Patent ID: 7597193

Claim:
A shoe box having parallel side walls and a pair of shoes positioned therein with the soles of the shoes facing outwardly and respectively one to each of said parallel side walls, said box formed of a single box blank also having end walls and a box bottom, said blank also having a divider extending from one end wall, said divider shaped and sized to be folded inwardly into the formed box bottom with panels defining the divider in part extending laterally across a fraction of the width of the box bottom, wherein said divider is integrally formed with the box blank, and wherein said divider is sized and shaped to hold said pair of shoes within the shoe box with the soles of the shoes facing outwardly toward and adjacent the side walls, and with the divider lying at least in part in a plane substantially parallel to the bottom of the shoe box, and with at least a panel of the divider adapted to contact and separate said pair of shoes.