EP1310439A1 - Emballage pour produits tels que des oeufs - Google Patents

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EP1310439A1
EP1310439A1 EP01126758A EP01126758A EP1310439A1 EP 1310439 A1 EP1310439 A1 EP 1310439A1 EP 01126758 A EP01126758 A EP 01126758A EP 01126758 A EP01126758 A EP 01126758A EP 1310439 A1 EP1310439 A1 EP 1310439A1
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Alessandro Rocchetti
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Brodrene Hartmann AS
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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
    • B65D85/00—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials
    • B65D85/30—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for articles particularly sensitive to damage by shock or pressure
    • B65D85/32—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for articles particularly sensitive to damage by shock or pressure for eggs

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  • the present invention relates to a package for storage and display of fragile goods as set forth in the preamble of claim 1 and more particularly to such a storage and displaying package for eggs.
  • Packages of the above kind are known in a variety of forms within the art. Such packages have to be appealing to users and customers and an important aspect of their construction is therefore the possibility to provide graphical information as well as informative and/or decorative images on appropriate portions of the exterior surfaces of the packages.
  • a number of prior art packages of the above kind comprises a bottom part making up about half of the height of the complete package and a cover part making up the other half of the height.
  • Packages are however also known within the art, where the bottom part practically makes up the complete height of the package and which are provided with a cover part essentially comprising a wrapping surrounding the bottom part.
  • US 1,990,145 discloses an egg tray comprising a number of upwardly open pockets for containing the eggs, the height of the tray slightly exceeding the height of the eggs and where the egg tray can be slit into a surrounding wrapping, thereby closing said upwardly open pockets.
  • this package does provide the possibility to apply both informative and decorative labels on the various surfaces of the wrapping it suffers from the disadvantage that the filled egg tray is not retained in position within the wrapping, and it is hence possible unintentionally to dislocate the tray from its position within the wrapping with the risk of dropping and destroying the content of the tray. It is furthermore easy to open the package, remove the content from the tray and close the package again leaving the impression of a intact package.
  • a package comprising a bottom part provided with a number of upwardly open pockets for receiving and accommodating said products and a cover part comprising an upper face, two side faces and a bottom face, where the shape of the cover part is such that it is able to surround said bottom part and thereby cover said upwardly open pockets.
  • the faces of the cover part are according to the various embodiments of the invention described in detail below essentially planar and able to be provided with informative and/or decorative characters and images, but it is understood that non-planar faces may also be applied without departing from the claimed invention.
  • the cover part is the part of the package according to the invention that to a large extent provides the package with its customer specific features both with respect to written characters, images and details of the shape of the cover part and it is possible to make the cover part of a cheap material such as cardboard, although other materials may also be used.
  • the cover part and the bottom part are furthermore provided with retaining means for mutual engagement with each other, when the package is in a closed condition, thereby preventing unintentional and unauthorised opening of the package and removal of the product contained in the package.
  • Said retaining means generally comprise at least one, but preferably a plurality of protrusions extending outwardly from the bottom part for engagement with a similar number of openings provided at corresponding places in the cover part.
  • these protrusions and corresponding openings can be placed anywhere on the surface of the bottom part and the corresponding locations on the cover part, but a number of practically interesting embodiments of the retaining means according to the invention is shown and described in the detailed description of the invention. It is understood that the term "protrusion” in this context should comprise both separate details formed at appropriate places on the bottom part as well as protruding portions of the bottom part.
