| 摘要 |
<p>A tray-like storage and display package is formed from a stretchy, normally flaccid and preferably transparent material, such as polyethylene film, which is wrapped into a sleeve extending about the sides of an array of cartons and underlies at least a portion of the bottom of the array. The packaged arrays produced thereby are stable and may be stacked one above the other to form a stable display stack which is resistant to flowering. Handles are provided on the individual tray like package, preferably formed by the film itself as a result of the folding and heat seal patterns used in assembling the package. The film normally has little or no tension about the array of cartons thereby allowing free removal of cartons when the package is resting or supported on a flat surface, as for example, when forming the top package in a stack of such packages. The position of the handles is such that the application of lifting force to them also imparts circumferential tension tightening the material and thereby stretching it to distribute the forces developed therein to circumferentially compress the cartons against each other and develop frictional forces therebetween sufficient to unite the array and all of the cartons into an integral unit to allow handling while yet enabling one by one removal of the cartons from the array as desired when the package is resting or supported on a flat surface.</p> |
