EP0184474A1 - Verpackungsbehälter - Google Patents

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EP0184474A1
EP0184474A1 EP85402060A EP85402060A EP0184474A1 EP 0184474 A1 EP0184474 A1 EP 0184474A1 EP 85402060 A EP85402060 A EP 85402060A EP 85402060 A EP85402060 A EP 85402060A EP 0184474 A1 EP0184474 A1 EP 0184474A1
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Jean-Claude Buisson
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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
    • B65D83/00—Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents
    • B65D83/04—Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents for dispensing annular, disc-shaped, or spherical or like small articles, e.g. tablets or pills
    • B65D83/0481—Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents for dispensing annular, disc-shaped, or spherical or like small articles, e.g. tablets or pills the articles passing through a small opening or passage, without additional dispensing devices and without retaining means for the following article
    • 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
    • B65D2583/00—Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents
    • B65D2583/04—For dispensing annular, disc-shaped or spherical or like small articles or tablets
    • B65D2583/0445—For dispensing annular, disc-shaped or spherical or like small articles or tablets characterised by the shape of the container
    • B65D2583/0454—Flat container with slide cover, i.e. the thickness of the container is slightly more than the thickness of one article

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  • the present invention relates, as a new industrial product, to a packaging box which is useful in the medical, dietetic or food field for the storage and distribution of tablets, dragees, pills and similar articles, and the filling and assembly are advantageously automated.
  • the first type of boxes which correspond approximately to match boxes, consist of a receptacle or storage tank in the form of a tank and a sliding lid on said receptacle or adapting to it.
  • the filling into tablets, dragees, pills or similar articles in the storage receptacle is carried out while holding it horizontally.
  • the cover is manually adapted to the storage receptacle, mainly by introducing the latter into this one.
  • the filling and manufacturing of the first type of boxes has the major drawback of not being fully automated in the sense that they involve the intervention of the human hand in adapting the receptacle to its cover.
  • the boxes of the second type which have a filling and dispensing window arranged on their edge and provided with a valve, are filled by means of said window, with the valve open, being held vertically, that is to say by resting on the face opposite to that which comprises said window. After filling the valve is closed and then, if necessary, sealed with an adhesive strip which will then be torn by the user.
  • the filling of the housing and the closing of the valve can be fully automated without intervention of the human hand.
  • the window light cannot have a unitary distribution device which would slow down the filling even more.
  • the guiding and holding means advantageously consists of a protuberance having substantially the shape of a half dovetail disposed on a vertical wall in the vicinity of the free end thereof, facing the bottom of the thin plate, on a part of said vertical wall.
  • substantially rectangular and “inscribed in a rectangle” mean an element which is approximately rectangular or similar to a rectangle.
  • polygonal bottom is meant that the bottom of the receptacle has a perimeter comprising rectilinear sides with, if necessary, one or more curvilinear sides.
  • the cover 2 of the housing according to the invention comprises a thin plate 13, which is rectangular or substantially rectangular, and two plane and parallel walls 14,14 'perpendicular to said thin plate. These walls each have a guide and holding means 15 which is advantageously a protuberance having substantially the shape of a half-dovetail. This protuberance which is arranged over a part of the length of the wall to which it is linked, is located in the vicinity of the free end of said wall, opposite the thin plate.
  • the cover has a third vertical wall 16 connecting the walls 14, 14 ′ and which may be flat or curved or may also have a profile having rectilinear and curvilinear sides.
  • the thin plate 3 is only bordered by three walls 4,4 ', 6 and that it has thereby a passage for the insertion and / or sliding of the receptacle 1 in the cover 2, on the one hand, and that the protuberance 15, and respectively the protuberance 15 ′, are arranged over part of the length of the flat walls 14 and respectively 14 ', on the other hand.
  • the cover also comprises at least one blocking means 17 for the receptacle in the closed position, that is to say in the storage position.
