摘要 |
A composite tray and stacker for shrink wrapped packages of a plurality of identical paperboard and/or plastic containers supported in a tray for the purpose of providing compressive load-bearing capability to the package. The composite tray and stacker is composed essentially of a single sheet of stiff material, such as corrugated paperboard. The structure includes a rectangular tray bottom wall, a pair of narrow side walls connected to opposite sides of the bottom wall along spaced apart fold lines and having fastening tabs for assembly, and a pair of end walls connected to the bottom wall along fold lines. A pair of spacer elements are foldably connected along the top edges of the end walls and a pair of weight-bearing stacker elements are foldably connected to the spacer elements. In the assembled package the end walls and spacer elements lie in parallel spaced apart relation to support packages stacked one on another.
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