EP0515648B1 - Wrap-around carrier with article retainer - Google Patents

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EP0515648B1
EP0515648B1 EP92901959A EP92901959A EP0515648B1 EP 0515648 B1 EP0515648 B1 EP 0515648B1 EP 92901959 A EP92901959 A EP 92901959A EP 92901959 A EP92901959 A EP 92901959A EP 0515648 B1 EP0515648 B1 EP 0515648B1
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Leonard Michael Cooper
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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
    • B65D71/06—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
    • B65D71/16—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 with article-locating elements
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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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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
    • B65D2571/00648—Elements used to form the wrapper
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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
    • 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
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    • B65D2571/00716—Shape of the formed wrapper, i.e. shape of each formed element if the wrapper is made from more than one element tubular without end walls

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  • This invention relates to a wrap-around article carrier as defined in the preamble of claim 1. It relates furthermore to a blank for forming same according to the preamble of claim 7. More particularly, the present invention deals with wrap-around article carriers having at least partially open ends.
  • Wrap-around article carriers are commonly designed to have ends which are either partially or entirely open. In either case the carriers must be provided with means for preventing the articles from falling out the ends.
  • Beverage cans for example, are held in place partly by the tension applied by the carrier blank being wrapped very tightly about them and by the engagement of the top and bottom flanges of the cans with the edges of cutouts in the side panels of the carrier through which the flanges of the cans extend.
  • This design is facilitated by the fact that cans have substantially flat tops and bottoms of the same diameter as the body of the can, which allows the carrier blank to be tightly wrapped around the cans.
  • Partial end panels extending up from the bottom panel could be provided to function as article retainers, as could corner end gusset panels or flaps. These measures would not be entirely satisfactory, however, because they require extra material to be used, making the carrier more costly to produce, and would not be able to prevent movement of the bottom portions of the container toward and away from each other. Moreover, the bottom of the carton is not stable under such conditions.
  • a wrap-around carrier in accordance with the preamble of claim 1 is disclosed in EP-A-362581.
  • This prior art carrier is designed so as to receive a plurality of tapered articles the bottom of which is smaller than the top.
  • Article retaining flaps intended to hold the bottoms of two adjacent articles spaced apart are provided on both bottom panel flaps in a region where the latter do not overlap. They are connected to the bottom panel flaps along fold lines extending parallel to the fold line connecting the respective bottom panel flap to the adjacent side panel.
  • This article retaining flap design merely unsufficiently prevents an displacement of the articles when the bottom panel flaps are moved towards each other in order to tightly envelop the articles.
  • the inner bottom panel flap of the carrier contains an opening near an end of the carrier
  • the outer bottom panel flap includes an integral article retaining flap which is hingedly connected to the outer bottom panel flap adjacent an inner edge portion of the opening along a fold line substantially parallel to the adjacent end edge of the carrier.
  • the retaining flap is pivoted up through the opening into the interior of the carrier, where it engages the bottom portions of adjacent end articles of adjacent rows of articles and prevents outward movement of the articles as well as relative movement of the articles toward and away from each other.
  • the retaining flap includes spaced fold lines extending transversely of the retaining flap fold line.
  • the transverse fold lines converge toward each other, producing a tapered retaining flap capable of conforming to the sloped bottom portions of the articles.
  • the resulting retaining flap is three dimensional, having a central section directed toward the interior of the carrier and side faces or sections extending between adjacent end articles.
  • the opening through which the retainer flap extends is narrower than the normal distance between the side faces, thereby exerting a biasing force on the side faces to cause the flap to stand upright in the package. Because the retaining flap fits snugly between the spaced bottom portions of the end articles, the articles are held in place against outward movement.
  • the retaining flap In addition to the retaining flap holding the bottom portions of the end articles in place, it also functions to interconnect the inner and outer bottom panel flaps, thus providing reinforcement to any other locking means connecting the bottom panel flaps.
  • a wrap-around carrier 10 comprises a top panel 12 connected along fold lines 14 to side panels 16 which generally follow the contour of the articles T in the carrier.
  • the articles T are shown as comprising tubs of the type used to contain pudding or margarine or the like. It can be seen that the side panels are inwardly curved at the bottom portion of the carrier as a result of being tightly wrapped around the sloped side portions of the tubs.
  • the side panels adjacent the top panel are provided with slots 18 through which the top flanges F of the tubs T extend.
  • the top panel 12 is also provided with short extensions 20 which cover the flanges of the tubs.
  • a bottom panel 22 is formed by overlapped inner and outer bottom panel flaps 24 and 26.
  • the inner bottom panel flap 24 is connected to one of the side panels 16 along fold line 28 while the outer bottom panel flap 26 is connected to the other side panel 16 along fold line 30.
  • Extending up from the bottom panel 22 adjacent the end articles T in the adjacent rows of articles in the carrier is a retainer flap 32, which is shown in greater detail in FIG. 2. It can be seen that the retainer flap fits snugly between the angled bottom portions of the articles T, preventing the bottom portions from moving in a direction away from the side panels 16.
  • a blank for forming the carrier 10 comprises a substantially rectangular sheet 34 of paperboard or other suitable material, with the top panel section 12 being in the center of the sheet and the other panel sections described above being successively connected along the fold lines referred to above.
