US 2013/0199954 A1Published application

Modular packaging system for fragile planiform materials

OwnerArthur Rheal Huard, Jacqueline Lucy Laura Huardinventors

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Abstract

A modular packaging system of corrugated fibreboard construction is provided for relatively large-scale, fragile planiform materials, such as glass doors and architectural glass panels. Panels in a predetermined range of dimensions are individually enclosed within an adaptable, protective case. One or more loaded panel cases, in a substantially vertical orientation, are stacked horizontally and strapped together with a pair of buttressing pillars at each end, on opposite faces thereof. Two shock-absorbing base blocks are provided, upon which said panel case or bound stack rests. Each base block is a laminate, constructed of bonded corrugated fibreboard panels, and is disposed underneath the panel case or stack of cases, proximal to a respective lateral edge thereof, with its ends secured within recesses at the base of the pillars bound at that end.

Claims13

Dependent claims

A packaging system for secure and protective containment of fragile, relatively large-scale planiform materials, such as architectural panels, which system comprising:

(a) one or more panel cases of predetermined surface dimensions, each case enclosing fixedly therewithin a single fragile panel to be packaged, which panel may be of indeterminate surface dimensions, and have a thickness from a predetermined set of thickness values;
(b) two pairs of buttressing pillars, each pair bound level with or proximal to a respective lateral edge of said panel case or a stack thereof, its two pillars disposed opposite to and in alignment with one another, abutting the respective faces of said case or stack, thereby to support it in a substantially vertical orientation;
(c) two shock-absorbing base blocks, formed as elongated beams of rectangular cross-section, each of which blocks disposed underneath a respective end of said case or stack, a section of each of whose ends inserted within a recess at the base of the corresponding pillar of the respective said pair.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 13/366,169Filed 3 Feb 2012
Published: 8 Aug 2013
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

B65D 85/48
For articles particularly sensitive to damage by shock or pressure: for glass sheets
B65D 5/5071
Capping elements, i.e. elements which are located onto one or more ends of the contents, before the contents are inserted into the package: each…
B65D 81/056
Protectors contacting three surfaces of the packaged article, e.g. three-sided edge protectors: the surfaces being generally perpendicular to each…
B65D 81/127
Maintaining contents at spaced relation from package walls, or from other contents: using rigid or semi-rigid sheets of shock-absorbing material