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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 08, 1994
Filed:
May. 10, 1993
Hugh C Stringer, Bristol, VA (US);
Phillip S Leonard, Bristol, VA (US);
Bristol Compressors, Bristol, VA (US);
Abstract
A compressor shipping carton having a sheet-like base pad provided with a plurality of depressions or compressor feet retainers in the top surface thereof arranged in a close pattern and each adapted to snugly receive the mounting feet of a compressor for preventing lateral movement thereof, a plurality of rectangular, corrugated paperboard partitions having only side and end walls and being sufficiently wide to accommodate a single compressor and its associated retainer, and being sufficiently long to accommodate at least two compressors and their associated retainers, said partitions resting edgewise and side by side on said base pad, a plurality of rectangular, corrugated paperboard dividers each having side, top and bottom, and end walls providing a substantially closed tube of relatively narrow width and affording a degree of crushability for absorbing forces generated by tilting of the compressors, laterally aligned notches in the upper wall portions of the partitions and laterally aligned slots in the bottom and lower wall portions of the dividers, the dividers being assembled with the partitions by internesting of the notches and slots, with the dividers lying edgewise within the notches, thereby providing a plurality of transport pockets for the compressors.