Plastic tie display package

Abstract

A display package that has top and bottom walls each wall having an interior and a periphery. A side wall connects the peripheries of the top and bottom walls to define an enclosure and dividing walls extending up from the bottom wall toward the top wall to divide the enclose into a plurality of compartments for containing articles. The top wall defines a cover panel opposite each compartment, each cover panel extending from a hinge line in the interior of the top wall to a location adjacent to the periphery of the top wall. Each cover panel is swingable using a finger access hole in the panel, about that hinge line between a closed position wherein the cover panel lies substantially parallel to said bottom wall and closes the associated compartment and an open position wherein the cover panel is swung away from the bottom wall and partially exposes the associated compartment. Each cover panel is releasably retained in its closed position so that the package can be hung on edge from a support, and constructs an attractive point of sale display for the articles therein.

Description

[0001] This invention relates to a container or package for displaying and dispensing small articles. It is particularly suitable for containing and displaying elongated articles which may come in different lengths such as cable ties, cotton swab sticks and the like. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0002] The prior art is replete with containers and packages for displaying and dispensing articles of one kind or another. These conventional containers range all the way from plastic bags and boxes to blister packs which usually comprise a see-through-thermoformed shell bonded to a backing card. Some of these packages include provision for accessing the interior of the blister pack by way of a door or cover panel in the shell or in the backing card. Usually these blister packs are each dedicated to a specific article. In other words, they are not compartmentalized and designed to provide independent access to the various compartments. Those containers and packages that do provide for such i...

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Benefits of technology

[0003] Accordingly, it an object of the present invention to provide an improved container for containing and displaying a multiplicity of inexpensive items.

[0005] A further object of the invention is to provide a container which is especially adapted to hold various different species of the same basic article and to provide ready access to selected ones of those species without disturbing the others.

[0006] Yet another object of the invention is to provide a container of this type which is relatively easy and inexpensive to make.

[0007] Still another object of the invention is to provide such a container or package which can be accessed many times without jeopardizing the overall integrity of the container or package.

[0011] The top section of the container is co-extensive with the bottom section and is adapted to cover all of the pockets or compartments in the latter section. The top and bottom sections each have peripheral edge margins which interfit with those of the other section so that the two sections may be press fit together all along their peripheries to form tight enclosures for the articles. Those sections may also have additional interfitting surfaces between at least some of the various pockets to isolate those compartments and to rigidify the container.

[0015] As we shall see, my container is constructed so that it can withstand rough handling even to the extent of being dropped on the floor. Also for the same reason, it can be suspended on edge in a display rack or the like without any mixing or disorientation of the contents of the various compartments therein. Still further, the container is constructed so that its cover panels can withstand repeated openings and closings to access the container contents so that the container should have a relatively long useful life. In other words, it should last as long as any articles remain in the container. Yet with all of these advantages, the container is still relatively easy and inexpensive to make in quantity. Therefore it should prove to be a highly desirable and marketable product.

Problems solved by technology

In other words, they are not compartmentalized and designed to provide independent access to the various compartments.

Those containers and packages that do provide for such independent access are unduly complex and costly so that they are not economical for containing very inexpensive articles such as cable ties and the like.

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