Abstract: A void filler including a casing with opposed vertical side walls and opposed face walls. The casing confines an expandable and collapsible core formed of centrally folded strips with the opposed ends of each strip secured to the opposed side walls. The strips are formed in two facing groups, each of a general chevron pattern with the strips collapsing entirely within the casing upon an inward movement of the opposed side walls into parallel overlying engagement, the strips folding between the side walls and defining a minimal layering of panels between the side walls.

Abstract: A storage or shipping carton for automotive parts or the like has disposed therewithin layers of resilient tubular dunnage having part configured cut outs in the side walls. The dunnage extends transversely of the carton between two of the side walls while the parts extend transversely of the dunnage between the other two side walls. The tubular dunnage is preferably formed of low density polyethylene and the notches in the dunnage are formed by flattening the dunnage and severing the side walls thereof while in the flattened condition and then reopening the dunnage to its normal configuration.

Abstract: A twin-pocket package provides a cushioned support for articles to be protected from impacts encountered during shipping and handling. Each pocket is formed between a resilient film and a foldable panel. The pockets have mouths that simultaneously expand or contract upon movement of the panel.

Abstract: The invention provides a dissembleable and reusable package is provided for static, debris and shock sensitive objects. The package comprises a folding box of single piece static dissipative corrugated plastic interlocking configuration. The box has an interlocking bottom, an open top and two pairs of parallel opposite sides. A shock absorbing pad structure fits against the central portions of the sides. The pad structure is a solid self-skinning plastic foam which is static dissipative. It is detachably attachable against the sides utilizing fasteners. A shock absorbing plastic bottom pad fits inside of the box atop its bottom. An open top static dissipative plastic bag fits within the box atop the shock absorbing bottom pad and substantially lines the box. A sensitive object holding structure includes first and second pluralities of static dissipative corrugated plastic walls which interlock with one another, the pluralities of walls being mutually perpendicular.

Abstract: A molded pulp tray for holding cold containers includes a bottom wall with upwardly and outwardly extending side walls terminating in a peripheral edge. A plurality of upwardly extending, partitions divides the tray into a corresponding plurality of container receiving pockets. Each of the pockets is defined by a portion of the bottom wall and by four peripheral sides which includes at least one of the partitions and at least two of the side walls. Each pocket has at least one raised pillow extending upwardly from the bottom wall to support the lid of an inverted container located in the pocket with the pillow spaced inwardly of the peripheral sides to create a continuous peripheral groove between the pillow and the peripheral sides so that the edge of the outer surface of the lid may be located in the peripheral groove.

Abstract: A slip pallet formed as a square or rectangular sheet of a plastic material having a central body portion on which a load, such as an array of loaded cardboard boxes, is supported and a plurality of lip portions extending outwardly and upwardly from the central body portion wherein at least the central body portion is provided with a plurality of spaced apart dimples formed in the top surface of the central body portions so that a plurality of spaced apart projections extend downwardly from the bottom surface of the central body portion to provide a cushioning support for the load and wherein at least a portion of each projection is a segment of a sphere. In other embodiments, the dimples are integral solid projections, each of which may be provided with a cavity having an opening in the outer surface thereof.

Abstract: A packaging container for holding a plurality of articles. Packaging containers of this kind serve as transport and display means for a plurality of packed articles. These articles are sold directly from the packaging container. The empty packaging containers are usually destroyed, because their material and their structure do not permit repeated usage. The invention is concerned with providing a reusable packaging container of this kind. The described packaging container comprises a base part (11) and a stack top (12) which is releasably connected to the base part (11) and which can be collapsed and/or folded together, preferably in such a way that the collapsed or folded stack top (12) can be placed on the base part (11). As a result, empty packaging containers can be returned in a space-saving manner and, if required, they can be refilled, which means they are reusable.

Abstract: An open-ended shipping container with locating, separator and riser pads and a container blank for forming such a container is disclosed. The container is especially suitable for packaging fragile and heavy articles such as toilet tanks and water containers, with or without covers and extended appendages for filling and drainage and with or without surface mounted control levers, in a single package.

