EP0512809B1 - Bottle carrier adapted for location in a bottle crate - Google Patents

Bottle carrier adapted for location in a bottle crate Download PDF

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EP0512809B1
EP0512809B1 EP92304065A EP92304065A EP0512809B1 EP 0512809 B1 EP0512809 B1 EP 0512809B1 EP 92304065 A EP92304065 A EP 92304065A EP 92304065 A EP92304065 A EP 92304065A EP 0512809 B1 EP0512809 B1 EP 0512809B1
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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
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    • B65D71/06—Packaging elements holding or encircling completely or almost completely the bundle of articles, e.g. wrappers
    • B65D71/12—Packaging elements holding or encircling completely or almost completely the bundle of articles, e.g. wrappers the packaging elements, e.g. wrappers being formed by folding a single blank
    • B65D71/14—Packaging elements holding or encircling completely or almost completely the bundle of articles, e.g. wrappers the packaging elements, e.g. wrappers being formed by folding a single blank having a tubular shape, e.g. tubular wrappers without end walls
    • 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
    • B65D2571/00—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, pop bottles; Bales of material
    • B65D2571/00123—Bundling wrappers or trays
    • B65D2571/00129—Wrapper locking means
    • B65D2571/00135—Wrapper locking means integral with the wrapper
    • B65D2571/00154—Wrapper locking means integral with the wrapper interlocked
    • B65D2571/00185—Wrapper locking means integral with the wrapper interlocked by tabs cut within one end and facing away from the other end when blank is unfolded, and co-operting with openings at the other end
    • 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
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    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
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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
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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
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    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
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  • This invention relates to an article carrier, more particularly, a bottle carrier of the wraparound type.
  • Wraparound type cartons are generally well known in the art but the present invention provides a "punch lock" type locking arrangement which is specifically adapted so that the carton can be used in conjunction with a particular type of bottle crate known as a "starpost" crate.
  • a "starpost" crate is a plastics crate for transporting bottles in bottle carriers and is divided into compartments each of which is of a size to receive a multi-pack comprising e.g. six filled bottles.
  • Star shaped (when viewed in plan) spacers project up from the bottom of each compartment of the crate and extend up through corresponding holes in the bottom of the bottle carrier so as to be disposed between the bottles to prevent them from striking one another during shipment.
  • the crate can also be used to transport empty bottles, in which case the spacers prevent the bottles from striking one another whether or not they are in carriers.
  • a bottle crate of this type is described and illustrated in US-A-3 863 759 to which the readers attention is directed.
  • Cartons of the wraparound type adapted for use with such crates have, in the past, had their base panels secured together by being glued in overlapping relationship.
  • a preferred securing technique which is well known per se involves locking the base panels together in overlapping relationship by means of punch locks.
  • punch lock a so-called multi-position lock
  • a conventional form of multi-position lock is described and illustrated in US-A-4243143 to which the readers' attention is directed.
  • DE-A-2 356 748 discloses a carton according to the preamble of claim 1 for use with a crate.
  • One aspect of the invention provides, in a carton of the type wherein a pair of base panels are interlocked by means of punch type locking elements and wherein the carton includes base panel openings to allow the carton to be impalled upon article separator posts in a crate, a locking tab of said locking elements is adapted to engage in one of said base panel openings such that locking is enhanced when the carton is impalled upon a separator post entering said opening.
  • a retaining tab may be hinged to the periphery of said one of said openings and is displaced by said locking tab to lock said pair of base panels together, said retaining tab being at least partially detached from its hinged connection when a separator post enters the opening in which said retaining tab is present.
  • said retaining tab may be an integral part of a larger tab which at least partially obscures said one of said base panel openings.
  • Another aspect of the present invention provides the combination of a bottle crate having separator posts upstanding from its base and a carton according to any one of the three immediately preceding paragraphs.
  • an elongate blank 10 formed from paperboard or like foldable sheet material comprises, in series, a first base panel 12, a first lower side wall panel 14, a first main side wall panel 16, a first upper side wall panel 18, a top panel 20, a second upper side wall panel 22, a second main side wall panel 24 and a second base panel 26 hinged one to the next along transverse fold lines 30-44, respectively.
  • top panel 20 is formed with a group of six circular bottle neck receiving apertures such as aperture NA1, which includes associated expansion slits X1.
  • first 14 and second 26 lower side wall panels are both provided with a group of like bottle heel receiving apertures such as aperture HA1 in panel 14.
  • each of the base panels is formed with so called tightening apertures "A" another feature of a wraparound carton which is known per se .
  • base panel 12 is formed with a pair of locking tabs 46, 48, respectively each of which formed in accordance with those described in the aforesaid US Patent No 4243143 and thus has serrated form marginal edges.
  • the locking apertures into which locking tabs 46 and 48 engage to secure panels 12, 28 in overlapping relationship are defined by retaining tabs T1 and T2 which have tip portions t1 and t2 similar to those described in US-A-4243143 each of which is struck from a generally deltoid spacer receiving aperture D1 and D2 and hinged to the opposed peripheral portions thereof at hinge points h1 and h2 respectively.
  • Apertures D1 and D2 are provided each to receive one of the starpost separators referred to.
  • the carton is adapted to accommodate vertical ribs provided along the walls of a crate in which it is to be received by means of spaced elongate slits S1 and S2 in the base panel 12, first lower side panel 14 and first main side panel 16 and similar slits S3 and S4 in base panel 28, second lower side panel 26 and second main side panel 24.
  • locking tabs 46 and 48 When locking tabs 46 and 48 are locked into their respective locking apertures, they cooperate with retaining tabs T1 and T2 in a convential manner, i.e. as described in US-A-4243143.
  • the tip of a starpost separator enters each of the spacer receiving apertures D1, D2 and displaces and/or tears away the tabs T1 and T2 so that the locking tabs tend to be forced into a more upstanding attitude relative to base panel 12 and forced into the narrower "neck" of the locking apertures whereby the retaining tabs at least partially are broken away.

