CA1072464A - Container - Google Patents
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- CA1072464A CA1072464A CA267,050A CA267050A CA1072464A CA 1072464 A CA1072464 A CA 1072464A CA 267050 A CA267050 A CA 267050A CA 1072464 A CA1072464 A CA 1072464A
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
- B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
- B65D21/00—Nestable, stackable or joinable containers; Containers of variable capacity
- B65D21/02—Containers specially shaped, or provided with fittings or attachments, to facilitate nesting, stacking, or joining together
- B65D21/0234—Nestable or stackable container parts forming a receptacle when one part is inverted upon the other
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Abstract
ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE
This invention relates to an improved container which may be easily opened and closed and which may be used as a transparent merchandise container. It has a bottom member and an identical removable top member which are interlocked by closure mechanisms provided on each side of the container.
Each of the closure mechanisms has a number of upper tab members which extend downwardly to resiliently engage a lower horizontal lip on the bottom member and a number of lower tab members which extend upwardly to resiliently engage an upper horizontal lip on the top member. In the closed position, the upper and lower tab members of each closure mechanism are located horizontally adjacent in alternating positions along the closure mechanism. The container may be manually opened by releasing one of the closure mechanisms by "pinching" the upper and lower tab members between the thumb and forefinger of one hand and pivoting the top member about the other closure mechanism until it may be removed. This may also be done mechanically.
The container also provides improved features for nesting of the empty members during shipping to reduce scratching of the top, bottom and side surfaces, as well as for stacking or hang-ing of the containers on display. The top and bottom members are injection molded from a suitable plastic material using a single form and thus the improved container may be manufactured with great economy.
This invention relates to an improved container which may be easily opened and closed and which may be used as a transparent merchandise container. It has a bottom member and an identical removable top member which are interlocked by closure mechanisms provided on each side of the container.
Each of the closure mechanisms has a number of upper tab members which extend downwardly to resiliently engage a lower horizontal lip on the bottom member and a number of lower tab members which extend upwardly to resiliently engage an upper horizontal lip on the top member. In the closed position, the upper and lower tab members of each closure mechanism are located horizontally adjacent in alternating positions along the closure mechanism. The container may be manually opened by releasing one of the closure mechanisms by "pinching" the upper and lower tab members between the thumb and forefinger of one hand and pivoting the top member about the other closure mechanism until it may be removed. This may also be done mechanically.
The container also provides improved features for nesting of the empty members during shipping to reduce scratching of the top, bottom and side surfaces, as well as for stacking or hang-ing of the containers on display. The top and bottom members are injection molded from a suitable plastic material using a single form and thus the improved container may be manufactured with great economy.
Description
1 This invention relates generally to containers and more particularly to containers such as retail merchandise display containers which may be easily opened and closed.
It is common practice to display and sell large volume retail merchandise in disposable or reuseable transparent plastic packages or containers. The better quality of these containers have manually operable closure mechanisms, but these have the disadvantag~s that they are subject to malfunc-tion and relatively expensive to manufacture. Furthermore, the surfaces of these containers which are normally rnade of a trans-parent plastic material are subject to marring or scratching during shipment before the merchandise is placed in the con-tainers, with the result that a considerable proportion of them are rejected without ever having been used. Also, provision must be made to display them in large volume in an orderly manner. Similar containers for other purposes have these same problems.
Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to at least partially overcome these disadvantages by providing improved containers which are stackable, are formed of ~ot~om and top members which are nestable, and which have improved closure mechanisms.
To this end, in one of its aspects, the invenkion provides an openable and closeable container comprising a bottom member, a matching top member, and at least one inter-locking closure means provided by at least one tab member extend-ing from one of the bottom and top members to resiliently engage a first horizontal lip on the other of the bottom and top members in the closed position, and at least two tab members 3~ extending from the other of the bottom and kop memhers to ~ ~ 2 ~ ~
1 resili~ntly engage a second horizontal lip on -the said one of the bottom and top members in the closed position, the tab members being located horizontally adjacen-t with the tab members on the bottom and top members alternating along the closure means.
Further objects and advantages of the invention will appear from the following description taken together with the accompanying drawings in which:
Figure 1 is a perspective view of a conkainer accord-ing to a first embodiment of the invention;
Figure 2 is a partial sectional view through one of the closure mechanisms of the container seen in Figuxe l;
Figure 3 is a sectional view showing the top and bottom member of the container seen in Figure 1 in a nesting position, Figure 4 is a perspective view of a container ! according to a second embodiment of the invention; and Figure 5 is a perspective view of a container according to a third embodiment of the invention.
