EP0317379B1 - Tray-type multipackage, especially for yoghurt containers or the like - Google Patents
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- B65D71/00—Bundles of articles held together by packaging elements for convenience of storage or transport, e.g. portable segregating carrier for plural receptacles such as beer cans or pop bottles; Bales of material
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- 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
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- the subject of the invention is a tray-type packaging device containing a plurality of individual objects, in particular pots enclosing fresh dairy products such as yogurts or the like.
- packaging devices made from a cardboard blank shaped in a case which envelops, totally or partially, a plurality of objects joined together by their very manufacture, for example pots of yogurt or other milk-based products, which are placed in the packaging in sets of pots superimposed on each other. If, on the other hand, it is sought to bring together in a packaging device no longer containers linked to each other, but individual containers which must be kept simply and securely in said packaging from their manufacture until their purchase by the user, on the one hand, and being able to be easily entered individually by said user, on the other hand, said device being, moreover, of a sufficiently low cost to allow its economic exploitation, then appear difficulties which cannot not be overcome by known devices for packaging containers initially joined together by their very manufacture. This is even more the case for individual containers or containers which, like the packaging of fresh dairy products, are plastic pots having at their upper part a heat-sealing collar with a cover, projecting radially around the opening. of the pot.
- a device of the tray type comprising a flat part pierced with transverse holding orifices of each container as well as means of axial and unidirectional holding of said containers. If such a device is satisfactory for holding the containers, however, it can only be manufactured from a large blank and is thus of high cost in raw material, since the device comprises a surface parallel to that having the openings of transverse holding on the one hand and that, on the other hand, additional areas of material are provided to join the last mentioned surface and the plane having the openings in order to form a case structure.
- the device according to the cited document is not intended to allow the superimposition of trays on one another in the same overpack simple to implement, in particular as regards its closure.
- a packaging device for individual containers in this case beer cans, comprising a cardboard blank having a surface pierced with orifices traversed by said containers and grooved along two lines delimiting two bands which, after folding, form two short parallel flaps or flaps, with tongues coming from the cutouts forming said orifices in the blank erected opposite the flaps.
- a device according to this patent does not allow presentation in a "tray", the consistency of the packaging being obtained by pressing the beer cans against each other at their lower part distant from their support by the tongues.
- an object of the invention to provide a device for packaging a plurality of objects, such as yoghurt pots or the like, in which said objects or pots are retained simply and securely according to their longitudinal direction, the device is also particularly suitable for use on automatic packaging machines.
- an object of the invention to provide such a device whose cost is comparable, if not lower, than that of known devices, in particular by the fact that it is produced in a blank of cardboard, plastic or analogue of relatively small area and therefore of a limited raw material price.
- a packaging device for individual containers comprising a blank of cardboard or plastic material having a surface pierced with orifices traversed by said containers which are held there transversely and which is grooved in two continuous or discontinuous lines delimiting two bands which, after folding, form two short parallel flaps or flaps with tongues from the cutouts forming said bands orifices in the blank, said tabs being suitable for being erected from the blank opposite the flaps and substantially in the plane of these flaps, the total height of the tongues and flaps or flaps by which the device can rest on a surface display or any suitable support being substantially equal to the height of said containers which are supported by an external projection which they present, and on a small area of said projection, on said flaps or said tabs which then act at the manner of buttresses or struts placed substantially tangentially in an area, and only one area, of the side wall of said containers.
- said flaps or flaps have on their free edge short lugs advantageously of trapezoidal shape.
- the device advantageously comprises at least two rows of orifices which are symmetrically arranged with respect to a longitudinal central axis of the blank and a tongue and only one comes from each orifice.
- the blank is preferably made of cardboard with micro-grooves.
- the invention also envisages within its framework of providing a packaging characterized in that it comprises at least one device of the tray type, as defined above, lined with a plurality of containers, such as yogurt pots with flange or similar, the tray being wrapped in an overwrap, most simply a cardboard blank shaped in a case and the ends of which are either assembled and fixed to each other by any known means or, as a variant, immobilized with respect to the tray itself and the containers it holds.
- a packaging characterized in that it comprises at least one device of the tray type, as defined above, lined with a plurality of containers, such as yogurt pots with flange or similar, the tray being wrapped in an overwrap, most simply a cardboard blank shaped in a case and the ends of which are either assembled and fixed to each other by any known means or, as a variant, immobilized with respect to the tray itself and the containers it holds.
- a package of this type can also consist of at least two trays, as defined above, superimposed on each other, each filled with a plurality of containers and wrapped in an overpack shaped in a case.
- the free edges of the overpack are provided with lugs capable of ensuring the locking of said overpack relative to the tray by their positioning between the bases or bottoms of two adjacent containers held in the lower shelf.
- the packaging is characterized in that the flanges or other projecting parts of certain containers are supported on flanges or other projecting parts of other neighboring containers.
- FIG. 1 shows, in plan, a blank of plastic, cardboard, advantageously of cardboard with micro-grooves, or of similar material capable of forming a packaging device according to the invention, of the "tray" type for holding and presenting R containers that the device is intended to package.
- the blank 10 with a substantially rectangular outline, is thus limited by sides of large dimensions 11, 12 and sides of small dimensions 13 and 14. It is cut out, as shown by the lines 151, 152, 153, etc.
- orifices O each of which comprises, in the embodiment shown, two substantially parallel edges 16, 17 joined by a rounded end part 18, the edges 16 and 17 ending at their free ends 19 and 20, respectively , to a creasing line 22 which prevails, -in being interrupted in line with the orifices O-, from one end to the other of the blank between the sides 13 and 14.
- the device being with mirror symmetry with respect to an axis median 25, it also includes a crease line 23 parallel to line 22 and cutouts which define orifices O also symmetrical to those which have just been described with respect to the median axis 25.
- the sides of large dimensions 11 and 12 are shaped substantially opposite the solid parts 26 of the blank, between two adjacent cutouts 151, and 152 along short lugs 271, 272, 273, ... having in plan a substantially trapezoidal outline .
