DE102016011213A1 - Packaging for goods with collection function - Google Patents

Abstract

Summary: The invention relates to a device for the repackaging of goods (1) for which a controlled collection or return in worn or spent condition makes sense, for transport and storage, with an opening for the supply of used goods (2) and a pre-embossed transport liner (6) is transported by the introduction of used goods the packaging content in the direction of the opening for the removal of unused goods and thereby on the removal side (3) an unused goods is released and an optical indicator of the through the viewing window (5) the remaining stock of unused goods informed.

Description

The invention relates to a package for the transport and storage of goods, for the purpose of a return to the collected disposal or reprocessing.

Commercially available small batteries, for example of the type AA and AAA are used in large numbers and in many mobile devices. Usually, they are packaged in sets of four or more batteries and sold to discounters, kiosks, petrol stations, etc.

Previously used packaging for batteries and small batteries have significant disadvantages.

The state of charge can only be detected with special test or measuring devices. These are often not "at hand" or not available when changing the battery.

Since discharged batteries can easily be confused with full batteries and so far no return deposit is levied, they are in large numbers, according to the Federal Ministry of the environment simply disposed of with the trash. This in turn burdens the disposal by additionally required separation with costs. Often there is no separation from household waste and the environment is contaminated with toxic material.

At the same time valuable materials are lost, which would make sense to recover and process them to secure the resources.

The invention is suitable for goods such as small batteries and small accumulators, also for dental tool inserts, medical or pharmacological consumables and similar goods.

Solutions are known for a return of used goods, but separated from the sales packaging z. B. are organized by collection in trade. According to studies by the Federal Environmental Agency, the spatial separation still leads to a large number of household wastes or has to be separated at high disposal costs.

Accordingly, the object of the invention is to provide an outer packaging for such goods, which facilitates by their design a return of the used goods.

The object is achieved by a packaging in which an unused product can be removed only by supplying a used product. This way, the collection of used goods is automatically organized.

The device is also ideal for a return deposit system.

In an advantageous embodiment of the invention, an optical indicator is attached to the package, informing the information about the current residual amount of unused goods.

The invention presented here avoids these disadvantages. The outer packaging can be produced without significant additional expenditure from the same and previously used packaging materials and replaces the previously used packaging.

The packaging is designed so that the supply of used batteries at the same time new, charged batteries and released only in the required quantity.

An optical indicator indicates how many unused batteries are still available in the packaging through its colored design in viewing windows. The instruction manual is graphically applied to the packaging and executed multilingual with clear pictograms.

The invention relates to a package for the transport and storage of goods, for the purpose of a return to the collected disposal or reprocessing.

embodiment

As a possible embodiment, a flat package for commercial small batteries of the design AA or AAA is presented here, in which the contents of the goods is kept flat and arranged side by side.

The packaging ( 1 ) one or more rows of goods ( 4 ) contain.

The goods ( 4 ) is replaced by a holder ( 6 ), which is mounted below or to the side of the content and has a mechanically pre-formed shape. This gives by its shaping the direction of transport for the content. The removal of full batteries can only be done on one side of the packaging.

If a consumed product is pressed into the packaging on the filling side, the contents of the packaging move by one position in the direction of the removal opening, whereby a product is released at the last position.

The top of the flat package ( 1 ) contains in the number of goods content windows ( 5 ), which are respectively arranged centrally above the individual goods and through which the goods ( 4 ) is recognizable at its current position in the packaging.

At delivery, the product at the opening for filling is ( 4 ) with an optical marking ( 7 ) or alternatively ( 9 ) through the windows ( 5 ) is visible according to the current position.

The optical marking ( 7 ) may remain after removal from the goods or be removed from this.

In a further embodiment, the indicator can be loosely attached to the content and wander with him in the direction extraction side.

Alternatively, an optical indicator in the form of a strip can be provided in the packaging, which is firmly connected at least on one side to the packaging, which then migrates in the direction of the removal side with the last unused contents and the incorporated, consumed contents. If this strip is also firmly connected to the packaging on the removal side, no more goods can be removed when all new goods have been removed from the packaging.

Once all contents have been used up, the packaging can be returned to circulation.

The surface of the packaging ( 1 ) next to the viewing windows ( 5 ) with graphic symbols ( 16 ) and ( 17 ) and text.

In an advantageous embodiment of the invention, the packaging ( 1 ) on the filling side ( 2 ) and the withdrawal side ( 3 ) with elements ( 10 ) respectively. ( 11 ), in addition to the holders ( 6 ) the goods ( 4 ) against accidental removal.

This can also be an indication of the originality by an element ( 10 ) to indicate that the package is still unopened.

