Point of sale packaging for small parts such as hardware articles or the like
CA 2073318 A1 · Owner: Schumacher, Rolf · Inventors: Schumacher, Rolf; Von Agris, Rudolf; Schiffer, Helmut
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In point of sale packaging for small hardware items a container, that incorporates a transparent container part that is of plastic and is secured to a cardboard blank is used. The cardboard blank is used to hang the point of sale packaging on a rod that is part of a self-service display. In order to provide for more favourable separation of the point of sale packaging according to the materials from which it is made, it is proposed that the container be formed from a three-dimensionally folded section of the cardboard blank, this forming a lower tray that then, continues as a flat one-piece cardboard end piece that is used to hang the point of sale packaging on a self-service rack. The side …
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- Filed July 7, 1992. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended July 7, 2012.
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