COMBINED SHIPPING AND DISPENSING CARTON FOR CONTINUOUS BONDING STRIP AND INSULATED TUBING THEREFOR

• US 3,822,784 A
• Filed: 05/30/1972
• Issued: 07/09/1974
• Est. Priority Date: 05/30/1972
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: George W. Gillemot, John T. Thompson
• Original Assignee: George W. Gillemot, John T. Thompson
• Inventors: Thompson, John T., Gillemot, George W.
• Primary Examiner(s): Dixson, Jr., William T.
• Application Number:
  US05/257,693
• Time in Patent Office: 770 Days
• Field of Search: 229/45P,45H,45R,52B,52A 206/52R,59C,47R
• US Class Current: 206/391
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/72 Contents-dispensing means
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 83/0805 through an aperture in a wall

Abstract

A combined shipping and dispensing carton of continuous lengths of separately coiled bonding strip or strap and insulated tubing therefor. The two coils lie side by side in a one-piece carton having a cover flap extending along one end edge and selectively lockable in either of two closed positions. In one position the flap lies flush against the end edge of the carton and, in the other, it is arched away from the end edge to provide a carrying handgrip. The leading ends of the strip and tubing are held captive by the cover in each locked position thereof.

Claims

1. An article of manufacture comprising:

a coil of flat wound ductile metal bonding strap, a coil of collapsed flexible tubing of non-conductive material sized for telescopic assembly over said bonding strap when a length thereof is detached for use, material from each of said coils being dispensable independently of the other of said coils, a carton closely enclosing said coils to store the same therein in side by side relation, said carton having its parallel side walls interconnected along their perimeters by end walls extending along all edges of said side walls, one of said end walls having a plurality of narrow cutouts extending transversely thereacross with their ends terminating close to the edge of each of said side walls and spaced from one another along said one end wall and each having a length equal to or greater than the combined widths of said strap and tubing and one of which serves as a dispensing port for said bonding strap and said plastic tubing and at least another of which serves as a keeper into which the free ends of said bonding strap and said plastic tubing can be tucked when not being dispensed.

2. An article of manufacture as defined in claim 1 characterized in the provision of means securely holding said side walls and said end walls of said carton closed and restricting the dispensing of said bonding strap and said plastic tubing to said dispensing port.

3. An article of manufacture as defined in claim 2 characterized in that said keeper and dispensing ports are adjacent respective opposite end corners of said carton.

4. An article of manufacture as defined in claim 3 characterized in the provision of relatively closely spaced apart keeper ports spaced remotely from said dispensing port.

5. An article of manufacture as defined in claim 1 characterized in that said carton includes a cover flap having one end attached to one wall thereof and disposed to close against said one end wall thereof provided with said cutouts, said flap having a keeper tang near the free end thereof adapted to extend into and to have a close fit with the edge of one of said cutouts.

6. An article of manufacture as defined in claim 5 charActerized in that said one carton end wall has a cutout sized and positioned to seat and retain said keeper tang with said cover flap stored closely parallel to said one end wall.

7. An article of manufacture as defined in claim 6 characterized in that another of said cutouts is positioned to seat said keeper tang with the mid section of said cover arched outwardly away from said one end wall thereby to serve as a convenient handgrip for said carton.

8. An article of manufacture as defined in claim 6 characterized in that said keeper ports for said bonding strap and said plastic tubing are sized to seat the keeper tang for said cover with the mid portion of said cover and the underlying lengths of said bonding strap and said plastic tubing cooperating therewith to provide hand grip means for said carton and its contents.