EP3620402B1 - Abstandhalter, set von gefässen, das einen solchen abstandhalter umfasst, sowie verfahren zur herstellung dieses sets - Google Patents

Abstandhalter, set von gefässen, das einen solchen abstandhalter umfasst, sowie verfahren zur herstellung dieses sets Download PDF

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EP3620402B1
EP3620402B1 EP19195428.8A EP19195428A EP3620402B1 EP 3620402 B1 EP3620402 B1 EP 3620402B1 EP 19195428 A EP19195428 A EP 19195428A EP 3620402 B1 EP3620402 B1 EP 3620402B1
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  • the invention relates to the field of packaging packs comprising several pots grouped one above the other, by means of cardboard packaging.
  • the subject of the invention is more precisely an intermediate element of a packaging of a pack.
  • Packs comprising a cardboard blank forming a packaging of at least two layers of pots.
  • the top pots of the top layer rest by their bottom walls on the closures of the bottom pots of the bottom layer.
  • the upper layer is therefore carried by the lower layer.
  • the top pots are not sufficiently well held in the event of sudden movement in the packaging. This results in poor support capable of causing the top pots to move relative to the bottom pots, and possibly a separation of the pack.
  • intermediate elements are known.
  • Such spacers comprise retaining elements respectively arranged partially around the side walls of the top pots in the vicinity of their bottom walls.
  • the top pots are thus spaced and wedged together, and less likely to move relative to the pots below.
  • the document FR 2684078 describes an example of such an intermediate element.
  • the intermediate elements are often not strong enough so that too abrupt displacement of the pack is liable to deteriorate the retaining elements of the intermediate element and then render it inoperative.
  • the pots are not maintained satisfactorily, and in particular equivalent, in all directions.
  • the invention thus aims to obtain an intermediate element and, more generally, a packaging of a pack, in which the top pots are maintained satisfactorily with respect to the bottom pots.
  • the top pots are maintained satisfactorily.
  • the fact of having the second openings at a distance from the central panel allows, once the intermediate element has been shaped, that the first openings surround the side walls of the top pots with a distance from their bottom walls. .
  • the top pots are particularly well maintained.
  • each second opening is delimited by at least a first cut line and a second cut line, the first cut line being suitable and intended to come into abutment with a bottom pot.
  • the first and second side panels are identical to each other.
  • first side panel, the central panel and the second side panel are arranged one after the other in the longitudinal direction.
  • first and second side panels are articulated relative to the central panel respectively along fold lines extending in a transverse direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction.
  • the central panel of the intermediate element is raised by a spacing with respect to the pots below.
  • each first opening of the intermediate element completely surrounds the side wall of a top pot.
  • each first opening of the intermediate element is suitable and intended to stop a top pot on its side wall, in the vicinity of its bottom wall.
  • the packaging also comprises a blank set in volume to surround the bottom pots and the top pots.
  • the intermediate element is shaped by folding the first and second side panels relative to the central panel, the flank maintaining the shaped intermediate element.
  • the intermediate element is kept in shape by the sidewall, which makes it possible to prevent the intermediate element from being able to be moved once the pack has been formed.
  • the invention relates to a cardboard insert 1, flat, intended to hold the jars 2 of a pack 20, as illustrated in the drawings. figures 1A and 1B .
  • interlayer it is understood that the element 1 is suitable and intended to be placed at, or in its vicinity of, the junction of two layers of pots 2 of the pack 20.
  • cardboard is meant a layered material, such as that commonly used or suitable for the indicated destination. Such a cardboard should be neither too rigid nor too flexible. It must be able to be folded at the location of fold lines, such as creased lines and / or cut lines, provided for this purpose.
  • pack should be understood to mean a batch formed of several pots 2 presented grouped in superimposed layers, in longitudinal rows and / or in transverse rows, in a packaging, so as to form a unitary assembly, intended to be stored, handled, moved, offered for sale and sold as such.
  • a pot 2 comprises a bottom wall 3a, a side wall closed on itself 3b and an opening opposite the bottom wall 3a with top closure 4.
  • a pot 2 is in the form of a cylinder or of a truncated cone and comprises a flange 5 transverse towards its upper opening, the top closure 4 being a flat cover secured to and on the flange 5.
  • the generatrix of the side wall 3b is a line other than a straight line, having a more or less complex shape, and the directing curve is other than a circle, being for example a curvilinear square with rounded corners.
  • Such a pot 2 can stand upright by resting on its bottom wall 3a forming a seat.
