US 11,891,209 B2
Packaging system comprising a plurality of sub units, and a sub unit
Stian Valentin Knutsen, Nesbru (NO)
Assigned to Smart Packaging Industries Holding AS, Olso (NO)
Appl. No. 16/067,233
Filed by Smart Packaging Industries Holding AS, Oslo (NO)
PCT Filed Dec. 23, 2016, PCT No. PCT/NO2016/050268
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jun. 29, 2018,
PCT Pub. No. WO2017/116236, PCT Pub. Date Jul. 6, 2017.
Application 16/067,233 is a continuation of application No. 15/393,229, filed on Dec. 28, 2016, abandoned.
Claims priority of application No. 20151802 (NO), filed on Dec. 29, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2019/0016497 A1, Jan. 17, 2019
Int. Cl. B65D 21/02 (2006.01); B65D 1/30 (2006.01); B65D 5/00 (2006.01); B65D 25/04 (2006.01); B65D 77/20 (2006.01)
CPC B65D 1/30 (2013.01) [B65D 5/009 (2013.01); B65D 21/0201 (2013.01); B65D 21/0206 (2013.01); B65D 25/04 (2013.01); B65D 77/20 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A packaging system comprising a plurality of sub-units and a housing with inner walls, the sub-units having a tapered structure towards a narrow end from a first opposing surface at an end opposite the narrow end, each of the sub-units being shaped as one of, a pyramid or as a frustum of a pyramid,
wherein six stacked and detached sub-units are configured to be positioned so that they form a cube and so that first opposing surfaces of the sub-units form an outside of the cube,
wherein a collection of cubes, which comprises a plurality of cubes and has outer boundaries, is stacked in the housing such that the outer boundaries of the collection of cubes is positioned adjacent the inner walls of the housing, and
wherein the sub-units comprise side walls which mutually support each other force-wise when the collection of cubes is subjected to an external force.