U.S. patent application number 12/167838 was filed with the patent office on 2009-02-12 for self-standing exhibiting package.
This patent application is currently assigned to Power Retailing Group S.A. de C.V.. Invention is credited to Luis Felipe Rego Garcia De Alba.
Application Number | 20090038989 12/167838 |
Document ID | / |
Family ID | 36582567 |
Filed Date | 2009-02-12 |
United States Patent
Application |
20090038989 |
Kind Code |
A1 |
Rego Garcia De Alba; Luis
Felipe |
February 12, 2009 |
SELF-STANDING EXHIBITING PACKAGE
Abstract
The foregoing invention refers to a self-standing exhibiting
package that allows for transportation of its contained product
from the manufacturing site to a point of sale; said self-standing
package is characterized by containing and exhibiting the product,
and wherefrom consumers may take the product at the time of
purchase; characterized by being formed by angular beams that
provide a preferably square or rectangular configuration with a
plurality of angular crossbars that attached by their ends to said
beams with a diversity of fixating devices, hence providing a
plurality of peripheral supports at a same level at multiple
heights and spaced between them, whereon stands containing and
exhibiting various products are set, said stands are stacked or
fixated with diverse devices on said angular crossbars providing
the peripheral supports.
Inventors: |
Rego Garcia De Alba; Luis
Felipe; (Mexico, MX) |
Correspondence
Address: |
FULBRIGHT & JAWORSKI, LLP
1301 MCKINNEY, SUITE 5100
HOUSTON
TX
77010-3095
US
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Assignee: |
Power Retailing Group S.A. de
C.V.
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Family ID: |
36582567 |
Appl. No.: |
12/167838 |
Filed: |
July 3, 2008 |
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11066493 |
Feb 28, 2005 |
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12167838 |
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Current U.S.
Class: |
206/736 |
Current CPC
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A47F 5/108 20130101 |
Class at
Publication: |
206/736 |
International
Class: |
B65D 5/52 20060101
B65D005/52 |
Foreign Application Data
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Application Number |
Dec 14, 2004 |
MX |
PA/U/2004/000264 |
Claims
1-18. (canceled)
19. A self-standing exhibiting package comprising: a. a plurality
of vertical angular beams; b. a plurality of angular crossbars,
three or more of said angular beams attached to one or more of said
plurality of angular crossbars; c. a plurality of stands for
containing and exhibiting products, said stands supported on-at
least one side by one or more of said plurality of angular
crossbars; and d. one or more corner stands, wherein said corner
stands supported by one or more of said plurality of angular
crossbars.
20. The self-standing exhibiting package of claim 19, wherein said
corner stands have a 1/4 circle shape.
Description
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
[0001] The present invention is related to the art of packaging and
bailing, more particularly to a package that holds and exhibits
products in a point of sale, aimed to end users. More specifically,
this invention refers to a self-standing exhibiting and dispensing
package that allows for transportation of the product therein to
its point of sale; said self-standing package is characterized by
its ability to hold and exhibit its product at points of sale, and
end consumers may take said product at the time of purchase.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
[0002] Currently most products are individually packaged so they
can reach end users. However, distribution and marketing of these
products require bigger packages such as boxes or containers
carrying a number of such individually packaged products in order
to be transported and taken to points of sale for end users, where
they are then unpackaged and placed on shelves or exhibitors
designed for such purpose. Furthermore, they make such products
appealing for end users.
[0003] Otherwise, such as in shopping malls and self service
stores, individually packaged products are usually set in islands,
placed at various levels and piled on the floor, pallet, stand, box
or similar devices.
[0004] Accordingly, the constant need to have safer, trust worthier
packages that allow for protection of such products being
transported towards end users, as well as the growing need to have
bigger packages or bales that allow on one hand to hold the
product, and exhibit said product at points of sale on the other
hand, where they may be displayed to end users, has generated the
development of new packages that strive to fulfill these needs and
avoid usage of or additional investment on acquisition of shelves
and exhibitors.
