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A multipackaging device made from resilient plastic material and flat strip stock for producing a plurality of such devices. The strip comprises a pair of rows of bands of laterally aligned container encircling bands, each which define noncircular apertures. The plurality of bands are integrally con

A multipackaging device made from resilient plastic material and flat strip stock for producing a plurality of such devices. The strip comprises a pair of rows of bands of laterally aligned container encircling bands, each which define noncircular apertures. The plurality of bands are integrally connected by first web means joining laterally aligned pairs of bands and second web means joining longitudinally adjacent bands in a given row. The laterally innermost section of each band being generally V-shaped with an apex region and pair of legs extending from each apex with the first web means connecting laterally opposed legs of each pair of laterally aligned bands. This construction permits the strip to be stretched laterally by application of forces solely at the outer edge of the strip so each aperture is reconfigured from a noncircular aperture to a substantially circular aperture for application about a container.

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In a carrier device for multipackaging a plurality of cylindrical containers in two adjacent rows, said carrier device formed from an elastic plastics sheet material, said carrier device comprising two rows of integrally interconnected bands lying in the plane of said sheet material, each of said ba

In a carrier device for multipackaging a plurality of cylindrical containers in two adjacent rows, said carrier device formed from an elastic plastics sheet material, said carrier device comprising two rows of integrally interconnected bands lying in the plane of said sheet material, each of said bands having a container receiving aperture, the initial circumferential dimension of each aperture being less than the circumferential dimension of the surface of the container intended to be encircled by one of said bands, a plurality of first and second web means, each of said first web means interconnecting one transversely aligned pair of bands in said two rows, each of said second web means interconnecting one longitudinally adjacent pair of bands in each row, each of said bands comprising an outer section and an inner section extending between said second web means creating an initial aperture configuration, said outer sections disposed along the outer side marginal edges of said carrier device presenting substantially a straight line configuration, and said inner sections disposed between said outer sections and between said first and second web means, each of said inner sections being substantially V-shaped in configuration in the plane of said carrier device and defined generally by a pair of legs extending inwardly relative to the outer section and intersecting at an apex region, each of said first web means having a total length overlapping a portion of outer margin of each pair of said legs in the longitudinal direction between said two rows defined by extremities, each extremity interconnecting a pair of opposing legs of transversely aligned inner sections on either side of the apex regions of said transversely aligned inner sections, wherein stretching forces applied in transversely outward opposite directions to transversely aligned outer sections of said bands change the initial aperture configuration and its circumferential dimension to a second aperture configuration having a dimension substantially equal and similar to a complementary cylindrical container adapted to be associated therewith by axial insertion and subsequent encirclement as a result of the first web means transferring the stretching forces to the inner sections in force directions substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the carrier device.