Packing made of plastic material chiefly for pharmaceutical tubes

Claim 1

A PACKING FOR AMPOULES AND SIMILAR ELONGATED CONTAINERS HAVING TUBULAR BODY PORTIONS AND TAPERED NECK PORTIONS CONNECTING SAID BODY PORTIONS TO RELATIVELY SLENDER, SUBSTANTIALLY CYLINDRICAL TIP PORTIONS, COMPRISING A TRAY FORMED WITH ELONGATED DEPRESSIONS FOR RECEIVING ONE LONGITUDINAL HALF OF EACH OF SAID CONTAINERS, WITH THE OTHER LONGITUDINAL HALF OF EACH CONTAINER PROJECTING ABOVE SAID TRAY, EACH SAID DEPRESSION BEING SHAPED TO ENGAGE THE CONTAINER SNUGLY SUBSTANTIALLY THROUGHOUT THE SURFACES OF ONE LONGITUDINAL HALF OF SAID NECK PORTION AND OF SAID BODY PORTION, WHILE LEAVING MOST OF THE TIP PORTION FREE OF SUCH ENGAGEMENT, SO AS TO HOLD SAID CONTAINER FIRMLY AGAINST LATERAL AND ENDWISE MOVEMENTS WHILE PERMITTING FREE ACCESS TO SAID TIP PORTION SO THAT IT MAY BE USED AS A LEVER TO LIFT THE CONTAINER OUT OF THE DEPRESSION, SAID TRAY BEING PROVIDED WITH WEAKENED PORTIONS ADJACENT THE ENDS OF THE DEPRESSIONS, SO THAT THE PORTIONS OF THE TRAY CONFORMING TO THE CONTAINER NECK PORTIONS MAY BE FLEXED DOWNWARDLY OUT OF ALIGNMENT WITH THE DEPRESSIONS TO PERMIT THE INSERTION OF CONTAINERS IN SAID DEPRESSIONS OR THEIR WITHDRAWAL THEREFROM BY MOVEMENT OF THE CONTAINERS LENGTHWISE OF THE DEPRESSIONS.