Abstract: There is disclosed herein a collapsible honeycomb load spacer and associated support means which may be fabricated from sheets of foldable material such as corrugated fiberboard. The support device comprises an elongated sheet folded so as to provide an upper vertical flange portion which may be secured to a vertical surface of a stack of freight, a lower horizontal flange portion which is inserted between stacked freight parcels and an intermediate flange portion to which the load spacer is secured and supported from. The support device is also adapted to be compactly folded along with the collapsible honeycomb structure so as to facilitate shipping and storage thereof.

Abstract: An expandable honeycomb structure adapted to be suspended between stacks of articles of freight or between a stack of articles of freight and a wall and having spaced strips of relatively stiff material defining certain cell walls to resist sagging of the structure by its own weight and undue "hour glass" distortion due to vertical elongation of certain of the cells. In one embodiment readily foldable strips are interspersed with relatively stiff strips of corrugated paperboard having their corrugations running lengthwise.