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EP1810931A1
EP1810931A1 EP06100660A EP06100660A EP1810931A1 EP 1810931 A1 EP1810931 A1 EP 1810931A1 EP 06100660 A EP06100660 A EP 06100660A EP 06100660 A EP06100660 A EP 06100660A EP 1810931 A1 EP1810931 A1 EP 1810931A1
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Ingmar Edvardsson
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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
    • B65D9/00—Containers having bodies formed by interconnecting or uniting two or more rigid, or substantially rigid, components made wholly or mainly of wood or substitutes therefor
    • B65D9/12—Containers having bodies formed by interconnecting or uniting two or more rigid, or substantially rigid, components made wholly or mainly of wood or substitutes therefor collapsible, e.g. with all parts detachable
    • B65D9/22—Fastening devices for holding collapsible containers in erected state, e.g. integral with container walls
    • B65D9/24—Fastening devices for holding collapsible containers in erected state, e.g. integral with container walls separate from container walls
    • 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
    • B65D45/00—Clamping or other pressure-applying devices for securing or retaining closure members
    • B65D45/02—Clamping or other pressure-applying devices for securing or retaining closure members for applying axial pressure to engage closure with sealing surface
    • B65D45/16—Clips, hooks, or clamps which are removable, or which remain connected either with the closure or with the container when the container is open, e.g. C-shaped
    • B65D45/18—Clips, hooks, or clamps which are removable, or which remain connected either with the closure or with the container when the container is open, e.g. C-shaped of snap-over type

