Wrapper, carrier, and handle assembly and package comprising same and

Abstract

In a package for containers of a type having a side wall, a wrapper is formed from a paperboard sheet, folded, and seamed and has a bottom wall, two lateral walls providing expansive surfaces for labelling of the package, and two struts, which extend across the wrapper and divide the package into two endmost regions and an intermediate region. As formed from sheet-form, resilient, polymeric material, a carrier has band segments defining container-receiving apertures in two longitudinal rows, two endmost ranks, and two intermediate ranks, and a handle is attached to the carrier so as to extend upwardly from a longitudinal midline of the carrier. Each container is loosely received by one container-receiving aperture so that the band segments defining such aperture grip its side wall. The containers and the wrapper, carrier, and handle respectively are sized, shaped, and assembled so that the carrier is disposed above the bottom wall and below the struts, so that the containers received by the apertures of the endmost ranks are disposed within the endmost regions, above the bottom wall, so that the containers received by the apertures of the intermediate ranks are disposed within the intermediate region, above the bottom wall, between the lateral walls, and so that the handle extends upwardly between the struts, through the intermediate region of the wrapper.