Title: Container for a lamp bulb or the like, and resulting package

Abstract: A single lamp bulb is retained within a collapsible open-ended tubular sleeve of stiff paperboard by an integral panel that extends within the interior of the sleeve and has a medial cut-out which interlockingly accommodates a protruding arcuate portion of the lamp bulb. The locking panel is slit, scored and secured to only one of the sleeve walls in such a manner that it automatically flexes and is pushed into locking position when the sleeve is set up for use. The central portion of the panel obliquely spans a corner of the erected sleeve and another portion of the panel frictionally engages and is wedged against one of the sleeve walls to provide a bracing action that inhibits the inherent tendency of the sleeve to return to collapsed condition.

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Inventors: Barbieri, Thomas (Peapack, NJ, US)
Getz, Edward J. (Irvington, NJ, US)
Wilson, Alfred W. (Dover, NJ, US)

Application Number: 510826
Filing Date: 1974-09-30
Publication_date: 1976-03-02
Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Corporation (Pittsburgh, PA)
Primary Class(es): 206/418 206/422
Other Classes:
US Patent Ref:

2714981	Aug, 1955	Leavens	229/39.
2893623	Jul, 1959	Bates	229/39.
3069008	Dec, 1962	Dugre	229/39.
3162303	Dec, 1964	Greene	229/39.
3361330	Jan, 1968	Arneson	229/39.

Other Refs: 494,639

Jul, 1953	CA

Primary Examiner: Moorhead, Davis T.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney: Buleza; D. S.