EP0059024A1 - Emballage pour oeufs ou analogues - Google Patents

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EP0059024A1
EP0059024A1 EP19820300048 EP82300048A EP0059024A1 EP 0059024 A1 EP0059024 A1 EP 0059024A1 EP 19820300048 EP19820300048 EP 19820300048 EP 82300048 A EP82300048 A EP 82300048A EP 0059024 A1 EP0059024 A1 EP 0059024A1
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base part
lid
box
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William Robert Brown
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AUTOBAR VENDABEKA Ltd
WILLIAM R BROWN (PACKAGING) Co Ltd
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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
    • B65D85/00—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials
    • B65D85/30—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for articles particularly sensitive to damage by shock or pressure
    • B65D85/32—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for articles particularly sensitive to damage by shock or pressure for eggs
    • B65D85/324—Containers with compartments made of pressed material

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  • the present invention relates to boxes or cartons for packaging eggs, fruit or other articles and, more particularly, to such boxes or cartons of the type comprising a moulded base part having article receiving pockets and a separate flat cover part or lid which, in its closed position, is disposed over the open, upper ends of the pockets in the base part and is at least partially supported by posts upstanding from the base part between the pockets.
  • Egg boxes of the above type are known and may comprise a base part which is of rectangular shape in plan and moulded from plastics sheet material and a rectangular flat cardboard lid.
  • the base part is of a height greater than that of the eggs to be disposed in its article receiving pockets.
  • the separate flat lid can be printed on in the flat position and readily permits the egg boxes to be provided with advertising and other information required by suppliers.
  • known boxes of this type have presented problems with regard to ease of closing and fastening the separate lids and with regard to providing sufficient structural integrity, particularly, at the edges of the lid, to permit the boxes to be stacked one on top of the other for the purpose of transport, storage and display without damage to their contents.
  • the cardboard lid is clipped to the upstanding posts of the base part in order to hold it in its closed position.
  • the lid has tags of barb-like shape which are stamped from the lid material and are depressed through holes in the tops of the posts. Such devices are difficult to fasten.
  • the edges of the lid rest on a lip formed about the inside of the rim of the base part so that, whilst the lid is adequately supported centrally by the posts, its edges are not and have a tendency to bend downwardly within the base part, thereby risking damage to the contents of the box, particularly, under the weight of a stack of boxes.
  • British Specification No. 1008481 described an egg box having a moulded base part and a flat lid in which the lid overlaps opposite longitudinal edges of the base part and has flaps depending from the longitudinal edges of the lid and extending downwardly against the outsides of the base parts.
  • These flaps may be printed with advertising or other information so that such information is visible from the side when the boxes are stored or displayed in a stack and are fastened to the sides of the base part, for example, by adhesive, in order to retain the lid in its closed position. Whilst this construction provides satisfactory support for the lid so that boxes can be stacked without risk of damage to their contents, they may be difficult to open and, once open, may not be readily fastened.
  • the invention consists in a box or carton for packaging eggs, fruit or other articles, comprising a moulded base part having article receiving pockets, a separate flat cover part or lid which, in its closed position on the base part, is centrally supported by posts upstanding from the base part between the article receiving pockets, and has flaps depending from at least two opposite edges of the lid, and means for fastening the lid in its closed position, characterised in that the flaps depend within the base part juxtaposed side walls thereof and have lower edges resting on ledges projecting inwardly from the side walls of the base part spaced below the rim of the base part, whereby to support the edges of the lid.
  • the base part and lid may be of conventional rectangular shape in plan and the base part may comprise mutually parallel rows of article receiving pockets with the posts being formed at suitable positions between the rows and projecting upwardly to positions slightly below the rim of the base part.
  • the ledges or other support means for the lower edges of the flaps may be formed by the upper ends of half posts moulded in the side walls of the base part between the pockets of the rows adjoining the side walls.
  • the lid is fastened in its closed position by pips or lugs projecting inwardly from opposite side walls of the base part at or adjacent its rim and adapted to engage over the top of the lid when closed.
  • retaining pips or lugs are preferably disposed on the side walls of the base part adjacent edges of the lid not provided with the depending supporting flaps.
  • the retaining pips or lugs may be disposed on the walls of the base part juxtaposed the support flaps and be adapted to engage in openings in the latter in order to fasten the lid in its closed position.
