Patent ID: 7000763
Filing Date: 2006-02-21
Classification: B65D

Abstract:
1. A coverless package for one or more products comprising a frame into which product is loaded from the rear and a card which is fastened to the rear of the frame after the product is loaded therein, comprising: a frame, said frame, when said package is disposed on display for retail sale with product therein, having a front face intended to be viewed by consumers, having a rear side opposite from said front face and adapted to have a card fastened to said rear side when product is contained in said package, and having top, bottom, left and right edges; said frame having one or more openings through said frame which are shaped to accommodate receipt therein of said product so that said product can be touched by customers when said package is disposed on display for retail sale with product therein: said frame having a plurality of retainers, each extending outwardly from said front face adjacent to an edge on each side of each of said one or more openings, each retainer shaped to engage a particular related part of a product so as to restrain said product in one or more of up, down, right, left or forward directions, said retainers together restraining said product within the openings of said frame and in front of said frame and restraining said product from moving away from the front of said frame; and said package including a card to be fastened to the rear side of said frame after product has been inserted from said rear side into and restrained by said openings and said retainers, said card restraining product from rearward movement.