Cushioned package

Claim 1

A CUSHIONING UNIT INSERTABLE BETWEEN A FRAGILE ARTICLE AND THE BOTOM OF A BOX, SAID UNIT COMPRISING: A BODY OF RESILIENT COMPRESSIBLE FOAM-LIKE CUSHIONING MATERIAL FORMING AN OPEN CENTERED, HORIZONTALLY EXTENDING, RECTANGULAR, FRAME-LIKE STRUCTURE, SAID BODY OF MATERIAL HAVING A HORIZONTALLY EXTENDING UPWARDLY FACING LEDGE LOCATED ALONG THE INNER MARGINS THEREOF IN A PLANE INTERMEDIATE THE TOP AND BOTTOM PLANES OF THE BODY OF CUSHIONING MATERIAL, WHEREIN THE CUSHIONING MATERIAL BELOW THE SAME CUSHIONS THE ARTICLE AGAINST DOWNWARD THRUSTS, AND INWARDLY FACING VERTICAL SURFACES ABOVE AND ALIGNED WITH THE OUTER MARGINS OF THE LEDGE AND ADAPTED TO SURROUND THE ARTICLE TO CUSHION THE SAME AGAINST LATERAL THRUSTS, AND FORCE DISTRIBUTING MEANS COMPRISING A RELATIVELY RIGID LAYER OF MATERIAL COVERING SAID LEDGE AND EXTENDING HORIZONTALLY INTO SAID BODY OF MATERIAL TO DISTRIBUT THE WEIGHT OF SAID ARTICLE OVER A GREATER AREA THAN SAID LEGE AND OVER A CONSTANT THICKNESS OF CUSHIONING MATERIAL.