Apparatus and methods for packaging and shipping wine bottles
AssigneeFootprint International, LLC
InventorsYoke Chung, Brandon Michael Moore
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Abstract
Methods and apparatus for packaging and shipping wine. A shipping container includes: a vacuum molded base component having a plurality of cylindrical concave columns within which respective bottles are received; a substantially planar corrugated separator sheet having a plurality of receptors aligned with the axes of the columns and configured to slidably receive respective bottle necks associated with the bottles; a vacuum molded cap component for receiving the bottle necks therewithin; and an outer corrugated box within which the bottles, base component, separator, cap component components are securely disposed.
Claims20
A shipping container, comprising:
- a vacuum molded base component having a plurality of cylindrical concave columns within which respective bottles are received;
- a substantially planar corrugated separator sheet having a plurality of receptors aligned with the axes of the columns and configured to slidably receive respective bottle necks associated with the bottles;
- a vacuum molded cap component for receiving the bottle necks therewithin;
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- an outer corrugated box within which the bottles, base component, separator, cap component components are securely disposed;
- wherein the base, separator sheet, cap, and box cooperate to restrain the bottles within the box and to avoid contact between adjacent bottles during shipment.
A shipping container of the type including a vacuum molded base component having a plurality of cylindrical concave columns within which bottom portions of bottles are received, and a vacuum molded cap component within which top portions of the bottles are received, the shipping container further comprising:
- a substantially planar separator sheet having a plurality of receptors aligned with the axes of the bottles and configured to slidably receive respective bottle necks therethrough,
- wherein the base, separator sheet, and cap cooperate to restrain the bottles within the box and to avoid contact between adjacent bottles during shipment.
A method of packaging bottles of the type including a bottom portion and a neck, the method comprising:
- placing the bottom portions into a base component having a plurality of concave columns within which the bottom portions are received;
- sliding a substantially planar separator sheet over the bottle necks;
- placing a cap component over the bottles, the cap component comprising a plurality of recesses within which respective necks are received;
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- placing the assembled base component, bottles, separator sheet, and cap component into a box.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.