  • This locking means is advantageously constituted by an asperity located on the thin plate in the vicinity of the wall 16.
  • the cover also comprises at least one means 18 limiting the sliding during distribution, on the one hand, and participating in the fitting of the cover on the receptacle, on the other hand.
  • This means 18 is advantageously constituted by a stop which has a profile inscribed in a right triangle, that is to say that said profile is triangular or substantially triangular, one of the sides of the right angle being located on the plate thin, the other side of the right angle being perpendicular to the thin plate and the third side being straight or curvilinear.
  • the cover 2 will include an asperity 17 and a stop 18 located in its plane of symmetry.
  • the receptacle 1 comprises (i) a polygonal bottom 3 inscribed in a rectangle, (ii) two vertical planar walls which are parallel to one another 4 and 4 ′, (iii) a vertical connecting wall 6, and (iv) a vertical wall 7 opposite to said wall 6, all these walls resting on the perimeter of said bottom which comprises, as indicated above, rectilinear sides and if necessary one or more curvilinear sides.
  • Each of the walls 4 and 4 ' has a guide means which is complementary and homologous to the guide and holding means provided on the walls 14 and 14' of the cover.
  • this complementary guide means consists of the connection of said walls 4 and 4 'to the bottom 3.
  • This connection is planar or rounded.
  • the complementary guide means 21 is constituted by the external surface of said connection and this surface homologous to that of the surface 22 of the protuberance 15, is planar or rounded, that is to say it is either a trunk.
  • ture is a curved surface (in particular convex) when respectively the surface 22 is itself a truncation or a curved surface (in particular concave).
  • the connecting wall 6 which interconnects the walls 4 and 4 'has at least a first penetration means for ensuring the assembly of the receptacle in the cover.
  • This penetration means shown in 19 is advantageously constituted by the connection of the wall 6 to at least one of the parallel walls 4 and 4 '.
  • This connection is either flat (truncation) or rounded (convex surface); the useful part is the external surface of said connection.
  • the profile of the vertical wall 6 can be constituted by a single convex curve.
  • the wall 6 will have two connections 19 and 19 ′ of the flat (truncated) or rounded (curved surfaces, in particular convex) type.
  • the wall 6 has at least a second penetration means which is advantageously constituted by the external connection surface 20 with the bottom 3, also either planar (truncation) or curved (rounded having a concave surface).
  • the receptacle will therefore comprise at least two means of penetration of a different nature, namely at least one means 19 and at least one means 20.
  • FIG. 5 shows the angle flque forms the surface 22 of the protuberance 15 with the surface of the means 21, when said surfaces are planar.
  • the wall 7 opposite the connecting wall 6 is provided, sui part of its length and at its end not linked to the bottom 3, with a plate 8 parallel to said bottom contributing to form a distribution groove 9 with the wall 4.
  • the distribution groove 9 has an inclined face 11, and a vertical wall 12. Opposite said groove, the wall vertical connecting the plate 8 to the bottom 3 forms with the plane of the wall 4 an angle ⁇ .
  • the assembly allows a substantially unitary distribution when, during sliding, the cover releases the light from said groove.
  • the plate 8 is advantageously completely covered by the cover.
  • FIG. 2 shows the internal connections 5 and 5 ′ of the walls 4 and 4 ′ with the base 3.
  • the external part of the base 3 can, if necessary, have an engraving in relief in the frame 10 giving details as the name and content of the container and, if applicable, the recommended dosage.
  • the assembly of the receptacle in the cover can advantageously be done according to two different methods.
  • the means 19 and 20, and more precisely according to the appended figures, the surfaces 19, 19 ′ and 20, allow rapid positioning, which may even be approximate, of the cover and the receptacle.
  • An inaccuracy in positioning said cover and said receptacle is tolerated both laterally and in height, whereas an automated chain normally requires, according to the prior art, precise positioning.
  • the surface 20 makes it possible to absorb the conveying difficulties on the pallet chains by facilitating the passage of "waves" due to the pallets, and thus contributes to the acceleration of the production rates.
  • the receptacle previously filled is introduced horizontally into the cover via the side of said cover without a wall, the passage of the stopper 18 through the edge of the wall 6 being by pushing, the assembly elements 13, 14, 14 ', 16 and 15 of the cover being flexible enough to allow temporary elastic deformation of the surface 22 along a very small portion of the surface 21.
