Compartmented article packaging device

Claim 1

AN EGG PACKAGE COMPRISING A LOWER SHELL AND AN UPPER SHELL, THE SHELL BEING PORTIONS OF AN INTEGRAL MEMBER, THE LOWER SHELL BEING A UNITARY MOLDED MEMBER HAVING A FIRST PLURALITY OF RECEPTACLE UNIFORMLY SPACED APART ALONG A STRAIGHT PATH, A CORRESPONDING SECOND PLURALITY OF RECEPTACLES FORMED IN THE LOWER SHELL UNIFORMLY SPACED APART ALONG A STRAIGHT PATH, THE SECOND PLURALITY BEING DISPOSED TO BE SPACED APART FROM AND HORIZONTALLY AND VERTICALLY ALIGNED WITH THE FIRST PLURALITY, AND A THIRD PLURALITY OF UNIFORMLY SPACED APART RECEPTACLES DEFINED BY THE LOWER SHELL IN FIXED RELATION TO ONE ANOTHER AND TO THE RECEPTACLES OF THE FIRST AND SECOND PLURALITIES AND ARRANGED ALONG A STRAIGHT PATH DISPOSED BETWEEN AND PARALLEL TO THE FIRST AND SECOND PLURALITIES, THE RECEPTACLES OF THE THIRD PLURALITY BEING UNIFORMLY ELEVATED ABOVE THE FIRST AND SECOND PLURALITIES IN STAGGERED ALIGNMENT THEREWITH, AND MEANS FOR RELEASABLY ENGAGING THE UPPER SHELL IN OVERLYING CLOSURE RELATION TO THE LOWER SHELL, THE RECEPTACLES OF THE FIRST, SECOND, AND THIRD PLURALITIES BEING EXPOSED WHEN THE UPPER SHELL IS DISENGAGED FROM CLOSURE RELATION TO THE LOWER SHELL.