Packaging is used to store articles to be customized by methods including embroidery, wherein the packaging includes at least two portions defining a window, and wherein the two portions of the packaging hold a portion of the article, for example a fabric panel, taut across the window so that the portion of the article may be embroidered by an embroidery machine while retained by portions of the packaging. The packaging may be in the form of a box during embroidery, or may be converted into the form of a box after embroidery.

A packaging assembly is provided with a product package. A plurality of retail products is supported upon the product package in an array for transportation. A plurality of dividers is connected to the product package and extends between sequential retail products for separation of the sequential retail products during shipping, wherein the dividers are removable.

A pallet includes a cover plate configured to accommodate articles, and at least two runners arranged underneath the cover plate, each runner including a runner standing surface, wherein each runner standing surface is subdivided centrally of each runner transversely thereto at a dividing plane and into at least two separate runner elements including a first runner element and a second runner element which, in the mounted position, combine to form the runner standing surface, and wherein each runner element includes an elongated reinforcing element which is held at a first end remote from the dividing plane by a stop in the first runner element and is held at a second end by the second runner element.

A stackable container including a rectangular base and four side walls hinged to the base. The side walls pivot between an erected useful position and an empty position folded in towards the base. At least one of the walls has a selectively covered or uncovered recess spaced from two lateral edges and a lower edge of this wall. A wall rail arranged parallel to the base is vertically displaceably guided in sliding guides between an upper covering and a lower uncovering position. Between the wall rail and the lower edge of the recess are at least two wall braces that, in the covering position, run obliquely and are spaced apart from one another in a longitudinal direction of the wall and are each connected at their ends in a hinged manner to the wall rail and, at the lower edge of the recess, to the wall having the recess.

A dunnage support assembly for a transportation or storage container may include pair of panels each defining a channel at a top end thereof, the panels being configured to be received within a transportation or storage container with a top edge of one side wall thereof received within the channel of one panel such that the panel is supported on and by the one side wall, and with a top edge of another side wall thereof received within the channel of the other panel such that the other panel is supported on and by that side wall. One or more elongated support rails are secured to the each panel and oriented to be substantially parallel with the channels, and the support rails are configured to support a plurality of dunnage pouches therebetween and slidable relative thereto.

A cover assembly for a dunnage container may include elongated first and second rails affixed to or integral with the container and extending along opposite edges of an opening thereto, first and second cover panels each configured to extend between the first and second rails over at least a portion of the opening and to slide along a parallel paths defined longitudinally along the first and second rails such that the cover panels can slidingly overlay one another, and a flexible panel affixed to and between opposing sides of the cover panels. The flexible panel is redirectable in response to sliding of either or both of the cover panels toward the other to trap the flexible panel therebetween as one overlays the other, and also in response to sliding of either or both of the cover panels away from the other to extend the flexible panel therebetween.

A pallet assembly is provided and includes one of a bushing, a utility panel assembly and tooling features. The bushing is securably insertable into bushing openings defined in bottom and top pallet assembly panels and pallet assembly sidewalls. The bushing is selected from a group including multiple bushings having bores of various sizes and one or more apertures of varying sizes that are communicative with the bores. The utility panel assembly is supportively disposable on the bottom pallet assembly panel and includes a utility panel having multiple connectors. The tooling features supportively connect the pallet assembly sidewalls to a transport cart.

A cover glass tray including a body portion having a lower surface, a first guide portion disposed on the lower surface of the body portion, a second guide portion spaced apart from the first guide portion, and a support portion disposed between the first guide portion and the second guide portion, and having one surface extending in a first direction, in which the first guide portion includes a first protrusion extending in the first direction and a first bent portion bent from one end of the first protrusion in a second direction different from the first direction, and the second guide portion includes a second protrusion extending in the first direction and a second bent portion bent from one end of the second protrusion in the second direction.

A device for providing support for a workpiece on an embroidery machine. The device has a base that is configured to fit on a rod of the embroidery machine, wherein the rod of the embroidery machine is located beneath a bobbin arm. First and second sides extend upward from the base and form a channel therebetween, the channel being configured to receive the bobbin arm of the embroidery machine. The first and second sides have upper edges that are configured to provide a support structure for a workpiece placed thereon, and preferably extend to a height that is substantially the same height as a top of the bobbin arm.

The invention is directed to a flexible and collapsible extended-length bulk bin. The bulk bin includes two molded plastic end pieces that are connected at each side to each by metal rails. A bottom panel and two side wall panels are also positioned between the two molded plastic end pieces.