Classifications

• • 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
  • B65D67/00—Kinds or types of packaging elements not otherwise provided for
  • B65D67/02—Clips or clamps for holding articles together for convenience of storage or transport
• • 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
  • B65D5/001—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 stackable
  • B65D5/005—Separate or attached stacking elements
  • B65D5/0055—Separate or attached stacking elements saddling the side walls of the container
• • 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
  • B65D5/4279—Joints, seams, leakproof joints or corners, special connections between panels
  • B65D5/4283—Connections formed by separate elements, e.g. clips, bands, straps

Definitions

• the invention has for its purpose the provision of a simple, reliable and low cost arrangement for making finished boxes from plane box blanks of a foldable mate ⁇ rial, per se optional, for instance cardboard, carrugated cardboard etc. This purpose is attained by the clip for holding together superposed or upon each other folded portions of box blank portions according to the claims.
• the invention will be explained in more detail below with reference to the attached drawings .
• Figs. 1a - 1c are perspective views showing dia- grammatically the folding of a plane box blank to a fi- nished box, Fig. 1c showing the box folded together and having clips according to the invention applied,
• Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a first variant of a locking clip ' according to the invention and shown being applied to a folded box blank
• Figs.3a - 3c are elevational views of a second variant of the locking clip according to the invention, " Fig. 3a showing the clip from a plane parallel with the side walls thereof, Fig. 3b showing the clip from a plane normal to the one of Fig. 3a and parallel with the dia- metrical web of the clip, and Fig. 3c showing the clip from a plane normal to the plane from which the locking clip is shown in Fig. 3b and normal to the plane of Fig. 3a,
• Figs. 4a - 4d show, on one hand, elevational views of and, on the other hand, in section a third variant of the clip according to the invention, the views of Figs. 4a - 4c being views from planes corresponding to the planes of the views of Figs. 3a, 3b and 3c, respectively, and Fig. 4d showing the clip in a mounted position and in section in a plane containing the centre axis of the clip and parallel with the plane of the view of Fig. 4c, Fig: 5 is a perspective view of a fourth variant of the clip of the invention diagrammatically showing mounting the clip on a box having a lid,
• Figs. 6a - 6d show, on one hand, in section and, on the other hand, as elevational views a fifth variant of the clip according to the invention, Fig. 6a showing, in section, the clip in mounted position in a sectional plane normal to the side walls of the clip and to the plane of the diametrical web of the clip, and Figs. 6b, 6c and 6d being elevational views showing the clip or one portion thereof from planes corresponding to the planes from which the clip is shown in Figs . 3c , 3a and 3b, respectively, and
• Figs. 7a - 7d are diagrammatic views illustrating a method of using the clip according to the invention.
• the box blank 1 shown in Figs. 1a and 1b initially is in a planar condition (Fig. 1a) and consists of a central portion 2 intended to form the bottom of the finished box (possibly the top wall of a lid) , and rim portions 3 which, upon having been folded along fold lines 4 to be substantially normal to bottom 2 form the side walls of the box (or a lid) .
• box blank 1 shown two opposed rim portions 3 have tabs 5 to be folded about the intended box corners in the manner shown in Figs. 1b and 1c, said tabs for practical and aesthetical reasons having their outer lower corners cut away.
• the folding tabs 5 may be arranged in various ways . As will be seen from what follows , what is important is , however, that the box blank is designed to have portions which, upon the blank having been folded together, like folding tabs 5 will overlap other portions in the manner shown in Fig. 1c to provide double layers of material, for instance adjacent the box corners.
• Each tab 5 either has a slot 6 extending from the outer edge of the tab for a distance into the tab and substanti- ally normal to the outer edge, or an aperture (not shown) like the slot extending all through the tab without, how ⁇ ever, reaching the outer edge of tab 5.
• the rim portions 3 against which lie tabs 5 upon the folding of the blank having been completed, have slots 6 or apertu ⁇ res corresponding, as regards position and size, to slots 6 or the apertures in tabs 5 so that slots 6 or the aper ⁇ tures in the rim portions, upon folding of blank 1 having been completed, will coincide with and will constitute continuations inwardly towards the interior of the box of slots 6 or the apertures in tabs 5.
• clips 7 may be mounted to keep tabs 5 against those rim portions 3 against which they were folded.
• the variant of the clip shown in Fig. 2 is substantially rectangular and consists of two plane, mutually parallel walls 8 spaced to encompass with a relatively close fit tab 5 folded against rim portion 3 and the rim portion.
• the two walls 8 of clip 7 are interconnected by an end wall 9 at their end edges, their other end walls being free to allow them to be slipped inwardly over a tab 5 and a rim portion 3.
• Each clip 7 also has a web 10 preferably extending along a centre line of the interior faces of walls 8 and normal to end wall 9 from the latter and to adjacent the free end edges of walls 8.
• Web 10 is connected to the interior faces of walls 8 and has a thickness and a length corresponding to the width and length of slots 6.
• clip 7 in the manner in- dicated in Fig. 2 may be slipped inwardly over tab 5' and rim portion 3 with web 10 fitted into slots 6 and the clip in this position will effectively hold together tab 5 and rim portion 3 without being able to slide along the side of the box since, of course, this is prevented by web 10 fitted into slots 6.
• adjacent end wall 9 may be provided with a thickened portion 11 on at least one of walls 8.
• the variant shown in Figs. 3a-c has circular walls 8 held together only by a web 10.
• walls 8 have bevels at their outer peripheries and on their opposed faces as shown to facilitate mounting the clip.
