EP0118718B1 - Réceptacle pour des machandises parallélipipédiques - Google Patents

Réceptacle pour des machandises parallélipipédiques Download PDF

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EP0118718B1
EP0118718B1 EP84101014A EP84101014A EP0118718B1 EP 0118718 B1 EP0118718 B1 EP 0118718B1 EP 84101014 A EP84101014 A EP 84101014A EP 84101014 A EP84101014 A EP 84101014A EP 0118718 B1 EP0118718 B1 EP 0118718B1
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packing container
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Piero Durazzani
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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
    • B65D81/02—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 specially adapted to protect contents from mechanical damage
    • B65D81/022—Containers made of shock-absorbing material
    • 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
    • B65D5/00—Rigid or semi-rigid containers of polygonal cross-section, e.g. boxes, cartons or trays, formed by folding or erecting one or more blanks made of paper
    • B65D5/42—Details of containers or of foldable or erectable container blanks
    • B65D5/44—Integral, inserted or attached portions forming internal or external fittings
    • B65D5/50—Internal supporting or protecting elements for contents
    • B65D5/5028—Elements formed separately from the container body
    • B65D5/5033—Corner pads or corner posts
    • 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
    • B65D85/68—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for machines, engines or vehicles in assembled or dismantled form
    • 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
    • B65D2585/00—Containers, packaging elements or packages specially adapted for particular articles or materials
    • B65D2585/68—Containers, packaging elements or packages specially adapted for particular articles or materials for machines, engines, or vehicles in assembled or dismantled form
    • B65D2585/6802—Containers, packaging elements or packages specially adapted for particular articles or materials for machines, engines, or vehicles in assembled or dismantled form specific machines, engines or vehicles
    • B65D2585/6845—Containers, packaging elements or packages specially adapted for particular articles or materials for machines, engines, or vehicles in assembled or dismantled form specific machines, engines or vehicles other household devices
    • B65D2585/6855—Containers, packaging elements or packages specially adapted for particular articles or materials for machines, engines, or vehicles in assembled or dismantled form specific machines, engines or vehicles other household devices washing machine

