DK148414B - Container for the collection and bundling of recycled paper - Google Patents

Description

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The invention relates to a box-like open container for collection and bundling of newspapers, magazines and similar paper, cardboard or cardboard articles.

5 Several millions of newspapers and magazines are printed every day in the country, and great efforts have therefore been made to collect and retrieve the paper when the real content, namely the printed text and the pictures, no longer has the user's interest. Of course, a recycling circuit 10 must start already where the newspapers and magazines become obsolete, namely with the reader. Furthermore, successful collection of used paper such as newspapers and magazines in an ordinary household depends on reasonable conditions during the collection and storage of the used paper. During the collection of paper in the household, a handling problem arises, for example a month's old magazines and newspapers in a family become a pretty large stack of more or less loose paper. The paper must be bundled appropriately for handling.

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British Patent Specification No. 1,566,930 discloses a collection box having a suitable design for collecting and bundling paper to be recycled. Poor to be able to bundle the paper while it is in a neat stack in the box, this cut-out can be fitted with a certain dexterity or suitable auxiliary tool, for example consisting of a piece of steel wire with an eye or a hook. around the newspaper stack and tied it together before removing it from the box.

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1 From US Patent No. 4,061,084, a box for transporting newspaper bundles is known at a printing press. The box is held together by knobs or latches, spring loaded bolts or possibly magnets and can be separated by bundling the newspapers by the bundling wire itself when magnets are used if the bundling machine is strong enough. In order to be used industrially, this box is provided with heavy closing mechanisms which are only intended to be separated by bundling machines.

The object of the invention is to provide such a box-like container for collection and bundling of paper or cardboard to be recycled, where the bundling cord can be placed in a simple manner.

This is accomplished by designing the box as set forth in the characterizing portion of the patent claim. You simply place the bundle cord around the collection box so that the cord fits in between the corner pieces. Due to the special design of the interconnecting means, the cord will slide along its V-shaped coupling tabs, and simply by manually tightening the cord, this will lift the coupling member free of the angular profile, thereby causing a simultaneous bundling of paper or cardboard to be recycled, and a separation of the container into its four corner portions. This allows for a simple and efficient bundling of used paper in them. individual households, whereby collection for recycling causes significantly fewer inconveniences to the household. Prior to bundling, the box is held together by the interlocking means which are held in engagement due to the weight of the newspapers. The box is therefore held together more tightly, the more newspapers placed in it.

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The invention will now be explained in more detail with reference to the drawing, in which fig. 1 shows a corner portion of the container 10 according to the invention; FIG. 2 shows schematically how four corner pieces form an open container; FIG. 3 shows the one shown in FIG. 2 shows a bottom view of the container, indicating where the container is assembled; FIG. 4 shows a section of the interconnecting means; FIG. 5 shows the same section of the coupling means as in FIG. 4, but in a coupled state, and FIG. 6 shows how the bundling cord opens the interconnected container.

The drawing shows an open container according to the invention 30 formed of molded plastic.

In FIG. 1 shows a corner part 3S consisting of a three-wing element, one wing being square and the other two wings being rectangular and equal.

5 To save the material, holes are shown in the three wings 4.

The three corner tabs form about a right-angled corner, with each tab essentially forming an angle of 10 90 ° with each of the other two.

In addition, it is seen that the corner portion is made of angular profile-like parts 2, where there is an angle slightly greater than 90 ° between the two parts of the profile 2. This makes the corner pieces stackable, gives great strength and stability, and not as much material is used.

The material consumption for a corner part is typically about 65cm 2 when the corner part is made of 1mm impact-resistant polystyrene. Such a corner piece then only weighs about 70g.

On two of the free edges of the corner part there is arranged an interconnecting means 1. By means of the interconnecting means explained later, as shown in FIG.

25 2 and 3 connect four corner parts 3 to an open box, where you can collect, for example, newspapers and magazines for recycling. Of course, the container must have dimensions corresponding to a newspaper, for example the so-called Tabloid format, so that the ordinary small newspapers can be placed directly in the container, while the large newspapers, for example the Sunday newspapers, must fold once. Of course, there is nothing in the way for the corner section to have other dimensions so that it can be arranged for the collection of other forms of recycled paper.

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5 1 Because of the weight of the paper, the loosely coupled coupling means hold the four corner portions of the one shown in FIG. 3, which is shown by six arrows. For example, when assembling four corner pieces into an open container, one starts by placing the part A, then the parts B, C and D in sequence, if the coupling means are arranged on the ones in FIG. 1. Of course, the interconnecting means can be placed on other edges, and the container must then be assembled in a different order.

By comparing FIG. 1 with FIG. 4-6 gives an impression of how the invented coupling means 1 work.

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Each interconnecting member 1 consists of a new profile 1 arranged on a profile edge 2, with substantially the same angle between the profile parts as between the profile parts forming the profile edge 2. The interconnecting means forms essentially a V, which is preferably an angle. at just over 90 ° between the two sides of the profile. Of course, if the corner parts are molded of plastic, the interconnecting members 1 are molded in one and in the same molding process. The same may be the case if the corner parts are made of aluminum or other metals. However, the coupling means 1 may also be applied after the manufacture of the corner parts, for example by attaching the coupling means by gluing, riveting, welding or by similar joining processes.

The coupling means shown in FIG. 4-5 is a section on the center of two corner portions, which may be, for example, at arrow 14 1 between A and B in FIG. 3 The interconnecting means 1 is of rounded s for example in a soft curve from the center and towards each side, which is best seen at the top of FIG. 1 at the interconnecting means 1a. The rounding goes as shown in Fig. 5a of FIG. 1, over the entire length of the coupling means.

Pig. 4-5 show the coupling of a coupling means 1 with an angular profile edge 2. When as shown 10 in FIG. 2 and 3 total box is suitably filled with newspapers or magazines to be recycled, one needs to bundle the paper. This is done by passing a bundle cord 5 around the container at its collection points. Due to the rounded V-shaped coupling tab, the cord 5 will slide as shown in FIG. 6 and lifting the interconnecting means free of the angular profile 2, and thus, at the same time as the bundling of the newspapers, a separation of the container into its four corner parts takes place. Thus, you do not need to pick up the newspapers 20 of the container to bundle them, but you can, for example, put a string on the floor and place the filled box over the string and then tied the newspapers. Because of the weight of the newspapers, it is possible to move around the box without separating it into its four components.