  • a protrusion or protruding portion is in the present context a portion of the bottom part, the shape of which enables it to penetrate the plane of the cover part at the corresponding place. Furthermore, it is in principle also possible to provide the bottom part with said openings and the cover part with correspondingly located inwardly extending protrusions.
  • the cover part of the package is according to the various embodiments described in detail in the following formed in one piece as a thin sheet, which could be made of cardboard or the like, although other materials may also be used and provided with bending lines facilitating the formation of a wrapping surrounding at least four of the external surfaces of the bottom part.
  • the formation of the surrounding wrapping can for instance take place once the bottom part has been filled with the product to be packaged, whereby this product becomes contained in the package in a reliable and protective manner.
  • a package of the above mentioned kind which among other things offers the advantages of less weight (less material) than prior art packages, which makes it possible to provide the above mentioned information and decorative effects on a variety of large surfaces of the package according to the different requirements of customers etc., which is reliable in use and tamper resistant and which is furthermore advantageous from a production and package point of view.
  • the package in these exemplary embodiments comprising a bottom part in the form of an egg tray and a corresponding cover part in the form of a wrapping made from a thin sheet of suitable material such as cardboard.
  • FIG. 1 there is shown a perspective view of an egg package according to one embodiment of the invention.
  • the package generally designated by reference numeral 1, comprises an egg tray 3 and a wrapping 2 for covering the open upper end of the egg tray 3.
  • the egg tray 3 shown in the Figure comprises two rows of pockets 8, three pockets in each row, but it is understood that other numbers of rows and pockets per row could also be used without departing from the invention as defined in the claims.
  • the edge portion 15 is provided with outwardly extending protrusions 10 for retaining the egg tray 3 relative to the wrapping 2 by engagement with corresponding openings 7 cut in the wrapping 2.
  • FIG 1 there is furthermore shown the wrapping 2 corresponding to this specific egg tray 3, i.e. comprising 2 rows of openings cut through the wrapping 2 at either longitudinal edge of the upper face 4 of the wrapping.
  • the wrapping furthermore comprises side faces 5 and bottom faces 6, whereby the wrapping can be brought to surround and enclose the egg tray completely on all sides except for the two ends hereof.
  • the closed package 1 corresponding to Figure 1 is shown in Figure 2.
  • the wrapping is being retained relative to the egg tray by the engagement of the protrusions 10 of the egg tray 3 with the corresponding openings 7 of the wrapping 2.
  • the two bottom faces 6 of the wrapping are attached to each other for instance by the application of a suitable adhesive, although attachment could of cause also be obtained by alternative means. Due to the engagement between the retaining protrusions 10 and the corresponding openings 7 the wrapping can not be removed from the egg tray without disconnecting the two bottom faces 6 from each other or by destroying the wrapping.
  • FIG. 3 there is shown a second embodiment of the package according to the invention comprising an egg tray consisting of two separate egg trays detachably connected along the short sides of these and each comprising two rows with three pockets 8, in principle constructed in the same manner as the one shown in Figures 1 and 2.
  • the package shown in Figure 3 furthermore comprises a wrapping 2 comprising two upper faces 4' and 4" and corresponding side and bottom faces 5', 6' and 5", 6" respectively.
  • the wrapping is furthermore provided with cut-outs 12 and 13 separating the upper faces 4' and 4" and the corresponding side- and bottom faces.
  • the wrapping 2 is furthermore provided with retaining openings 7 for engagement with corresponding retaining protrusions 10 when the package is in the closed condition.
  • FIG 4 A further embodiment of the invention is shown in Figure 4, which embodiment to a large extent resembles the embodiment shown in Figure 3 except for the lack of the cut-outs 12 and 13 shown in Figure 3.
  • the wrapping 2 shown in Figures 3 and 4 is closed along overlapping edge portions 11 of the bottom faces 6, for instance by means of a suitable adhesive.
  • the egg tray 3 comprises the main elements consisting of the pockets 8 of sufficient height to accommodate the eggs and internally subdivided by a number (in this case two) pillar posts 9, the upper faces 14 of which are situated at a level above the bottom of the egg tray which is substantially equal to the level of the edge portion 15 of the tray.
