Special receptacle or package – Holder for a removable electrical component
Reexamination Certificate
1999-12-17
2001-10-02
Luong, Shian (Department: 3728)
Special receptacle or package
Holder for a removable electrical component
C206S459500, C229S120210, C229S118000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06296121
ABSTRACT:
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
This invention pertains to the packaging of electrical fixtures, and in particular to a unitary package for a plurality of electrical fixtures which also provides a separable instruction card for each fixture.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
In providing electrical wiring devices such as switches, duplex receptacles and GCFI fixtures, it is frequently convenient to package them in quantities of two or more which an installer may require in a construction or remodeling project. Typically, a package may contain ten such devices. It is a UL code requirement that each device must have its own separate set of instructions. In the past, the instructions have been included as one or more separate sheets of paper for each device which had to be accommodated in the package itself.
Even when separate instructions are provided for each device, it sometimes occurs that several sets of instructions may be removed from the package at one time, leaving an insufficient number of sets in the box for the remaining devices. If considerable time elapses between the installation of one device and the next, the instructions may be mislaid, or an installer using a package previously opened by another installer may not be aware of their whereabouts.
This is clearly an inconvenience. For this reason and also for reasons of economy and to conserve space, it would be useful to provide a package wherein these problems are alleviated.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention provides an integral packaging box for a plurality of electrical devices. The package has flaps, each attached to the top of a corresponding side wall or end wall, and each having a plurality of perforations or other lines of weakness dividing the flap into separate areas. The areas can be intentionally detached as required, one or more at a time. Preferably, each area includes indicia comprising full instructions for a device, and there is at least one such area per device. As a device is removed from the box, one detachable area can be torn off at a perforation to provide an instruction card for that device. This not only ensures that the required codes are observed, but guarantees that, unless there is deliberate misuse or unlikely error, there are always instructions available for every device as it is removed from the package.
As well as providing for sufficient copies of the instructions, the flaps can either provide a platform above one row of devices for receiving another row of devices, or they function as dust flaps to protect the contents of the package. The lines of weakness are placed consistently with the required positions of folds in the overall package.
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Luong Shian
Pass & Seymour, Inc.
Wall Marjama & Bilinski
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