CA1067869A - Display and transportation case for uniform packs - Google Patents

Display and transportation case for uniform packs

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CA1067869A
CA1067869A CA240,829A CA240829A CA1067869A CA 1067869 A CA1067869 A CA 1067869A CA 240829 A CA240829 A CA 240829A CA 1067869 A CA1067869 A CA 1067869A
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Ehrhard F. Holtorf
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Ferrero GmbH
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ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE
A display and transportation case is disclosed which takes up very little space in the transporting position and is especially attractive in the display position.
According to the invention, the container consists of two sections disposed at right angles to one another and designed to hold the packs in a stacked arrangement. The bottom wall of the first section is disposed at right angles to the rear wall of the second section and the fold between the bottom wall and front wall of the first section and the fold between the rear wall and bottom wall of the second section serve as bearing edges in the display position and for transportation purposes two containers can be placed together in a symmetrical manner to form a square.

Description

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13~CIC GI~OUN P~ O r_ Tl 11 IN V l_NTION

Ficld of the Invcntion The present invention rclates to a display and transportaLion case lor uni~orrn, laminar pack~ which are rectan~ular in plan view and square in cros5-9ection, more particularly, wafer packs comprisin~
at least a front face, a bottom ace and two side walls.
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Description of the Prior Art Numerous form~ of containers for holdin~ packs are already kno~vn. For example, a di~play stand i8 kno~vn which consist of two V_shaped, interconnected foldable parts, ~vllerein each part o the container is used to hold packets of praiines and thus in the case o~ thi9 display stand the goods which are ofered for sale, i. e., the packets of pralines, are available on two sides. However, a pack comprisin~
thi8 *pe of display stand in a ease i~ relatively bulky; furthermore, after removal o the display stand from tlle case il; is still necessary to use various handles to set up the display stand for retail purposes.
A recurrent problem for self-service or di~count stores, in particular, is that of providing suitable display stands ~vhich can be converted from the transportable position to the display position ~ith very li~tle difieulty.
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SUMMAI~Y OF THE INVENTION

The object of the present invention is to produce a display and transportation ea~e of ~uital~le construclios~ ~vhich takes up very little space in the transportin~{~ position antl is espccially at~ractivc in the display position.

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G~neral Statement of Inve tion:
In general terms, the invention provides a display and transportation container for a plurality of uniform wafer packs each having a solid rectangular configuration, characterized in that the container is L-shaped and comprises two contiguous sections disposed at right angles to one another and designed to hold the packs in a plurality of ad-jacent stacks, in that the bottom wall of the first section is disposed at a right angle to the rear wall of the second section, in that the fold between the bottom wall and the front wall of the first section and the fold between the rear wall and the bottom wall of the second section are parallel to each other and serve as bearing edges in the display position, in that the upper ends of the two sections and the front side of the second section are fully open to implement complete access to the entire areas thereof, in that the in~erior of the container is fully open to implement the unhindered stacking of the packs, and in that for transportation purposes, two containers can be placed together in a symmetrical mating manner to form a rectangle,~ and whereby the packs may be removed from the top of the stacks when in said display position.
The lengths of the sections are unequal. Preferably, the length of the first section corresponds to a multiple of the length of a pack and the length of the second section corresponds to a mul~iple of the thickness of a pack. It is further preferred that the length of the first section be three times the length of a pack and the length of the second section be twelve times the thickness of a pack.
According to ano~her feature of the present invention, the depth of the first section is six times the thickness of a ~, 3-t ~

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pack and the depth of the second section corresponds to the length of a pack.
In accordance with a still further feature of the invention the upper sides of the two sections are open.
The two upper ends can be covered with a right-angled transparen~ part for transportation purposes, said transparent part comprising on its two transverse sides a rein-orced edgePart partially enclosing the corresponding pack wall.Brief Description of the Dra~vin~s Figure I iY an oblique vie v of the display and transportation case according to the invention.
Figure Z is a side view o t~o containers according to the invention di~posed one on the other, - Figure 3 i6 an oblique ~.riew of t~vo container~ which have been placed together in the transporting position, Figur~ 4 is a eover ~or a container according to the invention more particularly~ ror transportation purposes, and Fi~ure 5 is a plan ~iew of a blank suitable for producin~
a case accordin~ to fi~ure 1.

