Classifications

• • 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
  • B65D5/64—Lids
  • B65D5/68—Telescope flanged lids
  • B65D5/685—Telescope flanged lids having an inwardly or upwardly extending tab on the lid side wall cooperating with a tab on, or an opening in, the container side wall
• • 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
  • B65D15/00—Containers having bodies formed by interconnecting or uniting two or more rigid, or substantially rigid, sections made of different materials
  • B65D15/22—Containers having bodies formed by interconnecting or uniting two or more rigid, or substantially rigid, sections made of different materials of polygonal cross-section
• • 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
  • B65D5/64—Lids
• • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
  • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
  • Y10S—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
  • Y10S220/00—Receptacles
  • Y10S220/25—U-shaped sectional

Definitions

• the present invention relates to a packaging box for products, in particular food products such as pastries.
• the packaging boxes traditionally used in food shops are generally produced in a cardboard blank, cut, folded and glued. Such traditional boxes cannot be used in industry and food distribution because of their costs of implementation and filling. In addition, this type of packaging does not allow you to see the enclosed product.
• the cover may include a window on the top closed by a transparent or translucent film.
• the cover can also be made entirely of a transparent or translucent plastic material.
• the production of such covers and their installation are not easy.
• a box consisting of a bottom on which is positioned and locked a cover having a shape equivalent to the opening of the bottom of the box and which comprises two flaps articulated on opposite edges of the cover.
• These flaps can completely cover the lateral faces of the bottom and then respectively have a rim suitable for being housed under the bottom, the bottom then having on its lateral faces retaining plates whose lower part protrudes from the bottom so as to each constitute an element retaining in which is fixed the flexible flange of each flap of the cover provided with a notch at the fold between the flap and the flange.
• the flange in the absence of a retaining plate, is folded in a V and fits under the bottom, or else a retaining plate is provided along the lateral face to serve as a stop at the free end.
• the hinged flaps can also partially cover the lateral faces of the bottom and more precisely the upper edge of said lateral faces. These flaps then have a rim cooperating with a rim of the opening of the horizontal projecting bottom formed at the upper end of the lateral faces.
• These locking means formed on an edge of a lateral face of the bottom are not always of simple construction.
• a packaging box is proposed, the cover of which is transparent or translucent plastic material is easily produced and the closure of which is simple and easy due to the simple and easy positioning of the cover on the box, the closure can also be locked.
• the subject of the invention is a packaging box of the type comprising an open cardboard bottom of parallelepiped shape and a transparent or translucent cover removably mounted on the opening of said bottom, characterized in that the cover comprises a boss turned towards the inside of the box and cooperating with the opening of the bottom as well as at least two flaps articulated on opposite edges of the cover, each covering at least partially a lateral face of said bottom, said flaps further comprising each at least one locking means cooperating with a complementary locking means formed in a lateral face of the bottom or with a complementary locking means carried by the other flap or auxiliary flaps articulated on the other edges of the cover.
• the box is closed by the cooperation of the locking means carried by the flaps with the complementary locking means provided on the bottom and / or on the other flaps of the lid.
• the bottom is preferably made of cardboard in the traditional way, and it can be of the so-called “automatic” type, that is to say foldable.
• the cover is preferably formed by thermoforming a plastic material, elastically deformable, transparent or translucent. It has a parallelepiped shape corresponding to the opening of the bottom.
• the cover includes a boss facing the inside of the box when the cover is placed on the bottom and at least two opposite flaps each provided with a means of
• the cover 20 preferably comprises two opposite flaps covering respectively a whole side face of the bottom, each flap having, at its lateral ends, end tabs articulated on the edges of angle of the bottom, each end tab partially covering the adjacent side face and each tab further having a locking means cooperating with a complementary locking means provided on said adjacent side face of the bottom.
• the locking means are of the tongue / slot type, known per se, and, in the case of the variant of the embodiment, they are provided respectively on the end tabs of the lid flaps and at the ends of the side faces of the bottom which
• This variant allows recesses in the lateral faces of the bottom covered by the flaps of the cover so as to offer a greater vision of the product contained, said flaps may have embossing ents engaging in said recesses ents. This ensures good positioning of the cover on the bottom.
• the closure of the box is obtained by the establishment of the cover and the cooperation of the locking means of said cover and the bottom.
• the locking of the closure is obtained simultaneously with the closure itself by the cooperation of the locking means of the flaps and those of the bottom.
• the cover comprises at least two opposite flaps, each of the flaps being provided with a locking means cooperating with a complementary locking means provided on the other flap or on an auxiliary flap of the cover so as to close the cover on the bottom.
• each of the flaps preferably comprises an embossing suitable for engaging in a recess provided on the face of the bottom covered by said flap so that a locking of the closure of the box is also obtained. by engagement of said embossments in the bottom windows.
