US 12,012,277 B2
Packaging apparatus, packaging, product, and method for packaging an item
Oliver Seidensticker, Stutensee (DE)
Assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart (DE)
Filed by Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart (DE)
Filed on Oct. 5, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/960,282.
Claims priority of application No. 102021211333.8 (DE), filed on Oct. 7, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0112643 A1, Apr. 13, 2023
Int. Cl. B65D 85/68 (2006.01); B65D 77/04 (2006.01)
CPC B65D 85/68 (2013.01) [B65D 77/04 (2013.01); B65D 2585/6885 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A product comprising an outer packaging (44a), and flexible packaging element (16a; 16b) positioned within the outer packaging (44a) wherein the packaging element (16a; 16b) is a user guide (18a), wherein the product further includes a wiper blade adapter (14a, 28a, 32a, 36a), wherein the packaging element (16a; 16b) is wrapped at least once circumferentially around the wiper blade adapter (14a, 28a, 32a, 36a), wherein the product further includes a wiper blade (40a) positioned within the outer packaging (44a), wherein the wiper blade (40a) is disposed outside of the packaging element (16a; 16b).
 
13. A method for packaging a wiper blade device, wherein the method includes wrapping a wiper blade adapter (14a, 28a, 32a, 36a) in a flexible packaging element (16a; 16b), and wrapping the packaging element (16a; 16b) at least once circumferentially around the wiper blade adapter (14a, 28a, 32a, 36a), wherein the packaging element (16a; 16b) is a user guide (18a), wherein the method further includes inserting the packaging element (16a; 16b) and the wiper blade adapter (14a, 28a, 32a, 36a) into an outer packaging (44a), wherein the method further includes inserting a wiper blade (40a) into the outer packaging (44a), wherein the wiper blade (40a) is disposed outside of the packaging element (16a; 16b).