  • the egg box comprises a moulded plastics base part 1 and a separate cardboard lid 2 which are of generally rectangular shape in plan.
  • the base part may be a one piece moulding of plastics sheet material.
  • the package comprises two such base parts 1 formed as an integral unit and joined together at mutually adjacent longitudinal edges by small spaced plastic webs 3 (Figure 1) which provide a line of weakness along which the package can be readily split into its two component base parts each containing, for example, twelve eggs.
  • the two component base parts are identical and therefore only one base part is illustrated in full and will be described in detail.
  • the base part 1 comprises twelve egg receiving pockets 4 disposed in three mutually parallel rows extending longitudinally of the base part and has side and end walls projecting upwardly from the tops of the pockets at the sides and ends of the base part.
  • the height of the base part is somewhat greater than that of the eggs to be packaged in the base part.
  • each pocket 4 is separated from one another by hollow posts 5,6 moulded at the centre at each array of four adjacent pockets and hollow partitions interconnecting the posts and the end walls of the base part.
  • adjacent pockets in each row are separated from one another by transverse hollow partitions 7 which interconnect the hollow posts 5,6 and join the latter to hollow half posts 8 moulded in-the side walls of the base part 1.
  • the walls of the posts, half posts, partitions, side and end walls of the base part are so shaped that each pocket is of generally part egg-shape.
  • Moulded on the outsides of the pockets are hollow axially extending ribs 9 which serve to stiffen the pocket and acts as cushions to protect the eggs against side blows or shocks.
  • the closed bottom of each pocket 4 is formed with an internal hollow boss 10, which serves as a protective cushion for the bottom of an egg and to stiffen the closed bottom of the pocket.
  • central posts 6 are shorter than the other posts 5 in order to facilitate removal of eggs from the base part 1.
  • the four taller posts 5 terminate in flat ends 11 which are disposed slightly below the level of the rim flange 12 of the base part.
  • the half posts 8 moulded in the side walls of the base part have flat upper ends spaced some distance below the rim flange and arranged to serve as ledges or supports 13 for side flaps of the lid 2, as will be hereinafter more fully described.
  • each end wall of the base part Projecting inwardly from each end wall of the base part, at and adjacent the rim flange 12, are a pair of hollow retaining lugs 15 for the lid.
  • Small shoulders 16 are moulded at each corner of the base part just below the rim flange in order to support the corners of the lid when it is disposed in position on the base.
  • Moulded in the end walls of the base part below and in alignment with the retaining lugs 15 are hollow protubrances 17 which terminate at spaced positions below the lugs 15 and provide stacking shoulders on the outsides of the end walls of the base part for engagement by the lugs.
  • the bases are stacked in nested relation. When so stacked, the stacking shoulders of an upper box rest on the lugs of the base within which it is nested in order to prevent the parts from wedging or jamming together and facilitate de-stacking of the bases by mechanical separating devices.
  • the rectangular lid 2 has a flat top with flaps 18 depending from opposite longitudinal edges of the top.
  • the flaps 18 are integral with the top and are folded downwardly about creases 19 formed in the lid material. In its stacked position, prior to folding down of the flaps, the lid 2 may readily be printed with advertising and other information.
  • the top of the lid is formed with a curved finger notch 20 which facilitates opening of the closed lid.
  • the flaps 18 fit within the base part juxtaposed the side walls and the lower edges thereof rest on the flat support ledges 13 provided by the half posts 8. These serve to support the edges of the lid whilst the central portion rests on the four posts 5. Hence, the lid is firmly supported and the . boxes may be stacked one on top of another without risk of damage to the contents.
  • the end walls of the base part can be flexed outwardly so that the lugs engage over the adjacent end edges of the lid to clip and retain the latter in its closed position.
  • the box When the box is to be opened, it is a simple matter for a person to insert a finger through the notch in the lid and lift the lid passed the retaining lugs. Thereafter, the lid may be easily refastened in its closed position by inserting the lid under the lugs at one end and snapping it underneath the lugs at the opposite end.
  • the egg box may be constructed so as to contain a different quantity of eggs.
  • both the number of pockets 4, and their arrangement can be altered.
  • the base part might have ten pockets divided into two parallel rows of five pockets each.
  • the lid 2 may be provided with an additional pair of flaps so that all four edges thereof have flaps. In such a case it may be necessary to provide openings.in the creases which join the additional flaps to the lid into which the lugs 15 on the base part 1 can be inserted so as to hold the lid in its closed position. In this variant the notch in the lid will become an opening through which, to open the box, a finger can be inserted.
  • the combination of the flat cardboard lid and a transparent thermoplastics base part is particularly advantageous in that the box or pack so formed affords a clear view of its contents, and that the flat, paper- based lid is ideally suited to carry publicity or informatory material.

