Transport packaging, capable of being erected or folded, and when erected
serving as a shipper for commercial packaging of goods. The packaging is
defined by a structural framework [100] capable of carrying a sheath,
film wrap or cover, or other materials of vessel-forming character to
hold and protect products to be transported within the framework. The
framework when erected provides contents-receptive configuration to
protect the packing and its contents against the stresses of filling,
storage, distribution, merchandising and use of the packaging. The
framework has a plurality of horizontal and vertical members [102, 103,
105, 106, 107, 108, 110, 111], wherein horizontal members define
lengthwise structural elements and the vertical members define upright
structural elements, together defining an exoskeleton having windowed
open frame panels of the framework joined pivotally at lower and
fixedly/securely at upper corners defined by the upright structural
elements. At each of the lower corners is a shiftable stabilizer [123],
selectively securing the horizontal and vertical elements on each lower
corner in stabilized, locked, relationship when the framework is erected,
but the stabilizers each being selectively shiftable from stabilizing
position to permit the frame to fold into or out of an unerected
condition so it can be returned to a location for being refilled with
contents, so as to be sustainably capable of reuse many times. The
framework also provides for stacking/nesting and securement together of
tiers of the new transport packages.