Patent ID: 8186512

Claim:
Low waste packaging for use with a consumer product, comprising: a planar tag element having front and back planar surfaces upon which advertising indicia may be printed, a body of the planar tag element being bounded by top, bottom and side edges; a shaped cut-out defined through the bottom edge and extending into the body of the planar tag element so that side portions of the planar tag element remain, said side portions defined between the side edges and cut-out and said shaped cut-out being configured to receive and retain an upper portion of a consumer product; apertures formed through the planar tag element on either side of the cut-out adjacent the bottom edge of the tag element; a first semi-annular ring portion having flanges extending oppositely at terminal portions of the first semi-annular ring; posts affixed at each of the terminal portions extending generally perpendicularly from the flanges and parallel to one another and received within the apertures formed to either side of the cut-out, each of said posts having a coupling member located at a terminal end of the posts; and a second semi-annular ring portion having flanges extending oppositely at terminal portions of the second semi-annular ring, each of the flanges of the second semi-annular ring having an aperture formed therethrough, wherein the apertures on the second-annular ring are spaced apart a distance equal to a distance between the posts and a distance between the apertures formed through the planar tag on either side of the cut-out so that the apertures and posts may be axially aligned when the packaging is assembled around the consumer product and an upper end of the product captured within the cut-out and between the first and second semi-annular ring portions.