Rail-track display box

• US 6,681,953 B2
• Filed: 03/06/2002
• Issued: 01/27/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 03/06/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Nationalpak Limited
• Original Assignee: Nationalpak Limited
• Inventors: Au, Kinsen Ka Fai
• Primary Examiner(s): FOSTER, JIMMY G
• Application Number:
  US10/092,649
• Publication Number:
  US 20030168378A1
• Time in Patent Office: 692 Days
• Field of Search: 206/6.1, 206/301, 206/566, 206/736, 206/740-745, 206/751-755, 206/758, 220/23.83, 220/23.86, 220/23.9, 220/297, 220/345--34, 220/348-351, 220/811-816
• US Class Current: 220/815
• CPC Class Codes: A45C 11/10 Watch cases or guards, with or without windows
• CPC Class Codes: A45C 11/16 Jewel boxes
• CPC Class Codes: A45C 13/002 Protective covers

Abstract

A rail-track display box includes an outer casing having a pair of elongated sliding tracks indented along two top edges of two parallel side walls of the outer casing respectively. An inner casing has a pair of guiding tracks indented on two outer surfaces of two side panels of the inner casing respectively. A cover has a pair of sliding pegs inwardly formed on two inner surfaces of two parallel side cover panels respectively and a pair of guiding pegs downwardly formed on two bottom edges of the side cover panels respectively. The cover is adapted to frontwardly slid to a display position that the sliding pegs are stopped at two front blocked ends of the sliding tracks respectively and the guiding pegs are stopped at two front stopped ends of the guiding tracks respectively, so as to open the rail-track display box for displaying the product.

Claims

1. A rail-track display box, comprising:

an outer casing having a receiving chamber, a top opening communicating with said receiving chamber, and a pair of elongated sliding tracks indented along two top edges of two parallel side walls of said outer casing respectively, wherein each of said sliding tracks has a front blocked end and a rear blocked end;

an inner casing having a storage cavity for receiving a product therein, wherein a lower portion of said inner casing disposed in said receiving chamber while an upper portion of said inner casing is exposed out of said receiving chamber, said inner casing further having a pair of guiding tracks indented on two outer surfaces of two side panels of said upper portion of said inner casing respectively, wherein each of said guiding tracks has a front stopped end and a rear stopped end; and

a cover having a pair of sliding pegs inwardly and perpendicularly formed on two inner surfaces of two parallel side cover panels respectively and a pair of guiding pegs downwardly formed on two bottom edges of said side cover panels respectively, a distance of said two outer surfaces of said side panels of said inner casing being slightly smaller than a distance between said two inner surfaces of said two side cover panels of said cover, wherein said cover is placed on top of said outer casing while said two sliding pegs are slidably inserted into said two sliding tracks respectively and said two guiding pegs are slidably inserted into said two guiding tracks respectively;

said cover being adapted to slidably move between a display position and a storage position, wherein in said display position, said cover is slid frontwardly while said sliding pegs are stopped and positioned at said two front blocked ends of said sliding tracks respectively and said guiding pegs are stopped and positioned at said two front stopped ends of said guiding tracks respectively, so as to open said rail-track display box for displaying said product, and in said storage position, said cover is slid rearwardly while said sliding pegs are stopped and positioned at said two rear blocked ends of said sliding tracks respectively and said guiding pegs are stopped and positioned at said two rear stopped ends of said guiding tracks respectively, so that said cover is supported on said outer casing to enclose said storage cavity.

2. A rail-track display box, as recited in claim 1, wherein each of said guiding tracks has a track body portion and a tail portion transversely indented on said outer surface of said respective side panel of said inner casing, wherein said track body portion is extended from said respective rear stopped end and said tail portion is downwardly extended from said track body portion to said front stopped end in a head-to-tail manner in such a manner that when said guiding pegs of said cover are slid from said track body portions of said guiding tracks to said tail portions thereof, said cover is slidably flipped with respect to said outer casing.

3. A rail-track display box, as recited in claim 1, wherein each of said sliding pegs and each of said guiding pegs has an enlarged free end portion having a size slightly larger than a width of said respective sliding track and said guiding track, in such a manner that said free end portions of said sliding pegs and said guiding pegs are retained in said sliding track and said guiding track respectively when said sliding pegs and said guiding pegs are mounted to said sliding track and said guiding track respectively.

4. A rail-track display box, as recited in claim 2, wherein each of said sliding pegs and each of said guiding pegs has an enlarged free end portion having a size slightly larger than a width of said respective sliding track and said guiding track, in such a manner that said free end portions of said sliding pegs and said guiding pegs are retained in said sliding track and said guiding track respectively when said sliding pegs and said guiding pegs are mounted to said sliding track and said guiding track respectively.

5. A rail-track display box, as recited in claim 1, wherein a height of each of said side walls is gradually reduced from a front portion to a rear portion to form said top edge with an inclined angle, wherein each of said bottom edge of said cover side panels of said cover is in an inclined angle which matches with said inclined angle of said two edges of said side walls of said outer casing, in such a manner that said cover is slidably mounted on said outer casing to form a box shaped structure that said bottom edges of said cover side panels are rested on said top edges of said side walls of said outer casing respectively while said sliding pegs are slidably inserted into said sliding tracks respectively.

6. A rail-track display box, as recited in claim 5, wherein said guiding tracks are inclinedly indented on said outer surfaces of said side panels of said inner casing with respect to said inclined angles of said top edges of said side walls of said outer casing in such a manner that said sliding and guiding pegs are correspondingly slid on said sliding and guiding tracks on said outer and inner casings respectively between said display position and said storage position.

