CA2027867C - Top gripping carrier - Google Patents

Top gripping carrier

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Publication number
CA2027867C
CA2027867C CA002027867A CA2027867A CA2027867C CA 2027867 C CA2027867 C CA 2027867C CA 002027867 A CA002027867 A CA 002027867A CA 2027867 A CA2027867 A CA 2027867A CA 2027867 C CA2027867 C CA 2027867C
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Prior art keywords
wall panels
panels
end wall
carrier
article
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CA002027867A
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CA2027867A1 (en
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Philippe Domansky
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WestRock Packaging Systems LLC
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Mead Corp
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    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65DCONTAINERS 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
    • B65D71/00Bundles of articles held together by packaging elements for convenience of storage or transport, e.g. portable segregating carrier for plural receptacles such as beer cans or pop bottles; Bales of material
    • B65D71/40Bundles of articles held together by packaging elements for convenience of storage or transport, e.g. portable segregating carrier for plural receptacles such as beer cans or pop bottles; Bales of material comprising a plurality of articles held together only partially by packaging elements formed by folding a blank or several blanks
    • B65D71/42Bundles of articles held together by packaging elements for convenience of storage or transport, e.g. portable segregating carrier for plural receptacles such as beer cans or pop bottles; Bales of material comprising a plurality of articles held together only partially by packaging elements formed by folding a blank or several blanks formed by folding a single blank into a single layer element

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  • Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
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  • Control And Other Processes For Unpacking Of Materials (AREA)
  • Containers Having Bodies Formed In One Piece (AREA)
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  • Lining Or Joining Of Plastics Or The Like (AREA)

Abstract

A package (AC) which accommodates at least one cup having top flanges includes a wrapper comprising a top panel (12) overlying the top ends of each cup, side wall panels (14, 16) depending from and hinged to opposed side edges of the top wall and end wall constructions (W, W1) at each of the two other opposed side edges of the top wall. The wrapper is held in its completed form to retain each cup therein by cooperation between each of the end wall constructions and the adjacent cup and by retaining slots (22, 24; 26, 28) to maintain each of the cups in cooperation with the end wall constructions.

Description

This invention relates to a package which incorporates at least one container having a top flange which receives the container lid. More usually a package according to the invention takes the form of an article 5 carrier which holds a plurality of such containers together in a group.

~he package or article carrier is formed from a blank of foldable sheet material such as paperboard and is formed 10 into a top-gripping "clip". Setting up the clip from a flat blank is completed by the introduction of the or each article with which it is to receive and thereafter each artic;Le cooperates with portions of the paperboard material to hold it in its completed form thereby 1~ dispensing with the need for glue or other secondary securing means.

~he invention provides a package which accommodates at least one article which package comprises a wrapper 20 having a top panel overLying the top end of each article~ side wall panels depending from and hinged to opposed side edges of said top wall and an end wall construction at each of two other opposed side edges of said top wall and wherein said wrapper is held in its completed form to retain each article therein by cooperation between each of said end wall constructions 5 and the article afi~ acent thereto and by retaining means to ma~ntain each of said adj acent articles in cooperation with said end wall constructions such that portions of said end wall constructions are held disposed between said top wall and a respective one of 10 said adj acent articles .

According to a feature of the invention, each of said end wall constructions may comprise a pair of end wall panels which extend from respective ones of said side 15 wall panels towards one another so as to form end wall means at each of the opposite ends of the carrier which at least partially hides wall portions of the article adj acent thereto . In article carriers where this feature is adopted, each of said end wall panels may be 20 hinged to a respective one of said side wall panels and to gusset panel means said gusset panel means being folded substantially flat and disposed between the top of said adj acent article and said top panel of the carrier. Preferably, the gusset panel means are 25 hinged to at least one end flap so that the gusset ~ -- 3 --panels and thereby the end wall panels can be folded simultaneously, by movement of said end flap and wherein each said end flap is hinged to an end edge of said top panel. Each end flap may be folded substantially flat 5 and disposed between said gusset panels and said top panel of the carrier.