Abstract

A carton of the type wherein a pair of base panels (12,28) are interlocked by means of punch type locking elements (46, 48: t1, t2) and wherein the carton includes base panel openings (D1, D2) to allow the carton to be impalled upon article separator posts in a bottle crate. A locking tab (46,48) of the locking elements is adapted to engage in one of the base panel openings such that locking is enhanced when the carton is impalled upon a separator post entering that opening. <IMAGE>

Description

  • This invention relates to an article carrier, more particularly, a bottle carrier of the wraparound type. Wraparound type cartons are generally well known in the art but the present invention provides a "punch lock" type locking arrangement which is specifically adapted so that the carton can be used in conjunction with a particular type of bottle crate known as a "starpost" crate.
  • A "starpost" crate is a plastics crate for transporting bottles in bottle carriers and is divided into compartments each of which is of a size to receive a multi-pack comprising e.g. six filled bottles. Star shaped (when viewed in plan) spacers project up from the bottom of each compartment of the crate and extend up through corresponding holes in the bottom of the bottle carrier so as to be disposed between the bottles to prevent them from striking one another during shipment.
  • The crate can also be used to transport empty bottles, in which case the spacers prevent the bottles from striking one another whether or not they are in carriers. A bottle crate of this type is described and illustrated in US-A-3 863 759 to which the readers attention is directed.
  • Cartons of the wraparound type adapted for use with such crates have, in the past, had their base panels secured together by being glued in overlapping relationship. A preferred securing technique which is well known per se involves locking the base panels together in overlapping relationship by means of punch locks. One form of punch lock, a so-called multi-position lock, is adapted to form the basis of the present invention. A conventional form of multi-position lock is described and illustrated in US-A-4243143 to which the readers' attention is directed. DE-A-2 356 748 discloses a carton according to the preamble of claim 1 for use with a crate.
  • One aspect of the invention provides, in a carton of the type wherein a pair of base panels are interlocked by means of punch type locking elements and wherein the carton includes base panel openings to allow the carton to be impalled upon article separator posts in a crate, a locking tab of said locking elements is adapted to engage in one of said base panel openings such that locking is enhanced when the carton is impalled upon a separator post entering said opening.
  • According to a feature of this aspect of the invention a retaining tab may be hinged to the periphery of said one of said openings and is displaced by said locking tab to lock said pair of base panels together, said retaining tab being at least partially detached from its hinged connection when a separator post enters the opening in which said retaining tab is present.
  • According to another feature of this aspect of the invention said retaining tab may be an integral part of a larger tab which at least partially obscures said one of said base panel openings.
  • Another aspect of the present invention provides the combination of a bottle crate having separator posts upstanding from its base and a carton according to any one of the three immediately preceding paragraphs.
  • An embodiment of the invention will now be described by way of example, with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:-
    • FIGURE 1 is a plan view of a wraparound carrier blank formed with panel interlocking means according to the invention;
    • FIGURE 2 is a more detailed plan view of each of the base panels of the blank shown in Figure 1; and
    • FIGURE 3 is a plan view of the base panels locked together.