[0005] Prior art includes some patents that protect and disclose
packaging structures that satisfy the afore mentioned needs, such
as U.S. Pat. No. 5,251,753 granted to Pigott et al. on Oct. 12,
1993, which refers to a combined product transporting and
exhibiting unit, including a plurality of product containing trays
vertically set with divisions vertically supported that keep a
space between product containers. Under these shipping conditions,
the bottom tray is housed and received within a flange that rests
on a conventional shipping pallet. Each tray is provided with an
individual angulated support member between an adjacent vertically
spaced pair of trays. A beam on each corner extends the entire
height of the unit providing additional structural support during
shipping only. However, as may be disclosed and seen in the Figures
hereof, each tray or plate contains products that in turn support
the next upper tray or plate and so on, hence making it necessary
for the products on said next upper tray or plate to be organized,
then withdrawn in order to have access to products in the next
lower tray, and so on, until products such packaged and exhibited
in said unit is finished.
[0006] The beams on each corner are only used during shipping, and
upon arrival to their final destination at points of sale they are
removed, providing structural support for product protection during
shipping only.
[0007] U.S. Pat. No. 5,161,692 granted to Stanley E. Knierin on
Nov. 10, 1992 refers to a container device with open faces, which
includes a cover member with an inner division wall that forms
cavities that receive corner beams having a lower outer wall in
order to tighten and hold the corners of a household appliance.
Such cover and corner beams may be used separately at will. This
type of structure is designed to ship products only, more
specifically devices of larger dimensions such as household
appliances, in order to protect and stabilize such devices during
their transportation, not for their exhibition at points of
sale.
[0008] U.S. Pat. No. 4,638,941 granted to Robert L. Watson on Jan.
27, 1987 refers to a cardboard container for shipping and
exhibiting products, comprising of a plurality of product support
trays vertically set one on top of the other, where the product on
the lower tray supports. the next upper product containing
tray.
[0009] Other such patents refer to structures usually comprising
trays or containers vertically set and with corner beams as
structural elements that protect the products, during their
shipping only. In all of them, products on such trays or containers
support the next upper product loaded trays.
[0010] Said corner beams or corner pieces as reinforcing structural
elements protecting the products on the above described structures,
are made of compressed cardboard. However, such compressed
cardboard beams have always been used as packaging material and not
as exhibitors.
[0011] Accordingly, and including the above referenced and cited
patents of the prior art, to this date there is not one structure
that allows packaging and exhibiting of products in a plurality of
trays, where said products do not have to support the next upper
tray, therefore allowing placement of such products on different
levels without affecting the structure's stability.
OBJECTIVES OF THE INVENTION
[0012] Making a self-standing exhibiting package that allows
vertical placement of trays at multiple levels where various
products may be placed and contained for their transportation and
exhibition, and which allows for disposition of such products on
said various levels and on any of their sides is the main objective
of this foregoing invention.
[0013] Another objective of this invention is to make a
self-standing exhibiting package that will furthermore be
structurally functional, resilient, and long lasting available.
[0014] A further objective of the present invention is to provide a
self-standing exhibiting package, which will additionally allow
complete exhibition of the product from any angle and on all
levels.
[0015] Still another objective of this invention is to provide such
self-standing exhibiting package that will further make such
contained and exhibited products highly attractive for end users at
points of sale in self service stores.
[0016] Another objective of this invention is to make a
self-standing exhibiting package that will furthermore comprise a
unique and solid structure.
[0017] A still further objective of this invention is to make such
self-standing exhibiting package available while also avoiding and
eliminating the need to be put together at stores, and will
furthermore avoid such product's organization for its
exhibition.
[0018] Another objective of this invention is to make a
self-standing exhibiting package that will furthermore comprise
wide and visible areas for diverse advertising.
[0019] And all such qualities and objectives that will become
apparent based on the general and detailed description of the
present invention, supported by the embodiments described
herein.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
[0020] Generally, the basic structure of the self-standing
exhibiting package in accordance to the present invention consists
of angular beams (corner pieces) that form a configuration
preferably square or rectangular, although it may be polygonal; a
plurality, of angular crossbars joined in their end by diverse
fixating devices on such corner angular beams, and such angular
crossbars forming peripheral stands with a same level at different
heights, spaced between them, where containing and exhibiting
panels may be set with various products, which are stacked or fixed
by diverse fixating devices on top of said angular crossbars
forming said peripheral stands, allowing for such stands to be
displaced.
