Classifications

• • 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
  • B65D5/00—Rigid or semi-rigid containers of polygonal cross-section, e.g. boxes, cartons or trays, formed by folding or erecting one or more blanks made of paper
  • B65D5/42—Details of containers or of foldable or erectable container blanks
  • B65D5/44—Integral, inserted or attached portions forming internal or external fittings
  • B65D5/50—Internal supporting or protecting elements for contents
  • B65D5/5028—Elements formed separately from the container body
  • B65D5/5035—Paper elements
  • B65D5/504—Racks having upstanding ridges formed by folds, and provided with slits or recesses
• • 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
  • B65D5/00—Rigid or semi-rigid containers of polygonal cross-section, e.g. boxes, cartons or trays, formed by folding or erecting one or more blanks made of paper
  • B65D5/36—Rigid or semi-rigid containers of polygonal cross-section, e.g. boxes, cartons or trays, formed by folding or erecting one or more blanks made of paper specially constructed to allow collapsing and re-erecting without disengagement of side or bottom connections
  • B65D5/3607—Rigid or semi-rigid containers of polygonal cross-section, e.g. boxes, cartons or trays, formed by folding or erecting one or more blanks made of paper specially constructed to allow collapsing and re-erecting without disengagement of side or bottom connections formed by folding or erecting a single blank
  • B65D5/3614—Rigid or semi-rigid containers of polygonal cross-section, e.g. boxes, cartons or trays, formed by folding or erecting one or more blanks made of paper specially constructed to allow collapsing and re-erecting without disengagement of side or bottom connections formed by folding or erecting a single blank to form a tubular body, at least one of the ends of the body remaining connected
  • B65D5/3621—Rigid or semi-rigid containers of polygonal cross-section, e.g. boxes, cartons or trays, formed by folding or erecting one or more blanks made of paper specially constructed to allow collapsing and re-erecting without disengagement of side or bottom connections formed by folding or erecting a single blank to form a tubular body, at least one of the ends of the body remaining connected collapsed along two fold lines of the tubular body
• • 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
  • B65D71/00—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 or pop bottles; Bales of material
  • B65D71/70—Trays provided with projections or recesses in order to assemble multiple articles, e.g. intermediate elements for stacking
  • B65D71/72—Trays provided with projections or recesses in order to assemble multiple articles, e.g. intermediate elements for stacking formed by folding one or more blanks, the articles being inserted in openings in a wall

Definitions

• the present invention relates to the technical sector concerning the packaging of articles containing pharmaceutical and/or cosmetic products, such as for example vials or syringes, internally of relative boxes.
• articles containing pharmaceutical and/or cosmetic products are initially arranged in special support containers made of cardboard or card; then, subsequently, these support containers are inserted, singly or possibly stacked on one another, internally of special boxes, for obtaining the final package.
• Support containers made of cardboard or card are obtained starting from flat blanks which, following specific cardboard sector operations, are folded about relative score lines, so as to form the container which has the particularity of being able to take on two different configurations: a flattened configuration and an opened-out configuration.
• These cardboard containers are generally stored in the flattened configuration, to minimise volumes, and to thus reduce the space required for storage thereof, and are brought into the opened-out configuration only when they are about to receive the articles.
• a known type of container used for receiving and containing articles that have to be packed inside a relative box is constituted in the following way.
• This container when placed in the opened-out configuration, adapted for receiving the articles to be packed, comprises:
• an upper face opposite the bottom, between the first wall and the second wall, folded and arranged at an angle with respect to the first wall and the second wall, the upper face comprising at least an opening defining a housing for inserting and positioning an article.
• The. container is placed in the opened-out configuration starting from a flattened configuration for storage, wherein: the first wall arranged in the plane identified by the bottom externally aligned to the bottom; the second wall is arranged in a plane parallel to the plane identified by the bottom and superposed on the bottom itself; and the upper face is arranged in a parallel plane to the plane identified by the bottom and superposed both on the bottom and the first wall.
• the second wall will also rotate and will move into an angled configuration with respect to the bottom, while the upper face, connected to both the first wall and the second wall, will rotate with respect to the first and second wall, and will be at an angle with respect thereto and opposite the bottom.
• the upper face bears down on the first wall and on the second wall, which therefore tend to fold with respect to the bottom and tend to return to the starting position thereof, i.e. into the flattened configuration of the container.