A Wiederverschießbarkeit is conceivable in a further embodiment, here exemplified at the opening pages ( 2 ) and ( 3 ) a locking tab ( 11 ) is executed.

In a further embodiment, a guide for use in the form of pictograms is applied on the upper side. Thus, the packaging is suitable for multilingual use, which is increasingly important in global goods traffic.

The openings for filling and removal can optionally be secured by stickers, flaps or tabs. As a result, the consumer can be made aware that the packaging is still in the unopened state. These can also be provided with graphic information.

Furthermore, such closures also serve as transport security.

The drawings illustrate the invention with reference to an exemplary packaging for commercial small batteries.

1 shows a flat pack ( 1 ) at the several batteries ( 4 ) are arranged side by side. Empty batteries are discharged through the opening ( 2 ) and give at the opening ( 3 ) a full battery free. On top of the packaging is through the viewing window ( 5 ) the contents of the packaging visible from the outside.

2 shows the packaging ( 1 ) with the opening for the feeder ( 2 ) and the release ( 3 ). Furthermore, the stamped and pre-embossed strip ( 6 ), which determines the direction of the passing goods (here batteries).

3 shows the packaging ( 1 ) in side section with the opening for the feeder ( 2 ) and removal ( 3 ) and the goods content ( 4 ). Here's the right battery with a color indicator ( 7 ) passing through the openings ( 5 ) is visible from the outside.

4 shows a cylindrical goods content ( 4 ), of an indicator sleeve ( 7 ) is enclosed.

5 shows the arrangement of the batteries ( 4 ) in the sales condition. All batteries have the full energy. On the right side is the battery with the indicator ( 7 ) arranged.

6 shows a further embodiment for the design of the package with a consumption indicator (indicator). The indicator is not fixed to a battery ( 4 ) connected. It is one at the point ( 8th ) near the opening for the feeder ( 2 ) with the packaging ( 1 ) firmly connected strips ( 9 ).

7 shows in a further embodiment the packaging ( 1 ) with the batteries ( 4 ) and the indicator ( 9 ) located at least one side near the opening for the feeder ( 2 ) of empty batteries with the packaging ( 1 ) is firmly connected ( 8th ). If the indicator ( 9 ) in addition to the removal opening ( 3 ) with the packaging ( 1 ) firmly connected ( 19 ), no further goods can be taken, as all goods have already been consumed in the packaging. On the side with the feeder ( 2 ) here was a dead battery ( 4 ) inserted. This causes the indicator to move ( 9 ) in the form shown here with the empty battery by one position further in the direction of the withdrawal side ( 3 ).

8a and 8b show the packaging ( 1 ) in a further embodiment with the batteries ( 3 ) and side-mounted closures ( 10 ) for transport safety.

9a and 9b show a further embodiment for transport protection ( 11 ), the two lateral opening for the supply and the removal of the batteries repeatable by inserting a tab in an existing opening on the top of the package ( 1 ).

10 shows in a further embodiment, the packaging ( 1 ) with optional visual references on the top of the package. Here is illustrated multilingual, where the empty batteries ( 16 ) are inserted into the packaging and the full batteries ( 17 ). At the openings for the indicator ( 5 ) can in a further embodiment by a numerical marking on the viewing windows ( 5 ) the remaining quantity of the still available, full batteries ( 4 ) being represented.

11 shows in a further embodiment, the packaging ( 1 ) with lateral attachment of a pre-embossed tear strip ( 12 ) and the pre-embossed pull tab ( 13 ). This is used to open the packaging and to remove the batteries when no empty batteries are available for insertion into the packaging.

12 shows in a further embodiment, the packaging ( 1 ) one, here the packaging ( 1 ) alternatively to the opening with a side-mounted opening flap ( 14 ) provided via conventional insertion tabs ( 15 ) is resealable.

Claims (7)

Packaging for uniform goods, characterized in that a removal of an unconsumed product is possible only by simultaneous introduction of a used product. according to claim 1, characterized in that a pre-embossed device below or laterally from the goods dictates the further transport within the packaging. according to claim 1, characterized in that with the goods, an indicator is transported, which signals the supply of not yet removed goods through windows in the packaging. according to claim 1, characterized in that the indicator can be effected by a unilaterally or both sides attached to the packaging tape. according to claim 4, characterized in that the indicator is alternatively in the form of a sleeve which is mounted over the last removable, unused goods. according to claim 4, characterized in that the indicator alternatively mitwandert in the form of a dummy body with the dimensions of the goods. according to claim 1, characterized in that the openings are secured to the supply and removal side by closures against accidental opening.

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