According to another feature of the invention, said retaining means may comprise at least one slit formed 10 substantially at the junction between said top wall and each of said side wall panels. In packages according to the invention where this feature is adopted, the articles may comprise one or more containers such as pots, ~ars or cans having a flange or other rim means at 15 or ~Ldjacent their tops which are engaged in and retained by an opposed pair of said retaining means.

Two packages embodying the invention will now be described, by way of e~ample, with reference to 20 the accompanying drawings, in which:-FIGURE 1 is a plan view of a paperboard blank forforming an article carrier according to the invention for holding a plurality of top flanged container 2~ together in a unit, ~ 4 ~ 2027867 FIGURE 2 is a perspective view of the blank of Figure 1 partly formed into the carrier and in which a flanged container is bein~ introduced into the carrier;

5 FIGURE 3 is another perspective view of the carrier partly formed but almost in its completed condition;

FIGURE 4 is a perspective Yiew of the completed carrier holding together two like containers; and FIGURE 5 is a plan view of a blank for forming a package which incorporates but a single f langed container .

Referring first to Figures l to 4, a top gripping 15 article carrier or clip AC is formed from a substantially rectilinear blank 10 of paperboard or like foldable sheet material. Blank 10 comprises a central panel 12 which forms the top panel of the clip in use to the opposite longitudinal edges of which is hinged a 20 side wall panel 14 and 16 along interrupted longitudinal fold lines 18 and 20 respectively. Fold line 18 is interrupted by a pair of substantially arcuate cut lines which form spaced slits 22 and 24 and likewise spaced slits 26 and 28 interrupt longitudinal fold line 20.
25 Slits 22 and Z6 together provide r tention apertures well known per se in the multiple r~k~ n~ art, for receiving diametrically opposed flange portions of a container such as a plastics cup "C" having a top flange " f " ( Figure 2 ) . Similarly, slits 24 and 28 provide 5 retention ap~l Lul~s for the flange portions of a further container Cl ( Figures 3 and 4 ) .

The opposite lateral ends of the blank have end panel arrangement of like construction to one another. Thus at 10 one end of the blank a central end flap 30 of rhomboid form is hinged to top panel 12 along transverse fold line 32. The end panel construction further comprises a pair of end wall panels 34 and 36 hinged to the side panels 14 and 16 along transverse fold lines 38 and 40 15 respectively, the end wall panels 34 and 36 are indirectly hinged to the end flap 30 by means of triangular gusset panels 42 and 44. Gusset panel 42 is hinged to end wall panel 34 along fold line g6 and to end flap 30 along fold line 48 Gusset panel 44 is 20 hinged to end wall panel 36 along fold line 50 and to end flap 30 along fold line 52. The opposite end panel construction is similar and accordingly like parts have been designated like reference numerals with the addition of sufiix " ' ".

Referring now to Figure 2 and 3 in order to form the blank into a top gripping clip it is first pre-folded prior to the introduction of the cups C to be packaged.
To this end, both the end flaps 30, 30' are folded 5 towards one another about their respective fold line 32, 32 ' 80 that they begin to overlap the top panel 12.
Folding of the end flaps causes the associated gusset panels 42, 44 and 42 ', 44 ' and end panels 34, 36 and 34 ', 36 ' also to fold into a more upright attitude 10 relative to top panel 12 by virtue of tbeir mutually hinged connections and when the side wall panels 14 and 16 are likewise urged to fold about the respective longitudinal fold lines 18 and 20 into a more upright attitude. This folding operation causes the end wall 15 panels 34, 36 and 34 ', 36 ' to be drawn towards each other across the ends of the blank as shown at the left hand end of Figure 2. Thus, while end flaps 30, 30 ' move into overlapping relationship with top panel v the gusset panels swing inwardly to overlap the exposed face 20 of ~he respective end flap 30, 30 ' Cups C ahd Cl are introduced to the partially folded blank so that their f langed tops are brought into f ace contacting relationship with top panel 12. At one end 25 of the blank a segmental portion of the lid of cup C is urged against the exposed aces o~ the gusset panels 42 and 44 and as the side wall panels 14 and 16 are folded further towards a more uprlght position circumferential portions of the cup top f lange " f " are automatically 5 engaged into the diametrically opposed retaining apertures 22 and 26. As such engagement takes place, the gusset panels 42 and 44 are folded substantially flat against the end flap 30 which, in turn, is thereby folded substantially flat against top wall 12. In so 10 doing, the end wall panels 34 and 36 are brought across the ends of the blank so that together they form an end wall "W" of the clip. The second cup Cl is introduced substantially slmul~n~o-nlc:l y at the opposlte end of the blank and a like folding operation causes end wall "Wl"
15 to be erected so that the resultant completed cup and clip combination is as shown in Figure 4. Once the cups have been engaged in their respective retaining apertures, the clip is maintained in its erected conf iguration because the retaining apertures act as 20 locking means to hold the associated end flaps and gusset panels trapped beneath the lids of the cups and it is therefore. only forceable release of the cups which will allow the clip to become unfolded back into a flat blank .

