Nestable molded articles, and related assemblies and methods

摘要

A man-made, molded article is provided. The article includes a profile including a planar wall, and an adjacent integral molded depression having a contoured wall extending downwardly from the planar wall. The contoured wall includes a bead portion, a cove portion, and a ledge between the bead and cove portions. The articles are stackable, one above another for transport, in a nestable relationship in which multiple contact zones are present between the contoured walls of an adjacently stacked pair of the molded articles. The contact zones include an arcuately extending contact interface zone between the bead exterior and interior surfaces. The depression has a substantially uniform thickness varying by no more than about +1 percent to about −11 percent in relation to a thickness of the planar wall. Related methods and assemblies are also provided.

主权项

1. A door skin, comprising:
a door portion; a door panel lying in a common plane with the door portion; and a depression disposed between the door portion and the door panel so as to surround the door panel and be surrounded by the door portion, the depression comprising a contoured wall extending downwardly from the door portion toward a bottom of the depression at an angle of inclination and a slanted wall extending upwardly from the bottom of the depression to the door panel, the contoured wall comprising a bead portion having opposite bead exterior and interior surface regions, a cove portion having opposite cove exterior and interior surface regions, and a ledge between the bead portion and the cove portion, wherein the door skin is stackable for transportation with a second door skin of identical profile in a nestable relationship in which multiple contact zones are present between the contoured walls of the stacked door skins, the contact zones including an arcuately extending contact zone between the bead exterior surface region of the door skin and the bead interior surface region of the second door skin.