Shipping and display container

• US 10,640,256 B2
• Filed: 07/24/2018
• Issued: 05/05/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 04/24/2018
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Dongguan Shichang Metals Factory Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Dongguan Shichang Metals Factory Ltd.
• Inventors: Lin, Chen-Kang
• Primary Examiner(s): Pickett, J. Gregory
• Assistant Examiner(s): Pagan, Jenine
• Application Number:
  US16/043,556
• Publication Number:
  US 20190322411A1
• Time in Patent Office: 651 Days
• Field of Search: 206326, 206325, 206320, 206587, 206593, 206591, 206576, 206479, 206480, 206745, 206756, 206757, 220528, 220529, 220530, 220532, 220533, 220535, 220536, 220537, 220538, 220540, 220542, 220543, 220544
• CPC Class Codes: A47F 3/142 Display trays to be placed on the floor, e.g. by means of legs or of integrated cabinets underneath
• CPC Class Codes: A47F 5/0018 Display racks with shelves or receptables racks per se A47B; storage devices for warehouses B65G1/02
• CPC Class Codes: A47F 5/005 Partitions therefore horizontally adjustable A47B57/58; constructional details of drawers A47B88/90
• CPC Class Codes: A47F 7/0028 with one compartment or recess for each article A47F7/0035 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A47F 7/30 for furniture, e.g. beds, mattresses
• CPC Class Codes: B62B 2202/32 Chairs
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2585/648 chairs and armchairs
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/48024 inserted

Abstract

A shipping and display container includes a top box installable over a bottom box. The bottom box is configured to receive goods provided in the bottom box in an upright and folded orientation and includes a pair of opposed sidewalls and at least one elongate divider affixed to the bottom box and extending between the opposed sidewalls and configured so as to maintain the goods in the upright and folded orientation. The top box is installable upon the bottom box with the goods received therein in the upright and folded orientation for shipping of the goods and is removable from the bottom box after shipping. The bottom box and the divider cooperate to maintain the goods in the upright and folded orientation for display thereof after removal of the top box.

Claims

1. A shipping and display container, comprising:

a plurality of folding chairs in an upright and folded orientation;

a bottom rectangular box configured to receive the folding chairs in the upright and folded orientation with the chairs extending above an upper edge of the bottom box, the bottom box having;

a pair of opposed sidewalls, and

a plurality of uniformly spaced apart elongate elastic dividers affixed to the bottom box and extending substantially parallel to one another between upper portions of the opposed sidewalls and configured so as to stack the folding chairs received in the bottom box against one another in the upright folded orientation with uniform groups of the folding chairs located on both sides of each of the elongate dividers to maintain the chairs in the upright and folded orientation for shipping, and

a top box installable upon the bottom box with the chairs received therein in the upright and folded orientation for shipping of the chairs, the top box removable from the bottom box after shipping,

wherein the bottom box and the elongate elastic dividers cooperate to maintain the chairs in the upright and folded orientation for display thereof after removal of the top box, and enable removal of individual ones of the chairs from the bottom box and maintain remaining ones of the chairs in the bottom box in the upright and folded orientation for display.