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  • the present invention relates to a clamp for interlocking two plate-like members forming walls of a container according to the preamble of appended claim 1 as well as a container having at least two walls thereof interlocked by at least one such clamp.
  • Container is here to be given a broad sense and means that it is an object having limiting walls delimiting a volume to contain something, but it does not necessarily have to have a lid, and the bottom could for example be formed by a pallet.
  • “Wall” is in this disclosure defined to include all members delimiting the inner volume of a said container, such as lateral walls, bottom and lid of the container.
  • the two plate-like members may be constituted by any adjacent such walls of a said container.
  • the edge frame is usually arranged for stiffening the edge region of the plate-like members in question.
  • Clamps of this type are usually used for interlocking a number of plate-like members, which may be arranged tightly against each other, for forming a container for packaging purposes. When the container has then been used for the transport object thereof, the clamps may be unlocked and the plate-like members may be separated for getting disposed of or being sent back as a substantially flat package.
  • Some related containers known have tongues extending from one plate-like member and introduced into apertures in a said edge frame of another plate-like member and bent around a portion of said edge frame for interconnecting the two plate-like members.
  • Such containers are simple and may by that be produced to a low cost, but these tongues may in the case when an object located in a plastic bag or foil is introduced through an opening of the container cut through this bag or foil and partly destroy it.
  • this problem may be solved by utilising a clamp of the type defined in the preamble of appended claim 1 and known through for example WO 01/98154 .
  • the clamp disclosed in that document is as such advantageous, but it does mostly require an arrangement of prefabricated holes in a second of said plate-like members to be interlocked, and such holes are in some cases not acceptable.
  • the leg of the clamp introduced into said hole may also cause damage to the plastic material.
  • the object of the present invention is to provide a clamp for interlocking two plate-like members forming walls of a container of the type defined in the preamble of appended claim 1 being improved in at least some aspect with respect to such clamps already known.
  • Such a clamp may very easily be moved into said interlocking position by displacement inside said gap between the first plate-like member and the edge frame of the second plate-like member and pressing it to engage the end of the edge frame as well as said first engagement member of the first plate-like member while storing potential energy keeping the clamp in place. Accordingly, no sharp tongues project in the joining region of the two plate-like members before joining them and the clamp does not have to grip into the container but only engage said first engagement member, which for example may be a recess, such as a groove or slot, in said first plate-like member in the interlocking position.
  • said distance of said first engagement member of the first plate-like member from said end of the first plate-like member exceeds the length of said bent first portion of the edge frame designed to extend along said first plate-like member, and said first leg is longer than the second leg.
  • said two legs of the clamp are joined in a bent transition portion, and the length of the legs are dimensioned so that said bent transition portion is adapted to bear under pretension on portions of said edge frame delimiting said aperture in said interlocking position of the clamp.
  • said first leg has two consecutive sections extending from a bent transition portion of the clamp in which the first and second legs are joined, said sections are substantially straight while making an angle with respect to each other through a bent, when introducing the first leg in said gap the first section of the first leg adjoining to the second leg with respect to the extension thereof from said second leg towards said second section is pointing away from said first plate-like member when keeping the other, second section of the first leg in parallel with said first plate-like member, and the lengths of the legs of the clamp are so dimensioned with respect to the position of said first engagement member of the first plate-like member and the length of said first edge frame portion that said two sections of the first leg will in the interlocked position be bent to reduce said angle with respect to said rest position for storing potential energy in the clamp in said interlocked position.
  • This design of said first leg and way of storing potential energy in the interlocking position of the clamp results in a firm and secure maintaining of the clamp in the interlocking position.
  • said angle between said first and second sections of the first leg is in the rest position of the clamp 10°-40°, preferably 20°-35°. It has turned out that an angle within these ranges is suitable for obtaining a storage of sufficiently potential energy in the interlocking state of the clamp for safely maintain the clamp in that state.
  • the length of the first leg of the clamp is adjusted to the position of said first engagement member on a said first plate-like member to be joined to a second plate-like member, so as to obtain a reduction of said angle made between said first and second sections of the first leg of more than 5°, advantageously more than 10°, more advantageous more than 15°, and preferably 16°-30°, when transferring the clamps from the rest position into said interlocking position. It has turned out that a change of said angle by these values results in an efficient interlocking of said two plate-like members by means of a clamp according to the present invention.
  • said first section of the first leg adjoining to the second leg extends substantially in parallel with said second leg in said rest position of the clamp.
  • said first leg is substantially longer than said second leg, such as more than 50% longer, preferably approximately 100% longer.
  • the length of the second leg is 80-150%, preferably 100-130%, of the length of said first section of the first leg.
  • said first section of the first leg may form a support for said second leg on the opposite side of said first edge frame portion with respect to said second leg.
  • said first engagement member of said first leg is a hook-like member.
  • said second engagement member of said second leg is a hook-like member adapted to grip around said end of said first edge frame portion in said interlocking position of the clamp.
  • Such engagement members are preferred, since they may easily be brought into engagement and kept in engagement by the potential energy stored in said clamp in said interlocking position.
  • the clamp is made in one piece of a band-like material with said legs being plate-like.
  • the clamp may very easily be produced by conventional manufacturing techniques to a low cost.
  • Such a clamp may also thanks to the plate-like character thereof reliably fulfil the interlocking function thereof.
  • the band may be of any steel, metal or alloy of metals.
  • the invention also comprises other materials, such as plastic being resilient and by that being able to store potential energy while being deformed.
  • the invention also relates to a container having at least two walls thereof interlocked by at least one clamp according to the present invention. At least one wall of the container may then be provided with a said first engagement member, for instance in the form of a slot on the outside of the wall extending substantially in parallel with an end of this wall adjoined to another wall of the container through at least one said clamp. A recess for a number of such clamps arranged to interlock two said walls of the container may in this way easily be obtained.
  • a clamp 1 according to the present invention is illustrated in a perspective view in fig 1 and in side elevation in fig 2.
  • This clamp has a first leg 2 and a second leg 3 connected thereto, which are joined in a bent transition portion 4.
  • the first leg 2 is substantially longer, approximately 100% longer, than the second leg 3 and has two consecutive sections 5, 6 extending from said bent transition portion 4. These sections are substantially straight while making an angle ⁇ with respect to each other of approximately 25° through a bent 7 of the first leg.
  • the second leg 3 extends substantially in parallel with the first section 5 of the first leg 2 and has substantially the same length as this first section, more exactly a length being about 120% of the length of the first section.
  • the clamp is made of one single piece of a band-like material, more exactly so that the two legs 2, 3 and the two sections 5, 6 of the first leg 2 are resilient with respect to each other so as to be able to be moved from the rest position illustrated in fig 1 and 2 while storing potential energy.
  • the clamp is preferably made of spring steel.
  • the first leg 2 of the clamp has at the end thereof a first engagement member in the form of a hook-like portion 8 extending from the leg while making an angle of more than 90° therewith.
  • the second leg 3 has at its free end a second engagement member, also in the form of a hook-like portion 9 extending from the second leg substantially perpendicularly thereto.
  • the clamp is adapted to interlock two plate-like members forming walls of a container, in which a second 10 of said members has an edge frame 11 extending along the edge thereof.
  • the plate-like members are mostly of wood but may be of any material, and is here made of plywood, and said edge frame is made of steel sheet.
  • the edge frame is bent in a bent region thereof to extend with a first portion 12 thereof at a distance to and along an edge region 13 of a first plate-like member 14 while creating a gap 15 between said first edge frame portion 12 and the first plate-like member 14 in an interlocked position of the two members 10, 14.
  • the edge frame 11 is provided with an aperture 16 in the bent region thereof opening into said gap 15.
  • This aperture 16 is designed to be able to receive the first leg 2 of the clamp.
  • the first plate-like member 14 has a recess 17 in the form of a slot (see also fig 5) extending substantially in parallel with the end 18 of the first member 14 to be adjoined to the second member 10.
  • the lengths of the legs of the clamp 1 are adjusted to the location of the recess 17 with respect to the aperture 16 in the edge frame of the two walls to be interlocked by the clamp. More exactly, this is done for obtaining the following function: when said two members 10, 14 are to be interlocked the second member 10 is laid upon the upper edge of the first member 14 through portions of the edge frame as shown in fig 4.
  • the first leg 2 of the clamp is then introduced into said gap 15 through the aperture 16 in the edge frame and displaced inside this gap along the first plate-like member while simultaneously displacing the second leg 3 along the first edge frame portion 12 on the opposite side thereof with respect to said gap to a position in which the hook-like engagement 8 of the first leg 2 engages into the recess 17 and the hook-like second engagement member 9 of the second leg grips around the end of said first edge frame portion 12 for interlocking the two plate-like members 10, 14.
  • the first leg 2 has to be partly straightened out, so that the angle ⁇ made between the two sections 5, 6 thereof will be reduced, in this case by approximately 20°, while storing potential energy in this first leg 2 with respect to the rest position thereof shown in fig 2.
  • the clamp will in this way be firmly held in the interlocking position, since the mutual location of the aperture 16 and the recess 17 forces the bent transition portion 4 of the clamp to bear under pretension on portions of the edge frame delimiting the aperture while keeping the first leg straightened out with respect to the rest position.
  • the dimensions of the plate-like members, the edge frame, the clamp and the like may be arbitrary, but it should nevertheless be mentioned that in an embodiment of the invention the thickness of the edge frame 12 as well as of the clamp is about 0.8 mm, and the thickness of the plate-like member about 8 mm.
  • a container according to an embodiment of the invention is schematically shown in fig 5.
  • This figure illustrates how a second plate-like member in the form of a lid 10 is interlocked with respect to a lateral wall 14 of a container by means of four clamps 1 according to fig 1 and 2 engaging the edge frame 11 of the lid 10 as well as the slot 17 in the lateral wall 14. Only two of the clamps are visible in fig 5, whereas the other two are arranged on the opposite side of the lid. It is shown how other walls of the container are interconnected by tongues 21 as discussed in the introduction of this disclosure, but it is within the present invention to replace some or all the tongues by clamps according to the present invention.
  • Edge frame is to be given a broad sense and comprises all types of plate-like pieces arranged on the second plate-like member close to the edge thereof to adjoin to the first plate-like member, so that the clamp may cooperate therewith. Thus, it does not have to be a question about a piece extending along the entire edge, but it could also have an extension along the edge delimited to the region for the cooperation with the clamp.
  • first engagement member of said first plate-like member has been shown as a recess in the form of a slot in said first plate-like member this engagement member may be of another type, so that the first engagement member of the first leg of the clamp is for example designed to grip around and behind a small steel sheet plate secured on the outside of said first plate-like member.

