EP0959018B1 - System zum Lagern von Gruppen gefüllter, übereinandergestapelter, mit einem Flansch versehener Behälter in einer aus halbsteifem Material hergestellten Schale - Google Patents

System zum Lagern von Gruppen gefüllter, übereinandergestapelter, mit einem Flansch versehener Behälter in einer aus halbsteifem Material hergestellten Schale Download PDF

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EP0959018B1
EP0959018B1 EP19990400592 EP99400592A EP0959018B1 EP 0959018 B1 EP0959018 B1 EP 0959018B1 EP 19990400592 EP19990400592 EP 19990400592 EP 99400592 A EP99400592 A EP 99400592A EP 0959018 B1 EP0959018 B1 EP 0959018B1
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Gérard Deharbe
Bernard Lavocat
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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
    • B65D71/70—Trays provided with projections or recesses in order to assemble multiple articles, e.g. intermediate elements for stacking
    • 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
    • B65D71/0088—Palletisable loads, i.e. loads intended to be transported by means of a fork-lift truck
    • B65D71/0092—Palletisable loads, i.e. loads intended to be transported by means of a fork-lift truck provided with one or more rigid supports, at least one dimension of the supports corresponding to a dimension of the load, e.g. skids
    • B65D71/0096—Palletisable loads, i.e. loads intended to be transported by means of a fork-lift truck provided with one or more rigid supports, at least one dimension of the supports corresponding to a dimension of the load, e.g. skids the dimensions of the supports corresponding to the periphery of the load, e.g. pallets
    • 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
    • B65D2571/00006—Palletisable loads, i.e. loads intended to be transported by means of a fork-lift truck
    • B65D2571/00043—Intermediate plates or the like

