EP1880957A1 - Faltbehälter zum transport und/oder zur lagerung von gütern - Google Patents

Faltbehälter zum transport und/oder zur lagerung von gütern Download PDF

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EP1880957A1
EP1880957A1 EP06743475A EP06743475A EP1880957A1 EP 1880957 A1 EP1880957 A1 EP 1880957A1 EP 06743475 A EP06743475 A EP 06743475A EP 06743475 A EP06743475 A EP 06743475A EP 1880957 A1 EP1880957 A1 EP 1880957A1
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Carlos Rovira Fontanals
Juan Ernesto Rovira Fontanals
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  • the invention relates to a foldable container for transporting and/or storing goods of the type comprising:
  • foldable laminar material should be understood to mean a material with a laminar shape that is suitable for being refolded on itself and, more exactly, suitable for being folded or doubled at any point and in any direction.
  • a foldable laminar material according to this concept can be, for example, a fabric, a net, a mesh, a sheet of thin plastic or any other similar material.
  • the type of container to which the invention relates is particularly applicable in the field of logistics, either with industrial goods or parcels.
  • pallets normally made of wood
  • the production industries that have a large volume of fixed clients use metallic containers instead of pallets.
  • the process of managing these goods from the point of origin to the point of destination basically consists of the following stages: packaging the manufactured products into parcels for transport, palletizing the parcels with a shrink wrap film, or placing the parcels in metallic containers, loading the pallets or containers in warehouses, transporting (normally in trucks) the pallets or containers, and receiving them in their destination.
  • the parcels are placed in containers shaped like metallic cages that usually have a base with wheels and can be loaded directly onto trucks for transporting.
  • the parcels are collected from the sender's address and they are taken to a classification base, where they are placed in the metallic cages that are transported by truck, directly or via transit bases, to a delivery base from where the parcels are delivered.
  • Containers which consist of a big-bag type bag supported by a fixed metallic framework, which in turn is arranged on a metallic base. Due to the fact that the bag hangs from the framework, the latter must support the weight of the load contained in the bag and therefore it must be strong enough. Although these container devices are lighter than the containers and metallic cages cited above, they are still relatively heavy. At any event, as they cannot be folded, they take up a considerable volume during the return operation. Moreover, they suffer from the drawback that the parcels cannot be arranged according to the normal technique used in goods and parcel logistics, where the container (either a pallet, a metallic container or a cage) has a resistant rigid base on which the parcels are placed, so that said base directly supports the weight of said parcels.
  • US-2720998 discloses a container similar to the type indicated at the beginning.
  • This known container comprises a rigid base and a container element which, although it is not made from a foldable laminar material according to the meaning indicated at the beginning, is an accordion like shrink wrap material on the rigid base.
  • the container element is confined laterally by rigid contention partitions that can collapse onto the rigid base.
  • This container suffers from the above-mentioned drawbacks of a heavy weight and a fixed height determined by the dimensions of the rigid base.
  • GB-2189773 discloses a container for transporting liquids, which consists of a rigid base on which a canvas bag for liquids is arranged.
  • the bag is supported by a structural assembly consisting of four vertical, telescopic bars between which there extend horizontal reinforcement bars, forming a parallelepiped container for containing the bag.
  • the purpose of these bars is to laterally contain the liquid contained in said bag, whereby they constitute resistant structural elements.
  • a first aim of the invention is to provide a container of the type associating a rigid base and a bag, which facilitates the good loading operation, by making it possible to work at different heights according to loading requirements, and with a volume that can adjust to the load.
  • a second aim of the invention is that said container be lightweight and can be compacted so that it takes up as little space as possible, thereby facilitating the inverse logistics operation.
  • aims are achieved by means of a container of the type indicated at the beginning, characterized in that the reversible shaping means, which shape the bag in at least one upright position with a loading mouth for introducing goods, are non-structural elements that are a part of the actual bag, so that the assembly formed by said bag and said reversible shaping means can be folded with an amorphous shape onto said rigid structure.
  • said bag made from foldable laminar material may or may not have a bottom wall.
  • the goods rest on the rigid base through the material forming the bag, whereas in the second case they rest directly in contact with said base.
  • the weight of the parcels contained in the bag is supported by the rigid base. Consequently, the container according to the invention is compatible with the existing means and techniques of loading and transporting pallets, metallic containers and cages.
  • the reversible shaping means that are a part of the actual bag are not structural elements, in the sense that they are lightweight and their sole function is to keep the bag in an upright position to facilitate the loading operation, but without supporting the weight of the load, which is supported by the rigid base.
