Patent ID: 6457635
Filing Date: 2002-10-01
Classification: A45C,B65D

Abstract:
A shirt wrapper for containing and protecting a stack of folded shirts, comprisinga body of a flexible material having a rectangular base having narrower end edges and longer side edges and being of a size to receive thereon a folded shirt, a pair of end flaps joined to the end edges, each of the end flaps being of a length such as to fold up from the base along the ends of the stack of shirts and at least part way over the top of the stack of shirts, a first rectangular side flap joined to one side edge of the base, having a width equal to the width of the base of the body between the end edges, and having a length such as to fold up along one side of the stack of shirts and entirely over the top of the stack of shirts, and a second rectangular side flap joined to the other side edge of the base and having a length such as to fold up along the other side of the stack of shirts and at least partway over the top of the stack of shirts; a panel of flexible material attached to the base of the body and forming with the base a bottom pocket substantially coextensive with the base; a bottom stiffener sheet substantially coextensive with the base of the body received in the bottom pocket; a panel of flexible material attached to the first side flap and forming with the first side flap a top pocket having a width equal to the width of the first side flap, an opening spaced apart from the juncture of the first side flap and an edge coextensive with the free edge of the first side; a top stiffener sheet of substantially the same size as the bottom stiffener sheet received in the top pocket, the top stiffener sheet being removable from the top pocket for use as a form for folding a shirt to be stacked on the base; and a fastener for joining the underside of the second side flap to the first side flap when the wrapper is folded over a stack of shirts.