Glassware package

US4603779A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• The Garber Company · US

Inventors

• George L. Meyers · Menasha, US
• David C. Mueller · Fremont, US

Key dates

• Filing date: May 28, 1985
• Grant date: Aug 5, 1986
• Expiry date: May 28, 2005

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65D2571/00716
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A glassware package formed from a foldable blank has a top wall, a bottom wall, a pair of end walls, and an open front and back. The top and bottom walls include means for retaining a plurality of glassware items therein. Each end wall includes a flat end wall panel and a pair of support panels extending inwardly therefrom. The support panels are joined to each other at a location spaced inwardly from the end wall panel and are supported off the end wall panel. The end wall panel and support panels together form a beam-type end wall which abuts the top and bottom walls and resists relative movement of the top wall toward the bottom wall. When the blank is printed on one surface only and folded so that the printed surface forms the outer surfaces of the package, the visible sides of the support panels, and thus the insides of the end walls, are formed from the printed surface of the blank, thereby allowing the insides of the end walls to have printed matter thereon.