EP1657163A1 - Packaging container for mounting on a packaging unit for liquids - Google Patents

Abstract

The packing container is for the stacking on a fluid packaging unit (2) assembled from several bottles (6) with spaces (12) in between. The packing container has a support plate (7) from which project several chambers (4) each of which opens into an opening in the support plate. Each chamber with regard to the arrangement on the support plate is adapted to the position of the bottles adjacent to the intermediate chambers and has a form which fits into the respective space in such a way that each chamber in the state of the packing container seated on the packaging unit is located at least partially between the bottles. An independent claim is included for a fluid packaging unit with the aforesaid packing container.

Description

The invention relates to a packaging container for placement on a liquid packaging unit, as well as a liquid packaging unit with attached packaging container.

In order to make a product more attractive to the customer, small promotions are attached to a product in the form of advertising media. In particular, beverage companies often give small gifts when buying a drinks box for free to animate the customer to buy the goods. The problem arises of how the addition to the product or beverage box can be fixed without the addition being damaged, the product being released from the product during transport, or the product being hampered by stacks and storability.

In addition, it is particularly desirable in beverage crates to be able to attach an additional container to this. Since the size of the crates is largely standardized in order to ensure good stackability of the crates for storage and transport purposes, the attachment of an additional container to the crates is problematic.

The invention is therefore an object of the invention to provide a packaging container for attachment to a liquid packaging unit or a liquid packaging unit with packaging container in which the space requirement is minimized and good stackability of the liquid packaging unit is ensured, but the packaging container should have the largest possible volume.

The object is achieved with the features of claims 1 and 20.

The invention proposes to set up a packaging container on a liquid packaging unit consisting of a plurality of individual liquid packages. In this case, the packaging container has a plurality of chambers, which open into openings in a support plate. The chambers are adapted with respect to the arrangement on the support plate to the distance or the space of the adjacent liquid packaging that the chambers can be inserted when placing the packaging container on the liquid packaging unit between the liquid packaging, so that in the mounted state of the packaging container each chamber at least partially is arranged between liquid packaging. In most liquid packaging units, the space formed between the liquid packages is an unused space. The packaging container according to the invention uses this space and thus creates an additional storage space at the liquid packaging units. The stackability and storability of the liquid packaging unit is still given.

In a particularly preferred embodiment, the packaging container is completely or substantially completely integrated into the liquid packaging unit in the state placed on the liquid packaging unit. In this case, the chambers are completely in the gap formed between the liquid packaging. The support plate protrudes slightly out of the liquid packaging unit, but may also be completely integrated into the liquid packaging unit. As a result, a simple transport of the liquid packaging unit is possible, and given a good stackability of the liquid packaging unit.

The liquid packaging unit may have a housing through which additional stability and good handling of the Liquid packaging unit is given.

Preferably, the chambers are dimensionally stable. Thereby, a packaging container according to the invention can be particularly easily placed on a liquid packaging unit, as the chambers can be easily inserted into the spaces between the liquid packaging.

In one embodiment of the packaging container having a large number of chambers, the packaging container may be detached from the liquid packaging unit and securely supported on the chambers.

In a preferred embodiment, the packaging container is supported on the liquid packaging via the carrier plate in the state placed on the liquid packaging unit. As a result, only a small weight on the chambers, so that they are not pressed or damaged and the contents of the chambers can not be damaged. In addition, a simple and effective attachment of the packaging container to the liquid packaging unit is possible in this way, since due to the arranged between the liquid containers chambers and resting on the liquid containers support plate of the packaging container is already held relatively secure to the liquid packaging unit.

In an alternative embodiment, the packaging container is supported on the housing of the liquid packaging unit in the state placed on the liquid packaging unit.

Above the support plate can be formed by standing on the edges of the support plate side walls in a standing in connection with the chambers receiving space. The support plate forms the bottom of the receiving space.

