Resilient wraparound cushion packing

A group of resiliently collapsible tubular cushion packing elements integrally formed by a moulding process and connected together in at least one row of at least two of said elements by at least one connecting band, each of said at least one connecting band being comprised in part of the extension at one end of a top wall or a bottom wall of each of said cushion packing elements, each of said elements being comprised of said top wall, said bottom wall, and two accordion pleated side walls, said top wall and said bottom wall being spaced a predetermined distance apart by the integral connection of each of said top wall and bottom wall at a fold at each of two opposite edges thereof to an adjacent edge of one or the other of said two accordion pleated side walls, each of said side walls being comprised of two planar segments of similar form and equal dimensions integrally connected in a symmetrical pair at the adjacent edges of each of said pair at a fold directed inwardly of the resilient cushion packing element, all of said folds which connect together said walls and side wall segments being openly curved folds, thereby maintaining the same thickness and strength of materials in said folds as in said walls and wall segments, whereby said element may maintain cushioning pressure between the surfaces of two articles to be separated and protected from each other, and when greatly or totally collapsed by extraordinary pressure between said surfaces, said side walls will recover when said extraordinary pressure is reduced or removed.