  • said bag is shaped with a plurality of walls that are a part of the bag and which are made from the actual foldable laminar material of the bag, with said walls being joined together by foldable edges which, on their own or together with other elements which are a part of the bag, form said reversible shaping means.
  • the bag is shaped with a plurality of parts of foldable laminar material joined together in a separable manner by closing means that are a part of the actual bag, with said closing means being one of the group made of buttons, snap fasteners, zips, belts and the like, and with said closing means, on their own or together with other elements that are a part of the bag, forming said reversible shaping means.
  • closing means being one of the group made of buttons, snap fasteners, zips, belts and the like, and with said closing means, on their own or together with other elements that are a part of the bag, forming said reversible shaping means.
  • An advantageous arrangement that makes it possible to maintain the upright position of the bag more effectively consists in said bag being shaped with at least two facing, non-concurrent surfaces and said reversible shaping means comprising at least one strip of foldable laminar material that joins said two surfaces internally to said bag and which is intended to prevent the bag from bulging too much.
  • said bag has a frustopyramidal or frustoconical shape. This way the actual shape of the bag contributes to maintaining its upright position.
  • said bag has a closing lid for said loading mouth, with said closing lid being a part of the bag and being made from a foldable laminar material.
  • said closing lid being a part of the bag and being made from a foldable laminar material.
  • said bag also has fastening means between different parts of the actual bag, which allow it to be adjusted to the volume of the goods it contains.
  • these means can be belts, straps or the like.
  • said bag has non-foldable isolated surfaces adhered to the foldable laminar material forming the bag.
  • These surfaces which take up a small part of the bag surface, can be for example plastic or aluminium plates and their purpose is to help the bag stand up more easily in its upright position, without affecting the foldable character of the bag, thanks to their condition of being isolated surfaces.
  • said bag has a lower laminar base that is a part of the bag made from the actual foldable laminar material of the bag, and said lower laminar base is closely joined to said rigid base structure. This way, the parcels contained in the bag rest on the rigid base through the foldable material of the bag, and therefore they are more protected.
  • said lower laminar base of the bag is closely joined to the top face or bottom face of said rigid base structure via attachment means, such as for example studs, screws or the like, so that it is possible to replace a deteriorated bag.
  • the foldable laminar material forming the bag is a plastic material
  • the material making up the rigid base structure is also a plastic material
  • said lower laminar base of the bag is closely joined to said rigid base structure by means of thermofusion. This solution offers a particularly resistant connection between the bag and the base structure.
  • said lower laminar base of the bag is closely joined to said rigid base structure by means of confining it between two plates that are a part of said rigid base structure, thereby obtaining a strong connection that offers the possibility of replacing the bag when necessary.
  • said rigid base structure is shaped like a pallet, so that the container according to the invention is compatible with the usual procedures for loading and transporting palletized material.
  • said rigid base structure includes wheels on its lower face, so that the base of the container can be shaped like the wheeled cages that are used for transporting parcels.
  • said rigid base structure is made up of two or more parts joined together by a hinged join, which preferably is made from the actual foldable laminar material of said lower laminar base of the bag, so that said rigid base structure is suitable for being refolded onto itself.
  • One of these added embodiments consists in said bag having a shape that has at least two pairs of facing, non-concurrent faces and said reversible shaping means comprising at least two strips of foldable laminar material that respectively join said two faces internally to said bag, with said strips defining a compartment of said bag.
  • This configuration provides greater stability to the bag's upright position and allows the goods placed inside it to be ordered more easily.
  • said bag has a lower part that is suitable for adopting an upright position with a certain height and at least one top part that has said reversible shaping means, which is suitable for shaping said top part of the bag into a plurality of progressive upright positions that extend said height.
  • said reversible shaping means of the top part of the bag are made up of closing means that are a part of the actual bag and join together, in a separable manner, a plurality of parts of foldable laminar material that make up said top part of the bag, with said closing means being one of the group made up of buttons, snap fasteners, zips, belts and the like.
  • the container according to the invention comprises stretching means that are closely joined to said rigid base structure and are attached to some points of the bag to pull them towards said rigid base structure. This improves the stability of the bag on the rigid base when it is loaded, particularly when the bag has a considerable height.
  • the basic embodiment shown in Figs. 1 and 2 is a foldable container for transporting and/or storing goods, which is made up of a rigid base structure 1 shaped like a pallet and a container element 2 made up of a foldable bag 3.
  • the bag 3 is made from a plastic material, similar to that used for the big-bag type bags and the base structure 1 is also made from plastic, but it is rigid.
