Product packaging and method of packing a product
AssigneeEveready Battery Company, Inc.
InventorsJeffrey P. Pirro, David A. Furth
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Abstract
A display card retains a flashlight thereon, wherein the flashlight has a body comprising two body halves, each body half defining a portion of an interior cavity and are matingly abutted one to the other. The mated halves further define at least two slots therein. The display card comprises a semi-rigid card defining a cutout that receives at least a portion of the flashlight. At least two tabs extend into the cutout, and each of the tabs is received in a different one of the slots. The tabs extend into the interior cavity of the flashlight in a manner to suspendingly retain the flashlight in the cutout for display.
Claims15
A display card retaining a flashlight thereon, wherein said flashlight has a body comprising two body halves, each body half defining a portion of an interior cavity and matingly abutted one to the other, said mated halves further defining a slot therein, wherein said display card comprises:
- a semi-rigid card defining a cutout therein and receiving at least a portion of said flashlight in said cutout;
- and
- a tab extending into said cutout, said tab received in said slot, and said tab further extending into said interior cavity of said flashlight in a manner to suspendingly retain said flashlight for display.
A display card retaining a flashlight thereon, wherein said flashlight has a body comprising two body halves and including a switch mounted on said body and translatable between an off position and an on position, each body half defining a portion of an interior cavity and matingly abutted one to the other, said mated halves further defining at least two slots therein, a first of said slots proximate to said switch, wherein said display card comprises:
- a semi-rigid card defining a cutout therein and receiving at least a portion of said flashlight in said cutout;
- and
- at least two tabs extending into said cutout, each of said tabs received in a different one of said slots, said tabs further extending into said interior cavity of said flashlight in a manner to suspendingly retain said flashlight for display.
A method of mounting a display card to a flashlight for display comprising the steps of:
- providing a partially disassembled flashlight, wherein at least a body of the flashlight is separated into two halves, each body half defining at least a portion of each of a plurality of slots;
- providing a card defining a cutout therein, the cutout formed to receive at least a portion of the flashlight body, and a plurality of tabs extending from the card into the cutout and positioned to correspond to the slots in the flashlight body;
- placing the card on one of the body halves;
- aligning the tabs with the partially defined slots;
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- mating the second of the body halves to the first, thereby trapping the card tabs within the flashlight body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.