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US 2012/0234723 A1Published application
System and method of packaging
OwnerKimberly T. Klosinventor
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Abstract
A packaging assembly is disclosed. The packaging assembly is easily assembled and disassembled for convenient use and provides suspension of an enclosed article by way of an arched structure providing protection from impact, shock and vibration.
Claims21
1-30. (canceled)
A method of making a packaging assembly comprising:
- fixedly attaching an article on a resilient member,
- folding an end portion of the resilient member at an angle relative to a portion of the resilient member, and
- forming an arched portion of the resilient member.
46-56. (canceled)
A package assembly, comprising:
- a container having a bottom surface connected to a first inside side panel opposite a second inside side panel;
- and
- an arched member for holding an article inside of the container;
- wherein the arched member is comprised of a generally planar material that is shaped into an arched state defined at its outer periphery by a first substantially linear side opposite a second substantially linear side and a first arched curve opposite a second arched curve, the first and the second arched curves connecting the first and the second substantially linear sides, said arched member, except for the first and the second substantially linear sides, lying substantially outside of a plane containing the first and the second substantially linear sides;
- and
- wherein at least one of the first and the second substantially linear sides is substantially adjacent one of the first and the second inside side panels.
3 more elements
58-78. (canceled)
A system, comprising:
- a container having a bottom surface connected to a first inside side panel opposite a second inside side panel;
- an article of manufacture;
- and
- an arched member holding the article inside of the container;
- wherein the arched member is comprised of a generally planar material that is shaped into an arched state defined at its outer periphery by a first substantially linear side opposite a second substantially linear side and a first arched curve opposite a second arched curve, the first and the second arched curves connecting the first and the second substantially linear sides, said arched member, except for the first and the second substantially linear sides, lying substantially outside of a plane containing the first and the second substantially linear sides;
- and
- wherein at least one of the first and the second substantially linear sides is substantially adjacent one of the first and the second inside side panels.
4 more elements
80-146. (canceled)
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.