  • the second method which corresponds to the preferred assembly technique, consists, after having fitted the receptacle 1, of introducing it horizontally into the cover 2 in the vicinity of the wall 16 thereof, the plane of the plate 13 being inclined by compared to that of the bottom 3 of the receptacle 1, as shown in the Figure 1.
  • the bottom 3 and the plate 13 will at this time a compri angle: between about 20 ° and 90 °, and preferably between 30 ° and 60 °, or better 45 °.
  • the plate 13 is then pressed on the receptacle, all the elements 13, 14, 14 ', 16 and 15 of the cover being flexible enough to allow temporary elastic deformation during the period of time when the protuberances 15 and 15' slide on the walls 4 and 4 'to adapt to the external connections of the bottom 3 with said walls 4 and 4'.
  • the engagement, at the level of the wall 16, of the wall 6 and of the connections 19 and 19 ′ in the inclined cover takes place thanks to the absence of protuberance at the free end of the walls 14 and 14 ′ at the neighborhood of the connections of the walls 14 and 16, on the one hand, and 14 'and 16, on the other hand.
  • each protuberance has a gentle slope so as to initiate the sliding of said protuberance on the walls 4 and 4 ′ when the cover is folded down on the receptacle.
  • the stopper 18 participates very actively in the automatic fitting of the cover onto the receptacle, by preventing said cover from sliding when the plate 13 is pressed and folded over the receptacle.
  • the means 20, namely the external surface for connecting the wall 6 to the bottom 3 of the receptacle, is used for tilting the cover and intervenes or behaves as a ball joint.
  • the wall 16 of the cover rests on said surface 20 and is articulated on it when the plate 13 is folded down.
  • the connection surface 20 preferred according to the invention is here a rounded surface (advantageously a convex curved surface).
  • the process for the automated assembly which is advantageously preferred according to the invention is characterized in that the receptacle 1 after having been filled with tablets, dragees, pills or similar articles, is introduced, at near the wall 16 under the stop 18, by its connecting wall 6 by means of penetration 19 and 20 into the cover 2, the plane of the plate 13 of said cover being inclined relative to the plane of the bottom 3 of the receptacle kept horizontal , and in that said cover is folded over said receptacle, the means 20 behaving here as a ball joint.
  • the box according to the invention is particularly intended for the continuous and automated packaging of tablets, dragees, pills and similar articles without any manual intervention during filling and assembly.
  • significant production guarantees are obtained (notably 3000 boxes / hour or more, instead of the order of 1200 boxes / hour according to the most efficient old techniques) with a chain having one or more rows of receptacles resting horizontally on their underside which are routed after filling to their respective covers suitably distributed (plate 13 above) by a device of the turnstile type provided with folding or pushing means.
  • the configuration of the elements 3 and especially 6, 19 and 19 ′ allows, by appropriate mechanical or optical probes, to ensure correct orientation of the receptacles in order to automatically separate (in particular before and, if necessary, after filling) those which would be misdirected.
  • the boxes according to the invention are designed in plastic material or any other equivalent material sufficiently rigid, on the one hand, for packaging operations and use by the consumer, and sufficiently flexible, on the other hand, to assembly. Good results have been obtained using polystyrene for the molding of the receptacle and the lid, as well as PVC, polypropylene and stamped tinplate.

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FR8417373A FR2573049B1 (fr) 1984-11-14 1984-11-14 Boitier de conditionnement

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US2877927A (en) * 1954-07-15 1959-03-17 Upjohn Co Dispensing container
US3244321A (en) * 1963-02-05 1966-04-05 Boots Pure Drug Company Austra Pellet dispenser
US3397770A (en) * 1967-08-28 1968-08-20 Charles S. Howard Dispensing container
FR2139810A1 (de) * 1971-06-01 1973-01-12 Starkermann Paul Et Co

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US3244231A (en) * 1963-04-09 1966-04-05 Pan American Petroleum Corp Method for catalytically heating oil bearing formations

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US2877927A (en) * 1954-07-15 1959-03-17 Upjohn Co Dispensing container
US3244321A (en) * 1963-02-05 1966-04-05 Boots Pure Drug Company Austra Pellet dispenser
US3397770A (en) * 1967-08-28 1968-08-20 Charles S. Howard Dispensing container
FR2139810A1 (de) * 1971-06-01 1973-01-12 Starkermann Paul Et Co

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