EP0205392B1 - Knitting and crocheting needle case - Google Patents

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EP0205392B1
EP0205392B1 EP19860420147 EP86420147A EP0205392B1 EP 0205392 B1 EP0205392 B1 EP 0205392B1 EP 19860420147 EP19860420147 EP 19860420147 EP 86420147 A EP86420147 A EP 86420147A EP 0205392 B1 EP0205392 B1 EP 0205392B1
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    • D04—BRAIDING; LACE-MAKING; KNITTING; TRIMMINGS; NON-WOVEN FABRICS
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    • 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
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  • the invention relates to the presentation of knitting needles and hooks, and its subject is a packaging making it possible to group them at least in pairs.
  • this display which can be used to receive elongated objects and in particular helical wicks has a length barely greater than that of these wicks and has bosses delimiting parallel channels in which the wicks are held continuously over a certain part of their length, but over the entire length of. these bosses. It is therefore difficult, even sometimes impossible, to introduce and extract the wicks, even if the body of the display is made of fairly flexible plastic. This is particularly so when each channel receives a wick and that, the display being filled with wicks, its transverse flexibility is practically annihilated by the wicks themselves.
  • the wicks are held by the bosses only near one of their ends, while for the rest of their length, they pass under one or more crosspieces secured to the body of the display.
  • the installation of a wick requires an operation in two successive stages: passage of the lower end of the wick under the crosspieces, then insertion of its other end into a channel delimited by two bosses, and conversely for extraction .
  • Such a display is therefore ultimately neither reliable nor convenient, particularly if it is very elongated, very thin and very flexible objects, such as knitting needles.
  • the invention relates to a packaging for knitting needles and hooks which is constituted by an elongated body made of plastic material, having a length greater than that of the needles or hooks, and comprising at least two aligned bosses each having a longitudinal channel for housing a needle or hook, the originality of this packaging lies in the fact that each channel has at least two small protrusions which, coming from molding with the body, are offset longitudinally the one in relation to the other.
  • one of the ends of the packaging has an additional boss serving as a head and delimiting, in combination with the neighboring boss, a housing for the head of the needle.
  • the two bosses are connected by a thick central rib and by two thin lateral ribs which come from molding by thermoforming with the bottom of the packaging and with its bosses for give the assembly sufficient rigidity.
  • the bosses 4, 5 and 7 have a flat upper face and have the following features.
  • a central orifice 8 whose role is to allow the suspension of the body 1, that is to say the packaging for needles, to any hooking member, for example to a rod making part or not of a piece of furniture.
  • each of the other two bosses 4 and 5 are arranged two channels 9 which are arranged longitudinally, parallel to one another, and inside each of which project two small protrusions 10 which, coming from molding with the assembly , are, in the case shown in the drawing, offset relative to each other; these protuberances could moreover be in a number greater than two inside each channel.
  • the body thus arranged is used for packaging and presenting a pair of knitting needles (12).
  • Each needle in fact penetrates by its rod into the channel (9) of each of the two bosses (4) and (5) and is fixed there elastically by means of the clipping system consisting of the protrusions (10) arranged inside of each channel (9).
  • the head (13) of each needle (12) it is placed in a housing (14) arranged at the top of the packaging-display. This housing is delimited by the head (7) of the body (1), by its boss (4) and by the end of the longitudinal central rib (3).
  • the head (13) of the needle on which the coordinates of this needle appear in particular for example its dimension.
  • either of the bosses (4, 5) can be used as a pad for receiving a label, for example adhesive, on which appear various indications relating to the origin and use of the two needles. Because of its larger dimensions, it is preferably the upper boss (4) which is thus used for fixing a label.

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L'invention concerne la présentation des aiguilles et crochets à tricoter, et elle a pour objet un conditionnement permettant de les grouper au moins par paire.The invention relates to the presentation of knitting needles and hooks, and its subject is a packaging making it possible to group them at least in pairs.

