Skin packaging procedure using laminated anti-static material

Claim 1

In a skin-packaging procedure wherein an electrostatically-sensitive item is skin-packaged by heating a heat-sealable plastic film to a semi-molten state, drawing a vacuum between the film, the item to be packaged, and a coated substrate, and then drawing the film over and around the item to form a heat-sealable bond with the coated substrate, the improvement comprising: an electrostatic-resistant, heat-sealable, plastic film including first and second outer layers of heat-sealable, electrically semi-conductive polyethylene, each having a surface resistivity exceeding 1×10 16 ohms per square, and a middle layer of heat-sealable polyethylene sandwiched between and bonded to said first and second outer layers and impregnated with a sloughable, electrically-conductive material providing said middle layer with a volume resistivity no more than 1×10 3 ohms per centimeter, wherein said electrically-conductive material is prevented from sloughing to contaminate said item by said first or said second semiconductive polyethylene layer.