Abstract: An expandable void filler which includes a plurality of expandable hollow, elongated, box-like tubes which can be stacked one on the other and joined together along their common surfaces. Separate interface panels can be sandwiched between the individual tubular members to provide additional lateral compressive strength. The individual tubes are held in the expanded position by individual folding panels which extend inwardly across the interior opening within and have sufficient size to wedge against the opposite sidewall as well as the top and bottom of the structure. These panels alternate from one side of the tube to the other and are staggered so as to not be vertically aligned between the stacked tubular members. A flange member can be attached to the uppermost tube to support the void filler in proper position between the cargo loaded within a transporting vehicle.

Abstract: An expandable load spacer having a suspension strip fixedly attached to a generally honeycomb, cellular void filler is disclosed for use between stacks of articles of freight in, for example, rail cars and other shipping vehicles or containers. The load spacer substantially eliminates the hour glass effect generally experienced in suspended dunnage devices, while at the same time significantly reducing the amount of sheet material required in the manufacture of those load spacers.

Abstract: A unitary dunnage device for use with a "singled out" pallet unit being transported within a van, trailer or container. The device includes a pair of void fillers, each being dimensioned and configured to fit within a respective lateral void, existing between the pallet and the container's sidewalls. The void fillers are structurally united and supported in spaced horizontal relation by a suspension structure. The suspension structure has a median portion overlying the pallet unit, and end portions extending from the sides of the pallet unit to the container's sidewalls. The void fillers are attached to and depend from the underside of a respective end portion.

Abstract: The invention provides a dissembleable and reusable package is provided for static, debris and shock sensitive objects. The package comprises a folding box of single piece static dissipative corrugated plastic interlocking configuration. The box has an interlocking bottom, an open top and two pairs of parallel opposite sides. A shock absorbing pad structure fits against the central portions of the sides. The pad structure is a solid self-skinning plastic foam which is static dissipative. It is detachably attachable against the sides utilizing fasteners. A shock absorbing plastic bottom pad fits inside of the box atop its bottom. An open top static dissipative plastic bag fits within the box atop the shock absorbing bottom pad and substantially lines the box. A sensitive object holding structure includes first and second pluralities of static dissipative corrugated plastic walls which interlock with one another, the pluralities of walls being mutually perpendicular.

Abstract: A void filler (14, 16) especially suited for filling large volumes is made from first and second panels (18, 20), each panel having a core (26) sandwiched between face sheets (22, 24). The core is typically a corrugated honeycomb core so that the panel is stiff, strong and yet lightweight. The panels each have generally horizontal upper and lower edges (30, 32) and generally vertical first and second (34, 36) edges. The panels are connected at a hinge (44) along their upper edges. A limiter (50), attached at or near the lower edges, limits the movement of the lower edges away from one another so the panels can move from a flat, storage condition to a use condition, exhibiting a generally inverted V-shape. Two void fillers can be hingedly connected to form an M-shaped void filler assembly (2).

Abstract: An expandable void filler which includes a plurality of expandable hollow, elongated, box-like tubes which can be stacked one on the other and joined together along their common surfaces. Separate interface panels can be sandwiched between the individual tubular members to provide additional lateral compressive strength. The individual tubes are held in the expanded position by individual folding panels which extend inwardly across the interior opening within and have sufficient size to wedge against the opposite sidewall as well as the top and bottom of the structure. These panels alternate from one side of the tube to the other and are staggered so as to not be vertically aligned between the stacked tubular members. A flange member can be attached to the uppermost tube to support the void filler in proper position between the cargo loaded within a transporting vehicle.

Abstract: The invention relates to a shipping container utilizing flexible divider panels each formed with one or more flaps attachable to a surrounding frame structure in a way to vary the panel curvature to accommodate variously contoured parts for shipping.

