Goods-delivery box with easily breakable wall and method of delivering goods
AssigneeYamaha Corporation
InventorNaohiko Niimi
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Abstract
A corrugated cardboard delivery box has a bottom wall, side walls front and rear walls and a pair of foldable lids, and an electronic piano is put in the delivery box together with pads in such a manner that the bottom board of the piano body is faced to the bottom wall; perforated lines are formed along the periphery of the bottom wall; when the package arrives at a purchaser's home, the deliveryman directs the bottom wall sideways, and detaches most of the bottom wall on the perforated lines by strongly pressing the periphery of the bottom wall so that the deliveryman can attach the legs to the piano body without taking out the piano body from the delivery box before taking out the piano body from the delivery box.
Claims12
A musical instrument and a delivery box for packing the musical instrument, the musical instrument being separable into a body having a cross section asymmetrical with respect to centerlines crossing each other at right angle and at least one attachment therein, the delivery box comprising:
- plural walls defining an inner space;
- a pad structure provided among said plural walls in such a manner as to make said inner space have a cross-section corresponding to said cross section of said body so that at least said body is housed in said inner space in an attitude that said cross section of said body is overlapped with said cross section of said inner space;
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- a breakable wall connected to said plural walls, and having a breakable route weaker than a remaining portion of said breakable wall, said breakable wall being adapted to be faced with a portion of said body to which said at least one attachment is to be connected on the condition that said body takes said attitude in said inner space.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.