EP0425135B1 - Package incorporating containers - Google Patents

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EP0425135B1
EP0425135B1 EP90311153A EP90311153A EP0425135B1 EP 0425135 B1 EP0425135 B1 EP 0425135B1 EP 90311153 A EP90311153 A EP 90311153A EP 90311153 A EP90311153 A EP 90311153A EP 0425135 B1 EP0425135 B1 EP 0425135B1
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Philippe Domansky
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WestRock Packaging Systems LLC
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Mead Corp
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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
    • 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
    • B65D71/40—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 comprising a plurality of articles held together only partially by packaging elements formed by folding a blank or several blanks
    • B65D71/42—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 comprising a plurality of articles held together only partially by packaging elements formed by folding a blank or several blanks formed by folding a single blank into a single layer element

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  • This invention relates to a package which incorporates at least one container having a top flange which receives the container lid. More usually a package according to the invention takes the form of an article carrier which holds a plurality of such containers together in a group.
  • FR-A-2298489 discloses a package according to the preamble of claim 1 which accomodates at least one article which package comprises an article carrier having a top panel overlying the top end of each article, side wall panels depending from and hinged to opposed side edges of said top wall and an end wall construction at each of two other opposed side edges of said top wall.
  • the package or article carrier is formed from a blank of foldable sheet material such as paperboard and is formed into a top-gripping "clip". Setting up the clip from a flat blank is completed by the introduction of the or each article with which it is to receive and thereafter each article cooperates with portions of the paperboard material to hold it in its completed form thereby dispensing with the need for glue or other secondary securing means.
  • the invention provides a package of th above mentioned type wherein said article carrier is held in its completed form to retain each article therein by cooperation between each of said end wall constructions and the article adjacent thereto and by retaining means to maintain each of said adjacent articles in cooperation with said end wall constructions such that portions of said end wall constructions are held disposed between said top wall and a respective one of said adjacent articles.
  • each of said end wall constructions may comprise a pair of end wall panels which extend from respective ones of said side wall panels towards one another so as to form end wall means at each of the opposite ends of the carrier which at least partially hides wall portions of the article adjacent thereto.
  • each of said end wall panels may be hinged to a respective one of said side wall panels and to gusset panel means said gusset panel means being folded substantially flat and disposed between the top of said adjacent article and said top panel of the carrier.
  • the gusset panel means are hinged to at least one end flap so that the gusset panels and thereby the end wall panels can be folded simultaneously, by movement of said end flap and wherein each said end flap is hinged to an end edge of said top panel.
  • Each end flap may be folded substantially flat and disposed between said gusset panels and said top panel of the carrier.
  • said retaining means may comprise at least one slit formed substantially at the junction between said top wall and each of said side wall panels.
  • the articles may comprise one or more containers such as pots, jars or cans having a flange or other rim means at or adjacent their tops which are engaged in and retained by an opposed pair of said retaining means.
  • a top gripping article carrier or clip AC is formed from a substantially rectilinear blank 10 of paperboard or like foldable sheet material.
  • Blank 10 comprises a central panel 12 which forms the top panel of the clip in use to the opposite longitudinal edges of which is hinged a side wall panel 14 and 16 along interrupted longitudinal fold lines 18 and 20 respectively.
  • Fold line 18 is interrupted by a pair of substantially arcuate cut lines which form spaced slits 22 and 24 and likewise spaced slits 26 and 28 interrupt longitudinal fold line 20.
  • Slits 22 and 26 together provide retention apertures well known per se in the multiple packaging art, for receiving diametrically opposed flange portions of a container such as a plastics cup “C” having a top flange “f” ( Figure 2).
  • slits 24 and 28 provide retention apertures for the flange portions of a further container C1 ( Figures 3 and 4).
  • the opposite lateral ends of the blank have end panel arrangement of like construction to one another.
  • a central end flap 30 of rhomboid form is hinged to top panel 12 along transverse fold line 32.
  • the end panel construction further comprises a pair of end wall panels 34 and 36 hinged to the side panels 14 and 16 along transverse fold lines 38 and 40 respectively, the end wall panels 34 and 36 are indirectly hinged to the end flap 30 by means of triangular gusset panels 42 and 44.
  • Gusset panel 42 is hinged to end wall panel 34 along fold line 46 and to end flap 30 along fold line 48.
  • Gusset panel 44 is hinged to end wall panel 36 along fold line 50 and to end flap 30 along fold line 52.
  • the opposite end panel construction is similar and accordingly like parts have been designated like reference numerals with the addition of suffix "′".
  • both the end flaps 30, 30′ are folded towards one another about their respective fold line 32, 32′ so that they begin to overlap the top panel 12.
  • Folding of the end flaps causes the associated gusset panels 42, 44 and 42′, 44′ and end panels 34, 36 and 34′, 36′ also to fold into a more upright attitude relative to top panel 12 by virtue of their mutually hinged connections and then the side wall panels 14 and 16 are likewise urged to fold about the respective longitudinal fold lines 18 and 20 into a more upright attitude.
  • Cups C and C1 are introduced to the partially folded blank so that their flanged tops are brought into face contacting relationship with top panel 12.
  • a segmental portion of the lid of cup C is urged against the exposed faces of the gusset panels 42 and 44 and as the side wall panels 14 and 16 are folded further towards a more upright position circumferential portions of the cup top flange "f" are automatically engaged into the diametrically opposed retaining apertures 22 and 26.
  • the gusset panels 42 and 44 are folded substantially flat against the end flap 30 which, in turn, is thereby folded substantially flat against top wall 12.
  • the end wall panels 34 and 36 are brought across the ends of the blank so that together they form an end wall "W" of the clip.
  • the second cup C1 is introduced substantially simultaneously at the opposite end of the blank and a like folding operation causes end wall "W1" to be erected so that the resultant completed cup and clip combination is as shown in Figure 4.
  • a number of modifications to be blank are envisaged whereby a variety of configuration of the clip can be achieved by varying the angular relationship and relative sizes of the panels and flaps which constitute the end panel constructions at each end of the blank.
  • Figure 5 shows a blank 10a formed from paperboard or similar foldable sheet material for attachment to a single flanged container to provide an outer information bearing article carrier.
  • this blank is similar (except, of course, that it has only single flange retention slits for receiving diametrically opposed flange portions of a single cooperating container) and like parts are designated like reference numerals with the addition of the suffix "a".
  • the opposite ends of the blank do not have the end flaps 30, 30′ but instead a pair of discrete end panels 30a, 31a and 30a′ and 31a′ is provided at each end of the blank.
  • the end panel construction is such that there is no complete end wall at each end of the package when the blank is applied to a flanged container but only a pair of corner constructions which constitute a partial end wall.
  • cups should be taken to include flanged pots, jars or cans which have at or adjacent their tops some form of rim or top flange.

