V-channel packing arrangements particularly for windshields

A packing structure for an article with an elongated edge, the structure comprising:

• at least a partial enclosure with spaced side walls coupled by an end wall, defining an internal channel with corners at junctions of the end wall and the side walls;
• a spacer arranged to fit into the channel, so as to bear against the side walls and the end wall, the spacer defining an elongated substantially V-shaped fold between two V-wall panels, arranged to receive the edge of the article, with the edge of the article resting in a bottom of the V-shaped fold;
• the spacer having two bearing leas comprising elongated panels respectively coupled to the V-wall panels, each of the bearing leas extending from a fold at a junction with one of the V-wall panels to one of the corners of the internal channel;
• and,
• wherein the V-wall panels increase in width along the spacer, whereby the bottom of the V-shaped fold is inclined relative to the end wall.

A packing structure for an article with an elongated edge, the structure comprising:

• at least a partial enclosure with spaced side walls coupled by an end wall;
• defining an internal channel with corners at junctions of the end wall and the side walls;
• a spacer arranged to fit into the channel, so as to bear against the side walls and the end wall, the spacer defining an elongated substantially V-shaped fold between two V-wall panels, arranged to receive the edge of the article, with the edge of the article resting in a bottom of the V-shaped fold;
• the spacer having two bearing leas comprising elongated panels respectively coupled to the V-wall panels, each of the bearing legs extending from a fold at a junction with one of the V-wall panels to one of the corners of the internal channel;
• wherein the enclosure comprises a rectilinear carton having spaced said side walls, coupled at ends of the carton with two said end walls, coupled along a bottom wall and a too wall of the carton, and wherein at least two opposed ones of said walls each are provided with at least one said spacer, the resoective said spacers defining between them a support for the article;
• and,
• wherein the too and bottom walls of the carton, and the end walls of the carton, each contain opposed pairs of said spacers
• wherein the opposed pair of said spacers at the end walls each have V-wall panels that increase in width along the spacer, whereby the bottom of the V-shaped fold is inclined relative to the end wall.