Multi-unit merchandising package

Claim 1

A MULTI-ARTICLE MERCHANDISING PACKAGE COMPRISING, A PLURALITY OF CLOSELY GROUPED CYLINDRICAL CONTAINERS EACH HAVING RADIALLY PROJECTING END CHIMES, AN OVERWRAP OF TRANSPARENT PLASTIC FILM SNUGLY SURROUNDING AND FULLY ENCLOSING SAID GROUPED CONTAINERS WITH SAID PLASTIC FILM SEALED UPON ITSELF TO FORM A UNIT-HANDLED CONTAINER PACKAGE, SPACER MEANS DISPOSED BETWEEN AND IN TANGENTIAL CONTACT WITH EACH ADJACENT PAIR OF CHIMES TO THEREBY SPACE APART EACH PAIR OF ADJACENT CONTAINERS BY THE THICKNESS OF SAID SPACER MEANS TO PREVENT CHIME-RIDING, A SHEET-LIKE INSERT DISPOSED WITHIN SAID OVERWRAP ADJACENT AND PARALLEL WITH THE CONTAINER ENDS FOR VERTICALLY SPACING VERTICALLY ADJACENT CHIMES OF SEPARATELY PACKED CONTAINERS WHEN STACKED TO PREVENT CHIME ABRASION OF THE OVERWRAP THEREBETWEEN, AND MEANS LIGHTLY URGING SAID INSERT AWAY FROM SAID CONTAINERS TO THEREBY MAINTAIN SAID OVERWRAP IN TAUTLY EMBRACING RELATIONSHIP ABUT SAID CONTAINERS AND INSERT.