• This problem is particularly serious for packing machines in which the inserting and arranging of the cardboard container internally of the box is carried out by means of an operation of insertion of the container that takes place along a perpendicular direction to the two opposite sides along which the first wall and the second wall are arranged.
• the only solution that can be used, for avoiding the cardboard container losing shape during the insertion is to advance the container along a parallel direction to the two opposite sides along which the first wall and the second wall are arranged, and then to rotate the container when being inserted into the box.
• the aim of the present invention consists in obviating the drawbacks of cardboard containers of known type.
• the cardboard container of the present invention will advantageously be able to autonomously maintain the assumed opened-out configuration
• FIG. 1 illustrates, in a perspective view, the cardboard container for articles, such as vials/syringes containing pharmaceutical/cosmetic products which are the object of the invention, according to a preferred embodiment, in the opened-out configuration thereof ready to receive the articles;
• FIG. 2 illustrates, in a perspective view, the cardboard container for articles, such as vials/syringes containing pharmaceutical/cosmetic products which are the object of the invention, according to a possible further embodiment, in the opened-out configuration thereof ready to receive the articles.
• FIG. 3 is a view from above of the container of figure 1
• figure 4 illustrates a view of the same container according to section IV-IV of figure 3
• - figure 5 is a view from above of the container of figure 1, with two syringes inserted therein,
• FIG. 6 is a view from above of the cardboard container of figure 1 in the flattened configuration thereof;
• figure 7 is a lateral view of the container of figure 1
• figure 8 illustrates the same view as in figure 7 in an opening-out step of the container;
• FIG. 7A and 8A are a larger scale illustration of details W and J of figure 7 and 8 respectively.
• reference numeral (1) denotes a cardboard container for articles, being via!s/syringes (2) containing pharmaceutical/cosmetic products, object of the present invention.
• the container (1) is obtained starting from a blank and is such as to be able to take on an opened-out configuration (V), starting from a flattened configuration (A).
• the container (1) When in the opened-out configuration (V), the container (1) comprises; a bottom (3); a first wall (P1) folded and arranged at an angle with respect to the bottom (3); a second wall (P2) opposite the first wall (P1), and folded and arranged at an angle with respect to the bottom (3); an upper face (FS), opposite the bottom (3), between the first wall (P1) and the second wall (P2), folded and arranged at an angle with respect to the first wall (P1) and the second wall (P2), the upper face (FS) comprising at least an opening (4) defining a housing (40) for inserting and positioning an article.
• a peculiarity of the container (1) of the present invention consists in the fact that it also comprises; at least a slot (5) on the first wall (P1) or on the second wall (P2), and at least a wing (6) jointed foldably to the bottom (3), between the first wall (P1) and the second wall (P2), so as to be able to be arranged at an angle with respect to the bottom (3) and to be inserted between the first wall (P1) and the second wall (P2) and the upper face (FS), when the container (1) is in the opened- out configuration (V),
• the wing (6) comprises a tab (7) predisposed so as to be able to insert in said slot (5), when the wing (6) is folded at an angle with respect to the bottom (3) and inserted between the first wall (P1) and the second wall (P2), so as to stabilise the opened-out configuration (V) of the container (1).
• the container (1) of the invention is placed in the opened-out configuration (V) starting from a flattened configuration (A).
• the container (1) has: the first wall (P1) arranged in the plane identified by the bottom (3) externally aligned to the bottom (3); the second wall (P2) arranged in un plane parallel to the plane identified by the bottom (3) and superposed on the bottom (3) itself; the upper face (FS) arranged in a parallel plane to the plane identified by the bottom (3) and superposed both on the bottom (3) and the first wall (P1); the at least a wing (6) arranged in the plane identified by the bottom (3) extemaliy aligned to the bottom (3).
• the container (1) of the present invention requires no presence of machines provided with special devices for maintaining the shape in the opened- out configuration during the positioning operations of the articles in the container (1), and during transport and inserting of the container (1) internally of a relative box.
• the wing (6) has a polygonal shape so as to comprise a base side (8), jointed to the bottom (3), at least a first side (9), consecutive to the base side (8), in which the tab (7) is realised, and at least a second side (10), consecutive to the base side (8) and opposite the first side (9), which is inclined with respect to the base side (8) by an angle such as to enable inserting the wing (6), when folded and arranged at an angle with respect to the bottom (3), between the first wall (P1) and the second wall (P2) which are folded at an angle with respect to the bottom (3).