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
  • Packages (AREA)
  • Control And Other Processes For Unpacking Of Materials (AREA)
  • Crystals, And After-Treatments Of Crystals (AREA)
  • Containers Having Bodies Formed In One Piece (AREA)
  • Lining Or Joining Of Plastics Or The Like (AREA)
EP90311153A 1989-10-23 1990-10-11 Package incorporating containers Expired - Lifetime EP0425135B1 (en)

Applications Claiming Priority (4)

Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
GB8923814 1989-10-23
GB898923814A GB8923814D0 (en) 1989-10-23 1989-10-23 Top gripping carrier
GB9003865 1990-02-21
GB909003865A GB9003865D0 (en) 1989-10-23 1990-02-21 Package incorporating flanged containers

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EP0425135A2 EP0425135A2 (en) 1991-05-02
EP0425135A3 EP0425135A3 (en) 1992-02-05
EP0425135B1 true EP0425135B1 (en) 1994-09-21

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JP (1) JP2962802B2 (da)
AT (1) ATE111851T1 (da)
AU (1) AU639270B2 (da)
BR (1) BR9005290A (da)
CA (1) CA2027867C (da)
DE (1) DE69012735T2 (da)
DK (1) DK0425135T3 (da)
ES (1) ES2058814T3 (da)
IL (1) IL96021A (da)
NZ (1) NZ235661A (da)

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US5139147A (en) * 1991-08-12 1992-08-18 The Mead Corporation Package incorporating flanged containers
US5355999A (en) * 1993-10-14 1994-10-18 Riverwood International Corporation Clip-type article carrier
US5452799A (en) * 1994-06-14 1995-09-26 Riverwood International Corporation Article carrier with rounded corners
DE10304527B4 (de) * 2003-02-04 2010-05-06 Hvb Innova Ag An einem Verpackungsbecher mit Siegelrand und Stulpdeckel anbringbare Karton-Manschette
BRPI0820237B1 (pt) * 2007-11-15 2019-04-09 Graphic Packaging International, Llc Embalagem para conter uma pluralidade de artigos, a embalagem, blanqueta para formar uma embalagem para contenção de uma pluralidade de artigos, e métodos de formar uma embalagem
CA2738228C (en) 2008-10-22 2014-08-05 Graphic Packaging International, Inc. Package for containers
MX343570B (es) 2009-12-18 2016-11-09 Graphic Packaging Int Inc Empaque para recipientes.
JP6067017B2 (ja) 2011-08-19 2017-01-25 グラフィック パッケージング インターナショナル インコーポレイテッドＧｒａｐｈｉｃ Ｐａｃｋａｇｉｎｇ Ｉｎｔｅｒｎａｔｉｏｎａｌ，Ｉｎｃ． カートン形成装置及び方法

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FR2298489A1 (fr) * 1975-01-22 1976-08-20 Saint Germain Cartonneries Dispositif de regroupement pour pots ou analogues
US4215781A (en) * 1979-03-27 1980-08-05 Kliklok Corporation Article carrier with gusset retainers
GB8604411D0 (en) * 1986-02-21 1986-03-26 Mead Corp Multipack
US4832257A (en) * 1988-04-27 1989-05-23 The Mead Corporation Corner structure and blank for a tray

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CA2027867C (en) 1996-09-17
JP2962802B2 (ja) 1999-10-12
ES2058814T3 (es) 1994-11-01
DE69012735D1 (de) 1994-10-27
AU6484390A (en) 1991-04-26
CA2027867A1 (en) 1991-04-24
EP0425135A3 (en) 1992-02-05
ATE111851T1 (de) 1994-10-15
NZ235661A (en) 1993-05-26
DE69012735T2 (de) 1995-01-19
DK0425135T3 (da) 1995-02-06
AU639270B2 (en) 1993-07-22
BR9005290A (pt) 1991-09-17
IL96021A (en) 1993-06-10
EP0425135A2 (en) 1991-05-02
IL96021A0 (en) 1991-07-18

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