EP0894727A1 - Zerlegbarer und stapelbarer Behälter - Google Patents

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EP0894727A1
EP0894727A1 EP98401943A EP98401943A EP0894727A1 EP 0894727 A1 EP0894727 A1 EP 0894727A1 EP 98401943 A EP98401943 A EP 98401943A EP 98401943 A EP98401943 A EP 98401943A EP 0894727 A1 EP0894727 A1 EP 0894727A1
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Robert Blasco
José Blasco
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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
    • B65D19/00—Pallets or like platforms, with or without side walls, for supporting loads to be lifted or lowered
    • B65D19/02—Rigid pallets with side walls, e.g. box pallets
    • B65D19/06—Rigid pallets with side walls, e.g. box pallets with bodies formed by uniting or interconnecting two or more components
    • B65D19/20—Rigid pallets with side walls, e.g. box pallets with bodies formed by uniting or interconnecting two or more components made wholly or mainly of paper
    • 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
    • B65D19/00—Pallets or like platforms, with or without side walls, for supporting loads to be lifted or lowered
    • B65D19/02—Rigid pallets with side walls, e.g. box pallets
    • B65D19/06—Rigid pallets with side walls, e.g. box pallets with bodies formed by uniting or interconnecting two or more components
    • B65D19/18—Rigid pallets with side walls, e.g. box pallets with bodies formed by uniting or interconnecting two or more components made wholly or mainly of plastics material
    • 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
    • B65D2519/00—Pallets or like platforms, with or without side walls, for supporting loads to be lifted or lowered
    • B65D2519/00004—Details relating to pallets
    • B65D2519/00009—Materials
    • B65D2519/00154—Materials for the side walls
    • B65D2519/00159—Paper
    • 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
    • B65D2519/00—Pallets or like platforms, with or without side walls, for supporting loads to be lifted or lowered
    • B65D2519/00004—Details relating to pallets
    • B65D2519/00009—Materials
    • B65D2519/00154—Materials for the side walls
    • B65D2519/00174—Plastic
    • 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
    • B65D2519/00—Pallets or like platforms, with or without side walls, for supporting loads to be lifted or lowered
    • B65D2519/00004—Details relating to pallets
    • B65D2519/00547—Connections
    • B65D2519/00577—Connections structures connecting side walls, including corner posts, to each other
    • B65D2519/00616—Connections structures connecting side walls, including corner posts, to each other structures not intended to be disassembled
    • B65D2519/00621—Connections structures connecting side walls, including corner posts, to each other structures not intended to be disassembled sidewalls directly connected to each other
    • 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
    • B65D2519/00—Pallets or like platforms, with or without side walls, for supporting loads to be lifted or lowered
    • B65D2519/00004—Details relating to pallets
    • B65D2519/00547—Connections
    • B65D2519/00577—Connections structures connecting side walls, including corner posts, to each other
    • B65D2519/00616—Connections structures connecting side walls, including corner posts, to each other structures not intended to be disassembled
    • B65D2519/00626—Connections structures connecting side walls, including corner posts, to each other structures not intended to be disassembled sidewalls connected via corner posts
    • 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
    • B65D2519/00—Pallets or like platforms, with or without side walls, for supporting loads to be lifted or lowered
    • B65D2519/00004—Details relating to pallets
    • B65D2519/00736—Details
    • B65D2519/00865—Collapsible, i.e. at least two constitutive elements remaining hingedly connected
    • B65D2519/00875—Collapsible, i.e. at least two constitutive elements remaining hingedly connected collapsible side walls
    • B65D2519/00925—Collapsible, i.e. at least two constitutive elements remaining hingedly connected collapsible side walls with semi-detachable components, i.e. with some side walls hinged to each other or to a base panel and the other side walls being detachable to allow collapsing of the container

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  • the present invention relates to a removable and stackable container.
