ES1205111U - Packing to store shoes (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding) - Google Patents

Abstract

Packing to store shoes consisting of a sheet or sheet of transparent, translucent or opaque resilient material with or without color, whose perimeter is shaped so that when folded manually cold becomes the self-supporting three-dimensional receptacle constituting the packaging.

Description

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Packaging to store shoes.

Sector of the technique in which the invention is framed

The invention for which a Utility Model concession is requested falls within the field of current necessities of life, specifically in category A45C 3/12 of the RCL. Its purpose is to contain women's and men's footwear in an orderly manner so that it occupies a minimum area in the furniture or space destined to store it, allowing it to be seen without the need for any manipulation.

Current state of the art

Current techniques for the promotion and sale of clothing accessories ensure that large sectors of the population acquire an increasing number of such accessories for various reasons. In the case of footwear, fashion, design, improvement of one's own image or, simply, the whim make men and - more often - women gather in their wardrobe such an amount of pairs of shoes that it is difficult to keep them tidy. For this reason and for several years various devices have appeared on the market that allow the two shoes of the same pair to be stored together.

In the background search, the databases Young, Espacenet, Latipat and Patentscope have been consulted to which the SPTO website refers. The results obtained for category A45C3 / 12 show a large number of patents for footwear packaging, but none with the characteristics of the packaging for which a utility model concession is requested. Almost all patents refer to bags or sacks, and only in one case (WO / 2014/202937: Wedge-shaped shoe carrier) does the device resemble in its outer form to which it is the subject of the present application, but limited to one only shoe and not even; in addition, both this and other container packages are rigid objects that require the prior manufacture of a mold from which the device is obtained, also differentiating from this of the present invention, which is made from a sheet or sheet of flexible material with a certain degree of hysteresis or mechanical memory and conforms by hand.

Description of the invention

The invention for which a Utility Model concession is requested consists of a sheet or sheet of transparent, translucent or opaque material, with a certain degree of resilience, of a thickness of the order of several tenths of a millimeter, cut in the shape

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shown in figure 1. Inside are the stitches, cuts and recesses shown in figure 2 in which:

the dotted the. Ib .... are weakened areas by discontinuous puncture, surface cutting or other method that does not cause total cross-sectional of the material, and are intended to facilitate the folding or folding of the sheet, cuts 2a, 2b .... 2e they are areas in which the material has been sectioned in all its thickness and are intended to facilitate the total or partial separation of areas of the sheet.

the recesses 3a, 3b .... 3 e are areas from which a small strip of material has been removed as a buttonhole.

Thanks to the resilience of the material from which it is made, the cut sheet (figure 2) can be folded manually cold -as indicated below- to transform the flat surface of the sheet into the three-dimensional receptacle represented in figure 3, which is the perspective of it that an observer would have holding the receptacle at eye level. Said receptacle serves to house a shoe inside (figure 4, same perspective) and its upper flat surface serves as a base to place the other shoe of the same pair (figure 5, same perspective). It is, therefore, a shoemaker mounted on site by the user, whose final appearance is that shown in Figure 3 and that provides a solution to the problem of storing each pair of shoes in the furniture destined for it, allowing to locate that that you want to dress just by opening this piece of furniture and looking inside.

Advantages of the invention. Once the shoemaker is mounted, its geometry allows the placement of several juxtaposed units so that there are no lost gaps between them, increasing the volume occupied by the footwear in the enclosure that stores it without thereby increasing the area intended for that purpose. Being able to be of a transparent or translucent material, the choice of a specific pair can be made by looking, without touching anything. In addition, the shoes are not in contact with each other, which prevents them from rubbing and deteriorating. The fact that the packaging delimits an open receptacle allows the ventilation of the footwear and the drying of the moisture that it could have. Finally, the packaging is easily washable (assembled or disassembled) to remove any dirt or bitumen stain that it may have.

Manufacturing can be done without the need for specific machinery for the product, even without the need for product knowledge, in an industry for which this manufacturing is another order in your portfolio (see section Preferred Embodiment of the Invention).

The purchase, transport and storage of several units does not present any problem as it is reduced to a package of maximum sizes of less than 50 x 70 cm and thickness of the order of 1 cm. In the assembly or assembly operation, no glue or adhesive tape is used, nor is any tool necessary to obtain a self-supporting packaging.

