Adjustable insulation packaging

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10266332-B2
Application number	US-201514703094-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 4, 2015
Priority date	May 4, 2015
Publication date	Apr 23, 2019
Grant date	Apr 23, 2019

Abstract

An insulation packaging assembly includes: a box including a top side wall, an bottom side wall, and a plurality of lateral side walls; a first insulation liner contacting a one of the lateral side walls of the box, the first insulation liner including a left fold, a center fold, and a right fold; and a second insulation liner contacting a second of the lateral side walls of the box, the second insulation liner including a top fold, a back fold, and a bottom fold, the top fold of the second insulation liner positioned between the left fold and the right fold of the first insulation liner.

First claim

That which is claimed is:

1. An insulation packaging assembly comprising:
a box including a top side wall, a bottom side wall, and a plurality of lateral side walls;
a first insulation liner defining an inner surface and an outer surface, the inner surface disposed opposite from the outer surface, the first insulation liner defining a right side end and a left side end, the right side end disposed opposite from the left side end, the inner surface being continuous and unbroken from the left side end to the right side end, the outer surface contacting a first of the plurality of lateral side walls of the box, the first insulation liner including a left fold, a center fold, and a right fold; and
a second insulation liner contacting a second of the plurality of lateral side walls of the box, the second insulation liner including a top fold, a back fold, and a bottom fold, the top fold of the second insulation liner positioned between the left fold and the right fold of the first insulation liner, the top fold defining a top side end, the bottom fold defining a bottom side end disposed opposite from the top side end; and
wherein the first insulation liner comprises an insulation material, and wherein the insulation material extends unbroken from the left side end to the right side end; and
wherein:
the top fold is resiliently deformable about and between a standard cavity configuration and a reduced cavity configuration;
the top side end and the bottom side end both contact the center fold in the standard cavity configuration;
the bottom side end contacts the center fold and the top side end contacts the top side wall of the box in the reduced cavity configuration;
the top side end is folded upwards and away from the bottom side end in the reduced cavity configuration; and
a box void space is defined at least partially between the top fold and the top side wall of the box.

2. The insulation packaging assembly of claim 1 , wherein an outer surface of the second insulation liner contacts the top side wall of the box in the standard cavity configuration.

3. The insulation packaging assembly of claim 1 , wherein the bottom fold of the second insulation liner is positioned between the left fold and the right fold of the first insulation liner.

4. The insulation packaging assembly of claim 1 , wherein the first insulation liner and the second insulation liner define a storage cavity, and wherein a volume of the storage cavity is adjustable by reconfiguring the top fold about and between the standard cavity configuration and the reduced cavity configuration.

5. The insulation packaging assembly of claim 4 , further comprising an item positioned in the storage cavity, wherein the second insulation liner is bent to contact an inner surface of the second insulation liner at the top fold with the item positioned in the storage cavity in the reduced cavity configuration.

6. The insulation packaging assembly of claim 1 , wherein the first insulation liner and the second insulation liner define a storage cavity, wherein the second insulation liner is bendable to move the second insulation liner away from the first insulation liner to remove an item from the storage cavity.

7. The insulation packaging assembly claim 1 , wherein:
a left side end of the second insulation liner contacts the inner surface of the first insulation liner at the left fold, a left end of the left fold contacting the first of the plurality of lateral side walls of the box; and
a right side end of the second insulation liner contacts the inner surface of the first insulation liner at the right fold, a right end of the right fold contacting the first of the plurality of lateral side walls of the box.

8. The insulation packaging assembly of claim 1 , wherein the first insulation liner includes:
a top end, and
a bottom end,
wherein at least a one of the right side end and the left side end contacts the second of the plurality of lateral side walls of box opposite from the first of the plurality of lateral side walls of the box.

9. The insulation packaging assembly of claim 1 , wherein:
the first insulation liner defines the left fold between the left side end and a first bend line, the center fold between the first bend line and a second bend line, and the right fold between the second bend line and the right side end; and
the second insulation liner defines the top fold between a top side end and a third bend line, the back fold between the third bend line and a fourth bend line, and the bottom fold between the fourth bend line and a bottom side end.

10. The insulation packaging assembly of claim 9 , wherein:
the first side end of the second insulation liner contacts the inner surface at the left fold of the first insulation liner; and
the second side end of the second insulation liner contacts the inner surface of the right fold at the first insulation liner.

11. The insulation packaging assembly of claim 1 , wherein the inner surface extends unbroken across the left fold, the center fold, and the right fold.

12. The insulation packaging assembly of claim 1 , wherein:
the second insulation liner defines an inner surface and an outer surface;
the inner surface is disposed opposite from the outer surface; and
the inner surface is continuous and unbroken from the top side end to the bottom side end.

13. The insulation packaging assembly of claim 1 , wherein the inner surface and the outer surface of the first insulation liner are each substantially planar when the first insulation liner is in an unfolded state.

14. The insulation packaging assembly of claim 1 , wherein the first insulation liner and the second insulation liner each define a rectangular prism shape in an unfolded configuration.

15. The insulation packaging assembly of claim 1 , wherein:
a storage cavity is defined between the first insulation liner and the second insulation liner;
the storage cavity defines a first size when the top fold is in the standard cavity configuration;
the storage cavity defines a second size when the top fold is in the reduced cavity configuration; and
the second size is smaller than the first size.

16. The insulation packaging assembly of claim 1 , wherein the box defines a box cavity, and wherein the second insulation liner partitions the box cavity into a storage cavity defined between the first insulation liner and the second insulation liner and the box void space when the top fold is in the reduced cavity configuration.

Assignees

• Pratt Corrugated Holdings Inc

Inventors

• Aksan Yavuz
• Kayne Joshua David

Classifications

• B65D81/3862 Primary

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