CARTONS

• US 3,825,171 A
• Filed: 08/15/1972
• Issued: 07/23/1974
• Est. Priority Date: 04/18/1972
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Ernest James Dewhurst
• Original Assignee: Ernest James Dewhurst
• Inventors: Dewhurst, Ernest James
• Primary Examiner(s): Price, William I.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Farrow, Douglas B.
• Application Number:
  US05/280,896
• Time in Patent Office: 707 Days
• Field of Search: 229/52A,52B 220/104,105
• US Class Current: 206/166
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/46064 formed by folding a blank serving also as a partition in the container
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/48036 Longitudinal partition provided with cut flaps folded perpendicular to the partition

Abstract

The invention relates both to a carton having a plurality of article receiving compartments therein and an extensible carrying handle as well as to a one-piece blank forming an interior divider assembly within the carton and the handle. The handle is formed from various panels and is detachably secured to the remainder of the assembly whilst the transverse partitions, forming part of the latter, have '"'"''"'"''"'"''"'"'tits'"'"''"'"''"'"''"'"' inhibiting contact between the lower portions of adjacent articles.

Claims

1. A one-piece blank adapted to form an interior assembly, defining rows of adjacent article receiving compartments within a carton, and an extensible handle member;

said blank being cut and scored to provide a pair of complementary primary panels integrally and hingedly connected together with an elongated slot therebetween and which panels subsequently form a pair of longitudinal partitions having a common upper edge, within the carton;

a pair of connecting panels integral with, and hinged to, a marginal side edge of a selected one of said primary panels; and

a primary handle panel detachably secured to the connecting panels;

a secondary handle panel parallel with said marginal side edge and integrally and hingedly connected to said primary handle panel along a common score-line; and

reinforcement panels integrally and hingedly connected to said handle panels whereby the latter and said reinforcement panels upon folding of the blank, form a handle which, together with said connecting panels, is located between said primary panels with said reinforcement panels located between said handle panels; and

said handle, upon detachment from the connecting panels, being movable between the longitudinal partitions and having a first portion projecting through the slot where it can be grasped for carrying purposes;

the amount of upward movement of the handle being limited by a second portion of said handle, of greater dimension than said first portion, contacting the underside of said common upper edge and the amount of downward movement of the handle being limited by contact of said second portion of the handle with the connecting panels.

2. A blank according to claim 1 wherein said plurality of interconnected panels includes:

a pair of outer handle panels each having a hand hole and a main body portion;

a pair of end reinforcing tabs and a mid-body reinforcing tab each integrally and hingedly connected to a selected said main body portion; and

a pair of inner reinforcing handle panels each of which is integrally and hingedly connected to an associated end of each handle panel adjacent the hand hole of the latter;

said tabs and reinforcing panels being located between the pair of outer handle panels when the blank is folded and serving to reinforce certain areas of the handle;

said selected main body portion being detachably secured to said connecting panels.

3. A blank according to claim 2 wherein each primary panel is cut and scored to provide a plurality of sub-panels each integrally and hingedly connected thereto and to an end tab;

the sub-panels serving as a plurality of transverse partitions within the carton extending between the longitudinal partitions and an adjacent side wall of the carton;

the lower edge of certain of the transverse partitions having a depending projection inhibiting contact between the lower portion of an article in one compartment of one row thereof and the lower portion of an article in an adjacent compartment of the same row.

4. A carton having a wall structure including end walls, side walls and a bottom, and an interior assembly within the carton;

said interior assembly having first portions fixed to the wall structure to define a pair of partitions, having a common upper edge and a slot therein, dividing the interior of the carton into at least a pair of adjacent article receiving compartments, and a pair of second portions integrally and hingedly connected together defining primary and secondary panels having reinforcement panels integrally and hingedly connected thereto and located between said primary and secondary panels, all of said panels defining a carrying handle with said primary panel being detachably secured to a selected one of the first portions by a pair of connecting panels, which are, in turn, integrally and hingedly secured to said selected first portion, both said connecting panels and the handle being located between the partitions, the handle being extensible for carrying purposes and having a first portion capable of projection through said slot with the amount of upward movement of the handle being limited by a second portion of said handle, of greater dimension than the carrying portion, contacting the underside of the common upper edge and the amount of downward movement of the handle being limited by contact of said second portion of the handle with the connecting panels.

5. A carton according to claim 4 wherein the secoNd portions include:

a pair of outer handle panels each having a hand hole and a main body portion;

a pair of end reinforcing tabs and a mid-body reinforcing tab each integrally and hingedly connected to a selected said main body portion; and

a pair of inner reinforcing handle panels each of which is integrally and hingedly connected to an associated end of each handle panel adjacent the hande hole of the latter;

said tabs and reinforcing panels being located between the pair of outer handle panels and serving to reinforce certain areas of the handle;

said selected main body portion being detachably secured to said connecting panels.

6. A carton according to claim 5 wherein each primary panel is cut and scored to provide a plurality of sub-panels each integrally and hingedly connected thereto and to an end tab;

the sub-panels serving as a plurality of transverse partitions within the carton extending between the longitudinal partions and an adjacent side wall of the carton;

the lower edge of certain of the transverse partitions having a depending projection inhibiting contact between the lower portion of an article in one compartment of one row thereof and the lower portion of an article in an adjacent compartment of the same row.