A number of Ir~ i f i (-~tions to be blank are envisaged whereby a variety of configuration of the clip can be achieved by varying the angular relationship and relative sizes of the panels and flaps which constitute 5 the end panel constructions at each end of the blank.

Figure 5 shows a blank lOa formed from paperboard or similar foldable sheet material for attachment to a single flanged container to provide an outer information 10 bearing wrapper For the most part this blank is similar (except, of course, that it has only single flange retention slits for receiving diametrically opposed flange portions of a single cooperating container) and like parts are designated like reference 15 numerals with the addition of the suffix "a" Moreover, the opposite ends of the blank do not have the end flaps 30, 30 ' but instead a pair of discrete end panels 30a, 31a and 30a ' and 31a ' is provided at each end of the blank. The end panel construction is such that there is 20 no complete end wall at each end of the package when the blank is applied to a flanged container but only a pair of corner constructions which constitute a partial end wall .

~ 9 2027867 In either of the embodiments described, whereas so called cups have been referred to, it is to be understood that the terms " cups " should be taken to include flanged pots, Jars or cans which have at or 5 ad~acent thelr tops some form of rim or top flange.

Claims (7)

1. A top-gripping bottomless carrier including an article having outwardly projecting flanges or chimes adjacent the top end thereof, said carrier comprising a top panel having opposed side and end edges and overlying the top of said article, side wall panels hinged to and depending from opposed side edges of said top panel, retaining means provided along the side edges of said top panel and arranged to engage the flanges of said article, and an end wall construction provided at the end edges of said top panel and effective to retain said article within the carrier by cooperation with said article and said retaining means, said end wall construction comprising an end flap hinged to said top panel along said end edges, a pair of end wall panels foldably joined to said side wall panels, and gusset panels interconnecting said end wall panels and said end flap, said end flap being folded approximately 180° into face contacting relationship with the interior surface of said top panel causing said gusset panels to fold upon said end flap and said end wall panels to assume a position across the ends of said carrier, whereby said end wall construction is maintained in erected condition by said article when the latter is positioned upon said end flap and gusset panels and the flanges thereof are engaged in said retaining means.
2. The carrier according to claim 1 wherein said end flap is centrally disposed along said end edges of said top panel and interconnected to both side wall panels.
3. The carrier according to claim 2 wherein said gusset panels are of triangular configuration.
4. The . carrier according to claim 3 wherein the angular relationship of the fold lines between said side wall panels and end wall panels and between end wall panels and gusset panels is such that the side wall panels and end wall panels are downwardly and inwardly inclined.
5. The carrier according to claim 1 wherein said end wall panels extend between said opposed side wall panels and substantially close the ends of said carrier.
6. The carrier according to claim 1 wherein said retaining means are formed by slots extending into said side wall panels.
7. The carrier according to claim 1 including a plurality of articles arranged in a single row.
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Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
GB898923814A GB8923814D0 (en) 1989-10-23 1989-10-23 Top gripping carrier
GB8923814.1 1989-10-23
GB9003865.4 1990-02-21
GB909003865A GB9003865D0 (en) 1989-10-23 1990-02-21 Package incorporating flanged containers

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CA2027867A1 CA2027867A1 (en) 1991-04-24
CA2027867C true CA2027867C (en) 1996-09-17

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DE69012735D1 (en) 1994-10-27
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