Cling film overwrap for palletized articles
AssigneeUnion Carbide Corporation
InventorDonald H. Dreher
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Abstract
Pallet supporting an array of articles which are vertically enveloped by at least two substantially superimposed tensioned wraps of a flexible cling film web and to a method of enveloping said array of palletized articles.
Claims9
An article-loaded pallet comprising a pallet supporting a plurality of articles in a predetermined array and having at least two substantially superimposed tensioned wraps of a flexible cling film web enveloping at least the vertical outer periphery of said array and said cling film being secured to the pallet thereby unitizing and securing said articles on said pallet within the tensioned wrapped adhered surfaces of the superimposed layers of the cling film web and wherein the surface of each layer of said cling film web has a cling energy of between about 0.15 and about 0.4 cm-gm, said cling energy being the energy in cm-gms required to peel a 3 1/2 inch wide by 4 inch long cling film specimen from a glass plate when using the test procedure outlined in ASTM D903=49, titled "Test For Peel Strengths Of Adhesives".
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