EP0057042B1 - Récipient pour fleurs coupées - Google Patents

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EP0057042B1
EP0057042B1 EP19820200088 EP82200088A EP0057042B1 EP 0057042 B1 EP0057042 B1 EP 0057042B1 EP 19820200088 EP19820200088 EP 19820200088 EP 82200088 A EP82200088 A EP 82200088A EP 0057042 B1 EP0057042 B1 EP 0057042B1
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Jacobus Johannes Petrus Smeets
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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
    • B65D81/00—Containers, packaging elements, or packages, for contents presenting particular transport or storage problems, or adapted to be used for non-packaging purposes after removal of contents
    • B65D81/24—Adaptations for preventing deterioration or decay of contents; Applications to the container or packaging material of food preservatives, fungicides, pesticides or animal repellants
    • B65D81/26—Adaptations for preventing deterioration or decay of contents; Applications to the container or packaging material of food preservatives, fungicides, pesticides or animal repellants with provision for draining away, or absorbing, or removing by ventilation, fluids, e.g. exuded by contents; Applications of corrosion inhibitors or desiccators
    • B65D81/263—Adaptations for preventing deterioration or decay of contents; Applications to the container or packaging material of food preservatives, fungicides, pesticides or animal repellants with provision for draining away, or absorbing, or removing by ventilation, fluids, e.g. exuded by contents; Applications of corrosion inhibitors or desiccators for ventilating the contents
    • 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
    • B65D21/06—Containers specially shaped, or provided with fittings or attachments, to facilitate nesting, stacking, or joining together with movable parts adapted to be placed in alternative positions for nesting the containers when empty and for stacking them when full
    • B65D21/062—Containers specially shaped, or provided with fittings or attachments, to facilitate nesting, stacking, or joining together with movable parts adapted to be placed in alternative positions for nesting the containers when empty and for stacking them when full the movable parts being attached or integral and displaceable into a position overlying the top of the container, e.g. bails, corner plates
    • 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
    • B65D25/00—Details of other kinds or types of rigid or semi-rigid containers
    • B65D25/02—Internal fittings
    • B65D25/10—Devices to locate articles in containers
    • 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
    • B65D85/00—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials
    • B65D85/50—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for living organisms, articles or materials sensitive to changes of environment or atmospheric conditions, e.g. land animals, birds, fish, water plants, non-aquatic plants, flower bulbs, cut flowers or foliage
    • B65D85/505—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for living organisms, articles or materials sensitive to changes of environment or atmospheric conditions, e.g. land animals, birds, fish, water plants, non-aquatic plants, flower bulbs, cut flowers or foliage for cut flowers
    • 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
    • B65D85/00—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials
    • B65D85/50—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for living organisms, articles or materials sensitive to changes of environment or atmospheric conditions, e.g. land animals, birds, fish, water plants, non-aquatic plants, flower bulbs, cut flowers or foliage