Par le brevet FR-A-1 491 069 est certes connu un présentoir destiné à des objets allongés, particulièrement des aiguilles à tricoter. Ce présentoir est réalisé par mise en forme d'une feuille de matière plastique dans laquelle se trouvent finalement et essentiellement aménagées une zone comportant des berceaux parallèles destinés à recevoir les aiguilles et une zone destinée à être rabattue sur la précédente pour servir de couvercle. Même s'il est admis que ce présentoir est réutilisable après sa première ouverture, car son couvercle est refermable, il faut constater que son encombrement est très grand; en effet, à l'état fermé, sa longueur est au moins deux fois supérieure à celle de ses aiguilles, et à l'état ouvert, cette longueur est augmentée par celle du couvercle qui vient alors dans le prolongement de la zone servant au logement des aiguilles.From patent FR-A-1 491 069 is certainly known a display intended for elongated objects, particularly knitting needles. This display is produced by shaping a sheet of plastic material in which are finally and essentially arranged an area comprising parallel cradles intended to receive the needles and an area intended to be folded down over the previous one to serve as a cover. Even if it is accepted that this display is reusable after its first opening, because its cover is reclosable, it should be noted that its size is very large; in fact, in the closed state, its length is at least twice that of its needles, and in the open state, this length is increased by that of the cover which then comes in the extension of the area used for housing needles.

Il n'en est pas ainsi dans le cas d'un présentoir conforme au DE-B-1 037 956; ce présentoir qui peut servir à la réception d'objets allongés et notamment de mèches hélicoïdales possède une longueur à peine supérieure à celle de ces mèches et présente des bossages délimitant des canaux parallèles dans lesquels les mèches sont tenues de façon continue sur une certaine partie de leur longueur, mais sur toute la longueur de. ces bossages. Il est donc difficile, voire même parfois impossible d'introduire et d'extraire les mèches, même si le corps du présentoir est réalisé en matière plastique assez souple. Il en est ainsi notamment lorsque chaque canal reçoit une mèche et que, le présentoir étant rempli de mèches, sa souplesse transversale se trouve pratiquement annihilée par les mèches elles-mêmes. De plus, les mèches ne sont tenues par les bossages qu'à proximité d'une de leurs extrémités, alors que pour le reste de leur longueur, elles passent sous une ou plusieurs traverses solidaires du corps du présentoir. Ainsi la mise en place d'une mèche nécessite une opération en deux temps successifs: passage de l'extrémité inférieure de la mèche sous les traverses, puis enfoncement de son autre extrémité dans un canal délimité par deux bossages, et inversement pour l'extraction. Un tel présentoir n'est donc finalement ni fiable, ni commode, et ce particulièrement s'il s'agit d'objets très allongés, très minces et très flexibles, tels que les aiguilles à tricoter.This is not the case in the case of a display conforming to DE-B-1 037 956; this display which can be used to receive elongated objects and in particular helical wicks has a length barely greater than that of these wicks and has bosses delimiting parallel channels in which the wicks are held continuously over a certain part of their length, but over the entire length of. these bosses. It is therefore difficult, even sometimes impossible, to introduce and extract the wicks, even if the body of the display is made of fairly flexible plastic. This is particularly so when each channel receives a wick and that, the display being filled with wicks, its transverse flexibility is practically annihilated by the wicks themselves. In addition, the wicks are held by the bosses only near one of their ends, while for the rest of their length, they pass under one or more crosspieces secured to the body of the display. Thus the installation of a wick requires an operation in two successive stages: passage of the lower end of the wick under the crosspieces, then insertion of its other end into a channel delimited by two bosses, and conversely for extraction . Such a display is therefore ultimately neither reliable nor convenient, particularly if it is very elongated, very thin and very flexible objects, such as knitting needles.

Partant de cet état de la technique, l'invention a pour objet un conditionnement pour aiguilles et crochets à tricoter qui est constitué par un corps allongé réalisé en matière plastique, ayant une longueur supérieure à celle des aiguilles ou crochets, et comportant au moins deux bossages alignés présentant chacun un canal longitudinal servant au logement d'une aiguille ou crochet, l'originalité de ce conditionnement résidant dans le fait que chaque canal comporte au moins deux petites protubérances qui, venant de moulage avec le corps, sont décalées longitudinalement l'une par rapport à l'autre.Starting from this state of the art, the invention relates to a packaging for knitting needles and hooks which is constituted by an elongated body made of plastic material, having a length greater than that of the needles or hooks, and comprising at least two aligned bosses each having a longitudinal channel for housing a needle or hook, the originality of this packaging lies in the fact that each channel has at least two small protrusions which, coming from molding with the body, are offset longitudinally the one in relation to the other.

