Title: Apparel hanging receiving element

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1. In combination, a shipping container having integrally formed bottom, side, top and end walls, a closure flap hinged to an edge of at least one of said walls, a continuous slot formed in an end wall and extending only into said flap hinged to said end wall, and a separate apparel hanger receiving element releasably retained in said container and formed from a cut and scored blank of paperboard, or the like, said element including:

(a) a pair of inner and a pair of outer panels hingedly connected in alternating sequence along parallel hinge lines;

(b) said inner panels being folded against each other into a face-to-face relationship along one of said parallel hinge lines;

(c) each of said inner panels having a top extension hinged to an edge thereof and received through said slot formed in said closure flap of said container;

(d) said extensions being folded into contacting relationship with the exterior surface of said closure flap;

(e) said outer panels being received through said slot in said end wall of said container and folded into contacting relationship with the exterior surface of said end wall;

(f) an opening formed in said inner panels inwardly of said hinge lines connecting said inner panels with their respective adjacent outer panels and being adapted to receive a hook portion of said hanger.

Other info:

Inventors: Pilz, William M. (Eldridge, IA, US)

Application Number: 849013
Filing Date: 1977-11-07
Publication_date: 1978-10-10
Assignee: Container Corporation of America (Chicago, IL)
Primary Class(es): 206/279 206/289
Other Classes:
US Patent Ref:

1287111	Dec, 1918	Roth	206/290.
2796977	Jun, 1957	Dinine	206/291.
2827160	Mar, 1958	Richer	206/291.
3057460	Oct, 1962	Richer	206/289.
3057482	Oct, 1962	Richer	206/279.

Other Refs:
Primary Examiner: Ross, Herbert F.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney: Carpenter & Ostis