Patent ID: 6871480

Claim:
The method of packaging a product for shipping within a protective cushion wrap, comprising the steps of; unrolling sheet material from a continuous roll, said roll of sheet material having an axis and said direction of unrolling being transverse to said axis, forming a series of pleats in said sheet material, said pleats having their apices parallel to said axis, bringing at least one sheet of a planar tissue paper material from a continuous roll, into contact with at least one surface of said pleated sheet material, adhering said pleated sheet material to said sheet from said continuous roll, to form the combination of a sheet of pleated material and a cover sheet layer, severing a length of said combination of pleated material and a cover sheet layer, to form a packaging wrap material, completely enclosing a product within said packaging wrap material, with at least two end regions overlapping each other to form a region having at least two layers of packaging wrap material, and conforming said packaging wrap material to the shape of said product.