Description of ILIIC Preterred Eml~odiment A container consistin~ Or two sections I and 2 is L-shaped and is u~ed to hold square wafer packs 3, 'rhese square ~va~er packs 3 are inserted in the first section 1 in four .qtacks and the second section 2, olds two acljacent 6tacks each containing t~velve packs, l~s u~ill be noted, the upper surr~ces Or ~he six s~acks are flush ~vith ono another, Aceordin~ to thia embodiment the fir6t seclion comprises virtually square cross-section, The first section compriscs ~ l~ottom ,vall ~ which is not fiho~vn in greater detail, a front ~all 5 an~l t~o .e walls ~ and 7, As representctl, the first section cl-~n~es strai~ht i ~k~
the second section ~vithout ~ny transition zone; ~he ~ id~h Or ~he secon-J
;ection 2 correaponda to do~lble tile ~vidth ot a squ~re uater pack 3.
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Thc lcngth of the free ~hank of thc ~ccond scction Z
corresponds to the length of six wafer pack3 3 stacked one above thc other. The embodiments show that the two shanks of the display and transportation case according to the invention are not only of differing length but are also of differing thickness. Accordingly, the second section 2 comprises a bottom wall 9, a rear wall 10 and side walls 11 ¦ and 12. As will be noted, the walls h and 7 change into the walls 11 ¦ and 12 of the other section in a jointless manner.
¦ The fold 13 between the bottom wall 4 and the fr~ont wall 5 ¦ of the first section I form3 one bearing surface of the display ¦ case and the fold 14 between the rear wall 5 and the bbttom wall 9 of ¦ the second section 2 as a second bearing surface.
The special oonfiguration of the display and transportation case ensures that the individual containers can easily be mounted one on the other for display and retail purposes; this is represented by way of example in figure 2 in which one container is placed on the other.
The containers are placed one on top of the other in such a way that it is not only possible to remove articles from the upper sides 20 or 21 of the upper pack but a part of the upper sides 2,2 or 23 of the lower container also displays the articles. In the embodiment represented, two adjacent packs 3in the lefthand section of the lower container are not gripped by the container mounted thereabove but are free.
An asymmetrical L shape is particularly suitable for transporting containers of this type. Figure 3 shows the transporting position; a container 30 is placed on another container 31 in such a way that the bottom walls 4 and 34 of the two containers are disposed adjacent to one another and the rear wall 10 of the container 31 contacts the front wall 35 of the other container. As a result, an extrernely compact square is obtained which is very rnanageable f rom the point of view of packing. The two containers which are joined togcther, for example, by means of adhesive strips, ta.ke up the least amount of space and can still be converted into the displa~r position represented in .... _ _ . _ . _ _ . .. ..... ...... .. . . ...

106781;9 fi~uro 2 without havin~ to makc any ~ub3t~nlial ch~ cs.
A transp~rcnt part ~LO, which is rl:prcscntccl in further .
detail in fi~ure 4, is mounted on the two upper 9idCB of lhe two scctions o thc casc for the purposc of 3ccurin~ the stacks of packs . in the two containers - particularly durin~ tran~portation ~hereof, S ~he transparent part, which may be produc~d .fron~ synlhetic foil by the deep drawin~ process, comprise~ relatively well rein~orced wall .parts, It comprises the ed6e sections 41 and 42 and a central section 43, The central section 43 comprises a knec. 44 which corresponds to the corrcsponding knee in the container~ The two sides Or the. central ~ection 43 are connected to~ether by triangul~r reinforcin~ parts 44a or 45 thereby formin~ a relatively ri~id spatial trian~e.
l~elatively rigid spatial trian~ies are also formed in the . two edge sections 41, 42; ton~ues 46 or 47 are attached to the transverse sides of the transparent part and extend at right angles tbereto and the tongues 46 and 47 are, in turn, connected to the upper side of the transparent part by trian~ular reinforcing parts 45 - 51. The two $on~ue~ 46 ~nd 47 comprise luE~s 52 whic}- are directed towards the knee 44 and which en~a~ in correspondin~ openin6s 53 in the container wall in the ope ration~l position.
. ZO The eover, whieh con~i~ts o~ the transparent part, i~ cnounled over the t~vo upper sides as represented ;n ri~lre 3. A correspondin~
transparent cover i~ obviously provided for the second container 31.
- It sho~ld also be noted that tlle respective sections are separated rrom one anoth er by ~olds 54 or 55, thereby enabling a part of the transparent cover to be folded wi~hout difriculty and also enablin~ the cover to be removed from the container without difriculty.
Fi~ure 5 show~ a bl~nk which can be used for prod~cin~
a container accordin6 to fi6ure~ 3, The con~iner ahown in fi6ure 1 iB produced in tl~e rollowin~
manner: tlIe lwo ton~u-:s 60 ;~ncl 61 are folclecI aB indic;~lcd by lhe nrrow3 t.2,(.3 ;IntI ~ ir ~roJec~ ns 61 in~:rr~ed in l~le 61~l!1 65, ll)ClCl)y 'f~

