Unitary carton system for fans

A unitary carton system for shipping a floor mounted fan consisting of a column supporting base, an elongated column, an electric motor, a fan blade assembly, and a pair of nestable blade guards each having concave and convex sides comprising, in combination, a rectangular carton having a closed bottom panel, side walls and an open upper end, intersecting side walls defining first and second pairs of opposed interior corner regions, an interior central region defined on said closed bottom panel receiving the blade guards wherein the blade guards are nested within each other such that the convex side of the blade guards is disposed toward said bottom panel and the concave side of the blade guards is disposed toward said carton open end, the column supporting base being received within the nested blade guards located adjacent the concave side of the blade guard closest to said carton open end, the fan blade assembly being located adjacent the base intermediate the base and said carton open end, column structure supporting means defined within said carton extending from said bottom panel and located between the nested blade guards and said carton side walls, column structure supporting ledges defined on said column structure supporting means adjacent said first pair of opposed corner regions whereby column structure supported on said ledges is diagonally oriented within said carton, said ledges being spaced from said bottom panel a distance whereby column structure supported upon said ledges is closely superimposed over the blade assembly, motor receiving and confining means defined in one of said second pairs of corner regions receiving a motor therein, and means maintaining said column structure upon said column structure supporting ledges whereby said column structure maintains the blade guards, base and blade assembly in the aforedescribed stacked relationship during shipping.