Patent ID: 6422390
Filing Date: 2002-07-23
Classification: B65D

Abstract:
A self supporting lighting fixture and package therefore comprising:a package having a top wall, a bottom wall spaced from the top wall and a pair of spaced side walls interconnecting the top and bottom walls, the package being open on the sides thereof adjacent each of said spaced side walls forming a through passage through said package; a first opening in said top wall and a second opening in said bottom wall, said openings being aligned and said opening through said top wall being lesser in diameter than the opening through said bottom wall; a lighting fixture mounted in said package having a lower portion resting on said bottom wall and confined between said spaced side walls, said fixture further having a top portion extending out of the opening in said top wall and therethrough, said lower portion of said fixture being integrally connected to said top portion by a tapered peripheral side wall portion, said lighting fixture being open therethrough from the top to bottom thereof having a rim at both its upper end and its lower end, said flaps extending upwardly from said bottom wall about the rim of said lower portion of said lighting fixture; and a second lighting fixture and package identical to the first mentioned lighting fixture and package being stacked on top of said first mentioned lighting fixture and package, the upper portion of the fixture of said first mentioned lighting fixture and package extending through and into the open bottom portion of the fixture of said second mentioned lighting fixture and package.