  • the fold lines 14 connecting the top panel 12 to the side panels 16 are separated from each other by portions defined by the elongated slits 36 and the short connecting slits 38 which correspond to the extension of the top panel overlying the tub flanges in a carrier formed from the blank.
  • the blank In order to form a carrier from the blank 34, the blank is wrapped around the tubs or other articles to be packaged with the inner and outer bottom panel flaps 24 and 26 in overlapping relationship.
  • the bottom panel flaps 24 and 26 are shown in FIG. 4 as they would appear after being folded in from side panels 16 about the fold lines 28 and 30 just prior to being moved into overlapping relationship.
  • the retaining flaps 32 are connected to the outer bottom panel flap 26 along fold lines 40 which are located between the end edges 42 of the flap 26 and the midpoint of the flap.
  • the fold lines 40 are shown as being substantially straight and parallel to the end edges 42, although they may be slightly curved or angled as discussed in greater detail hereinafter.
  • a slit 44 which is also substantially parallel to the end edges 42 of the outer bottom panel flap 26 and which is located between the fold lines 40 and the end edges 42, forms the opposite edge of the retainer flap 32.
  • the sides of the retainer flap are defined by slits 46 which extend from the ends of slit 44 transversely of the end edges 42 toward the interior of the carrier, and by angled slits 48 connecting the slits 46 and the ends of the fold lines 40.
  • the retainer flap 32 further includes two fold lines 50 which extend from the ends of the fold line 40 and converge to the slit 44, intersecting the slit 44 at spaced points.
  • the resulting retaining flap is made up of a central face or section 52 bounded by the fold lines 40 and 50 and the slit 44, and of two side faces or sections 54 bounded by the slits 44, 46 and 48 and the fold lines 50.
  • the inner bottom panel flap 24 includes two modified T-shaped openings or slots 56 located so as to be aligned with the retainer flaps 32 when the inner and outer bottom panel flaps are overlapped to form the bottom panel of the carrier.
  • Each cutout or slot 56 comprises a relatively wide elongated slot portion 58 extending from a transverse slot portion 60.
  • the slot portion 58 is spaced from and extends transversely of the nearest panel end edge 62, while the slot portion 60 extends outwardly of the slot portion 58 at the end thereof farthest from the panel end edge 62.
  • the slot portion 60 extends generally parallel to the end edge 62.
  • the slot portion 58 is defined by an edge 64 which is spaced from and parallel to the panel end edge 62 and by edges 66 which converge toward the interior of the carrier.
  • the slot portion 60 is defined by an edge 68 which is also parallel to the panel end edge 62 and by edges 70 which connect the edge 68 to the slots 66 at their closest spacing.
  • the angular portion of the inner bottom panel flap 24 adjacent the intersection of edges 66 and 70 comprises opposing tabs 72.
  • the bottom panel flaps are designed to be mechanically connected in a manner generally known in the prior art.
  • the outer bottom panel flap 26 is connected to an end margin flap 74 along fold line 76.
  • the fold line 76 is interrupted in the central portion by a slit defining a male locking tab 78 and on either side of the tab 78 by the slits 46 which coincide with the fold line 76.
  • the margin flap 74 also contains a centrally located locking opening 80 the interior edge 82 of which extends a substantial distance beyond the side edges of the opening.
  • the inner bottom panel flap 24 contains a centrally located male locking tab 84 defined by end slit 86, side slits 88, angled slits 90 which form a neck portion, and fold line 92.
  • the locking tab 84 is part of a larger tab or flap 94 which is connected to the inner bottom flap 30 along fold line 96 and which further is defined by slits 98 extending from the ends of the fold line 96 to the slits 90 of the locking tab 84.
  • FIG. 7 It can be seen in FIG. 7 that when the bottom panel flaps are locked together, the retaining flaps 32 are positioned directly over the openings or slots 56. Note that the openings 56 are shown in dotted lines in FIG. 7 while the retainer flaps 32 are shown in solid lines, depicting the slits, and in dot-dash lines, depicting the fold lines of the retaining flaps. Pressure exerted on the central body sections 52 of the retainer flaps by an externally located movable punch or rod element, not shown but which will be understood by those skilled in the art preferably to be an operating element in an automatic packaging machine, will cause the retainer flaps to be pivoted up about their fold lines 40 and pushed up into the interior of the carrier through the openings 56 in the inner bottom panel flap 24.
  • an externally located movable punch or rod element not shown but which will be understood by those skilled in the art preferably to be an operating element in an automatic packaging machine
  • FIG. 9 shows the bottom of the retaining flap
  • FIG. 10 shows the upper portion of the retaining flap as it emerges into the interior of the carrier.
  • the fold lines 40 of the retaining flaps could be other than straight, as for example, curved or angled. If desired, the fold lines could be curved or angled slightly facing the end edges of the bottom panel. This tends to bias the central section 52 of the retaining flap in the direction toward its original position in the plane of the outer bottom panel flap, and in so doing the central section is biased against the intervening articles.
  • the dimensions of the retaining flap are selected to cause the side flap sections to engage adjacent articles in the carrier.
  • the converging fold lines separating the central section of the retaining flaps from the side sections are angled so that entry of the leading narrow end of the retaining flap into the space between adjacent articles is facilitated.
  • the article retaining means of the invention provides an effective retainer which engages substantial portions of the end tubs or other articles in a carrier which have spaced bottom portions, and does so without adding to the material cost of the carrier blank.
  • the retaining means provides an additional mechanical lock between the flaps forming the bottom panel, thus further ensuring against the accidental escape of articles from the carrier through failure of the bottom panel.
  • the mechanical locking means for the bottom panel flaps need not be limited to the type shown, it is preferred because of its proven ability to hold the panel flaps in locked condition against severe stresses and because it is especially suitable for use with the retaining means of the invention.
  • the retaining flaps are required to be located at a point in the outer bottom panel flap immediately adjacent the locking margin, by making the outer edge of the retaining flap coincide with the fold line of the locking margin 74 of the outer bottom panel flap, both the retaining flap elements and the locking tabs can be properly located with respect to each other.
  • top panel may be provided with handle openings if desired, to facilitate lifting and carrying.

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