Speaker independence in automated lip-sync for audio-video communication

The present invention relates generally to improvements in carriers or receptacles and to packages resulting from the use thereof, said carriers being of the type particularly adapted to accommodate containers such as beverage cans and the like, wherein the extremity of the container is formed with an enlargement or bead. The embodiment of the container carrier or receptacle disclosed herein includes a strip of resilient, deformable, and elastic plastic material such as polyethylene, having a plurality of container-accommodating, longitudinally and transversely aligned apertures. These apertures are intended for telescopic association with the ends of the containers so that the margins of the strip aligning said apertures may be stretched and deformed to form circumferentially continuous lips embracing said containers beneath the peripheral enlargements thereof. Transversely aligned web sections connect said circumferentially continuous strip edges in longidudinal rows, and openings are provided for rendering said web sections frangible. Certain of said openings are of greater extent than others, whereby to facilitate the ease with which a portion of the strip supporting a plurality of containers may be detached as a unit from said strip.