EP0934888B1 - Packaging device for pots of cottage cheese - Google Patents

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EP0934888B1
EP0934888B1 EP19990400276 EP99400276A EP0934888B1 EP 0934888 B1 EP0934888 B1 EP 0934888B1 EP 19990400276 EP19990400276 EP 19990400276 EP 99400276 A EP99400276 A EP 99400276A EP 0934888 B1 EP0934888 B1 EP 0934888B1
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    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65DCONTAINERS 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
    • B65D71/00Bundles 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
    • B65D71/50Bundles 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 comprising a plurality of articles held together only partially by packaging elements formed otherwise than by folding a blank
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65DCONTAINERS 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
    • B65D71/00Bundles 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
    • B65D71/0003Tray-like elements provided with handles, for storage or transport of several articles, e.g. bottles, tins, jars

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  • the invention relates to a packaging for products presented in grouped packaging and in particular for cottage cheese packaged in jars grouped and closed each by a cover.
  • Each pot is intended to contain a cheese mold called announcementselle with perforations allowing the cottage cheese to drip.
  • a cup holder has a circular base for each cup and half rings that hang on each cup.
  • the pots are held in place by a film plastic or a plastic or cardboard strip.
  • the object of the invention is to propose another packaging especially for jars for packaging white cheese.
  • the invention relates to packaging for products presented in grouped packages consisting of a combination of pots each closed by a cover and a device to group the pots with a number of housings equal to that of pots to be joined, the device being a basket having a bottom from which at least one protrusion of substantially frustoconical shape rises which defines with the side walls of the basket said housings intended to receive each a pot, in that each pot has a body with an edge peripheral, characterized in that each cover has a lower peripheral edge forming a outer shoulder, in that the top of this protuberance has a flat surface extending parallel to the bottom of the basket and on which support, by its peripheral edge, each pot placed in a housing of the basket, in that hooks are provided on the flat surface to come engage on the outer shoulder formed by the lower edge of each cover and that bosses are provided at the bottom of the slots to tighten the bottom edge of each pot.
  • Figure 1 shows in an elevational view, the device according the invention.
  • Figure 2 shows in a partial cross-sectional view along II-II in FIG. 1, a jar of cottage cheese placed in a housing of the device according to the invention.
  • the device according to the invention for conditioning, by example in quadrette, jars of cottage cheese in a square arrangement consists essentially of a basket 1 with a bottom 2 and four walls lateral 3A, 3B, 3C, 3D inscribed in a parallelepiped so as to maintain four pots grouped in a square arrangement.
  • the basket has a protrusion central 4 of substantially frustoconical shape which rises from the bottom 2 of the basket.
  • This protuberance defines with the walls 3A to 3D of the basket four housings in each of which can be placed a pot, the bottom of each pot resting on the bottom of the basket.
  • each pot according to the invention has, at its upper part, a peripheral edge 8 constituted by a horizontal annular area which connects the body of the pot substantially frustoconical to a cylindrical skirt whose upper end constitutes the edge top of the pot.
  • each cover 6 according to the invention has at its lower part, an outer peripheral edge 10 constituted by a horizontal annular zone forming an outer shoulder which is connected to the body of the cover by a substantially frustoconical skirt having a inner annular bead and an inner annular shoulder intended for cooperate with the upper rim of the pot to ensure by snap-fastening closing the jar with the lid.
  • the protrusion 4 has at its top a flat surface 7 which extends substantially parallel to the bottom 2 of the basket and on which support, by its peripheral outer edge 8, each pot 5 placed in a housing inside the basket.
  • hooks 9, four hooks in the case of the example shown in the figures, are provided to come engage on the outer rim 10 of the lid of each pot placed in a basket housing.
  • These hooks which rise from the flat surface 7 are shaped to engage by snap-fastening on the lower edge of each lid so that each lid is held by pinching on a pot .
  • Each jar with its lid can also be easily removed of the basket by releasing the flexible hook (s) from the pot lid
  • Bosses 11 are provided in the lower part of the housings, that is to say in the lower part of the side walls of the basket and in the lower part protrusion, to resiliently tighten the bottom edge of each pot, keeping the pots in the basket being reinforced very simply.
  • the basket with its central projection, including the hooks and bosses, is made in one piece preferably by molding a plastic and is of low cost.
  • the bottom of the basket which coincides with the base of the protrusion is hollowed out to stack multiple empty baskets.
  • a handle 13 may also be provided at the top of the protrusion to facilitate the basket handling. Because the bottom of the protrusion is hollowed out, several baskets can be stacked even when they contain pots. AT instead of the handle 13 or in addition to this, the flat surface at the top of the protuberance may have a central hole 14 in which one can drive a finger to manipulate the basket.
  • Figures 1 and 2 illustrate a basket with a very bare frame (including the protuberance), of the filiform type but the invention is not limited to this type of achievement. It would also be possible to extend the principle of the invention the grouping of six or eight jars of white cheese packaging by providing two or three protrusions respectively rising from the bottom of the basket.

