EP0342477A1 - Packaging method for books - Google Patents

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EP0342477A1
EP0342477A1 EP89108301A EP89108301A EP0342477A1 EP 0342477 A1 EP0342477 A1 EP 0342477A1 EP 89108301 A EP89108301 A EP 89108301A EP 89108301 A EP89108301 A EP 89108301A EP 0342477 A1 EP0342477 A1 EP 0342477A1
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Tarmo Janhonen
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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
    • B65D75/00—Packages comprising articles or materials partially or wholly enclosed in strips, sheets, blanks, tubes, or webs of flexible sheet material, e.g. in folded wrappers
    • B65D75/38—Articles or materials enclosed in two or more wrappers disposed one inside the other
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B11/00—Wrapping, e.g. partially or wholly enclosing, articles or quantities of material, in strips, sheets or blanks, of flexible material
    • B65B11/58—Applying two or more wrappers, e.g. in succession
    • 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
    • B65D75/00—Packages comprising articles or materials partially or wholly enclosed in strips, sheets, blanks, tubes, or webs of flexible sheet material, e.g. in folded wrappers
    • B65D75/02—Articles partially enclosed in folded or wound strips or sheets, e.g. wrapped newspapers

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  • the present invention relates to a packaging method for books, wherein the books are first wrapped in a pliable protective wrapper and then in a rectangular blank of card­board which is folded around six sides of a book pack­age leaving two sides uncovered.
  • This type of packaging method and a packaging blank used in the method are known from the Applicant's US Patent publication 4 627 223.
  • this prior known method employs a packaging blank in which a protective wrapper has already been applied to the surface of a sheet of cardboard.
  • a protective wrapper is made of a more pli­able material and can be manually wrapped around the books to be packaged.
  • a blank of cardboard consisting of a more rigid material can be folded either manually or mechanically.
  • An apparatus for mechanical folding is disclosed in the Applicant's US Patent publication 4 757 666.
  • An object of the invention is to develop further this prior known packaging method in a manner that the books can be protected also during storage and handling prior to the actual packaging operation.
  • a book or a bundle of books are closed in a shrink plastic protect­ive wrapper 4 to form a package 1.
  • This wrapping in shrink plastic 4 can be effected at any stage at all, preferably at such an early stage, however, that plastic film 4 protects the books during storage and handling. It is essential that plastic film 4 makes up a part of a package to be prepared later for mailing a book or books to individual receivers.
  • a second component of the package comprises a rectangular blank of cardboard 2, preferably with reinforcing strips 3 folded at its edges.
  • a blank of cardboard may consist of kraft board or corrugated board which is fufficiently rigid for providing protection for a book parcel 1 against bumps and blows.
  • a blank of cardboard 2 can be coated with plastics, e.g. a film of polyethylene plast­ic, or it can be coated with an adhesive capable of stick­ing to shrink plastic film 4.
  • a bokk parcel 1 wrapped in shrink plastic 4 is placed and fastened on top of a blank of cardboard 2.
  • package or parcel 1 is positioned and fastened in the central area of blank of cardboard 2. From difversferent sizes of cardboard blanks 2 such a blank is pick­ed that parcel 1 can be placed between reinforcing strips 3.
  • a plastic film 4 sticks to it simply by press­ing a parcel 1 in position and by folding the ends of a blank of cardboard 2 around said package or parcel 1.
  • the fastening is effected e.g. by heating in two steps in a manner that one side of package 1 is first stuck to the surface of a flat blank of cardboard 2 and, after folding the ends of said blank of cardboard 2, another heating is effected for sticking the shrink plastic 4 also to the surfaces of the folded sides of a blank of cardboard 2.
  • a package 1 is fastened only at its bottom side to the surface of a blank of cardboard 2, it is preferable to make sure that package 1 stays securely inside said folded blank of cardboard 2 by winding around a package a band, a tape or a string 5 which runs over the sides that remain uncovered by a blank of cardboard 2.
  • the overlapping ends of a blank of cardboard 2 can be fastened to each other by an adhesive, by heating (PE-­plastic film coating) or by providing the facing surf­aces with self-adhesive layers (coated with a self-­adhesive glue).
  • a shrink plastic film 4 surrounding a parcel or package 1 preferably covers said package 1 on all eight sides. Since wrapping of articles in a shrink plastic film is a conventional and generally applied method, its execut­ion is not explained in more detail in this context. There are commercially available devices intended for wrapping articles in shrink plastics.
  • the invention is not limited to the above-described em­bodiment. Instead of shrink plastics, it is also pos­sible to employ so-called constriction type of plastics for obtaining a tight preliminary package wrapped in a plastic film by stretching the plastic while wrapping it around an article.
  • a method of the invention can of course be applied also to packaging cassettes, piles of forms or the like flat-shaped (book-like) articles.