  • Bag 3 has a parallelepiped shape and a lower laminar base 18, made up of the actual material forming the bag, which is joined to the top face of base structure 1 by thermofusion, so that a rigid base 4 is formed that directly supports, through said laminar base 18, the goods contained in said bag 3.
  • a join can be provided with studs 14, as shown in Fig. 3, or bag 3 can be confined between two plates of actual base structure 1, as shown in Fig. 4; in these cases, the pallet forming base structure 1 is preferably wooden.
  • the walls 7 that give bag 3 its parallelepiped share define together some foldable edges 8 consisting of sewn hems of the actual material forming the bag and they constitute the bag's reversible shaping means, in other words means that allow the bag to be shaped in the upright position shown in Fig. 1 wherein there is defined a loading mouth 5 that opens directly.
  • Bag 3 can be folded onto itself, as shown in Fig. 2, until it adopts a completely refolded position on rigid structure 1. Foldable edges 8 themselves can form said reversible shaping means 8 of bag.
  • a strip 9 could be provided that internally joins two facing faces of the bag, preferably the larger faces, to prevent the bag from bulging excessively.
  • strip 9 is made from the actual material forming the bag and it is attached to non-foldable surfaces 19 that are sheets of plastic adhered to walls 7 of the bag.
  • Fig. 5 shows a variant of the rigid base structure which, in this case, is made up of two parts 1A, 1B joined together by a hinged join 16.
  • hinged join 16 is made from the actual foldable laminar material of the lower laminar base 18 of the bag. Thanks to this arrangement, the rigid base structure can be refolded onto itself as indicated by the arrows in Fig. 5, so that the container can be folded and finally take up a very reduced space corresponding to practically half said rigid base structure.
  • Fig. 6 shows an embodiment wherein bag 3 has two loading mouths 5, one top one and another side one.
  • bag 3 is made up of a plurality of parts 17 joined together by zips 10 that constitute said reversible shaping means, because the upright position of bag 3 is formed by closing said zips 10.
  • the refolded position of the bag (not shown) is achieved by opening zips 10, so that parts 17 are free and can be refolded onto rigid base structure 1.
  • the bag is provided with closing lids 13 for said mouths 5, made from the actual material forming the bag.
  • Figs. 7 and 8 illustrate another variant wherein bag 3 has a frustoconical shape and a framework 12 that permanently defines the perimeter of the loading mouth. Bag 3 also has a closing lid 13 with side laps and belts 6 that form fastening means that allow the final dimension of the bag to be adjusted to the volume of the goods the bag contains. An intermediate framework 20 has also been provided, which helps to maintain the bag's upright position.
  • Fig. 9 illustrates a variant wherein bag 3 is made up of a plurality of parts 17 joined together by snap fasteners 10 constituting said reversible shaping means, because the upright position of bag 3 is formed by closing said snap fasteners 10.
  • Fig. 9 shows the refolded shape of the bag, which is achieved by undoing snap fasteners 10 so that parts 17 are free and can be refolded onto rigid base structure 1.
  • Figs. 10 and 11 illustrate an embodiment wherein rigid base structure 1 is a metallic platform that includes wheels 15 on its lower face, and bag 3 has a bottom part 21 and a top part 22.
  • Lower part 21 has a parallelepiped shape and is joined by its bottom edges to the perimeter of rigid base 4.
  • bag 3 has no bottom wall, so that the goods contained therein rest directly in contact with said rigid base 4.
  • the facing, non-concurrent faces of bottom part 21 of the bag are mutually held by respective strips 9a, 9b of foldable laminar material, which provide consistency to the upright position of said bottom part 21 and which, in turn, divide it into compartments.
  • Top part 22 has a frustoconical shape and it is made up of two parts 23 that are joined by zips 10.
  • bag 3 shows the container with bag 3 in an upright position at maximum height, whereas in Fig. 11 bag 3 can be seen with a first height corresponding to the upright position of bottom part 21 only. Although it has not been shown, it is understood that bag 3 can be folded completely onto rigid base 4, with each part adopting an amorphous folded position similar to those shown in Figs. 2 and 9.
  • Fig. 12 illustrates an embodiment wherein rigid base structure 1 has stretching means 24 to pull bag 3 towards it and consolidate the stability of the bag once it is loaded.
  • the stretching means are bands 24 of an adjustable length that are attached at one end to the corners of rigid base structure 1 with the other end linked to and passing through a handle 25 provided on bag 3.
  • several handles 25 can be provided in different positions of the bag.
  • the invention includes the embodiment of a container like the one in Fig. 1, but wherein there is no loading mouth 5 in the top face of bag 3, which can then be a closed face, otherwise loading mouth 5 is provided on a side face of the bag like the one shown in Fig. 6.

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