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EP19820300048 1981-01-06 1982-01-06 Emballage pour oeufs ou analogues Ceased EP0059024A1 (fr)

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Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
GB8100163 1981-01-06
GB8100163 1981-01-06
GB8102130 1981-01-23
GB8102130 1981-01-23
GB8103010 1981-01-30
GB8103010 1981-01-30
GB8119152 1981-06-22
GB8119152 1981-06-22

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Cited By (4)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
EP0087306A2 (fr) * 1982-02-19 1983-08-31 Autobar Vendabeka Limited Boîtes ou cartons d'emballage
DE3502288A1 (de) * 1984-02-24 1985-09-12 Seprosy Société Européenne pour la Transformation des Produits de Synthèse, Paris Behaelter mit einem boden und einem deckel
AU586928B2 (en) * 1986-03-26 1989-07-27 Alphaform Welded egg carton
AT503834B1 (de) * 2006-07-10 2008-08-15 Ovotherm Internat Handels Gmbh Eierverpackung

Families Citing this family (2)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
GB8418888D0 (en) * 1984-07-24 1984-08-30 Brown W R Boxes/cartons
WO2013116387A2 (fr) * 2012-01-30 2013-08-08 Von Der Ahe Geoffrey Système d'emballage pour œufs ou ensembles d'objets multiples

Citations (3)

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
GB1008481A (en) * 1961-12-18 1965-10-27 Keyes Fibre Co Egg carton
DE1905991A1 (de) * 1968-02-09 1969-08-21 Jllinois Tool Works Inc Verpackung
EP0036785A1 (fr) * 1980-03-25 1981-09-30 Thermopac Company Limited Récipients d'emballage

Patent Citations (3)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
GB1008481A (en) * 1961-12-18 1965-10-27 Keyes Fibre Co Egg carton
DE1905991A1 (de) * 1968-02-09 1969-08-21 Jllinois Tool Works Inc Verpackung
EP0036785A1 (fr) * 1980-03-25 1981-09-30 Thermopac Company Limited Récipients d'emballage

Cited By (5)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
EP0087306A2 (fr) * 1982-02-19 1983-08-31 Autobar Vendabeka Limited Boîtes ou cartons d'emballage
EP0087306A3 (en) * 1982-02-19 1984-08-15 William R. Brown (Packaging) Company Limited Packaging boxes or cartons
DE3502288A1 (de) * 1984-02-24 1985-09-12 Seprosy Société Européenne pour la Transformation des Produits de Synthèse, Paris Behaelter mit einem boden und einem deckel
AU586928B2 (en) * 1986-03-26 1989-07-27 Alphaform Welded egg carton
AT503834B1 (de) * 2006-07-10 2008-08-15 Ovotherm Internat Handels Gmbh Eierverpackung

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