Lift-off shipping carton for television cabinet

Claim 1

A shipping carton for a cabinet comprising: a paperboard bottom tray substantially rectangular in cross section having upwardly extending sidewalls comprising the flaps of a flat blank which have been bent upward and secured together by means adapted to facilitate collapse of said flaps when desired to ease removal of a cabinet from the shipping carton, a cabinet-mounting pallet press fitted within said tray and having a raised central portion formed to receive the supporting base of a cabinet and having corner notches for receiving the legs of a cabinet mounted on said pallet for maintaining a predetermined spacing between the sides of said cabinet and the sidewalls of said tray, a paperboard cover substantially rectangular in cross section having downwardly extending sidewalls for slidably engaging the sidewalls of said tray in telescopic fashion when said carton is closed, the sidewalls of said tray being of a height permitting substantially complete access to a cabinet mounted on said pallet when said cover is removed, and a pad depending from the periphery of a panel press fitted witHin said cover about the top of the sidewalls thereof for peripherally engaging the top of a cabinet mounted on said pallet and enclosed in said carton, said pad comprising the rolled under flaps of a paperboard blank the center portion of which comprises the panel from which said pad depends.