Shipping tray

Claim 1

TRANSPORTABLE PACKAGE FOR SUPPORTING A NUMBER OF FRAGILE ARTICLES IN PREDETERMINED, FIXED POSITION, COMPRISING TWO TABLETS, EACH CONSISTING OF A PLANE BASE FOIL EXTENDING INTO A SHEETED STRUCTURE CONSISTION OF A NUMBER OF SUBSTANTIALLY EQUAL POSITIONING TROUGHS, EACH FORMING OVER A SQUARE BASE A CAVITY SHAPED TO RECEIVE ONE OF SAID ARTICLES WITHIN ITS CONCAVE PORTION; SAID CAVITIES BEING SUBSTANTIALLY CLOSED EXCEPT AT THEIR BASES AND BEING ARRANGED AT REGULAR DISTANCES AT THE CORNER POINTS OF SAID SQUARE BASES; SAID SQUARE BASES BEING ARRANGED SUBSTANTIALLY IN THE PLANE OF SAID BASE FOIL, LEAVING ON SAID BASE FOIL AT LEAST TWO OPPOSITELY ARRANGED EDGE STRIPS, SAID TROUGHS BECOMING SMALLER WITH INCREASING DEPTH AND FORMING THREE PYRAMID FRUSTUMS, ONE ON TOP OF THE OTHER, WHEREBY THE INCLINATION OF THE WALLS OF EACH TROUGH AT THE HIGHEST AND LOWEST FRUSTUM ARE SUBSTANTIALLY EQUAL AND STEEPER THAN THAT OF THE WALL OF THE INTERMEDIATE FRUSTUM, SAID TROUGHS EXTENDING FROM SAID BASE FOIL SUBSTANTIALLY IN ONE DIRECTION ONLY AND THE WALLS OF ADJOINING TROUGHS BEING SEPARATED FROM EACH OTHER; AND MEANS FOR ATTACHING SAID TABLETS TO EACH OTHER, INCLUDING THE OUTER LEDGES FORMED AT THE BASES OF THE OUTER ROWS OF SAID PYRAMID FRUSTUMS AND EXTENDING OUTWARDLY SUFFICIENTLY SO AS TO FORM SAID EDGE STRIPS AND TO PERMIT ATTACHMENT OF SAID TABLETS TO EACH OTHER ON SAID EDGE STRIPS, EACH TROUGH OF ONE TABLET FACING THE TROUGH OF THE OTHER TABLET, THEREBY FORMING A SUBSTANTIALLY CLOSED STRUCTURE ENCASING THE FRAGILE ARTICLES POSITIONED IN SAID TROUGHS.