Protective products such as envelopes having a unique combination of interior padding of expanded slit sheet paper and exterior lining of embossed paper
AssigneeHexcelPack, LLC
InventorDavid Paul Goodrich
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Abstract
A protective product, such as, e.g., an envelope or pouch, is provided that includes at least one expanded slit paper sheet in an expanded state, and an embossed paper sheet facing the expanded slit paper sheet and fixed to the expanded slit paper sheet along at least a portion of a length in an expansion direction of the expanded slit sheet paper. In the preferred embodiments, the embossed paper sheet has a plurality of embossings that increase the rigidity of the embossed paper sheet, thereby inhibiting deformation of the embossed paper sheet that is fixed to the expanded slit sheet paper.
Claims61
A protective product, comprising:
- at least one expandable slit paper sheet in an expanded state;
- an embossed paper sheet facing said expanded slit paper sheet and fixed to said expanded slit paper sheet along at least a portion of a length in an expansion direction of said expanded slit sheet paper, said embossed paper sheet having a plurality of embossings that increase the rigidity of said embossed paper sheet, whereby inhibiting deformation of said embossed paper sheet that is fixed to said expanded slit sheet paper, and further including at least one of:
- a) said embossed paper sheet is fixed to said expanded slit paper sheet only along a periphery of said expanded slit paper sheet;
- b) said embossed paper sheet is free from connection to said expanded slit paper sheet within a central portion of said expanded slit paper sheet;
- c) said embossed paper sheet is free from connection to said expanded slit paper sheet across a substantial portion of the area of said embossed paper sheet;
- and/or
- d) said embossed paper sheet contacts but is free from connection to said expanded slit paper sheet across a substantial portion of the area of said embossed paper sheet.
A protective product, comprising:
- at least one expandable slit paper sheet in an expanded state;
- an embossed paper sheet facing said expanded slit paper sheet and fixed to said expanded slit paper sheet along at least a portion of a length in an expansion direction of said expanded slit sheet paper, said embossed paper sheet having a plurality of embossings that increase the rigidity of said embossed paper sheet, whereby inhibiting deformation of said embossed paper sheet that is fixed to said expanded slit sheet paper, and wherein
- said protective product is a package or envelope.
A protective product, comprising:
- at least one expandable slit paper sheet in an expanded state;
- an embossed paper sheet facing said expanded slit paper sheet and fixed to said expanded slit paper sheet along at least a portion of a length in an expansion direction of said expanded slit sheet paper, said embossed paper sheet having a plurality of embossings that increase the rigidity of said embossed paper sheet, whereby inhibiting deformation of said embossed paper sheet that is fixed to said expanded slit sheet paper, and wherein
- said at least one expanded slit paper sheet in an expanded state includes a plurality of expanded slit paper sheets in an expanded state layered alongside each other.
A protective product, comprising:
- at least one expandable slit paper sheet in an expanded state;
- an embossed paper sheet facing said expanded slit paper sheet and fixed to said expanded slit paper sheet along at least a portion of a length in an expansion direction of said expanded slit sheet paper, said embossed paper sheet having a plurality of embossings that increase the rigidity of said embossed paper sheet, whereby inhibiting deformation of said embossed paper sheet that is fixed to said expanded slit sheet paper, and wherein
- said embossings of said embossed paper sheet are indented towards said at least one expanded slit paper sheet within at least a label-receiving region of a face of said embossed paper sheet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.