EP0531301A1

EP0531301A1 - Container for storing documents, magazines and brochures

Info

Publication number: EP0531301A1
Application number: EP19910907014
Authority: EP
Inventors: Timo Oinonen
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1990-05-25
Filing date: 1991-04-11
Publication date: 1993-03-17
Also published as: FI85964B; WO1991018748A1; FI85964C; FI902611A0; FI902611A

Abstract

Un logement pour ranger des documents, des magazines, des brochures et des papiers libres ou objets analogues. Le logement comporte une ouverture sur un côté afin d'y faire entrer lesdits articles en papier. Le logement comprend une partie plus haute (2) et une partie plus basse (1), lesdites parties présentant des largeurs partiellement ou entièrement différentes (A), (B) de sorte que deux logements, placés l'un contre l'autre et les parties (1, 2) de hauteurs différentes placées l'une contre l'autre, peuvent être introduits l'un dans l'autre.A place to store documents, magazines, brochures and loose papers or similar objects. The housing has an opening on one side for entering said paper articles. The housing comprises a higher part (2) and a lower part (1), said parts having partially or entirely different widths (A), (B) so that two housings, placed one against the other and the parts (1, 2) of different heights placed one against the other, can be inserted one into the other.

Description

CONTAINER FOR STORING DOCUMENTS, MAGAZINES AND BROCHURES

An invention relates to a container for storing loose docu¬ ments and magazines or like paperware.

Formerly is known containers and cases made of flexible and soft materials as well containers made of stiff materials. The containers made of stiff materials have many shortcom¬ ings of which the most important is that they are unstack- able. This is causing high transport and storing costs. One stiff type of container have a solution where the sides of the container have been notched so long that they can be pushed against each other and they are taking up room about as large as one container. The problem of this embodiment are notches, which are weakening the structure and limiting the design of these containers.

The present invention offers a crucial improvement of the above disadvantages. To implement the solution, the charact¬ eristics of the invented container are presented in patent claim 1.

The most important advantage of the invention can be considered that containers are stiffer than those notched containers and that the containers are stackable and can be stored in this way either as empty or full ones.

In the following, the invention is described in detail with references to the attached drawings.

Fig. 1 represents a container.

Fig. 2 represents two identical containers moving one within the other. Fig. 3 represents an alternative container. Fig. 4 represents a section view of a labell holder.

In the figure 1 is presented a container which is staying and comprises a lower part 1 and a higher part 2. The opening of the container is opened upwards. The lower part 1 of the container has breadth A, and the higher part 2 has breadth B. The change of the breadth of the parts is carried out by means of a vertical shoulder 7. The breadth A of part 1 is choosed so that it goes in to the broader part 2 and there is still between the parts a sufficient clearance. The higher part iε equipped with the handles 4. Moreover the sides of the container have slits 3 for saving material.

In the figure 2 is presented how two identical containers can be placed one within the other. They are pushed one within the other when their openings are against each other. Thus the broader higher part 2 is overlapping the narrower lower part 1. The parts are overlapping until the ends of the shoulders ^*7 hit against each other. In the gable wall of the higher part 2 is a hjle 5 making easier to grasp and handle the container. Moreover there is a place 6 for label.

The shoulder 8 can be placed horizontally as shown in the figure 3 separating the container as a narrower and a broader part also in this direction. Thus the shoulder 8 is placed horizontally as high as the lower part 1. The shoulder is hereby separating only the higher part 2 as two part of different breadth. The parts can be so that the upper part of the higher part 2 is narrower than the lower part or that the upper part is broader than the lower part.

In the figure 4 is shown a section view of a label holder which consists of the label support 6.

The differences in the breadths have to be such ones that the narrower part goes inside the broader part. In these cases the containers are overlapping until the shoulders hit against each other.

The invention is in no way restricted to the above example. Modifications can be done within the limits of the invented idea aε defined in the following patent claims.

Claims

PATENT CLAIMS

1. A container for storing loose documents, magazines, broschures and like paperware, the container having opening to one direction for pushing said paperware in c h a r ¬ a c t e r i z e d in that the container comprises a higher part (2) and a lower part (1), when said parts are together partly or wholly of different breadth (A),(B) so that two containers, their openings placed against each other and the parts (1,2) which have different heights being together against each other, can be pushed one within the other.

2. A container according to claim 1 c h a r a c t e r ¬ i z e d in that the vertical shoulder (7) separates the higher part (2) and the lower part (1) as two parts of different breadths (A) and (B).

3. A container according to claim 1 c h a r a c t e r ¬ i z e d in that the horizontal shoulder 8 separates the higher part (2) as two parts of different breadths.

4. A container according to claim 3 c h a r a c t e r ¬ i z e d in that the horizontal shoulder 8 is placed essentially in the height of the upper edge of the lower part (1).