Textile shipping package

• US 3,109,540 A
• Filed: 02/13/1961
• Issued: 11/05/1963
• Est. Priority Date: 02/13/1961
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Fred E. Klimpl
• Original Assignee: Fred E. Klimpl
• Inventors: Klimpl, Fred E.
• Application Number:
  US04/088,880
• Time in Patent Office: 995 Days
• US Class Current: 242/129
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2571/00037 Bundles surrounded by carton blanks
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2571/00043 Intermediate plates or the like
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2571/00055 Clapping elements, also placed on the side
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 71/0096 the dimensions of the supports corresponding to the periphery of the load, e.g. pallets
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 85/04 for coils of wire, rope or hose

Claims

1. A SHIPPING PACKAGE COMPRISING A WALLED CONTAINER FILLED WITH WOUND PACKAGES OF STRAND-LIKE MATERIAL, SAID WOUND PACKAGES BEING ARRANGED IN VERTICAL COLUMNS WITHIN SAID WALLED CONTAINER, HORIZONTAL PLANAR MEMBERS SEPARATING ADJACENT PACKAGES IN EACH OF SAID COLUMNS, SAID HORIZONTAL PLANAR MEMBERS BEING OF U-SHAPED CONFIGURATION AND EACH BEING HINGED TO ONE WALL OF SAID CONTAINER, EACH OF SAID WOUND PACKAGES HAVING A LEADING AND A TRAILING END, THE TRAILING END OF EACH OF SAID WOUND PACKAGES BEING CONNECTED TO THE LEADING END OF THE WOUND PACKAGE IMMEDIATELY THEREUNDER AND THE TRAILING END OF ALL BUT ONE OF THE BOTTOMMOST PACKAGES IN SAID SHIPPING PACKAGE BEING INDIVIDUALLY CONNECTED TO THE LEADING END OF A WOUND PACKAGE AT THE TOP OF ANOTHER COLUMN WHEREBY AUTOMATIC TRANSFER FROM EACH PACKAGE TO ANOTHER THROUGHOUT THE COMPLETE SHIPPING PACKAGE DURING WITHDRAWAL OF THE STRAND-LIKE MATERIAL FROM SAID SHIPPING PACKAGE, AND THE TRAILING END OF THE REMAINING BOTTOM PACKAGE BEING SECURED TO A WALL OF SAID CONTAINER IN A READILY ACCESSIBLE LOCATION AT THE TOP OF SAID CONTAINER.