Patent Application
20140124511
Wine is most frequently sold in glass bottles. With glass being fairly brittle material, transporting bottles in mass quantities is a delicate process. Oftentimes, glass bottles are shipped in the same container, and if the proper precautions are not taken, careless transport subjects the bottles to the dangers of being cracked open, thus wasting the product. At the end of shipment, there a need for marketing the shipped wine to the consumer. A common way of advertising wine is to place a display akin to a miniature billboard near the wine products. These displays would then generally present the supplier's and merchant's desired advertisement.
Therefore, there is a need to a method and apparatus that safely transports glass bottles placed in close proximity and is capable of being a point-of-sale advertisement at the merchant-consumer exchange.
A method and apparatus for wine bottle packaging divider and display is disclosed. In accordance with an exemplary embodiment, a divider with opposing side edges and opposing top and bottom edges is provided. The divider has a partitioning line dividing the divider into a first section and a second section, wherein at least one of the first section and the second section is capable of displaying an advertisement. The divider also has at least one pair of elongated openings, wherein each of the at least one pair of elongated openings has an end in proximity to one of the opposing top and bottom edges, wherein said at least one pair of elongated openings is capable of being opened to the one edge and slidably coupled onto a vertical wall for displaying the advertisement. The divider is folded along the partitioning line to fit within a container for packaging the glass bottles.
The above and other preferred features, including various novel details of implementation and combination of elements, will now be more particularly described with reference to the accompanying drawings and pointed out in the claims. It will be understood that the particular methods and apparatuses are shown by way of illustration only and not as limitations. As will be understood by those skilled in the art, the principles and features explained herein may be employed in various and numerous embodiments.
The accompanying drawings, which are included as part of the present specification, illustrate the presently preferred embodiment of the present invention and together with the general description given above and the detailed description of the preferred embodiment given below serve to explain and teach the principles of the present invention.
It should be noted that the figures are not necessarily drawn to scale and that elements of structures or functions are generally represented by reference numerals for illustrative purposes throughout the figures. It also should be noted that the figures are only intended to facilitate the description of the various embodiments described herein. The figures do not describe every aspect of the teachings described herein and do not limit the scope of the claims.
In the following description, for purposes of clarity and conciseness of the description, not all of the numerous components shown in the schematic are described. The numerous components are shown in the drawings to provide a person of ordinary skill in the art a thorough enabling disclosure of the present invention. The operation of many of the components would be understood to one skilled in the art.
Each of the additional features and teachings disclosed herein can be utilized separately or in conjunction with other features and teachings to provide a wine bottle packaging divider and display device. Representative examples utilizing many of these additional features and teachings, both separately and in combination, are described in further detail with reference to the attached drawings. This detailed description is merely intended to teach a person of skill in the art further details for practicing preferred aspects of the present teachings and is not intended to limit the scope of the claims. Therefore, combinations of features disclosed in the following detailed description may not be necessary to practice the teachings in the broadest sense and are instead taught merely to describe particularly representative examples of the present teachings.
Moreover, the various features of the representative examples and the dependent claims may be combined in ways that are not specifically and explicitly enumerated in order to provide additional useful embodiments of the present teachings. In addition, it is expressly noted that all features disclosed in the description and/or the claim are intended to be disclosed separately and independently from each other for the purpose of original disclosure, as well as for the purpose of restricting the claimed subject matter independent of the compositions of the features in the embodiments and/or the claims. It is also expressly noted that all value ranges or indications of groups of entities disclose every possible intermediate value or intermediate entity for the purpose of original disclosure, as well as for the purpose of restricting the claimed subject matter. It is also expressly noted that the dimensions and the shapes of the components shown in the figures are designed to help understand how the present teachings are practiced but are not intended to limit the dimensions and the shapes shown in the examples.
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In this embodiment, divider 100 is partitioned into three sections, where the two partitioning lines 110 are perforated and creased to allow partitions 130 and 150 to be folded or positioned at an angle to partition 140. Divider 100 may be sized so as to be fitted into a wine transport container suitable for transporting wine bottles, as will be further explained in
Additionally, divider 100 is configured to have at least one pair of elongated openings 160. In a preferred embodiment, elongated openings 160 are cut in parallel to partitioning lines 110, and are placed close to triangular out 170 so as to enable easy cutting or tearing of removable sections 170. The elongated openings 160 are spaced apart such that divider 100 can be slidably coupled to the top of one of the walls of the wine transport container in a stable with partitions 130, 140, and 150 in an alternating configuration. Alternatively, divider 100 may be slidably coupled to any suitable vertical wall when removable sections 170 are cut or torn away. An advertisement can then be printed across any of the partitions 130, 140, and 150. The merchant or retailer then places the advertisement printed across any of the partitions 130, 140, and 150 as shown in
Embodiments as described herein have significant advantages over previously developed implementations. As will be apparent to one of ordinary skill in the art, other similar apparatus arrangements are possible within the general scope. The embodiments described above are intended to be exemplary rather than limiting, and the bounds should be determined from the claims.
