US 9,757,007 B2Granted

Kit having a package containing cleaning implements, package therefor and blank therefor

AssigneeThe Procter & Gamble Company

InventorsMurphy Greene Mongeon, Jose Juan Fuentes, Jr., Marcus Paul McDuffie, Yassir Halty, Richard Lee Lane, Matthew Joshua Brewer

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Abstract

A blank for a package, a package, and a kit having a package with a cleaning implement therein. The package has a front panel and side panels with a transition that provides for regions of relatively greater and relatively lesser depth in said package. A window is disposed in the front panel, and registered with the portions of the side panel having relatively lesser depth. This geometry provides the benefit that the package may hold all contents deemed helpful at point of sale, while allowing the cleaning implement to be visible through or protrude through the window without shadows being cast from the side panels.

Claims17

Dependent claims

A blank for forming a generally parallelepipedally shaped package suitable for holding a cleaning implement therein, and forming an open window, said blank comprising:

an elongate back panel defining a longitudinal axis, said back panel having a top and a bottom opposed thereto, said top and said bottom each defining a width of said back panel and having a first side and second side opposed thereto, each of said sides defining a length of said back panel,
a top panel extending outwardly from a top panel proximal end joined to said back panel to a top panel distal end spaced apart from said top panel proximal end, and said top panel being foldably connected at said top panel proximal end to said top of said back panel,
a bottom panel extending outwardly from a bottom panel proximal end to a bottom panel distal end, and being foldably connected at said proximal end to said bottom of said back panel,
two opposed side panels, each said side panel extending from a side panel proximal end to a distal end and defining a depth of said package therebetween, each said side panel being foldably connected at a side panel proximal end to a respective one of said opposed sides of said back panel, wherein each said side panel has a respective relatively greater dimension defining a relatively greater depth of said package and relatively lesser dimension defining a relatively lesser depth of said package as measured from said side panel proximal end to said side panel distal end thereof, said relatively lesser dimension of each said side panel being aligned across said longitudinal axis with said relatively lesser dimension of said opposing side panel,
a front top panel foldably joined to said distal end of at least one of said top panel and one or both of said distal ends of said side panels, and
a front bottom panel foldably joined to said distal end of said bottom panel and/or to one or both of said distal end(s) of said side panels, said front top panel and said front bottom panel being longitudinally spaced apart to provide for a window to be formed between said front top panel and said front bottom panel, whereby said window is longitudinally aligned with said lesser dimension of both said opposed side panels.

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A kit having a longitudinal axis and comprising an elongate generally parallelepipedally shaped, variable dimension package having a cleaning implement therein, said variable dimension package having a top, a bottom, two opposed sides, a front, a back and an open window in at least the front, said package comprising:

a front panel, said front panel comprising a top front panel and a bottom front panel longitudinally spaced therefrom and forming an open window therebetween,
a back panel opposed to said top front panel and said bottom front panel,
said back panel and said front panel being joined by a top panel and by a bottom panel opposed thereto, said top panel defining a top panel dimension, said bottom panel defining a bottom panel dimension, one of said top panel dimension being greater than the other of said bottom panel dimension,
said back panel and said front panel being further joined by two opposed elongate side panels, and defining a package width between said side panels, each said side panel having an elongate portion of greater dimension juxtaposed with the top of said package, and having an elongate portion of lesser dimension juxtaposed with the bottom of said package, said elongate portions of said lesser dimension of said side panels being longitudinally overlapped to form an open window therebetween, and
a cleaning implement fixedly disposed in said package, said cleaning implement having a head and an elongate handle articulably joined thereto, at least a portion of said head being visible through said window and wherein said implement has a universal joint to facilitate connection of said elongate handle to said head, said universal joint being visible through said window, wherein said package has a package width and said head has a dimension, said head dimension generally conforming to said package width, so that said head fits snugly within said package.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/161,401Filed 23 May 2016 · continuation
Priority: 16 Oct 2014
Published: US 2016/0106294 A115 Sep 2016
Granted: 12 Sep 2017
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

A47L 13/51
Auxiliary implements: storing of cleaning tools, e.g. containers therefor
B65D 5/0095
Rigid or semi-rigid containers of polygonal cross-section, e.g. boxes, cartons or trays, formed by folding or erecting one or more blanks made…
B65D 5/18
Rigid or semi-rigid containers of polygonal cross-section, e.g. boxes, cartons or trays, formed by folding or erecting one or more blanks made…
B65D 5/4204
Details of containers or of foldable or erectable container blanks: inspection openings or windows