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US 9,844,282 B2Granted
Two piece collapsible display hutch
AssigneeSonoco Development, Inc.
InventorAndre C. Smith
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Abstract
A two piece, easy-to-assemble hutch for shipping and displaying items comprises two laterally opposing, hinged sidewalls, one or more elongated horizontal front panels, a rear wall and shelves made of two halves. The hutch is moveable between a first position in which each shelf is folded up against itself and a second position in which each shelf forms a substantially planar load supporting surface.
Claims11
A hutch comprising:
- two laterally opposing, hinged sidewalls, each sidewall comprising a front sidewall panel and a back sidewall panel hingedly connected to each other along a vertical sidewall fold line;
- one or more horizontal front panels having laterally opposing ends and extending between the sidewalls, each front panel end connected to one of the front sidewall panels along a front fold line;
- a rear wall hingedly connected to at least one back sidewall panel;
- and
- one or more shelves, each shelf extending between and supported by one of the front panels and the rear wall, each shelf comprising a front shelf panel, a rear shelf panel, a front facing panel hingedly affixed along a front facing panel fold line to the front shelf panel and also affixed to one of the horizontal front panels, and a rear facing panel hingedly affixed to the rear shelf panel along a rear facing panel fold line and also affixed to the rear wall.
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A hutch comprising:
- a body comprising two sidewalls, each sidewall comprising a vertical sidewall fold line, a rear wall hingedly attached to one or both sidewalls, and one or more horizontally oriented front panels hingedly connected to both sidewalls;
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- a spine slidably positioned within the body, the spine comprising a spine front panel and a spine rear panel integrally connected by a vertical spine fold line and folded together to form a frame and shelves hingedly attached to the frame;
- wherein:
- the rear wall comprises two rear wall half panels, each rear wall half panel being hingedly attached to a back sidewall panel along a vertical rear fold line;
- each sidewall comprises a front sidewall panel and a back sidewall panel connected along a vertical sidewall fold line;
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- each front panel extends between and is connected at either end to the opposing front sidewall panels along left and right vertical front fold lines.
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A method of pre-assembling a hutch comprising the steps of:
- providing a spine blank comprising a spine front panel and a spine rear panel integrally connected by a vertical spine fold line, the spine front panel comprising a front header board member, a pair of spaced apart vertical members extending downward from the header board, one or more elongated horizontal members extending between the vertical members, a plurality of front shelf panels hingedly affixed to the horizontal members, and a plurality of front facing panels hingedly affixed to the front shelf panels, the spine rear panel comprising a rear header board member, a pair of spaced apart vertical members extending downward from the header board, a plurality of elongated horizontal members having front facing areas and extending between the vertical members, a plurality of rear shelf panels hingedly affixed to the horizontal members, and a plurality of rear facing panels hingedly affixed to the rear shelf panels;
- folding the spine front panel over onto the spine rear panel to obtain an assembled spine;
- providing a body blank comprising two hinged sidewalls, two rear wall half panels and a plurality of horizontally oriented front panels, each sidewall comprising a front sidewall panel and a back sidewall panel connected along a vertical sidewall fold line, each front panel having a rear facing surface and connected to opposing front sidewall panels, each rear wall half panel hingedly connected to a back sidewall panel;
- positioning the assembled spine onto the body blank and adhering the shelf front facing panels to the body front panels;
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- folding the sidewalls and the rear wall half panels and adhering the rear wall half panels to the rear facing panels.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.