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.
Claims20
A packaging comprising a corrugated ply adhered to a backing ply, the corrugated ply defining a plurality of parallel flutes and being bonded to the backing ply along apexes of an undersurface of the corrugated ply, wherein both the corrugated ply and the backing ply define a plurality of voids extending therethrough at intervals along the flutes so as to form a plurality of insular portions interconnected by a plurality of flexures, each flexure comprising bonded together portions of the corrugated ply and the backing ply, each insular portion comprising a flute portion and a backing portion bonded together at respective edges along one of the flutes, wherein the plurality of flexures permit bending and twisting of the packaging between adjacent insular portions.
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