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US 12,291,389 B2Granted
Method of packing
OwnerCarol L. Taylorinventor
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Abstract
A packing system for safely packing fragile household item for moving or storage. The packing system provides a number of packing devices which include a pair of ends bridged by a central portion, and a pair of elastic skirts along the central portion, all of which form a cup-like shape for receiving the fragile household item. A variety of sizes of the packing devices could be combined within a single kit. They could be color coded. An embodiment of the invention employs unused diapers as the packing devices. These could be donated or otherwise procured.
Claims3
A method of packing an object, the method comprising the steps:
- providing a donation system requesting unused donated diapers;
- receiving a variety of said unused donated diapers of varying sizes;
- sorting said unused donated diapers;
- using said unused donated diapers as packing devices, such that said variety of said unused diapers comprises a plurality of packing devices,
- each one of said packing devices comprising a body formed from a pair of end portions bridged by a central portion;
- selecting one of said plurality of packing devices and placing the packing device about an object to be packed;
- placing said object within said central portion of said packing device, wherein a pair of skirts located along sides of said central portion are gathered up and around said object;
- wrapping said pair of end portions upward about said object, wherein each one of said pair of end portions comprises a pair of flaps each having an adhesive tab;
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- wrapping said pair of flaps of each respective one of said pair of end portions about said object and securing each of said pair of flaps using said adhesive tabs.
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