Packaging material and method of forming a packaging material
AssigneeTerry Hermanson
InventorsTerry Hermanson, Huang Meng-Suen
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Abstract
A packaging material and a cylindrical shipping box. The packaging material may be a convertible packaging material including an outer wall section and an inner wall section. The outer wall section has an outer surface formed thereon, and the inner wall section is formed of a plurality of segments. The convertible packaging material is convertible between a flat state and a tubular state. The cylindrical shipping box may include circumferential wall, a top cap, and a bottom cap. The circumferential wall is configurable in a flat configuration and a tubular configuration. The packaging material and the circumferential wall may include a plurality of triangular cells.
Claims21
A knock-down-flat cylindrical shipping box comprising:
- a circumferential wall including an outer surface and an inner surface, the circumferential wall being configurable in a flat configuration and a tubular configuration, when the circumferential wall is in the tubular configuration the inner surface defines an inner cavity for an item-to-be-shipped to be placed therein and forms a top-end opening and a bottom-end opening;
- a top cap attachable to the circumferential wall in the tubular configuration to close the top-end opening;
- and
- a bottom cap attachable to the circumferential wall in the tubular configuration to close the bottom-end opening,
- wherein the circumferential wall is formed of a packaging material that includes a plurality of base portions, the inner surface being formed by the plurality of base portions,
- wherein, in the flat configuration, adjacent base portions of the plurality of base portions are spaced apart from each other and a gap is formed between the adjacent base portions, and
- wherein, in the tubular configuration, the adjacent base portions are brought closer to each other than in the flat configuration, reducing the size of the gap between the adjacent base portions.
A convertible packaging material comprising:
- an outer wall section having an outer surface formed thereon;
- and
- an inner wall section formed of a plurality of segments,
- wherein the packaging material is convertible between a flat state and a tubular state, and
- wherein, in the tubular state the, the inner wall section forms an inner surface defining an inner cavity,
- wherein the plurality of segments is a plurality of base portions, the inner surface being formed by the plurality of base portions,
- wherein, in the flat state, adjacent base portions of the plurality of base portions are spaced apart from each other and a gap is formed between the adjacent base portions, and
- wherein, in the tubular configuration, the adjacent base portions are brought closer to each other than in the flat configuration, reducing the size of the gap between the adjacent base portions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.