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L'invention porte sur un conditionnement pour produits présentés en emballages groupés et en particulier pour du fromage blanc conditionné en pots regroupés et fermés chacun par un couvercle. Chaque pot est destiné à contenir un moule à fromage appelé faisselle présentant des perforations permettant au fromage blanc de s'égoutter.The invention relates to a packaging for products presented in grouped packaging and in particular for cottage cheese packaged in jars grouped and closed each by a cover. Each pot is intended to contain a cheese mold called faisselle with perforations allowing the cottage cheese to drip.

On connaít déjà des dispositifs pour conditionner une quadrette de pots d'emballage de fromage blanc selon une disposition en carré. Certains de ces dispositifs connus se présentent sous la forme de quatre anneaux en matière plastique reliés ensemble selon une disposition en carré, chaque pot étant inséré dans un anneau et chaque anneau étant conformé pour maintenir par un encliquetage un couvercle sur le pot. Un tel dispositif est en particulier connu du document de brevet EP-0179005.We already know devices to condition a quadrette of pots white cheese packaging in a square arrangement. Some of these known devices are in the form of four material rings plastic linked together in a square arrangement, each pot being inserted in a ring and each ring being shaped to hold by a snaps a lid onto the pot. Such a device is known in particular from Patent document EP-0179005.

Dans US-3951259, un porte-gobelets comporte une base circulaire pour chaque gobelet et des demi anneaux qui s' accrochent à chaque gobelet.In US-3951259, a cup holder has a circular base for each cup and half rings that hang on each cup.

Dans d'autres dispositifs connus, les pots sont maintenus par un film en matière plastique ou une bande en matière plastique ou en carton.In other known devices, the pots are held in place by a film plastic or a plastic or cardboard strip.

Le but de l'invention est de proposer un autre conditionnement notamment pour des pots d'emballage de fromage blanc.The object of the invention is to propose another packaging especially for jars for packaging white cheese.

A cet effet, l'invention a pour objet un conditionnement pour produits présentés en emballages groupés constitué par la combinaison de pots individuels fermés chacun par un couvercle et d'un dispositif pour regrouper les pots présentant un nombre de logements égal à celui de pots à réunir, le dispositif étant un panier ayant un fond à partir duquel s'élève au moins une protubérance de forme sensiblement tronconique qui définit avec les parois latérales du panier lesdits logements destinés à recevoir chacun un pot, en ce que chaque pot a un corps qui présente une arête périphérique, caractérisé en ce que chaque couvercle a un bord périphérique inférieur formant un épaulement extérieur, en ce que le sommet de cette protubérance présente une surface plane s'étendant parallèlement au fond du panier et sur laquelle prend appui, par son arête périphérique, chaque pot placé dans un logement du panier, en ce que des crochets sont prévus sur la surface plane pour venir s'engager sur l'épaulement extérieur formé par le bord inférieur de chaque couvercle et en ce que des bossages sont prévus à la partie inférieure des logements pour serrer le bord inférieur de chaque pot.To this end, the invention relates to packaging for products presented in grouped packages consisting of a combination of pots each closed by a cover and a device to group the pots with a number of housings equal to that of pots to be joined, the device being a basket having a bottom from which at least one protrusion of substantially frustoconical shape rises which defines with the side walls of the basket said housings intended to receive each a pot, in that each pot has a body with an edge peripheral, characterized in that each cover has a lower peripheral edge forming a outer shoulder, in that the top of this protuberance has a flat surface extending parallel to the bottom of the basket and on which support, by its peripheral edge, each pot placed in a housing of the basket, in that hooks are provided on the flat surface to come engage on the outer shoulder formed by the lower edge of each cover and that bosses are provided at the bottom of the slots to tighten the bottom edge of each pot.

