Patent ID: 7025339

Claim:
A corrugated structured packing element for use in a first layer of corrugated structured packing, the corrugated structured packing element having at least one edge adapted to intermesh with an edge of at least one other corrugated structured packing element for use in a second layer of corrugated structured packing adapted to be positioned vertically adjacent the first layer of corrugated structured packing, wherein each of the corrugated structured packing elements has a plurality of corrugations forming alternating peaks and troughs across at least a portion of at least one surface of the corrugated structured packing element, whereby at least one uncontrolled gap between the first and second layers of corrugated structured packing is reduced by intermeshing the at least one edge of the corrugated structured packing element in the first layer with the edge of the at least one other corrugated structured packing element in the second layer when the second layer is positioned vertically adjacent the first layer.