Patent ID: 8662307

Claim:
A one-piece thermoformed packaging device for article shock-protection, the packaging device being a unitary thermoformed molding, wherein the one-piece thermoformed molding comprises first and second elongate molding wings, and an integral hinge which is integral with the first and the second elongate molded wings as part of the unitary thermoformed molding, the integral hinge hinges the first and the second elongate molded wings together for folding the first and the second elongate molded wings onto one another about the integral hinge to bring an abutment-part of the first elongate molded wing into mutual abutment with an abutment-part of the second elongate molded wing, and each of the first and the second elongate molded wings has a pair of upstanding flanges as part of the unitary thermoformed molding, the upstanding pair of flanges of each of the first and the second elongate molded wings are spaced apart laterally from one another of the respective wing to define between them an intervening channel for receiving a portion of an article to be shock-protected, a first molded pattern of ridges with intervening grooves runs longitudinally of the abutment-part of the first elongate molded wings and a second molded pattern of ridges with intervening grooves runs longitudinally of the abutment-part of the second elongate molded wing, the first molded pattern of ridges with intervening grooves of the abutment-part of the first elongate molded wing nesting ridge-within-groove with the ridges with intervening grooves of the second molded pattern of ridges with intervening grooves of the abutment-part of the second elongate molded wing when the first and the second elongate molded wings are folded onto one another about the integral hinge into mutual abutment with one another.