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US 2004/0068930 A1Published application
Article packaging system
OwnerFrank Craig, Joseph G. Straeter +1inventors
InventorsFrank Craig, Joseph G. Straeter, Donald E. Weder
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Abstract
The present invention is a modular system for packaging articles for shipment. In particular, a potted plant is sorted according to a grade, placed in a decorative cover, then automatically deposited into a protective sleeve. The potted plant thus packaged is ready for containment within a shipping carton. Various components of the system may be adapted for various packaging needs and circumstances.
Claims16
A method of covering a potted plant comprising the steps of:
- providing a plurality of sleeves wherein each of the sleeves has an open upper end and an interior space, each of the sleeves being provided in a substantially closed position and openable to an open position, wherein each of the sleeves has a front side and a back side when in the substantially closed position;
- providing a set of nested preformed pot covers wherein each of the preformed pot covers has a frustoconical shape and an interior space;
- removing a sleeve from the plurality of sleeves and opening the sleeve to the open position so that the interior space is exposed;
- removing a preformed pot cover from the set of nested preformed pot covers;
- disposing the preformed pot cover into the interior space of the sleeve;
- providing a potted plant;
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- disposing the potted plant into the interior space of the preformed pot cover after the preformed pot cover has been disposed within the interior space of the sleeve, thereby forming a sleeved covered potted plant.
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A method of covering a potted plant comprising the steps of:
- providing a first preformed cover having an interior space;
- automatically removing a second preformed cover from a set of nested preformed covers, the second preformed cover having a frustoconical shape and having an interior space and being constructed of a material different than a material from which the first preformed cover is constructed;
- automatically disposing the second preformed cover into the interior space of the first preformed cover;
- providing a potted plant;
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- disposing the potted plant into the interior space of the second preformed cover after the second preformed cover has been disposed within the interior space of the first preformed cover.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.