APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DELIVERING AIR-DROP SUPPLIES

摘要

An air-drop carton (40) comprising a plurality of sachets (10, 110), each individually containing food, medical supplies or other aid-related contents in (for example) granular - particularly powdered - form, and a wrapper which packages the sachets to form and define the so-called carton; characterised by the features: (a) that each sachet (10, 110) is so sized, shaped and filled or part-filled that, when released from the confines of the wrapper (40) at air-drop altitude it tends to feather-fall rather than free-fall earthwards, and (b) that the wrapper (40) is so constituted, and so arranged about its sachets (10, 110), that whilst it tends to hold the sachets (10, 110) in their cartoned format as they sit in an aircraft immediately prior to being air-dropped, it is designed to disintegrate from that format sufficiently to release the sachets (10, 110) for individual flight as or shortly after the carton leaves the aircraft. The invention also discloses a method of air-dropping food, medical supplies or other aid-related contents and a sachet (10, 110) intended for use in an air-drop carton.