Reel-windable container carrier stock
US4033457A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jun 14, 1976 |
| Grant date | Jul 5, 1977 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 14, 1996 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10S206/82
- WIPO fieldHandling
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
A reel-windable container carrier stock which is formed from a thin resilient plastics sheet material and wound upon a reel with substantial numbers of carriers in the strip for machine application of the strip to containers such as cans to form multipacks. The longitudinal center portion of each carrier in the strip is formed with certain curvilinear tabs to increase the mass of the plastics sheet material on each side of the longitudinal center line of the strip to provide that as the carrier is wound upon the reel the carrier will have a reel configuration with a central annular circumferential hump. That reel configuration provides for excellent high speed winding characteristics of the carrier stock.
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