• This particular conformation of the wing (6) will advantageously enable easier insertion of the wing (6) between the first wall (P1) and the second wall (P2), when these walls are positioned at an angle with respect to the bottom (3), without risking the wing (6) interfering with th ⁇ first wall (P1) and the second wall (P2) when the wing (6) is folded at an angle with respect to the bottom (3) and forced to become arranged between the two walls (see figure 8, for example).
• the wing (6) preferably has a shape such as to comprise a hook-shaped element (11) for, when the tab (7) is inserted in the slot (5), hooking the tab (7) to the first wall (P1) or the second wall (P2); see figures 6-8.
• the coupling between the at least a slot (5) and the tab (7) will advantageously be more stable and safe, providing a further guarantee of the opened-out configuration (V).
• the angle of inclination is selected in such a way as to allow inserting of the hook-shaped element (11) in the slot (5), if present, in order to guarantee a correct and stable coupling between the tab (7) and the slot (5).
• the container (1) is conformed so that the first wall (P1 ) is foldably jointed to the bottom (3) at a first lateral edge (B1) of the bottom (3) and the second wall (P2) is foldably jointed to the bottom (3) at a second lateral edge (B2) of the bottom (3), parallel and opposite the first lateral edge (B1).
• the first wall (P1) and the second wall (P2) can both be in a single body with the bottom (3) and jointed foldably to the bottom (3) along special score lines, respectively at the first lateral edge (B1) and the second lateral edge (B2), for enabling the folding of the first wall (P1) and the second wall (P2) with respect to the bottom (3).
• first wall (P1) and the second wall (P2) can both be glued to the bottom (3) in such a way as to be able to fold with respect to the bottom (3).
• first wall (P1) and the second wall (P2) can be jointed to the bottom (3) by special flaps (not illustrated).
• the first wall (P1) or the second wall (P2) of the container (1) comprise at least a window (12) communicating with the opening (4) present in the upper face (FS) in order advantageously to enable insertion and positioning in the housing (40) of an elongate article having a length that is greater than a distance between the first wall (P1) and the second wall ⁇ P2).
• the upper face (FS) can preferably comprise more than one opening and therefore more than one housing, so as to enable inserting and positioning a plurality of articles.
• the first wall (P1) or the second wall (P2) of the container (1) can comprise more than one window, each communicating with an opening present in the upper face (FS) so as to enable, advantageously, insertion and positioning in the relative housings that will thus be formed of articles having an elongate shape.
• the container (1) can comprise a further slot (50), alike to the above-described slot (5), on the first wall (P1) or on the second wall (P2), and a further wing (60), alike to the wing (6), foidably jointed to the bottom (3) along an edge of the bottom (3) parallel and opposite the long edge to which the wing (6) is jointed, so as to be able to be disposed at an angle with respect to the bottom (3), inserted between the first wall (P1) and the second wall (P2) and opposite the wing (6), when the container (1) is in the opened-out configuration (V), thus stabilising the opened-out configuration (V) of the container (1) more securely.
• a further slot (50) alike to the above-described slot (5), on the first wall (P1) or on the second wall (P2)
• a further wing (60) alike to the wing (6), foidably jointed to the bottom (3) along an edge of the bottom (3) parallel and opposite the long edge to which the wing (6) is jointed, so as to
• the container (1) is such that: the first wall (P1) is foidably jointed to the bottom (3) at a first lateral edge (B1) of the bottom (3), while the second wall (P2) is foidably jointed to the bottom (3) along a first section (13) of the bottom (3), parallel to the first lateral edge (B1 ).
• the container (1) further comprises: a third wall (P3) foidably jointed to the bottom (3) at a second lateral edge (B2) of the bottom (3), parallel to the first lateral edge (B1), so as to be able to be folded and arranged at an angle with respect to the bottom (3), when the container (1) is in the opened-out configuration (V); a fourth wall (P4) foldably jointed to the bottom (3) at a second section (14) of the bottom (3) parallel to the second lateral edge (B2), so as to be able to be folded and arranged at an angle with respect to the bottom (3), when the container (1) is in the opened-out configuration (V).