  • the pots 2 are individualized or they are interconnected, for example by their flanges 5, so as to form a plate of pots 2.
  • the pots 2 are similar, most especially. identical, and they are filled with a certain content, identical or not for the different jars 2, and closed.
  • a pot 2 is made of thermoformed plastic and it has a certain strength allowing it to be self-supporting, but the pot can be made of other materials and by other methods.
  • a pot 2 is typically intended to contain a content that is homogeneous or not, having a more or less fluid overall condition, which does not exclude the presence of more or less solid pieces.
  • Such content is for example a milk product or a dessert, this list not being exhaustive.
  • the pot 2 is intended to receive a dose of such content for individual and unit use, for example of the order of a hundred grams and, in this case, it may have a height of the order of a few centimeters and fit laterally in a cylinder whose diameter is also of the order of a few centimeters.
  • the pot 2, intended for a minidose is smaller or, on the contrary, intended for a larger dose, is larger.
  • the intermediate element 1 is of generally rectangular shape and it is limited by two free edges 6 in the longitudinal direction L and by two free edges 7 in the transverse direction T.
  • the longitudinal direction L and the transverse direction T cross perpendicularly the one with the other at a point O in the center of the spacer 1.
  • the intermediate element 1 comprises, arranged one after the other in the longitudinal direction L, and between the two free edges 6, a first side panel 8, a central panel 9 and a second side panel 10.
  • panel should be understood to mean a flat piece in the form of a layer, made of cardboard in this case, delimited by a border comprising fold lines, such as grooved lines and / or cut lines.
  • the intermediate element 1 is preferably such that the two side panels 8, 10 are identical to each other.
  • the spacer 1 also includes fold lines, such as transverse direction grooved lines T.
  • Grooved lines are well known in the field of packaging and cardboard and allow two adjacent panels to be relatively folded into one. predefined location. Such creasing lines are formed by using a creasing tool. It is understood that the expression “grooved line” is to be understood in the widest sense as meaning that the line is suitable and intended for the relative folding of two adjacent panels.
  • the intermediate element 1 comprises two fold lines 11, 12 respectively between the central panel 9 and the two side panels 8, 10.
  • the two fold lines 11, 12 are alternating cutting lines.
  • alternating cutting it should be understood that on the line, the cardboard is regularly and alternately cut through and then not cut, and so on, so as to create a mixed line.
  • the two side panels 8, 10 are thus articulated relative to the central panel 9 along the fold lines 11, 12, advantageously parallel to one another. These two fold lines 11, 12 are thus suitable and intended for the relative folding of the side panels 8, 10 with respect to the central panel 9 in order to shape the intermediate element 1.
  • the two side panels 8, 10 form with the central panel 9 an angle ⁇ , in particular obtuse, for example of the order of 120 degrees, as illustrated in figure 5 .
  • the central panel 9 comprises first openings 13, advantageously through.
  • Each first opening 13 is suitable and intended to surround the side wall 3b of a pot 2, in particular in the vicinity of its bottom wall 3a once the pack 20 has been formed.
  • Each first opening 13 advantageously has a circular shape, or more generally a shape corresponding to the cross-sectional shape of a side wall 3b of pot 2.
  • Each first opening 13 is however slightly wider than the side wall 3b of a pot 2. , in particular in the vicinity of its bottom wall 3a, so that a pot can be arranged in a first opening 13, while leaving a space E between the intermediate element 1 and the side wall 3b of the pot 2 disposed in the first opening 13, shown on figure 5 .
  • the side panels 8, 10 also include second openings 14, advantageously through.
  • Each second opening 14 is suitable and intended to come into contact, for example in abutment, with the top closure 4 of a pot 2, in particular in the vicinity of its collar 5 once the pack 20 has been formed.
  • each second opening 14 of a side panel 8, 10 is spaced from the central panel 9 by a distance D in the longitudinal direction L. More particularly, each second opening 14 of a side panel 8, 10 is spaced at a distance D from the fold line 11, 12 allowing the respective articulation of the side panel 8, 10 with respect to the central panel 9.
  • Each second opening 14 can be delimited by a first cut line 15 and a second cut line 16.
  • the first cut line 15 is rectilinear or substantially rectilinear.
  • the first cut line 15 is more particularly suitable for coming into contact, advantageously over substantially its entire length, with the closure 4 of a pot 2.
  • the second cut line 16 is in an arc of a circle. Alternatively, the second cut line 16 can take other shapes.
  • the intermediate element 1 is symmetrical or substantially symmetrical by axial rotation around the Z direction.
  • the intermediate element 1 comprises four first openings 13 and four second openings 14.
