Patent ID: 7992713
Filing Date: 2011-08-09
Classification: B65D

Abstract:
1. A package for a disk drive, comprising: an outer corrugated cardboard carton having: sidewalls; a bottom attached to the sidewalls; and a cover pivotally attached to pivot about one of the sidewalls; a pair of frame members, each one having four sidewalls affixed to a corresponding one of the cover and the bottom disposed about a receiving region of the frame members; an air-filled bubble-like packing device having a plurality of air-filled chambers, such chambers being arranged to provide a shock absorbing pocket; a container for receiving therein the disk drive; wherein the container with the disk drive therein are disposed within the pocket of the air-filled bubble-like packing device; and wherein the air-filled bubble-like packing device with the container and disk drive therein are disposed within the carton with portions of the air-filled bubble-like packing device being engaged by the frame members and other portions being disposed within a receiving region after the top is pivoted towards, and then attached to, one of the sidewalls of the carton.