EP0149285B1 - Procédé pour la formation de boîtes à coffret, boîtes qui en résultent et éléments pour leur formation - Google Patents

Procédé pour la formation de boîtes à coffret, boîtes qui en résultent et éléments pour leur formation Download PDF

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EP0149285B1
EP0149285B1 EP84201943A EP84201943A EP0149285B1 EP 0149285 B1 EP0149285 B1 EP 0149285B1 EP 84201943 A EP84201943 A EP 84201943A EP 84201943 A EP84201943 A EP 84201943A EP 0149285 B1 EP0149285 B1 EP 0149285B1
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Alessandro Quercetti
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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
    • B65D15/00—Containers having bodies formed by interconnecting or uniting two or more rigid, or substantially rigid, sections made of different materials
    • B65D15/22—Containers having bodies formed by interconnecting or uniting two or more rigid, or substantially rigid, sections made of different materials of polygonal cross-section
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10S—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10S493/00—Manufacturing container or tube from paper; or other manufacturing from a sheet or web
    • Y10S493/901—Rigid container
    • Y10S493/909—Rigid container having handle or suspension means

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  • the present invention relates to a method for the manufacture of boxed boxes. It also relates to the box boxes which result from said process, as well as characteristic elements to be used for the formation of these boxes.
  • the object of the present invention is to carry out a process for the manufacture of boxed boxes, which makes it possible to rationalize in the best way the operations of manufacture and of industrial use of the box, which moreover makes possible, in the cases where that is desired, the total elimination of the operations of gluing, as well as the realization of retaining means in closing opening or / and having the character of seals, presented by the structure itself of a box of which a whole side can be opened to access the interior.
  • the cut element can be produced easily and economically, it can be supplied in a deployed form for use and it is easy to fold, manually or by simple apparatuses, thanks to the parallelism of the fold lines defined by grooving; the sidewalls can be easily and economically produced in the desired shapes by molding or by injection of plastics and they can also be supplied for use in compact assemblies of small size; and the insertion of the ends of the sections of the folded cut element into the corresponding channel of the sidewalls is an operation which is easy to execute and to organize both manually and by simple and safe automatic apparatus.
  • the fixing of the ends of the sections in the U-shaped channel can be carried out, when this does not represent a drawback, by gluing, but more advantageously it can be carried out by irreversible mechanical engagement of conformations of the edges of the cut element and of the channel in U of the sides, thus avoiding any gluing.
  • simple opportune conformations of the lateral tabs of the section forming a closing tab, and corresponding insertion channels of the sides make it possible to produce effective means of retaining the closed position of the cover, easily opening or / and forming seals.
  • the cut out element intended to form the box according to FIGS. 1 and 2 has a substantially rectangular shape and has mainly five sections: 1 forming the front of the box; 2 forming the bottom; 3 forming the back; 4 forming the liftable and lowerable cover; and 5 forming a closure tab.
  • the cut element also has a sixth section 6, of reduced extension, intended to form a tab folded inside at the opening of the box, especially to stiffen the front 1.
  • Said sections, rectangular shape are separated from each other by grooves, respectively 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11.
  • the cutout element 1 - 6 can be made of any somewhat flexible lamellar material, such as cardboard, cardboard coupled with plastic or / and metallic laminate, thin metal sheet, laminated plastic material, etc.
  • Each of the sides intended to form the box in combination with the cut element 1 - 6 has - in this case - a substantially rectangular shape, along three sides of which, the front, bottom and rear, extend the three arms 13, 14, 15 of a U-shaped channel hollowed out in the face of the sidewall 12 which faces the inside of the box.
  • the rear arm 15 of the U-shaped channel is open at its upper end, while the upper end of the front arm 13 is connected to a short section of channel 16, substantially parallel or lower arm 14.
  • each sidewall 12 has along the front side, parallel to and outside the front arm 13 of the U-shaped channel, a second straight channel 17, open at its upper end.
  • the cut element 1 - 6 is folded along the grooves 7 - 11, giving it substantially the shape which results of Figure 2, and then its two opposite edges are inserted into the U-shaped channel 13 - 16 of the sides 12 and are fixed there; by this operation the box is assembled, opened and ready to be filled with the articles it must contain.
  • the cover 4 is lowered until it contacts the upper side 18 of the sides 12, by inserting the sides of the closing tab 5 in the second channel 17 of the sides 12. The box, thus filled and closed, can be sealed in any way and sent to subsequent operations.
  • the top side 18 of the sides 12 is curved with a slight convexity towards the outside, so that, with the box closed, the cover 4 is also slightly curved.
  • FIG. 3 A very advantageous means for fixing the cut element 1 - 6 relative to the sides 12 is shown in Figures 3, 5 and 6.
  • cutouts 22 are made in the form of a C, as shown in FIG. 6, each cutout defines an elastically liftable tab 22.
  • the lateral projections 20 are not provided only at the sides of the teeth 19, but they are regularly spaced along the entire corresponding wall of the U-shaped channel, and have a length chosen so that the edge of the cut element is inserted with a certain force between these protrusions and the opposite wall of the U-shaped channel. In this way an effective reciprocal immobilization is obtained between the sides and the cut element, which gives a particular rigidity to the box, especially in its open condition.
  • the second channel 17 of the sides 12 has a tooth 23 turned inside, while corresponding cutouts 24 of limited length define along the lateral edges of the closing tab 5 of the box of small legs 25 which, when the box is closed, will be arranged under the tooth 23 of the channels 17 of the sides, as shown in Figure 4, thus holding the box closed stably.
  • the tabs 25 form a permanent reopening closure system, which can be used indefinitely in the successive use of the box.
  • a second tooth 26, the latter facing outwards can be formed in the channel 17 under the tooth 23 (if this- ci has been provided), while a tear-off line 27 separates from the closure tab 5 of the box small corresponding tear-off tabs 28. These engage under the tooth 26 of the channel 17 and then they positively prevent opening the box.
  • a flexible plastic handle 29 can be applied to the front 1 of the box, and can be accessed through a slot 30 in the closing tab 5, allowing the transport of the box as a small suitcase and ensuring the closing of the box during the transport.
  • This closure and transport means can replace the tabs 25 or complete the action.
  • the invention is not limited to application to substantially parallelepiped boxes, such as that illustrated by way of example; the main walls of the box, and therefore the sides of the sides, can be in a number different from four, and moreover said walls can also be curved, so that the box can take any prismatic shape and even partially or totally cylindrical.
  • the fixing of the edges of the cut element in the channel U-shaped sides can be made with an adhesive, the method according to the invention remaining anyway advantageous for the simplification of either the conformation of the cut element that folding operations of this element during the assembly of the box.

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EP84201943A 1984-01-13 1984-12-27 Procédé pour la formation de boîtes à coffret, boîtes qui en résultent et éléments pour leur formation Expired EP0149285B1 (fr)

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AT84201943T ATE42248T1 (de) 1984-01-13 1984-12-27 Verfahren zum herstellen von behaeltern, so erhaltene behaelter und elemente zum herstellen dieser behaelter.

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IT67027/84A IT1179552B (it) 1984-01-13 1984-01-13 Procedimento per la fabbricazione di scatole a confanetto scatole che ne risultano ed elementi per la loro formazione

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