  • the four first openings 13 are arranged in pairs, face to face, on the central panel 9.
  • the second openings 14 are arranged on the side panels 8, 10. More precisely, two second openings 14 are arranged, advantageously side by side. in the transverse direction T on a side panel 8, and two other second openings 14 are arranged, advantageously side by side in the transverse direction T on the other side panel 10.
  • the intermediate element 1 is suitable and intended to produce, with a blank 30, a packaging 40 of a pack of jars 20, the pack 20 comprising the jars 2 and the packaging 40.
  • a cardboard blank 30, flat (the terms “cardboard” and “flat” to be understood as above), is intended for the production of packaging 40.
  • the packaging 40 produced in particular by the sidewall 30 is of the tubular envelope type and it is produced by setting up and closing on itself the blank 30, so as to match the jars 2 of the pack 20 which are thus kept grouped.
  • tubular envelope By “tubular envelope”, it should be understood that the packaging 40 has six sides overall and is in a generally parallelepipedal shape, has four adjacent sides closed on themselves and two open facing sides.
  • the blank 30, lying flat, is generally rectangular in shape.
  • the blank 30 comprises, arranged one after the other, a first top panel 31a, a first side panel 32a, a bottom panel 33, a second side panel 32b and a second top panel 31b (the term "panel" to be understood as above).
  • the blank 30 is such that the two side panels 32a and 32b have the same dimensions.
  • the first top panel 31a is relatively wide, intended to form the entire surface of a top wall 34, while the second top panel 31b is relatively narrower, like a shutter, able to come to the front of the first. top panel 31a.
  • Such an embodiment may comprise a means of securing between the first top panel 31a and the second top panel 31b, such as tabs, notches or a securing adhesive.
  • Blank 30 also includes fold lines, such as score lines. These lines are suitable and intended for the relative folding of the panels 31a, 32a, 33, 32b, 31b, for the volume setting of the blank 30, for the production of the packaging 40 and the constitution of the pack 20.
  • the blank 30 comprises two grooved lines from below 35a, 35b between the bottom panel 33 and the two side panels 32a, 32b, and two grooved lines from above 36a, 36b between the two top panels 31a, 31b and the two side panels.
  • two side panels 32a, 32b are two grooved lines from below 35a, 35b between the bottom panel 33 and the two side panels 32a, 32b, and two grooved lines from above 36a, 36b between the two top panels 31a, 31b and the two side panels.
  • the shaping of the blank 30 and the shaping of the intermediate element 1 allows the packaging 40 of the pack 20 to be produced.
  • the pack 20 comprises at least two layers of pots, an upper layer comprising top pots 2b and a lower layer comprising bottom pots 2a.
  • the qualification of “bottom pot 2a” thus aims to distinguish such a pot from another pot of the pack 20, namely a “top pot 2b” of the upper layer.
  • the bottom pots 2a of the lower layer and the top pots 2b of the upper layer are advantageously identical to each other.
  • the invention also relates to any pack 20 comprising at least two layers of pots, or more.
  • the pack 20 may comprise three or a greater number of layers of pots (not shown), then having several upper layers of pots and one or more intermediate elements 1, in particular for each of the upper layers of the pack 20.
  • the lower and upper layers of the pack 20 each comprise four pots arranged in pairs, face to face.
  • the invention also relates to a pack 20 in which the layers of pots comprise a greater or lesser number of pots 2, as well as a variable arrangement of the pots in a lower or upper layer.
  • the invention also relates to a method for producing the packaging 40 and for constituting the pack 20.
  • the bottom pots 2a are arranged, successively or simultaneously, in a lower layer on the bottom panel 33 of the blank 30.
  • the spacer element 1 is placed on the lower layer of bottom pots 2a, as illustrated in FIG. figure 3 , and we have, successively or simultaneously, the top pots 2b in an upper layer on the lower layer as illustrated on figure 4 .
  • Each top pot 2b is advantageously placed directly above a bottom pot 2a. Specifically, each top pot 2b is centered on a bottom pot 2a.
  • Each top pot 2b is also disposed in a first opening 13 of the intermediate element 1.
  • the intermediate element 1 is shaped by folding the two side panels 8, 10, around the two grooved lines 11, 12, relative to the central panel 9.
  • the blank 30 is placed in volume, around the pots 2 of the pack 20, by folding the two side panels 32a, 32b, around the two grooved lines from below 35a, 35b,
  • the shaping of the intermediate element 1 can be carried out during the volume setting of the blank 30, the side panels 32a, 32b then exerting a force on the side panels 8, 10 of the intermediate element 1 in order to cause the folding of the side panels 8, 10 with respect to the central panel 9.
