Apparatus and method to package articles for storage and...

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2011-06-21

2011-06-21

Palo, Francis T (Department: 3644)

Plant husbandry

Receptacle for growing medium

Monolythic

C047S073000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07963068

ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus for containing, protecting, isolating, and individually identifying sets of one or more articles in a plurality of compartments such that information related to the sets can be easily and efficiently linked to the set. In an example of the apparatus, the apparatus has a compartment layer, a sealant layer, and indicia which may individually identify compartments. In another example, a method includes taking a compartment layer and sealant layer, loading compartments with sets of one or more articles, closing the compartment layer with the sealant layer, and identifying each compartment for each seed or portion thereof with a positionally-addressable ordered array of indicia on at least one of the layers of the package.

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