Partitions with releasable gripping edges

• US 4,094,454 A
• Filed: 06/13/1977
• Issued: 06/13/1978
• Est. Priority Date: 06/13/1977
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Sonoco Products Company
• Original Assignee: Sonoco Products Company
• Inventors: Snyder, Herbert Clarke
• Primary Examiner(s): Moorhead, Davis T.
• Application Number:
  US05/805,853
• Time in Patent Office: 365 Days
• Field of Search: 229/DIG. 11, 229/48 SB, 229/15, 217/30
• US Class Current: 229/120.02
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/48038 Strips crossing each other

Abstract

A partition, slidably receivable within a paperboard carton or the like, is provided along one or more edges thereof with a substance capable of effecting a gripping of the partition within the carton, or a separable adherence therebetween, which is sufficient to prevent inadvertent disengagement of the partition from the carton upon inverting of the carton, even when the discharge of the packed carton contents is involved. At the same time the substance used will allow for a physical withdrawal of the partition from the carton without significant damage to either the partition or the carton.

Claims

1. A partitioned container comprising a box, a partition removably received within said box, said box having an inner wall surface, said partition having vertical edge portions, top edge portions, and bottom edge portions engageable with the inner wall surfaces of the box, and a movement resisting substance primarily adhered to at least a portion of said partition vertical edge portions and releasably adhered to the inner wall surface for separation from the inner wall surface while retaining the integrity of the inner wall surface and the partition vertical edge portions.

2. The construction of claim 1 wherein said substance comprises an elastomeric substance for providing a temporary adherence of the selected ones of said edge portions to the innner surface.

4. The construction of claim 1 wherein said movement resisting substance is primarily adhered to at least a portion of said partition top edge portions.

5. The construction of claim 1 wherein said movement resisting substance is primarily adhered to at least a portion of said partition bottom edge portions.

3. The construction of 1 wherein said partition includes multiple crossed panels, said exposed outer edges including vertical side edges, top edges and bottom edges, said substance being on at least said vertical side edges.