Reference is first made to Figure 1 which shows a merchandise display container 10 having a bottom member 12 and a top member 14 in the closed position. The container 10 has an interlocking closure mechanism 16, 18 along each side thereof.
The bottom member 12 and top member 14 are identical in shape and dimensions and may both be formed by injection molding a plastic material such as crystal styrene in a single mold.
This, of course, greatly facilitates and reduces the cost of manufacture, although one of them may be made of a different height using the same mold by building up the bottom plate of the mold.
~q~ 4 1 The bot tom and top members 12, 14 respectively have sides 20, 22 which slope at an angle of approximately 15~ to the vertical, and flat bottom and top surfaces 24, 25. L-shaped retaininy members 28 extend from th~ bottom and top surfaces 24, 26 respectively, adjacent the corners thereof. As may be seen, the exact location of the L-shaped retaining members 28 relative to the corners of the surfaces is by diagonal pairs to provide for stacking of the containers as further described below.
As may be sean, the top member 14 has an upper horizontal lip 30 extending thereabout which is interrupted `by upper arm member 32 and a number of upper tab members 34.
Similarly, bottom member 12 has a lower horizontal lip 36 which is interrupted b~ lower arm member 38 and a number of lower tab members 40. As shown in the closed position, the upper arm member 32 and the lower arm member 38 overlap to form an aperture 42 by which the container may be hung in a vertical display position.
Each closure mechanism 16/ 18 is, of course identical and therefore only one need be described in detail. As seen in Figure 2, the upper tab members 34 extend downwardly from the u~per horizontal lip 30 and are shaped to resiliently engage lower horizontal lip 36~ Similarly, the lower tab members 40 extend upwardly from the lower horizontal lip 36 and are shaped to resiliently engage upper horizontal lip 30.
The upper and lower tab members 34l 40 alternate horizontally along the closure mechanism and are located horizontally adjacent to each other to prevent relative longitudinal movement between bottom and top members 12, 14. Accordingly, the tab members on opposite sides o~ either the bottom member 12 or the ~L~7Z~
1 top member 14 must be horizontally offse-t and normally no greater than one more or one less in number. The use of both upper and lower tabs avoids the problem of faulty release of the mechanism due to the side that has no tab being sprung inwardly in the case of a single tab mechanism. The fact that the upper and lower tab members 34, 40 alternate horizontally and are tapered in shape gradually horizontally secures the bottom and top members relative to each other as the container is closed. Thus cornerwise movement is eliminated without the requirement of further interlocking ledges, etc.
In use, as mentioned above, identical bottom members 12 and top members 14 are ormed of a suitable transparent plastic material by injection molding. The four corners 44 between the sides 20, 22 and ends 46, 48 are slightly rounded on the inside and sharper on the outside. Thus, the members 12, 14 may be nested in the inverted position as seen in Figure 3 with the outsides of the corners of one member bearing on the rounded insides of the corners of the next lower member without the top, bottom, side or end surfaces being in contact. In this way a large number of nested members may be packed and shipped when empty without marring or scratching of these surfaces during transport. When they are received, the goods may be quickly packaged by inverting one of the members which becomes the top member 14 over another of the members whic~ :
becomes the bottom member 12 and pressing them together until the tab members 34, ~0 "snap" over the respective horizontal lips 30, 36. The packaged goods may then be displayed by hanging the containers using aperture 42 or stacking them horizontally one on top of the other~ When they are stacked, diagonally opposite pairs of the L-shaped retaining members ~7~2~6~
1 28 on vertically adjacent containers are received within each other to provide stability.
The container 10 may be manually opened ~y releasin~
one of the closure mechanisms 16, 18 by pressing down on the lower tab members 40 and up on the upper tab members 34 with a "pinching" action between the thumb and forefinger. This disengages each of the tab members of that closure mechanism from the respective horizontal lip and allows the bottom and top members 12, 14 to be pivoted about the other closure mechanism.
~s will be seen, either closure mechanism will act as a hinge when the opposite closure mechanism is released until the top member 14 is pivoted to a position wherein it may be removed entirely. In addition to providing for nesting of the top and bottom members 12, 14 as described above, the sloping sides 20, 22 allow easy finger access to the tab members to facilitate xelease of the closure mechanism. While the degree o slope will vary from container ts container, it preferably should be at least 10 from vertical to be satisfactory. While this structure facilitates manual operation, it is apparent that the ~O structure enables the whole operation to be easily mechanized for rapid large volume uses.
