Insulated shipping container
AssigneeRock-Tenn Company
InventorRoberta L. Johnson
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Abstract
Insulation material is configured to provide improved insulating properties in a shipping container. A first sheet of insulation material is placed along the bottom of a container under the contents of the container. A second sheet of insulation material is configured to have an inverted U-shape and is placed over a bottom half of the container. A top half of the container is then placed over the bottom half such that the legs of the inverted U-shaped material are between the overlapping sides of top and bottom of the container and the middle portion of the U-shaped material is between the top of the container and the contents within the container.
Claims17
An insulated container, comprising:
- a bottom tray comprising:
- a bottom panel having an upwardly facing inner surface;
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- at least two bottom side panels extending upwardly from said bottom panel, each bottom side panel having an outwardly facing surface;
- a top cover comprising:
- a top panel having a downwardly facing inner surface, and
- at least two top side panels extending downwardly from said top panel, each top side panel having an inwardly facing surface,
- said top cover being positioned over said bottom tray such that each inwardly facing surface of said top side panels overlaps and faces one of said outwardly facing surfaces of said bottom side panels, the overlap of said inwardly and said outwardly facing surfaces defining a pair of channels;
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- an insulating barrier positioned between said channels and below said inner surface of said top panel, comprising two end sections positioned within said channels, and a middle section positioned between said end sections and between said top panel and the interior of said bottom tray.
An insulated container, comprising:
- a bottom tray having a pair of upwardly extending bottom side panels, each of said bottom side panels defining an outwardly facing surface;
- a U-shaped insulating barrier, positioned to extend over the bottom tray and downwardly over said outwardly facing surfaces of said bottom tray;
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- a cover having a pair of downwardly extending cover side panels, each of said cover side panels defining an inwardly facing surface,
- said cover being positioned over said bottom tray and said barrier such that portions of said barrier are pressed between said cover side panels and said bottom side panels.
An insulated container, comprising:
- a bottom tray having at least two bottom side panels;
- a U-shaped insulating barrier positioned to lie over said bottom tray and along said bottom side panels;
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- a cover having at least two top side panels, said cover being positioned to retain said barrier between said bottom side panels and said top side panels.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.