(19)
(11) EP 0 503 821 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
03.02.1993 Bulletin 1993/05

(43) Date of publication A2:
16.09.1992 Bulletin 1992/38

(21) Application number: 92301813.9

(22) Date of filing: 03.03.1992
(51) International Patent Classification (IPC)5: B65D 71/00
(84) Designated Contracting States:
AT BE CH DE DK ES FR GB GR IT LI LU NL PT SE

(30) Priority: 14.03.1991 US 669491

(71) Applicant: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.
Glenview, Illinois 60025-5811 (US)

(72) Inventors:
  • Marco, Leslie S.
    Bloomingdale, Illinois (US)
  • Olsen, Robert
    DuPage, Illinois (US)

(74) Representative: Rackham, Stephen Neil 
GILL JENNINGS & EVERY, Broadgate House, 7 Eldon Street
London EC2M 7LH
London EC2M 7LH (GB)


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    (54) Package and carrier stock with integral handles


    (57) Carrier stock (10) is formed from a single sheet of resilient polymeric material, such as low density polyethylene, and is severable into individual carriers (20) with integral handles (40) along lateral edges. Integrally joined band segments define container-receiving apertures (14). Perforate lines (60), along which such stock (10) is severable, divide certain cross segments (30) into half segments (62). Each half segment (62) has an aperture-defining edge (64) configured with a nub (70) which counters tendencies of such half segment (62) to neck down or to break.






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