Packaging material
AssigneeSouthpac Trust International, Inc.
InventorDonald E. Weder
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Abstract
A packaging material comprising a plurality of cushioning members for cushioning an article in a container is provided. The cushioning members being formed by crumpling a flexible sheet of material into a globular configuration having a plurality of random folds, a plurality of random engaged portions, and a plurality of voids. The sheet of material has an upper surface and a lower surface with at least one of the upper surface and the lower surface having a bonding material disposed thereon such that at least a portion of the engaged portions are bondably connected thereby increasing the resiliency of the folds.
Claims13
A package, comprising:
- a container;
- an article positioned in the container;
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- a plurality of cushioning members positioned in the container so as to resiliently support and cushion the article, each of the cushioning members formed of a flexible sheet of material crumpled such that the sheet of material has a plurality of folds, a plurality of engaged portions, and a plurality of voids, the sheet of material having an upper surface and a lower surface with at least one of the upper surface and the lower surface having a bonding material disposed thereon such that at least a portion of the engaged portions are bondably connected and such that the cushioning members are bondably connected to the adjacently disposed cushioning members to form a unitary cushioning unit.
A method of packaging an article, comprising the steps of:
- (a) positioning the article in a container;
- (b) providing a sheet of material having a bonding material disposed on at least one surface thereof;
- (c) crumpling the sheet of material such that the sheet of material has a plurality of folds, a plurality of engaged portions, and a plurality of voids and such that at least a portion of the engaged portions are bondably connected;
- (d) disposing the crumpled sheet of material into the container about the article;
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- (e) repeating steps (b)-(d) until the article is cushioningly supported by the crumpled sheets of material and each crumpled sheet of material is bondingly connected to the adjacently disposed crumpled sheets of material to provide a unitary cushioning unit.
A method of packaging an article, comprising the steps of:
- (a) providing a sheet of material having a bonding material disposed on at least one surface thereof;
- (b) crumpling the sheet of material such that the sheet of material has a plurality of folds, a plurality of engaged portions, and a plurality of voids and such that at least a portion of the engaged portions are bondably connected;
- (c) bondably connecting the crumpled sheet of material to the exterior surface of the article prior to disposing the article into the container;
- (d) repeating steps (a)-(c) until the article is substantially surrounded by the crumpled sheets of material;
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- (e) disposing the article into the container.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.