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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 1998
Filed:
Sep. 30, 1996
Michael J Smith, Orangeburg, NY (US);
Arrow Art Finishers, L.L.C., Princeton, NJ (US);
Abstract
A display tray is formed by folding from an originally sheet-shaped body along respective weakened portions that subdivide the body into a plurality of central and lateral zones arranged in respective central and lateral columns and in respective rows corresponding to front, bottom, rear and intermediate regions of the tray as considered in a final condition of use of the tray. At least one sector is formed in two adjacent ones of the front, bottom and rear central zones that are interconnected by one of the weakened portions and extend substantially at right angles in the finished tray. The sector extends across the one weakened zone, being subdivided by it into two sector portions and is dissociated from each of the two central zones, but its portions remain connected to the respective ones of the two central zones for pivoting relative to them by respective auxiliary weakened portions. The auxiliary weakened portions extend at such angles relative to the one weakened portion that, as the two adjacent central zones are being moved toward their final positions with respect to one another, the sector portions are caused to move toward such positions relative to the two central zones that one of the sector portions extends into and across the space delimited by all of the zones in the finished tray and subdivides the same into respective compartments situated to the two sides of the one sector portion.