EP0787658A1 - Emballage pour tirages photographiques avec des formats différents - Google Patents

Emballage pour tirages photographiques avec des formats différents Download PDF

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EP0787658A1
EP0787658A1 EP97420010A EP97420010A EP0787658A1 EP 0787658 A1 EP0787658 A1 EP 0787658A1 EP 97420010 A EP97420010 A EP 97420010A EP 97420010 A EP97420010 A EP 97420010A EP 0787658 A1 EP0787658 A1 EP 0787658A1
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Philippe Delmotte
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B42—BOOKBINDING; ALBUMS; FILES; SPECIAL PRINTED MATTER
    • B42F—SHEETS TEMPORARILY ATTACHED TOGETHER; FILING APPLIANCES; FILE CARDS; INDEXING
    • B42F7/00—Filing appliances without fastening means
    • B42F7/14—Boxes
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G03—PHOTOGRAPHY; CINEMATOGRAPHY; ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USING WAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; ELECTROGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY
    • G03D—APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING EXPOSED PHOTOGRAPHIC MATERIALS; ACCESSORIES THEREFOR
    • G03D15/00—Apparatus for treating processed material
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  • the invention concerns a package for flat photographic products in various formats and, more especially, a container, designed to contain photographic prints in various formats preferably together with the cassette containing the film after processing
  • processing laboratories after the development of the photographic film containing the images recorded, produce, from the various images recorded and developed, a paper print in a single format, and then cuts the film which is stored flat in a return envelope containing a compartment for the prints of the images and a second compartment for the film.
  • the container will need to have at least one reception compartment able to receive the largest size format.
  • the number of prints for any given format size for a specific film order is totally independent of other film orders. It is therefore difficult to provide a single size compartment in each of the format sizes since each of the individual compartments needs to be able to contain at a given time the maximum possible number of prints for that order.
  • containers comprising several different compartments of a respective size adapted to a specific format are used, it happens that for particular film orders when the photographic prints are returned to the customer, some compartments may be empty.
  • the prints of a size smallest than the largest size format are not held in a fixed position and can therefore move more or less freely when the container is transported. This leads to prints of smaller size hitting the walls of the box, which could damage the edges of the product and leads, in any case, to a bothersome noise. Additionaly, the unheld stationnary prints of size smaller than the largest size format leads to sliding of the prints upon each other. This slidding operation could damage the surface of the prints and affect the image quality of the prints.
  • the invention aims to produce a container which does not exhibit these drawbacks.
  • the invention also aims to produce a container which is economical and easy to produce.
  • the container or package 10 comprises a body 12 and a lid section 14.
  • the body could be made of plastic material in order to obtain rigidity and the lid section could be made of cardboard so that the outlook of the container could be easily and economically customized.
  • the cardboard lid section 14 consists essentially of two flats 16, 18. Each of the flats pivots on one side of a back 20. One of the flats 16 is stuck to the base of the body 12.
  • the other flat 18 is adapted so as to cover the body and to serve as a cover portion 19.
  • the cover section 19 consists, in reality, of two thicknesses of cardboard 18 and 22. This not only affords a more rigid cover portion 19, but also makes it possible to obtain more attractive presentation, since the two faces of the cover portion have the same texture because they are situated on the same face of the cardboard blank serving to form the lid section 14.
  • cover portion 19 could be made of plastic.
  • the cover portion could be hinged to a plastic back 20 by a living hinge made of a thinner portion of plastic material.
  • back 20 will be hinged to the plastic body 12 by another living hinge.
  • the body 12 comprises a first compartment defining a hollow chamber 30 for receiving a film cassette 31.
  • the dimensions of said chamber 31 are a little greater than the dimensions of a cassette 31 containing the developed, processed film of the prints to be placed within said container.
  • the body 12 also comprises a second compartment 32 designed to receive the prints 35, 36, 37 (see Fig 7B) of images recorded on the film which is contained in the cassette 31.
  • the compartment 32 is substantially in the shape of a rectangular parallelepiped whose supporting surface 33 corresponds to the peripheral size and shape of prints having the largest size format 37. As shown on Fig 7, the height H1 of compartment 32 is greater than the total thicknesses of all the prints to be introduced in said compartment 32.
  • the supporting surface 33 of the compartment 32 can be provided with one or more stiffeners 34 as depicted in Figure 1 to provide rigidity to the container 10. This arrangement enables a smaller quantity of plastic material to be used for the same strength.
  • the container also comprises an element 40, fixed to the cover portion 19, which cooperates with the body 12 to hold the cover portion 19 in the closed position selectively and as desired.
  • the element 40 can take the form of a T-shaped or L-shaped bar preferably made of plastic material.
  • One of the arms of the L or the horizontal arm of the T is bonded to the free end of the cover portion 19 so as to form an integral part with this cover portion.
  • the other arm of the T or L cooperates with a side of the container 10 to provide some fastening means so that the container is held in a closed position when the cover portion is pressed against the body 12.
  • the plastic bar 40 cooperates with a groove 70 (fig 11) formed in the plastic body 12.
  • the arm cooperating with the groove is provided with studs 42, the shape of which is arranged so as to cooperate with housings (not shown) of complementary shape disposed in the groove and providing an appropriate closure device.
  • the formats of prints should be encoded at the time the picture is taken.
  • the processing laboratories therefore deliver sets of photographic prints of various sizes. These prints, sorted by format size, are placed in a container with the developed and processed film in order to be returned to the customer.
  • the container therefore contains prints in various formats. Only the largest size format prints are then held substantially immobile inside the compartment.
  • the prints of smaller format sizes, placed flat in the second compartment 32, without further retaining member will be free to move within their plane. They can therefore hit the walls of said second compartment 32, thereby risking causing damage to the edges and producing noise, or slide upon each other risking to affect the quality of the prints.
