EP1726533A1 - Zwischenträger für hergestellte Gegenstände in einer Verpackungseinheit - Google Patents

Zwischenträger für hergestellte Gegenstände in einer Verpackungseinheit Download PDF

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EP1726533A1
EP1726533A1 EP05076227A EP05076227A EP1726533A1 EP 1726533 A1 EP1726533 A1 EP 1726533A1 EP 05076227 A EP05076227 A EP 05076227A EP 05076227 A EP05076227 A EP 05076227A EP 1726533 A1 EP1726533 A1 EP 1726533A1
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tray
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packaging unit
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Frank Gatzka
Gordon Weiss
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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
    • B65D25/00—Details of other kinds or types of rigid or semi-rigid containers
    • B65D25/02—Internal fittings
    • B65D25/04—Partitions
    • B65D25/06—Partitions adapted to be fitted in two or more alternative positions
    • 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
    • B65D57/00—Internal frames or supports for flexible articles, e.g. stiffeners; Separators for articles packaged in stacks or groups, e.g. for preventing adhesion of sticky articles
    • B65D57/002—Separators for articles packaged in stacks or groups, e.g. stacked or nested
    • B65D57/003—Separators for articles packaged in stacks or groups, e.g. stacked or nested for horizontally placed articles, i.e. for stacked or nested articles