Another plate may form a lid of the receiving space, wherein the further plate preferably has projecting side edges which cooperate with the edges or side walls of the support plate. Alternatively, the lid of the receiving space may be formed by a sealing foil. In this case, the side walls of the receiving space preferably have sealing edges on which the sealing film can be fastened.

The arrangement of an additional receiving space of the storage space of the packaging container is increased. The receiving space has a very different shape compared to the chambers, in which even large, flat products can be stowed.

In a particularly preferred embodiment, the chambers are closable by a sealing film, wherein the sealing film is attachable to the top of the support plate. In this case, each chamber can be closed individually by a respective sealing foil or several chambers together with a sealing foil. By closing a chamber or several chambers through a sealing film, it is possible to close airtight, for example, food in the chambers. By closing a chamber with a sealing foil or of a certain number of the chambers with a common sealing foil, it is possible to open only individual chambers without the remaining chambers also having to be opened. As a result, the content can be removed from only a part of the chambers, without the content can fall out of the other chambers, or the air is exposed, which is particularly advantageous for food.

The chambers may have a Hohlkegelstumpf-, Hohlkegel-, Hohlpyramiden-stump, Hohlpyramiden-, Hohlkreiszylinder-, Hohlhalbkugel-, Hohlkeil- or Hohlobeliskform. In particular, a hollow pyramid stump or the hollow pyramids and the hollow wedge or Hohlobeliskform are advantageous because they are easy to manufacture due to their simple geometric shapes. In addition, with the exception of the hollow cylinder shape, all shapes are downwardly one Rejuvenation, so that chambers of such shape are particularly easy to insert into the spaces between the liquid packaging.

In the mounted state of the packaging container on the liquid packaging unit, the chambers can be arranged in a horizontal plane in each case centrally between four adjacent liquid packaging. Particularly in the case of round liquid packaging, when arranging the liquid packaging, a particularly large intermediate space is formed centrally between four adjacent liquid packaging, so that the volume of the chambers can be particularly large.

The entire packaging container can be made of plastic, preferably a transparent plastic. However, only parts of the packaging container may be made of plastic, so that, for example, the chambers, the support plate, the side walls of the room and / or the lid made of plastic or transparent plastic.

It is also possible that the packaging container consists wholly or partly of a metal, preferably of a light metal. The chambers, the support plate, the side walls of the room and / or the lid may consist of this metal. Depending on the requirements of the packaging container this may partially made of metal and partially made of plastic, so that for example the support plate has been made of a thin metal, while the chambers are made of plastic.

In a preferred embodiment, the packaging container is at least partially made of a material suitable for food. In this case, the chamber or chambers, the support plate, the side walls of the room and / or the lid of such Material exist. This makes it possible to fill in the packaging container and food.

Preferably, the support plate has a material thickness of at least 0.3 mm, preferably at least 0.5 mm. In this way, a sufficient stability of the support plate is given, so that the packaging container is easy to handle and in a simple manner on the liquid packaging unit can be placed and removed again. In addition, a support plate having such a material thickness sufficient rigidity, so that the packaging container can be placed on the chambers without the instability caused by a buckling of the support plate.

In a further embodiment, the support plate recesses or holes, which are adapted to caps or upper covers of the liquid packaging. Through such depressions, the packaging container can be placed particularly stable and particularly deep on the liquid packaging unit, so that a large part of the support plate between the liquid packaging and thus good stacking, storage and transportability of the liquid packaging units is maintained. By providing holes in the support plate, it can even be placed on the liquid packages such that the upper part of the liquid packages passes through the holes in the support plate. By providing the receiving space above the chambers, by providing the depressions, the volume of the receiving space can even be increased without the packaging container protruding too far from the liquid packaging unit at the top.

The liquid packaging can be beverage packaging.

In this case, the liquid packaging unit may comprise a beverage box for receiving the liquid packaging or from a Contain containers that is held together with a Folienumspannung.

In the following, the invention will be described in more detail with reference to the figures.