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  • the present invention relates to a packing container for goods of parallelepiped configuration, particularly electric household appliances such as laundry washing machines, dishwashers and similar apparatus.
  • a generally accepted packing system employs a plurality of particularly shaped cardboard or polystyrene bodies which are manually applied to the corners and the top and bottom faces of the housing of the household appliances.
  • the housing of the household appliance including the manually applied protective bodies are subsequently enveloped in a cardboard casing. or in a heat-shrinkable polyethylene sheet.
  • the packing assembly consists of a relatively great number of components of different shapes and made of different materials requiring a variety of manufacturing technologies and a great number of manual operations, particularly for singly applying the various protective bodies to the housing of the electric household appliance.
  • the packing process is undesirably . delayed, as it involves an enveloping stap and the subsequent passage through an oven for heat- shrinking the envelope about the package.
  • packing containers formed of a single prefolded cardboard sheet and a plurality of protective bodies or spacers made of cardboard or polystyrene bonded to said sheet.
  • This type of packing container is also disadvantageous, as it requires numerous operations for bonding or stapling the protective spacers to the surface of the cardboard sheet.
  • Another object of the invention is the provision of a packing container of the type set forth above, which is of highly robust construction so as to reliably ensure the protection of the electric household appliance during storage and shipping, and to additionally include the possibility of the packing container being re-used by the distributor or the final customer.
  • a packing container for goods of parallelepiped configuration particularly electric household appliances, comprising at least one sheet of a pre-shaped material adapted to be folded so as to envelop an electric household appliance with the interposition of angular protection elements.
  • a packing container of this type is characterized in that the sheet of a pre-shaped material is made of an extruded plastic material having a cellular structure, and in that the angular protection elements are integrally formed with the sheet.
  • the description and drawings refer to a packing container 7 for an electric household appliance 8 having a square base.
  • the packing container 7 is formed of a thermoplastic material, for instance polypropylene, which is extruded so as to form a one-piece rectangular sheet 9 the top surface of which is provided with four bars 10, 11, 12, 13 extending parallel to each other at right angles to the longitudinal axis of sheet 9 (Figs. 1 and 2).
  • Each bar 10, 11, 12, 13 extends over the full width of sheet 9 and is of substantially L-shaped cross-sectional configuration (Fig. 3).
  • the cross- sections of the two outer bars 10 and 13 face inwards of the sheet 9, while the two inner bars 11 and 12 face outwards in opposite directions, the distance I between the vertical elements of bars 10, 13 and the vertical elements of the associated bars 11, 12 corresponding to the width of respective sidewalls of household appliance 8,
  • associated pairs of bars 10, 11, 12, 13 are adapted to cooperate with one another for protecting the vertical edges and the corners of appliance 8 in the closed state of the packing container.
  • sheet 9 with bars 10, 11, 12, 13 is cut to a length corresponding to the sum of the height of appliance 8 and the dimension of its base. Subsequently sheet 9 is subjected to a finishing operation for the formation of a closure flap 15, four top panels 21, 22, 23, 24, four bottom panels 17, 18, 19, 20 and a plurality of recessed relief zones 14 permitting the various panels to be folded inwards as the packing operation proceeds.
  • the bars 10,11,12,13 extending over two non- adjacent bottom panels 18, 20 are formed with four recesses 16 adapted to receive the legs 30 of the appliance 8, so that in the finished packing container the full weight of the appliance is not concentrated in the area of these legs (Fig. 2).
  • sheet 9 is formed with longitudinally and transversely extending folding lines 29 delimiting bottom panels 17, 18, 19, 20, top panels 21, 22, 23, 24 and sidewall panels 25, 26, 27, 28 of the packing container. It is to be noted that sheet 9 as well as bars 10, 11, 12, 13 are extruded so as to present a cellular structure 14 as shown in detail in Fig. 3.
  • the cellular structure 14 is advantageously formed with varying dimensions for the different portions of which sheet 9 is composed (Fig. 3).
  • the cellular structure is intended to reduce the weight of the packing container and to impart increased resiliency to the contact areas between appliance 8 and the protective bars 10, 11, 12, 13.
  • the packing container is ready for receiving the electric household appliance 8 for which it is suitably dimensioned.
  • the packing container 7 according to the invention may be modified for employ with various types of electric household appliances by merely varying the length to which sheet 9 and bars 10, 11, 12, 13 are cut, the associated pairs of bars 10, 11, 12,13 being in any case spaced by a distance I corresponding to the length of the sides of the base of the respective appliance (Fig. 2).
  • bars 10, 11, 12, 13 of the packing container 7 according to the invention may be co-extruded with the sheet 9 in such a manner that bars of different dimensions are formed in different positions on the sheet, it being also possible to employ materials which are structurally different from those constituting the basic sheet and more suitable for various types of appliances to be packed.
  • the packing container according to the invention lends itself to readily achieve a structural and dimensional flexibility particularly advantageous on the one hand for manufacturers having a specialized production, and on the other hand, even more important, for manufacturers having a diversified production.
  • electric household appliance 8 is laid down on the two protective bars 10, 11 of sidewall panel 25 as shown in Fig. 2, whereupon front panel 26 and sidewall panel 27 with the two other protective bars 12, 13 are folded upwards and backwards into contact with appliance 8, followed by rear panel 28 including closure flap 15 being also folded upwards.
  • Closure flap 15 may be provided with snap fastener means 31 as shown in Fig. 4a. As an alternative, flap 15 may attached to sidewall panel 27 onto which it is folded down by means of adhesive tape or staples as shown in Figs. 4b and 4c, respectively. At the end of these operations, the packing container is in the state shown in Fig. 5.
  • bottom panels 18, 20 and lateral bottom panels 17, 19 are closed with the aid of adhesive tape, staples or the like, followed by closing top panels 22, 24 and top lateral panels 21, 23 in similar manner, whereupon the thus packed electric household appliance 8 is tilted to the upright position in which it rests on bottom panels 18, 20, the latter being provided with the recesses 16 for the legs of the electric household appliance 8, so that the weight thereof is evenly distributed over the protective bars of the base panels.
  • the packing container according to the invention greatly simplifies and rationalizes the packing process, as it includes in a one-piece construction the outer envelope as well as the protective spacers for the top plane, the bottom plane and the edges and corners of the electric household appliance 8 to be packed.
  • the packing container may be made of any suitable thermoplastic material having sufficient rigidity for ensuring protection of the packaged goods during storage and shipment from the manufacturer to the user, and capable of being extruded with an internal structure adapted to render more resilient the contact points with the electric household appliance and to resiliently absorb unevenly distributed loads possibly exerted on the surfaces of the packing container during storage and shipment.

