Appliance package cover
AssigneeIllinois Tool Works Inc.
InventorPaul E. Sowa
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Abstract
An appliance packaging assembly and method therefor, including a reinforced tray disposed under the appliance, a plurality of rigid posts disposed between the tray and alongside the appliance, a transparent film disposed about the posts and the appliance, a reinforced cover having a lifting flange member on a side portion thereof, the cover disposed over the plurality of wrapped posts and appliance, and tensioned strap disposed along side the posts and about the tray and cover and over the lifting flange member thereof.
Claims19
A packaging assembly cover, comprising:
- a corrugated paperboard cover portion with inner and outer sides:
- corrugated paperboard side walls portions extending from the cover portion;
- a lifting flange member disposed across an outer portion of one of the side wall portions,
- the lifting flange member having a reinforcing member with first and second portions oriented at an angle relative to each other,
- the first portion of the reinforcing member disposed on the inner side of the cover portion along the side wall portion across which the lifting flange is disposed,
- the second portion of the reinforcing member disposed across the side wall portion across which the lifting flange is disposed;
- a portion of the cover portion folded over the second portion of the reinforcing member.
An appliance packaging cover comprising:
- a cover portion;
- a flap extending from the cover portion;
- a unitary reinforcing member having a first flange portion and a second flange portion extending therefrom at an angle,
- the first flange portion disposed on the cover portion and the second flange portion extending from the cover portion along where the flap extends,
- the flap having a first fold, a first portion of the flap extending from the first fold thereof along an outer side of the second flange portion of the reinforcing member,
- the flap having a second fold, a second portion of the flap extending from the second fold thereof along an inner side of the second flange portion of the reinforcing member.
The cover of clam 7, the cover portion and the flap extending therefrom constitute a unitary corrugated paperboard material.
A packaging cover for handling by a Basiloid blade, comprising:
- a cover member having a first fold extending along a side thereof defining a flap extending therefrom;
- a unitary reinforcing member having first and second flange portions disposed at a right angle relative to each other, the first flange portion disposed on the cover member and the second flange portion extending therefrom along the first fold,
- at least a portion of the second flange portion enclosed by folded portions of the flap.
The cover of clam 16, the cover portion and the flap extending therefrom are a corrugated paperboard material.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.