Shipping case alternative
OwnerCorinne Saso, Richard Chalmers +1inventors
InventorsCorinne Saso, Richard Chalmers, Edward John Giblin
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Abstract
A new way of shipping cartons and other packages so as to minimize the cost and the resource used. In one embodiment, the invention comprises the use of two or more films shrink wrapped about the packages which are juxtaposed to form a unit. At least one of the films is opaque and at least one of the films is clear. The opaque film is sufficiently resistant to the transmission of light such that UPC bar codes present on the individual packages cannot be read through the film by bar code reading machines. The shrink wrap in place about the unit may include one or more gripping openings.
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A combination of two or more packages juxtaposed to form a unit, said unit being shrink wrapped in two or more films on opposite film sides of said unit, wherein at least one of said films is opaque and at least one of said films is clear.
A process for shipping a combination of two or more packages juxtaposed to form a unit, said unit being shrink wrapped in two or more films on opposite sides of said unit, comprising shipping said unit, one of said films being opaque and another not being opaque, the unit being shipped with the opaque film side as the top side of the combined packages and shrink wrap.
A combination of two or more packages juxtaposed to form a unit, said unit being shrink wrapped in two or more films on film sides of said unit, said film sides being on opposite sides of said unit and including a line of zipper perforations along one of said film sides, said unit further comprising gripping apertures on opposite sides of said line of perforations in said film side.
A combination of two or more packages juxtaposed to form a unit, said unit being shrink wrapped in two or more films on opposite sides of said unit, one of said films being non-opaque and including a tear strip defined by zipper perforations in said film along two lines spaced in at least one of said film sides parallel to a longitudinal axis of said unit, the other of said films being opaque.
A process for shrink wrapping a package comprising shrink wrapping a film having zipper perforations about a package and then imposing a second set of zipper perforations upon said shrink wrapped package.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.