• a third wall (P3) foidably jointed to the bottom (3) at a second lateral edge (B2) of the bottom (3), parallel to the first lateral edge (B1), so as to be able to be folded and arranged at an angle with respect to the bottom (3), when the container (1) is in the opened-out configuration (V)
• a fourth wall (P4) foldably jointed to the bottom (3)
• the container (1) further comprises, when placed in the opened-out configuration (V), also a second upper face (FS2) opposite the bottom (3), between the third wall (P3) and the fourth wall (P4), folded and arranged at an angle with respect to the third wall (P3) and the fourth wall (P4); the second upper face (FS2) which in turn comprises at least a second opening (15) for defining a second housing (150) for inserting and positioning an article.
• the container (1) of this preferred embodiment further contains: at least a second slot (16) in the third wall (P3) or in the fourth wall (P4); at least a second wing (17) foldably jointed to the bottom (3), between the third wall (P3) and the fourth wall (P4), so as to be able to be arranged at an angle with respect to the bottom (3), and to be inserted between the third wall (P3) and the fourth wall (P4) and the second upper face (FS2), when the container (1) is in the opened-out configuration (V), the second wing (17) comprising a second tab (18) predisposed so as to be able to insert in the. second slot (16), when the second wing (17) is folded at an angle with respect to the bottom (3) and inserted between the third wall (P3) and the fourth wall (P4), so as to stabilise the opened-out configuration (V) of the container (1).
• the container (1) has (see figure 6): the first wall (P1) and the third wall (P3) arranged in the plane identified by the bottom (3) externally aligned to the bottom (3), respectively at the two opposite lateral edges of the bottom (3); the second wall (P2) and the fourth wall (P4) arranged in a plane parallel to the plane identified by the bottom (3) and superposed on the bottom (3) itself; the upper face (FS) arranged in a parallel plane to the plane identified by the bottom (3) and superposed both on the bottom (3) and the first wall (P1); the second upper face (FS2) superposed both on the bottom (3) and on the third wall (P3), the wing (6) and the second wing (17) arranged in the plane identified by the bottom (3) externally aligned to the bottom (3).
• the second wing (17) has a polygonal shape such as to comprise a base side (80), jointed to the bottom (3), at least a first side (90) consecutive to the base side (80), in which the second tab (18) is formed, and at least a second side (100), consecutive to the base side (80) and opposite the first side (90), which is inclined with respect to the base side (80) by an angle that is such as to allow inserting of the second wing (17), when folded and arranged at an angle with respect to the bottom (3), between the third wall (P3) and the fourth wall (P4) folded at an angle with respect to the bottom (3); see figures 6-8.
• a polygonal shape such as to comprise a base side (80), jointed to the bottom (3), at least a first side (90) consecutive to the base side (80), in which the second tab (18) is formed, and at least a second side (100), consecutive to the base side (80) and opposite the first side (90), which is inclined with respect to the base side (80) by an angle that
• the second tab (18) has a shape such as to comprise a hook-shaped element (180) which, when the second tab (18) is inserted in the second slot (16), is for hooking the second tab (18) to the third wall (P3) or to the fourth wall (P4); see figures 6-8.
• the container (1) is configured so that: the second wall (P2) comprises at least a window (12) communicating with the opening (4) of the upper face (FS) between the first wall (P1) and the second wall (P2), the fourth wall (P4) comprises in turn at least a second window (19) communicating with the second opening (15) of the second upper face (FS2) between the third wail (P3) and the fourth wall (P4), and facing the window (12) of the second wall (P2), in such a way that the housing (40) defined in the upper face (FS), between the first wall (P1) and the second wall (P2), and the second housing (150) defined in the second upper face (FS2), between the third wall (P3) and the fourth wall (P4), define a single seating for inserting and positioning of an article having an elongate shape, such as a syringe (2).
• the first housing (40) and the second housing (150) together advantageously constitute a suitable housing for containing articles containing very long pharmaceutical/cosmetic products, such as for example syringes (2), as illustrated in figure 5.
• the upper face (FS) and the second upper face (FS2) can comprise more than one opening, thus defining more than one housing, so as to enable inserting and positioning a plurafity of articles.
• the second wall (P2) can comprise more than one window, each communicating with a relative opening of the upper face (FS) and the fourth wall (P4) can comprise in turn more than one window, each communicating with an opening of the second upper face (FS2) and facing a corresponding opening of the second wall (P2), in such a way that the housings defined in the upper face (FS), between the first wall (P1) and the second wall (P2) and those defined in the second upper face (FS2), between the third wall (P3) and the fourth wall (P4), define single seatings for inserting and positioning of articles having an elongate shape, such as syringes (2).