• the clip according to Figs. 3a-c has a preferably central, circular button 11 ' on the exterior face of one wall 8 with respect to the mounted position on a box, the outer end of said button having a larger dia ⁇ meter than the portion thereof closer to wall 8, for instance by it being formed as a short cylinder having an outer circumferential flange.
• Button 11 ' is intended for use with a strap having buttonholes for wrapping about a box having a lid.
• Figs. 4a-d show yet another circular variant of the locking clip.
• This variant only has one complete wall 8.
• the wall being the interior one in the intended mounted position, Fig. 4d, only is a half wall and is connected to the complete, circular outer wall by an end wall 9' extending along a diameter.
• the half of outer wall 8 extending upwardly above the intended upper edge of the box in the mounted position hence, as shown in Fig. 4d, may constitute support for an upper box placed upon a lower box permitting using the variant according to Figs. 4a-d of this design when one wishes to stack a number of boxes.
• Web 10 may be omitted so that the variant of Figs. 4a-d as thus embodied may • be used solely for stacking boxes, any one of the rest of the variants of the clip according to the invention being used to hold together folded box blanks 1.
• the variant shown in Fig. 5 is rectangular and relatively elongated and has, on one hand, in the intended position of use, downwardly extending walls 8, and, on the other hand, in the same position, upwardly extending walls 8 ' as well as an interior transverse end wall 9. Longitudinally extending central webs 10, 10 ' extend from the latter in both directions . As is clearly evident from Fig. 5 this clip may be used at the same time for holding together a box blank and a lid and securing the lid in the correct position on the box.
• the variant according to Fig. 5 may also be of circular design and be provided with a button 11 ' .
• one of walls 8 is detachable and, in the manner similar to the manner of use of a snap fastener, adapted to be attached to a web 10 connected to the other wall 8 upon the latter wall 8 having been mounted against one face of the box wall portion formed by two box blank por ⁇ tions 3 and 5 and upon the web 10 thereof having been inserted into aligned apertures in the box blank por ⁇ tions, as is shown in Fig. 6a.
• the web* is shown in Figs. 6a-d as formed as a long and narrow member ex- tending across a substantial portion of a diameter of the wall 8 to which it is connected. Also, it is bi ⁇ furcated in the longitudinal direction thereof in the manner shown in Figs.
• FIG. 6a and 6b by a slot of V-shaped section the tip of which is near the plane of the in- tended interior face of the wall 8 which is connected- to web 10 and which is open at the free end edge of web 10.
• Web 10 is divided by the slot in two legs ter ⁇ minating with end edges 12 of sawtooth shape in section and oriented in the manner shown in Figs. 6a and 6b.
• the distance between the face of the sawtooth-shaped end edges 12 facing the wall 8 connected to web 10 and the interior face of said wall 8 corresponds to the thickness of the two blank portions 3 and 5 plus the thickness of detachable wall 8.
• the latter has an elongated aperture 13 along a diameter the dimensions of which correspond to the dimensions of web 10 interior- ly of the end edges 12 of the web.
• web 10 Upon the web of the wall 8 provided with web 10 hence having been slipped through the aligned apertures in blank portions 3 and 5 , web 10 will project from the face spaced from the wall 8 provided with a web of the box wall portion formed by blank portions 3 and 5 to such extent that detachable wall 8 with its aperture 13 may be slipped over the two sawtooth-shaped end edges of web 10 and mounted between the interior edges thereof and " the said box wall portion face.
• the two legs of web 10 when detachable wall 8 is being slipped on to web 10 , will initially spring together to permit detachable wall 8 to be slipped over and beyond end edges 12, and subsequently they will spring apart so that detachable wall 8, upon completion of the slip over operation, will be locked between the box wall portion face and the interior faces of sawtooth end edges 12.
• the aperture 13 of the wall preferably is bevelled such that, as shown in Fig. 6b, it widens towards the intended interior face of detachable wall 8.
• Web 10 of the embodiment just described is not necessarily of the elongated shape shown in Figs. 6a-d.
• it may be cylindrical and " provided with a circular sawtooth-shaped flange 12 at the free end thereof, detachable wall 8 of course having a corres ⁇ pondingly shaped and sized circular aperture 13.
• Figs. 7a-d show a method of using the clip according to the invention for holding together superposed or upon each other folded box or lid walls in such cases where the superposed or upon each other folded box or lid wall portions, even though they are not joined for instance by being glued together, still cannot be separated, for instance on account of the distance to free wall edges being large.
• slot 6 and grooves 15 are cut in such a manner that slot 6, upon the triangular wall portions 16 having been folded out from the plane of the paper in the manner shown in Fig. 7b, will open into the aperture in the wall brought about by the said folding out.
• an aperture 17 sized to permit the clip to be inserted into it broadside first and pre ⁇ ferably shaped to correspond to the shape of the broad- side or walls 8 ' of the clip used.
• a slot 6 opening into aperture 17 is shown in Fig. 7c.
• the other wall is the box or lid wall 5 which is freely accessible from the outside upon the blank having been folded to form a box or a lid.
• the clip is now used to hold together walls 3 and 5 in the manner indicated in Fig. 7b.
• the clip in the manner shown in Fig. 7d, is inserted into aperture 17 of wall 5.
• the clip in this stage of insertion being somewhat askew, will push out the lower edges of the triangular wall portions 16 of Fig. 7a, b and d so that these will fold out somewhat about fold lines 15. This having occurred, the clip, oriented such that web 10 thereof (provided this if of the shape as shown for instance in Figs.

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• Packaging Of Annular Or Rod-Shaped Articles, Wearing Apparel, Cassettes, Or The Like (AREA)

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• 1985
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