Patent ID: 6923324

Claim:
A packaging system for an article, the article having an article width measured along a first dimension of the article, the system comprising: a cradle being a flat sheet of corrugated paperboard, said cradle having a cradle width measured along a first dimension of said cradle and two edges spaced apart by said cradle width, said cradle for receiving, on a face thereof, the article such that the first dimension of the article is substantially aligned with said first dimension of said cradle, said cradle width substantially exceeding the article width; and a tubular sleeve defining a tubular axis and surrounding said cradle and the article so that said tubular axis is perpendicular to the first dimension of the article and said cradle, said sleeve being formed of a heat shrinkable material and conforming to an upper periphery of said article and to said two edges such that a said sleeve adopts a substantially trapezoidal shape as viewed along said tubular axis.