[0021] Said angular beams and crossbars are preferably made of
compressed cardboard, taking advantage of its structural
characteristics of functionality, resiliency, cost and recycling
capabilities.
[0022] Said beams and said angular crossbars are preferably shaped
like an "L", both sides having the same length, each angular beam
is set with its open side facing the interior of this preferably
rectangular or square configuration.
[0023] In one embodiment angular crossbars are attached by an arm
to the corresponding end arm of said angular beams, leaving the
other arm horizontal in order to allow for support of product
containing stands; even though said angular crossbars may be set
with a vertical arm in order to capture said support stand from
within and provide exhibition of the products.
[0024] End sections of outer faces of said attaching arms in the
angular crossbars are spliced with an inner portion thereof in
sections at a defined height of such attaching arms corresponding
to said angular beams.
[0025] Upper angular crossbars forming the last peripheral stand,
apart from being attached to said angular beams, are joined at
their corresponding attached horizontal upper arms.
[0026] Attached ends of said angular crossbars joined at a same
level on said angular corner beams, are spliced one on top of the
other.
[0027] In another preferred embodiment of the invention, product
containing and exhibiting stands are phased out of the center of
the package, thus exposed to or beyond the middle of each face of
the exhibitor, fixed with fixating devices on said angular
crossbars, hence making stands exposed on opposite sides of the
package.
[0028] According to the above embodiment, corners of the plurality
of stands protruding from each face of the package, comprise an
external angular beam that provides additional support to the
protruding section of such product containing stands, comprising
said outer angular beams, angular crossbars attaching them thereto,
where they rest upon, and they may be fixed to said products
containing stands.
[0029] In another embodiment of this package, corner angular beams
are set with their open side facing out and angular crossbars are
attached on their edges with the outer face of an arm on the outer
faces of the corresponding arm of the angular beams, such angular
crossbars being exposed and substantially phased out, where each
angular crossbar attached to adjacent angular beams, support a
product containing and exhibiting stand, which are phased out from
the center with a protruding section supported by other outer
angular beams attached to the exterior corners of said product
containing and exhibiting stands.
[0030] In another embodiment of the invention, considering the
embodiment above, corner angular beams are set with their open side
facing outwards, and the ends of said angular crossbars are fixed
with their outer sides on the outer faces of said angular beams;
multiple levels derive from each corner angular beam, perpendicular
pairs of angular crossbars generate a "V" shaped support where
stands with the shape of 1/4 circle in order to support and exhibit
other different or same products, on which edges another vertical
angle is fixed to.
[0031] These embodiments may be combined based on the desired
configuration, and the characteristics of said angular beams and
crossbars, as well as the products supporting and exhibiting
stands.
[0032] In another preferred embodiment of the invention, applied to
any of these afore mentioned embodiments, angular beams are
supported by a base, tray or pallet under their lower end.
[0033] Attaching and fixating media for said angular beams and said
angular crossbars and such stands on said angular crossbars are
selected from a group consisting of screws, bolts, staples, rivets,
etc.
[0034] To allow for a better understanding of the characteristics
of the foregoing invention this description includes, as an
integral part hereof, drawings with illustrative, and not
limitative, character, and are described below with regards to the
favorite embodiment of the present invention.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0035] FIG. 1 is a conventional perspective view of the basic
embodiment of the self-standing exhibiting package.
[0036] FIG. 1a is a conventional perspective view of the basic
embodiment of the self-standing exhibiting package, with another
fixating device for the angular crossbars.
[0037] FIG. 2 is a conventional perspective view of another
disposition of the product containing and exhibiting stands,
according to FIG. 1.
[0038] FIG. 3 portrays another embodiment of the self-standing
exhibiting package in accordance to the present invention.
[0039] FIG. 4 portrays another preferred embodiment of the
invention with corner stands or shelves.
[0040] A detailed description of some of the embodiments of this
translation is given below to provide a better understanding
hereof, with reference to the drawings attached hereto with
illustrative, not limitative, purposes.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
[0041] Characteristic details of the self-standing exhibiting
package for various products are clearly depicted in the following
description and in the illustrative drawings attached hereto, with
reference numerals used to indicate said parts.
