Patent ID: 7731028

Claim:
A cargo shipping apparatus, comprising: a container having a bottom tray and a top lid, the tray having a rectangular bottom surface and upstanding parallel sidewalls and upstanding parallel end walls; said top lid having a rectangular top and parallel sidewalls and parallel end walls projecting downward from the top; a plurality of packages, each package in the plurality of packages comprising: a support having a front face and a rear face, and having a perimeter including top and bottom edges and left and right side edges; said support having at least one lower notch in the bottom edge and at least one upper notch in the top edge; a curved glass panel suspended on the front face of said support within the perimeter of said support, said curved glass panel having a concave back surface; stretch wrapping film received in said notches; and said wrapping film stretched between said notches, around at least a portion of the support, around at least a portion of said curved glass panel, securing said curved glass panel to the front face of said support and imparting a planar curve to said support that substantially conforms to the periphery of the concave back surface; wherein the bottom edges are supported by the bottom surface of the tray and the left and right side edges are proximate to the end walls of the tray and wherein the plurality of packages are nested in an “X” configuration wherein half of the packages are oriented in one direction and the other half in the other direction.