Isaac N Reynolds

US Patent:

20020117540, Aug 29, 2002

Filed:

Feb 27, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/793727

Inventors:

Isaac Reynolds - Cincinnati OH, US
Andrew Parrella - Cincinnati OH, US
Raymond Kowalski - , US

Assignee:

EM Industries, Inc.

International Classification:

B65D005/492
B65D005/56
B65D025/04

US Classification:

229/120290, 229/122330

Abstract:

A package for at least one bottle comprises a carton, a honeycomb core within the carton for surrounding the bottle, as well as bottom and top honeycomb pads abutting the honeycomb core. The honeycomb core is severed from its outer skin through the honeycomb material to its inner skin so that it may be folded to form an enclosure about the bottle. The bottle has the same height as the honeycomb core and when covered at its ends by the honeycomb pads positioned beneath and on top of the honeycomb core provides an assembly which completely fills the carton. In one embodiment of the invention, four bottles are contained within a square carton and are held in place by two G-shaped honeycomb core portions which cooperate to form four compartments for holding the bottles. In another embodiment, six bottles are packaged in a rectangular carton with the honeycomb core substantially formed by a continuous honeycomb panel severed to allow folding into six compartments.