A pallet skirt for covering a stack of pallets on which product is supported and displayed. The skirt has a shipping configuration wherein the perimeter and height of the skirt are approximately the same as the perimeter and height of the product, and a display configuration in which the perimeter a
A pallet skirt for covering a stack of pallets on which product is supported and displayed. The skirt has a shipping configuration wherein the perimeter and height of the skirt are approximately the same as the perimeter and height of the product, and a display configuration in which the perimeter and height of the skirt are expanded to cover the stack of pallets. Pleated folds in two corners of the skirt enable its perimeter to be contracted for the shipping configuration and expanded for the display configuration. A horizontal score in the side walls enables the side walls to be folded to reduce the height of the skirt for the shipping configuration and to be unfolded for the display configuration. A horizontal flange on the top edge of the skirt covers the marginal edge of a pallet on which the product is supported during display.
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1. An open-ended pallet skirt for covering and obscuring from view a stack of pallets on which product is supported and displayed at a point of sale, said skirt having opposed sidewalls defined by two width panels and two length panels, said width panels comprising an upper width panel and a lower w
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An open-ended pallet skirt for covering and obscuring from view a stack of pallets on which product is supported and displayed at a point of sale, said skirt having opposed sidewalls defined by two width panels and two length panels, said width panels comprising an upper width panel and a lower width panel and said length panels comprising an upper length panel and a lower length panel, said width panels and length panels being cut and scored so they can be folded into a shipping configuration in which the perimeter of the skirt is reduced so it rests on top of a pallet around product supported on the pallet, and the height of the skirt is reduced so it has a vertical height approximately the same as the product supported on the pallet, or into a display configuration in which the perimeter of the skirt is reduced so it extends downwardly over the outer margin of the pallet, and the height of the skirt is expanded so that it covers and obscures from view a stack of pallets on which product is supported, wherein: said width panels each comprise an elongate rectangular upper width panel having a top edge defined by a first score, a bottom edge defined by a second score parallel to and spaced from the first score, a first end edge defined by a third score perpendicular to the first and second scores, and a second end edge spaced from and parallel to the third score;a top flange foldably joined along the first score to the top edge of the upper width panel;a first pleat panel foldably joined along the third score to the first end edge of the upper width panel, and a second pleat panel foldably joined to the first pleat panel along a fourth score parallel to and spaced from the third score;a manufacturer's glue flap foldably joined to the second pleat panel along a fifth score parallel to and spaced from the fourth score; andan elongate rectangular bottom width panel foldably joined along the second score to the bottom edge of the upper width panel, said bottom width panel having a bottom edge, a first end edge defined by a sixth score perpendicular to the bottom edge and colinear with the third score, a second end edge parallel to and spaced from the first end edge, a pleat panel foldably joined to the first end edge of the bottom width panel along a seventh score parallel to and spaced from the sixth score, a fastening flap foldably joined to the pleat panel along an eighth score parallel to and spaced from the seventh score, and an elongate cutout in the bottom edge of the bottom width panel. 2. The pallet skirt of claim 1, wherein: said pleat panels comprise vertical scores in at least two corners of the skirt, said scores defining pleated folds in said corners that are folded to reduce the perimeter of the skirt to its shipping configuration and unfolded to increase the perimeter to its display configuration. 3. The pallet skirt of claim 1, wherein: said upper length and width panels of adjacent said side walls are secured together in end-to-end relationship in both the shipping configuration and the display configuration; andsaid lower length and width panels of adjacent said side walls are free of attachment to one another when in the shipping configuration. 4. The skirt of claim 3, wherein: double face tape is on adjacent ends of said lower panels for securing the lower panels together in end-to-end relationship when said skirt is in said display configuration. 5. The pallet skirt of claim 3, wherein: interfitting tabs and slots on adjacent ends of said lower panels enable the lower panels to be secured together in end-to-end relationship when said skirt is in said display configuration. 6. The pallet skirt of claim 1, wherein: said upper length and width panels of adjacent said side walls are secured together in end-to-end relationship in both the shipping configuration and the display configuration; andsaid lower length and width panels of adjacent said side walls are free of attachment to one another in the shipping configuration but are attached to one another in the display configuration. 7. The pallet skirt of claim 6, wherein: double face tape is on adjacent ends of said lower panels to attach the lower panels together in said end-to-end relationship when said skirt is in said display configuration. 8. The pallet skirt of claim 6, wherein: interfitting tabs and slots are on adjacent ends of said lower panels to attach them together in said end-to-end relationship when said skirt is in said display configuration. 9. The pallet skirt of claim 1, wherein: said upper length and width panels comprise two opposed length panels and two opposed width panels, and said bottom panels comprise two opposed length panels and two opposed width panels; andsaid pleat panels are in one end of each said upper and bottom width panel. 10. The open-ended pallet skirt of claim 1 wherein: each length panel is rectangularly shaped and has a top edge, a bottom edge, and opposite end edges;a fold score defines an elongate rectangular upper length panel and an elongate rectangular bottom length panel;said upper length panel having a top edge corresponding to the top edge of said blank and defined by a first score, a bottom edge parallel to and spaced from the first score and defined by said fold score, one of said end edges comprising a first end edge defined by a third score perpendicular to the first and second scores, and the other end edge comprising a second end edge, said upper length panel forming an upper sidewall panel in a pallet skirt erected from the length panel blank;a narrow top flange foldably joined along the first score to the top edge of the upper length panel;a manufacturer's glue flap foldably joined along the third score to the first end of the upper length panel;said bottom length panel foldably joined along a top edge thereof to the upper length panel along said fold score and having a bottom edge corresponding to the bottom edge of said blank, a first end edge defined by a fourth score perpendicular to the first score and fold score, a second end edge defined by a fifth score parallel to and spaced from the fourth score, and an elongate cutout in the bottom edge, wherein said bottom length panel has a width between its top and bottom edges that is substantially the same as the width of said top length panel between its top and bottom edges, said bottom length panel forming a bottom sidewall panel in a pallet skirt erected from the length panel blank; anda first bottom length panel fastening flap foldably joined along the fourth score to the first end edge of the bottom length panel, and a second bottom length panel fastening flap foldably joined to the second end of the bottom length panel along the fifth score. 11. The pallet skirt of claim 3, wherein: said lower length and width panels of adjacent side walls are attached to one another when the skirt is in the display configuration. 12. A blank for making a width panel of a pallet skirt having two width panels and two length panels that form an open-ended tubular skirt for covering a stack of pallets on which product is supported for display, said width panel blank comprising: an elongate rectangular upper width panel having a top edge defined by a first score, a bottom edge defined by a second score parallel to and spaced from the first score, a first end edge defined by a third score perpendicular to the first and second scores, and a second end edge spaced from and parallel to the third score;a top flange foldably joined along the first score to the top edge of the upper width panel;a first pleat panel foldably joined along the third score to the first end edge of the upper width panel, and a second pleat panel foldably joined to the first pleat panel along a fourth score parallel to and spaced from the third score;a manufacturer's glue flap foldably joined to the second pleat panel along a fifth score parallel to and spaced from the fourth score;an elongate rectangular bottom width panel foldably joined along the second score to the bottom edge of the upper width panel, said bottom width panel having a bottom edge, a first end edge defined by a sixth score perpendicular to the bottom edge and colinear with the third score, a second end edge parallel to and spaced from the first end edge, a pleat panel foldably joined to the first end edge of the bottom width panel along a seventh score parallel to and spaced from the sixth score, a fastening flap foldably joined to the pleat panel along an eighth score parallel to and spaced from the seventh score, and an elongate cutout in the bottom edge of the bottom width panel.
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