Abstract: A carrier for packaged integrated circuit chips with an impact resistant carrying strip which has a plurality of equidistantly spaced square apertures and is contained in plastic shipping tubes. Ceramic Pin Grid Array (CPGA) Modules are carried on the strip with the module's pins protected in pin cavities or aperatures in the carrying strip. Bumpers prevent adjacent modules from chipping each other. A specially designed shipping tube encloses the carrying strip for additional handling protection. The strip also serves to facilitate automated assembly. Anti-static or static sensitive materials may be used for either the tube or the strip or for both.

Abstract: A relatively inexpensive void filler includes alternately stacked and laminated sheets of V-shaped and W-shaped panels of corrugated board glued together along the center and sides.

Abstract: An elongated tray designed to support a plurality of tubular objects such as fluorescent tubes when positioned in an outer package. The tray is formed with a plurality of cavities which have a plurality of tubular supporting surfaces contained therein. Each supporting surface is formed in a generally sinusoidal shape having a series of reversing curved configurations forming peaks and valleys. Each peak and valley contains approximate equal thickness material from the resilient type plastic used. As a result, controlled deformation with a controlled resilient return is obtained in the peaks and valleys to thereby result in a vastly superior tray which has improved resistance to breakage of the fluorescent tubes. The resilient plastic may be an HDPE or PP having a density ranging between 0.898-0.965 grams per cubic centimeter.

Abstract: An improved synthetic resin support for fluorescent tubes is provided which uses a minimum of synthetic resin material in the manufacture thereof, while at the same time giving entirely adequate support and protection against breakage of packed fluorescent tubes. The supports of the invention are in the form of an integral preformed synthetic resin body presenting a plurality of elongated, fore and aft extending, open-top tube-receiving concave regions together with top wall sections between the respective tube-receiving concavities formed in a sawtooth configuration to provide additional support against crushing and tube breakage. The preferred supports in accordance with the invention are also provided with specially configured upwardly and downwardly diverging, alternating wall sections along the length of the concavities thereof for simultaneous supporting upper and lower fluorescent tubes within a carton.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to an apparatus for the insertion of carrier elements with comb-like titer strips into a microtiter plate and to provide a convenient holder for washing the titer strips. The apparatus provides a container and a changing insert with guide lamellas and space rods for holding the carrier elements.

Abstract: A snap on bumper for protecting integrated circuits and like components from damage during various handling operations. The bumper comprises end portions that overlie the ends of the components and absorb shock. Interconnecting struts interconnect the ends and have a bowed construction to enable a range of distance variations between the ends. Lip portions on each end facilitate a positive clamping of the bumper to the component.

Abstract: A packaging separator adapted to be disposed in load bearing engagement between a pair of articles, such as windshields. The separator includes a sheet-like supporting element constructed of a generally nonresilient plastic foam and having enlarged opposed side surfaces for respectively contacting opposed surfaces associated with a pair of adjacent windshields. The supporting member has one or more shallow recesses formed inwardly from one of said side surfaces, and each recess contains therein a sheet-like gripping pad constructed of a resilient foam. The gripping pad, in a resiliently nondeformed condition, has a thickness which is significantly greater than the depth of the recess to define an outer gripping surface which extend generally parallel with but is normally spaced outwardly from the respectively adjacent side surface of the supporting element.

Abstract: A detonating cord transport system is disclosed wherein detonating cord is windingly disposed on a plurality of separator-support members in such a manner that the cord is wholly accessible from a front face surface and is thus disposed without having to manipulate the separator-support members. For each separator-support member, the detonating cord is windingly disposed on a plurality of winding support devices such that there are a plurality of severing locations at frequent intervals at which severing locations there is incorporated means for stopping any detonation that occurs, with the result that such detonation will be confined to a relatively short length of detonating cord and will also be confined to the detonating cord transport system container.

Abstract: Bubble-type flexible cushioning and packaging sheets are formed using films which are composites of single extrusion or multiple extrusion polyethylene films having density, molecular weight and, optionally, additives selected to provide a desired combination of qualities including heat sealability and low gas/vapor transmission. A preferred film material has a cross-sectional profile consisting of an inner region of linear low density polyethylene material surrounded by outer regions of high molecular weight medium density polyethylene material. The material permits the formation of preferred, square bubble configurations using a process which involves sealing two such films along generally parallel longitudinal lines; inflating the films between the longitudinal sealing lines; then sealing the films along transverse lines to form inflated rectangular pockets or bubbles therebetween.