Showing:

Table 1 Fig. 1 a schematic representation of a first embodiment of a packaging container according to the invention; Fig. 2 a schematic representation of a second embodiment of a packaging container according to the invention with additional receiving space; Fig. 3 a perspective view of a packaging container according to the invention shown in FIG. 1; Fig. 4 a perspective view of another embodiment of a packaging container according to the invention; Figure 5 a perspective view of the packaging container according to the invention; Fig. 6 a perspective view of the packaging container according to the invention with depressions in the support plate Fig. 7 a perspective view of another embodiment of a packaging container according to the invention and Fig. 8 a schematic representation of another embodiment of a packaging container according to the invention.

In Fig. 1, a first embodiment of a packaging container 1 according to the invention in the mounted state is shown schematically on a liquid packaging unit 2.

The liquid packaging unit 2 is composed of a plurality of individual liquid packages 6. In the illustrated embodiment, the liquid packaging unit 2 is designed with a designed as a beverage box housing 14 with 6 bottles. The packaging container 1 has a support plate 7, from which several chambers 4 extend downwards. The chambers 4 open into openings 10 of the support plate 7, as best seen in Figure 3 can be seen. The support plate 7 rests on the bottles 6 in the state of the packaging container 1 placed on the liquid packaging unit. In this case, the chambers 4 are located in the intermediate space 12 formed between the bottles 6.

In the embodiment shown in FIG. 1, a further beverage crate 2 is placed on the housing 14 of the beverage crate, so that between the bottom 3 of the upper crate 2 and the bottles 6 of the underlying crate 2, a gap 11, in which the support plate 7 inserted is. The shape of the chambers 4 tapers downwardly so that the chambers 4 can be inserted into the space 12 between the liquid packages 6. As a result, the chambers 4 can protrude far into the space between the liquid packages 6 and form a large volume.

FIG. 2 shows a further exemplary embodiment of the packaging container 1 according to the invention. In Fig. 2, the liquid packaging units 2 are shown as stackable beverage crates with liquid packaging 6 in the form of bottles 6. Between the bottom 3 of a beverage crate 2 and the bottles 6 of the underlying beverage crate 2, a relatively large gap 11 is formed in this embodiment.

The packaging container 1 has at the edges 18 upstanding side walls 20, which form a receiving space 16. Another Plate 22 with projecting side edges 24 forms the lid of the receiving space 16. The side edges 24 cooperate with the side walls 20 of the support plate 7 such that the side edges 24 include the side walls 20, thus ensuring a tight fit of the lid.

The chambers 4 are arranged in the spaces between the liquid packaging 6. In this case, the chambers 4 open through the passage opening 10 directly into the receiving space 16. With such a packaging container 1, the space formed by the gap 12 and the gap 11 between two crates 2 is optimally utilized. In addition, differently shaped articles can be filled in the packaging container. In the chambers, for example, small parts such as dice, pawns but also cookies or the like can be filled. The flat almost over the entire horizontal extension of the crates 2 extending receiving space 16 can be used to record, for example, a game plan but also a magazine or a flat book.

In the Fign. FIGS. 3 to 6 show different embodiments of a packaging container according to the invention in a schematic, perspective view. FIG. 3 shows an exemplary embodiment of a packaging container 1 according to FIG. 1. The chambers 4 are hollow-pyramid-shaped or hollow-pyramidal-shaped. The plate 7 has a surface 30 on which sealing films 28 can be fastened. With the aid of the sealing foils 28, the openings 10, into which the chambers 4 open, are hermetically sealed. The sealing foils 28 can each individually close the chambers 4. However, it is also possible that a sealing film 28 closes all or part of the chambers together. The sealing film 28 is indicated in Fig. 3 by a dotted line. The sealing film 28, for example, food that is filled in the chambers 4, airtight and thus be locked durable. The sealing of individual or only a part of the chambers has the advantage that in each case only the required chambers can be opened without the other chambers must also be opened.

Instead of sealing foils, the chambers 4 may also be replaced by other closure means, e.g. Cover, screw caps, adhesive films or the like. Be closed.