Many of the features of the embodiments shown in Figures ~ and 5 are identical to those of the first embodiment, and therefore common features will be descibed and illustrated using the same reference numerals in all embodiments. Figure 4 shows the second embodiment of the invention in which a smaller merchandise container 10 i9 illustrated. In this embodiment, each of the bottom and top members12, 14 only have three tab members 34/ 40 and no arm members or L-shaped retain-ing members are shown. Otherwise, the structure and use of this ~ ~7~ 4~ ~
1 embodiment is the same as that of the first embodiment and need not be describ2d in detail.
Figure 5 shows a third embodiment of the invention in the form of a combination piggy bank-calendar container 10.
The identical bottom and top members 10, 12 each have six sloping sides 20, 22 and hexagonal bottom and top surfaces 24, 26. The bottom and top members are normally injection molded of a transparent plastic material and the calendar 50 is provided with one month on each of the side surfaces by a folding cardboard insert. A slot 52 to receive money is centrally locatad in the top surface 26. A similar slot is, of course, provided in the bottom surface 24 but this is covered by the cardboard insert ~not shown) to prevent the money from falling out. Otherwise~ the structure and use of this embodi-ment is similar to that of the first embodiment and need not be described further.
Although the description of this invention has been given with respect to particular embodiments, it is not to be construed in a limiting sense. Many variations and modi-fications will now occur to those skilled in the art. Forinstance, it is possible that a sinyle closure mechanism of this type may be used with a conventional hinge to provide a hinged container. The top and bottom members may be formed of different materials and need not be of identical hei~ht, although, of course they must match in order to provide a closed container. For a definition of the invention r reference is made to the appended claims.
It is common practice to display and sell large volume retail merchandise in disposable or reuseable transparent plastic packages or containers. The better quality of these containers have manually operable closure mechanisms, but these have the disadvantag~s that they are subject to malfunc-tion and relatively expensive to manufacture. Furthermore, the surfaces of these containers which are normally rnade of a trans-parent plastic material are subject to marring or scratching during shipment before the merchandise is placed in the con-tainers, with the result that a considerable proportion of them are rejected without ever having been used. Also, provision must be made to display them in large volume in an orderly manner. Similar containers for other purposes have these same problems.
Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to at least partially overcome these disadvantages by providing improved containers which are stackable, are formed of ~ot~om and top members which are nestable, and which have improved closure mechanisms.
To this end, in one of its aspects, the invenkion provides an openable and closeable container comprising a bottom member, a matching top member, and at least one inter-locking closure means provided by at least one tab member extend-ing from one of the bottom and top members to resiliently engage a first horizontal lip on the other of the bottom and top members in the closed position, and at least two tab members 3~ extending from the other of the bottom and kop memhers to ~ ~ 2 ~ ~
1 resili~ntly engage a second horizontal lip on -the said one of the bottom and top members in the closed position, the tab members being located horizontally adjacen-t with the tab members on the bottom and top members alternating along the closure means.
Further objects and advantages of the invention will appear from the following description taken together with the accompanying drawings in which:
Figure 1 is a perspective view of a conkainer accord-ing to a first embodiment of the invention;
Figure 2 is a partial sectional view through one of the closure mechanisms of the container seen in Figuxe l;
Figure 3 is a sectional view showing the top and bottom member of the container seen in Figure 1 in a nesting position, Figure 4 is a perspective view of a container ! according to a second embodiment of the invention; and Figure 5 is a perspective view of a container according to a third embodiment of the invention.
Reference is first made to Figure 1 which shows a merchandise display container 10 having a bottom member 12 and a top member 14 in the closed position. The container 10 has an interlocking closure mechanism 16, 18 along each side thereof.
The bottom member 12 and top member 14 are identical in shape and dimensions and may both be formed by injection molding a plastic material such as crystal styrene in a single mold.
This, of course, greatly facilitates and reduces the cost of manufacture, although one of them may be made of a different height using the same mold by building up the bottom plate of the mold.
~q~ 4 1 The bot tom and top members 12, 14 respectively have sides 20, 22 which slope at an angle of approximately 15~ to the vertical, and flat bottom and top surfaces 24, 25. L-shaped retaininy members 28 extend from th~ bottom and top surfaces 24, 26 respectively, adjacent the corners thereof. As may be seen, the exact location of the L-shaped retaining members 28 relative to the corners of the surfaces is by diagonal pairs to provide for stacking of the containers as further described below.
As may be sean, the top member 14 has an upper horizontal lip 30 extending thereabout which is interrupted `by upper arm member 32 and a number of upper tab members 34.