- the crease lines 22 and 23 make it possible to shape the blank 10 along a "plate” by folding said blank along said lines; during this operation, the material of the blank inside the cutting lines 15 is then erected from the crease lines 22, 23 along a plurality of tabs 301, 302, 303 etc ... (eight in number in the example described and shown) Figure 2, each associated with an orifice O, the rest of the blank 10 between the orifices O, the crease lines 22, 23 and the small sides 13 and 14 forming a surface or plate 31, while the parts of the blank between the crease lines and the large sides 11 and 12 form flaps or flaps 32 and 33, respectively, FIGS. 2 and 3.
- the containers R can be introduced into the orifices O (FIG. 3) for their immobilization with respect to a transverse movement, while the immobilization of said containers R1, and R2 with respect to a longitudinal or axial downward movement, that is to say directed substantially orthogonally to the plate 31, is obtained using the tongues 301 and 301 which each cooperate, respectively, with an external projecting part of the container .
- this projecting part is the flange C of the container R which is provided around the opening of the latter and which is used mainly for heat sealing a film for closing the container, in particular when these are yoghurt pots or enclose similar milk-based products, such an indication having, of course, no limiting character.
- the tongues 30 which bear only on a small area of the collar C support receptacles R in the manner of buttresses or struts.
- the overlap like H increases the rigidity of the whole device to which also contributes the fact that the tongues 30 which bear under the flanges C, like buttresses or struts, tend due to the elasticity of the constituent material of the device, to exert compressive forces aimed at folding said tabs towards each other and, consequently, bringing the containers opposite one another opposite two adjacent rows.
- tongues of another form than that described and shown with the sole reservation that their height is sufficient to allow their support under the flange or another projecting part of the container, the total height of the tongues 30 and of the flaps or flaps 32, 33 being substantially equal to the height of the receptacles R.
- the tongues can be cut out, during the preparation of the blanks of cardboard with micro-grooves, or similar material, for example as shown diagrammatically at t in FIG. 3 to evoke an advertising motif, which can also be printed on part or all of the tab if necessary.
- the orifices O is, of course, in no way limited to that described and shown.
- provision may be made in the blank 10 for complementary cutouts, advantageously in the central region of the blank, and thus between containers or rows of lateral containers.
- the orifices provided for receiving these complementary containers can be pre-cut so that, after introduction of the container into the corresponding orifice, the material of the blank inside said cut forms tabs of height corresponding to that of the flaps or flaps 32 and 33 and which contribute to the support of the "tray" device on a presentation surface.
- the axial retention of the complementary containers placed in said orifices of the central areas of the blank is then achieved by pressing the flanges or other protruding parts of these containers on the same parts of the other containers, by similar overlapping zones. to those described above.
- the device according to the invention is also particularly well suited for producing a packaging comprising several such superimposed devices, wrapped in a common overwrap, as shown, by way of example, in FIGS. 5 and 6.
- a first tray device 40 a as described above is surmounted by a second device 40 b , identical, to form a unitary package with sixteen containers.
- the plate 41 of the device 40 b rests by its flaps or flaps 32, 33 on the containers of the device 40 a and the two devices 40 a and 40 b are enclosed in an envelope 42 of overwrapping whose ends 43 and 44 are either glued between they, as shown in Figure 6, either secured by means of latch, stapling or others known per se.
- the closure of the overpack 42 is not obtained by means of conventional locks, by gluing or stapling of the free edges of said overpack, but by means of tabs 50, articulated by fold lines 52 on the opposite longitudinal edges 51 of the overpack and which are shaped to be housed between the bottoms of adjacent containers R a , i and R a , j of the lower container layer.
- the legs 50 have a somewhat "hammer" outline which, when said legs are folded down, from the condition shown in FIG. 7 to be brought into the condition shown in FIG. 8, can no longer be accidentally extracted and, therefore, ensure the positioning of the overpack with respect to the two tray devices.
- the presence of the tongues 30 makes it possible to transmit the compression forces via the thickness of the flanges of the containers, so that the latter being practically non-load-bearing, they can be made using less material, and therefore in better economic conditions.
- FIGS. 9 and 11 show, in plan, a variant of the blank of plastic, cardboard, advantageously cardboard with micro-grooves, or similar material intended for another mode of use of the packaging device according to the invention for holding and presenting a plurality of objects, in particular P pots.
- the blank 100 with a substantially rectangular outline, is thus limited by sides of large dimensions 111 and 112 and sides of small dimensions 113 and 114. It is cut, as shown, by the lines 1151, 1152, 1153, etc ...
- orifices O each of which comprises, in the embodiment described and shown, a part 116 in an arc of a large angular span, the ends 117 and 118 of which are extended by rectilinear segments 119 and 120, respectively, which themselves continue first with fillets 121 and 122, respectively, then by short rectilinear segments 123 and 124 leading at their ends 125 and 126 to a crease line 130.
- the segments 123 and 124 are extended, away from the creasing line 130, by edges 132 and 133 joined at their ends by a side 134 to define tongues 1351, 1352, 1353, etc. each associated with an orifice O and eight in number in the example described and shown.
- the creasing lines 130 and 130 a make it possible to shape the blank 100 along a "plate” 142 by folding said blank along said lines; during this operation, the parts 140 and 141 of the blank comprised between the longitudinal edges 111, 112 and the crease lines 130 and 130 a , respectively, are erected according to short flaps or returns h , FIGS. 12 and 13, while the tongues 135 are deployed in the plane of said flaps, but downwards if the flaps are erected upwards.
- the "tray” 142 receives objects such as the pots P in its orifices O which ensure the transverse maintenance of said objects, while the maintenance in the longitudinal direction, -which is the substantially vertical direction in the drawings-, is ensured by support of the slices 143 and 144, respectively, of the flaps 140 and 141 under an external projection s of the objects or pots P.
