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US 7,228,965 B2Granted
Integrated appliance container for support during assembly transport and display
AssigneeInternational Paper Company
InventorsJames Robert Marventano, Todd J. Demerit, John VanDerKolk
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Abstract
An appliance packaging assembly and method wherein a reinforced base pad is disposed under an appliance, a plurality of rigid posts are disposed between the base pad and alongside the appliance, a transparent film is 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.
Claims7
A packaging assembly useable for erecting, packaging and displaying an appliance, comprising:
- a base pad disposable under an appliance to be packaged, said base pad having extended, upwardly folding flanges on at least two sides thereof;
- a plurality of rigid posts each having a first end portion disposed on said base pad, each post being disposed alongside an upright corner of the appliance to be packaged and having an opposing second end portion;
- each of said first end portions of said posts being fixedly attached to an adjacent one of said upwardly folding flanges and to said base pad at a corner thereof;
- and each of said first end portions of said posts is disposed between adjacent one of said folding flanges of the base pad and one of a plurality of cutaway segments at the corner of the base pad;
- a cover disposed over the second end portion of the plurality of posts,
- the cover having a lifting flange member having a discrete reinforcing member
- arranged across at least one side of the cover.
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A method of packaging an appliance, comprising:
- placing the appliance on a reinforced base pad having a plurality of upwardly extending flanges;
- positioning a plurality of rigid angled corner posts alongside said upwardly extending flanges in a position corresponding to alongside the corners of an appliance to be packaged;
- and fixedly attached first end portions of said corner posts to an adjacent one of said upwardly folding flanges and to said base pad;
- each of said first end portions of said posts is disposed between adjacent one of said folding flanges of the base pad and one of a plurality of cut away segments at the corner of the base pad;
- disposing a first end portion of each post between said base pad and said flanges;
- placing a reinforced cover over a second end portion
- of each post so as to enclose an appliance resting on said base pad,
- said cover having a lifting flange member with a discrete reinforcing member, the
- lifting flange member and the discrete reinforcing member thereof disposed across a side of the cover.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.