• the two flaps of the cover have, at their ends lateral, lateral extensions articulated on the corner edges of the bottom, the two lateral extensions of a first flap of the cover partially covering the adjacent faces and the two lateral extensions of the second flap of the cover also partially covering these same faces, said extensions lateral being arranged to overlap on said faces, one of the extensions comprising a locking means cooperating with a complementary locking means provided on the other extension.
• the lateral extensions can be shaped so as to form, when they are locked, an embossment suitable for engaging in a recess formed on the lateral face of the bottom which they cover.
• an embossment suitable for engaging in a recess formed on the lateral face of the bottom which they cover.
• one of the flaps of the cover is provided at its lateral ends with two lateral extensions articulated on the corner edges of the bottom and suitable for completely covering the two adjacent lateral faces, each lateral extension comprising an end tab articulated around a corner edge of the bottom and partially covering the second flap of the cover, each end tab having a locking means cooperating with a complementary locking means provided on the second flap of the cover.
• the bottom may include a recess on each lateral face, each lateral extension possibly having an additional embossing thus ensuring the locking of the closure of the box.
• the cover has four flaps articulated on the edges of the cover, two opposite flaps having at their lateral ends an end tab articulated on a corner edge and partially covering the adjacent auxiliary flaps, said end tabs respectively having a locking means and the two adjacent auxiliary flaps having at their lateral ends a complementary locking means.
• the locking means carried by a flap are tabs, the complementary locking means carried by the other flap or an auxiliary flap being slots.
• each flap of the cover has an end tab provided with a locking means cooperating with a complementary locking means provided at the end of the adjacent flap which covers the end tab and has a locking means. complementary to its other clean end to cooperate with a locking means carried by the end tab of the other adjacent flap.
• Figure 1 shows a perspective view of a box according to a first embodiment of the invention
• Figure 2 shows a perspective view of a box according to a variant of the first embodiment of the invention
• FIG. 3 represents a perspective view of a box 10 according to a first variant of a second embodiment of the invention
• FIG. 4 represents a perspective view of a box according to a second variant of the second embodiment of the invention.
• FIG. 5 represents a perspective view of a box according to a third variant of the second embodiment of the invention. 20
• a box according to the invention comprises a cover 1 and a bottom 2.
• the cardboard bottom 2 has an open parallelepiped shape 25 and has four side faces, 4, 4 'and 8, 8'.
• the cover 1 is produced by thermoforming of an elastically deformable plastic material and is extended by two flaps 3, 3 'which, when the cover 1 is placed on the bottom 2, respectively partially cover the two opposite faces 4, 4 'from the bottom 2.
• Each flap 3, 3' has a tongue 5 lockable in a slot 6 formed coincidentally on each face 4, 4 '.
• a rib forming a boss 7 is formed which constitutes a stop member against the periphery of the edges of the opening of the bottom. 2, thus ensuring proper positioning of the cover 1 on the bottom 2.
• the flaps 3, 3 ′ have dimensions suitable for completely covering the faces 4 and 4 ′ of the bottom 2.
• Each flap 3, 3 ′ has two end tabs 9.
• the flaps 3 and 3 ' cover the faces 4 and 4' and the end tabs 9 articulated on the corner edges of the bottom 2 partially cover the two adjacent faces 8 and 8 'of the bottom 2
• Each end tab 9 is provided with a tongue 5 cooperating with a slot 6 arranged in coincidence at each end of the faces 8 and 8 ′ of the bottom 2.
• recesses 10 are made in the faces 4 and 4 'of the bottom 2, the flaps 3 and 3' being provided with an embossing 11 corresponding to said recesses 10 so that, when the flap 3 or 3 'covers the face 4 or 4 ', the embossing 11 engages in the recess 10.
• FIGS 3, 4 and 5 illustrate the second embodiment of the invention.
• the flaps 3 and 3 ' are provided with embossments 11 suitable for engaging in recesses 10 formed in the faces 4, 4' of the bottom 2 which they cover.
• the flaps 3, 3 ' are further provided, at their lateral ends, with extensions 12, 12'.
• extensions 12, 12' are further provided, at their lateral ends, with extensions 12, 12'.
• the lateral extensions 12 and 12 'of the flaps 3 and 3' partially cover the two adjacent faces 8 and 8 'of the bottom 2.
• a lateral extension 12 and a 12 'lateral extension extending along the same face 8 or 8 ′ of the bottom 2 are dimensioned so as to overlap, one comprising a tongue 13 and the other a slot 14.
• each lateral extension 16 has at its longitudinal end, an end tab 17 suitable for partially covering the end of the adjacent flap 3 '.
• Each end tab 17 has a tongue 18 cooperating with a slot 19 provided in coincidence on the flap 3 '.
• the lateral extensions 16 may also include an embossment 20 suitable for engaging in a recess 10 provided on each face 8, 8 'of the bottom 2 which then has four recesses 10.
• the cover 1 has four flaps 3, 3 ′,
• each end tab 31 has a tongue 32 cooperating with a slot 33 provided at each end of the flaps 30, 30 'adjacent.
• the locking of the closure of the box is ensured by the engagement of the embossments 11 provided on each flap 3, 3 'and of embossments 34 provided on the flaps 30 and 30' in recesses 10 formed on each side face. 4, 4 ', 8 and 8' from the bottom 2.
• a box according to the invention therefore offers the advantage of being able to be easily closed, the lid being able to be locked on the bottom, of also being easily opened, the locking means being reversible, of being of a simple embodiment, and easy storage before use, the cover in particular being stackable and the bottom can be folded.

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