- this projecting portion s is advantageously the flange provided around the opening of the pot which serves mainly to heat seal a film or closing cap.
- the length l of the tongues 135 is chosen so that the sum l + h is less than or substantially equal to the longitudinal dimension of the objects or pots P to be packed, so that the device can be completed by an overpack 150, most simply a blank of cardboard shaped in a case and the ends of which are assembled and / or fixed to each other, preferably at the top of the package, this is that is to say in the vicinity of the flanges of the pots P.
- tongues 135 The shape described and shown of the tongues 135 is, of course, given only by way of nonlimiting example, it being understood that said tongues can be cut, during the preparation of the cardboard blanks with micro-grooves or material analogous, according to identical or different drawings and this according to the wishes of the practice, in particular for obtaining advertising effects if the overpack is made of transparent material, such effects being complementary to that of protection of the packed objects or jars provided by the tabs which, in the operating condition of the device, are adjacent to said objects or pots, as visible in FIG. 14.
- the structure of the device according to the invention allows it to be used on automatic packaging machines provided with means making it possible to simply fold around the creasing lines 130 and 130 a .
- the invention is not, of course, limited to the embodiment described and shown, in particular as regards the general outline of the plane 100 which can be substantially square, instead of rectangular, for example for the packaging of four jars in the instead of the eight illustrated.
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L'invention a pour objet un dispositif d'emballage du type à plateau, contenant une pluralité d'objets individuels, notamment des pots enfermant des produits laitiers frais comme des yaourts ou analogues.The subject of the invention is a tray-type packaging device containing a plurality of individual objects, in particular pots enclosing fresh dairy products such as yogurts or the like.
On connaît déjà, dans de nombreuses exécutions, des dispositifs d'emballage réalisés à partir d'un flan de carton conformé suivant un étui qui enveloppe, totalement ou partiellement, une pluralité d'objets solidarisés entre eux de par leur fabrication même, par exemple des pots de yaourt ou autres produits à base de lait, et qui sont disposés dans l'emballage suivant des ensembles de pots superposés les uns aux autres. Si, par contre, l'on cherche à réunir dans un dispositif d'emballage non plus des récipients liés entre eux, mais des conteneurs unitaires qui doivent être maintenus de façon simple et sûre dans ledit emballage depuis leur fabrication jusqu'à leur achat par l'utilisateur, d'une part, et pouvoir être aisément saisis individuellement par ledit utilisateur, d'autre part, ledit dispositif étant, en outre, d'un coût suffisamment faible pour permettre son exploitation économique, alors apparaissent des difficultés qui ne peuvent pas être surmontées par les dispositifs connus pour l'emballage de récipients initialement solidarisés entre eux de par leur fabricaion même. Il en est encore plus ainsi pour des récipients ou conteneurs unitaires qui, comme les emballages de produits laitiers frais, sont des pots de matière plastique présentant à leur partie supérieure une collerette de thermoscellage d'un couvercle, en saillie radiale autour de l'ouverture du pot.We already know, in many embodiments, packaging devices made from a cardboard blank shaped in a case which envelops, totally or partially, a plurality of objects joined together by their very manufacture, for example pots of yogurt or other milk-based products, which are placed in the packaging in sets of pots superimposed on each other. If, on the other hand, it is sought to bring together in a packaging device no longer containers linked to each other, but individual containers which must be kept simply and securely in said packaging from their manufacture until their purchase by the user, on the one hand, and being able to be easily entered individually by said user, on the other hand, said device being, moreover, of a sufficiently low cost to allow its economic exploitation, then appear difficulties which cannot not be overcome by known devices for packaging containers initially joined together by their very manufacture. This is even more the case for individual containers or containers which, like the packaging of fresh dairy products, are plastic pots having at their upper part a heat-sealing collar with a cover, projecting radially around the opening. of the pot.
Pour tenter d'apporter une solution au problème posé on a déjà proposé, par exemple dans FR-A-2 570 351, un dispositif du type plateau comportant une partie plane percée d'orifices de maintien transversal de chaque conteneur ainsi que des moyens de maintien axial et unidirectionnel desdits conteneurs. Si un tel dispositif est satisfaisant pour le maintien des récipients il ne peut cependant être fabriqué qu'à partir d'un flan de grandes dimensions et est ainsi d'un coût élevé en matière première, étant donné que le dispositif comprend une surface parallèle à celle présentant les ouvertures de maintien transversal d'une part et que, d'autre part, des zones supplémentaires de matière sont prévues pour réunir la surface mentionnée en dernier lieu et le plan présentant les ouvertures afin de former une structure d'étui. En outre, le dispositif selon le document cité n'est pas prévu pour permettre la superposition de plateaux les uns sur les autres dans un même suremballage simple à mettre en oeuvre, en particulier en ce qui concerne sa fermeture.In an attempt to provide a solution to the problem posed, we have already proposed, for example in FR-A-2 570 351, a device of the tray type comprising a flat part pierced with transverse holding orifices of each container as well as means of axial and unidirectional holding of said containers. If such a device is satisfactory for holding the containers, however, it can only be manufactured from a large blank and is thus of high cost in raw material, since the device comprises a surface parallel to that having the openings of transverse holding on the one hand and that, on the other hand, additional areas of material are provided to join the last mentioned surface and the plane having the openings in order to form a case structure. In addition, the device according to the cited document is not intended to allow the superimposition of trays on one another in the same overpack simple to implement, in particular as regards its closure.
