US 2023/0182969 A1Published application

Container for the shipment and display of a product

AssigneeTechnology Container Corporation

InventorFred Dowd

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Abstract

A container for the shipment and display of a food product includes a four-sided, collapsible, corrugated plastic sleeve that is selectively enclosed by a pair of opposing plastic trays. Each tray includes inner and outer flanges which are formed along the periphery of a planar plate in a spaced apart relationship and together define a continuous groove dimensioned to receive an open end of the sleeve. The inner flange includes a tapered interior surface which widens the groove towards its distal end to facilitate the process of aligning and inserting an open end of the sleeve therein. A series of projections, each semicircular in lateral cross-section, are formed onto the outer flange and are dimensioned to fittingly protrude through corresponding slots formed in the sleeve to retain the container in its assembled state during the process of packaging and transporting the designated product.

Claims19

Dependent claims

A container for the shipment and display of a product, the container comprising:

(a) a sleeve having an open top end and an open bottom end;
and
(b) a pair of opposing trays releasably mounted on the top and bottom ends of the sleeve, each of the pair of opposing trays comprising,
(i) a planar plate that includes an inner surface, an outer surface, and an outer peripheral edge,
(ii) a continuous outer flange formed on the inner surface along the entirety of the outer peripheral edge, the continuous outer flange having a distal end, and
(iii) a continuous inner flange formed on the inner surface spaced at a fixed distance inward from the continuous outer flange, the continuous outer flange having a distal end;
(c) wherein the planar plate, the continuous outer flange, and the continuous inner flange define a continuous, peripheral groove which is adapted to receive either of the open top end and the open bottom end of the sleeve, the groove having a width that increases towards the distal ends of the inner and outer flanges.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 18/081,850Filed 15 Dec 2022
Priority: 15 Dec 2021
Published: 15 Jun 2023
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification14 codes

B65D 43/0218
Secured only by friction or gravity: on both the inside and the outside of the mouth of the container
B65D 11/1846
Collapsible, i.e. with walls hinged together or detachably connected: whereby all side walls are hingedly connected to each other
B65D 11/1866
Collapsible, i.e. with walls hinged together or detachably connected: with detachable components
B65D 11/24
Reinforcing for strengthening parts of members: corrugations