Patent ID: 9598213
Date: 2017-03-21
CPC Classifications: B65D

Claim:
1. A collection of articles provided as a plurality of stacked parallelepiped containers, each parallelepiped container having a bottom, sidewalls, and a top, and containing a plurality of convolutely wound rolls of web material, each convolutely wound roll of web material having a longitudinal axis parallel with said sidewalls, the collection of stacked parallelepiped containers comprising: a supporting medium selected from the group consisting of a basket, a bin, a box, a case, a catch-all, a chest, a container, a crate, a envelope, a mold, a packing case, a packing crate, a pallet, a pocket, a receptacle, and a tin; a first slip sheet disposed directly on a surface of said supporting medium; a first plurality of parallelepiped containers arranged in a first layer upon said first slip sheet, each parallelepiped container of said first plurality of parallelepiped containers being disposed adjacent each other so that a first sidewall of a first parallelepiped container of said first plurality of parallelepiped containers is disposed immediately adjacent a first sidewall of a second parallelepiped container of said first plurality of parallelepiped containers to define a first space therebetween; and, wherein a first portion of said first sidewall of said first parallelepiped container disposed within said first space is bonded to a first portion of said first sidewall of said second parallelepiped container disposed within said first space when said first parallelepiped container and said second parallelepiped container are placed into contacting engagement.