Patent ID: 8424681

Claim:
A combination container for containing specialty shingles including a box and a sleeve, (a) with the box being a two compartment box, wherein each compartment comprises a back wall, sidewalls, a front wall and a bottom wall, wherein the back walls of each compartment are hingedly connected to each other and are adapted to be disposed back-to-back relative to each other and with their front walls adapted to be spaced apart from each other; (b) wherein protruding portions of the back walls of each compartment extend upwardly beyond the front wall and sidewalls of each compartment and wherein the hinged connection of the back walls is only at upper ends of said back walls, leaving the two compartments of the box to function as a saddle box means for separation from each other except at the hinged connection, to fit over opposite sides of an apex of a roof structure upon removal of said sleeve; (c) including a handle opening in the protruding portions of the back walls; (d) wherein the front walls have openings therein defined by portions of the front walls, for providing visibility to shingles when shingles are disposed therein with the sleeve having four sides, with two opposed sides of the sleeve adapted for engaging the outsides of the two front walls of the box when the box is disposed with its back walls back-to-back to each other with the sleeve disposed therearound, and with the other two opposed sides of the sleeve adapted for engaging the outsides of the sidewalls of the box when the box is disposed with its back walls back-to-back to each other with the sleeve therearound, comprising means for holding the back walls of each compartment of the two compartment box together, against separation from each other, when the sleeve is disposed around the box.