General Mills, Inc.

Medtronic Vascular, Inc.

James T Buccellato

David J Domingues

Craig A Dowd

Jeffrey Barnell

Scott Kackman

Todd A Rasmussen

Wenyi Wang

Jeremy B Thompson

Kristi L Bahe

Jason Nagy

Jean A Linforth

Brian Scott Allers

An example technique of forming a package includes retaining a package precursor in a support. The package precursor includes a shrink-formable composition and defines an interior volume configured to enclose a component, such as a medical supply. The package may be formed by at least directing a flow of heated medium from a nozzle toward at least one region of the package precursor to cause the at least one region to shrink faster than an adjacent region of the package precursor. In some examples, an example system for shrink-forming a package includes the support and the nozzle.

Shrink-formed package

A wound package construct includes a first wound strip of package material that establishes an inner liner layer, a second wound strip of material that establishes an intermediate bodystock layer, and a third wound strip of material or cover strip that covers a seam formed by the wound bodystock layer but that does not cover all of the outer surface area of the wound bodystock layer. Therefore, the width of the cover strip is less than the width of the bodystock strip. As a result, the cover strip is not wide enough to cover the entire outer surface of the wound bodystock layer such that, after the cover strip is wrapped to cover the spiral bodystock seam, areas of the bodystock layer remain exposed between the two opposed length-wise edges of the cover strip.

Wound package construct

Baking pan shield

Tray with finger pockets

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Blaine, MN, United States of America

James T Buccellato