Patent ID: 6213297
Filing Date: 2001-04-10
Classification: B65D

Abstract:
Packaging for a plurality of juxtaposed bottles with the bottles being of a type having a base, a body adjoining the base, the body having a shoulder and an upstanding neck adjoining the shoulder, a closure for the bottle mounted on the neck and a label adhered to the body of the bottle below the shoulder and above the base comprising a case in the form of a parallelepiped having spaced parallel side walls and spaced parallel end walls adjoining the side walls at right angles thereto and spaced-apart top and bottom closures adjoining the side and end walls at right angles thereto, a shroud engaging the shoulders of the bottles and extending upwardly over the the closures for the bottles, said shroud retaining the bottles in spaced-apart positions with respect to each other to prevent the labels of the bottles from coming into contact with each other and with the side and end walls of the case and protecting the closures for the bottles, said shroud comprising a plurality of cup-shaped shoulder-engaging members circumscribing the shoulders of all the bottles and being formed integral with each other and extending onto the shoulders of the bottles to retain the bodies of the bottles in spaced-apart positions with respect to each other and the side and end walls of the case and to retain the shoulder-engaging members in positions spaced above the labels of the bottles, said shrouds resting on the bottles and being free of the bottles to permit lifting of the shroud off of the bottles.