Combined shipping and merchandising package

• US 3,139,979 A
• Filed: 07/19/1962
• Issued: 07/07/1964
• Est. Priority Date: 07/19/1962
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Jerome Y. Russell
• Original Assignee: Jerome Y. Russell
• Inventors: Russell, Jerome Y.
• Application Number:
  US04/210,886
• Time in Patent Office: 719 Days
• US Class Current: 206/746
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2203/00 Decoration means, markings, information elements, contents indicators see also B65D5/4212, B65D33/004
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/545 for opening containers formed by erecting a "cross-like" blank
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 71/00 Bundles of articles held together by packaging elements for convenience of storage or transport, e.g. portable segregating carrier for plural receptacles such as beer cans or pop bottles; Bales of material

Claims

1. A PACKAGE COMPRISING:

FRONT, REAR, LEFT-HAND SIDE AND RIGHT-HAND SIDE WALLS;

A BOTTOM FORMED BY FLAPS INWARDLY TURNED FROM SAID WALLS;

A TOP FORMED BY FLAPS INWARDLY TURNED FROM SAID WALLS;

A FIRST SCORED LINE EXTENDING STRAIGHT UP THE SAID RIGHTHAND SIDE FROM THE SAID BOTTOM, STRAIGHT ACROSS THE SAID TOP, AND STRAIGHT DOWN THE LEFT-HAND SIDE TO SAID BOTTOM, TO FACILITATE THE BREAKING OPEN OF SAID BOX AND FOLDING OF THE BOTTOM THEREOF TO PROVIDE TWO OPEN CONTAINERS HAVING THE FOLDED BOTTOM OF SAID BOX AS ABUTTING HINGED WALLS THEREOF;

BOOKS OF UNIFORM THICKNESS STACKED VERTICALLY FROM THE BOTTOM OF SAID BOX TO THE TOP THEREOF AND BETWEEN THE SAID FRONT WALL AND AN IMAGINARY PLANE THROUGH SAID BOX AT SAID SCORED LINE, AND FROM THE BOTTOM OF SAID BOX TO THE TOP THEREOF BETWEEN SAID REAR WALL AND SAID IMAGINARY PLANE AND COMPLETELY FILLING THE SPACE DEFINED BY SAID WALLS AND TOP AND BOTTOM;

SAID BOX HAVING A PLURALITY OF SPACES IN A FIRST COLUMN ON THE INSIDE SURFACE OF SAID FRONT WALL, SAID COLUMN BEING PARALLEL TO SAID SIDE WALLS AND THE LENGTH OF THE SPACES BEING SUBSTANTIALLY EQUAL TO THE THICKNESS OF THE BOOKS WITH THE END OF EACH OF SAID BOOKS ABUTTINGLY ENGAGING AND COVERING ONE OF SAID SPACES, SUCCESSIVE SPACES IN SAID COLUMN HAVING SUCCESSIVE NUMBERS THEREIN WHEREBY THE NUMBER OF SAID BOOKS REMAINING IN A STACK IS INDICATED AS BOOKS ARE REREMAINING IN A STACK IS INDICATED AS BOOKS ARE REMOVED FROM THE STACK, AND SAID BOX HAVING A SECOND PLURALITY OF SPACES OF UNIFORM LENGTH IN A SECOND COLUMN ON THE INSIDE SURFACE OF SAID FRONT WALL AND PARALLEL TO SAID SIDE WALLS, WITH THE LENGTH OF ALL OF SAID SPACES IN SAID SECOND COLUMN BEING DIFFERENT FROM THE LENGTH OF SAID SPACES IN SAID FIRST COLUMN.