Patent ID: 8413809
Filing Date: 2013-04-09
Classification: B65D

Abstract:
1. A package of specialty shingles comprising a container for specialty shingles; the container having an interior with a bottom and an upper end adapted to receive specialty shingles through the upper end; the container having a bottom wall and sidewalls foldably connected to the bottom wall; a shaped support at the bottom of the container; a plurality of specialty shingles each of an inverted V-shaped configuration with sloped upper surfaces in a nested stack in the container, each sidewall having an upper end terminating in a fold line, with a closure panel extending from each said fold line and comprising means for closing the upper end of the container when specialty shingles are disposed therein; said closure panels being sloped to be generally parallel to the sloped upper surfaces of the specialty shingles; with said closure panels terminating in additional fold lines generally above a center of the inverted V-shaped configuration of the uppermost shingle in the stack; which shingles have a degree of pliability with a tendency to relax their shape over time; with the specialty shingles having shapes at their lower ends and the shaped support having a shape at its upper end that is complemental to the shapes of the lower ends of the specialty shingles; wherein the container has upstanding handle panels at its upper end extending upwardly from the addition fold lines and wherein the handle panels have handle cutouts; shape constraining means separate from the container sidewalls disposed about the container for supporting the sidewalls of the container when a plurality of specialty shingles are disposed in the container and for providing a force that resists the tendency of the inverted V-shaped shingles to relax their shape over time and to maintain the stack of inverted V-shaped shingles in their preferred shape; wherein the shape constraining means includes any of: (a) a mesh wrapped around at least sidewalls of the container; (b) a shrink-wrap film wrapped around at least sidewalls of the container; (c) a stretch-wrap film wrapped around at least sidewalls of the container; and (d) at least one band wrapped around at least sidewalls of the container.