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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 24, 2024
Filed:
Oct. 20, 2021
Illinois Tool Works Inc., Glenview, IL (US);
Rachell L. Slovik, Bartlett, IL (US);
Christopher J. Samaras, Tinley Park, IL (US);
Robert C. Olsen, Medinah, IL (US);
Michael P. Czarnecki, Jr., Bensenville, IL (US);
ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC., Glenview, IL (US);
Abstract
A container carrier for unitizing a plurality of containers. The carrier includes a planar sheet of a material and a plurality of container receiving apertures within the planar sheet and arranged in longitudinal rows and transverse ranks. Each of the plurality of container receiving apertures includes a central opening shape and a plurality of clefts radially extending in the planar sheet outward from the central shape to form a plurality of container friction flaps each adapted to extend along a side wall of a corresponding container of the plurality of containers.