Display package for drill bits and the like
AssigneeThe Stanley Works
InventorEdmund J. Czopor, Jr.
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Abstract
A package for a set of twist drill bits or like tools consists of a one-piece, integrally thermoformed case, having a pedestal portion on its base component in which a series of tool-receiving recesses is defined. The closure component of the case has a cavity in which the pedestal portion is seated in the closed position, and in which may also be received a card insert for advertising and identification of the contained parts. The insert has at least one opening through which portions of the parts are visible, the material of fabrication of the case being transparent. Means is generally provided to increase the security of interengagement between the base and closure components.
Claims15
A one-piece case for holding a multiplicity of elongated tool parts comprising:
- a base component, a closure component, and a connecting hinge component along one side of said base and closure components, said base, closure and hinge components being integrally thermoformed from sheeting of synthetic resinous material;
- said base component including a peripheral flange portion and an upstanding pedestal portion therewithin, said pedestal portion having a multiplicity of upstanding peripheral ribs of generally inverted U-shaped configuration defining an upwardly opening cavity therewithin and a peripheral sidewall element extending thereabout, said pedestal portion also having a multiplicity of upstanding internal rib formations dividing said cavity into a multiplicity of elongated tool-receiving recesses, at least a majority of said internal ribs being in parallel spaced relationship to define parallel extending tool-receiving recesses, said peripheral flange portion extending about the lower, outer edge of said sidewall element;
- said closure component being povitable about said integral hinge component between a closed position overlying said base component and an open position displaced therefrom, said closure component having a cover element for overlying said cavity of said base component, a peripheral sidewall element depending therefrom, and a peripheral flange portion about the lower edge of said sidewall element;
- said pedestal portion of said base component seating within the cavity of said closure component in said closed position of said case, with said cover element overlying said cavity of said base component, said flange portions thereof in face-to-face surface contact, and with said respective sidewall elements thereof in frictional interengagement.
A package of elongated tool parts, comprising:
- (a) a one-piece case integrally thermoformed from sheeting of a synthetic resinous material, and comprising a base component, a closure component, and a connecting hinge component along one side of said base and closure components, said base component including a peripheral flange portion and an upstanding pedestal portion having a multiplicity of upstanding peripheral ribs of generally inverted U-shaped configuration defining an upwardly opening cavity therewithin and a peripheral sidewall element extending thereabout, said pedestal portion having a multiplicity of upstanding internal rib formations dividing said cavity into a multiplicity of elongated tool-receiving recesses, at least the majority of said internal ribs being in parallel spaced relationship to define parallel extending tool-receiving recesses, said peripheral flange portion extending about the lower, outer edge of said sidewall element, said closure component being pivotable about said integral hinge component between a closed position overlying said base component and an open position displaced therefrom, said closure component having a cover element overlying said cavity of said base component, a peripheral sidewall element depending therefrom, and a peripheral flange portion about the lower edge of said sidewall element, said pedestal portion of said base component seating within the cavity of said closure component in said closed position of said case, with said cover element overlying said cavity of said base component, with said flange portions being in face-to-face surface contact and with said respective sidewall elements thereof being in frictional interengagement;
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- (b) a multiplicity of elongated tool parts, each of said parts being held within one of said tool-receiving recesses.
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