Bottle Carrier Made of Foldable Flat Material

Abstract

A bottle carrier made of foldable flat material having a handle comprising two overlapping outer handle walls and two inner handle walls between the outer handle walls, front walls, perpendicular to the handle and two front wall sections on different sides of the handle, connecting straps, connected with an inner edge of a front wall section via a front folding line, folded around front folding lines and connected with the handle, longitudinal walls, parallel to the handle and connected with the outer edges of two front wall sections via side folding lines, a bottom wall, connected with lower edges of longitudinal walls via bottom folding lines, separating webs, connected with lower edge areas of the outer handle walls via inner web folding lines, folded around the inner web folding lines out of the lower edge areas, an insert is arranged between the two outer handle walls.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]This utility application claims priority to provisional application 61 / 696454, filed on Sep. 4, 2012STATEMENT REGARDING FEDERALLY SPONSORED RESEARCH[0002]Not applicable.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0003]The invention relates to a bottle carrier made of foldable flat material.[0004]Bottle carriers of the type according to the invention have on both sides of the handle dividers defined by the front walls, longitudinal walls and separating webs, into which bottles are insertable. They are also called “open basket” bottle carriers or “basket-like” bottle carriers. The bottles are held in the dividers separated from each other so that glass contact with the bottles is reduced. Such bottle carriers with separating webs, which are folded out of the lower edge areas of the outer handle walls and the upper edge areas of the longitudinal walls, are called “strap-style” bottle carriers due to the strap shape of the separating webs. The separating web...

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Benefits of technology

[0028]According to a further embodiment, the middle wall sections have separating flaps linked via vertical separating wall folding lines adjacent to neighbouring separating webs, which are connected with them in an overlapping area with the neighbouring separating webs. The separating flaps can securely prevent glass contact between neighbouring bottles on the same side of the handle.

[0029]According to a further embodiment, the separating webs end before the respectively neighbouring longitudinal walls and the separating flaps are connected with the insides of the neighbouring longitudinal walls on the outer ends via separating flap connecting straps. This embodiment also avoids the recesses on the upper edge of the longitudinal wall, which are caused by the folding of the outer ends of the separating webs out of the longitudinal walls in the case of conventional bottle carriers. In the case of the bottle carrier according to the invention, the separating flaps are namely connected with the insides of the neighbouring longitudinal walls via the separating flap connecting straps. Hereby, too, an “open basket” bottle carrier of the “strap-style” type is first enabled, in that the longitudinal walls have a straight upper edge free of recesses. This bottle carrier also has an improved rigidity and an improved outward appearance and side walls, which can be provided with an imprint over a larger area. A further advantage is that the separating flaps avoid in a particularly effective manner glass contact between neighbouring bottles.

Problems solved by technology

However, the inner handle walls do not contribute to the interconnection of the two connecting straps, because they end on one or on both sides before the neighbouring connecting straps.

As a result, the front walls can give way outwardly in the lower area when loaded with inserted bottles, whereby the connections of the connecting straps with the handle and the connections of the front walls with the longitudinal walls can be loaded such that the bottle carrier fails.

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