Abstract: A package for packing a plurality of compressors including a plurality of partition walls for securely laying and stacking compressors is disclosed. The compressors and partition walls are stacked in alternating layers on a pallet. A stretch film is wrapped around the partition wall and compressor layers and the pallet. The partition walls are made of foamed plastic material. The upper and lower end surfaces of the partition walls are formed to fit the outer shape of the compressors. The partition walls can be made more easily and can be precisely dimensioned.

Abstract: A system and method for bracing and cushioning the impact of movable massive loads during sudden deceleration of a transport vehicle, such as created during humping of railway cars. Resilient elastomeric pads separate adjacent objects of the load with the thickness and density of the elastomeric material chosen to dampen typical impact forces without damage to the objects. The resilent pads are preferably formed with at least one face contoured to envelope the side of an object. Three types of resilient pads are disclosed for use in transporting massive sheet metal coils with one pad adapted for particular use at endwalls, another pad for use between coils, and yet another pad for use between mid-row coils and doorway dunnage.

Abstract: A packaging system for one or more cassette tape recordings, providing for an improved and simplified point of sale display, shipment and storage, with clear identification of the contents exposed at all times. The system further comprising a printed external paperboard sleeve, dimensioned to force-fit receive one or more boxes each containing a cassette recording and a cushion insert. A transparent plastic shrink-wrap covering surrounds, protects and encloses the assembly.

Abstract: An improved supporting and spacing member for packaging a multi-layer stack of rolls of material. The supporting and spacing member includes an elongated bar of expanded foam material with a stabilizing member located within a semi-cylindrical indentation to provide a pair of indentation portions to retain opposing roll ends for added flexural stiffness and better stability for the stack.

Abstract: Skeleton packs that are designed for compression loading where such packs are themselves to be grouped, as in pallet loads, having a base to receive the primary packages and a rear member to take vertical load.

Abstract: A protective container is disclosed which includes an integral pocket for holding identification material relating to the contents of the container. The pocket and an associated tab over the pocket opening position the identification material such that bar code graphs or magnetic media mounted thereon can be easily read and accessed without requiring that the container be opened or removed from a stack of containers. In the disclosed embodiment, static protective foam liners are used to support the contents as well as provide an electrical path for any charge accumulated on the contents. The container is formed of an optically transparent material which is also static protective in nature. A viewing means is provided in the container and internal support means so that the presence or absence of any contents can be rapidly determined without opening the container.

Abstract: A package insert between two layers of articles comprises a rigid plate formed with openings spanned by at least one and preferably two flexible and advantageously elastic films which are deformed when upper articles are stacked on lower articles through the openings to nest the articles in place.

Abstract: A shipping package comprising an exterior carton having a rectangular bottom, sides and top closure defining an interior space. A bottom panel, a top panel, and usually at least one divider panel are mounted within the interior space dividing the same into a plurality of tiered spaces. The construction of the panels is such that each tiered space is defined along its lower surface by an upwardly facing corrugated sheet and along its upper surface by a downwardly facing corrugated sheet. A plurality of coiled fastener packages are mounted within each tiered space so that the fastener head defining end thereof engages one of the corrugated sheets defining the same so as to collapse the engaged corrugations thereof and the fastener point defining end thereof engages the other of the corrugated sheets defining the same so as to penetrate the engaged corrugations thereof.

Abstract: A carton for packaging a clamshell type luminaire comprising a paperboard box of a height accommodating the luminaire lengthwise and having a square cross-section in which the luminaire with refractor dismounted is accommodated diagonally. A diagonal locking panel filler has a face portion pressing against the rear portion of the humped bottom side of the luminaire to wedge its top side into a corner of the carton. The face portion has attached wings or side panels erected to form a right angle corner support conforming to the interior of the carton and transmitting to the carton walls the load created by the weight of the luminaire.

