Convertible case with deployable ventilation panels for shipping and displaying food products

摘要

There are a number of known paperboard or cardboard containers or cases that are configured to be opened and used to hold the shipped food product for display at a store or other facility. However, such known shipping and display are often tightly packed with food products to maximize shipping density, leading to poor ventilation and cooling of perishable food products. Other such cases are sized and shaped in a manner that requires the food products to be packed in an undesirable orientation (leading to settling or ‘clumping’ of the food product in a manner that is not readily recoverable when reconfigured in the display orientation (e.g. particularly for moist food products, such as shredded cheeses, etc.). The present invention provides an improved convertible case for shipping and displaying packages of a food product that is convertible from a shipping configuration to a display configuration for displaying the food products for sale. The convertible case includes a body formed from a first blank of a cardboard material and a hood formed from a second blank of a cardboard material. The first blank is foldable into a six-sided rectangular body and filled, using automatic or manual production processes, into a shipping configuration assembly having a front with a partially open region and a removable portion with a glue area, a back having a partially open region and a removable portion having a glue region, a left side, a right side, a top having a left panel and a right panel that are each shaped to provide a logo area and defining a partially open region between the logo areas, and a bottom having one or more selectively removable vent panels.