Tray from folded sheet material and blank for this tray

A blank of sheet material having a profile, openings and slits positioned in a manner such that said blank is suitable for folding to form a tray for accommodating several elongate objects arranged next to one another:

• said array comprising:
• a rectangular base portion having a first set of two mutually opposing edges and a second set of mutually opposing edges,
• two first walls, positioned remote from said first set of mutually opposing edges, each of said first walls resting on said base portion and extending in a direction parallel to the axis of said first set of mutually opposing edges,
• each of said first walls being provided with mutually opposing openings adapted for accommodating respective end portions of each of said objects,
• first and second sets of two buffering bands each, each band in said first set of buffering bands integral with one of said first walls and extending outwardly from said base portion in a direction parallel thereto, one of said bands of said first set of buffering bands positioned adjacent to said base portion and the other of said bands of said first set of buffering bands positioned remote from said base portion, each band in said second set of buffering bands integral with the other of said first walls and extending outwardly from said base portion in a direction parallel thereto one of said bands in said second set of buffering bands being positioned adjacent to said base portion and the other of said bands of said second set of buffering bands positioned remote from said base portion;
• characterized in that:
• two second walls are present each positioned along one of the edges of said second set of edges, each resting on said base portion and each connected to a separate one of said remote buffering bands and
• the base portion is connected to both of said second walls.