Abstract: A hermetic ceramic semiconductor package is provided with impact absorbing bumpers by applying a composition of sealing glass loaded with malleable metal particles to the ceramic package. The bumpers are applied to the ceramic parts when they are being coated with sealing glass. When the hermetic package seal is formed the bumpers will form a metal loaded matrix that will absorb impacts and thereby avoid chipping of the ceramic package due to impacts during handling.

Abstract: A light weight, shipping package for small glass vials and the like and providing an expanded polystyrene package having a plurality of chambers aligned opposite one another and including thin outer walls formed by first producing the package as a large billet and thereafter simultaneously cutting the billet into individual packages and thus achieving an objective of having a thin wall package without the attendant high production costs normally encountered in thin wall package construction.

Abstract: A container for door panels or other articles includes a sling divider having transverse support rods equally spaced along a flexible web. The ends of the rods are received in vertically staggered pairs of side wall pockets so that web sections form slings of different depths relative to the top of the container and thus allow the laterally projecting portions of the articles to deform the web and overlap to accommodate more articles in a container of given length. In the preferred embodiment, the container is rectangular with longer side and shorter end walls, and is nestable with nesting stops that establish a nesting space between the bottom walls of two nested containers, and the support rods are long enough to extend between the side walls but are shorter than the distance between the end walls so the sling divider can be removed, turned, and stored in the nesting space.

Abstract: A collapsible, corrugated damage prevention device for separating freight in transit in railroad cars, trucks, and the like is provided and includes an outer tube like member and a collapsible spreader core inside the outer tube and at right angles to the sides of the outer tube. One version provides an outer tube like member and a second tube like member inside and at right angles to the outer tube. Another version provides a U-shaped outer section with outwardly extending flanges covered with a cap sheet to provide a hollow interior. The sides of the void filler are scored to allow each side to be easily folded outwardly from the core member thus disposing the entire device in a flat configuration which can be easily stored when not in use.

Abstract: An elongated tube of convoluted fiber-containing sheet material, in which the fibers extend predominantly longitudinally and the convolutions are bonded together with a hardenable bonding material, which is flattened to provide at least a pair of opposed spaced parallel walls having longitudinally-extending grooves, beads, or indentations to provide enhanced support in terms of improved resistance to longitudinally-directed compressive loads, and enhanced cushioning in terms of improved resistance to transversely directed forces.

Abstract: A portable wine bottle carrier is characterized by a tote bag having a non-rigid bottom and sides and an open top, and a cushion divider for dividing the interior of the bag into two vertical compartments suitable for receipt of a wine bottle in each whereby bottles carried in the bag in the compartments are maintained in spaced, cushioned relationship. In one form of carrier, the cushion divider consists of a flexible padded tongue secured at its lower end to the bottom of the bag, which divides the bag into the vertical compartments or alternatively the divider may be adjusted or positioned to the side to accommodate a single wine bottle of standard or larger size. Also with the use of a larger size wine bottle, the tongue may be folded upon itself and on the bottom of the bag to provide a padded base support for the bottle. In another form of carrier, the cushion divider consists of an inverted T-shape cardboard insert.

Abstract: An anti-static tray for holding semi-conductor devices and components, is formed by a flat sheet of metal, for example aluminum, with a layer of electrically conducting foam material on one side. Terminal pins extending from the devices are pushed into the foam, and securely held. The devices are then protected from static charges which might be applied by persons removing devices as any static charge is bled off into the metal sheet. Legs can be formed by bending down short lengths of metal from the sheet, so that trays can be stacked without contact between a tray and devices and components mounted on the tray beneath.

Abstract: A packaging arrangement for a generally friable product sealed in a plastic pouch, the latter of which is positioned in a sealed cylindrical container so as to be restrained from axial movement therein. A separator may be located in the container to bias the pouch radially outwardly into engagement with the inner cylindrical surface of the container. Moreover, a corrugated liner may be interposed between the plastic pouch and the inner wall of the container to thereby provide added protection to the friable product from shock loads iparted to the container.