  • the cover portion 19 is provided with flexible means 50, 51 projecting towards the supporting surface 33 of the compartment 32 when said cover portion 19 is in the closed position.
  • any film order could comprise any number of prints for a given size format.
  • a flexible member to act on the edge of the smaller prints so that sliding movement is prevented. Acting only on the flat surface of the prints would require a relatively high pressure and consequently a positive locking device for closing the container.
  • a specific film order could comprise no print of the largest size format.
  • the flexible retaining member needs to project from the plane of the cover portion 19 a distance at least equal to the hight H1 of the chamber 32 when at rest.
  • the flexible means consist of cardboard projections 50, 51. These projections project from the plane of the cover portion 19 and are directed towards the supporting surface 33 of the container so as to rest on the photographic prints by a fold line 55.
  • the flexible retaining member or projection 50 or 51 have an edge 52 situated in a plane practically orthogonal to the plane of the photographic prints and parallel to the edge of said photographic prints.
  • the projections, at rest are not disposed in a plane orthogonal to the plane of the cover portion 19, but form an angle with this plane.
  • the distance separating the projection 50 or 51 from one 39 of the side edges of the second compartment 32 is slightly greater than the size of the print to be immobilised.
  • the length D1 of the compartment 32 corresponds to the length of the prints of largest format size. In the example mentioned above, this dimension corresponds to a print of P-format and to a distance slightly greater than 36cm.
  • the length D2 between edge 52 of projection 51 and side edge 39 of compartment 32 is slightly greater than the size of a print of medium size, in the example mentioned above, a H-format. Consequently, D2 is slightly greater than 22 cm.
  • the length D3 between edge 52 of projection 50 and side edge 39 of compartment 32 is slightly greater than the size of a print of smallest size, in the example mentioned above, a C-format. Consequently, D3 is slightly greater than 18 cm. In the example mentioned above three various format sizes of same width has been considered so that only two projections is needed to immobilize the prints.
  • projections according to the invention enables the container to be adapted to any number of prints in each of the three formats envisaged. This is because, if the prints sent to the customer have no P-format print (see fig 7C), that is to say print of the largest size, the projection 51 will touch the supporting surface 33 of the compartment 32 and despite everything immobilize all the H-format prints, that is to say the medium format, the C-format prints being immobilised by projection 50. In another film order, if there were no C-format prints, the tongue 50 would slide on the H- or P-format prints and would have no particular use in this context.
  • the projection 51, or respectively 50 would not be used. In cases where all the prints were in P-format, none of the projection would be used, but they would not prevent the container from being used. The absence of one of the formats C or H format renders the presence of the corresponding projection pointless but does not modify the functioning of the other projection. It is clear that, for persons skilled in the art, the transverse position of the projections is not of primary importance and that, for certain applications, it may be preferable to have projections situated in the middle of the cover portion 19 as depicted in Figure 2. To this end, it is possible to use a blank which will be cut out in the manner depicted in Figure 5. In this embodiment, the lugs are folded at the middle of the cover portion 19. The areas 51a and 51b are bonded to each other while the area 51c restores the appearance of the whole cover portion 19. It is clear that this area 51c is not compulsory.
  • the flat serving as cover portion 19 is further provided with a flexible projection 53.
  • the projection 53 comprises an edge 54 situated in a plane practically orthogonal to the plane of the prints to be immobilized. This plane is also practically orthogonal to the plane containing the edge 52 of the projections 50 and 51.
  • the prints to be immobilized can be of different sizes in terms of both length and width.
  • the only constraint in order for the prints to be immobilized efficaciously is to have objects the dimensions of whose formats are either equal to or smaller than the corresponding dimensions of the nearest format.
  • the flexible retaining member 101 is made of a pad of a very compressible foam material.
  • fig 8A which represents a container according to the invention
  • the height of the pad is slightly bigger than the height of the compartment 32 in order to engage the edge of a print of small size located on the supporting surface 33.
  • Figure 8B represents the container of fig 8A with prints of all the format sizes 35, 36, 37 and corresponding to a film order located in the compartment 32.
  • the foam is compressed and portions of the pad engage the prints 35, 36 of smaller size, and preferably the edges of said prints, so that immobilization of all of the prints is obtained.
  • the flexible retaining member is made of a plurality of pads of foam 102, 103.
  • Each of said individual pads present an edge 104 functionning and located as the edge 54 of the embodiments described in connection with figures 1 to 7.
  • the foam is attached to the cover portion 19.
  • the flexible retaining means could be independant of the container or could be attached to another portion of the container than the cover portion 19.
  • the flexible carboard retainig member 50 and 51 which can be attached to the support surface 33 of the container; in that case the prints of different size format has to be ordered in the reverse direction with respect to the order used in the embodiments described in relation to figs 1-7.
  • the flexible retaining means 100 is hinged on one lateral side of the container, said retaining means is located out of the compartment 32 for introduction of the prints into said compartment as represented on figure 10B and is pivoted into said compartment after introduction of the prints and before closing of the cover portion 19 as represented on figure 10A wherein no prints have been introduced for clarity of the drawing.
  • the flexible retaining means will be compressed and will take a shape similar to the one described in fig 8B.
  • the flexible retainer means 100 is attached to the front part of said container through a flap 110.
  • flap 110 comprises openings in correspondance with groove 70 so that the T-bar 40 could cooperate with the groove 70.
  • the lid section 14 has slots 60, in the form of half-moons optionally stretched as depicted in Figure 1, enabling a sheet, for example a photographic print, to be slid and held.
  • the invention has been described with reference to a container for the return of photographic prints together with the film disposed in a cartridge 31. It is evident that the invention can be used to pack any prints in different formats and each dimension of which is either equal to or smaller than the corresponding dimension of the object with the closest format without a chamber 30 adapted to return the film in said cartridge.
  • the invention enables all the prints disposed in the package to be immobilised automatically.

