EP2714548B1 - Method and package for flat articles - Google Patents

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EP2714548B1
EP2714548B1 EP12738200.0A EP12738200A EP2714548B1 EP 2714548 B1 EP2714548 B1 EP 2714548B1 EP 12738200 A EP12738200 A EP 12738200A EP 2714548 B1 EP2714548 B1 EP 2714548B1
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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
    • B65D85/46—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for articles particularly sensitive to damage by shock or pressure for bricks, tiles or building blocks
    • 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
    • B65D81/00—Containers, packaging elements, or packages, for contents presenting particular transport or storage problems, or adapted to be used for non-packaging purposes after removal of contents
    • B65D81/02—Containers, packaging elements, or packages, for contents presenting particular transport or storage problems, or adapted to be used for non-packaging purposes after removal of contents specially adapted to protect contents from mechanical damage
    • B65D81/05—Containers, packaging elements, or packages, for contents presenting particular transport or storage problems, or adapted to be used for non-packaging purposes after removal of contents specially adapted to protect contents from mechanical damage maintaining contents at spaced relation from package walls, or from other contents
    • B65D81/053—Corner, edge or end protectors
    • B65D81/055—Protectors contacting three surfaces of the packaged article, e.g. three-sided edge protectors
    • 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
    • B65D81/00—Containers, packaging elements, or packages, for contents presenting particular transport or storage problems, or adapted to be used for non-packaging purposes after removal of contents
    • B65D81/02—Containers, packaging elements, or packages, for contents presenting particular transport or storage problems, or adapted to be used for non-packaging purposes after removal of contents specially adapted to protect contents from mechanical damage
    • B65D81/05—Containers, packaging elements, or packages, for contents presenting particular transport or storage problems, or adapted to be used for non-packaging purposes after removal of contents specially adapted to protect contents from mechanical damage maintaining contents at spaced relation from package walls, or from other contents
    • B65D81/053—Corner, edge or end protectors
    • B65D81/058—Protectors contacting five surfaces of the packaged article, e.g. five-sided end protectors
    • 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
    • B65D85/62—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for stacks of articles; for special arrangements of groups of articles
    • 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
    • B65D2571/00—Bundles of articles held together by packaging elements for convenience of storage or transport, e.g. portable segregating carrier for plural receptacles such as beer cans, pop bottles; Bales of material
    • B65D2571/00006—Palletisable loads, i.e. loads intended to be transported by means of a fork-lift truck
    • B65D2571/00111—Arrangements of flexible binders
    • B65D2571/00117—Arrangements of flexible binders with protecting or supporting elements arranged between binder and articles or materials, e.g. for preventing chafing of binder