7. A rail-track display box, as recited in claim 5, wherein each of said sliding pegs and each of said guiding pegs has an enlarged free end portion having a size slightly larger than a width of said respective sliding track and said guiding track, in such a manner that said free end portions of said sliding pegs and said guiding pegs are retained in said sliding track and said guiding track respectively when said sliding pegs and said guiding pegs are mounted to said sliding track and said guiding track respectively.

8. A rail-track display box, as recited in claim 6, wherein each of said sliding pegs and each of said guiding pegs has an enlarged free end portion having a size slightly larger than a width of said respective sliding track and said guiding track, in such a manner that said free end portions of said sliding pegs and said guiding pegs are retained in said sliding track and said guiding track respectively when said sliding pegs and said guiding pegs are mounted to said sliding track and said guiding track respectively.

9. A rail-track display box, as recited in claim 1, wherein each of said sliding tracks has a top guiding portion extended from said rear blocked end along said respective side wall of said outer casing and a front guiding portion extended to said front blocked end along a front edge of said respective side wall in such a manner that said front blocked ends of said sliding tracks are positioned at bottom portions of said front edges of said side walls of said outer casing respectively.

10. A rail-track display box, as recited in claim 9, wherein each of said side walls has a curved front top corner provided between said top edge and said front edge thereof in such a manner that said front guiding portions of said sliding tracks are integrally extended from said top guiding portions of said sliding tracks from said top edges of said side walls to said front edges along said front top corners respectively.

11. A rail-track display box, as recited in claim 1, wherein each of said guiding tracks has a track body portion and a tail portion transversely indented on said outer surface of said respective side panel of said inner casing, wherein said track body portion is extended from said respective rear stopped end and said tail portion is downwardly and curvedly extended from said track body portion to said front stopped end in a head-to-tail manner.

12. A rail-track display box, as recited in claim 9, wherein each of said guiding tracks has a track body portion and a tail portion transversely indented on said outer surface of said respective side panel of said inner casing, wherein said track body portion is extended from said respective rear stopped end and said tail portion is downwardly and curvedly extended from said track body portion to said front stopped end in a head-to-tail manner.

13. A rail-track display box, as recited in claim 10, wherein each of said guiding tracks has a track body portion and a tail portion transversely indented on said outer surface of said respective side panel of said inner casing, wherein said track body portion is extended from said respective rear stopped end and said tail portion is downwardly and curvedly extended from said track body portion to said front stopped end in a head-to-tail manner.

14. A rail-track display box, as recited in claim 13, wherein a curvature of said tail portion of each said guiding track with respect to said track body portion thereof equals to a curvature of said front top corner of each said side wall of said outer wall in such a manner that said sliding and guiding pegs are respectively slid from said top guiding portions of said sliding tracks to said front guiding portions thereof and said track body portion of said guiding tracks to said tail portion thereof at the same time, so as to flip over said cover with respect to said outer casing.

15. A rail-track display box, as recited in claim 9, wherein each of said sliding pegs and each of said guiding pegs has an enlarged free end portion having a size slightly larger than a width of said respective sliding track and said guiding track, in such a manner that said free end portions of said sliding pegs and said guiding pegs are retained in said sliding track and said guiding track respectively when said sliding pegs and said guiding pegs are mounted to said sliding track and said guiding track respectively.

16. A rail-track display box, as recited in claim 10, wherein each of said sliding pegs and each of said guiding pegs has an enlarged free end portion having a size slightly larger than a width of said respective sliding track and said guiding track, in such a manner that said free end portions of said sliding pegs and said guiding pegs are retained in said sliding track and said guiding track respectively when said sliding pegs and said guiding pegs are mounted to said sliding track and said guiding track respectively.

17. A rail-track display box, as recited in claim 11, wherein each of said sliding pegs and each of said guiding pegs has an enlarged free end portion having a size slightly larger than a width of said respective sliding track and said guiding track, in such a manner that said free end portions of said sliding pegs and said guiding pegs are retained in said sliding track and said guiding track respectively when said sliding pegs and said guiding pegs are mounted to said sliding track and said guiding track respectively.

18. A rail-track display box, as recited in claim 12, wherein each of said sliding pegs and each of said guiding pegs has an enlarged free end portion having a size slightly larger than a width of said respective sliding track and said guiding track, in such a manner that said free end portions of said sliding pegs and said guiding pegs are retained in said sliding track and said guiding track respectively when said sliding pegs and said guiding pegs are mounted to said sliding track and said guiding track respectively.

19. A rail-track display box, as recited in claim 13, wherein each of said sliding pegs and each of said guiding pegs has an enlarged free end portion having a size slightly larger than a width of said respective sliding track and said guiding track, in such a manner that said free end portions of said sliding pegs and said guiding pegs are retained in said sliding track and said guiding track respectively when said sliding pegs and said guiding pegs are mounted to said sliding track and said guiding track respectively.

20. A rail-track display box, as recited in claim 14, wherein each of said sliding pegs and each of said guiding pegs has an enlarged free end portion having a size slightly larger than a width of said respective sliding track and said guiding track, in such a manner that said free end portions of said sliding pegs and said guiding pegs are retained in said sliding track and said guiding track respectively when said sliding pegs and said guiding pegs are mounted to said sliding track and said guiding track respectively.