Electric lamp bulb package and sleeve component therefrom

A package comprising;

• a wrapper that is of tubular configuration and open at each end and includes a plurality of interconnected walls having end edges that are substantially straight and so arranged that the open ends of the wrapper are terminated along planes that are substantially parallel to one another,
• fragile merchandise disposed within said wrapper, and
• an open-ended sleeve that is fabricated from stiff single-ply packaging material that is devoid of corrugations and is slip-fitted over said wrapper and is so oriented that oppositely disposed walls of the sleeve overlie and cover the open ends of the wrapper and thus retain the fragile merchandise within the resulting package,
• said sleeve having additional walls that are connected to each other and said oppositely disposed walls along a series of spaced junctures which provide the sleeve with a plurality of corner portions that are in frictional engagement with the associated end edges of the wrapper,
• at least two of said junctures which are located on opposite sides of the sleeve being of arcuate configuration and providing corner portions that are bowed inwardly and thus exert a wedging force on the engaged portions of the wrapper that retains the wrapper and the contained merchandise within the sleeve despite the smooth inner surfaces of the non-corrugated sleeve.