Ngk Insulators, Inc.

Sanko Co., Ltd.

Kunihiko Iwahara

So Kawamura

Kazuhiko Miyata

Shigeki Urai

Akira Kurebayashi

Yoshiharu Murakami

In a folding container assembled in a box form by raising folded long side wallsso as to stand perpendicular to a bottom portionand then raising folded short side wallsso as to stand perpendicular to the bottom portion, each of the short side walls is composed of an upper short side wall portionand a lower short side wall portion, and horizontal pins hformed on the upper short side wall portion are inserted into corresponding slitsin hinge female blocks Hformed on the lower short side wall portion to hinge the upper short side wall portion and the lower short side wall portion together. The short side walls are each composed of the upper short side wall portion and lower short side wall portion connected together with hinge members to reduce the height of the folded folding container. Accordingly, the folded folding container can be more efficiently housed to save housing spaces.

Folding container

A packaging assembly for efficiently packaging wheels includes multiple sheets of supporting and fixing members. A first set of wheels, each wheel having a and engaging a hub hole of one of the sheets, is located between two of the sheets. A first sheet supports a first set of wheels, and a second sheet is supported by the first set of wheels. A second set of wheels is located between the second sheet and a third sheet, each wheel of the second set including a hub engaged with a hub hole of the third sheet or of one of the first two sheets. The hub engagement of each wheel is laterally offset from the perimeter of all of the wheels of adjacent sets of wheels. The packaging includes means for preventing lateral movement of the wheels in each set.

Packaging element of tire wheel

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Gifu, Japan

Kunihiko Iwahara