On a également proposé dans US-A-3 432 202, un dispositif d'emballage pour récipients individuels, en l'occurence des boîtes de bière, comportant un flan de carton présentant une surface percée d'orifices traversés par lesdits récipients et rainé suivant deux lignes délimitant deux bandes lesquelles, après pliage, forment deux courts volets ou rabats parallèles, avec des languettes issues des découpes formant lesdits orifices dans le flan érigées à l'opposé des volets. Un dispositif selon ce brevet ne permet pas une présentation en "plateau", la cohérence de l'emballage étant obtenue par appui les unes contre les autres des boîtes de bière à leur partie inférieure distante de leur support par les languettes. Il en est de même en ce qui concerne le dispositif montré par FR-A-2 138 409 où des récipients sont réunis en tant qu'emballage unitaire par un flan de carton découpé suivant des pattes prévues pour coopérer sur deux faces au moins desdits récipients qu'elles maintiennent par un effet de serrage ou de clipsage.Also proposed in US-A-3,432,202, a packaging device for individual containers, in this case beer cans, comprising a cardboard blank having a surface pierced with orifices traversed by said containers and grooved along two lines delimiting two bands which, after folding, form two short parallel flaps or flaps, with tongues coming from the cutouts forming said orifices in the blank erected opposite the flaps. A device according to this patent does not allow presentation in a "tray", the consistency of the packaging being obtained by pressing the beer cans against each other at their lower part distant from their support by the tongues. It is the same with regard to the device shown by FR-A-2 138 409 where containers are joined together as a unitary packaging by a cardboard blank cut according to tabs intended to cooperate on at least two faces of said containers which they maintain by a clamping or clipping effect.
Le problème existe donc de fournir un dispositif d'emballage du type à plateau, mais de structure suffisamment simple pour ne pas accroître son coût de façon prohibitive d'une part et, d'autre part, bien adapté à la formation d'emballages à "plateaux" superposés par utilisation d'un suremballage les enveloppant au moins partiellement.The problem therefore exists of providing a tray-type packaging device, but of structure simple enough not to increase its cost prohibitively on the one hand and, on the other hand, well suited to the formation of packaging with "trays" superimposed by use of an overwrap wrapping them at least partially.
C'est, par conséquent, un but général de l'invention de fournir un dispositif d'emballage permettant de résoudre ce problème.It is therefore a general object of the invention to provide a packaging device which makes it possible to solve this problem.
C'est, encore, un but de l'invention de fournir un dispositif d'emballage d'une pluralité d'objets, comme des pots de yaourt ou analogues, dans lequel lesdits objets ou pots soient retenus de façon simple et sûre suivant leur direction longitudinale, le dispositif se prêtant en outre particulièrement bien à son emploi sur des machines automatiques de conditionnement.It is, again, an object of the invention to provide a device for packaging a plurality of objects, such as yoghurt pots or the like, in which said objects or pots are retained simply and securely according to their longitudinal direction, the device is also particularly suitable for use on automatic packaging machines.
C'est, aussi, un but de l'invention de fournir un tel dispositif qui soit facile à manipuler par son utilisateur tant pour l'ensemble des produits emballés que pour les produits individuels qu'il renferme.It is also an object of the invention to provide such a device which is easy to handle by its user both for all of the packaged products and for the individual products which it contains.
C'est, enfin, un but de l'invention de fournir un tel dispositif dont le coût soit comparable, sinon inférieur, à celui des dispositifs connus, notamment par le fait qu'il est réalisé dans un flan de carton, matière plastique ou analogue d'aire relativement faible et donc d'un prix en matière première limité.It is, finally, an object of the invention to provide such a device whose cost is comparable, if not lower, than that of known devices, in particular by the fact that it is produced in a blank of cardboard, plastic or analogue of relatively small area and therefore of a limited raw material price.
Le problème est résolu, selon l'invention, par un dispositif d'emballage pour récipients individuels comportant un flan de carton ou de matière plastique présentant une surface percée d'orifices traversés par lesdits récipients qui y sont maintenus transversalement et qui est rainé suivant deux lignes continues ou discontinues délimitant deux bandes lesquelles, après pliage, forment deux courts volets ou rabats parallèles avec des languettes issues des découpes formant lesdits orifices dans le flan, lesdites languettes étant propres à être érigées à partir du flan à l'opposé des volets et sensiblement dans le plan de ces volets, la hauteur totale des languettes et des volets ou rabats par lesquels le dispositif peut reposer sur une surface de présentoir ou tout support approprié étant sensiblement égale à la hauteur desdits récipients qui prennent appui par une saillie externe qu'ils présentent, -et sur une zone de faible envergure de ladite saillie-, sur lesdits volets ou lesdites languettes qui agissent alors à la manière de contreforts ou de contrefiches placés sensiblement tangentiellement en une zone, et une zone seulement, de la paroi latérale desdits récipients.The problem is solved, according to the invention, by a packaging device for individual containers comprising a blank of cardboard or plastic material having a surface pierced with orifices traversed by said containers which are held there transversely and which is grooved in two continuous or discontinuous lines delimiting two bands which, after folding, form two short parallel flaps or flaps with tongues from the cutouts forming said bands orifices in the blank, said tabs being suitable for being erected from the blank opposite the flaps and substantially in the plane of these flaps, the total height of the tongues and flaps or flaps by which the device can rest on a surface display or any suitable support being substantially equal to the height of said containers which are supported by an external projection which they present, and on a small area of said projection, on said flaps or said tabs which then act at the manner of buttresses or struts placed substantially tangentially in an area, and only one area, of the side wall of said containers.
Dans une réalisation préférée, lesdits volets ou rabats présentent sur leur bord libre de courts ergots avantageusement de forme trapézoïdale.In a preferred embodiment, said flaps or flaps have on their free edge short lugs advantageously of trapezoidal shape.
Le dispositif comprend avantageusement au moins deux rangées d'orifices à disposition symétrique par rapport à un axe médian longitudinal du flan et une languette et une seule est issue de chaque orifice.The device advantageously comprises at least two rows of orifices which are symmetrically arranged with respect to a longitudinal central axis of the blank and a tongue and only one comes from each orifice.
Le flan est de préférence en carton à microcannelures.The blank is preferably made of cardboard with micro-grooves.
