US 6,981,588 B2
Packaging material for commodity
Keiji Kimura, Suita (Japan)
Assigned to Yugen Kaisha Toho Label, Osaka (Japan)
Appl. No. 10/473,870
PCT Filed Feb. 06, 2002, PCT No. PCT/JP02/00999
§ 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date Sep. 29, 2003,
PCT Pub. No. WO02/081334, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 17, 2002.
Claims priority of application No. 2001-099818 (JP), filed on Mar. 30, 2001.
Prior Publication US 2004/0112772 A1, Jun. 17, 2004
Int. Cl. B65D 85/18 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 206—297 4 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A packaging material, comprising:
a) a single sheet for aesthetically displaying a commodity by covering a part of the commodity, said sheet having a pair of substantially same rectangular front and rear sheet bodies at front and rear sides of the commodity;
b) a band part having a width corresponding to a thickness of the commodity to be packaged sandwiched between the sheet bodies;
c) extension pieces connected at right and left ends of the front sheet body through bent parts of substantially the same width as the band part;
d) locking means at opposite ends of the extension pieces for locking them by overlapping;
e) additional extension pieces connected at right and left ends of the rear sheet body through additional bent parts narrower in width than the band part;
f) additional locking means at opposite ends of the additional extension pieces for locking them by overlapping; and
g) slits located between the rear sheet body and the additional bent parts, and operative for receiving and locking the extension pieces of the front sheet body.