Stone Container Corporation

Robert Miller

Wayne H Kuhn

Elizabeth G Wilson

A divisible shipping platform apparatus for supporting and transporting loads, in which the apparatus is easily divided into multiple independent shipping platform units for subsequent transporting and handling loads. The divisible shipping platform apparatus comprises a platform member separated from a bottom panel member by a series of pylons. The platform member and bottom panel member are constructed with one or more frangibility lines dividing the platform member and bottom panel member into divisible regions. Inasmuch as those frangibility lines and divisible regions are substantially aligned, independent shipping platform units may be separated from the divisible shipping platform apparatus upon exertion of a force on the divisible regions and, in turn, the frangibility lines. Pylon sleeves, substantially corresponding to the configuration of the platform member and bottom panel member divisible regions, may be associated with the pylons to facilitate division of the divisible shipping platform apparatus and to provide increased structural integrity for the independent shipping platform units. The divisible shipping platform may also be constructed with multiple, independent bottom panels corresponding to each platform member divisible region, or no bottom panel at all. Likewise, the divisible shipping platform may be constructed of a substantially unitary paperboard blank.

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Yorkville, IL, United States of America

Robert Miller