Patent ID: 7827766

Claim:
A load packaging method, comprising: wrapping a stretch film around a cylindrical skirt section in a direction orthogonal to a longitudinal axis of the skirt section, the stretch film being wrapped over a plurality of film feed conveyers spaced around the skirt section on corner ridges of the skirt section; during said wrapping, moving the wrapped stretch film along the longitudinal axis of the skirt section and past an open end of the skirt section using the plurality of film feed conveyors, thereby forming a cylinder of wrapped stretch film; during said moving of the wrapped stretch film, pushing a pressed load material within the skirt section out of the skirt section through the open end of the skirt section and into the cylinder of wrapped stretch film moved past the open end of the skirt section; and severing the wrapped stretch film at positions spaced apart from opposite ends of the pressed load material contained therein.