  • Referring to the drawings, an elongate blank 10 formed from paperboard or like foldable sheet material comprises, in series, a first base panel 12, a first lower side wall panel 14, a first main side wall panel 16, a first upper side wall panel 18, a top panel 20, a second upper side wall panel 22, a second main side wall panel 24 and a second base panel 26 hinged one to the next along transverse fold lines 30-44, respectively.
  • The carton is adapted to enwrap a group of six bottles arranged in two parallel rows of three bottles per row. Accordingly, top panel 20 is formed with a group of six circular bottle neck receiving apertures such as aperture NA1, which includes associated expansion slits X1. Likewise, the first 14 and second 26 lower side wall panels are both provided with a group of like bottle heel receiving apertures such as aperture HA1 in panel 14. These bottle neck and heel receiving apertures are well known in the art and therefore do not require further explanation.
  • When the carton blank is wrapped about its group of bottles, the blank is secured by locking the base panels 12, 28 in overlapping relationship. In order to position the base panels relative to one another to ensure a tight wrap and reliable locking each of the base panels is formed with so called tightening apertures "A" another feature of a wraparound carton which is known per se.
  • In order to perform the base panel locking operation, base panel 12 is formed with a pair of locking tabs 46, 48, respectively each of which formed in accordance with those described in the aforesaid US Patent No 4243143 and thus has serrated form marginal edges.
  • The locking apertures into which locking tabs 46 and 48 engage to secure panels 12, 28 in overlapping relationship are defined by retaining tabs T1 and T2 which have tip portions t1 and t2 similar to those described in US-A-4243143 each of which is struck from a generally deltoid spacer receiving aperture D1 and D2 and hinged to the opposed peripheral portions thereof at hinge points h1 and h2 respectively. Apertures D1 and D2 are provided each to receive one of the starpost separators referred to.
  • The carton is adapted to accommodate vertical ribs provided along the walls of a crate in which it is to be received by means of spaced elongate slits S1 and S2 in the base panel 12, first lower side panel 14 and first main side panel 16 and similar slits S3 and S4 in base panel 28, second lower side panel 26 and second main side panel 24.
  • When locking tabs 46 and 48 are locked into their respective locking apertures, they cooperate with retaining tabs T1 and T2 in a convential manner, i.e. as described in US-A-4243143. However, when the carton is introduced into a crate, the tip of a starpost separator enters each of the spacer receiving apertures D1, D2 and displaces and/or tears away the tabs T1 and T2 so that the locking tabs tend to be forced into a more upstanding attitude relative to base panel 12 and forced into the narrower "neck" of the locking apertures whereby the retaining tabs at least partially are broken away.

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  1. A carton of the type wherein a pair of base panels (12,28) are interlocked by means of punch type locking elements (46, 48; T1, T2) and wherein the carton includes base panel openings (D1,D2) to allow the carton to be impalled upon article separator posts in a crate, characterized in that a locking tab (46,48) of said locking elements engages in one of said base panel openings (D1,D2) such that locking is enhanced when the carton is impalled upon a separator post entering said opening.
  2. A carton according to claim 1 wherein a retaining tab (T1, T2) is hinged to the periphery of said one of said openings (D1,D2) and is displaced by said locking tab (46,48) to lock said pair of base panels (12,28) together, said retaining tab being at least partially detached from its hinged connection when a separator post enters the opening in which said retaining tab is present.
  3. A carton according to Claim 1 or Claim 2 wherein said retaining tab (T₁,T₂) at least partially obscures said one of said base panel openings (D1,D2).
  4. The combination of a bottle crate having separator posts upstanding from its base and a carton according to any of the preceding claims.
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