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US 9,957,079 B2Granted
Tray cover, tray insert, and methods thereof
AssigneeMulti Packaging Solutions, Inc.
InventorsRalf Kenner, Lucien Wende
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Abstract
The present teachings are direct at tray, components in a tray, methods for assembling trays, and articles, such as boxes that include a tray. The covers and/or tray inserts include one or more features that result in one or more of the following benefits: improved performance during or after assembly of a tray, improved ease of assembling a tray, or improved appearance of a tray, or any combination thereof. The features can be used alone. However, a number of the features, when combined, result in particularly robust assembly processes.
Claims15
A tray comprising:
- a tray insert component including a insert base having four side edges and four upright side walls each connected to one of the side edges of the insert base, wherein each side wall includes one or more insert slots;
- a tray cover for covering the tray insert component, the tray cover including a cover component and a separate neck component including;
- wherein the cover component includes:
- i. a cover base having a generally rectangular shape with four side edges;
- ii. exactly four first cover flaps, each connected to a different side edge of the cover base;
- iii. exactly four second cover flaps, each connected to a different first cover flap and each having one or more cover slots;
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- iv. exactly four third cover flaps, each connected to a second cover flap;
- wherein the neck component includes
- i. a floor cover portion wherein the floor cover portion includes a floor cover base having a rectangular shape with four side edges, wherein the rectangular shape of the floor cover portion is generally the same shape as the rectangular shape of the cover base;
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- ii. four upright neck walls attached to the floor cover portion, wherein the four upright neck walls have a wall height greater than a height of the upright side walls of the tray insert,
- iii. one or more protrusions extending outwardly from the upright neck walls and positioned for extending through the corresponding cover slot and the corresponding insert slot so that the neck component is connected to the cover component and the tray insert component.
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