Nested packaging
AssigneeDuracell Inc.
InventorsKenneth M. Karpiloff, Douglas G. Rix
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Abstract
A packaging method and a package for bulk containment of lop-sided articles such as blister carded or similarly packaged items in a space saving nested arrangement are described. A tray, such as a display tray, containing the blister carded items, has retaining means such as a tray wrapper to prevent unintended spillage of the blister carded items but which permits nesting of the blister cards contained within two closely juxtaposed trays whereby efficient nesting of the packed items is obtained in a readily handled package having structurally retentive properties.
Claims19
A package for containment of a plurality of irregularly shaped, nestable articles comprising first and second trays which are juxtaposed with each other, with each of said trays having an open end into which open end a plurality of nestable irregularly shaped articles are placed, with said articles being contained, in an ordered arrangement, within each of said trays, with the articles contained within one of said trays being nested with articles contained within the other of said trays, characterized in that said package further comprises:
- (a) removable means for retaining each of said articles within the tray in which it is contained;
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- (b) means for holding said trays in juxtaposition with each other;
- wherein said removable article retaining means provides sufficient retaining strength to prevent movement of the articles out of the open end of the tray, containing said articles, upon separation of the juxtaposed trays from each other, with said removable retaining means being adapted to be removed from said trays whereby articles contained within each of said trays may be removed through the open ends thereof respectively, and wherein said removable article retaining means do not substantially impede said nesting of the articles.
A method of packaging nestable blister card packages having header portions comprising the steps of placing at least two of said blister card packages in a sequential ordered standing arrangement in a first tray, placing at least two of said blister card packages in a sequential ordered standing arrangement in a second tray, with said sequential ordered standing arrangement of said blister card packages in each of said trays being such that the header portion of each of the blister card packages in each of said trays extends out of the tray into which it is placed whereby such outwardly extending header portion nests with a blister card package placed within the other of said trays when said first and second trays are juxtaposed with one another, and nesting said blister card packages by juxtaposing said first and second trays, characterized in that said method comprises the steps of retaining said blister card packages against inadvertant removal from the trays into which they are placed, prior to said nesting, and securing said trays from inadvertant separation from each other, after said nesting and wherein said blister card packages are retained against inadvertant removal from the trays by two apertured members with each being affixed to one of said trays such that said blister card packages are enclosed thereby within the trays in which they are placed and wherein the apertures of said enclosing apertured member are aligned with the header portion of a plurality of blister card packages enclosed therewithin with said plurality of blister card package heder portions extending outwardly through said apertures.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.