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FR9601366A FR2744097B1 (fr) 1996-01-30 1996-01-30 Emballage pour produits plats de divers formats
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ES2265712A1 (es) * 2004-02-10 2007-02-16 Cervic, S.A. Estuche para soportes de registro tipo disco y copias fotograficas en papel de fotografia digital.

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EP0344695A2 (fr) * 1988-05-31 1989-12-06 Catherine Fuzellier Classeur pliable pour matériel en forme de feuille on de carte
US5016752A (en) * 1990-04-24 1991-05-21 Haugen Jr John M Picture and negative storage container
US5042662A (en) * 1987-05-29 1991-08-27 Eastman Kodak Company Container for receiving sheet material
EP0597545A1 (fr) * 1992-11-13 1994-05-18 Eastman Kodak Company Récipients recyclables/réutilisables pour emballer des matériaux graphiques en feuilles
US5472091A (en) * 1994-06-29 1995-12-05 Endeavour Iv, Inc. Combined photo and negative storage container

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US5042662A (en) * 1987-05-29 1991-08-27 Eastman Kodak Company Container for receiving sheet material
EP0344695A2 (fr) * 1988-05-31 1989-12-06 Catherine Fuzellier Classeur pliable pour matériel en forme de feuille on de carte
US5016752A (en) * 1990-04-24 1991-05-21 Haugen Jr John M Picture and negative storage container
EP0597545A1 (fr) * 1992-11-13 1994-05-18 Eastman Kodak Company Récipients recyclables/réutilisables pour emballer des matériaux graphiques en feuilles
US5472091A (en) * 1994-06-29 1995-12-05 Endeavour Iv, Inc. Combined photo and negative storage container

Cited By (1)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
ES2265712A1 (es) * 2004-02-10 2007-02-16 Cervic, S.A. Estuche para soportes de registro tipo disco y copias fotograficas en papel de fotografia digital.

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