Patent ID: 7975841

Claim:
A flexible carrier for carrying a plurality of containers, said carrier comprising a flexible sheet of material and a plurality of container-receiving apertures formed therein, each container-receiving aperture for receiving a container therein, said carrier having a longitudinal direction and a transverse direction, said carrier comprising: an array of the container-receiving apertures including first, second and third adjacent longitudinal rows of aligned apertures wherein there exists one aperture in said second row that spans two adjacent apertures in each of said first row and third row such that a transverse axis extending from one longitudinal extent of said one aperture intersects a first aperture in each of said first row and said third row and a transverse axis extending from the opposite longitudinal extent of said one aperture intersects a second aperture in each of said first row and said third row, wherein the container receiving apertures in said first row and said third row include a different geometry than the container receiving apertures in said second row.