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Claim 1

IN THE PACKAGING OF FRANGIBLE ARTICLES, A PLURALITY OF INTERLOCKING PACKAGING MODULES POSITIONED ABOUT SAID FRANGIBLE ARTICLE TO MAINTAIN THE SAME IN SPACED-APART RELATIONSHIP FROM AN ENCLOSING CONTAINER WHEREIN THE IMPROVED PACKAGING MODULE CONSTRUCTION COMPRISES, A PLURALITY OF IDENTICAL MODULAR BODIES OF SHOCK ABSORBING MATERIAL, EACH SAID BODY COMPRISING A FIRST FLAT SIDE, A SECOND FLAT SIDE PARELLEL TO SAID FIRST FLAT SIDE, AND AN EVEN NUMBER OF EDGES PERPENDICULAR TO SAID FIRST AND SECOND FLAT SIDE, SAID EDGES FORMING A REGULAR POLYGON, EACH PAIR OF EDGES ON OPPOSITE SIDES OF SAID POLYGON BEING PARALLEL TO EACH OTHER AND FORMING A SET OF EDGES, A TONGUE PROJECTING FROM ONE OF SAID OF EDGES, A GROOVE FORMED IN THE OTHER OF SAID SET OF EDGES, SAID TONGUE AND SAID GROOVE BOTH BEING CUBICAL IN SHAPE, THE EDGE DIMENSION OF SAID CUBICAL TONGUE AND GROOVE BEING EQUAL TO THE DISTANCE BETWEEN THE TWO FLAT SIDES; A TONGUE OF ONE SUCH MODULE IS POSITIONED WITHIN A GROOVE OF AN ADJACENT MODULE, WITH THE GROOVE OF THE ADJACENT MODULE CORRESPONDING TO THE GROOVE OF SAID FIRST MODULE WHICH IS LOCATED ON THE EDGE OPPOSITE FROM THE TONGUE OF SAID FIRST MODULE, WHEREIN A PLURALITY OF SAID INTERLOCKED MODULES ARE POSITIONED ABOUT A FRANGIBLE ARTICLE TO MAINTAIN IT IN SPACED-APART IMPAACT RELATIONSHIP FROM AN ENCLOSING CONTAINER.