  • the present invention improves the containers in order to be able to meet these requirements. It intends to provide a very economical container both in its manufacture and in its use, namely in mounting and disassembly by occupying, in the disassembled state, a very reduced volume, while presenting, in the assembled state, high resistance to stacking.
  • the invention relates to a removable container to be reused and stackable, comprising a bottom, a belt or peripheral wall, and a cover, characterized in that the bottom comprises a pallet having, at its upper edge, a rigid frame forming an upper peripheral rim on the pallet, in that the belt, preferably made of corrugated cardboard or longitudinally ribbed or honeycombed plastic, has lines of folding allowing it to take, in the unfolded state, a polygonal configuration with vertical faces, preferably rectangular, and in the folded state, a configuration completely flattened, and in that the cover has a frame arranged to be able to be fitted onto the belt, as well as means for receiving and hold the pallet of another container stacked on top.
  • the belt may include, on each of its edges, an angle stiffening, which can then take on the weight of the upper pallet in case of stacking.
  • a fold line can be disposed inside the edge, this fold line can be constituted by a fold line forming a natural hinge or on the contrary constituted by a hinge, which is thus protected inside the angle profile.
  • the bottom frame can be made from a profile angle iron, one wing, horizontal, is fixed on the pallet and the other, vertical, forms the aforesaid peripheral edge.
  • the pallet is of the bottom sole type to avoid a risk of the container tipping over when it is supported by the fork of an elevating machine.
  • the pallet receives, inside the frame which overcomes it, a bottom panel, preferably made of the same material than the belt.
  • edges of said panel bottom are parallel to the frame and slightly apart from it to form a peripheral groove receiving the lower edge of the belt and holding it in square.
  • the height of the belt is less than the width of the bottom frame, so that the belt, in the folded state, can be placed and contained at flat on the pallet inside the bottom frame.
  • the belt preferably has a fold line in the middle on each of two opposite sides, and, preferably, the short sides in the event of rectangular container. There is thus no continuity solution in this wall.
  • one or more of the side faces of the belt may have an opening, formed for example of a folding flap cut out of the material, to allow access to the contents of the container without removing the cover.
  • the cover which has a peripheral frame, thus forms a lower edge which covers the belt.
  • This cover frame can advantageously be made from an angle profile including a wing, horizontal, comes to rest on the upper edge of the belt, and receives, if applicable if necessary, the pallet of a stacked container, the other wing of which, vertical, forms a rim into which the upper edge of the belt fits.
  • a cover panel is advantageously carried by this frame, preferably made of the same material as the material of the belt.
  • the vertical wing of the cover frame is tilted slightly downwards and outwards, so that the cover panel, cut to size suitable, can be adjusted and forced into the cover frame, which ensures, at the same time, its fixing and a sealing of the cover.
  • the frame of the cover carries, at its corners or tops, short sections of angle iron each forming a dihedral of vertical edge and protruding above the cover frame to receive and maintain the pallet of a container stacked on top.
  • the short sections of angle iron exceed the cover frame down, which allows, when folded, to place the cover on the bottom frame and keep it there.
  • the lower frames that is to say the bottom and / or upper, that is to say of cover, are formed from an angle profile, identical to that possibly used for the reinforcement of the belt edges.
  • the container thus described is easy to assemble by a single person with no special qualifications. Indeed, he just needs to enter a belt in the folded state and deploy it on the bottom, and inside the frame top of the bottom. In this position it then suffices to come and fit the cover on the upper part of the belt. These operations can be performed either before, either after loading resting on the bottom panel, or, in the absence of this one, on the palette.
  • the container can then be encircled by links usual strapping. Disassembly is just as easy by removing the cover and belt folding.
  • the belt Once the belt is folded, it can be laid flat on the bottom, and the cover in place so that these end holding means overlap the bottom frame, so that the belt is also located protected between the bottom and the cover.
  • the container according to the invention comprises a bottom 1, a belt 2 and a cover 3.