Un exemple de réalisation du dispositif selon l'invention est décrit ci-dessous plus en détails et illustré sur les dessins.An embodiment of the device according to the invention is described below in more detail and illustrated in the drawings.

La figure 1 montre selon une vue en élévation, le dispositif selon l'invention. Figure 1 shows in an elevational view, the device according the invention.

La figure 2 montre selon une vue en coupe partielle et transversale selon II-II sur la figure 1, un pot de fromage blanc placé dans un logement du dispositif selon l'invention.Figure 2 shows in a partial cross-sectional view along II-II in FIG. 1, a jar of cottage cheese placed in a housing of the device according to the invention.

Sur la figure 1, le dispositif selon l'invention pour conditionner, par exemple en quadrette, des pots de fromage blanc selon une disposition en carré est constitué essentiellement par un panier 1 avec un fond 2 et quatre parois latérales 3A,3B,3C,3D inscrites dans un parallélépipède de sorte à maintenir quatre pots regroupés suivant une disposition en carré.In FIG. 1, the device according to the invention for conditioning, by example in quadrette, jars of cottage cheese in a square arrangement consists essentially of a basket 1 with a bottom 2 and four walls lateral 3A, 3B, 3C, 3D inscribed in a parallelepiped so as to maintain four pots grouped in a square arrangement.

Comme visible sur la figure 1, le panier comporte une protubérance centrale 4 de forme sensiblement tronconique qui s'élève depuis le fond 2 du panier. Cette protubérance définit avec les parois 3A à 3D du panier quatre logements dans chacun desquels peut être placé un pot, le fond de chaque pot reposant sur le fond du panier.As shown in Figure 1, the basket has a protrusion central 4 of substantially frustoconical shape which rises from the bottom 2 of the basket. This protuberance defines with the walls 3A to 3D of the basket four housings in each of which can be placed a pot, the bottom of each pot resting on the bottom of the basket.

Figure 2, on voit un pot 5 avec son couvercle 6 en place dans un emplacement défini à l'intérieur du panier. Chaque pot conforme à l'invention présente, à sa partie supérieure, une arête périphérique 8 constituée par une zone horizontale annulaire qui raccorde le corps du pot de forme sensiblement tronconique à une jupe cylindrique dont l'extrémité supérieure constitue le rebord supérieur du pot. Par ailleurs, chaque couvercle 6 conforme à l'invention, présente à sa partie inférieure, un bord périphérique extérieur 10 constitué par une zone horizontale annulaire formant un épaulement extérieur qui est raccordé au corps du couvercle par une jupe sensiblement tronconique présentant un bourrelet annulaire intérieur et un épaulement annulaire intérieur destinés à coopérer avec le rebord supérieur du pot pour assurer par encliquetage la fermeture du pot avec le couvercle.Figure 2, we see a pot 5 with its lid 6 in place in a defined location inside the basket. Each pot according to the invention has, at its upper part, a peripheral edge 8 constituted by a horizontal annular area which connects the body of the pot substantially frustoconical to a cylindrical skirt whose upper end constitutes the edge top of the pot. Furthermore, each cover 6 according to the invention, has at its lower part, an outer peripheral edge 10 constituted by a horizontal annular zone forming an outer shoulder which is connected to the body of the cover by a substantially frustoconical skirt having a inner annular bead and an inner annular shoulder intended for cooperate with the upper rim of the pot to ensure by snap-fastening closing the jar with the lid.

La protubérance 4 présente à son sommet une surface plane 7 qui s'étend sensiblement parallèlement au fond 2 du panier et sur laquelle prend appui, par son arête extérieure périphérique 8, chaque pot 5 placé dans un logement à l'intérieur du panier.The protrusion 4 has at its top a flat surface 7 which extends substantially parallel to the bottom 2 of the basket and on which support, by its peripheral outer edge 8, each pot 5 placed in a housing inside the basket.

