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Carrier stock formed from a single sheet of resilient polymeric material, such as low density polyethylene, for machine application to substantially identical containers. The stock is severable, along transverse lines that are perforated, to form individual carriers with container-receiving aperture

Carrier stock formed from a single sheet of resilient polymeric material, such as low density polyethylene, for machine application to substantially identical containers. The stock is severable, along transverse lines that are perforated, to form individual carriers with container-receiving apertures and additional apertures, as defined by band segments, and with integral handles. The additional apertures facilitate reconfiguration of the stock from an as-formed configuration to an application configuration. Band segments defining the container-receiving apertures at each end rank at each end rank at each edge row includes an outer cross segment, an outer edge segment, an inner cross segment, and an inner oblique segment. The inner cross segment extends from the outer edge segment to the margin of one of the additional apertures. The inner oblique segment, which is slit to define a folding line, extends from the outer cross segment to the margin of the same one of the additional apertures in a generally oblique direction tending away from the outer edge segment when such stock is unstressed. The handle has bifurcated ends with one foot joined to an outer edge segment and another foot joined to an adjoining segment.

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Carrier stock for machine application to substantially identical containers, said stock being formed from a single sheet of resilient polymeric material, said stock having opposite edges and being severable to form individual carriers with opposite ends, with separate container-receiving apertures t

Carrier stock for machine application to substantially identical containers, said stock being formed from a single sheet of resilient polymeric material, said stock having opposite edges and being severable to form individual carriers with opposite ends, with separate container-receiving apertures to receive the individual containers, and with at least one additional aperture, which facilitates reconfiguration of said stock from an as-formed configuration to an application configuration, said stock being formed with band segments defining the container-receiving and additional apertures, each container-receiving or additional aperture having a margin comprising certain of said segments, the container-receiving apertures for each individual carrier being in longitudinal rows including edge rows at the opposite edges of said stock and in transverse ranks including end ranks at the opposite ends of each such individual carrier, the container-receiving aperture at each end rank of each edge row being defined by certain of said segments including (a) an outer cross segment, along which said stock is severable, the outer cross segment extending completely across said stock in the form of a continuous panel, between the opposite edges of said stock, and extending in a generally transverse direction when said stock is unstressed, (b) an outer edge segment extending along one of the opposite edges of said stock and extending in a generally longitudinal direction when said stock is unstressed, (c) an inner cross segment extending from the outer edge segment to the margin of one of the additional apertures and extending in a generally transverse direction when said stock is unstressed, and (d) an inner oblique segment extending from the outer cross segment to the margin of the same one of the additional apertures and extending in a generally oblique direction tending away from the outer edge segment when said stock is unstressed.