  • the bottom 1 consists of a classic wooden palette 4 with a perforated floor 5 and agglomerated studs 6 resting, at their ends lower on soles 7, this pallet thus allowing support by the forks of the usual lifting machines.
  • a frame 8 formed of a galvanized iron profile with angle section.
  • the horizontal wing of this profile is fixed on the pallet floor by any fixing means, e.g. nail or screw, and the vertical wing forms a peripheral rim on the pallet.
  • a sign bottom, for example in cardboard 9 is fixed on the pallet, leaving between its edges and the vertical wings of the frame 8, a channel or groove 21 of width slightly greater than the thickness of the material constituting the belt 2.
  • the belt is composed of reinforced corrugated cardboard closed by gluing or stapling, so that form a rectangular belt with two long sides 10 and two small sides 11.
  • Two fold lines 12 were made in the middle of the two small sides 11.
  • a tilting flap 13 can be, for example, constituted by a cutout adequate, in one of the large panels 10 which allows access to the content of the container without disassembly.
  • the dimensions of the belt 2 are such that in the deployed state, its lower periphery is received precisely in the groove 21 inside the frame 4 which thus keeps it in place.
  • the two short sides 11 fold inwards, so that the belt can be completely flattened by bringing the two long sides together 10. If the height of the belt is not greater than the width of the short side, the belt thus folded can be laid flat on the bottom panel 9 inside the frame 2.
  • the belt 2 is made of rigid plastic, by example in plastic panels with longitudinal ribbed cells for example sold by the Kaysersberg Packaging Company, France, under the Akylux® brand.
  • the belt is formed of four independent plastic panels 14, 15, the side panels 15 having a fold line 16 prepared in advance, similar to line 12.
  • the four edges vertical belts are formed by four angle profiles 17, the longitudinal panels 14 being bolted or otherwise attached to the wing of profiles 17 which is parallel to them.
  • the metal angle 17 has wing dimensions of 30 x 3 and 40 x 3 mm.
  • a hinge metal 18 a hinge metal 18, preferably by the same fixing means, such as bolts.
  • the wings of the movable part of the hinge are fixed, for example by bolting, against the internal face of the corresponding edges of the side panel 15, so that it can pivot around the substantially material vertical axis by the angle 17.
  • the belt obtained by combining the metal angles 17, hinges 18 and plastic panels with longitudinal cells have a exceptional stiffness in compression, as well as lightness remarkable.
  • FIG. 6 shows the folded position of the belt, in which the various belt panels have taken a parallel position.
  • the assembly thus produced in the folded state can, as before, be received and immobilized inside the frame formed by the bottom 1 and be covered by the cover 3.
  • the cover 3 as seen in Figure 7, has a frame 19 formed from an angle profile assembled so as to present a wing horizontal upper and a vertical wing forming a rim extending towards the low. At the four corners of this frame are fixed, for example by welding or bolting, four sections of angle iron 20 forming, each time, a dihedral protruding up and down from the frame 19 A panel 22 is fixed in this frame under the horizontal wings of the frame, preferably by force fitting in the frame, whose vertical wings are slightly inclined, both for embedding the panel, and to facilitate nesting on the belt.
  • the dimensions of the frame 19 are practically identical to those of the bottom frame 8, so that we can put the cover on the deployed belt 2 that the cover overlaps.
  • the upper container comes, by its pallet 6, place on the frame 19 and it is held against any movement lateral by the parts of the angle sections 20 which protrude upwards, as seen in Figure 9.
  • Stacking resistance in the case of a simple belt like shown in Figure 2, is provided by the resistance of the belt.
  • the belt can easily be cut at the height suitable for the product intended to be contained.
  • the metal frame 8 protects the faces of the belt against fork of the handling equipment if it is incorrectly adjusted relative to the pallet, and, similarly, in the event of stacking, the upper frame 18 also provides this effect of protection. In addition, in the case of the container having the vertical angles 17, all the edges of the container are protected against impact.
