Abstract:
A shipping and display container, a generally C-shaped or L-shaped configuration enabling vertical orientation of an elongated motor driven tool is disclosed. The container allows access to the tool without destruction or manipulation of the shipping and display container. In addition, the tool may be utilized as a handle for carrying both the tool and container. The container has display surfaces adapted to receive point of sale display graphics while greatly increasing the viewing angle of consumers approaching the container.
Abstract:
A wrapping material for wrapping an item, such as a floral grouping is provided. The wrapping material has a bonding material on a surface so that, when the wrapping material is formed into a wrapper, the wrapper may be releasably attached to a mounting surface, such as a board or wall, by way of the bonding material.
Abstract:
A packaging structure for holding an object securely against a rigid backing. The structure includes a substantially rigid panel having a pair of generally parallel fold lines which define respective folding side portions and a center portion. A flexible film material is superimposed on one surface of the center panel portion and extends onto the folding side portions. Means, such as opposed glue strips extending along the side portions, are provided for securing the film material to the rigid panel and for cooperating with the folding side portions to tighten the film against objects between the film and the center panel portion when the side portions are folded in a direction away from the film. The panel may include a fold line extending through the center panel portion for allowing the object to be inserted and secured beneath the film. The panel may also include openings into which projection on the folding side portions may be inserted to tighten the film. An associated method is also disclosed.
Abstract:
A structural member formed from a billet, each member comprising a plurality of elongate corrugated paperboard sheets bonded together with an adhesive and disposed between a top and a bottom cap, each cap comprising at least one ply of a fiberboard sheet, a pair of side caps of a solid fiberboard sheet bonded to respective side faces of the paperboard sheet and to the respective edges of the top and bottom caps. The billet comprises a plurality of structural members each separated by a corrugated paperboard rip-out sheet. A method of manufacture is disclosed in which the billet is built up of structural members and rip-out sheets. The billet is then ripped into planks which are ripped along the rip-out sheets to separate the structural members for use as a substitute member for wood cleats or members.
Abstract:
A closure for one end of a carton having four walls has a first pair of opposed flaps extending from two of the walls. Each flap of the first pair of flaps has a generally triangular portion. A second pair of opposed flaps extend from the other two of the walls and are connected to the first pair of flaps for thereby providing an endless series of flaps. One of the flaps of the first pair has a height exceeding the height of the other of the first pair. The flaps of the second pair gradually increase in height whereby folding of the first pair of flaps followed by folding of the second pair of flaps causes the flaps to be disposed below the plane of the carton bottom for thereby being maintained in a snap locking engagement.
Abstract:
A container divider is described which is formed from a single blank of foldable sheet material. The divider is adapted to be used with containers for storage of tubular materials which are to be retained in a curved configuration during storage. Additionally, the divider and container assembly provide a dispensing container for unitary dispensation of the tubular articles. The divider can be automatically set up for insertion in the container by a simple folding operation.
Abstract:
A shipping unit is provided for accommodating a product, such as table, chest or the like, in an upright position within a foldable container of variable height. The upper portions of the side walls of the container are provided with a plurality of vertically spaced substantially parallel foldlines. Top closure flaps are provided at the upper portions of the container side walls and are foldable relative to the side walls into overlying relation about corresponding selected foldlines. A spacer means is positioned in sandwiched relation between the folded closure flaps and the product upper surface. The spacer means includes a base member having a peripheral configuration corresponding to the area delimited by the side walls of the container. Depending from the base member and affixed thereto are a plurality of retainer elements which snugly engage in encompassing relation peripheral segments of the upper surface of the accommodated product.
Abstract:
The disclosed packages include a merchandise unit needing protection against impact during shipment, especially a stack of articles such as mirrors, firmly contained in a liner that surrounds the merchandise unit. Inward off-sets of the liner block up-and-down sliding and, in the case of plural articles such as mirrors, the off-sets hold the articles together. The edges of the liner and especially the edges of the off-sets support the contents between the walls of a carton.
Abstract:
A cushioning insert for containers loaded with necked articles arranged in allochiral relationship such as video tubes having a large viewing surface and wall portions tapering toward the neck of the tube is disclosed. The insert is characterized by a base panel having upstanding walls from which panel supports for the tube are provided. The wall and base panels have panel portions cut therefrom at the lines of fold between such panels and such panel portions are constructed and arranged to provide a stable structure supporting the tube necks.
Abstract:
A die cut pad made from corrugated paperboard for use in protecting a sink during shipment in a rectangular carton, the pad being one which folds over upon itself and has a die cut section which may extend down into the cavity in a similarly placed section on the opposite side which is positioned against the outside of the cavity and serves to hold the sink or suspend it away from the side panels of the carton.