTING SAID SLIDABLE HANDLE FROM COMING INTO DIRECT CONTACT WITH SAID STRUCTURALLY WEAKENED PORTION, SAID HANDLE BEING SLIDABLY RETAINED WITHIN SAID MEMBER, SAID MEMBER HAVING MEANS DEFINING A HANDLE RECEIVING OPENING THEREIN IN ALIGNMENT WITH SAID HANDLE RECEIVING OPENING IN SAID CARRIER AND SAID HANDLE HAVING PORTIONS EXTENDING THROUGH SAID OPENINGS IN SAID CARRIER AND SAID MEMBER, SAID HANDLE BEING MOVABLE THROUGH SAID OPENINGS FROM AN INOPERATIVE POSITION TO AN OPERATIVE POSITION, WHEREIN SAID TOP HAS TEAR MEANS INCLUDING A LONGITUDINAL LINE OF WEAKNESS AND TRANSVERSE LINES OF WEAKNESS, SAID LONGITUDINAL LINE OF WEAKNESS EXTENDING ACROSS THE CENTER OF SAID TOP, SAID TRANSVERSE LINES OF WEAKNESS EXTENDING ALONG THE SIDE EDGES OF SAID TOP, SAID LONGITUDINAL LINE OF WEAKNESS AND SAID TRANSVERSE LINES OF WEAKNESS BEING CONNECTED TO EACH OTHER AND SAID HANDLE-RETAINING PORTIONS BEING SPACED FROM THE UNDERSIDE OF SAID TOP AND DIRECTLY BENEATH SAID LONGITUDINAL LINE OF WEAKNESS.