EP3495282A1 - Package for a plurality of products, in particular confectionery products - Google Patents

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EP3495282A1
EP3495282A1 EP18209629.7A EP18209629A EP3495282A1 EP 3495282 A1 EP3495282 A1 EP 3495282A1 EP 18209629 A EP18209629 A EP 18209629A EP 3495282 A1 EP3495282 A1 EP 3495282A1
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Sara Carpinello
Marco ROSELLA
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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
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
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    • B65D5/724—Internal fittings facilitating the discharge of contents, e.g. guiding panels, movable bottoms or lifting strips
    • 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
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
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    • A63F5/04—Disc roulettes; Dial roulettes; Teetotums; Dice-tops
    • A63F5/048—Disc roulettes; Dial roulettes; Teetotums; Dice-tops with symbols viewable through holes or windows
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
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    • A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
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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
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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
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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
    • B65D83/00—Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents
    • B65D83/04—Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents for dispensing annular, disc-shaped, or spherical or like small articles, e.g. tablets or pills
    • B65D83/0445—Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents for dispensing annular, disc-shaped, or spherical or like small articles, e.g. tablets or pills all the articles being stored in individual compartments
    • B65D83/0454—Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents for dispensing annular, disc-shaped, or spherical or like small articles, e.g. tablets or pills all the articles being stored in individual compartments the whole forming a circular container with rotating parts
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • A63F9/00—Games not otherwise provided for
    • A63F9/001—Games or toys connected to, or combined with, other objects; Objects with a second use as a toy or game
    • A63F2009/0012—Games or toys connected to, or combined with, other objects; Objects with a second use as a toy or game the other object being a container or part thereof
    • 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
    • B65D2203/00—Decoration means, markings, information elements, contents indicators
    • B65D2203/12—Audible, olfactory or visual signalling means
    • 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
    • B65D85/60—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for sweets or like confectionery products

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  • the present invention relates to a "game package", i.e., a package that can also function as a game.
  • the package described herein is designed for applications for foodstuff products, and in particular for confectionery products. It is, however, clear that the teachings provided herein can also be used for applications relating to other types of products.
  • packages are already known in the art.
  • packages are known that comprise basic containers or boxes, constituted by folded sheets of paper or card, which are appropriately printed and designed so that they can be re-used as boards for table games.
  • packages are also known that are constituted by containers, usually obtained with folded sheets of paper or card, which reproduce imaginative elements that can be re-used as components of a game.
  • the present invention regards a package that proposes associating the action of taking out the products contained therein to a game, so as to render this action an opportunity of amusement.
  • the package described herein is a package for a plurality of products.
  • the products are foodstuff products, even more preferably confectionery products.
  • the same teachings provided herein may in any case be used also for applications relating to other types of products.
  • the package described herein comprises:
  • the game and its indications may be of a wide range of types.
  • the game envisages presenting to the single player or to the players a test that the player/players have to pass in order to be able to take the product out of the package.
  • the game may envisage quizzes, riddles and puzzles, logic tests, etc.
  • the game may require the players to carry out a series of actions or activities in the form of forfeits or trials of skill.
  • the indications referred to above are the questions, instructions, and riddles that constitute the game.
  • the products are presented as prizes when the various trials or tests envisaged by the game have been passed.
  • the outer container is constituted by a box obtained from a sheet of dinked card material folded on itself so as to define a container closed on all sides.
  • the box may be closed by fitting elements such as tabs into slots to enable opening of the box once the products are finished, for example, so that the package can be filled up again and re-used for playing, or else with glue so that closing is definitive.
  • the tray of the package described herein, designated by the reference number 4 is instead preferably made of thermoformed plastic material, and has the overall shape of a wheel.
  • the tray 4 is constituted by a single body of thermoformed plastic material that identifies, simultaneously, an annular array of housings 6 in the peripheral region, a plane surface 8, of an annular shape, which is delimited by the array of housings 6, and a central gripping element 12.
  • Figures 1 and 3A-3B represent the housings 6 containing confectionery products P of various types.
  • the box 2 may be provided with a transparent portion 28, which is configured for displaying a part of the array of products P contained in the tray 4.
  • a disk 14 made, for example, of card material, printed on which are the aforesaid game indications, designated in the figures by the reference X, which are also arranged according to an annular array as are the housings 6.
  • the disk 14 is applied on the tray 4 in a removable way, for example by slotting, so that it can be replaced with another disk.
  • the package described herein may be provided with a plurality of disks, each bearing the indications for a corresponding game, which are interchangeable on the tray 4 according to the desired game.
  • the array of indications and the array of housings are the same in number so that an indication is assigned to each housing.
  • this has at its top surface 2A an opening 21 ( Figure 2 ) through which the central gripping element 12 of the tray exits from the box.
  • the opening 21 and the gripping element 12 have corresponding circular profiles and are mutually engaged according to a rotatable coupling, so that the tray 4 will be coupled in a rotatable way to the box 2.
  • the tray 4 may be rotatably mounted directly on a pin that is attached, in a central position, to the side of the box 2 opposite to the side from which the gripping element 12 exits.
  • the box 2 moreover has, on its top surface 2A, another two openings 24 and 22, the first one of which overlies the disk 14, and the other overlies the array of housings 6.
  • the opening 22 is configured for rendering accessible the product of a single housing 6 so that it can be taken out.
  • the opening 24 has, instead, the purpose of rendering visible from outside a number of indications X, preferably just one, of the array of indications reproduced on the disk 14.
  • the openings 22 and 24 are mutually arranged so that the product P will be accessible and simultaneously the indication X will be visible.
  • the opening 22 constitutes the only point where the products can be taken out of the package.
  • the opening 22 can be closed by a removable covering element.
  • the covering element is constituted by a tab 26 ( Figure 2 ) defined on the box 2 through a perforated line, which at the moment of use of the package can simply be torn away, thus exposing the opening 22.
  • the box 2 is provided with a single opening, which overlies both the array of housings 6 and the disk 14, so as to expose just one product and one game indication.
  • the opening 22 is, instead, replaced by a transparent portion that defines part of the outer surface of the box.
  • a transparent film that closes the opening 24.
  • the mode of use of the package envisages rotating the tray 4 randomly, bringing a new product P and a new game indication underneath the respective openings 22 and 24.
  • the tray can be rotated by actually making it spin freely, thus enhancing enjoyment of the game package.
  • the player will have to follow the game indication X on the disk 14 that is displayed through the opening 24, and if he passes the test presented by the indication, he will be rewarded by being able to take the product that is contained in the housing 6 set underneath the opening 22.

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