  • the second openings 14 respectively come into abutment with the closures 4 of a bottom pot 2a, in particular in the vicinity of their flanges 5. More particularly, part of the flange 5 of the bottom pots 2a is inserted into the second openings 14, the first cut line 15 then coming into contact with the closure 4 of the bottom pots 2a.
  • the blank 30 is also finished to form, around the pots 2 of the pack 20, by folding the two side panels 32a, 32b around the two top grooved lines 36a, 36b.
  • the two top panels 31a and 31b are placed in a coplanar manner, for example one on top of the other, and the two top panels 31a and 31b are secured to one another, so as to close the blank 1 on itself, to form the top wall 34, by using the securing means, and to produce the packaging 40 surrounding the pots 2 of the pack 20.
  • the blank 30 is then placed around the pots 2. More precisely, the two side panels 32aa, 32bb are erected, upwards, relative to the plane of the bottom panel 33 and form an angle with it, in particular obtuse.
  • the side panels 32a, 32b extend as far as the top wall 34.
  • the top wall 34 is disposed above and in line with the bottom panel 33.
  • the sidewall 30 keeps the intermediate element 1 in shape, in particular due to the side panels 32a, 32b which exert a force on the side panels 8, 10 of the intermediate element 1.
  • the intermediate element 1 is arranged between, and advantageously parallel to, the bottom panel 33 and the top wall 34.
  • Such a pack 20 and such a packaging 40 are illustrated by figure 5 .
  • the detail shape of the packaging 40 is adapted to the detail shape of the jars 2.
  • the description of the package 40 which has just been given is therefore not exclusive of other shapes, in the case of jars 2 of different shapes.
  • the packaging 40 is, on the whole, similar to that of a pack 20 with two layers of pots, except, first of all, that its dimension is larger so as to be adapted to the number of layers.
  • the intermediate element 1 is adapted so that each first opening 13 is arranged around a top pot 2b of the upper layer.
  • the intermediate element 1 is adapted so that each second opening 14 is in contact, advantageously in abutment, with a bottom pot 2a of the lower layer.
  • the top pots 2b are respectively arranged in the first openings 13 of the intermediate element 1, so as to ensure the spacing and the wedging of these top pots 2b in the vicinity of their bottom walls 3a.
  • the first openings 13 are thus intended to stop the top pots 2b on their side walls 3b, in the vicinity of their bottom walls 3a.
  • top pots 2b are prevented, at least to some extent, from moving relatively (inadvertently ) relative to the packaging 40 and / or the bottom pots 2a, or to collide with each other, because the displacement of the side wall 3b of each top pot 2b is adjacent to a first opening 13, in particular spaced apart from a limited space E.
  • the top pots 2b are thus maintained in all directions, in particular in the longitudinal direction L and the transverse direction T of the intermediate element 1.
  • the intermediate element 1 is suitable and intended to allow the spacing H between the central panel 10 and the bottom wall 3a of the top pots. 2b or the closure 4 of the bottom pots 2a (since the top pots 2b rest by their bottom walls 3a on the closures 4 of the bottom pots 2a).
  • the distance H is relatively small compared to the distance between the bottom wall 3a and the top closure 5 of a pot 2.
  • the distance H is more than 0.5 centimeters, or even more than one centimeter, or even more than two centimeters.
  • this embodiment is not limiting, the spacing H being able to be smaller or larger.
  • the first openings 13 being suitable for stopping the top pots 2b, as has just been explained, they take part in the fact that, in the pack 20, the top pots 2b cannot, or can only slightly, move. untimely or shocking each other.
  • the pack 20 can also include slits or cutouts 21, 22 to let the collar 5 of the top pots 2b protrude or the bottom wall 3a of the bottom pots 2a to the outside of the pack 20.

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  1. Ebenes Zwischenelement (1) aus Karton, welches dazu vorgesehen ist, Gefäße (2a, 2b) in einer Packung (20) zu halten, wobei die Packung (20) untere Gefäße (2a) einer unteren Schicht und obere Gefäße (2b) einer oberen Schicht umfasst, wobei das Zwischenelement (1) wenigstens ein erstes Seitenpaneel (8), ein zentrales Paneel (9) und ein zweites Seitenpaneel (10) umfasst,
    wobei:
    - das zentrale Paneel (9) erste Öffnungen (13) umfasst, wobei jede erste Öffnung (13) dazu in der Lage und vorgesehen ist, ein oberes Gefäß (2b) zu umgeben,
    - wobei die ersten und zweiten Seitenpaneele (8, 10) zweite Öffnungen (14) umfassen, wobei jede zweite Öffnung (14) dazu in der Lage und vorgesehen ist, in Anlege mit einem unteren Gefäß (2a) zu kommen, und dadurch gekennzeichnet dass:
    - die zweiten Öffnungen (14) in einer Distanz (D) von dem zentralen Paneel (9) gemäß einer longitudinalen Richtung (L) angeordnet sind.