[0042] With reference to FIG. 1 that is a conventional perspective
view of the basic embodiment of the self-standing exhibiting
package. In said Figure, this self-standing exhibiting package
basically consists of corner angular beams 1 made of compressed
cardboard with their open face facing the inner part of the
rectangular configuration, with a plurality of angular crossbars 2
made of compressed cardboard attached on their ends by diverse
fixating devices 3 in the inner side of said angular beams 1, and
said angular crossbars provide peripheral supports 4 at the same
level at multiple heights, thus forming a plurality of consecutive
peripheral supports, where containing and exhibiting stands 5 for
various products may be set on, which are laid on such peripheral
angular crossbars 2 that generate said peripheral supports 4;
stands 5 may slide so they may be withdrawn or inserted
therein.
[0043] Said angular beams 1 and said angular crossbars 2 have
preferably an "L" shape with both arms having the same length.
[0044] Angular crossbars 2 are attached with an arm on the
corresponding adjacent end arm of the angular beams 1, their other
arm then remains horizontal allowing support for product containing
stands 5.
[0045] End sections of outer faces of said attaching arms in the
angular crossbars 2 are spliced with an inner portion thereof in
sections at a defined height of such attaching arms corresponding
to said angular beams 1.
[0046] Upper angular crossbars 2 forming the last peripheral
support 4, apart from being attached to said angular beams 1, are
joined at their corresponding attached horizontal upper arms.
[0047] With reference now to FIG. 1a which portrays a conventional
perspective view of the basic embodiment of the self-standing
exhibiting package, with another fixating device for the angular
crossbars. In said Figure, angular crossbars 2 are attached with an
arm on the corresponding adjacent end arm of angular beams 1, their
other arm then remains vertical, so that each peripheral support 4
captures a product containing stand 5 inside. This same figure also
shows attached ends of said angular crossbars 2 joined at a same
level on said angular corner beams 1, are spliced one on top of the
other.
[0048] Higher angular crossbars 2 may be fixed as fixated in the
embodiment shown in FIG. 1, as upper cap for the end angular
beams.
[0049] With reference now to FIG. 2 that portrays a conventional
perspective view of another disposition of the product containing
and exhibiting stands, according to FIG. 1. In said Figure, product
containing, supporting and exhibiting stands 5 are phased out from
the center of such configuration, exposed to or beyond the middle
in at least two exposed faces of the exhibitor, fixed by diverse
fixating devices 3 on said angular crossbars 2. Both outer corners
of said plurality of containing, supporting and exhibiting stands 5
comprise an angular beam 1 in order to provide support to said
exposed sections of said stands 5.
[0050] With reference now to FIG. 3 that portrays another
embodiment of the self-standing exhibiting package in accordance to
the present invention. In said Figure, angular beams 1 are set with
their open face facing outward and angular crossbars 2 are fixated
on their ends with their one arm outer face on the outer face of
their corresponding arm of said angular beams 1, thus said angular
crossbars 2 are set at the height of a face of the package with
respect to adjacent faces, therefore it is possible that sections
of product supporting stands 5 are exposed, which are phased out
from the center, where a phased out section is supported by other
angular beams 1 that are attached on the outer corners of product
containing and exhibiting stands 5. Upward, said corner angular
beams 1 comprise angular crossbars 2 as an upper cap.
[0051] In this embodiment, and as shown in the Figure, it is
possible to have product containing stands 5 at the same height on
opposite sides of the package.
[0052] With reference now to FIG. 4 that portrays another preferred
embodiment of the invention with corner stands or shelves. Said
Figure, aside from the structure and configuration as described
with reference to FIG. 3 above, angular beams 1 are set with their
open side facing outwards, and the ends of said angular crossbars 2
are fixed with their outer sides on the outer faces of said angular
beams 1; multiple levels derive from each corner angular beam 1,
perpendicular pairs of angular crossbars 2 generate a "V" shaped
support where stands with the shape of 1/4 circle in order to
support and exhibit other different or same products, on which
edges another support angular beam 1 is fixed to.
[0053] This invention has been described with details enough so
that those skilled in the art may reproduce it and get the results
stated herein. However, any person skilled in the art of this
present invention may do non-described modifications thereto but if
the application of such modifications in a given structure or its
manufacture process requires the subject matter included in the
following claims, such structures shall be included in the scope of
this invention.
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