L'invention envisage également dans son cadre de fournir un emballage caractérisé en ce qu'il comprend au moins un dispositif du type plateau, tel que défini ci-dessus, garni d'une pluralité de récipients, comme des pots de yaourt à collerette ou analogues, le plateau étant enveloppé dans un suremballage, le plus simplement un flan de carton conformé suivant un étui et dont les extrémités sont, soit assemblées et fixées l'une à l'autre par tout moyen connu soit, en variante, immobilisées par rapport au plateau proprement dit et aux récipients qu'il maintient.The invention also envisages within its framework of providing a packaging characterized in that it comprises at least one device of the tray type, as defined above, lined with a plurality of containers, such as yogurt pots with flange or similar, the tray being wrapped in an overwrap, most simply a cardboard blank shaped in a case and the ends of which are either assembled and fixed to each other by any known means or, as a variant, immobilized with respect to the tray itself and the containers it holds.
Un emballage de ce type peut également être constitué par au moins deux plateaux, tels que définis ci-dessus, superposés l'un sur l'autre, garnis chacun d'une pluralité de récipients et enveloppés dans un suremballage conformé suivant un étui.A package of this type can also consist of at least two trays, as defined above, superimposed on each other, each filled with a plurality of containers and wrapped in an overpack shaped in a case.
Dans un tel cas, et selon une autre caractéristique de l'invention, les bords libres du suremballage sont munis de pattes propres à assurer le verrouillage dudit suremballage par rapport au plateau par leur positionnement entre les bases ou fonds de deux récipients adjacents maintenus dans le plateau inférieur.In such a case, and according to another characteristic of the invention, the free edges of the overpack are provided with lugs capable of ensuring the locking of said overpack relative to the tray by their positioning between the bases or bottoms of two adjacent containers held in the lower shelf.
Selon l'invention, également, l'emballage est caractérisé en ce que les collerettes ou autres parties en saillie de certains récipients prennent appui sur des collerettes ou autres parties en saillie d'autres récipients voisins.According to the invention, also, the packaging is characterized in that the flanges or other projecting parts of certain containers are supported on flanges or other projecting parts of other neighboring containers.
D'autres caractéristiques et avantages de l'invention apparaîtront de la description qui suit, faite à titre d'exemple et en référence au dessin annexé dans lequel:
- la figure 1 est une vue en plan d'un flan de carton, matière plastique ou analogue, propre à entrer dans la constitution d'un dispositif selon l'invention ;
- la figure 2 est une vue dudit flan, après érection partielle des languettes formant contrefort ou contrefiche d'arc-boutement des récipients que le dispositif est destiné à maintenir ;
- la figure 3 illustre le maintien dans le dispositif du type plateau d'une première série de récipients pour un premier mode d'utilisation du dispositif ;
- la figure 4 est une vue analogue à celle de la figure 3, mais montrant le dispositif garni de tous ses récipients ;
- la figure 5 est une vue d'un emballage incorporant deux dispositifs superposés du type plateau tels qu'illustrés sur les figures précédentes ;
- la figure 6 est une vue en coupe selon la ligne 6-6 de la figure 5 ;
- la figure 7 est une vue schématique de dessous illustrant un dispositif de verrouillage de l'enveloppe de suremballage dans une première condition ;
- la figure 8 est une vue analogue à celle de la figure 7 pour une autre condition, à savoir de verrouillage;
- la figure 9 est une vue en plan analogue à celle de la figure 1, mais pour une variante de réalisation ;
- la figure 10 est une vue de dessus du dispositif réalisé à l'aide du flan selon la figure 9 dans sa condition opératoire ;
- la figure 11 est une vue partielle de la figure 9 à plus grande échelle ;
- la figure 12 est une vue de côté du dispositif montré sur la figure 2 ;
- la figure 13 est une vue en coupe selon la ligne 13-13 de la figure 12 ;
- la figure 14 est une vue schématique en perspective du dispositif représenté sur les figures 10, 12 et 13.
- Figure 1 is a plan view of a blank of cardboard, plastic or the like, suitable for forming a device according to the invention;
- Figure 2 is a view of said blank, after partial erection of the tabs forming a buttress or buttress bracing of the containers that the device is intended to maintain;
- FIG. 3 illustrates the maintenance in the tray-type device of a first series of containers for a first mode of use of the device;
- Figure 4 is a view similar to that of Figure 3, but showing the device packed with all its containers;
- Figure 5 is a view of a package incorporating two superimposed devices of the tray type as illustrated in the previous figures;
- Figure 6 is a sectional view along line 6-6 of Figure 5;
- Figure 7 is a schematic bottom view illustrating a device for locking the overwrap envelope in a first condition;
- Figure 8 is a view similar to that of Figure 7 for another condition, namely locking;
- Figure 9 is a plan view similar to that of Figure 1, but for an alternative embodiment;
- Figure 10 is a top view of the device produced using the blank according to Figure 9 in its operating condition;
- Figure 11 is a partial view of Figure 9 on a larger scale;
- Figure 12 is a side view of the device shown in Figure 2;
- Figure 13 is a sectional view along line 13-13 of Figure 12;
- FIG. 14 is a schematic perspective view of the device shown in FIGS. 10, 12 and 13.
