B - Operations – Transporting – 65 – D
Patent
B - Operations, Transporting
65
D
B65D 85/68 (2006.01) B65D 19/44 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2092151
SELF-REMOVING WASHER SHIPPING PLUG ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE A shipping pallet for use in packaging a top loading clothes washer includes a rectangular base of plastic foam material with an aperture in its center, the bottom of the clothes washer cabinet being fully supported on the base. A plastic post with a radially extending skirt at its mid portion is locked at its lower end into the aperture in the base. The upper end of the post extends though a center aperture in the base plate of the clothes washer and then press fits into a vertically aligned center aperture in the snubber dome thereof. The post and its skirt interlock respectively with the snubber dome and the base plate to stop the snubber dome from laterally shifting relative to the base plate during shipping so as to preclude damage to the clothes washer. When the clothes washer is removed from its packaging by the end user, the rectangular base is pulled away from the bottom of the clothes washer cabinet along with the post wherein the snubber dome is released so as to be able to move relative to the clothes washer base plate as is desired during normal operation of the washing machine. Such a shipping pallet eliminates the need for a separate snubber dome shipping bolt that must be manually removed subsequent to unpackaging of the clothes washer as is the current practice.
Bancroft Dennis W.
Case Richard P.
Kern Jerry J.
Macrae & Co.
White Consolidated Industries Inc.
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