En outre, une des extrémités du conditionnement pent comportes un bossage supplémentaire servant de tête et délimitant, en combinaison avec le bossage voisin, un logement pour la tête de l'aiguille.In addition, one of the ends of the packaging has an additional boss serving as a head and delimiting, in combination with the neighboring boss, a housing for the head of the needle.

Suivant une autre caractéristique préfértée dans le cas d'un conditionnement pour deux aiguilles ou crochets, les deux bossages sont reliés par une épaisse nervure centrale et par deux minces nervures latérales qui viennent de moulage par thermoformage avec le fond du conditionnement et avec ses bossages pour donner à l'ensemble une rigidité suffisante.According to another preferred characteristic in the case of a packaging for two needles or hooks, the two bosses are connected by a thick central rib and by two thin lateral ribs which come from molding by thermoforming with the bottom of the packaging and with its bosses for give the assembly sufficient rigidity.

L'invention sera bien comprise d'ailleurs, en référence au dessin schématique annexé représentant, à titre d'exemple non limitatif, une forme d'exécution de ce conditionnement, dans le cas de son application à la présentation de deux aiguilles:

  • Figure 1 en est vue en perspective;
  • Figures 2 et 3 en sont des vues respectivement en plan par dessus et par côté;
  • Figures 4, 5, 6, 7 et 8 en sont, à plus grande échelle, des vues en coupe transversale respectivement suivant IV-IV, V-V, VI-VI, VII-VII et VIII-VIII de figure 2.
The invention will moreover be clearly understood, with reference to the appended schematic drawing representing, by way of nonlimiting example, an embodiment of this packaging, in the case of its application to the presentation of two needles:
  • Figure 1 is a perspective view;
  • Figures 2 and 3 are plan views respectively from above and from side;
  • Figures 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 are, on a larger scale, cross-sectional views respectively along IV-IV, VV, VI-VI, VII-VII and VIII-VIII of Figure 2.

Dans ce dessin, 1 désigne un corps allongé réalisé en matière plastique moulée, avantageusement par thermoformage, par exemple en une résine telle que PVC, ABS... Ce corps 1 présente, venant de moulage avec lui:

  • deux nervures longitudinales latérales 2 ayant une faible épaisseur,
  • une nervure longitudinale centrale 3 ayant une plus grande épaisseur,
  • deux bossages 4 et 5 qui ont une hauteur légèrement supérieure à celle de la nervure centrale 3 et qui sont situés à proximité des deux extrémités du corps 1.
In this drawing, 1 denotes an elongated body made of molded plastic, advantageously by thermoforming, for example in a resin such as PVC, ABS ... This body 1 has, coming from molding with it:
  • two longitudinal side ribs 2 having a small thickness,
  • a central longitudinal rib 3 having a greater thickness,
  • two bosses 4 and 5 which have a height slightly greater than that of the central rib 3 and which are located near the two ends of the body 1.

et un bossage terminal ou tête 7 qui est situé à l'extrémité libre du corps 1, du côté de son bossage 4.and a terminal boss or head 7 which is situated at the free end of the body 1, on the side of its boss 4.

Les bossages 4, 5 et 7 ont une face supérieure plate et présentent les particularités ci-après.The bosses 4, 5 and 7 have a flat upper face and have the following features.

Dans le bossage formant tête 7 est aménagé un orifice central 8 dont le rôle est de permettre la suspension du corps 1, c'est-à-dire du conditionnement pour aiguilles, à un organe d'accrochage quelconque, par exemple à une tringle faisant partie ou non d'un meuble.In the boss forming the head 7 is arranged a central orifice 8 whose role is to allow the suspension of the body 1, that is to say the packaging for needles, to any hooking member, for example to a rod making part or not of a piece of furniture.

Dans chacun des deux autres bossages 4 et 5 sont aménagés deux canaux 9 qui sont disposés longitudinalement, parallèlement l'un à l'autre, et à l'intérieur de chacun desquels débordent deux petites protubérances 10 qui, venant de moulage avec l'ensemble, sont, dans le cas représenté au dessin, décalées l'une par rapport à l'autre; ces protubérances pourraient d'ailleurs être en un nombre supérieur à deux à l'intérieur de chaque canal.In each of the other two bosses 4 and 5 are arranged two channels 9 which are arranged longitudinally, parallel to one another, and inside each of which project two small protrusions 10 which, coming from molding with the assembly , are, in the case shown in the drawing, offset relative to each other; these protuberances could moreover be in a number greater than two inside each channel.

