Garment packaging systems and methods
AssigneeGeneration Tux, Inc.
InventorsMatthew Schow, David Nathan Stevens
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Abstract
A box may include: a base panel; a roof panel opposite the base panel; a rear sidewall coupled to the base panel and the roof panel; a first right sidewall; a first left sidewall opposite the first right sidewall; a first front sidewall opposite the rear sidewall, the first front sidewall including a hanger slot for receiving a hanger, and including a hanger channel extending from the hanger slot, the hanger channel configured to secure the hanger to the first front sidewall; and a second front sidewall coupled to the first front sidewall and the base panel, the second front sidewall being spaced apart from the first front sidewall by a gap, a portion of the clothes hanger residing in the gap.
Claims20
A box comprising:
- a base panel;
- a roof panel opposite the base panel;
- a rear sidewall coupled to the base panel and the roof panel;
- a first right sidewall;
- a first left sidewall opposite the first right sidewall;
- a first front sidewall opposite the rear sidewall, the first front sidewall including a hanger slot for receiving a hanger, and including a hanger channel extending from the hanger slot, the hanger channel configured to secure the hanger to the first front sidewall;
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- a second front sidewall coupled to the first front sidewall and the base panel, the second front sidewall being spaced apart from the first front sidewall by a gap, a portion of the hanger residing in the gap.
A method comprising:
- obtaining a cardboard blank;
- forming a base panel by folding the cardboard blank along at least one base panel fold line;
- forming a roof panel opposite the base panel by folding the cardboard blank along at least one roof panel fold line;
- forming a rear sidewall coupled to the base panel and the roof panel by folding the blank along at least one rear sidewall fold line;
- forming a first right sidewall by folding the cardboard blank along a first right sidewall fold line;
- forming a first left sidewall opposite the first right sidewall by folding the cardboard blank along a first left sidewall fold line;
- forming a first front sidewall opposite the rear sidewall by folding the cardboard blank along at least one first front sidewall fold line, the first front sidewall including a hanger slot for receiving a hanger, and including a hanger channel extending from the hanger slot, the hanger channel configured to secure the hanger to the first front sidewall;
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- forming a second front sidewall coupled to the first front sidewall and the base panel by folding the cardboard blank along at least one second sidewall fold line, the second front sidewall being spaced apart from the first front sidewall by a gap, a portion of the clothes hanger residing in the gap.
The method of claim 19, wherein the cardboard blank is a corrugated cardboard blank.
A box comprising:
- a base panel;
- a roof panel opposite the base panel;
- a rear sidewall coupled to the base panel and the roof panel;
- a first right sidewall;
- a first left sidewall opposite the first right sidewall;
- a first front sidewall opposite the rear sidewall, the first front sidewall including means for receiving a hanger, and including a means for securing the hanger to the first front sidewall;
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- a second front sidewall coupled to the first front sidewall and the base panel, the second front sidewall being spaced apart from the first front sidewall by a gap, a portion of the clothes hanger residing in the gap.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.