  2. Zwischenelement (1) nach Anspruch 1, wobei jede zweite Öffnung (14) von wenigstens einer ersten Schnittlinie (15) und einer zweiten Schnittlinie (16) begrenzt ist, wobei die erste Schnittlinie (15) in der Lage und dazu vorgesehen ist, in Anlage mit einem unteren Gefäß (2a) zu kommen.
  3. Zwischenelement (1) nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, wobei die ersten und zweiten Seitenpaneele (8, 10) zueinander identisch sind.
  4. Zwischenelement (1) nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, wobei das erste Seitenpaneel (8), das zentrale Paneel (9) und das zweite Seitenpaneel (10) eines nach dem anderen gemäß der longitudinalen Richtung (L) angeordnet sind.
  5. Zwischenelement (1) nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, wobei die ersten und zweiten Seitenpaneele (8, 10) bezüglich des zentralen Paneels (9) jeweils entlang Faltlinien (11, 12) schwenkbar sind, welche sich gemäß einer transversalen Richtung (T) senkrecht zu der longitudinalen Richtung (L) erstrecken.
  6. Packung (20), umfassend:
    - eine untere Schicht, welche untere Gefäße (2a) umfasst, und eine obere Schicht, welche obere Gefäße (2b) umfasst, wobei die oberen Gefäße (2b) auf den unteren Gefäßen (2a) angeordnet sind, wobei jedes Gefäß (2a, 2b) eine Bodenwand (3a) und eine laterale Wand (3b) umfasst, und
    - ein Packstück (40), welches wenigstens ein Zwischenelement (1) nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche umfasst.
  7. Packung (20) nach Anspruch 6, wobei das zentrale Paneel (9) des Zwischenelements (1) um einen Abstand (H) gegenüber den unteren Gefäßen (2a) erhöht ist.
  8. Packung (20) nach einem der Ansprüche 6 oder 7, wobei jede erste Öffnung (13) des Zwischenelements (1) vollständig die laterale Wand (3b) von einem oberen Gefäß (2b) umgibt.
  9. Packung (20) nach einem der Ansprüche 6 bis 8, wobei jede erste Öffnung (13) des Zwischenelements (1) dazu in der Lage und vorgesehen ist, ein oberes Gefäß (2b) an seiner lateralen Wand (3b) benachbart zu seiner Bodenwand (3a) zu halten.
  10. Packung (20) nach einem der Ansprüche 6 bis 9, wobei das Packstück (40) ferner einen Rohling (30) umfasst, welcher in ein Volumen gebracht ist, um die unteren Gefäße (2a) und die oberen Gefäße (2b) zu umgeben.
  11. Packung (20) nach Anspruch 10, wobei das Zwischenelement (1) durch Falten der ersten und zweiten Seitenpaneele (8, 10) bezüglich des zentralen Paneels (9) in Form gebracht ist, wobei der Rohling (30) das Zwischenelement (1) in Form gebracht hält.
  12. Verfahren zum Bilden einer Packung (20), wobei
    - ein Zwischenelement (1) nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 5, ein Rohling (30), untere Gefäße (2a) und obere Gefäße (2b), welche dazu vorgesehen sind, einen Teil der Packung (20) zu bilden, bereitgestellt werden, wobei jedes Gefäß (2a, 2b) eine Bodenwand (3a) und eine laterale Wand (3b) umfasst,
    - nacheinander oder gleichzeitig die unteren Gefäße (2a) in einer unteren Schicht auf dem Rohling (30) bereitgestellt werden,
    - das Zwischenelement (1) auf der Schicht von unteren Gefäßen (2a) bereitgestellt wird,
    - nacheinander oder gleichzeitig die oberen Gefäße (2b) in einer oberen Schicht auf den unteren Gefäßen (2a) bereitgestellt werden, und
    - der Rohling (30) um die unteren Gefäße (2a) und die oberen Gefäße (2b) herum derart in ein Volumen gebracht wird, dass das Zwischenelement (1) in Form gehalten wird.
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