  • frames 8 and 19 also prevents any deterioration when strapping the container.

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FR2801564A1 (fr) * 1999-11-30 2001-06-01 Larousse Emballage Ensemble de conditionnement comprenant une palette surmontee d'une caisse
GB2411884A (en) * 2004-03-10 2005-09-14 Sandy Stokes A bolster for facilitating the formation of a pallet from a stack of boards
EP1854730A1 (de) * 2006-05-12 2007-11-14 Brakemann Verpackungen GmbH & Co.KG Faltkarton
EP2072411A3 (de) * 2007-12-17 2009-07-15 Marc Phillipe Elvin-Jensen Schüttgutbehälter
EP3162724A4 (de) * 2014-06-26 2018-03-14 Syspac Supply Chain Montagebox für den transport

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WO1995019302A1 (fr) * 1994-01-12 1995-07-20 Enthalpy S.A. Boite isolante pliable de transport et d'emballage
WO1995021774A1 (en) * 1994-02-14 1995-08-17 Bradford Company Collapsible pallet box
EP0681964A1 (de) * 1994-05-10 1995-11-15 Claude Detournay Zusammenlegbarer Palettenbehälter
US5487471A (en) * 1994-10-19 1996-01-30 Molex Incorporated Packaging container assembly for electrical connector components
DE4429483A1 (de) * 1993-08-23 1996-02-22 P P M Product Patent Marketing Zerlegbarer Transportbehälter
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FR2175896A1 (de) * 1972-03-10 1973-10-26 Caterpillar Tractor Co
DE8622993U1 (de) * 1986-08-27 1987-09-24 Dennig, Helmut, Dipl.-Ing., 32657 Lemgo Transportabler Behälter, insbesondere zur Lagerung und zum Transport von Fässern mit umweltgefährdenden Flüssigkeiten
DE9210341U1 (de) * 1992-07-28 1993-01-21 Cita Gesellschaft für Verpackung und Logistik mbH, 4300 Essen Oekologische gesichtspunkte beruecksichtigender transportbehaelter
GB2277319A (en) * 1993-04-23 1994-10-26 Formold Ltd Collapsible containers
DE4429483A1 (de) * 1993-08-23 1996-02-22 P P M Product Patent Marketing Zerlegbarer Transportbehälter
WO1995019302A1 (fr) * 1994-01-12 1995-07-20 Enthalpy S.A. Boite isolante pliable de transport et d'emballage
WO1995021774A1 (en) * 1994-02-14 1995-08-17 Bradford Company Collapsible pallet box
EP0681964A1 (de) * 1994-05-10 1995-11-15 Claude Detournay Zusammenlegbarer Palettenbehälter
US5487471A (en) * 1994-10-19 1996-01-30 Molex Incorporated Packaging container assembly for electrical connector components
GB2300622A (en) * 1995-05-06 1996-11-13 Rover Group Collapsible containers

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FR2801564A1 (fr) * 1999-11-30 2001-06-01 Larousse Emballage Ensemble de conditionnement comprenant une palette surmontee d'une caisse
GB2411884A (en) * 2004-03-10 2005-09-14 Sandy Stokes A bolster for facilitating the formation of a pallet from a stack of boards
GB2411884B (en) * 2004-03-10 2006-02-01 Sandy Stokes Palletising bolster
EP1854730A1 (de) * 2006-05-12 2007-11-14 Brakemann Verpackungen GmbH & Co.KG Faltkarton
EP2072411A3 (de) * 2007-12-17 2009-07-15 Marc Phillipe Elvin-Jensen Schüttgutbehälter
AU2008258125B2 (en) * 2007-12-17 2013-09-26 Gavin Jean Elvin-Jensen A bulk container
EP3162724A4 (de) * 2014-06-26 2018-03-14 Syspac Supply Chain Montagebox für den transport
US10059509B2 (en) 2014-06-26 2018-08-28 Syspac Supply Chain Assembly box for transportation

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