~ 1067869 ¦ forming doublc wall parts ~6, ~7. In the cour~e thcreof, thc projection ~8 ¦ on the tongue 61 engages in ~e slot 69 and the projection 70 in the l~lot 71.
¦ Thereafter, the tongues 72 and 73 are folded in ¦ a similar manner to form double wall parts and their projections 74 or ¦ 75 are inserted in the slots 76 or 77.
¦ It should also be noted that the respective connecting tongues . ¦ 80, 81, 82 or 83, which each comprise a fold, are inserted between the ¦ doubled tongues prior to the above mentioned connecting operation, thus ¦ producing an open box-shaped container having a right-angled oblong orm.
The tongues 90 or 91 are then folded in the drawing plane and inserted between the double wall parts in such a way that the fold 92 forms the fold between the bottom wall 4 (see figure 1) and the rear wall 10.
All the parts which are connected together are doubled and are thus reinforced, The container-which i,q open on both sides of its upper side-can now be filled with the above-mentioned packs 3. After inserting the packs the transparent parts 40 are placed on the two ~pper sides of the sections and held in place by the "insertion" of the projections 52 in the openings 53.

Claims (17)

The embodiments of the invention in which an exclusive property or privilege is claimed are defined as follows:
1. A display and transportation container for a plurality of uniform wafer packs each having a solid rectangular configuration, characterized in that the container is L-shaped and comprises two contiguous sections disposed at right angles to one another and designed to hold the packs in a plurality of adjacent stacks, in that the bottom wall of the first section is disposed at a right angle to the rear wall of the second section, in that the fold between the bottom wall and the front wall of the first section and the fold between the rear wall and the bottom wall of the second section are parallel to each other and serve as bearing edges in the display position, in that the upper ends of the two sections and the front side of the second section are fully open to implement complete access to the entire areas thereof, in that the interior of the container is fully open to implement the unhindered stacking of the packs, and in that for transportation purposes, two containers can be placed together in a symmetrical, mating manner to form a rectangle and whereby the packs may be removed from the top of the stacks when in said display position.
2. A display and transportation container as claimed in Claim 1, characterized in that the lengths of the two sections are unequal.
3. A display and transportation container as claimed in Claim 2, characterized in that the length of the first section corresponds to a multiple of the length of a pack and the length of the second section corresponds to a multiple of the thickness of a pack.
4. A display and transportation container as claimed in Claim 3, characterized in that the length of the first section is three times the length of a pack and the length of the second section is twelve times the thickness of a pack.
5. A display and transportation container as claimed in Claim 4, characterized in that the depth of the first section is six times the thickness of a pack and the depth of the second section corresponds to the length of a pack.
6. A display and transportation case as claimed in Claim 1, 2 or 5, characterized in that the upper sides of the two sections are open.
7. A display and transportation container as claimed in Claim 1, characterized in that the two upper ends can be covered with a right-angled transparent part for transportation purposes, said transparent part comprising on its two transverse sides a reinforced edge part partially enclosing the corres-ponding pack wall.
8. A display and transportation container as claimed in Claim 7, characterized in that the transparent part comprises on its edge portions lugs, projections, or the like, which project towards the inside of the container and which engage in corresponding recesses in the pack in the operational position.
9. A display and transportation container as claimed in Claim 7, wherein said transparent part includes a knee and is reinforced with lateral tongues or flaps at the knee.
10. A display and transportation container as claimed in Claim 9, characterized in that the lateral tongues or flaps are triangular in shape and are similarly provided on the two longitudinal sides of the transparent part.
11. A display and transportation container as claimed in Claim 10, characterized in that the portion of the trans-parent part covered by the triangular reinforcements corres-ponds to a multiple of the length and/or thickness of a pack.
12. A display and transportation container as claimed in Claim 11, characterized in that the reinforced section at the knee part of the transparent cover is separated from the remaining part thereof by a fold extending at right angles to the container.
13. A display and transportation container as claimed in claim 10, 11 or 12 characterized in that the container is produced in a known manner from a single blank, the wall parts are formed by doubling over sections and are connected together through mutual engagement in the operational position.
14. A display and transportation container as claimed in Claim 12, characterized in that the container is produced in a known manner from a single blank, the wall parts are formed by doubling over sections and are connected to-gether through mutual engagement in the operational position.
15. A display and transportation case as claimed in Claim 12, characterized in that the container is produced in a known manner from a single blank, the wall parts are formed by doubling over sections and are connected together through mutual engagement in the operational position.
16. A display and transportation container as claimed in Claim 3, characterized in that the length of the first section is three times the length of a pack and the length of the second section is twelve times the thickness of a pack.
17. A display and transportation container as claimed in Claim 8, wherein said transparent part includes a knee and is reinforced with lateral tongues or flaps at the knee.
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