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  • the present invention relates to the technical sector relating to packing flat articles, in particular ceramic articles, with particular reference to a packing method and the pack obtained with the method.
  • the invention concerns flat articles having a polygonal shape, in particular quadrangular, such as slabs and ceramic tiles, as well as materials which can also be arranged in stacks.
  • Methods are currently known for the packing of stacks of tiles having a square and/or rectangular geometry using prescored blanks that are slightly longer than the lateral extension of the stacks, comprising a central area to which four pairs of folds, lower and upper, are articulated by crease lines.
  • the central zone of the blank is wrapped on the lateral flanks of the stack and blocked at the ends by a "glue spot".
  • the lower and upper folds of the blank are folded on the lower and upper surfaces of the stack, for partial covering of the surfaces.
  • a perimeter band is defined, for protection of the lateral sides of the stack and the corresponding corners, as well as of the edges of the upper and lower surfaces of the stack.
  • This method provides for the predisposing of a structure in a packaging material provided with a series of weakened lines for folding about at least a plate-shaped article; the predisposition providing, in order, the following operational steps:
  • the realization of each length comprises the following steps:
  • the perimeter frame obtained does not continuously protect the longitudinal edges of the stacked tiles due to the presence of corresponding slots resulting from the assembly method of the frame, obtained starting from a plurality of portions at least equal in number to the number of sides of the tiles.
  • Document EP 1 323 645 discloses a packaging for rigid articles in which the packaging covers only peripherally, and over a parital area of border, two or three sides of stacked packs of rigid bodies such as tiles.
  • the packaging can be L-shaped, covering two sides, or U-shaped, covering three sides, with or without end flaps.
  • the packaging can be overlaid and glued and may include safety straps, and can be glued between overlaid peripheral corners and bottom surfaces of a bottom-most tile of the stack of tiles.
  • Document FR 2 621 895 discloses a method of packaging objects such as, for example, dismantled furniture defining an assembly of parallelepiped shape comprising two main faces and four lateral faces surrounding the main faces, in such a way as to define a border of predetermined height.
  • This method establish that the corners of the border are covered by means of cardboard angle bars whose branches, overlap in such a way as to define a frame around the assembly to be packaged, this frame being held by means of hooping ties, made of polypropylene in particular, and then a heat-shrink film is placed around the assembly thus framed and this film is then shrunk.
  • Document EP 0 994 043 discloses a package for packs of flat piled objects, in particular for ceramic tiles, comprising two half-blanks made of cardboard and identical, each of which comprises two flaps joined along a fold line. Each flap is destined in use to follow a profile of a flank of a pack of tiles. A top flap and a bottom flap are joined by fold lines to each flap and will in use be superposed on a perimetral part of, respectively, a topmost and bottom-most face of the pack of tiles. A tongue is joined by a fold line to one of the two flaps. The tongue of one half-blank is destined to be superposed on an end of another half-blank.
  • a package of the type described enables a relatively simple and rapid packaging of tiles of varying formats.
  • the aim of the present invention is to obviate the above problems by providing a method for packaging flat articles, and a package obtained with the method, which enables extremely effective protection of the articles, as well as the corresponding edges, in particular during the steps of storage and/or transport.
  • a further aim is to provide a method and a pack capable of limiting the use of packing material and glue with respect to known methods.
  • the method comprises one or more of the following characteristics, considered singly or in combination:
  • the aims of the invention are also attained by means of a pack, according to claim 7.
  • the pack of the invention comprises one or more of the following characteristics, considered singly or in combination:
  • general references 3, 4 denote a pair of blanks made of a packaging material, e.g. cardboard, each comprising a central region 5; an upper flap 6 connected to a first side of the central region 5 by means of a first crease line; a lower flap 7 connected to a second side, opposite the first side, of the central region 5 by means of a second crease line; a first lateral flap 8, connected to a third side of the central region 5 by means of a third crease line, identifying a free end 8a opposite the third crease line; a pair of first folds, an upper fold 80 and a lower fold 81, connected by crease lines to two sides of the first lateral flap 8 which folds 80, 81 are opposite one another and perpendicular to the third crease line; a second lateral flap 9 connected to a fourth side, opposite the third side, of the central region 5 by means of a fourth crease line, identifying a free end 9a opposite the fourth crease line; a pair of second fold
  • the proposed method for packaging at least a flat article 2 comprising two opposing sides, upper and lower, in a quadrangular geometry and a plurality of lateral sides, to comprise the following steps:
  • the flat article 2 can comprise either, a ceramic tile or slab, or a stack of tiles and/or ceramic slabs.
  • each thereof comprises four cut lines 12, each of which separates an upper or lower flap 6, 7 from the corresponding upper folds 80, 90 or lower folds 81, 91, as can be deduced from figures 3A and 3B .
  • the cut lines 12 are preferably divergent, distancingly from the central region 5 such as to facilitate realisation of the corner superposing zones A.
  • the stabilising of the superposing zones L 1 , L 2 , A comprises binding the article 2 by means of at least two first straps 10 for example plastic straps loop-wound on the lateral flanks not covered by the central regions 5 of the blanks 3, 4.
  • each strap 10 interests, for each surface of the article 2, two corner superposing zones A or two second laterally superposing zones L 2 , as shown in figure 5 .
  • the stabilising of the superposing zones L 1 , L 2 , A comprises binding the article 2 by means of at least three second straps 11 for example plastic straps loop-wound on the lateral flanks not covered by the central regions 5 of the blanks 3, 4.
  • each strap 11 interests, for each surface of the article 2, two corner superposing zones A or two second laterally superposing zones L 2 , as shown in figure 6 .
  • a pair of straps 11 loop-closes on the flaps, upper 6 and lower 7, and on the flaps, first 8 and second 9, of the respective blanks 3, 4, while the remaining strap 11 loop-closes on the opposite surfaces of the article 2 and on the respective lateral superposing zones, first L 1 and second L 2 .
  • the stabilising of the superposing zones L 1 , L 2 , A can comprise using spots of glue interposed between folds 80, 81, 90, 91 or flaps 6, 7 of the blanks 3, 4 involved in the superposing.
  • the longitudinal extension of the pair of blanks 3, 4, evaluated along the longitudinal direction of the central region 5 and the adjacent side flaps, first 8 and second 9, may therefore be the same, identifying specular blanks; or they can be different.
  • a first blank 3 can be provided having side flaps 8, 9 exhibiting a same longitudinal extension, and a second blank 4 provided with lateral flaps 8, 9 having a same longitudinal extent, the latter, however, being different from the corresponding lateral flaps 8, 9 of the first blank 3.
  • first L 1 and second L 2 due to the overlap of the side flaps 8, 9 and the corresponding upper flaps 80, 90 and lower 81, 91 of the blanks 3, 4, it is possible to use a same format of blanks 3, 4 for a wide range of sizes of articles 2.
  • the stabilising of the overlapping zones L 1 , L 2 , A can be achieved, in an advantageous way, with the help only of two or three plastic straps per pack, i.e. without any aid with the use of glue figures 5, 6 .
  • the proposed method and the associated package are particularly recommended also in the case of packing flat articles of relatively large dimensions, where the thicknesses of the articles and consequently of the corresponding blanks become extremely small.
  • the proposed method and the associated pack do not suffer from the problems caused, on the one hand, to the squaring of the frame formed by a plurality of portions of reduced thickness, and on the other hand to the difficulty of printing in the areas of connection of the lengths themselves.
  • the blanks can be adapted to a wide range of sizes of articles to be packed.
  • the proposed method and the associated pack therefore enables limiting the use of packaging material and glue in comparison with the prior art.

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PL12738200T PL2714548T3 (pl) 2011-06-14 2012-06-12 Sposób pakowania płaskich artykułów oraz opakowanie otrzymane przy pomocy sposobu

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IT000342A ITBO20110342A1 (it) 2011-06-14 2011-06-14 Metodo per il confezionamento di articoli appiattiti e confezione ottenuta con tale metodo
PCT/IB2012/052968 WO2012172485A1 (en) 2011-06-14 2012-06-12 Method and package for flat articles

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