Similarly, bottom member 12 has a lower horizontal lip 36 which is interrupted b~ lower arm member 38 and a number of lower tab members 40. As shown in the closed position, the upper arm member 32 and the lower arm member 38 overlap to form an aperture 42 by which the container may be hung in a vertical display position.
Each closure mechanism 16/ 18 is, of course identical and therefore only one need be described in detail. As seen in Figure 2, the upper tab members 34 extend downwardly from the u~per horizontal lip 30 and are shaped to resiliently engage lower horizontal lip 36~ Similarly, the lower tab members 40 extend upwardly from the lower horizontal lip 36 and are shaped to resiliently engage upper horizontal lip 30.
The upper and lower tab members 34l 40 alternate horizontally along the closure mechanism and are located horizontally adjacent to each other to prevent relative longitudinal movement between bottom and top members 12, 14. Accordingly, the tab members on opposite sides o~ either the bottom member 12 or the ~L~7Z~
1 top member 14 must be horizontally offse-t and normally no greater than one more or one less in number. The use of both upper and lower tabs avoids the problem of faulty release of the mechanism due to the side that has no tab being sprung inwardly in the case of a single tab mechanism. The fact that the upper and lower tab members 34, 40 alternate horizontally and are tapered in shape gradually horizontally secures the bottom and top members relative to each other as the container is closed. Thus cornerwise movement is eliminated without the requirement of further interlocking ledges, etc.
In use, as mentioned above, identical bottom members 12 and top members 14 are ormed of a suitable transparent plastic material by injection molding. The four corners 44 between the sides 20, 22 and ends 46, 48 are slightly rounded on the inside and sharper on the outside. Thus, the members 12, 14 may be nested in the inverted position as seen in Figure 3 with the outsides of the corners of one member bearing on the rounded insides of the corners of the next lower member without the top, bottom, side or end surfaces being in contact. In this way a large number of nested members may be packed and shipped when empty without marring or scratching of these surfaces during transport. When they are received, the goods may be quickly packaged by inverting one of the members which becomes the top member 14 over another of the members whic~ :
becomes the bottom member 12 and pressing them together until the tab members 34, ~0 "snap" over the respective horizontal lips 30, 36. The packaged goods may then be displayed by hanging the containers using aperture 42 or stacking them horizontally one on top of the other~ When they are stacked, diagonally opposite pairs of the L-shaped retaining members ~7~2~6~
1 28 on vertically adjacent containers are received within each other to provide stability.
The container 10 may be manually opened ~y releasin~
one of the closure mechanisms 16, 18 by pressing down on the lower tab members 40 and up on the upper tab members 34 with a "pinching" action between the thumb and forefinger. This disengages each of the tab members of that closure mechanism from the respective horizontal lip and allows the bottom and top members 12, 14 to be pivoted about the other closure mechanism.
~s will be seen, either closure mechanism will act as a hinge when the opposite closure mechanism is released until the top member 14 is pivoted to a position wherein it may be removed entirely. In addition to providing for nesting of the top and bottom members 12, 14 as described above, the sloping sides 20, 22 allow easy finger access to the tab members to facilitate xelease of the closure mechanism. While the degree o slope will vary from container ts container, it preferably should be at least 10 from vertical to be satisfactory. While this structure facilitates manual operation, it is apparent that the ~O structure enables the whole operation to be easily mechanized for rapid large volume uses.
Many of the features of the embodiments shown in Figures ~ and 5 are identical to those of the first embodiment, and therefore common features will be descibed and illustrated using the same reference numerals in all embodiments. Figure 4 shows the second embodiment of the invention in which a smaller merchandise container 10 i9 illustrated. In this embodiment, each of the bottom and top members12, 14 only have three tab members 34/ 40 and no arm members or L-shaped retain-ing members are shown. Otherwise, the structure and use of this ~ ~7~ 4~ ~
1 embodiment is the same as that of the first embodiment and need not be describ2d in detail.
Figure 5 shows a third embodiment of the invention in the form of a combination piggy bank-calendar container 10.
The identical bottom and top members 10, 12 each have six sloping sides 20, 22 and hexagonal bottom and top surfaces 24, 26. The bottom and top members are normally injection molded of a transparent plastic material and the calendar 50 is provided with one month on each of the side surfaces by a folding cardboard insert. A slot 52 to receive money is centrally locatad in the top surface 26. A similar slot is, of course, provided in the bottom surface 24 but this is covered by the cardboard insert ~not shown) to prevent the money from falling out. Otherwise~ the structure and use of this embodi-ment is similar to that of the first embodiment and need not be described further.
