Module for packages

Abstract

One variation may include a method including providing a module for packaging, delivering and displaying goods in the module, the module including at least one face which may be removed, retracted or moved to display goods prepackaged in the module, packaging a plurality of goods in the module, delivering the module to a factory, office, hospital, warehouse or retail store, removing, retracting or moving a face of the module to display the goods prepackaged in the module. Another variation may include a module including the elevator floor system and at least one sensor for determining the height of stacked packages within the module.

1 . A method comprising providing a module for packaging, delivering and displaying goods in the module, the module comprising at least one face which may be removed, retracted or moved to display goods prepackaged in the module, packaging a plurality of goods in the module, delivering the module to a factory, office, hospital, warehouse or retail store, removing, retracting or moving a face of the module to display the goods prepackaged in the module. 
     
     
         2 . A method as set forth in  claim 1  wherein the at least one face may comprise a door which may be swung open to display the goods. 
     
     
         3 . A method as set forth in  claim 1  wherein the at least one face may comprise a retractable the material. 
     
     
         4 . A method as set forth in  claim 1  wherein the at least one face may comprise a soft protective material. 
     
     
         5 . A method as set forth in  claim 1  wherein the delivering comprises delivering the module to a retail store and displaying the package in the module as a point-of-purchase display. 
     
     
         6 . A method as set forth in  claim 1  wherein the module comprises an elevator floor system constructed and arranged to automatically move according to the height of packages loaded onto or offloaded from the module. 
     
     
         7 . A method as set forth in  claim 1  wherein the module comprises an elevator floor system constructed and arranged to automatically move according to the height of packages loaded onto or offloaded from the module, the elevator floor system comprising a floor suspended from the module by a flexible material. 
     
     
         8 . A method as set forth in  claim 1  wherein the module comprises at least one sensor for determining the height of stocked packages within the module. 
     
     
         9 . A method as set forth in  claim 1  wherein the module has an opening formed therein constructed and arranged so that packages may be deposited in the module through the opening, module further comprising at least one sensor for determining the when the module is full of packages. 
     
     
         10 . A method as set forth in  claim 1  wherein the module further comprises a communication device constructed and arranged to send a signal communicating when the module is full of packages. 
     
     
         11 . A method comprising providing a module having an elevator floor system including a floor, a sensor for determining the height of packages stacked on the floor, a means for moving the floor, a controller operatively connected to the means for moving the floor in the sensor and constructed arranged to receive input from an operator specifying the height of packages from a floor on which the operator is standing, inputting into the controller a specific height for the packages, placing a second package in the module on the floor or on top of packages in the module that are stacked on the floor, allowing the controller to adjust the height of the floor so that the second package is moved so that the height of the packages stacked on the floor including the second package is that the height specified by the operator. 
     
     
         12 . A module having an elevator floor system including a floor, a sensor for determining the height of packages stacked on the floor, a means for moving the floor, a controller operatively connected to the means for moving the floor and the sensor and constructed arranged to move the floor so that the height of the packages are at a predetermined height. 
     
     
         13 . A product for packaging, delivering and displaying goods comprising a module having an elevator floor system including a floor for stacking packages on the floor, the module having a resting surface supporting the module, a sensor for determining the height of packages stacked on the floor, a means for moving the floor so that height of the packages above the resting surface the stacked on the floor remains substantially contact. 
     
     
         14 . A product as set forth in  claim 13  wherein the module comprised wheel for contacting ground and moving the module, and wherein the resting surface is the wheels. 
     
     
         15 . A product as set forth in  claim 13  wherein the module comprises a roof, and the means for moving the floor comprises an elastic material attached to the floor and to the connected to the roof. 
     
     
         16 . A product as set forth in  claim 13  wherein the module comprises a first side frame and a second side frame, and the means for moving the floor comprises an elastic material attached to the floor and to the connected to at least one of the first side frame or the second side frame. 
     
     
         17 . A product as set forth in  claim 13  further comprising a controller operatively connected to the means for moving the floor and the sensor and constructed arranged to move the floor so that the height of the packages are at a predetermined height. 
     
     
         18 . A product as set forth in  claim 13  wherein the at least one face may comprise a door which may be swung open to display the goods. 
     
     
         19 . A product as set forth in  claim 13  wherein the at least one face may comprise a retractable the material. 
     
     
         20 . A product as set forth in  claim 13  wherein the at least one face may comprise a soft protective material.