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(11) | EP 0 543 660 A3 |
| (12) | EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION |
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| (54) | Separation element for packing bottles into boxes |
| (57) Dividers for enabling articles such as bottles and bunches of grapes to be shipped
in a manner which utilizes space economically comprise blanks of cardboard or like
material which have a series of crease lines across them. Some crease lines form valleys
when the blanks are folded and others form ridges. In some forms the crease lines
converge and diverge in such manner that generally triangular shipping spaces are
provided between adjacent ridges. When bottles are to be shipped, the bottles can
be arranged in two oppositely arranged series with the necks intermeshed along the
centre zone of the box. In another form each of a number of parallel crease lines
has a first part which forms a ridge and a second part which forms a valley. A zig-zag
crease line (24) which forms a ridge extends transversely of the blank (10). The parallel
crease lines change from ridge (16,22) to valley (18,20) at an apex of the zig-zag
crease line, and, on each side of the zig-zag crease line, crease lines which form
valleys alternate with crease lines that form ridges. |