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Abstract

The invention relates to a packaging method for books. Around a book or a bundle of books is first wrapped a shrink plastic film (4) which protects the book during storage and handling. A book package (1) enclosed in shrink plastics (4) is brought on top of a separate blank of cardboard (2) and the shrink plastics (4) is applied by means of an adhesive or by heating to the surface of said blank of cardboard (2). The blank of cardboard (2) is folded either manually or mechanically around four sides of the book package (1) with two sides uncovered.

Description

  • The present invention relates to a packaging method for books, wherein the books are first wrapped in a pliable protective wrapper and then in a rectangular blank of card­board which is folded around six sides of a book pack­age leaving two sides uncovered.
  • This type of packaging method and a packaging blank used in the method are known from the Applicant's US Patent publication 4 627 223. Thus, this prior known method employs a packaging blank in which a protective wrapper has already been applied to the surface of a sheet of cardboard. A protective wrapper is made of a more pli­able material and can be manually wrapped around the books to be packaged. A blank of cardboard consisting of a more rigid material can be folded either manually or mechanically. An apparatus for mechanical folding is disclosed in the Applicant's US Patent publication 4 757 666.
  • An object of the invention is to develop further this prior known packaging method in a manner that the books can be protected also during storage and handling prior to the actual packaging operation.
  • This object is achieved by means of a method of the in­vention on the basis of the characterizing features set forth in the annexed claims.
  • A method of the invention will now be described in more detail with reference made to the accompanying draw­ings, in which
    • fig. 1 is a perspective view of the components of a pack­ age at one stage of a packaging method and
    • fig. 2 shows a finished package prepared by the method of the invention.
  • According to a method of the invention, a book or a bundle of books are closed in a shrink plastic protect­ive wrapper 4 to form a package 1. This wrapping in shrink plastic 4 can be effected at any stage at all, preferably at such an early stage, however, that plastic film 4 protects the books during storage and handling. It is essential that plastic film 4 makes up a part of a package to be prepared later for mailing a book or books to individual receivers.
  • A second component of the package comprises a rectangular blank of cardboard 2, preferably with reinforcing strips 3 folded at its edges. A blank of cardboard may consist of kraft board or corrugated board which is fufficiently rigid for providing protection for a book parcel 1 against bumps and blows. A blank of cardboard 2 can be coated with plastics, e.g. a film of polyethylene plast­ic, or it can be coated with an adhesive capable of stick­ing to shrink plastic film 4.
  • A bokk parcel 1 wrapped in shrink plastic 4 is placed and fastened on top of a blank of cardboard 2. Especial­ly in view of mechanically folding said blank of card­board 2, package or parcel 1 is positioned and fastened in the central area of blank of cardboard 2. From dif­ferent sizes of cardboard blanks 2 such a blank is pick­ed that parcel 1 can be placed between reinforcing strips 3.
  • If the surface of a blank of cardboard 2 carries an ad­ hesive, a plastic film 4 sticks to it simply by press­ing a parcel 1 in position and by folding the ends of a blank of cardboard 2 around said package or parcel 1. If the surface of a blank of cardboard 2 is made of a PE-film, the fastening is effected e.g. by heating in two steps in a manner that one side of package 1 is first stuck to the surface of a flat blank of cardboard 2 and, after folding the ends of said blank of cardboard 2, another heating is effected for sticking the shrink plastic 4 also to the surfaces of the folded sides of a blank of cardboard 2.
  • If a package 1 is fastened only at its bottom side to the surface of a blank of cardboard 2, it is preferable to make sure that package 1 stays securely inside said folded blank of cardboard 2 by winding around a package a band, a tape or a string 5 which runs over the sides that remain uncovered by a blank of cardboard 2.
  • The overlapping ends of a blank of cardboard 2 can be fastened to each other by an adhesive, by heating (PE-­plastic film coating) or by providing the facing surf­aces with self-adhesive layers (coated with a self-­adhesive glue).
  • A shrink plastic film 4 surrounding a parcel or package 1 preferably covers said package 1 on all eight sides. Since wrapping of articles in a shrink plastic film is a conventional and generally applied method, its execut­ion is not explained in more detail in this context. There are commercially available devices intended for wrapping articles in shrink plastics.
  • The invention is not limited to the above-described em­bodiment. Instead of shrink plastics, it is also pos­sible to employ so-called constriction type of plastics for obtaining a tight preliminary package wrapped in a plastic film by stretching the plastic while wrapping it around an article. A method of the invention can of course be applied also to packaging cassettes, piles of forms or the like flat-shaped (book-like) articles.