Le corps ainsi aménagé sert au conditionnement et à la présentation d'une paire d'aiguilles à tricoter (12). Chaque aiguille pénètre en effet par sa tige dans le canal (9) de chacun des deux bossages (4) et (5) et s'y fixe élastiquement grâce au système de clipsage consistué par les protubérances (10) aménagées à l'intérieur de chaque canal (9). Quant à la tête (13) de chaque aiguille (12), elle se trouve placée dans un logement (14) aménagé à la partie supérieure du conditionnement-présentoir. Ce logement est délimité par la tête (7) du corps (1), par son bossage (4) et par l'extrémité de la nervure central longitudinale (3).The body thus arranged is used for packaging and presenting a pair of knitting needles (12). Each needle in fact penetrates by its rod into the channel (9) of each of the two bosses (4) and (5) and is fixed there elastically by means of the clipping system consisting of the protrusions (10) arranged inside of each channel (9). As for the head (13) of each needle (12), it is placed in a housing (14) arranged at the top of the packaging-display. This housing is delimited by the head (7) of the body (1), by its boss (4) and by the end of the longitudinal central rib (3).

Dans ce logement appraît très nettement et est facilement préhensible manuellement la tête (13) de l'aiguille sur laquelle apparaissent les coordonnées de cette aiguille, notamment par exemple sa dimension. En outre, en raison de la surface plane de leurs zones centrales, l'un ou l'autre des bossages (4, 5) peut être utilisé en tant que plage pour la réception d'une étiquette, par exemple adhésive, sur laquelle apparaissent diverses indications relatives à l'origine et à l'utilisation des deux aiguilles. En raison de ses plus grandes dimensions, c'est de préférence le bossage supérieur (4) qui sert ainsi à la fixation d'une étiquette.In this housing very clearly appears and is easily grippable manually the head (13) of the needle on which the coordinates of this needle appear, in particular for example its dimension. In addition, due to the flat surface of their central zones, either of the bosses (4, 5) can be used as a pad for receiving a label, for example adhesive, on which appear various indications relating to the origin and use of the two needles. Because of its larger dimensions, it is preferably the upper boss (4) which is thus used for fixing a label.

Comme il va de soi, l'invention ne se limite pas à la seule forme d'exécution de ce conditionnement qui a été ci-dessus décrite dans le cas particulier de. la présentation de deux aiguilles; elle en embrasse, au contraire, toutes les variantes de réalisation, quel que soit le nombre d'aiguilles que le conditionnement est destiné à recevoir, et qu'il s'agisse d'aiguilles présentées en un nombre quelconque ou de crochets présentés ou non à l'unité.It goes without saying that the invention is not limited to the sole embodiment of this packaging which has been described above in the particular case of. the presentation of two needles; on the contrary, it embraces all the variant embodiments thereof, whatever the number of needles that the packaging is intended to receive, and whether they are needles presented in any number or hooks presented or not to unity.

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1. A packaging for knitting needles and crochet hooks, composed of an elongated body (1) produced in plastics material, having a length greater than that of the needles or crochet hooks and comprising at least two aligned bosses (4, 5) each exhibiting a longitudinal channel (9) serving for the accommodation of a needle or crochet hook (12), characterised in that each channel (9) comprises in its upper part at least two small protuberances (10) that, produced in moulding with the body (1), are longitudinally displaced in relation to one another.
2. A packaging for knitting needles and crochet hooks according to Claim 1, characterized in that one of its extremities comprises a supplementary boss (7) that acts as a head and, in combination with the adjacent boss (4), demarcates an accommodation space (14) for the head of the needle (12).
3. A packaging for knitting needles and crochet hooks, according to Claims 1 and 2, characterized in that in the case of a packing for two needles or crochet hooks, the two bosses (4, 5) are connected by a thick central rib (3) and by two thin lateral ribs (2) that are produced by heat-forming moulding with the base of the packaging and with its bosses to impart an adequate rigidity to the whole.
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