Patent ID: 7383952
Filing Date: 2008-06-10
Classification: B65D

Abstract:
1. An external corner edge protector for protecting an external corner edge portion of an article when said external corner edge protector is disposed around the external corner edge portion of the article, comprising: a vertex portion having an internal corner region and an external corner region; and a pair of leg members, having internal and external surface portions, integrally connected together at proximal portions thereof by said vertex portion; wherein said pair of leg members further comprise distal end portions which are disposed remote from said vertex portion and which comprise enlarged cross-sectional thickness dimensions, relative to the cross-sectional thickness dimensions of those portions of said pair of leg members which interconnect said distal end portions of said pair of leg members to said vertex portion, such that sections of said distal end portions of said pair of leg members will project inwardly away from said internal surface portions of said pair of leg members and toward the side surfaces of the article, which intersect each other so as to define the external corner edge portion of the article around which said external corner edge protector is to be disposed, whereby only said enlarged distal end portions of said external corner edge protector, in addition to said internal corner region of said vertex portion, will engage the side surfaces of the article when said external corner edge protector is mounted upon the external corner edge portion of the article such that said pair of leg members will be forced outwardly away from each other, by a predetermined distance, so as to generate forces which are transmitted to said vertex portion of said external corner edge protector in order to rigidify said vertex portion of said external corner edge protector against externally applied flexural bending forces.