Par ailleurs, comme visible sur les figures 1 et 2, des crochets 9, quatre crochets dans le cas de l'exemple montré sur les figures, sont prévus pour venir s'engager sur le rebord extérieur 10 du couvercle de chaque pot placé dans un logement du panier. Ces crochets qui s'élèvent depuis la surface plane 7 sont conformés pour s'engager par encliquetage sur le rebord inférieur de chaque couvercle de telle sorte que chaque couvercle est maintenu par pincement sur un pot . Chaque pot avec son couvercle peut par ailleurs être facilement extrait du panier en dégageant le ou les crochets flexibles du couvercle du potFurthermore, as can be seen in FIGS. 1 and 2, hooks 9, four hooks in the case of the example shown in the figures, are provided to come engage on the outer rim 10 of the lid of each pot placed in a basket housing. These hooks which rise from the flat surface 7 are shaped to engage by snap-fastening on the lower edge of each lid so that each lid is held by pinching on a pot . Each jar with its lid can also be easily removed of the basket by releasing the flexible hook (s) from the pot lid

Des bossages 11 sont prévus à la partie inférieure des logements, c'est-à-dire dans la partie basse des parois latérales du panier et dans la partie basse de la protubérance, pour serrer de façon élastique le bord inférieur de chaque pot, le maintien des pots dans le panier étant ainsi renforcé très simplement.Bosses 11 are provided in the lower part of the housings, that is to say in the lower part of the side walls of the basket and in the lower part protrusion, to resiliently tighten the bottom edge of each pot, keeping the pots in the basket being reinforced very simply.

Le panier avec sa protubérance centrale, incluant les crochets et les bossages, est réalisé en une seule pièce de préférence par moulage d'une matière plastique et est d'un faible coût de revient.The basket with its central projection, including the hooks and bosses, is made in one piece preferably by molding a plastic and is of low cost.

Le fond du panier qui coïncide avec la base de la protubérance est évidé pour permettre d'empiler plusieurs paniers vides. On peut aussi prévoir des bossages 12 sur la surface extérieure des parois latérales du panier, ces bossages limitant l'encastrement des paniers quand ils sont empilés. Une anse 13 peut aussi être prévue au sommet de la protubérance pour faciliter la manutention du panier. Du fait que le fond de la protubérance est évidé, plusieurs paniers peuvent être empilés même quand ils contiennent des pots. A la place de l'anse 13 ou en plus de celle-ci, la surface plane au sommet de la protubérance peut présenter un trou central 14 dans lequel on peut enfoncer un doigt pour manipuler le panier.The bottom of the basket which coincides with the base of the protrusion is hollowed out to stack multiple empty baskets. We can also provide bosses 12 on the outer surface of the side walls of the basket, these bosses limiting the embedding of the baskets when they are stacked. A handle 13 may also be provided at the top of the protrusion to facilitate the basket handling. Because the bottom of the protrusion is hollowed out, several baskets can be stacked even when they contain pots. AT instead of the handle 13 or in addition to this, the flat surface at the top of the protuberance may have a central hole 14 in which one can drive a finger to manipulate the basket.

Les figures 1 et 2 illustrent un panier ayant une ossature très dépouillée (y compris la protubérance), du type filiforme mais l'invention n'est pas limitée à ce type de réalisation. Il serait aussi possible d'étendre le principe de l'invention au regroupement de six ou huit pots d'emballage de fromage blanc en prévoyant deux ou trois protubérances respectivement s'élevant depuis le fond du panier.Figures 1 and 2 illustrate a basket with a very bare frame (including the protuberance), of the filiform type but the invention is not limited to this type of achievement. It would also be possible to extend the principle of the invention the grouping of six or eight jars of white cheese packaging by providing two or three protrusions respectively rising from the bottom of the basket.

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  1. Packaging for products presented as a group of individual packages and constituted by a combination of individual pots (5) each closed by a respective cover (6) together with a device for holding the pots together and presenting a number of housings equal to the number of pots (5) to be held together, the device being a basket having a bottom (2) from which there rises at least one protuberance (4) of substantially frustoconical shape which co-operates with the side walls (3A-3D) of the basket to define said housings each intended to receive one pot, each pot having a body which presents a peripheral edge (8), the packaging being characterized in that each cover has a bottom peripheral edge (10) forming an outside shoulder, in that the top of said protuberance presents a plane surface (7) extending parallel to the bottom of the basket and on which the peripheral edge (8) of each pot placed in a housing of the basket bears, in that hooks (9) are provided on the plane surface to engage on the outside shoulder formed by the bottom edge (10) of each cover, and in that projections (11) are provided on the bottom portion of the housings to clamp against the bottom edge of each pot.
  2. The device according to claim 1, in which the basket with its protuberance is made as a single molding.
  3. The device according to claim 2, in which the basket is made of plastics material.
  4. The device according to any one of claims 1 to 3, in which the bottom of the basket coinciding with the base of the protuberance is hollowed out.
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