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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 23, 1990
Filed:
Feb. 09, 1990
Thomas I Insley, Lake Elmo, MN (US);
James F Dyrud, New Richmond, WI (US);
Donald E Young, Forest Lake, MN (US);
Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co., Saint Paul, MN (US);
Abstract
A shipping or secondary container, which can safely transport a plurality of breakable primary containers of a variety of sizes and shapes, has a pair of rigid shells that mate. A batt of sorptive material fills each shell, and a normally tacky, discontinuous adhesive layer covers the exposed face of at least one batt. The shells can be vacuum formed from a sheet of thermoplastic resin that is 0.25 to 0.5 mm in thickness. The two shells preferably are identical to each other. To permit them to interlock, each shell has an upstanding wall that is formed with both tongues and grooves which telescopically mate with the tongues and grooves of the other shell.