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US 7,845,496 B2Granted
Packaging system with an improved inner structure
AssigneeMeadWestvaco Corporation
InventorChristopher Jeffrey Hession
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Abstract
A package includes a slide card that is received in an outer sleeve having a false end wall. The false end wall extends between a top wall and a bottom wall to enhance the structural integrity of the outer sleeve. The false end wall provides child resistance in that it prevents a user from manipulating the outer sleeve to inadvertently disengage a locking feature that lockably retains a slide card in the outer sleeve. The false end wall also prevents a user from accessing the slide card through an opening that is created by removing an end wall.
Claims17
An outer sleeve, comprising:
- a tubular structure including a first composite wall comprising inner and outer panels disposed in a face contacting arrangement, said inner panel includes an engaging aperture for releasably engaging a slide card within said outer sleeve, said engaging aperature being disposed proximate a free end edge of said inner panel, said free end edge partially defining on of opposed open ends of said tubular structure;
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- at least on false end wall hingedly connected to said inner panel;
- wherein said at least one false end wall is formed of material taken from said inner panel such that a corner cutout is defined in an area of said inner panel between said engaging aperture and said free end edge, wherein said at least one false end wall is defined by at least one cut line and at least two fold lines, one of said at least two fold lines extending from said free end edge of said inner panel toward said engaging aperture.
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An outer sleeve comprising:
- a tubular structure including a substantially planar first composite wall comprising inner and outer panels disposed in a face contacting arrangement, said inner panel includes an engaging aperture configured to releasably engage a slide card within said outer sleeve, said engaging aperture being disposed proximate a free end edge of said inner panel;
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- at least one false end wall hingedly connected to said inner panel along a fold line extending from said free end edge of said inner panel toward said engaging aperture;
- wherein said at least one false end wall is formed of material taken from said inner panel such that a corner cutout is defined in an area of said inner panel between said engaging aperture and said free end edge, wherein said at least one false end wall is defined by at least one cut line and at least two fold lines, one of said at least two fold lines extending from said free end edge of said inner panel toward said engaging aperture.
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An outer
- a tubular structure including a first composite wall comprising inner and outer panels disposed in a face contacting arrangement, said inner panel includes an engaging aperture configured to releasably engage a slide card within said outer sleeve, said engaging aperture being disposed proximate a free end edge of said inner panel;
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- at least one false end wall hingedly connected to said inner panel along a fold lone extending from said free end edge of said inner panel toward said engaging aperture,
- wherein said inner panel further includes a deflectable element to be pressed to disengage a slide card from said engaging aperture, said deflectable element being disposed between said engaging aperture and said free end edge of said inner panel, and said fold line extends from said free end edge toward said deflectable element, and
- wherein said tubular structure defines a transverse axis extending between opposed ends of said tubular structure, and said fold line and said deflectable element are disposed along a notional line parallel to said transverse axis.
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A package or holding an item, comprising:
- an outer sleeve including a tubular structure having a first composite wall and a rear end wall closing one of opposed ends of said tubular structure, said first composite wall comprising inner and out panels disposed in a face contacting arrangement, said inner panel including a free end edge disposed alongside said rear end wall and an engaging aperture disposed proximate said free end edge;
- a slide card received within said outer sleeve for sliding movement toward and away from said rear end wall, said slide card being configured to releasably engage said engaging aperture when fully received within said outer sleeve;
- and at least one false end wall hingedly connected to said inner panel along a first fold line extending from said free end edge of said inner panel toward said engaging aperture, and wherein said false end wall comprising a false bottom panel hingedly connected to said inner panel along said first fold line, said first fold line extending from said free end edge toward a rear end edge of said slide card.
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