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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 01, 2001
Filed:
May. 19, 1998
Dale E. Minor, Madison, IN (US);
Douglas H. Sudhoff, Madison, IN (US);
Reliance Electric Technologies, LLC, Thousand Oaks, CA (US);
Abstract
A base plate for a package to inhibit an object's inadvertent displacement when the plate and object are positioned within a shipping container. The plate is composed of a rectangular sheet of paperboard or sheet form material folded at least once, and preferably twice, both horizontally and vertically to form multiple sheets in superimposed, overlapping relation thereby creating a support or base plate. A longitudinally extending separation in the upper of the sheet form supports include a plurality of separations extending from opposite edges of the longitudinal separation to form cantilevered tabs extending from opposite sides of the separation. A recess in the lower sheet form support underlying the longitudinally extending separation permits deflection of the tabs into the recess when an object, such as a motor, is placed thereon to thereby partially capture, cradle and cushion the object upon the support plate. The package is formed by shrink wrapping the motor and the base plate and placing the same into a shipping container.