DISPLAY CONTAINER

• US 3,709,371 A
• Filed: 03/19/1971
• Issued: 01/09/1973
• Est. Priority Date: 03/19/1971
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Raymond T. Luck
• Original Assignee: Raymond T. Luck
• Inventors: Luck, Raymond T.
• Primary Examiner(s): Frazier, Roy D.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Frankel, Abraham
• Application Number:
  US05/126,153
• Time in Patent Office: 662 Days
• Field of Search: 211/49S,49R,49D 221/305 312/279,42,196,102,128,111,186,107,312 108/106,92,151,152X
• US Class Current: 211/59.2
• CPC Class Codes: A47F 13/08 Hand implements, e.g. grocers' scoops, ladles, paper-bag holders
• CPC Class Codes: A47F 7/283 Show stands or the like having a compartment for each container

Abstract

In a display stand for containing and exhibiting flexible bags filled with flowable material so that the bags can be shaped. Front and rear vertical panels have openings formed therein, each opening having vertically extending and wavy side edges, the bags extending through the openings and resting upon lands of the wavy side edges.

Claims

1. A display container for stacking and exhibiting flexible bags filled with flowable material, comprising spaced front and rear panels, a top closure, and a pair of side panels connecting said front and rear panels and defining a gap therebetween, said front and rear panels each having at least one opening therein, said openings being in register, and the periphery of each said opening being defined by a top edge, a bottom edge parallel to said top edge and a pair of wavy side edges having a plurality of lands, the gap between said front and rear panels being of a depth such that the flexible bags extend through said openings in said front and rear panels and said openings being of a breadth such that the flexible bags rest upon the lands of said wavy side edges defining said openings.

2. A display container according to claim 1, wherein said openings are elongated and extend vertically within said front and rear panels and the flexible bags are stacked horizontally within said openings.

3. A display container according to claim 1, further comprising a tongue hingedly connected to said bottom edge defining the periphery of each said opening, said tongue extending normal to said front and rear panels and across the gap therebetween, said tongue preventing the flexible bags resting within said opening from falling through the bottom of said container.

4. A display container according to claim 1, further comprising at least one flap hingedly connected to each said side panel, each said flap being provided with an aperture therein and being positionable normal to said respective side panel, and a support member adapted to extend through each said aperture to support and maintain said container in an upright position.

5. A display container according to claim 1, wherein said top closure is provided with an aperture therein and further comprising a support member adapted to extend through said aperture to support and maintain said container in an upright position.