On se réfère d'abord à la figure 1 qui montre, en plan, un flan de matière plastique, de carton, -avantageusement de carton à micro-cannelures-, ou de matériau analogue propre à former un dispositif d'emballage selon l'invention, du type à "plateau" pour le maintien et la présentation de récipients R que le dispositif est destiné à emballer. Le flan 10, à contour sensiblement rectangulaire, est ainsi limité par des côtés de grandes dimensions 11, 12 et des côtés de petites dimensions 13 et 14. Il est découpé, comme montré par les lignes 15₁, 15₂, 15₃, etc... suivant une pluralité d'orifices O dont chacun comporte, dans la forme de réalisation représentée, deux bords sensiblement parallèles 16, 17 réunis par une partie d'extrémité arrondie 18, les bords 16 et 17 aboutissant à leurs extrémités libres 19 et 20, respectivement, à une ligne de rainage 22 qui règne, -en étant interrompue au droit des orifices O-, d'une extrémité à l'autre du flan entre les côtés 13 et 14. Le dispositif étant à symétrie de miroir par rapport à un axe médian 25, il comporte aussi une ligne de rainage 23 parallèle à la ligne 22 et des découpes qui définissent des orifices O également symétriques de ceux qui viennent d'être décrits par rapport à l'axe médian 25. Comme également visible sur la figure 1, les côtés de grandes dimensions 11 et 12 sont conformés sensiblement en regard des parties pleines 26 du flan, entre deux découpes adjacentes 15₁, et 15₂ suivant de courts ergots 27₁, 27₂, 27₃, ... ayant en plan un contour sensiblement trapézoïdal.Reference is first made to FIG. 1 which shows, in plan, a blank of plastic, cardboard, advantageously of cardboard with micro-grooves, or of similar material capable of forming a packaging device according to the invention, of the "tray" type for holding and presenting R containers that the device is intended to package. The blank 10, with a substantially rectangular outline, is thus limited by sides of
Les lignes de rainage 22 et 23 permettent de conformer le flan 10 suivant un "plateau" en pliant ledit flan le long desdites lignes ; au cours de cette opération, la matière du flan intérieure aux lignes de découpe 15 est alors érigée à partir des lignes de rainage 22, 23 suivant une pluralité de languettes 30₁, 30₂, 30₃ etc ... (au nombre de huit dans l'exemple décrit et représenté) figure 2, associées chacune à un orifice O, le reste du flan 10 entre les orifices O, les lignes de rainage 22, 23 et les côtés de petites dimensions 13 et 14 formant une surface ou plateau 31, tandis que les parties du flan comprises entre les lignes de rainage et les côtés de grandes dimensions 11 et 12 forment des volets ou rabats 32 et 33, respectivement, figures 2 et 3.The
Lorsque à partir de la condition de semi-ouverture montrée sur la figure 2, les languettes 30 symétriques par rapport à un plan médian longitudinal passant par l'axe 25 sont encore plus écartées les unes des autres et, en fait, amenées sensiblement perpendiculaires au "plateau" 31, les récipients R peuvent être introduits dans les orifices O (figure 3) pour leur immobilisation à l'égard d'un mouvement transversal, tandis que l'immobilisation desdits récipients R₁, et R₂ à l'égard d'un mouvement longitudinal ou axial vers le bas, -c'est-à-dire dirigé sensiblement orthogonalement au plateau 31-, est obtenue à l'aide des languettes 30₁, et 30₂ qui coopèrent chacune, respectivement, avec une partie en saillie externe du récipient. Dans la forme de réalisation décrite et représentée, cette partie en saillie est la collerette C du récipient R qui est prévue autour de l'ouverture de ce dernier et qui sert, principalement, au thermoscellage d'une pellicule de fermeture du récipient, en particulier lorsque ceux-ci sont des pots de yaourt ou enferment des produits analogues à base de lait, une telle indication n'ayant, bien entendu aucun caractère limitatif. Les languettes 30 qui ne prennent appui que sur une zone de faible envergure de la collerette C supportent des récipients R à la manière de contreforts ou de contrefiches.When, starting from the semi-opening condition shown in FIG. 2, the
Lorsque, dans le cas d'un dispositif d'emballage à deux rangées de quatre pot chacune, l'ensemble du plateau 31 est garni de récipients R la condition est celle montrée sur la figure 4 en laquelle des collerettes C de pots adjacents d'une même rangée ou de deux rangées voisines, se chevauchent comme montré schématiquement en H, et en laquelle les volets ou rabats 32 et 33, opposés aux languettes 30 et dirigés vers le bas, forment les moyens par lesquels le dispositif repose sur un présentoir.When, in the case of a packaging device with two rows of four pots each, the whole of the
Le chevauchement comme H accroît la rigidité de l'ensemble du dispositif à laquelle contribue aussi le fait que les languettes 30 qui prennent appui sous les collerettes C, à la manière de contreforts ou de contrefiches, ont tendance en raison de l'élasticité même du matériau constitutif du dispositif, à exercer des forces de compression visant à rabattre lesdites languettes les unes vers les autres et, par conséquent, à rapprocher les uns des autres les récipients en regard de deux rangées voisines.The overlap like H increases the rigidity of the whole device to which also contributes the fact that the
Aussi bien l'effet de maintien axial des récipients R dans le dispositif d'emballage que l'action développée par lesdites languettes et tendant à rapprocher les pots les uns des autres peuvent être obtenus, bien entendu, à l'aide de languettes d'une autre forme que celle décrite et représentée, sous la seule réserve que leur hauteur soit suffisante pour permettre leur appui sous la collerette ou une autre partie en saillie du récipient, la hauteur totale des languettes 30 et des volets ou rabats 32, 33 étant sensiblement égale à la hauteur des récipients R. Les languettes peuvent être découpées, lors de la préparation des flans de carton à micro-cannelures, ou matériau analogue, par exemple comme montré schématiquement en t sur la figure 3 pour évoquer un motif publicitaire, lequel peut aussi être imprimé sur une partie ou la totalité de la languette en cas de besoin.Both the effect of axial retention of the containers R in the packaging device and the action developed by said tongues and tending to bring the pots closer to one another can be obtained, of course, using tongues of another form than that described and shown, with the sole reservation that their height is sufficient to allow their support under the flange or another projecting part of the container, the total height of the
La disposition des orifices O n'est, bien entendu, nullement limitée à celle décrite et représentée. Ainsi, pour un dispositif destiné à réunir un plus grand nombre d'objets individuels peut-on prévoir dans le flan 10 des découpes complémentaires, avantageusement dans la région centrale du flan, et ainsi entre des récipients ou rangées de récipients latérales. Dans une telle réalisation, les orifices prévus pour recevoir ces récipients complémentaires peuvent être pré-découpés pour qu'après introduction du récipient dans l'orifice correspondant, la matière du flan intérieure à ladite découpe forme des pattes de hauteur correspondant à celle des volets ou rabats 32 et 33 et qui contribuent à l'appui du dispositif à "plateau" sur une surface de présentation. Dans cette réalisation, également, le maintien axial des récipients complémentaires placés dans lesdits orifices des zones centrales du flan est alors réalisé par appui des collerettes ou autres parties en saillie de ces récipients sur les mêmes parties des autres récipients, par des zones de chevauchement analogues à celles décrites ci-dessus.The arrangement of the orifices O is, of course, in no way limited to that described and shown. Thus, for a device intended to bring together a larger number of individual objects, provision may be made in the blank 10 for complementary cutouts, advantageously in the central region of the blank, and thus between containers or rows of lateral containers. In such an embodiment, the orifices provided for receiving these complementary containers can be pre-cut so that, after introduction of the container into the corresponding orifice, the material of the blank inside said cut forms tabs of height corresponding to that of the flaps or flaps 32 and 33 and which contribute to the support of the "tray" device on a presentation surface. In this embodiment, also, the axial retention of the complementary containers placed in said orifices of the central areas of the blank is then achieved by pressing the flanges or other protruding parts of these containers on the same parts of the other containers, by similar overlapping zones. to those described above.
