Self-supporting display blister package
AssigneeBristol-Myers Canada Inc.
InventorJeffrey B. Anderson
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Abstract
The invention relates to self-supporting, vertically free-standing display packages for displaying a product. More particularly, the invention relates to a blister pack display package having a preformed product closure attached to a paperboard back and provided with a unitary support structure. Another aspect of the invention concerns its manufacture by molding a plastic sheet into said blister package in such manner as to advantageously strengthen said unitary support structure along the edge of its contact with the surface on which it stands.
Claims19
A self-supporting display package comprising:
- a molded, cup-shaped plastic product enclosure having a generally vertical forward wall, a side wall including a bottom side wall section forming with said forward wall an edge having an acute interior angle with the interior of said forward wall, and an opening, said enclosure extending in one generally horizontal direction from said opening, and the portion of the side wall opposite said bottom side wall section forming an obtuse interior angle with the interior of said forward wall, said side wall being thicker proximate said forward wall than proximate said opening, and means for covering said opening to retain a product within said enclosure, said opening covering means having a bottom in substantially the same plane as said edge, said edge cooperating with said bottom of said opening covering means to support the display package in an upright position.
A self-supporting display package comprising:
- a molded, cup-shaped plastic product enclosure having a generally vertical forward wall, a substantially C-shaped side wall, a bottom side wall formed between the terminal ends of said C-shaped side wall, and an opening aligned in a generally vertical plane, said enclosure extending in a generally horizontal direction from said vertical plane, said bottom side wall being acutely angled relative said forward wall and forming with said forward wall a support edge, the portion of said C-shaped side wall opposite said bottom side wall forming an obtuse angle with said forward wall and the thickness of said bottom side wall proximate said forward wall being greater than the thickness of said bottom side wall proximate said opening, and
- a planar substrate for covering said opening to retain a product within said enclosure, said planar substrate having an edge in substantially the same plane as said support edge, said edge of said substrate cooperating with said support edge to support the display package in an upright position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.