Patent ID: 9573721
Date: 2017-02-21
CPC Classifications: B65B,B65D

Claim:
1. A shipping container comprising: a corrugated cardboard box; a first vertical compartmented insert nested within said box, wherein said first vertical compartmented insert comprises a rectangular vertical array of interior dividing walls having upper wall ends and forming there between a plurality of rectangular compartments, each having a storage volume, a portion of at least one of the vertical interior dividing walls being detachable from a remainder of the wall; a horizontal insert placed on top of and resting on the upper wall ends of said first vertical compartmented insert, wherein said horizontal insert comprises a perforation pattern that aligns with the at least one of the vertical interior dividing walls of the first vertical compartmented insert; a second vertical compartmented insert nested within said box separated from the first compartmented insert by the horizontal insert and supported on top of said horizontal insert, wherein said second vertical compartmented insert comprises a rectangular vertical array of interior dividing walls forming there between a plurality of rectangular compartments, each having a storage volume, a portion of at least one of the vertical interior dividing walls being detachable; wherein detachment of the portion of the least one detachable vertical interior wall of either of the first and second vertical compartmented inserts combines the storage volumes of two adjacent compartments that were previously separated by the detachable portion of the vertical interior wall, while the storage volumes of other compartments of the plurality of compartments are unchanged.