Multipack with packaging container blanks

• US 6,089,368 A
• Filed: 10/22/1997
• Issued: 07/18/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 11/01/1996
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance SA (Tetra Laval Holdings BV)
• Original Assignee: Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance SA (Tetra Laval Holdings BV)
• Inventors: Lindgren, Christer, Sjogren, Magnus, Nilen, Tomas
• Primary Examiner(s): Ackun, Jacob K.
• Application Number:
  US08/955,610
• Time in Patent Office: 1,000 Days
• Field of Search: 206/499, 206/525, 206/525.1, 206/425, 206/436, 206/434, 206/216, 206/223
• US Class Current: 206/223
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 71/00 Bundles of articles held together by packaging elements for convenience of storage or transport, e.g. portable segregating carrier for plural receptacles such as beer cans or pop bottles; Bales of material
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 85/62 for stacks of articles; for special arrangements of groups of articles

Abstract

The disclosure relates to a multipack with flat-laid blanks intended to be filled and formed in a filling machine. The multipack includes packaging container blanks which are stacked in a compact manner and which are provided with projecting opening arrangements (2). The packaging container blanks (1) are disposed pairwise and alternatingly in such a manner that the opening arrangements (2) assume four different positions, ensuring that the multipack obtains compact form at the same time as the packaging container blanks are given optimum protection. The multipack also includes a protective envelope or casing (7) of, for example, corrugated cardboard.

Claims

1. A multipack with blanks for packaging containers, comprising:

two pairs of blanks, each blank being flat-laid, rectangular and provided with an opening arrangement projecting from one side of the blank;

said opening arrangement being placed outside the lines of symmetry of said blank and at an upper end of said blank;

said blanks being placed pairwise adjacent one another with respective longitudinal and transverse edges in common planes;

said blanks included in each pair being placed with their opening arrangements towards one another and with the upper ends in the same direction; and

one pair of said two pairs of blanks being turned through 180°

so that said pairs have their upper ends turned alternatingly in opposite directions, said blanks being placed in substantially vertical position in the casing of the multipack and in abutment against the bottom of the multipack.