B65D 71/506

Bundles of articles held together by packaging elements for convenience of storage or transport, e.g. portable segregating carrier for plural receptacles such as beer cans or pop bottles; Bales of material comprising a plurality of articles held together only partially by packaging elements formed otherwise than by folding a blank {the element being formed from a flexible sheet provided with slits or apertures intended to be stretched over the articles and adapt to the shape of the article and provided with an additional element encircling the periphery of the group of articles}