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  • the invention relates to a container suitable for packing cut flowers in a compressed state, having a substantially rectangular bottom delimited by four standing walls and a cross bar for pressing the flowers, with at least two opposite walls for fastening the cross bar in its upper part Fasteners are provided and the crossbar near its two ends has constrictions for engaging parts of the fasteners such that the crossbar can withstand the upward force of the compressed flowers and at the same time counteracts the softening of the walls.
  • a container of the type mentioned above is known from GB-A-469 968. It is a container with upright, non-flexible wooden walls.
  • a disadvantage of wood is the absorption of moisture and the formation of chips.
  • Another disadvantage of these containers is that they cannot be stacked one inside the other, which is cost-intensive due to the space to be taken up when empty containers have to be stored or transported.
  • a further disadvantage of the known block-shaped containers is that, when filled with flowers, they are stacked very compactly in cold stores and refrigerated vehicles. The cold air circulation between the container is seriously hampered. As a result, the flowers cannot be stored at a certain temperature which is as uniform as possible.
  • the purpose of the invention is a flower packaging that does not have the aforementioned disadvantages.
  • the container has diverging walls from the bottom, is made of plastic, and that the fastening elements are openings in the upper part of the walls.
  • the top edges of the walls are turned inside out twice to form horizontal edge parts and vertically depending edge parts which extend further than the upper side of the openings made in the walls and that the crossbar is almost as long as the internal distance between two depending edge parts.
  • the wall parts above the openings can be made vertically.
  • a plastic container with a crossbar is known from the Benelux model No. 05540-00.
  • these containers cannot be stacked one inside the other, have rather heavy walls and the crossbar has no constrictions in the sense of the relevant invention, so that they cannot be attached so easily.
  • the containers are preferably injection molded from plastic.
  • the crossbar can be made of a material other than plastic. This is advantageous if a plastic crossbar would withstand the upward pressure of the compressed flowers too little.
  • the crossbar can e.g. B. be made of wood.
  • the external dimensions are adapted to the dimensions of the containers already in use so that they can be replaced.
  • the embodiment of a container according to the invention essentially consists of a rectangular base 2 and four walls diverging upwards, the edges of which are turned inside out twice to form divergent wall parts 3, 4, 5 and 6, horizontal edge parts 7, 8, 9 and 10 and vertically depending edge parts 11, 12, 13 and 14.
  • openings 15 are provided which serve as fastening elements for the cross bar 16, which is at some distance from the ends Grooves 17 is provided, see Fig. 2.
  • the grooves serve as a second fastening element for the crossbar.
  • the effect of the individual parts of the flower packaging is as follows.
  • the ends of the crossbar are inserted into the openings .15 with the grooves 17 upwards.
  • the fact that the flowers pressed together now push the cross bar 16 upwards, the upper sides of the openings 15, that is to say the wall parts 5 and 6, are encompassed by the grooves.
  • the crossbar 16 then comes into the position shown in FIG. 2 and remains in it. Since the walls 5 and 6 lie in the grooves at the location of the openings 15, they cannot diverge under the lateral pressure of the flowers.
  • the crossbar has been given an additional function, so that additional reinforcement of the relatively long walls can be avoided.
  • This cost-saving solution to a technical problem is all the more important because the pressure of the flowers on the walls is greater with containers with diverging walls than with containers of the same type with vertical walls.
  • the divergent walls face next to that
  • the fact that the containers can be stacked empty into one another has the great advantage that they still leave ventilation ducts during storage and transport, although they are then stacked against and on top of one another, so that the cooling air through the ventilation openings 18 reaches the contents of the containers can.
  • FIG. 3 the part 111 framed by the dashed lines from FIG. 2 is shown enlarged, with the crossbar 19 (dashed lines in FIG. 3), in a somewhat modified version, in the upwardly pressed position.
  • the crossbar 19 carries at its ends an end 20 which is thickened with respect to the rest of the crossbar and which engages angularly behind the part 21 of the wall 5, so that here too the long wall is prevented from escaping to the outside.
  • the vertically hanging edge part 13 extends further than the upper side 22 of the opening 15.
  • the crossbar which is almost as long as the inner distance between the vertically hanging edge parts 13 and 14, is first inserted with one end into the hole 15 until it abuts against the hanging edge part.
  • the groove 17 is then immediately in the right place.
  • the other end can be brought into its place after the wall 6 has been slightly bent.
  • the part already in its place serves as a fulcrum, making it very easy to compress the contents of the holder.
  • the distance over which the wall 6 has to be bent is limited in that the wall parts 21 lying above the openings 15 are held vertically.
  • brackets 23 and 24 on the short walls 3 and 4.
  • the brackets shown in FIG. 1 in their stacking position can be folded outwards so that they hang vertically on the walls 3 and 4 .
  • the advantage of the known foldable brackets is that irregularities on the inner walls are avoided as far as possible, which would damage the packed flowers.
  • the flower packaging described can also be used to pack other compressible goods.

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1. Récipient approprié pour l'emballage de fleurs coupées à l'état comprimé, comprenant un fond (2). sensiblement rectangulaire limité par quatre parois redressées (3, 4, 5, 6) et une barre transversale (16) destinée à comprimer les fleurs, dans lequel, pour assurer la fixation de la barre transversale, au moins deux parois opposées sont munies d'éléments de fixation dans leur partie supérieure et où la barre transversale présente dans le voisinage de ses deux extrémités des gorges destinées à s'engager dans des parties des éléments de fixation de telle manière que la barre transversale puisse résister à la force dirigée vers le haut exercée par les fleurs comprimées et qu'en même temps, elle s'oppose au fléchissement des parois, caractérisé en ce que le récipient possède des parois qui divergent à partir du fond, que le fond et les parois sont réalisés en matière plastique et que les éléments de fixation sont des ouvertures (15) ménagées dans la partie supérieure des parois.
2. Récipient selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que les bords supérieurs des parois sont retournés deux fois en formant des rebords horizontaux (7, 8, 9, 10) et des rebords (11, 12, 13, 14) qui pendent verticalement et qui se prolongent plus loin que le bord supérieur des ouvertures ménagées dans les parois, et en ce que la barre transversale est presque aussi longue que la distance d'écartement intérieur entre deux rebords pendants opposés.
3. Récipient selon la revendication 1 ou 2, caractérisé en ce que les parties de parois (2) situées au-dessus des ouvertures sont verticales.
EP19820200088 1981-01-27 1982-01-26 Récipient pour fleurs coupées Expired EP0057042B1 (fr)

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NL8100363A NL8100363A (nl) 1981-01-27 1981-01-27 Bloemverpakking.

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