Shipping and display container

• US 8,789,704 B2
• Filed: 05/22/2012
• Issued: 07/29/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/22/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Veritiv Operating Company (Pixelle Specialty Solutions LLC)
• Original Assignee: International Paper Company
• Inventors: Nowak, James Walter
• Primary Examiner(s): REYNOLDS, STEVEN ALAN
• Application Number:
  US13/477,149
• Publication Number:
  US 20130313158A1
• Time in Patent Office: 798 Days
• Field of Search: 206/759, 206/736, 206/738, 206/774, 229/240, 229/123, 229/122
• US Class Current: 206/759
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/5213 Internal elements supporting the contents and movable for displaying them, e.g. movable bottoms or trays
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/542 the lines of weakness being provided in the container body
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/722 having an alternating movement co-operating with incised or scored openings near the bottom-edges of the bodies of tubular containers
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/724 Internal fittings facilitating the discharge of contents, e.g. guiding panels, movable bottoms or lifting strips

Abstract

A shipping container convertible into a display container comprises a top wall, a bottom wall, and opposed side walls foldably joined to the top and bottom walls to form an interior space. A tear away window panel is formed on one of the side walls. The tear away window panel includes width and height defined by a perforated line of weakness extending across the width and on a portion of height of the side walls. A displayable insert tray is configured to be disposed into the interior space of the container to receive products and concealed therein when the container is in a shipping position. The displayable insert tray includes a bottom panel and at least one feeder ledge foldably joined to the bottom panel wherein upon removing the tear away window panel and pulling away the feeder ledge, the container is converted to a display position to expose the products.

Claims

1. A shipping container convertible into a display container at a point of sale, comprising:

a top wall, a bottom wall, and a plurality of opposed side walls foldably joined to the top and bottom walls to form an interior space, at least one tear away window panel being formed on one of the plurality of the side walls, the at least one tear away window panel having width and height defined by a perforated line of weakness extending across the width and on a portion of height of the side walls; and

a displayable insert tray configured to be snuggly disposed into the interior space of the container to receive products and concealed therein when the container is in a shipping position, the displayable insert tray includes a bottom panel and at least one feeder ledge foldably joined to the bottom panel wherein the at least one feeder ledge includes two locking tabs formed on a free edge thereof and spaced apart from one another, the bottom panel of the displayable insert tray is flat and coplanar with the bottom wall of the container wherein the bottom panel of the displayable insert tray comprises two pair of slots that each pair of slots is spaced apart from one another and is formed in proximity of a fold line joining the bottom panel to the at least feeder ledge wherein each of the locking tabs is inserted into each of the pair of slots formed on the bottom panel and wherein upon removing the tear away window panel and pulling away the feeder ledge, the container is converted to a display position to expose the products.

2. The shipping container convertible into a display container of claim 1 wherein the at least one tear away window panel includes two tear away window panels each of which is formed on one of two opposed side walls.

3. The shipping container convertible into a display container of claim 1 wherein the at least one feeder ledge of the displayable insert tray includes two feeder ledges each which is foldably joined to opposed edges of the bottom panel.

4. The shipping container convertible into a display container of claim 1 wherein the at least one feeder ledge having a pair of tucked-in flaps foldably joined on opposed lateral edges thereof which tucked-in into the interior space of the container in contiguous, parallel, overlapping relationship with adjacent side walls when the products is unexposed.

5. The shipping container convertible into a display container of claim 4 wherein each of the pair of the tucked-in flaps includes a hook formed outwardly on respective free edges thereof wherein the hook engages with the respective side wall to hold the feeder ledge in the pulled away position to expose the products.

6. A shipping container having a bottom wall, a top wall, and a plurality of opposed side walls foldably joined to one another to form an interior space, the shipping container convertible into a display container comprising:

a displayable insert tray having a bottom panel and at least one feeder ledge foldably joined to the bottom panel, at least one feeder ledge includes two locking tabs formed on a free edge thereof and spaced apart from one another, the bottom panel of the displayable insert tray comprises two pair of slots spaced apart from one another and are formed in proximity of a fold line joining the bottom panel to the at least one feeder ledge where each of the two locking tabs is inserted into each pair of the slots formed on the bottom wall, the bottom panel of the displayable insert tray is flat and coplanar with the bottom wall of the container, the displayable insert tray configured to be snuggly disposed into the interior space of the container to receive products and concealed therein when the container is in a shipping position wherein upon removing a portion of one of the plurality of the side walls and pulling away the at least one feeder ledge, the container is converted to a display position to expose the products.

7. The shipping container of claim 6 wherein the portion of one of the plurality of the side walls includes a tear away window panel being formed on one of the plurality of the side walls.

8. The shipping container of claim 7 wherein the tear away window panel having width and height defined by a perforated line of weakness extending across the width and on a portion of height of the side walls.

9. The shipping container of claim 6 wherein the least one feeder ledge having a pair of tucked-in flaps foldably joined on opposed lateral edges thereof which tucked-in into the interior space of the container in contiguous, parallel, overlapping relationship with adjacent side walls when the products is unexposed.

10. The shipping container of claim 9 wherein each of the pair of the tucked-in flaps includes a hook formed outwardly on respective free edges thereof wherein the hook engages with the respective side wall to hold the feeder ledge in the pulled away position to expose the products.

11. A shipping container convertible into a display container at a point of sale, comprising:

a top wall, a bottom wall, and a plurality of opposed side walls foldably joined to the top and bottom walls to form an interior space, two tear away window panels each of which being formed on respective two of the plurality of the side walls, each of the two tear away window panels having width and height defined by a perforated line of weakness extending across the width and on a portion of height of the respective two of the plurality of the side walls; and

a displayable insert tray configured to be snuggly disposed into the interior space of the container to receive products and concealed therein when the container is in a shipping position, the displayable insert tray includes a bottom panel and two feeder ledges foldably joined to the opposed edges of the bottom panel, the bottom panel of the displayable insert tray is flat and coplanar with the bottom wall of the container, each of two feeder ledges includes two locking tabs formed on their respective free edge thereof, the bottom panel comprises two pair of slots that each of the pair of slots are spaced apart from one another and are formed in proximity of a fold line joining the bottom panel to the respective feeder ledges, each of the locking tabs being inserted into each of the slots formed on the bottom panel wherein upon removing the respective two tear away window panels and pulling away the respective two feeder ledges, the container is converted to a display position to expose the products.