Packaging for books and/or other products and method and apparatus of the production thereof

A machine producible, fillable and closable parallelepiped container for packaging products comprising:

• a) a sheathing member formed from a first uniform rectangular blank to produce container walls adjoining each other in one direction including a bottom wall, a first sidewall, a second sidewall a cover and a tab to overly said cover, each of said container walls are foldable with respect to each other about parallel fold lines formed on said first blank;
• b) said first sidewall and said second sidewall extending from said bottom wall at opposite ends thereof and being extended by said cover and by said tab, respectively;
• c) two end pads formed from identical second uniform rectangular blanks each of which is folded to produce a four sided open tube member having a rectangular cross-section, said two end pads forming
• two separate container walls including a third sidewall to provide a product compartment therebetween;
• d) each of said second blanks comprising four sides and a projection foldable with respect to each other about parallel fold lines formed thereon with said projection adapted for gluing to one of said four sides, one side of each of said four sided tube members forming said two separate container walls matching the height of said container and the side opposite to said one side together with said container cover and said container bottom functions to limit said product compartment of said container;
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• e) said end pads adapted to be glued directly to said;
• container bottom wall prior to filling said product compartment and glued to said container cover after filling thereof while said tab is folded onto said container cover and affixed thereto by gluing.