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1. Emballage pour des marchandises parallélépipédiques, notamment des appareils ménagers électriques, comprenant au moins une feuille d'un matériau préformé adaptée pour être pliée de façon à envelopper l'appareil ménager électrique avec interposition d'éléments de protection angulaires, caractérisé en ce que cette feuille (9) d'un matériau préformé est en une matière plastique extrudée ayant une structure cellulaire (14) et en ce que les éléments de protection angulaires (10,11,12,13) sont formés d'une seule pièce avec la feuille (9) sur la surface supérieure de celle-ci.
2. Emballage selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que les éléments de protection angulaires sont formés sous forme de barreaux allongés (10, 11, 12, 13) s'étendant parallèlement l'un à l'autre et espacés sur toute la largeur de la feuille (9) et ayant en coupe transversale la forme d'un L orienté de telle manière que des paires de ces barreux (10, 11, 12, 13) coopèrent à l'état replié pour recouvrir les coins, les bords verticaux et des parties des bords horizontaux de l'appareil ménager électrique (8).
3. Emballage selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que ces barreaux (10, 11, 12, 13) sont formés par un processus de coextrusion sur la surface supérieure de la feuille (9) et en ce que les cellules (14) constituant leur structure ont des dimensions variables par rapport aux cellules de structure (14) de la feuille de base (9).
4. Emballage selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que cette feuille (9) est formée avec des zones évidées (14) et des zones de pliage (29) définissant quatre panneaux de fond (17, 18, 19, 20), quatre panneaux supérieurs (21, 22, 23, 24) et quatre panneaux latéraux (25, 26, 27, 28) adaptés pour être successivement refermés de façon à envelopper complètement l'appareil ménager électrique (8).
5. Emballage selon les revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que chaque barreau (10, 11, 12, 13) des deux panneaux de fond (18, 20) présente un évidement cylindrique (16) adapté pour recevoir, à l'état replié de l'emballage, un pied support correspondant (30) de l'appareil ménager électrique (8).
6. Emballage selon les revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce qu'un panneau latéral de fermeture (28) de cet emballage comporte un rabat (15) adapté pour être fixé au moyen d'un dispositif de fixation par encliquetage (31) sur la surface du panneau latéral (25) sur lequel il est replié pour refermer l'emballage.
EP84101014A 1983-03-07 1984-02-01 Réceptacle pour des machandises parallélipipédiques Expired EP0118718B1 (fr)

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AT84101014T ATE28312T1 (de) 1983-03-07 1984-02-01 Behaelter fuer parallelepipedische waren.

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IT8334011U IT8334011V0 (it) 1983-03-07 1983-03-07 Imballo per merci aventi forma di parallelopipedo
IT3401183U 1983-03-07

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DE4106970A1 (de) * 1991-03-05 1992-09-10 Bauknecht Hausgeraete Verpackung fuer ein geraet
DE4114034A1 (de) * 1991-04-29 1992-11-05 Miele & Cie Mehrwegverpackung fuer haushaltsgrossgeraete

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