BATHTUB CONTAINER-PROTECTOR

• US 3,616,986 A
• Filed: 10/03/1969
• Issued: 11/02/1971
• Est. Priority Date: 10/03/1969
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: David H. Marshall, Raymond E. Wolfe
• Original Assignee: David H. Marshall, Raymond E. Wolfe
• Inventors: Wolfe, Raymond E., Marshall, David H.
• Primary Examiner(s): Marbert, James B.
• Application Number:
  US04/864,298
• Time in Patent Office: 760 Days
• Field of Search: 229/16 206/46H
• US Class Current: 206/320
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2585/644 bathtubs
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2585/681 heaters
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 85/64 for bulky articles

Abstract

A container for a bathtub-shower unit which serves as a shipping carton and also to protect the unit from damage during installation. The container may be formed of heavy, stiff fiberboard or the like, of the character commonly employed for packing and shipping merchandise of a fragile character, and is in the form of a hollow parallelepiped or generally cubical form, with top and bottom caps and sidewalls forming a sleeve. The front wall may be separated from the side and backwall by unstapling or by cutting, and then may be bent along scored lines, whereupon it may be bent or folded backwardly into the unit, where it serves to protect the latter in the course of installation of the plumbing fixtures.

Claims

1. In a shipping container for a plumbing fixture or the like in the form of a substantially rectangular box having a sleeve portion comprising sidewalls, a backwall, a front wall and closure members secured to the ends of said sleeve portion, said container being formed of lightweight, stiff, expendable sheet material, the improvement in said front wall wherein said wall is at least partially severable from said sidewalls to form a plumbing fixture protector during installation of said fixture at its ultimate destination.

2. The improvement of claim 1 wherein front wall is severable from said sidewalls along longitudinal lines, said front wall containing a plurality of substantially parallel transverse weakened lines whereby said front wall may be folded into the interior of said plumbing fixture along said weakened lines to provide a plurality of protective panels overlying various planes of the plumbing fixture shipped in said container during the installation thereof at its ultimate destination.

3. A protective cover for a bathtub-shower unit, comprising an elongated sheet of lightweight, stiff, expendable material, said sheet having a. a pair of weakened longitudinal lines spaced inwardly from and parallel to the side edges of said sheet, and b. a plurality of spaced, generally parallel transverse weakened lines facilitating bending along said lines to provide leaves overlying vaRious planes of an article to be installed, said transverse weakened lines extending substantially to the side edges of said sheet, c. the portions disposed outwardly of said longitudinal lines being adapted to provide wings bent inwardly from the respective planes of the adjacent leaves.