there need only be one cut line between the sleeves with no material lost between the sleeves as there may be no gaps between the unseparated sleeves the arch like shape may reduce the amount of source material consumed during manufacturing while maintaining similar handling protection to sleeves without the arch like shape material reduction may reduce the environmental impact of sleeve manufacturing material reduction may also reduce the costs of production and transportation costs either surface 46 or 48 of the sleeve 10 may be for example but not limited to smooth fluted corrugated embossed debossed printed waxed and or lined with foam plastic paper glue or any other material the blank of the sleeve 10 may have for example but not limited to a length 50 of approximately 9 5 11 inches alternatively the length of the blank of the sleeve 10 may be dimensioned for a child size container an over sized container or any other size or shaped container the blank of the sleeve 10 may have for example but not limited to a height 52 of approximately 1 8 2 5 inches alternatively the height of the blank of the sleeve 10 may be dimensioned for a child size container an over sized container or any other sized or shaped container the height 52 of the sleeve 10 may remain constant or may vary over its length 50 fig5 a shows an exemplary arrangement 56 of blanks 40 of the sleeve 10 for example as cut lines on sheet material a dimension of.