Combined shipping and presentation package
AssigneeKraft General Foods R&D, Inc.
InventorsFranz Neumann, Rainer Schlicht
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Abstract
A combined shipping and optionally presentation package for holding flatly packed goods or flat containers. This package possesses at least two presentation trays (3 ) holding the plastic containers (24), a slipover cover (2) with two opposite downward extending sides (9a, 9b) placed on the presentation trays (3) as well as means for holding the slipover cover on the presentation trays. Each of the presentation trays can have a long and a short flank (13, 17) and therefore be L-shaped in side view and be arranged standing in a row on the short flanks under the slipover cover.
Claims18
A combined shipping and presentation package;
- comprising:
- (a) at least two presentation trays, each tray having a flat bottom section including upstanding sidewalls and end walls, one of said end walls being higher than the sidewalls and an opposite end wall so as to form an L-shaped tray with said flat bottom section, each tray adapted to have a plurality of packaged articles arranged on the flat bottom section so as to be supportable against the higher end wall, said at least two trays being contiguously positioned such that free edges of the higher end wall of each tray opposite the flat bottom section are contactingly arranged with the opposite end wall of each tray flat bottom section extending vertically upwardly in spaced apart relationship to jointly provide an inverted U-shaped configuration;
- (b) a cover detachably mounted on said trays, said cover including a planar surface member, having opposed end edges and side edges, positioned on the end walls of said trays forming said inverted U-shaped configuration, and panels integrally formed with and articulated to opposite end edges of said planar surface member, said panels depending downwardly from said planar surface member in superimposed relationship with external surfaces of each tray so as to for a U-shaped enclosure over said trays.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.