Abstract: A lightweight shipping and display assembly of corrugated board for containing packages of frangible food items, the assembly having a vertical axis and comprising an upright stack of pallets each having a horizontal floor spaced vertically from an adjacent upper pallet by spacer means comprising a plurality of interconnected arms generally horizontally arrayed and having upper and lower edges, wherein the lower edges rest on the floor, wherein the upper edges are formed with upper adjacent floor contact portions and vertically extended lock tabs, wherein the tabs have been inserted thru slots in an adjacent upper floor to provide a first stop means, wherein a raised rim means surrounds the periphery of the floor and provides on its inner surface shoulder means adapted to engage end portions of the support arms to provide second stop means, said first and second stop means preventing independent individual rotation of any structures of said assembly about the vertical axis, and wherein the support arms extend
Abstract: A package unit of product and packaging structure wherein the product is stacked in layers and wherein a divider of fairly rigid heavy corrugated paper board is interposed between each layer, wherein each divider is provided at each of its side edges with at least two tabs projecting laterally outwardly therefrom, each tab having an aperture formed therethrough, wherein the apertures of stacked (superimposed) dividers are vertically aligned, wherein posts are inserted frictionally thru the aligned apertures, and wherein the stack of layered product and dividers is laterally banded.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 26, 2003
Date of Patent:
August 9, 2005
Assignee:
Triad Packaging, Inc.
Inventors:
Joshua H. Powers, Mark H. Marvis, Hugh C. Stringer