Although the description of this invention has been given with respect to particular embodiments, it is not to be construed in a limiting sense. Many variations and modi-fications will now occur to those skilled in the art. Forinstance, it is possible that a sinyle closure mechanism of this type may be used with a conventional hinge to provide a hinged container. The top and bottom members may be formed of different materials and need not be of identical hei~ht, although, of course they must match in order to provide a closed container. For a definition of the invention r reference is made to the appended claims.
Claims (6)
1. A manually openable and closeable container which resists opening caused by sidewall depression thereof, said container comprising:
(a) a bottom container member, (b) an identical top container member, said bottom container member and said top container member abutting when the container is closed to form a container space therebetween, said bottom container member and said top container member each having a flanged horizontal lip on at least a portion of the areas which abut or substantially abut when the container is closed, and (c) at least two interlocking closure means located on generally opposite sides of the container when it is closed, each of said interlocking closure means comprising at least one tapered resilient tab member means provided on the outside of one container member, and at least two tapered resilient tab member means provided on the outside of the other container member, at least one tab member means resiliently engaging the horizontal lip of the other container member to snap thereover when said container is closed, and the tab member means being located such that the tab member means of the top container member are horizontally alternating and adjacent to the corresponding tab member means of the bottom container member, said closure means being manually openable by a pinching action when at least one of the tab member means of the bottom container member are pressed downwardly and at least one of the tab member means of the top container member are pressed upwardly to disengage the said engaged tab member means from the asso-ciated horizontal lip, said closure means remaining closed when any of the sides of said container is depressed.
(a) a bottom container member, (b) an identical top container member, said bottom container member and said top container member abutting when the container is closed to form a container space therebetween, said bottom container member and said top container member each having a flanged horizontal lip on at least a portion of the areas which abut or substantially abut when the container is closed, and (c) at least two interlocking closure means located on generally opposite sides of the container when it is closed, each of said interlocking closure means comprising at least one tapered resilient tab member means provided on the outside of one container member, and at least two tapered resilient tab member means provided on the outside of the other container member, at least one tab member means resiliently engaging the horizontal lip of the other container member to snap thereover when said container is closed, and the tab member means being located such that the tab member means of the top container member are horizontally alternating and adjacent to the corresponding tab member means of the bottom container member, said closure means being manually openable by a pinching action when at least one of the tab member means of the bottom container member are pressed downwardly and at least one of the tab member means of the top container member are pressed upwardly to disengage the said engaged tab member means from the asso-ciated horizontal lip, said closure means remaining closed when any of the sides of said container is depressed.
2. A container as claimed in claim 1 wherein the top and bottom members both have sides which slope at least 10° to the vertical.
3. A container as claimed in claim 2 wherein the top and bottom members have corners which are slightly rounded on the inside and sharper on the outside whereby the members may be nested without the top or bottom surfaces being in contact with that of an adjacent member.
4. A container as claimed in claim 1, 2 or 3 wherein the top and bottom members have top and bottom surfaces respectively with L-shaped retaining members extending from the top and bottom surfaces adjacent the corners thereof to provide for stable stacking of a plurality of the containers and their contents.
5. A container as claimed in claim 1, 2 or 3 wherein the top and bottom members are formed of a transparent material.
6. A container as claimed in claim 1, 2 or 3 wherein the bottom and top members each have an arm member extending there-from, the arm members overlapping in the closed position to form a hanging aperture therebetween.
Priority Applications (5)
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| CA267,050A CA1072464A (en) | 1976-12-02 | 1976-12-02 | Container |
| GB4884077A GB1556324A (en) | 1976-12-02 | 1977-11-23 | Container |
| DE19772753144 DE2753144A1 (en) | 1976-12-02 | 1977-11-29 | CONTAINER |
| FR7736180A FR2372743A1 (en) | 1976-12-02 | 1977-11-30 | CONTAINER THAT CAN BE OPENED AND CLOSED |
| JP14407877A JPS5369783A (en) | 1976-12-02 | 1977-12-02 | Openable container |
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| CA267,050A CA1072464A (en) | 1976-12-02 | 1976-12-02 | Container |
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| DE (1) | DE2753144A1 (en) |
| FR (1) | FR2372743A1 (en) |
| GB (1) | GB1556324A (en) |
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| GB2256852A (en) * | 1991-06-18 | 1992-12-23 | Robert John Booth | Temporary closure for a container |
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