Patent ID: 6009688
Filing Date: 2000-01-04
Classification: B65D

Abstract:
A method for packaging specialty lighting strings and seasonal elongated items, comprising:(a) providing a length of tubing of plastic film of sufficient length to enclose one or more of the specialty lighting strings or seasonal elongated items desired to be packaged;(b) providing a cylinder of rigid material with a diameter sufficient for the item to be wrapped to pass through and with a length sufficient to hold said length of plastic tubing compressed onto said cylinder;(c) providing a box of sufficient size to contain said cylinder of rigid material with the stored length of plastic tubing, with circular openings in said box concentric with said cylinder;wherein said cylinder of rigid material is attached on the inside of the box to one side so that said lighting string or elongated item is pulled through the cylinder through the circular openings and the said length of plastic tubing is pulled off of said cylinder and over said lighting string or elongated item and fastened at each end of the lighting string or item, whereby said lighting string or elongated item may be easily packaged for storage.