Package and packaging method

Abstract

A package comprising a length of tubular packaging material and an item disposed in the material between first and second clips or staples clinched around bunched portions of the material. The material extends outwardly beyond the second staple, the extension being bunched and fastened by a third staple adjacent its outer end. Strapping extends along the material and is caught by the first, second and third staples. The material and the strapping between the second and third staples provides a handle at one end of the package. A package is made by inserting an item into tubular packaging material previously bunched and fastened together at one end by a first staple; bunching together the material extending rearwardly of the item; extending strapping along the bunched extension of the material; clinching second, third and fourth staples around the bunched extension of the material to fasten the material and the strapping together, the second staple being adjacent the rearward end of the item, the third staple being spaced from the second a distance sufficient to enable the extension of the material and the strapping to form a handle, and the fourth being rearward of and adjacent the third. The bunched extension of the material and the strapping are cut between the third and fourth staples to separate the package from the remainder of the material and the strapping.

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