Abstract: A mechanical shock and impact resistant ceramic semiconductor package is formed by applying a resilient, non-conductive, non-absorbent, heat-resistant material onto the surfaces of said package. In a dual in-line ceramic package a silicone polymer is discretely applied onto at least one end of the longitudinally opposite end edge surfaces. This renders the package mechanical shock and impact resistant.

Abstract: The sympathetic or chain reaction detonation of stacked munitions is preved by confining any random explosion essentially to a single explosive unit or container. Frangible inhibitor plates are located between adjacent munitions, such as artillery shells, so as to isolate the adjacent explosive units from a residual shock wave or case fragment that would otherwise trigger sympathetic detonation. The inhibitor plates may be constructed as part of a container in which an artillery shell may be stored, or the plates may be separately inserted between any adjacent warhead in any conventional storage pallet or transporting configuration. The plates are designed to absorb only that amount of explosive energy required to prevent sympathetic detonation, without requiring that the explosive forces be redirected away from adjacent shells, thus reducing the problem of redirected blast.

Abstract: A knock-down floor lamp that is shipped prewired and unassembled in a package, and then can be readily assembled by the ultimate consumer with simple tools and without twisting of the electrical prewiring. First and second elongated tubular turnings are provided, the first turning having a socket formed at a first end thereof, and the second turning being releasably connectable to a lamp base at a first end thereof. A tray is disposed between the turnings, and they are connected together, sandwiching the tray therebetween, with structure that does not require rotational movement of one turning with respect to the other. Preferably a first plate having three screw threaded rods extending therefrom is attached to the first turning and passes through bores in the tray and in a second plate attached to the second turning, nuts being disposed on the end of the threaded rods to hold the turnings in place.

Abstract: A package is provided for phonograph records in which four small-diameter records are packaged in a sleeve having the outside dimensions corresponding to those of a sleeve for a large diameter record. The package is comprised of a sleeve having a cruciform separator mounted between the front and rear panels of the sleeve. The separator defines four pockets, one for each of four small-size records packaged in the sleeve. The sleeve typically is square in outline and the pockets are located in slightly overlapping relation at each corner quadrant of the sleeve, access being had through opposite open side edges of the sleeve.

Abstract: A packaging system is disclosed for containing a plurality of discrete exsive masses in close juxtaposition but isolated from each other so as to prevent detonation of one such mass from propagating a chain of further detonations of the remaining such masses.

Abstract: A member for protectively supporting and spacing a plurality of rolls of web material such as cellophane in a multi-layer stack is formed as an elongated bar. The bar has a plurality of spaced indentations along at least one elongated surface for receiving the rolls of the stack. The bar is formed with sufficient flexibility to permit a limited, relative movement among the rolls of the stack. This provides a high degree of protection to the rolls. At the same time, the bar has sufficient strength to prevent crushing of the stack. The bar may be formed of expanded polystyrene foam and, preferably, is formed to embrace the ends of the rolls for protective purposes.

Abstract: The invention relates to a container for the safe air transport of plutonium having several intermediate wood layers and a load spreader intermediate an inner container and an outer shell for mitigation of shock during a hypothetical accident.

Abstract: A packaging arrangement for housing a plurality of U-shaped fluorescent lamps in a corrugated container is provided having a plurality of first and second corrugated inserts each having a plurality of aligned, spaced slots extending inward a predetermined distance from a first edge of each thereof. The inserts are mounted on one another by sliding one insert in the slots of the other, the slots being aligned and the inserts being positioned orthogonally with respect to each other and as assembled extending between the four sides of the container. The firt and second inserts when so mounted form a plurality of rectangular compartments therein which conform generally with and are adapted to house U-shaped fluorescent bulbs therein.

Abstract: A packaging arrangement for a generally friable product sealed in a plastic pouch, the latter of which is positioned in a sealed cylindrical container so as to be restrained from axial movement therein. A separator may be located in the container to bias the pouch radially outwardly into engagement with the inner cylindrical surface of the container. Moreover, a corrugated liner may be interposed between the plastic pouch and the inner wall of the container to thereby provide added protection to the friable product from shock loads imparted to the container.