Patent ID: 7666484

Claim:
A ready-made film assembly for wrapping food products, comprising: an edible or inedible material film that, is curved onto itself along a longitudinal axis to form a cylinder that is adapted to be wrapped on a large diameter section of a spindle, with longitudinal side edges of the film overlapping along a direction parallel to the longitudinal axis of the cylinder and with the longitudinal side edges being in direct contact with each other and not otherwise connected to each other to form an overlapping film cylinder, the overlapping film cylinder being forced to slide tightly along the spindle and over a decrease in diameter of the spindle to form longitudinal folds uniformly distributed throughout an entire circumference of the overlapping film cylinder, the overlapping film cylinder also having uniformly distributed transverse folds, the longitudinal folds being parallel to the longitudinal axis of the cylinder and permitting radial collapsing and expanding of the overlapping film cylinder with respect to the longitudinal axis of the cylinder to at least the diameter of the large diameter section of the spindle, and the transverse folds being perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the cylinder and permitting longitudinal collapsing and expanding of the overlapping film cylinder, from end-to-end; an unshirred protection sheet over the film cylinder; and a shirred tubular net over the protective sheet, the protective sheet facilitating separation of the net from the overlapping film cylinder.