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  • Wood Science & Technology (AREA)
  • Clamps And Clips (AREA)
  • Gripping Jigs, Holding Jigs, And Positioning Jigs (AREA)
  • Load-Engaging Elements For Cranes (AREA)
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DE602006005782T DE602006005782D1 (de) 2006-01-20 2006-01-20 Klammer und Behälter
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EP2425707A1 (fr) * 2009-04-27 2012-03-07 Fasqua, S.L. Système d'assemblage pour la formation de jardinières
CN107672885A (zh) * 2017-09-11 2018-02-09 睐格新材料科技（上海）有限公司 卡扣包装箱用刚性卡扣

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EP2669207B1 (fr) 2012-05-29 2016-07-20 Nefab Ab Système de création d'un récipient et récipient correspondant

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WO1991015404A1 (fr) * 1990-04-09 1991-10-17 Graham Andrew S Jr Systeme servant a interconnecter des panneaux
WO2001098154A1 (fr) 2000-06-19 2001-12-27 Nefab Ab Dispositif d'emboitement de deux elements de type plaque
EP1268296A1 (fr) * 2000-03-20 2003-01-02 Foldy Pac Trading AB Dispositif de raccord, boite et collier de serrage

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WO1991015404A1 (fr) * 1990-04-09 1991-10-17 Graham Andrew S Jr Systeme servant a interconnecter des panneaux
EP1268296A1 (fr) * 2000-03-20 2003-01-02 Foldy Pac Trading AB Dispositif de raccord, boite et collier de serrage
WO2001098154A1 (fr) 2000-06-19 2001-12-27 Nefab Ab Dispositif d'emboitement de deux elements de type plaque

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EP2425707A1 (fr) * 2009-04-27 2012-03-07 Fasqua, S.L. Système d'assemblage pour la formation de jardinières
EP2425707A4 (fr) * 2009-04-27 2014-06-11 Fasqua S L Système d'assemblage pour la formation de jardinières
CN107672885A (zh) * 2017-09-11 2018-02-09 睐格新材料科技（上海）有限公司 卡扣包装箱用刚性卡扣

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