4, a further embodiment of the packaging container 1 is shown. The packaging container 1 essentially has the shape of the packaging container 1 shown in FIG. 2. In addition, recesses 34 are formed in the support plate 7, which can receive caps 32 or upper covers of the liquid packaging 6 in the mounted state. In particular, in the embodiment with a receiving space 6 this would be an advantage, since in this way the support plate 7 can be inserted deeper into the liquid packaging unit 6, so that the volume of the receiving space 16 can be increased without the gap 11 between two liquid packaging units also must be increased. In this way, packaging containers 1 with a receiving space 16 in liquid packaging units 2, which have only a narrow gap 11 in the stacked state, as shown for example in Fig. 1, can be used. In an embodiment not shown 34 holes are provided instead of the wells with which the support plate of the packaging container is placed on the liquid packaging. In this case, the support plate with the inner edges of the holes at the top of the liquid packaging 6, for example, a bottleneck, supported.

Fig. 5 shows a packaging container 1 according to FIG. 2, in which the chambers 4 are frusto-conical. These in contrast previously described embodiments relatively flat chambers have the Advantage that the filled into the chambers objects can be removed relatively well, since the chambers do not extend so far down. For example, biscuits can be removed completely by hand from the chamber, without the packaging container must be turned over to empty the chambers.

FIG. 6 shows further shapes of the chambers 4, the chambers 4 having different sizes in this exemplary embodiment. As a result, objects of different size or quantity can be filled into the individual chambers 4 of the packaging container 1.

In Fig. 7, an alternative embodiment of a packaging container 1 is shown. On the support plate 7, the side walls 20 are arranged such that they can be placed on the housing 14 of the liquid packaging unit 2.

Another liquid packaging unit 2 is not placed in this embodiment on the housing 14 of the underlying liquid packaging unit 2, but on a frame forming side walls 20 of the packaging container. In this way, the receiving space 16 can be made arbitrarily large, since the packaging container 1 is formed as a kind of intermediate layer between two liquid packaging units. In the exemplary embodiment illustrated in FIG. 7, the cover 22 of the receiving space 16 is formed, for example, as a sealing film 26. For this purpose, the side walls 20 have sealing edges 28 on which the sealing film 26 can be fastened. Of course, in the embodiment of FIG. 7, the receiving space 16 also have a cover in the form of a plate 22. The frame forming side walls 20 of the receiving space 16 must be made very stable in the embodiment of FIG. 7, since this is the weight of the stacked above Have to carry liquid packaging units 2.

The packaging container 1 shown in Fig. 1 to 7 may be wholly or partly made of metal or plastic. In one embodiment made of plastic, the plastic can be designed to be transparent so that, when viewing a liquid packaging unit 2, it is immediately apparent what is contained in the packaging container 1 placed as an addition to the liquid packaging unit 2.

The packaging container 1 according to the invention can be designed as disposable or Mehrwergverpackungen.

For advertising allowances or small giveaways, a disposable packaging is recommended in which, for example, food in the form of biscuits, sweets, but also spices or small tasting portions of ready meals in the chambers 4 and the receiving space 16 can be filled. In addition to food, depending on the season or the product sold other giveaways can be filled, such as streamers or confetti, key chains, bottle openers and the like.

Such packaging containers are also outside the food sector are applicable.

Furthermore, the housing 14 of the liquid packaging unit 2 can also consist of a cardboard.

In addition to the in Figs. illustrated embodiment with a liquid packaging unit comprising a housing 14 or box, packaging containers 1 according to the invention are also applicable in liquid packaging units 2, in which the liquid packaging 6 are held together by a shrink film. In this case, even with the aid of the packaging container, a platform can be produced on the upper side of the liquid packaging 6 which determines the stackability of such liquid packaging units 2 improved. In this case, however, it is advantageous if the packaging container is placed on the liquid packaging unit with a film before the re-tensioning, so that the packaging container is encompassed together with the liquid packaging. As a result, the packaging container is attached particularly stably to the liquid packaging unit.

