Combination shipping and display container and methods therefor

• US 6,478,159 B1
• Filed: 05/22/2000
• Issued: 11/12/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 05/22/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Eveready Battery Company Incorporated (Energizer Holdings, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Warner-Lambert Company (Pfizer Inc.)
• Inventors: Taylor, Thomas H., Foster, Brian W., Stroink, Ramon Edward, Robberecht, Peter A. M., Dombrowski, David
• Primary Examiner(s): Luong, Shian
• Application Number:
  US09/576,268
• Time in Patent Office: 904 Days
• Field of Search: 206/738, 206/746, 206/736, 206/774, 206/779, 229/200, 229/239, 229/242
• US Class Current: 206/738
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/542 the lines of weakness being provided in the container body

Abstract

A combination shipping and display container includes a unitary blank of material foldable into a substantially rectangular container for receiving one or more items packed therein. The container has a top wall, a bottom wall, a front wall, a rear wall and first and second side walls. The container has a line of continuous perforations extending across the rear wall, the first side wall, the front wall and the second side wall for dividing the container into a first or tear away top section and a second or bottom section. The perforations in the first and second side walls define curved slopes extending between the rear wall and the front wall. The top section may be torn away from the bottom section along the perforations formed in the container for converting the bottom section into a display container for displaying the one or more items, commonly referred to as primary packages, packed in the container. In one embodiment, after the top section has been removed, the display container in made up of the bottom wall, the rear wall and portions of the front wall and the first and second side walls.

Claims

1. A combination shipping and display container comprising:

a unitary blank of material foldable into a substantially rectangular container for receiving one or more items packed therein, said container having a top wall, a bottom wall, a rear wall, a first side wall and a second side wall; and

a line of continuous perforations extending across the rear wall, the first side wall, the front wall and the second side wall for dividing said container into a first section and a second section, the perforations in the first and second side walls defining curved slopes extending between the rear wall and the front wall of said container, the perforations in the front wall being proximate to the bottom wall of the container and the perforations in the rear wall being proximate to the top wall of the container, at least a section of the perforations in the rear wall defining a tab hingedly connected to the top wall of the container, and the first section being removable from the second section along the perforations for converting the second section into a display container for displaying the one or more items packed therein.