Le dispositif selon l'invention est en outre particulièrement bien approprié à réalisation d'un emballage comprenant plusieurs tels dispositifs superposés, enveloppés dans un suremballage commun, comme montré, à titre d'exemple, sur les figures 5 et 6. Dans cette réalisation, un premier dispositif à plateau 40a tel que décrit ci-dessus, est surmonté par un second dispositif 40b, identique, pour former un emballage unitaire à seize récipients. Le plateau 41 du dispositif 40b repose par ses volets ou rabats 32, 33 sur les récipients du dispositif 40a et les deux dispositifs 40a et 40b sont enfermés dans une enveloppe 42 de suremballage dont les extrémités 43 et 44 sont soit collées entre elles, comme montré sur la figure 6, soit solidarisées par des moyens de verrou, d'agrafage ou d'autres en soi connus. Les ergots 27 du dispositif 40b placés entre les collerettes des récipients Ra du dispositif de plateau 40a s'opposent au déplacement longitudinal l'un par rapport à l'autre des deux dispositifs, tandis que les ergots 27a₁, 27a₂, 27a₃, etc... du dispositif 40a mis en place dans des lumières correspondantes pratiquées dans le suremballage 42 assurent le blocage longitudinal du dispositif de "plateau" inférieur par rapport audit suremballage.The device according to the invention is also particularly well suited for producing a packaging comprising several such superimposed devices, wrapped in a common overwrap, as shown, by way of example, in FIGS. 5 and 6. In this embodiment, a
Dans la variante de réalisation montrée sur les figures 7 et 8, la fermeture du suremballage 42 n'est pas obtenue au moyen de verrous usuels, par collage ou agrafage des bords libres dudit suremballage, mais à l'aide de pattes 50, articulées par des lignes de pliage 52 sur les bords opposés longitudinaux 51 du suremballage et qui sont conformées pour être logées entre les fonds de récipients adjacents Ra,i et Ra,j de la couche de récipients inférieure. A cet effet, les pattes 50 présentent un contour quelque peu en "marteau" qui, lorsque lesdites pattes sont rabattues, à partir de la condition montrée sur la figure 7 pour être amenées dans la condition montrée sur la figure 8, ne peuvent plus être extraites accidentellement et, de ce fait, assurent le positionnement du suremballage par rapport aux deux dispositifs de plateaux.In the alternative embodiment shown in FIGS. 7 and 8, the closure of the
Quelle que soit la forme de réalisation et de fermeture de suremballage, la présence des languettes 30 permet de transmettre les efforts de compression via l'épaisseur de la collerettes des récipients, de sorte que ces derniers n'étant pratiquement pas porteurs, ils peuvent être réalisés en mettant en oeuvre moins de matériau, et partant, dans de meilleures conditions économiques.Whatever the embodiment and closure of the overpack, the presence of the
On se réfère maintenant aux figures 9 et 11 qui montrent, en plan, une variante du flan de matière plastique, de carton, -avantageusement de carton à micro-cannelures-, ou de matériau analogue destiné à un autre mode d'utilisation du dispositif d'emballage selon l'invention pour le maintien et la présentation d'une pluralité d'objets, notamment de pots P. Le flan 100, à contour sensiblement rectangulaire, est ainsi limité par des côtés de grandes dimensions 111 et 112 et des côtés de petites dimensions 113 et 114. Il est découpé, comme montré, par les lignes 115₁, 115₂, 115₃, etc... suivant une pluralité d'orifices O dont chacun comporte, dans la forme de réalisation décrite et représentée, une partie 116 en arc de cercle de grande envergure angulaire dont les extrémités 117 et 118 se prolongent par des segments rectilignes 119 et 120, respectivement, qui se poursuivent eux-mêmes d'abord par des congés 121 et 122, respectivement, puis par de courts segments rectilignes 123 et 124 aboutissant à leurs extrémités 125 et 126 à une ligne de rainage 130. Celle-ci règne d'une extrémité à l'autre du flan, entre les côtés 113 et 114 en étant interrompue au droit des orifices O, lesquels, comme bien visible sur la figure 9, sont disposés à symétrie de miroir par rapport à un axe médian longitudinal A du flan et également par rapport à un axe médian transversal B parallèle aux côtés 113 et 114.Reference is now made to FIGS. 9 and 11 which show, in plan, a variant of the blank of plastic, cardboard, advantageously cardboard with micro-grooves, or similar material intended for another mode of use of the packaging device according to the invention for holding and presenting a plurality of objects, in particular P pots. The blank 100, with a substantially rectangular outline, is thus limited by sides of
Les segments 123 et 124 se prolongent, en s'éloignant de la ligne de rainage 130, par des bords 132 et 133 réunis à leurs extrémités par un côté 134 pou définir des languettes 135₁, 135₂, 135₃, etc... associées chacune à un orifice O et au nombre de huit dans l'exemple décrit et représenté.The
Les lignes de rainage 130 et 130a permettent de conformer le flan 100 suivant un "plateau" 142 en pliant ledit flan le long desdites lignes ; au cours de cette opération, les parties 140 et 141 du flan comprises entre les bords longitudinaux 111, 112 et les lignes de rainage 130 et 130a, respectivement, sont érigées suivant des rabats ou retours de courte hauteur h, figures 12 et 13, tandis que les languettes 135 sont déployées dans le plan desdits rabats, mais vers le bas si les rabats sont érigés vers le haut. Le "plateau" 142 reçoit les objets comme les pots P dans ses orifices O qui assurent le maintien transversal desdits objets, tandis que le maintien suivant la direction longitudinale, -qui est la direction sensiblement verticale sur les dessins-, est assuré par appui des tranches 143 et 144, respectivement, des rabats 140 et 141 sous une saillie externe s des objets ou pots P.The creasing lines 130 and 130 a make it possible to shape the blank 100 along a "plate" 142 by folding said blank along said lines; during this operation, the
Dans le cas de l'utilisation du dispositif pour l'emballage de pots comme des pots de yaourt, cette partie en saillie s est avantageusement la collerette prévue autour de l'ouverture du pot qui sert, principalement, au thermoscellage d'une pellicule ou opercule de fermeture.In the case of use of the device for packaging containers such as yoghurt cups, this projecting portion s is advantageously the flange provided around the opening of the pot which serves mainly to heat seal a film or closing cap.
