Package and packaging method

Claim 1

A PALLETIZED PACKAGE COMPRISING A SUPPORTING PALLET, A MASS WHICH IS GENERALLY RECTANGULAR IN HORIZONTAL CROSSSECTION POSITIONED ON AND SUPPORTED BY SAID PALLET, PROTECTIVE COVERING STRUCTURE SURROUNDING SAID MASS ON ITS FOUR SIDES AND ITS TOP, AND MEANS MAINTAINING SAID MASS ON SAID PALLET AND SAID COVERING STRUCTURE AROUND SAID MASS; SAID COVERING STRUCTURE COMPRISING A PAIR OF SHEETS OF BENDABLE MATERIAL EACH OF WHICH HAS A PLURALITY OF GENERALLY PARALLEL PREFORMED FOLD LINES EXTENDING BETWEEN OPPOSITE EDGES THEREOF, EACH SHEET INCLUDING A PORTION OF GENERALLY U-SHAPE COMPRISING THREE SECTIONS DEFINED BY A PREDETERMINED PAIR OF SAID FOLD LINES, TWO OF SAID SECTIONS EXTENDING GENERALLY NORMAL TO THE THIRD, EACH OF SAID SHEETS INCLUDING A PAIR OF SLITS WHICH EXTEND INWARDLY FROM ONE OF SAID EDGES ALONG SAID PREDETERMINED PAIR OF FOLD LINES A DISTANCE DETERMINED BY THE HEIGHT OF SAID MASS, SAID SLITS PROVIDING THREE BENDABLE FLAPS IN EACH SHEET ADJACENT SUCH EDGE THEREOF, SAID SHEETS BEING ARRANGED AROUND SAID MASS IN PARTIALLY OVERLAPPING TELESCOPIC RELATIONSHIP WITH THE RESPECTIVE SECTIONS OF SAID SHEETS ENGAGING AND COVERING THE FOUR SIDES OF SAID MASS AND WITH THE RESPECTIVE FLAPS OF SAID SHEETS OVERLYING AND COVERING THE TOP OF SAID MASS.