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  • the present invention relates to a system for packaging, in a tray of semi-rigid material such as cardboard or corrugated board, lots of solid containers superimposed, comprising at their superior a collar that protrudes laterally and on which is fixed a sealing cap.
  • the invention also relates to a method of setting place such batches of containers in this tray.
  • the invention finally relates to the grouping on a pallet handling trays stacks containing lots of such containers thus packaged.
  • Containers of this type are, for example, pots of yogurts or other dairy products, as well as other various pasty foods, especially for young children, and they usually comprise a cylindrical body or frustoconical plastic, closed to its part superior by a lid, which is sealed on a flange of the body protruding laterally towards outside.
  • various pots are attached laterally by these collars, in which are planned breakthroughs allowing the consumer to separate individual pots, and several platelets from such pots are usually superimposed and maintained assembled by a flexible belt, for example, made of cardboard, to form a lot, which is offered for sale under this form in the stores.
  • the belt flexible usually goes above and below the lot of superimposed pots and encloses it laterally on two sides parallel, while the pots are apparent according to the two other sides, with their projecting flanges laterally.
  • the collars of the pots that make protruding laterally abut against the face interior of the contiguous wall of the container, which limits the useful volume of it.
  • the dimensions usual collars pots are such that even in optimally choosing the number of pots each layer of a lot, the trays used do not cover the entire surface of the pallet handling.
  • the invention is primarily concerned with set comprising a tray made of a semi-rigid material such as cardboard or corrugated board, rectangular bottom and side walls erect perpendicular to this bottom and adjacent to each other and to it by lines of folding, and, housed in contiguous positions in this trays, each consisting of superimposed layers filled receptacles, each receptacle having a flange protruding outward, by which he is contiguous to the contiguous containers and on which is fixed a shutter operculum, the different layers of a batch being assembled using a flexible belt that pass over and under the lot and who encloses it laterally on two opposite sides, this assembly being characterized in that the parts of the collars of the containers from the bottom layer of each lot not to contact of the belt of this lot and contiguous to a wall side of the tray protrude above this side wall and preferably bear on it.
  • a tray made of a semi-rigid material such as cardboard or corrugated board, rectangular bottom and
  • each batch may possibly be consisting of a single layer of containers, naturally without a belt in this case, whose contiguous collars at the four side walls of the tray are supported on these.
  • the subject of the invention is also a method of realization of the set that has just been defined, this characterized in that one discards one of the other the upper parts of at least two walls opposite of the empty tray intended to be engaged under the collars of containers of the first layer of different lots, in that we go down inwards from the tray said lots in the position they must occupy in this tray, in that we release walls spaced from each other when the bottom of the containers of the lower layer of each batch has arrived below the ridge of these walls but has not yet reaches the bottom of the tray, so that the walls previously discarded resume their original position by elasticity and come engage under the collars contiguous containers of the lower layer, and in that that the batches of containers are brought into their position in the tray.
  • the bodies of the receptacles may have a cylindrical or frustoconical shape, with a circular section, square or other.
  • the trays used have a bottom of dimensions lower than those of the bottom of usual trays used for the same purpose, since collars of the containers, instead of coming up against the inner side of the side walls, protrude above them.
  • the surface gain of the bottom of the tray is such that it becomes possible to stack the trays on a handling pallet of usual dimensions (1200 cm x 800 cm) perfectly covering the surface top of this pallet, without trays removed or overflowing, with stacks of trays in contact with each other.
  • stacks of pallets are mutually the pallets and it results in a very superior stability palletized loads in transport vehicles.
  • batches of containers full of the type of yoghurt pots with, in their part superior, a collar, which protrudes towards the exterior and of which is secured a lid are generally housed in cardboard packaging or corrugated cardboard, such as packaging 1 of FIGS. and 2, which have a rectangular section, include side walls of height at least equal to that of the lots packaged and eventually closed to their parties higher.
  • the batches are more grouped together in packages whose sidewalls envelop them completely, but in trays with rectangular bottom, against the side walls of which the collars of the containers do not come in abutment, but on the edges of which they take support.
  • the trays used can be different types, for example of the type coming from the blank 3 of corrugated cardboard precut and repressed shown in Figure 3.
  • This blank has a rectangular bottom portion 4, to which are adjacent, by two fold lines parallel, two transverse walls 5, intended to be erected perpendicularly to the bottom 1, and by two lines bending perpendicular to the previous ones, two walls longitudinal 6, also intended to be erected perpendicular to the bottom 1.
  • These walls 6 extend by flaps 7 adjoining these walls by lines of folding intended to be perpendicular to the bottom 4, these flaps 7 being fixed against the inner face of the walls 5, for example by gluing.
  • the batches 10 of 11 full containers to be packaged here comprise three layers of containers, but this number could naturally be different.
  • the containers of each layer have at their upper part a flange 12 protruding laterally, by which they are adjoining contiguous containers and to which adheres the sealing cap of the containers.
  • Layers superimposed full containers are rimmed so known by a flexible belt 13, here in thin cardboard, which passes over and under the batch of containers and the encloses laterally along two parallel sides.
  • the different batches 10 of containers are housed in contiguous positions in the trays, against the inner side of two walls of which, here the walls transverse 5, come to apply the belts 13 of lots, while the other two walls, here the walls longitudinal 6, are engaged below the collars 12 containers of the lower layer of each batch, these flanges 12 resting on the edge of the wall 6 contiguous, preferably without overflowing to the outside.
  • the walls 6 of the empty tray are perpendicular to the bottom 4 of the tray, but, as it has been stated above, they can also be tilted towards the inside of the tray, to be straightened outwards during the establishment of lots of containers.
  • a first advantage of this mode of conditioning is that we significantly reduce the amount of cardboard corrugated used to group the batches of containers, this which helps lower costs.
  • a second advantage is that by reducing lateral dimensions of the walls of the container used, in overflowing the collars of the containers above walls 5 or 6, it is possible to adjust these dimensions in such a way that the stacks of full trays occupy the entire upper surface of the pallets 2 of handling, resulting in a much better stability of these batteries, which are mutually stable.

