Collapsible automatically set up display container

• US 3,300,166 A
• Filed: 06/14/1965
• Issued: 01/24/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 06/14/1965
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Walter P. Wojciechowski
• Original Assignee: Walter P. Wojciechowski
• Inventors: Wojciechowski, Walter P.
• Application Number:
  US04/463,822
• Time in Patent Office: 589 Days
• US Class Current: 248/174
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/4283 Connections formed by separate elements, e.g. clips, bands, straps B65D5/0227, B65D5/0236 take precedence

Claims

1. A COLLAPSIBLE, AUTOMATICALLY SET UP DISPLAY CONTAINER, FORMED OF FOLDABLE SHEET MATERIAL SUCH AS PAPERBOARD, FOR HOLDING A PLURALITY OF ARTICLES ARRANGED HAPHAZARDLY, COMPRISING THE COMBINATION OF:

(A) A BASE FORMED OF OPPOSED PAIRS OF INTERCONNECTED VERTICAL WALLS HINGED TOGETHER AT THEIR OPPOSITE SIDE EDGES ALONG VERTICAL HINGE LINES TO FORM A TUBULAR STRUCTURE;

(B) A BIN FORMED OF OPPOSED PAIRS OF INTERCONNECTED VERTICAL PANELS HINGED TOGETHER AT THEIR OPPOSITE SIDE EDGES ALONG VERTICAL HINGE LINES TO FORM A TUBULAR STRUCTURE;

(C) THE BIN TUBULAR STRUCTURE BEING DISPOSED ABOVE THE BASE TUBULAR STRUCTURE, AND BEING CONNECTED THERETO BY A HINGED CONNECTION;

(D) THE HINGED CONNECTION INCLUDING UPPER AND LOWER TRANSVERSE PANELS BETWEEN EACH ADJACENT VERTICAL WALL AND PANEL OF THE BASE AND BIN, THE TRANSVERSE PANELS BEING HINGED TOGETHER AT THEIR INBOARD EDGES AND BEING HINGED AT THE OUTBOARD EDGES, RESPECTIVELY, TO THE LOWER HORIZONTAL EDGE OF THE BIN VERTICAL PANEL AND THE UPPER HORIZONTAL EDGE OF THE BASE VERTICAL WALL;

(E) THE END EDGES OF THE TRANSVERSE PANELS BEING TRIMMED SO THAT THE TRANSVERSE PANELS DIVERGE FROM THE SHORTEST DIMENSION ADJACENT THEIR INBOARD EDGES TO THE LONGEST DIMENSION ADJACENT THE OUTBOARD EDGES AND SO THAT THE END EDGES ABUT ONE ANOTHER, WHEREBY THE TRANSVERSE PANELS DEFINE BETWEEN THE BASE AND BIN A TRANSVERSE LEDGE DISPOSED AT THE LOWER EDGE OF THE BIN VERTICAL PANELS;

(F) A BOTTOM WALL, FOR CLOSING THE LOWER END OF THE BIN TUBULAR STRUCTURE, ADAPTED TO BE SUPPORTED BY THE TRANSVERSE LEDGE AND BEING SHAPED SUBSTANTIALLY THE SAME AS THE CROSS SECTION OF THE BIN TUBULAR STRUCTURE, AND HAVING EDGE DIMENSIONS SLIGHTLY LESS THAN THE LENGTHS OF THE ADJACENT RESPECTIVE BIN VERTICAL PANELS;

(G) THE BOTTOM WALL BEING SECURED AT ONE EDGE TO ONE OF THE LOWER TRANSVERSE PANELS OF THE HINGED CONNECTION, AND BEING ADAPTED TO PIVOT FROM THE POSITION ACROSS THE LOWER END OF THE BIN TO A POSITION ADJACENT THE VERTICAL PANEL OF THE BIN IMMEDIATELY ABOVE THE ONE TRANSVERSE PANEL IN THE COLLAPSED CONDITION OF THE BIN;

(H) THE VERTICAL WALLS OF THE BASE, THE VERTICAL PANELS OF THE BIN, AND THE UPPER AND LOWER TRANSVERSE PANELS ADJACENT THE ONE TRANSVERSE PANEL BEING HINGED MEDIALLY THEREOF AND ADAPTED TO FOLD INWARDLY BETWEEN INTO THE TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BASE AND BIN IN THE COLLAPSED CONDITION OF THE BIN;

(I) ELASTIC MEANS SUCH AS A RUBBER BAND, CONNECTED TO THE BOTTOM WALL AT A LOCATION SPACED FROM THE HINGED CONNECTION AND TO THE BASE ON THE ONE VERTICAL PANEL OPERABLE TO BIAS THE BOTTOM WALL FROM THE VERTICAL POSITION TO THE TRANSVERSE POSITION FOR AUTOMATIC SET UP OF THE BIN.