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US 12,378,056 B2Granted
Shaped flexible shipping package and method of making
AssigneeThe Procter & Gamble Company
InventorsSusana E Borrero, Norman Scott Broyles, Benjamin G Hesford, Anthony Frederick Cappel
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Abstract
A flexible package having an inner sheet having a first surface and a second surface. The flexible package has an article reservoir for accepting an article to be shipped and one or more expansion chambers. The expansion chambers can be inflated or otherwise expanded to provide structure to the flexible package and to protect the article in the article reservoir.
Claims23
A flexible package for one or more articles, comprising:
- a. an inner sheet having a first surface and a second surface, an inner sheet first portion and an inner sheet second portion;
- b. an outer sheet having an outer sheet first portion and an outer sheet second portion, at least a part of the outer sheet first portion being connected to the first surface of the inner sheet to form one or more primary expansion chambers therebetween, the inner sheet second portion extending from the inner sheet first portion and being folded back onto the second surface of the inner sheet first portion to form an article reservoir between the inner sheet second portion and the inner sheet first portion;
- c. an expansion port in fluid connection with the one or more primary expansion chambers through which an expansion material can be introduced into the one or more expansion chambers
- d. a closeable opening into which the one or more articles may be inserted
- wherein the inner sheet and outer sheet consist of a multi-layered polypropylene film having two or more polypropylene layers.
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A flexible package for one or more articles, comprising an article reservoir, a top surface and a bottom surface;
- an inner sheet and a flexible secondary inner sheet, the inner sheet and secondary inner sheet joined together at an outer seam and forming one or more primary expansion chambers adapted to receive a primary expansion material;
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- a flexible secondary outer sheet and an outer sheet, the secondary outer sheet and the outer sheet joined together at an outer seam and forming one or more secondary expansion chambers adapted to receive a secondary expansion material and;
- wherein one or more non-expansion chambers are provided on the top surface over the one or more primary expansion chambers;
- wherein the inner sheet and outer sheet consist of a multi-layered polypropylene film having three or more polypropylene layers.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.