Comme bien visible sur les figures 12 et 13, la longueur l des languettes 135 est choisie de manière telle que la somme l+h soit inférieure ou sensiblement égale à la dimension longitudinale des objets ou pots P à emballer, de sorte que le dispositif peut être complété par un suremballage 150, le plus simplement un flan de carton conformé suivant un étui et dont les extrémités sont assemblées et/ou fixées l'une à l'autre, de préférence à la partie supérieure de l'emballage, c'est-à-dire au voisinage des collerettes des pots P.As can be clearly seen in FIGS. 12 and 13, the length l of the
La forme décrite et représentée des languettes 135 n'est, bien entendu, donnée qu'à titre d'exemple non limitatif, étant bien entendu que lesdites languettes peuvent être découpées, lors de la préparation des flans de carton à micro-cannelures ou matériau analogue, suivant des dessins identiques ou différents et cela en fonction des desiderata de la pratique, notamment pour l'obtention d'effets publicitaires si le suremballage est en matériau transparent, de tels effets étant complémentaires de celui de protection des objets ou pots emballés procuré par les languettes qui, dans la condition opératoire du dispositif, sont adjacentes auxdits objets ou pots, comme visible sur la figure 14.The shape described and shown of the
La structure du dispositif selon l'invention permet son emploi sur des machines automatiques de conditionnement munies de moyens permettant d'effectuer de façon simple le pliage autour des lignes de rainage 130 et 130a.The structure of the device according to the invention allows it to be used on automatic packaging machines provided with means making it possible to simply fold around the
L'invention n'est pas, bien entendu, limitée à la réalisation décrite et représentée, notamment en ce qui concerne le contour général du plan 100 qui peut être sensiblement carré, au lieu de rectangulaire, par exemple pour le conditionnement de quatre pots au lieu des huit illustrés.The invention is not, of course, limited to the embodiment described and shown, in particular as regards the general outline of the
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- A pack containing individual receptacles, comprising a panel of cardboard or plastics material having a surface pierced with openings (O) through which pass the said receptacles which are thereby retained transversely, and which is scored along two continuous or discontinuous lines (22, 23; 130, 130a) delimiting two strips which, after bending, form two parallel short flaps or wings (32, 33; 140, 141) with tongues (30, 135) projecting from cut-outs (15, 115) forming the said openings (O) in the panel (10; 100), the said tongues being adapted to be erected on the side of the panel opposite to the flaps, substantially in the planes of the flaps (10), the total height of the tongues (30; 135) and of the flaps or wings (32, 33; 140, 141) by means of which the pack may be rested on a display surface or any suitable support being substantially equal to the height of the said receptacle (R, P) which make abutment by means of an external projection which they possess, over a small region of the said projection, with the said flaps or the said tongues which then act like struts or buttresses disposed substantially tangentially relative to one region, and only one region, of the sidewall of the said receptacles (R, P).
- A pack according to claim 1, characterized in that the said flaps or wings (32, 33) have short lugs (27), advantageously of trapezoidal shape, on their free edges (11, 12).
- A pack according to either of the preceding claims, characterized in that it comprises at least two rows of openings (O) symmetrically disposed relative to a central longitudinal axis (25; A) of the panel (10; 100) and in that each opening (O) is the origin of one tongue (30, 135) and one only.
- A pack according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the panel (10; 100) is made of micro-corrugated cardboard.
- A package for a plurality of individual receptacle, characterized in that it comprises at least one tray-type pack according to any one of the preceding claims, and an outer packing (42; 150) such as a panel of cardboard or like material, shaped into a case and whose ends (43, 44) are fixed together by means of an adhesive, with the aid of known connectors, stapling or any like means.
- A package according to claim 5, characterized in that the rims or other projecting parts of receptacles of the package bear on the rims or other projecting parts of other adjoining receptacles.
- A package according to claim 5 or claim 6, characterized in that it comprises at least two packs of the tray type according to any one of claims 1 to 4, the said packs (40a, 40b) each filled with a plurality of receptacles being superimposed and wrapped in an outer packing shaped into a case.
- A package according to any one of claims 5 to 7, characterized in that the free edges (51) of the outer packing (42) are provided with tongues (50) adapted to ensure attachment of the said outer packing to the tray (40a, 40b) by being positioned between the bases or bottoms of two adjacent receptacle (Ra) held in the lower tray (40a).
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