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  1. System mit einer aus einem halbsteifen Material wie zum Beispiel Karton oder Wellpappe hergestellten Schale mit rechteckigem Boden (4) und senkrecht zu diesem Boden ausgerichteten und über Falzlinien aneinandergrenzenden seitlichen Wandungen (5, 6) und mit in dieser Schale eingesetzten Gruppen (10), die jeweils aus übereinandergestapelten Lagen von gefüllten Behältern (11) bestehen, wobei jeder Behälter (11) einen nach aussen vorspringenden Flansch (12) besitzt, durch den der Behälter an die benachbarten Behälter angrenzt und auf dem ein Verschlussdeckel befestigt wird, und wobei die verschiedenen Lagen einer Gruppe mittels eines elastischen Gurtes (13) zusammengefasst werden, der oben und unten durch die Gruppe geführt ist und diese seitlich an zwei gegenüberliegenden Seiten sichert,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Teile der Flanschen (12) der Behälter in der unteren Lage einer jeden Gruppe, die nicht mit dem Gurt der jeweiligen Gruppe in Kontakt stehen und an eine seitliche Wandung (6) der Schale angrenzen, über diese seitliche Wandung hinaus nach oben vorstehen und bevorzugt auf dieser Wandung aufliegen.
  2. Abgewandelte Ausführungsform des Systems nach Anspruch 1, bei der die Gruppe von Behältern (11) aus einer einzigen Lage von Behältern ohne elastischen Gurt für eine Lagerung besteht, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Flanschen (12) der an die vier Wandungen (5, 6) der Schale angrenzenden Behälter (11) nach oben über diese Wandungen vorstehen.
  3. Verfahren zur Herstellung eines Systems nach einem der Ansprüche 1 und 2, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die oberen Abschnitte von mindestens zwei gegenüberliegenden Wandungen (6) der leeren Schale voneinander abgesetzt sind, um unterhalb der Flanschen (12) der Behälter (11) der ersten Lage der verschiedenen Gruppen (10) in Eingriff zu gelangen; dass die Gruppen in das Innere der Schale (10) in die darin vorgesehene Position abgelassen werden; dass die voneinander abgesetzten Wandungen (6) freigegeben werden, wenn der Boden der Behälter (11) der unteren Lage einer jeden Gruppe unterhalb der Kante dieser Wandungen vorsteht, den Boden (4) der Schale jedoch noch nicht erreicht hat, dergestalt, dass die vorher voneinander abgesetzten Wandungen durch Elastizität wieder in ihre ursprüngliche Position zurückkehren und unterhalb der die Behälter (11) der unteren Lage begrenzenden Flanschen (12) in Eingriff gelangen; und dass die Gruppen (10) von Behältern in ihre endgültige Stellung in der Schale gebracht werden.
  4. Verfahren nach Anspruch 3, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die zum Eingriff unterhalb der Flanschen (12) des Behälters (11) bestimmten gegenüberliegenden Wandungen (5,6) der leeren Schalen normalerweise relativ zueinander parallel verlaufen.
  5. Verfahren nach Anspruch 3, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die zum Eingriff unterhalb der Flanschen (12) des Behälters (11) bestimmten gegenüberliegenden Wandungen (5, 6) der leeren Schalen normalerweise zur Innenseite der Schale hin schräg verlaufen.
  6. System zum Lagern von Stapeln von Schalen mit Gruppen (10) von Behältern (11) auf einer Transportpalette (2) nach einem der Ansprüche 1 und 2, dadurch gekennzeichnet,
    dass die aneinandergrenzenden Wandungen der übereinandergestapelten Schalen am Boden miteinander in Kontakt stehen und dass die Böden der Schalen der verschiedenen Stapel die Gesamtoberfläche der Palette (2) bedecken;
    und dass die Schalen der verschiedenen Stapel auf den Gruppen (10) der in der Schale angeordneten Behälter direkt unterhalb und nicht auf dieser Schale aufliegen.
EP19990400592 1998-04-20 1999-03-11 System zum Lagern von Gruppen gefüllter, übereinandergestapelter, mit einem Flansch versehener Behälter in einer aus halbsteifem Material hergestellten Schale Expired - Lifetime EP0959018B1 (de)

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FR9804912A FR2777549B1 (fr) 1998-04-20 1998-04-20 Systeme de conditionnement dans une barquette en un materiau semi-rigide de lots de recipients plein superposes, comportant une collerette a leur partie superieure
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