Appliance shipping runner
AssigneeCustom-Pak, Inc.
InventorsJoshua Machande, Ronald A. Zimmer
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Abstract
A blow molded runner having a bottom wall and a top wall forming a double wall blow molded configuration, at least one compressed double wall structure defined by fusion an inner surface of the bottom wall to an inner surface of the top wall. At least two columns spaced apart at a distance wherein each of the at least two columns defines one of the at least one compressed double wall structure and has a top surface and the compressed double wall structure corresponding to each of the at least two columns extends from the top surface to a bottom surface of the runner at the at least two columns wherein the bottom surface is defined by an outer surface of the bottom wall. A width of the runner varies along a length thereof.
Claims21
A blow molded runner comprising:
- a bottom wall and a top wall forming a double wall blow molded configuration;
- at least one compressed double wall structure defined by fusion of an inner surface of the bottom wall with an inner surface of the top wall;
- at least two columns spaced apart at a distance wherein each of said at least two columns defines one of said at least one compressed double wall structure and has a top surface;
- said compressed double wall structure corresponding to each of said at least two columns extends from the top surface to a bottom surface of the runner at the at least two columns wherein the bottom surface is defined by an outer surface of said bottom wall;
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- at least one double wall section disposed on at least one side of at least one of the at least two columns.
A blow molded runner comprising:
- at least two columns spaced apart at a distance measured along a length of the blow molded runner the at least two columns defined at least in part by fusion of two opposed walls;
- two side walls wherein the at least two columns are located between said two side walls;
- a width of said runner measured between said two side walls, wherein said width varies along the length.
A blow molded runner comprising:
- at least two columns spaced apart at a distance measured along a length of the blow molded runner;
- a width of said runner varying along the length, wherein said width varies according to a variance factor measured as a difference between a first local maximum width and a first local minimum width divided by a height of a first one of the at least two columns;
- wherein the variance factor is at least 0.05.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.