Sheet packaging
OwnerGregory Simmonsinventor
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Abstract
Sheet packaging has a corrugated ply bonded to a backing ply. The corrugated ply forms parallel flutes. The packaging comprises voids through both the corrugated ply and the backing ply at intervals along the flutes, thereby forming a plurality of insular portions interconnected by flexures. Each insular portion has a flute portion and a backing portion between adjacent voids and bonded together at respective edges and each flexure comprises bonded-together portions of the corrugated ply and the backing ply. The flexures confer hyper flexibility to the packaging wherein each flexure possesses an independent bend axis across which the flexure can both be twisted and bent.
Claims16
Sheet packaging comprising a corrugated ply bonded to a backing ply, the corrugated ply forming parallel flutes extending in rows along a first direction, and wherein the packaging comprises voids through both the corrugated ply and the backing ply, aligned along and within the rows, at intervals along the rows of flutes, thereby forming through holes through the sheet packaging within each of the rows of flutes, and thereby forming a plurality of insular portions interconnected by flexures, each insular portion comprising a flute portion and a backing portion between adjacent voids and bonded together at respective edges, and each flexure comprises bonded-together portions of the corrugated ply and the backing ply, wherein the voids formed along one row of the flutes are offset from voids formed along an adjacent row of the flutes.
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