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Packaging container (1) for placement on a liquid packaging unit (2), wherein the liquid packaging unit (2) is composed of a plurality of individual liquid packages (6), such that intermediate spaces (2) are formed between the individual liquid packages (6), characterized in that the packaging container (1) has a support plate (7) from which protrude a plurality of chambers (4), each chamber (4) in an opening (10) in the support plate (7) opens, and wherein the chambers with respect to the arrangement of the Carrier plate (7) is adapted to the position of the spaces (12) between adjacent liquid packages (6) and has a shape which is insertable into the respective intermediate spaces (12), such that each chamber (4) im in the liquid packaging unit (2) mounted state of the packaging container (1) is at least partially disposed between liquid packaging (6). Packaging container according to claim 1, characterized in that the packaging container (1) in the liquid packaging unit (2) attached state is completely or substantially completely integrated into the liquid packaging unit (2). Packaging container according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the liquid packaging unit (2) has a housing (14). Packaging container according to one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that the chambers (4) are dimensionally stable. Packaging container according to one of claims 1 to 4, characterized in that the packaging container (1) on the support plate (7) in the liquid packaging unit (2) attached state on the liquid packaging (6) is supported. Packaging container according to one of claims 3 to 5, characterized in that the support plate in the on Liquid packaging unit (2) attached state of the packaging container on the housing (14) of the liquid packaging unit is supported. Packaging container according to one of claims 1 to 6, characterized in that above the support plate (7) with the chambers (4) in connection receiving space (16) formed by at edges (18) of the support plate (7) upstanding side walls (20) is, wherein the support plate (7) forms the bottom of the receiving space (16). Packaging container according to claim 7, characterized in that a further plate (22) forms a lid of the receiving space (16), the further plate (22) preferably having projecting side edges (24) with the edges (18) or the side walls ( 20) interact. Packaging container according to claim 7, characterized in that a sealing foil (26) forms the lid of the receiving space (16). Packaging container according to claim 9, characterized in that the side walls (20) of the receiving space (16) sealing edges (29), on which the sealing film (26) can be fastened. Packaging container according to one of claims 1 to 10, characterized in that chambers (4) by a sealing film (28) is closable or are, wherein the sealing film (28) on the upper side (30) of the support plate (7) can be fastened. Packaging container according to one of claims 1 to 11, characterized in that the chambers (4) has or have a Hohlkegelstumpf-, Hohlkegel-, Hohlpyramidenstumpf-, Hohlpyramiden-, hollow-cylinder, Hohlhalbkugel-, Hohlkeil- or Hohlobelisk shape. Packaging container according to one of claims 7 to 12, characterized in that the chambers (4), the support plate (7), the side walls (20) of the receiving space (16) and / or the lid (22) made of plastic, preferably transparent plastic, exists or persists. Packaging container according to one of claims 7 to 12, characterized in that the chambers (4), the support plate (7), the side walls (20) of the receiving space (16) and / or the lid (22) made of metal, preferably light metal, is or exist. Packaging container according to one of claims 7 to 14, characterized in that the chambers (4), the support plate (7), the side walls (20) of the receiving space (16) and / or the lid (22) consist of a food-grade material , Packaging container according to one of claims 1 to 14, characterized in that the support plate (7) has a material thickness of at least 0.3 mm, preferably at least 0.5 mm. Packaging container according to one of claims 1 to 16, characterized in that the support plate (7) on recesses (32) or upper covers of the liquid packaging (6) adapted recesses (34) or holes. Packaging container according to one of claims 1 to 16, characterized in that the liquid packaging (6) are beverage packaging. Packaging container according to one of claims 3 to 18, characterized in that the housing (14) is a beverage crate, which is preferably stackable. Liquid packaging unit with a packaging container (1) according to one of claims 1 to 19. Liquid packaging unit according to claim 20, characterized in that the liquid packaging unit (2) has a housing (14), preferably a stackable beverage crate. Liquid packaging unit according to claim 20, characterized in that the packaging unit is a container which is surrounded by a film and held together.

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