The C.w. Zumbiel Company

Minnesota Automation Inc.

Norbert Hoell

Charles A Miller

Jeffrey A Lashyro

Elmoe Crouch

Long neck bottle carton

A sleeve style carton for a bottle matrix where the bottles may be either of the short neck type or the long neck type. The carton includes corner flaps that are wrapped around the corner bottles of the matrix, the corner flaps, along with the carton's side walls and end walls, being structured to make the shoulder, neck and cap portions of the corner bottles partially visible when the carton is viewed in side elevation view. Preferably each corner flap is of a height not substantially greater than the height of a bottle's label and is positioned so as to substantially overlie that corner bottle's label when the carton is filled with the bottle matrix. This allows label indicia to be provided on each corner flap that simulates that portion of the bottle's label indicia visible when the bottle's label is viewed on the bottle in front plan view, thereby making it appear to a casual observer that the bottle's label itself is being viewed in front plan view when the bottle matrix is in the carton regardless of the rotational position of the corner bottles relative to the matrix.

Sleeve style bottle carton

A sleeve style carton for a bottle matrix where the bottles may be either of the short neck type or the long neck type. The carton includes body corner flaps that are wrapped around the bodies of the corner bottles of the matrix. Preferably each body corner flap is of a height not substantially greater than the height of a bottle's label and is positioned so as to substantially overlie that corner bottle's label when the carton is filled with the bottle matrix. This allows label indicia to be provided on each body corner flap that simulates that portion of the bottle's label indicia visible when the bottle's label is viewed on the bottle in front plan view, thereby making it appear to a casual observer that the bottle's label itself is being viewed in front plan view when the bottle matrix is in the carton regardless of the rotational position of the corner bottles relative to the matrix. The carton also includes head corner flaps that are wrapped around the heads of the corner bottles of the matrix, in preferred form the head corner flaps and head end flap panels on the one hand, and body corner flaps and floor end flap panels on the other hand, being configured and located so as to define a window at each end of the carton that extends across the entire width of the carton and through which the end bottles' neck and shoulder portions can be seen when the carton is viewed in end elevation view.

Short neck bottle carton

A sleeve style closed end carton for a can matrix. The carton includes a corner flap formed integral with each side wall at each end of each side wall. Those corner flaps are wrapped around the matrix corner cans in the carton relatively tightly so as to draw all cans of the matrix against one another in a plane normal to the can axis in order to aid in minimizing movement of the cans within the can matrix one relative to the other. The carton also includes a primary compound panel foldably connected along one edge to a first top wall section, and foldably connected along an opposite edge to a second top wall section, those top wall sections together forming the carton's top wall. This primary compound panel is sized so that when it is folded between the first and second top wall sections, then the top, bottom and opposed side walls of the carton are all wrapped relatively tightly around the can matrix in a plane parallel to the can axis also in order to aid in minimizing movement of the cans within the can matrix one relative to the other. And this primary compound panel also functions to provide a reinforced handle for the carton when a handle port is created in each of the two top wall sections on opposite sides of the primary compound panel when the can matrix is fully packaged.

Two tier can carton

Two layer can carton

A sleeve style closed end carton for a can matrix where the cans preferably are the type having necked in head and heel rims. The carton includes corner flaps that are wrapped around the corner cans of the matrix, the corner flaps, along with the top and bottom side wall corners, preferably being structured to make the tapered portion of each corner can's head and heel partially visible when the carton is viewed in top and bottom views, as well as side elevation view, thereby in effect eliminating the carton's corners.

Sleeve style carton

Can carton

This invention relates to a basket carrier of the type where each of the carrier's cells is loaded through the carrier's open bottom, the bottom being closed by the carrier's floor after the carrier has been loaded. Preferably, at least one glue tab is foldably connected to one of the floor and the center wall, the glue tab being glued to the other of the floor and the center wall after the carrier has been loaded with bottles. This securely connects the carrier's center wall to the floor which enhances the vertical support for bottles within the carrier cells, and also which aids in maintenance of squared corners for the carrier during use.

Bottom loading basket carrier

A basket carrier fabricated from two separate blanks, one of the blanks forming the carrier's body which includes opposed side walls, opposed end walls, and a floor, and the other of the blanks forming the carrier's center wall and cell divider panels. In preferred form, the center wall blank includes end wall connector flaps by which the center wall is fixed to the carrier's end walls, and floor connector tabs by which the center wall is fixed to the body's floor.

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Southgate, KY, United States of America

Norbert Hoell