• the container (1) can comprise a further slot, like the second slot (16), in the third wall (P3) or in the fourth wall (P4), and a further wing (170), alike to the second wing (17), foldably jointed to the bottom (3) along an edge of the bottom (3) that is parallel and opposite the edge along which the wing (17) is jointed, so as to be able to be arranged at an angle with respect to the bottom (3) and to be inserted between the third wall (P3) and the fourth wall (P4) opposite the second wing (17), when the container (1) is in the opened-out configuration (V), thus stabilising the opened-out configuration (V) of the container (1) more securely.
• a further slot like the second slot (16), in the third wall (P3) or in the fourth wall (P4)
• a further wing (170) alike to the second wing (17), foldably jointed to the bottom (3) along an edge of the bottom (3) that is parallel and opposite the edge along which the wing (17) is jointed, so as to be able to be arranged at an angle with respect to the
• the first wall (P1) is in a single body with the bottom (3) at the first lateral edge (B1) of the bottom (3) and is foidable with respect thereto about a first score line (L1) arranged along the first lateral edge (B1);
• the third wall (P3) is in a single body with the bottom (3) at the second lateral edge (B2) of the bottom (3) and is foidable with respect thereto according to a second score line (L2) arranged along the second lateral edge (B2);
• the second wall (P2) and the fourth wall (P4) are jointed to the bottom (3) by means of a first flap (F1) glued directly to the bottom (3), the second wall (P2) being foidable relative to first flap (F1) according to a third score line (L3) parallel to the first score line (L1) and the fourth wall (P4) being foidable relative to the first flap (F1) according to a fourth score line (L4) parallel to the second score line (L2).
• the upper face (FS) is in a single body with the first wall (P1) and the second wall (P2), and foidable with respect to the first wall (P1) according to a fifth score line (L5) and foidable with respect to the second wall (P2) according to a sixth score line (L6);
• the second upper face (FS2) is in a single body with the third wall (P3) and foidable with respect to the third wall (P3) according to a seventh score line (L7) and the fourth wall (P4) being jointed to the second upper face (FS2) by means of a second flap (F2) glued on a portion (20) of the lower part of the second upper face (FS2) and foldabie with respect thereto according to an eighth score line (L8).
• the second upper face (FS2) is connected to the first flap (F1) by means of a third flap (F3) comprising a first sector (S1), in a single body with the second upper face (FS2) and foldabie with respect thereto according to a ninth score line (L9), and a second sector (S2) which is glued on the first flap (F1), and foldabie with respect thereto according to a tenth score line (L10).
• a third flap (F3) comprising a first sector (S1), in a single body with the second upper face (FS2) and foldabie with respect thereto according to a ninth score line (L9), and a second sector (S2) which is glued on the first flap (F1), and foldabie with respect thereto according to a tenth score line (L10).
• first flap (F1) and of the third flap (F3) there will advantageously be a container (1) having variable dimensions for adapting to articles containing pharmaceutical/cosmetic products of a different shape.
• the container (1) is configured in such a way that: the first sector (S1) of the third flap (F3) comprises at least a third window (22) opposite the at least a second window (19) of the fourth wall (P4), to enable a positioning of an article having an elongate shape, such as a syringe (2), in the seating defined by the housing (40) of the upper face (FS), between the first wall (P1) and the second wall (P2), and by the second housing (150) of the second upper face (FS2), between the third wall (P3) and the fourth wall (P4), and wherein, between the first sector (S1) and the fourth wall (P4), a space is defined for inserting and positioning a collar present in the body of the syringe (2).
• the first sector (S1) of the third flap (F3) comprises at least a third window (22) opposite the at least a second window (19) of the fourth wall (P4), to enable a positioning of an article having an elongate shape, such as a syring
• the first sector (S1) of the third flap (F3) preferably comprises more than one window; each of the windows will be opposite a window of the fourth wall (P4), in order to enable a positioning of articles having an elongate shape, such as syringes (2), in the seatings defined by the housings of the upper face (FS), between the first wall (P1) and the second wall (P2), and by the housings of the second upper face (FS2), between the third wall (P3) and the fourth wall (P4), and wherein, between the first sector (S1) and the fourth wall (P4), a space is defined for inserting and positioning a collar present in the body of each syringe (2) inserted in the seatings; see in particular figure 5

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