Fully enclosed bottle container

• US 3,904,036 A
• Filed: 11/15/1974
• Issued: 09/09/1975
• Est. Priority Date: 11/15/1974
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Homer W. Forrer
• Original Assignee: Homer W. Forrer
• Inventors: Forrer, Homer W.
• Primary Examiner(s): Price, William I.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Garbe, Stephen P.
• Application Number:
  US05/524,144
• Time in Patent Office: 298 Days
• Field of Search: 206/427,434 229/38,40
• US Class Current: 206/427
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2571/00141 glued
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2571/00469 Straps made between two handholes
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2571/00524 integral
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2571/00549 consisting of fold lines
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2571/00574 whereby contents can still be carried after the line has been torn
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2571/0066 formed from one single sheet
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2571/00728 the end walls being closed by gluing
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 71/36 having a tubular shape, e.g. tubular wrappers, with end walls

Abstract

An enclosed container for packaging a plurality of bottles having tapered neck portions includes bottom, top and side walls interconnected to form a tubular structure having end closure means at each end which includes a bottom end panel foldably joined to each end of the bottom wall, a top end panel foldably joined to each end edge of the top wall together with a transverse lower end flap foldably joined to each end edge of the bottom portion of each side wall, a transverse upper end flap foldably joined to each end of the inwardly tapered top shoulder portion of each side wall, and web structure which interconnects the adjacent edges of the transverse upper and lower end flaps associated with each end edge of each side wall. The upper portion of the end closure structure is inwardly tapered so that the top wall is of a shorter longitudinal dimension than the bottom wall. In order to provide for collapsing a pre-glued sleeve formed according to this invention, a so-called false score is formed in the bottom wall and disposed in parallel relation to a side edge thereof.

Claims

1. A bottle container comprising top, bottom, and side walls, each side wall having a bottom portion, and an inwardly tapered top shoulder portion said top and bottom walls and said wall portions being interconnected to form a tubular structure, a transverse lower end flap foldably joined to each end edge of the bottom portion of each side wall, a transverse upper end flap foldably joined to each end edge of the shoulder portion of each side wall, web structure interconnecting each lower end flap and the associated upper end flap and disposed in flat face contacting relation therewith, a top end panel foldably joined to each end edge of said top wall and folded downwardly and secured in flat face contacting relation with at least one transverse end flap on each side of each end of the container, and a bottom end panel foldably joined to each end edge of said bottom wall and folded upwardly and secured to said top end panel.

2. A container according to claim 1 wherein each of said transverse upper end flaps is foldably joined along at least a portion of its top edge to the adjacent edge of the associated top end panel.

3. A container according to claim 2 wherein each of said transverse upper end flaps is collapsible along a diagonal fold line one end of which coincides with an adjacent top corner of the container.

4. A container according to claim 1 wherein said web structure comprises a web panel defined by a pair of spaced angularly related fold lines.

5. A container according to claim 4 wherein a portion of each of said web panels and of an adjacent area of each of said transverse upper end flaps is cut away to facilitate manipulation thereof.

6. A container according to claim 1 wherein each top end panel is secured to both of the associated transverse upper end flaps.

7. A container according to claim 1 wherein each bottom end panel is secured to both of the associated transverse lower end flaps.

8. A container according to claim 1 wherein said top wall is a composite structure and includes a medial double thickness manufacturer'"'"''"'"'s joint and an adjacent hand gripping aperture formed in a single thickness portion of said top wall and wherein said top end panels are composite structures.

9. A container according to claim 8 wherein an elongated hand gripping aperture is disposed on each side of said joint and wherein a score line interconnects each corner of said top wall and the adjacent end of one of said hand gripping apertures.

10. A container according to claim 1 wherein a folding score line is formed in said bottom wall and disposed in parallel relation to a side edge thereof.

11. A container according to claim 10 wherein said folding score is spaced from one side edge of said bottom wall by a distance approximately equal to the difference in width between said top wall and said bottom wall.

12. A container blank comprising a generally rectangular bottom wall, a bottom end panel foldably joined to each end edge of said bottom wall, a pair of side walls having bottom portions foldably joined respectively to opposite side edges of said bottom wall and having shoulder portions foldably joined to said bottom portions, a lower end flap foldably joined to each end edge of the bottom portion of each side wall, an upper end flap foldably joined to each end edge of the shoulder portion of each side wall, a web panel foldably adjoined to the upper edge of each said lower end flaps and to the lower edge of the adjacent upper end flap, and a top wall lap panel foldably joined to the upper edge of the shoulder portion of each of said side walls.

13. A blank according to claim 12 wherein an elongated longitudinal hand gripping aperture is formed in each of said top wall lap panels and wherein a pair of score lines are formed in each of said top wall lap panels and wherein each fold line extends between an end of the fold line between the associated top wall lap panel and the associated shoulder portion of one side wall and the adjacent end of the associated hand gripping aperture.

14. A blank according to claim 12 wherein a folding score is formed in said bottom wall and disposed in parallel relation to a side edge thereof.

15. A blank according to claim 12 wherein a handle reinforcing panel is foldably joined to one of said top wall lap panels along an edge thereof remote from the shoulder portion of the associated side wall.