  • the egg tray 3 is furthermore provided with outwardly extending retaining protrusions 10 placed on the edge portion 15 of the tray, one retaining protrusion for each of the pockets 8.
  • the retaining of the wrapping to the egg tray, when the package is in the closed condition, is as mentioned important to ensure that it is possible for example to a customer in a retail shop to see that a filled package has not been tampered with and generally for maintaining the impression of a good and reliable product.
  • the co-operating retaining means 7, 10 may according to the invention also be provided at other locations on the tray 3 and wrapping 2 compared with the above embodiments.
  • Figure 7 shows an alternative embodiment of the invention according to which the retaining protrusions are provided by the bottom edge portions themselves of the side faces of the tray, i.e. the protrusions as such are in this embodiment replaced by protruding portions of the tray.
  • This choice of protruding portions as part of the retaining mechanism is at least partly due to the technique applied during the moulding of the bottom part, but the retaining function obtained due to the engagement of the protruding portions with corresponding openings 7 in the cover part is similar to the one described above.
  • the corresponding wrappings are according to the embodiment shown in Figure 7 provided with retaining openings 7 located along the border lines between the side faces 5 and the bottom faces 6 of the wrapping 2.
  • the embodiment shown in Figure 7 may under circumstances be advantageous compared to these described above, for instance if the wrapping is to be provided with a unitary display label 21 wrapped around the side faces 5 and the upper face 4 of the wrapper 2, in which case the label 21 may interfere with the retaining openings 7 and corresponding protrusions 10 according to the preceding embodiments.
  • FIG. 8 there is shown a further embodiment of the package according to the invention, according to which embodiment the egg tray 3 is provided with downwardly extending retaining protrusions 10" placed adjacent the edge portions of the bottom faces 6 of the egg tray 3. These protrusions engage corresponding retaining openings 7" in the bottom faces 6 and thus serves the same purpose as in the above embodiments. It is, however, furthermore possible according to this embodiment of the invention to provide the upper face 4 of the wrapper 2 with corresponding sets of openings 17 for engagement with the protrusions 10" of another, similar package 1' placed on the upper face 4 of the first package 1 in a stacked arrangement.
  • the protrusions according to this embodiment of the invention serve the dual purpose of retaining the wrapping to the corresponding egg tray and also to prevent two or more stacked packages from becoming unintentionally displaced from each other during use, for instance in a retail shop.
  • the retaining protrusions have been described as positioned at appropriate places on each of the pockets 8 of the bottom part 3. It is, however, understood that it is possible to associate the protrusions with a restricted number of pockets (and possibly also to provide a correspondingly limited number of retaining openings 7) without deviating from the scope of the invention as defined by the claims. Furthermore, the invention has been exemplified with bottom parts comprising 2 x 3 pockets or 2 x (2 x 3) pockets as shown in the various Figures, but of course the invention is equally applicable to bottom parts comprising other arrangements of pockets.

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Citations (5)

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US1990145A (en) 1933-02-08 1935-02-05 George W Swift Jr Inc Egg carton
GB1011091A (en) * 1961-01-25 1965-11-24 William W Cleland Ltd Improvements in and relating to containers for frangible or crushable objects
FR2200827A5 (fr) * 1972-07-03 1974-04-19 Nb Ctre Promoti N Marque
GB2174073A (en) * 1985-04-25 1986-10-29 Federal Paper Board Co Inc Lock arrangement for cartons
US4844328A (en) * 1988-04-29 1989-07-04 Manville Corporation Wrap-around carton with flange-receiving slots

Patent Citations (5)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US1990145A (en) 1933-02-08 1935-02-05 George W Swift Jr Inc Egg carton
GB1011091A (en) * 1961-01-25 1965-11-24 William W Cleland Ltd Improvements in and relating to containers for frangible or crushable objects
FR2200827A5 (fr) * 1972-07-03 1974-04-19 Nb Ctre Promoti N Marque
GB2174073A (en) * 1985-04-25 1986-10-29 Federal Paper Board Co Inc Lock arrangement for cartons
US4844328A (en) * 1988-04-29 1989-07-04 Manville Corporation Wrap-around carton with flange-receiving slots

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