EP0568391B1 - End loading can carton - Google Patents

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EP0568391B1
EP0568391B1 EP19930303426 EP93303426A EP0568391B1 EP 0568391 B1 EP0568391 B1 EP 0568391B1 EP 19930303426 EP19930303426 EP 19930303426 EP 93303426 A EP93303426 A EP 93303426A EP 0568391 B1 EP0568391 B1 EP 0568391B1
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Patrick Blin
Alain Saulas
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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
    • B65D71/36—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, with 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
    • B65D5/00—Rigid or semi-rigid containers of polygonal cross-section, e.g. boxes, cartons or trays, formed by folding or erecting one or more blanks made of paper
    • B65D5/42—Details of containers or of foldable or erectable container blanks
    • B65D5/44—Integral, inserted or attached portions forming internal or external fittings
    • B65D5/441—Reinforcements
    • B65D5/443—Integral reinforcements, e.g. folds, flaps
    • 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
    • B65D2571/00141—Wrapper locking means integral with the wrapper glued
    • 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
    • B65D2571/00648—Elements used to form the wrapper
    • B65D2571/00654—Blanks
    • B65D2571/0066—Blanks formed from one single sheet
    • 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
    • B65D2571/00709—Shape of the formed wrapper, i.e. shape of each formed element if the wrapper is made from more than one element
    • B65D2571/00722—Shape of the formed wrapper, i.e. shape of each formed element if the wrapper is made from more than one element tubular with end walls, e.g. walls not extending on the whole end surface
    • B65D2571/00728—Shape of the formed wrapper, i.e. shape of each formed element if the wrapper is made from more than one element tubular with end walls, e.g. walls not extending on the whole end surface the end walls being closed by gluing
    • 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
    • B65D2571/00833—Other details of wrappers
    • B65D2571/00839—Integral reinforcements

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  • This invention relates to an end loading can carton and is particularly concerned with the prevention of damage to the top and bottom panels of such cartons which can occur when such cartons are stacked, for example, during palletisation.
  • the cans to disfigure the top and bottom carton panels by local embossing in which the cans themselves act as embossing dies.
  • cans of the so called two piece type are constructed so that the lower ends thereof coincide with and are received by (nested with) the recessed upper ends of a like stacked cam.
  • a container such as a corrugated paperboard container
  • this nested relationship of cans between stacked containers enhances the stability of the overall stack.
  • the coincident can chines can effect a local embossing operation upon the contacting carton panels.
  • reinforcing panels are provided at the top and/or bottom wall panels of an end loading carton in which the reinforcing panels are derived from portions of the carton hinged to the said top and/or bottom panel and folded into overlapping relationship with that top and/or bottom wall panel.
  • an end loading can carton comprising a top panel, a bottom panel a pair of side wall panels foldably joined respectively to opposite side edges of said top and bottom panels thereby forming a generally tubular structure, end closure panels hinged to the opposite end edges of the top and bottom wall panels at least partially to close the ends of the carton and a reinforcing panel disposed in superposed relationship with the inner surface of at least one of the top or bottom wall panels of the carton for directly engaging the adjacent ends of the packaged cans characterised in that said reinforcing panel is foldably joined to adjacent parts of the tubular structure and folded into said overlapping relationship.
  • said reinforcing panel may be hinged to said top and/or bottom wall panels.
  • said reinforcing panel may be hinged to a corner portion of said top and/or bottom wall panel.
  • said reinforcing panel may comprise material taken in part from each of the adjacent side and end walls of the carton and creates, in the completed carton, an opening in the corresponding corner of the carton.
  • said reinforcing panel may be hinged to each corner of said top and/or bottom wall panels.
  • a carton "C” is formed from an elongate blank 10 of paperboard or similar foldable sheet material and comprises, in series, a first side wall panel 12, a top wall panel 14 a second side wall panel 16, a bottom panel 18 and a securing strip 20 hinged one to the next along transverse fold lines 22, 24, 26 and 28 respectively.
  • Top end closure panels 30 and 32 are hinged to each of the opposite ends of the top panel along fold lines 34 and 36 and similar bottom end closure panels 38 and 40 are hinged to the bottom panel along fold lines 42 and 44 respectively.
  • the bottom end closure panels 38 and 40 are hinged to side wall 16 by means of corner panels 46 and 48 and associated gusset panels 50 and 52 respectively and likewise are hinged to the securing strip 20 along corner panels 54 and 56 and associated gusset panels 58 and 60 respectively.
  • a set of like reinforcing panels 62, 64, 66 and 68 is hinged to the top panel at each of its corners along diagonal fold lines 70, 72, 74 and 76, the hinged reinforcing panels being free to fold inwardly towards the centre of the top panel about their respective fold lines into superposed overlapping relationship with the top panel as shown in broken lines in Figure 1 and thereby provide substantial two-ply material over a substantive area of the top panel of the carton.
  • the blank is formed into a sleeve by securing the securing strip 20 to the free transverse edge of the side panel 12 as is well known in the art and the carton sleeve thereby formed can be supplied in flat collapsed form to a user.
  • reinforcement panels 62, 64, 66 and 68 can be folded and glued in superimposed relationship with top wall panel 14 prior to shipping to a location where cans are packaged.
  • the carton is set up for loading by adopting the configuration substantially shown in Figure 2. Articles such as beverage cans are loaded through the open ends of the carton.
  • each reinforcing panel comprises material taken in part from each of the adjacent side and end walls (end closure panels) of the carton.
  • the corner panels linking the end closure panels and the side walls of the carton do obscure part of the walls of the cans located at the carton corners. This has been found to be advantageous in that the product bar code of the can is obscured so that a price indication for a single can is not read instead of the pricing code for the carton as a whole.
  • top wall panel described may in fact act as the bottom wall of the carton and therefore the reinforcing panels may be associated with either one of or both the top and bottom walls of the carton.
  • panel 14a represents the bottom panel.
  • FIG. 6 and 7 of the drawings a further embodiment of the invention is shown which is a blank and carton formed therefrom similar to that described with reference to Figures 4 and 5 of the drawings and in which like parts are designated like reference numerals with the substitution of the suffix "b" .
  • foldable reinforcing panels are provided for both the top wall panel and the bottom wall panel of the carton.
  • foldable reinforcing panels 62b, 64b, 66b, and 68b are associated with the top wall panel 14 and further foldable reinforcing panels 61, 63, 65 and 67 are associated with the bottom wall panel 18.

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  • Packaging Of Annular Or Rod-Shaped Articles, Wearing Apparel, Cassettes, Or The Like (AREA)
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GB9209521 1992-05-01
GB929209521A GB9209521D0 (en) 1992-05-01 1992-05-01 End loading can carton

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EP0568391A2 EP0568391A2 (en) 1993-11-03
EP0568391A3 EP0568391A3 (en) 1994-05-18
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GB9827535D0 (en) * 1998-12-14 1999-02-10 Mead Corp Carton and carton blank
US6478219B1 (en) * 2000-11-15 2002-11-12 The Mead Corporation Carton with article dispenser

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GB651739A (en) * 1948-02-19 1951-04-11 R H Filmer Ltd Improvements in or relating to boxes of cardboard or like material
US3894681A (en) * 1973-03-26 1975-07-15 Federal Paper Board Co Inc Carton
US4958734A (en) * 1989-10-10 1990-09-25 The Mead Corporation End loaded carton having a triple ply wall
US4967901A (en) * 1989-12-19 1990-11-06 The Mead Corporation Heavy duty bottle carrier

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DE69308228D1 (de) 1997-04-03
GB9209521D0 (en) 1992-06-17

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