US 5,307,928 AGranted

Six piece appliance package

AssigneeDomtar Inc.

InventorRichard E. Bishop

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Abstract

A container for shipping household appliances such as refrigerators, stoves, washers, dryers and the like comprises six separate pieces. The pieces include a top cap, a separate bottom support which may also be in the form of a cap and four separate corner posts which form the package the appliance is placed on or within the bottom support or cap. The four corner posts are then placed on the four corners of the appliance and the top cap is then placed over the appliance and the four corner posts. Two tensile straps are then fastened around the package. Each tensile strap passes around the top and bottom and along two of the corner posts. Optionally, where the package is of the BASILOID flange type a third strap may be passed horizontally around the top to provide the support for that flange. Optionally the package, with or without the BASILOID type flange may be over-wrapped with film or enclosed in a clear bag to provide a package which is open on all sides and through which the appliance contained within may be viewed during handling.

Claims8

Dependent claims

A package for a generally rectangular appliance having four vertical corners, said package having separate components and comprising:

(1) a four-cornered, generally rectangular, separate bottom support;
(2) a separate, uniformly right-angled corner post vertically disposed at each corner of the bottom support and each corner post vertically extending generally along a corner of a rectangular appliance received between the corner posts and above the bottom support such that the corner posts bear against the appliance corners and wherein the corner posts extend above an uppermost surface of the appliance a distance sufficient that the weight of a similarly packaged appliance stacked on said package is substantially carried by the corner posts;
(3) a four-cornered, rectangular separate top cap disposed on the corner posts at the corners of the top cap;
(4) a first tensile strap extending across the top cap, over first and second of said corner posts and under said bottom support and a second tensile strap extending across the top cap, over third and fourth of said corner posts and under said bottom support such that the said tensile straps transfer a tensile stress induced therein directly to the corner posts;
and
wherein said corner posts are made of fiber board sufficient to allow said stacking without substantial crushing of the corner posts and the tensile straps are made of a material sufficient to allow the package to be vertically lifted from near the top cap thereof without separating said components thereof, and wherein the package has open side walls between adjacent corner posts.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 08/013,672Filed 3 Feb 1993 · continuation
Priority: 7 Jan 1992
Granted: 3 May 1994
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification15 codes

B65D 81/054
Corner, edge or end protectors: protectors contacting two generally perpendicular surfaces of the packaged article, e.g. edge protectors
B65D 5/5033
Elements formed separately from the container body: corner pads or corner posts
B65D 5/5045
Paper elements: tubular lining and supporting elements
B65D 75/004
In shrink films: with auxiliary packaging elements, e.g. protective pads or frames, trays