Carry Pack for Bottles

1. Field of the Invention

The invention relates to a carry pack for at least two bottles made from a single-piece board blank which is provided with holes that the tops of the bottles engage, projections on the bottles bracing themselves against the sections surrounding the holes, which are provided in a horizontal top panel.

2. Description of the Prior Art

DE-OS 36 27 564 already discloses a carry pack of this kind for bottles which holds the bottles extremely securely, but is only relatively simple to produce with an acceptable amount of material in versions for up to four bottles.

The purpose of the invention is to design a carry pack for bottles in such a way that it holds the bottles in a similarly secure way, but is simple and economic to produce for any number of bottles.

In the solution to this problem proposed by the invention, a side panel, which is divided up into three sections by two oblique folding lines, is hinged to each of the two opposite long sides of the top panel, and two end panels, which are joined to the ends of the two side panels when the bottle carry pack has been erected, are hinged to the two other sides of the top panel.

Hinging the side and end panels to all four sides of the top panel stiffens the latter very effectively. The oblique folding lines have the additional advantage that the carry pack can be flattened again after the side and end panels have been joined by gluing.

It is also very advantageous if in accordance with the invention cuts extend radially from the holes in the top panel and divide the edge areas into several sections.

These edge sections fit very tightly against the bottle neck/top and thus hold the bottle extremely securely.

It can also be provided in accordance with the invention that some of the edge sections are provided on the side panels and interrupt the line hinging the side panels to the top panel.

This means that part of the weight of the bottles is channelled directly into the side panels, which relieves the strain on the top panel very substantially.

One embodiment of the invention is shown in the drawing:

FIG. 1 shows a flat board blank with folding lines provided in the side panels,

FIG. 2 shows the board blank illustrated in FIG. 1, folded together and glued along the folding lines and

FIG. 3 shows a carry pack erected from the board blank and filled with bottles.

1 in FIG. 1 is a board blank which has a top panel 2, to each of the two long sides of which a side panel 5,6 is hinged by a folding line 3,4. Each of the two side panels 5,6 is divided up into three sections 5,51,52 and 6,61,62 by two oblique folding lines 7,8 and 9,10. The two outer sections 51,61 and 52,62 are each joined to an end panel 11,12, that is hinged to the top panel 2 by a folding line 13,14, when the board blank is erected. The folding lines 3 and 4 each consist of two sections located behind each other which are separated by a flap 15,16 provided on the side panel 5,6. These flaps 15 and 16 are each divided up into two sections by a cut 17,18 and project into a hole 19,20 that is provided in the top panel 2. Further flaps 21,22 and 23,24, which are provided in the two side panels 5,6 and project into further holes 25,26 and 27,28, are located at both ends of the two folding lines 3,4. The holes 19,20,25,26,27,28 are limited by flaps 29 on the top panel that are joined to the top panel by a folding line 30.

When the two end panels 11,12 have been glued to the sections 51,61 and 52,62 of the two side panels, the end panels can be folded downwards and inwards together with these sections--as shown in FIG. 2--so that although production of the carry pack has been completed, the pack is flat again.

An erected carry pack for bottles is shown in FIG. 3 filled with six bottles 31. The tops of these bottles project through the holes in the top panel 2 and are secured by the flaps.