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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 16, 2010
Filed:
May. 26, 2006
Edmund Czopor, Jr., Burlington, CT (US);
Richard Hart, Burlington, CT (US);
Timothy Lebeau, Avon, CT (US);
Susan Lapadula, Canton, CT (US);
Thomas Pelletier, Wallingford, CT (US);
Edmund Czopor, Jr., Burlington, CT (US);
Richard Hart, Burlington, CT (US);
Timothy Lebeau, Avon, CT (US);
Susan Lapadula, Canton, CT (US);
Thomas Pelletier, Wallingford, CT (US);
The Stanley Works, New Britain, CT (US);
Abstract
A commodities package is provided for containing commodities, such as staples. The package includes a base container and a cover, the base container and cover having interengaging structure in order to hold them together. The base container and cover are wrapped with shrink wrap to provide a sealed package. An outer package contains a plurality of commodity packages and facilitates loading of the commodity packages onto a display structure. The outer package is manually alterable so that it supports each of the plurality of commodity packages while the display structure is received by hanger members provided on the commodity packages. Once the commodity packages are loaded onto the display structure, the outer package is pulled away.