Packaged articles
AssigneeH. Goodman & Sons, Inc.
InventorMilton W. Herzog
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Abstract
The disclosed packages include a merchandise unit needing protection against impact during shipment, especially a stack of articles such as mirrors, firmly contained in a liner that surrounds the merchandise unit. Inward off-sets of the liner block up-and-down sliding and, in the case of plural articles such as mirrors, the off-sets hold the articles together. The edges of the liner and especially the edges of the off-sets support the contents between the walls of a carton.
Claims7
A package including a merchandise unit having a peripheral surface and opposite top and bottom surfaces, and packing means including an elongated liner of stiff sheet material having parallel longitudinal edges, the width of the liner between its longitudinal edges being substantially greater than the width of said peripheral surface of the merchandise unit, said liner having a medial portion between but spaced from both of said longitudinal edges of the liner, said medial portion surrounding said merchandise unit and being divided by transverse creases into a series of panels that form successive angles buckled outward without inward-buckled angles intervening between the successive outward-buckled angles and that snugly confine the merchandise unit, said liner including further portions alongside said medial portion and bounded by said longitudinal edges, parts of said further portions of the liner forming integral lateral extensions of certain ones of said panels and other parts of said further portions of the liner forming inward buckled offsets above and below the merchandise unit, said other parts of said further portions having second longitudinal edges firmly supporting said merchandise unit against up-and-down movement in the liner.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.