A fruit protection and transportation system providing various apparatus and
methods
to absorb impact and compression forces to reduce damage to fruit (3). Particular
embodiments of the invention comprise a fruit protector blank (1) of resiliently
compressible force absorption material having a substantially planar surface (2)
that can be conformed to a portion of the exterior surface of various kinds of
fruit (3). Other embodiments of the invention provide a molded force absorption
cover (21) of resiliently compressible foam material that elastically conforms
to a portion of the exterior surface of a fruit (3).
