Hanger stacking rack
AssigneeA & E Allied Plastics
InventorWalton B. Crane
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Abstract
A knock-down racking box for storage of clothes hangers in department and specialty stores. The box features construction innovations enabling shipment and storage of the box as a flat blank, but ready conversion, without special tools such as staple guns, into a configuration sized to receive numerous clothes hangers horizontally disposed and vertically aligned.
Claims10
Knock-down racking box for storage of clothes hangers of the type having right and left arm portions and an outwardly projecting neck portion therebetween carrying hook structure, said box comprising
- a unitary sheet material blank folded along predetermined lines into an elongated, generally rectangular configuration of a size to receive a series of said hangers in horizontally disposed and vertically aligned relation,
- said box configuration being defined by:
- a rear wall, opposed side walls fold-connected to said rear wall and of less than one-half the rear wall width, left- and right-hand front wall panels fold-connected to their adjacent side wall and each extending less than one-half the box front width to define an elongated opening opposite said rear wall and centrally of the box front adapted to receive said hanger neck portions in guiding relation with hook structure thereon exposed beyond the plane of said front wall panels, a bottom wall extending from said rear wall and hingedly attached thereto, said bottom wall having holes at the hinge line, said front wall panels extending from said side wall and overlying said bottom wall, each said front wall panel having a locking panel extension extending across said bottom wall and having fastening means attached at the end thereof, and said means being interlocked with said holes.
Knock-down, single vertical wall construction racking box blank comprising unitary corrugated board sheet material locally scored and cut to define a rear wall opposed side walls fold-connected to the rear wall and of less than one-half the rear wall width, left and right-hand front wall panels fold-connected to their adjacent side wall and each extending less than one-half the box front width to define an elongated opening centrally of the box front, a bottom wall extending from said rear wall and hingedly attached thereto, said bottom wall having holes at the hinge line, each of said front wall panels having a locking panel extension having fastening means attached at the end thereof for interlocking with said holes in the assembled condition of the blank.
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