Patent ID: 6948293

Claim:
A method for packing containers, in particular bottles, in transport boxes having base flaps, comprising the steps of releasably fastening flat-lying multi-piece packagings ( 1 ) having bases ( 12 ) to the inside of flat-lying transport boxes ( 60 ), the multi-piece packaging additionally having end-face side walls, transverse webs, and at least one longitudinal web, setting up the transport boxes ( 60 ) and the multi-piece packagings ( 1 ) contained therein by folding the multi-piece packagings end-face side walls ( 15 , 17 ) and the multi-piece packagings transverse webs ( 33 to 36 ) from a longitudinal web ( 24 , 25 ) and moving their longitudinal side walls ( 10 , 11 ) out of contact with the longitudinal web ( 24 , 25 ) whilst forming receivers open at the top, thereby automatically closing the bases ( 12 ) of the multi-piece packagings ( 1 ) and of the transport box ( 60 ) by folding the base flaps of the multi-piece packagings and transport box together along fold lines, and then pressing together a middle fold line ( 74 , 75 ), and thereby folding open the base flaps ( 66 , 67 ) which are hinged on oppositely lying side walls ( 10 , 11 ) of the packagings and transport boxes, inserting containers ( 80 ) through openings ( 81 ) of the set-up transport boxes ( 60 ) into receivers of the multi-piece packagings ( 1 ) and closing the openings ( 81 ) of the transport boxes ( 60 ).