US2801001A - Holder for cone top cans - Google Patents

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' July 3o, 1957 R. s. woLowmz 2,801,001

HOLDER FOR CCNE TOP CANS Filed Narh 4, 1955 ffy f 24 29 l... l fg il" s I I Q.\ i L l /j United States Patent O HOLDER FOR CONE TOP CANS Richard S. Wolowicz, Chicago, Ill., assignor to Container Corporation of America, Chicago, Ill., a corporation of Delaware Application March 4, 1955, Serial No. 492,123

1 Claim. (Cl. 20d-65) The present invention relates to holders or cartons formed of folding paperboard or similar flexible material, adapted for the retention of capped articles such as cone top beverage cans.

A principal object of the invention is to provide a simple and inexpensive holder for cone or tapered top cans and similar beverage containers which will eiectively display the end cans or other containers of a row of two or more cans or other containers held within the holder, and which will securely retain the cans or other containers therein against likelihood of becoming displaced and falling from the holder. A further object of the invention is to provide a holder of the open end type, particularly adapted to retain securely the upper ends of cone top beverage cans closed with a flanged closure cap. Other and more specific objects and advantages will become apparent as the description proceeds.

In the drawings, illustrating a preferred embodiment of the invention:

Fig. l is a perspective view of the improved holder illustrating taper top cans held in place inside the holder; and

Fig. 2 is a View of a blank from which the holder is constructed.

The holder is preferably made of a single blank of foldable paperboard which is secured in tubular form to provide a top wall, two side walls and a bottom wall, defined from each other by crease lines. The bottom portion of the cans or other containers to be held inside of the holder may be retained in any desired manner. The top portions of the containers, herein shown as provided with a closure cap with a depending flange, are retained by apertured tabs or aps carried by the top wall. The aperture in the tab is so designed that the inwardly directed edge portions of the tab, inside the aperture, engage securely beneath the flange of the closure cap.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, the holder blank, indicated as a whole at 10, provides side walls 11 and 12, top and bottom wall 13 and 14 and attaching flap 15, hingedly related to one another along crease lines 16, 17, 18 and 19.

As indicated in Fig. 1, the ap 15 is suitably secured, as by means of adhesive, to the free end of side wall 11 to form a tubular, open end holder. The length of the side walls and top and bottom walls in the direction of the axis through the open ends of the holder is preferably approximately equal to the sum of the diameters of the containers to be held in the holder less one diameter, so that in practice the two end containers in the row of containers within the holder will each project outwardly of the holder, exposing a substantial portion of their surfaces. Preferably approximately one-half of each of the outer containers in the row of containers will project beyond the ends of the holder.

For the purpose of retaining the lower ends of the container in the holder any desired means may be ems 2,801,001 Patented July 30, 1957 ICC ployed. When it is desired to retain in the holder beverage cans with chimed or recessed bottoms, this is accomplished as illustrated, by providing at each end of the bottom wall a retaining tab 20 hinged to the bottom wall along crease line 21, these tabs are preferably cut somewhat narrower than 'the bottom wall so as to clear the chime of the can adjacent the hinge of the tab. The tab preferably is of a length approximately equal to onehalf the can diameter so that when each tab is folded inward it will be in position to engage `the interior of the can chime, retaining the bottom portion of the can in place within the holder and allowing approximately half of the can to project beyond the hinge line of its retaining tab.

For the purpose of retaining the upper portion of the can from outward displacement from the holder the top wall 13 is preferbaly formed at each end with a tab extension 24 hinged to the top wall along crease lines 25 which is interrupted at the mid-portion. The tab 24 has an inwardly directed edge portion 25 formed by a curved slit 26, the ends of which terminate at the crease or hinge line 25 along which the tab 24 is joined to the top Wall 13. The slit is preferably, although not necessarily, curved to conform generally with the contour of a ange closure cap on the can or other container to be retained in the holder.

The outwardly extending portion of the top wall 13, indicated at 27, lying inside the slit 26 is preferably left as a rigid extension although, if desired, the crease line 25 could extend across this portion. The portion 27 is adapted to extend over the closure cap of the container to be contained in the holder.

The height of the side walls and the width of the bottom and top walls are preferably such that these walls will engage closely against the bottom, top and sides of the container to be contained in the holder.

In order to facilitate the engagement of the inwardly directed edge of the tab 24 with the closure cap of a container in the holder the inwardly directed edge portion is preferably, although not necessarily, provided with a plurality of short radial slits 28, 28 which form small supplementary deflectable portions or tabs on this inwardly directed edge portion of the tab 24.

The outer contour of each tab 24 is preferably rounded to conform generally to the configuration of the can to be retained in the holder but such outer contour of the tab may be of any desired shape. n

In loading the holders with containers, such as cone top beverage cans with ange closure caps, it is only ward and place a row of cans in the holder with the outer cans projecting partially therefrom and with the necessary to turn the bottom retaining aps 20, 20 inbottom retaining tabs in engagement with the bottom chimes. When placing the cans in the holder the top tabs 24, 24 are permitted to remain generally in the plane of the top wall. The cans will come to rest in the holder with the two outer cans in position so that the respective crease lines 25 are disposed approximately centrally over the closure caps. With the cans in this position the tabs 24, 24 are pressed downward to cause the inwardly directed edge portion 25 of each tab 24 to engage snugly beneath the ange of the closure cap. When the supplementary tab portions 29, 29 are employed, such supplementary tabs are caused to be deflected slightly from the plane of the main tab 24 to facilitate engagement beneath the closure cap.

While the present description sets forth a preferred embodiment of the invention, numerous changes may be made in the construction without departing from the spirit of the invention, and it is therefore desired that the present embodiment be considered in all respects as illustrative and not restrictive, reference being had to the appended claim rather than to the foregoing'description to indicate the scope of the invention.

I claim:

A package comprising a row of cone top cans, each of Which-has Va cap closure formed Vwith a downwardly Vdi-V rected ange, and aholder'therefor, said `holder being formed of foldable paperboard and including top and bottoni walls substantially equal in Width to the diam-v eter Vof said cans, two oppositely disposed side walls substantially equal in height to the height of said cans, said walls being hingedly interconnected to provide an open end tube encircling said row centrally thereof withY the end cans of said row partially extending beyond said tube, means for retaining the lower portions of the end cans of said row within said tube, a retaining tab integrally and hinged joined'to said top wall atjech end thereof,

an opening in each tab adjacent saidtop'wall, said tabs References Cited in the tile of this patent UNITED STATESY PATENTS 2,523,986 Foster Sept. 26, 1950` 2,637,476 Empkie May 5, 1953 2,654,474 Ringler Oct. 6, 1953 2,690,839 Robinson Oct. v5, 1954 2,705,556 Ringler k Apr. 5, 1955

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