Package assembly with testing feature for illuminated product
OwnerRobert Kelnerinventor
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Abstract
A package assembly primarily designed to contain and at the same time display an illuminated product such as decorative lights, etc. wherein a conventional electric plug used to interconnect the illuminated product to a conventional power source is positioned on the interior of the package assembly immediately adjacent and in communicating relation to an access opening in one wall of the package structure wherein the access opening is dimensioned and configured to allow removal of the plug for connection to a wall outlet thereby allowing testing of the illuminated product without removing it from the package.
Claims10
In a package assembly including a hollow interior portion at least partially defined by a surrounding wall structure and being of the type primarily designed to contain an illumination device on the interior thereof and display the illumination device for retail sale, the illumination device being electrically powered and connectable to an electric power source by a connecting plug, an improvement comprising:
- (a) said wall structure comprising a transparent portion disposed in overlying relation to the illumination device and a base portion connected to said transparent portion,
- (b) said transparent portion removably attached to said base portion and cooperatively configured therewith to define boundaries of said hollow interior portion,
- (c) access means formed in said wall structure in aligned disposition with the connecting plug within said hollow interior portion, said access means comprising an access aperture formed in said wall structure in communication with said hollow interior portion and the connecting plug therein,
- (d) anchor means connected to said wall structure and disposed within said hollow interior portion for secured positioning of the connecting plug within said hollow interior portion,
- (e) said anchor means comprising a tongue element secured to said base portion and extending outwardly therefrom adjacent said access aperture and into said hollow interior portion,
- (f) said tongue element including a sufficient longitudinal dimension to support and extend beyond the connector plug in substantially covering relation to one side of the plug, the connector plug being substantially hidden when viewing said hollow interior portion through said transparent wall portion,
- (g) said acess aperture disposed to allow passage of the connector plug therethrough from said hollow interior portion and into connection with an electrical power source, and
- (h) said transparent portion cooperatively disposed with said illumination device for viewing of said illumination device therethrough when the connecting plug is connected to the electrical power source.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.