Packaging, shipping and display system
OwnerBryan Mahoneyinventor
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Abstract
A packaging, shipping and display system having a one piece molded tray and a corrugated cover for a stack of products such as lawn and garden spreaders. The tray includes wheel wells, a rest stand well and four latching tabs. The tabs are pliable strips and may be easily pulled out to form a convex shape or pushed in to form a concave shape. The cover includes latching tab receiving cutouts. To latch the cover to the tray, the tabs are pulled out. To unlatch, the tabs are pushed in. The cover and the tray stay connected when the tabs are pulled out because an abutment occurs between the tabs and borders of the cover tab receiving cutouts. The package of a tray, latched cover and a stack of products may be easily moved by gripping hand cutouts in the cover.
Claims20
A packaging, shipping and display system comprising:
- a first structure;
- a second structure;
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- a connector including a movable, pliable tab and an alignable opening, said tab being connected to either said first member or said second member and said opening being formed on said first or second structure having an absence of said tab, said first structure and said second structure for supporting a stack of products and for covering said stack of products.
A packaging, shipping and display system for accommodating a stacked array of products comprising:
- a base structure for supporting the stacked array of products in a desired alignment,
- a cover structure for attachment to the base structure to provide a protective covering surrounding the stacked array of products supported by the base structure;
- said base structure including an integral pliable tab member;
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- said cover structure including an opening alignable with said pliable tab member for selectively receiving said pliable tab member to removably connect said base structure to said cover structure.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.