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  • the invention relates to a device forming an intermediate support, in particular for supporting manufactured goods in a packaging unit, and it also relates to a packaging unit fitted with such devices.
  • manufactured goods are taken from their place of manufacture to their place of distribution in packaging units which are adapted to the size of the goods and to their fragility to ensure that the goods do not suffer any damage during operations of handling the packaging units and while they are being transported.
  • sealing weatherstrips for doors, opening or non-opening windows, hoods, and/or trunks of motor vehicles, which strips are then delivered to automobile manufacturers for assembly on vehicles.
  • such strips must be delivered without suffering any damage that might prevent them from being put into place, or that might lead to defects such as scratches, marks, or indentations, for example, spoiling the appearance of those surfaces of such strips that are situated, after assembly, in visible regions of motor vehicles.
  • This problem of possible damage to manufactured goods, in particular to sealing strips exists when the goods are packaged in bulk, even when in the presence of intermediate separating supports. This is because such intermediate supports come into contact with the packaged goods, since maximum use must be made of the volume available for storing packaging units, if possible.
  • packaging units are known that are made of cardboard and that present the advantages of being inexpensive and of being suitable for being cut to size as a function of the articles to be transported, however such cardboard is generally discarded since reuse thereof can raise problems given its lack of strength.
  • spacers of different diameters and heights that are placed or fixed on intermediate support sheets in order to subdivide the packaging volume into a plurality of levels.
  • the intermediate support sheets are made of polypropylene, for example, they are small in thickness, such that the weight of the manufactured goods can cause the sheets to sag so that they come into contact with other goods, which can lead to the appearance of scratches, for example.
  • a packaging unit with such spacers presents a rigid structure that is suitable for manufactured goods having dimensions that are predefined in advance, but that implies fabricating other spacers for packaging new goods, thus involving additional fabrication costs.
  • packaging units are also known that are made of plastics materials or of metal that present the advantage of being reusable, but that suffer from the drawbacks of clearly lacking in flexibility in terms of their dimensions and of high fabrication costs, specifically because of the tooling needed to fabricate them.
  • An object of the invention is to mitigate the drawbacks of the prior art as mentioned above and to devise a novel type of intermediate support for a packaging unit, in particular of reusable type.
  • the invention proposes a device forming an intermediate support, in particular for supporting manufactured goods in a packaging unit, the device being characterized in that it is constituted by at least a tray and by at least one spacer of variable height secured to the tray and adapted to bear another intermediate support.
  • the spacer comprises hinged means of geometry that is variable in order to adjust its height.
  • variable geometry means comprise at least one V-shape of dihedral angle that is variable in order to adjust the height of the spacer, the V-shape of the spacer possibly being constituted by an edge common to two half-planes or faces, which faces are mounted to pivot about a first pivot axis passing along the edge of the V-shape, and the two edges of the V-shape that are remote from the common edge are secured directly or indirectly to the tray.
  • the spacer comprises a base fixed on the tray and the two edges of the V-shape that are remote from the common edge are secured to the base, and the edge of one face of the V-shape remote from the common edge is mounted to pivot on the base about a stationary second pivot axis, while the edge of the other face of the V-shape remote from the common edge is received in one housing out of a plurality of housings formed in the base of the spacer.
  • the base of the spacer can be constituted by at least a frame and the housings are constituted by two series of notches facing each other in pairs and formed in two opposite sides of the frame.
  • the base of the spacer can be constituted by two halfside frames, disposed on each side of the tray, and secured together by clip means, screw fastener means, or any other applicable means, through openings of the tray, or mounted on each side of a tray cut-out and secured together by clip means, screw fastener means, or any other applicable means.
  • the invention also provides a packaging unit for manufactured goods, which unit is characterized in that it includes at least one intermediate support-forming device as defined above housed inside the packaging unit.
  • a plurality of intermediate support-forming devices are received inside the packaging unit in order to define a plurality of packaging levels having the same height or different heights, it being understood that each tray generally supports at least four spacers, but that this number could be greater for heavier manufactured goods so as to avoid increasing the thicknesses of the trays and/or avoid any sagging of the trays, or when using packaging units of large dimensions.
  • each intermediate support-forming device is reusable, and it is possible to stack them one on another after returning them to a minimum height, such that the overall height of the stack is no more than the sum of the thicknesses of the trays, thereby minimizing the volume occupied when they are transported empty, and each packaging unit can optionally be reusable.
  • a device 1 forming an intermediate support of the invention and as shown in Figures 1 and 2 comprises at least one substantially plane tray 3, and a spacer 5 secured to the tray 3 and of height that is variable due to hinged means 7 of variable geometry.
  • Each device 1 is preferably made of a material other than cardboard, for example a plastics material.
  • the hinged means 7 of each spacer 5 comprise, for example, at least one V-shape 10 of variable dihedral angle ⁇ , and they are connected to a base 12 of the spacer 5, e.g. constituted by a rectangular frame 14 having two side members 14a and two end members 14b. More precisely, the V-shape 10 comprises two half-planes or faces 16 and 18 with a common edge 20 constituting a first pivot axis X 1 -X 1 for the two faces 16 and 18 in order to vary the dihedral angle ⁇ .
  • the edge of the face 16 remote from the edge 20 is hinged about a stationary second pivot axis X 2 -X 2 parallel to the axis X 1 -X 1 and supported in the vicinity of an end member 14a of the frame 14.
  • the edge of the face 18 that is remote from the edge 20 can be received in one out of a plurality of housings 22 in order to vary the height of each spacer 5 ( Figure 2).
  • these housings 22 are constituted by pairs of facing notches in a plurality of notches 24 formed along the two longitudinally-extending side members 14b of the frame 14.
  • the pivot axis X 1 -X 1 of the common edge 20 of the V-shape 10 can be embodied in any manner, for example by complementary shape means engaged in one another and provided on the facing edges of the two faces 16 and 18 of the V-shape.
  • the pivot axis X 2 -X 2 of the face 16 of the V-shape 10 can be embodied by two facing pegs 25 received in two cavities or orifices 25a formed in the side members 14b of the frame 14.
  • the remote edge of the face 18 of the V-shape 10 is received in a pair of opposite notches 24 in the frame 14 by means of two opposite pegs 27 so that the V-shape 10 forms a flat dihedral angle of 180° for the spacer 5, thereby presenting a height close to zero.
  • the fastener means may be of the clip type, e.g. comprising pegs 30 projecting from the bottom surface of the base 12 and received under pressure in blind holes 30a formed in one face of the tray 3 ( Figure 2).
  • these fastener means may be of the screw-fastener type mounted in orifices 32 shown in dashed lines in Figure 1, but such means present the drawback of being fittings instead of being integral in each device 1.
  • the base 12 of each spacer 5 includes two opened halfside frames 14a and 14b disposed on each side of the tray 3, said frames 14a and 14b being secured together screw-fastener means mounted in orifices 32a of the tray 3.
  • the base 12 of each spacer 5 includes also two opened halfside frames 14a (upper frame) and 14b (lower frame) disposed on each side of the tray 3, partially engaged through a tray cut-out 3a, and secured together by clip means 14c for example, screw fastener means, or any other applicable means.
  • the hinged means 7 of each spacer 5 are mounted on the upper frame 14a, but can be eventually mounted on the lower frame 14b.
  • Each device 1 forming an intermediate support also presents a support surface 35 remote from its base 12.
  • This bearing surface 25 is constituted, for example, by two shoes fixed close to the common edge 20 of the V-shape 10.
  • FIG. 3 shows a packaging unit 40 which may be made of cardboard or of any other material and having a plurality of intermediate supports 1 housed in the packaging unit 40 to define a plurality of packaging levels, which may be of different heights h depending on the nature of the manufactured goods to be transported.
  • the packaged goods may be constituted, for example, by sealing weatherstrips P for the automobile industry.
  • the first device 1 rests on the bottom of the packaging unit 40, and the height of each of the spacers 5 fixed on the tray 3 is set to a value h.
  • Strips P are placed on this first device 1, thereby constituting a first packaging level, and a second intermediate device 1 is inserted into the packaging unit 40, to rest on the support surfaces 35 of the first intermediate device, new strips P are put into place on this second packaging level, and so on until the packaging unit 40 has been filled completely.
  • the strips P are unloaded, and the intermediate supports 1 can be stacked one on another as shown in Figure 1 after returning the height of their spacers 5 to a value that is close to zero so that the stack presents a minimum height, making it easier to return the intermediate supports 1.
  • an intermediate support 1 as described above is given purely by way of example, and the invention also protects other structures, in particular concerning the variable-geometry means 7, providing they share in common the feature of presenting a spacer of variable height.
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US3961707A (en) * 1974-10-21 1976-06-08 Zenith Radio Corporation Cathode ray tube or funnel shipping and/or storage container
DE19538157A1 (de) * 1995-10-13 1997-04-17 Grenzebach Rudolf Vorrichtung zum berührungslosen Aufeinanderstapeln von Platten oder Scheiben
US6109857A (en) * 1995-11-15 2000-08-29 Trygg; Lars Erik Stackable tray for holding, displaying, and transporting a plurality of containers and lifting device and method of handling directed thereto
US20030150826A1 (en) * 2002-01-03 2003-08-14 Sheckells Amuel E. Self gripping rack with snap-on flexible strap

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US3961707A (en) * 1974-10-21 1976-06-08 Zenith Radio Corporation Cathode ray tube or funnel shipping and/or storage container
DE19538157A1 (de) * 1995-10-13 1997-04-17 Grenzebach Rudolf Vorrichtung zum berührungslosen Aufeinanderstapeln von Platten oder Scheiben
US6109857A (en) * 1995-11-15 2000-08-29 Trygg; Lars Erik Stackable tray for holding, displaying, and transporting a plurality of containers and lifting device and method of handling directed thereto
US20030150826A1 (en) * 2002-01-03 2003-08-14 Sheckells Amuel E. Self gripping rack with snap-on flexible strap

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* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
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CN110979909A (zh) * 2019-12-30 2020-04-10 席宏榕 一种物流用物品临时存放装置

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