Claims (8)

1. A packaging method for books, wherein the books are first wrapped in a pliable protective wrapper (4) and then in a rectangular blank of cardboard (2) which is folded around six sides of a book package (1) leaving two sides uncovered, characterized in that
- a book or a bundle of books is enclosed inside a shrink plastic protective wrapper (4) and thus pro­tected the books are maintained during storage and handling prior to the final preparation of a package,
- a book package (1) enclosed in shrink plastics (1) is brought on top of a separate blank of cardboard and the shrink plastics (4) is applied by means of an adhesive or by heating to the surface of said blank of cardboard (2) and
- a blank of cardboard (2) is folded in a conventional manner either manually or mechanically for closing the package.
2. A method as set forth in claim 1, character­ized in that during or after the folding of a blank of cardboard (2) said shrink plastics (4) is applied by means of an adhesive or by heating to the surfaces of the folded sides of a blank of cardboard in a manner that shrink plastics (4) and blank of cardboard (2) are stuck to each other on more than one of the sides of a book package (1).
3. A method as set forth in claim 1 or 2, charac­terized in that a plastic-coated blank of card­board (2) is applied by heating to shrink plastics (4).
4. A method as set forth in claim 1, character­ized in that around a finished package is wound a band, a tape or a string (5) which runs over the sides uncovered by said blank of cardboard (2).
5. A method as set forth in any of claims 1 - 4, characterized in that the overlapping ends of a blank of cardboard (2) are stuck to each other by glueing, by heating or by pressing self-adhesive surf­aces against each other.
6. A method as set forth in any of claims 1 - 5, characterized in that a book package (1) enclosed in shrink plastics (4) is placed and secured in the central area of a blank of cardboard (2), be­tween reinforcing strips (3) folded at the edges of said blank of cardboard (2).
7. A method as set forth in any of claims 1 - 6, characterized in that the shrink plastics is replaced by so-called constriction plastics.
8. A method as set forth in any of claims 1 - 7, characterized in that the method is applied to packaging cassettes, piles of forms or the like flat­shaped articles.
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AT89108301T ATE79352T1 (en) 1988-05-16 1989-05-09 METHOD OF PACKING BOOKS.

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FI882272A FI882272A (en) 1988-05-16 1988-05-16 FOERPACKNINGSFOERFARANDE FOER BOECKER.
FI882272 1988-05-16

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US5115618A (en) * 1989-04-19 1992-05-26 Pussikeskus Oy Method for packaging books
WO1997041035A1 (en) * 1996-04-26 1997-11-06 Antonio Moreno Marco Device for compacting packages and publications
US7816003B1 (en) * 2001-12-19 2010-10-19 Arrowhead Coating and Converting, Inc. Adhesive film composition
CN106628308A (en) * 2015-10-28 2017-05-10 上海兢颢机械有限公司 Full-automatic publication kraft paper packing machine
US10287048B2 (en) 2014-10-16 2019-05-14 Neopost Technologies System and method for automatically packaging items varying in size and number for shipment

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DE1959284A1 (en) * 1968-12-03 1970-06-11 Sig Schweiz Industrieges Cuboid pack
FR2280548A1 (en) * 1974-08-01 1976-02-27 Janhonen V BOOK PACKAGING PROCESS
EP0035912A1 (en) * 1980-03-12 1981-09-16 The Mead Corporation Multi-unit package incorporating wrap-around handle
WO1983002764A1 (en) * 1982-02-05 1983-08-18 Veikko Ilmari Janhonen Package blank and packaging method

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DE1959284A1 (en) * 1968-12-03 1970-06-11 Sig Schweiz Industrieges Cuboid pack
FR2280548A1 (en) * 1974-08-01 1976-02-27 Janhonen V BOOK PACKAGING PROCESS
EP0035912A1 (en) * 1980-03-12 1981-09-16 The Mead Corporation Multi-unit package incorporating wrap-around handle
WO1983002764A1 (en) * 1982-02-05 1983-08-18 Veikko Ilmari Janhonen Package blank and packaging method

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US5115618A (en) * 1989-04-19 1992-05-26 Pussikeskus Oy Method for packaging books
WO1997041035A1 (en) * 1996-04-26 1997-11-06 Antonio Moreno Marco Device for compacting packages and publications
US7816003B1 (en) * 2001-12-19 2010-10-19 Arrowhead Coating and Converting, Inc. Adhesive film composition
US10287048B2 (en) 2014-10-16 2019-05-14 Neopost Technologies System and method for automatically packaging items varying in size and number for shipment
CN106628308A (en) * 2015-10-28 2017-05-10 上海兢颢机械有限公司 Full-automatic publication kraft paper packing machine

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