Protective packaging device having multiple deflection elements

A unitary protective packaging device for a shock sensitive product being shipped in an outer packaging container, wherein a pair of said unitary protective packaging devices are employed, one at each end of a shock sensitive product, and an outer packaging container is rectilinear in configuration, said unitary packaging device comprising:

• a product receiving cavity surrounded by product contacting walls, and having a product supporting platform in the lower region thereof;
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• a base portion below said product receiving cavity, having two pairs of deflection elements extending diagonally away from the corners of said product receiving cavity towards external outer packaging container contacting corners, and having bottom outer packaging container contacting lips at the bottom of said base portion;
• wherein the distances between adjacent pairs of outer packaging container contacting corners are substantially equal to but not greater than the internal distances between adjacent pairs of corners of the outer packaging container with which said unitary protective packaging device is to be employed;
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• wherein said pairs of deflection elements are adapted to flex away one from another under shock loading conditions, and said bottom outer packaging container contacting lips are adapted to spread away from one another under shock loading conditions;
• whereby shock protection for a shock sensitive product in an outer packaging container and having a unitary protective packaging device at each end thereof, is provided in three mutually perpendicular directions.