From the point of view of the seller, the space occupied in its premises is very small since one hundred units occupy the same floor area as one and reach a height of less than 10 centimeters. If the seller receives online orders, the package sent to the buyer has practically the size of a drawing folder.

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The technique to be used for the assembly of the shoemaker is the same as that used in the cut-outs of children's notebooks and in the primary education manual works to dress mannequins, lift houses, make trains ...

Initially the packaging is a sheet of material with a resilience characteristic, trimmed according to the shape indicated in figure 1. In order to facilitate the understanding of the successive folding actions in the sheet (figure 2), figure 6 represents this one as if it were formed by six independent pieces called A to F. This figure 6 has only didactic intention and does not respond to the physical reality of the packaging.

At the beginning of the assembly, part of the sheet is shown as shown in figure 2. Firstly, the set of pieces A and B are folded 90 ° upwards along the dotted line so that it is in a plane perpendicular to the which contains parts C, D and E (figure 7).

Then the left part of part C is folded 90 ° upwards along the dotted line so that said left part is in a plane perpendicular to the one containing parts A and B; Likewise, the assembly formed by the right part of the part C is folded plus the part D 90 ° upwards by the dotted line Id so that said assembly is in another plane perpendicular to the one containing the parts A and B (Figure 8).

Piece D is folded 90 ° down the dotted line so that it is parallel to the central part of piece C, with its right edge Dder coinciding with the left edge Cizq previously raised from the said part C (figure 9) .

Next, part A is folded 90 ° downwards along the dotted line Ib so that it is above and in contact with part D (figure 10). The tabs formed by the cuts 2a are introduced in the recesses 3e of the part A and the tabs of the left edge C¿zq of the part C are first introduced in the recesses 3a of the part D (hidden in figure 10) and then in the emptyings 3d of the piece A, since as a result of the successive folded the pieces D and A are in contact and the emptyings are coincident.

In order to ensure the non-deformability of the assembly, the part E is separated from the part C, forcing the rupture of the two points of attachment to it (figure 2) and its tabs 2b and 2c are introduced respectively in the recesses 3b and 3c from outside the set.

The piece F separates from the piece A forcing the rupture of the two points of attachment to it and is discarded, leaving a void in this piece (figure 2). This emptying serves to insert the needle heel cap of a lady's shoe in order to facilitate its hold and stability in an upright position.

In women's shoes there is a model that requires slightly modifying the packaging described above so that it can be stored in it. This is the platform shoes that have a heel of 14/15 centimeters, which gives a total height of about 20 centimeters in the back. A packaging suitable for this height must have elements on the side faces that help its deformability when a shoe is placed in the upper plane. These elements are the stiffeners. The figure lia

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Shows the corresponding packaging sheet. The stiffeners are represented in detail in Figure 11b: they consist of two strips defined by the cuts 2f and 2g, foldable by the stitches lh and which have two tabs at the upper end (defined by an extension cut of lh) and two others at the lower end. Both stiffeners are contained in part C (figure 11 a) and are separated from it by the same method as parts E and F. Once separated, the stiffeners are folded by stippling 1 h so that the two halves form a 90 ° angle; the upper tabs are inserted from inside the package into the recesses 3f of the part A and the lower tabs are inserted (also from the inside of the package) into the recesses 3g of the part C. Then the lower tabs are folded by the dotted 1 i to ensure its fixation.

Use of the device. Once folded and mounted the shoemakers that are going to be needed, they are placed in the space destined to store the footwear (shelf inside a closet, dressing room, floor, loft ...) and they join each other so as not to leave gaps between them. Next, a shoe is inserted through the open end and the other shoe is placed on the upper plane of the packaging, in the opposite direction to that of the first shoe (Figure 5).

If unmounted packaging is kept in reserve for future use, several of them can be stored together placed on edge or horizontally.

The packaging can also serve as a distinguishing detail for manufacturers or shoe stores, which can screen print their trademark on a visible site and offer them as a gift along with the travel bag that sometimes accompanies the footwear.

Preferred Embodiment of the Invention

The material execution of the cut and prepared sheet according to Figure 2 can be done in two different ways, based on the first in classical mechanical technology and the second in LASER beam technology and digital control.

When classical mechanical technology is used, a first flat die is required that cuts the sheet by removing a single piece with the perimeter of irregular polygonal geometry shown in Figure 1. Next, a second die consisting of a base die provided with cutting strips and Hendedoras performs the emptyings, cuts and stitches shown in Figure 2. The operation of the die cutter should be preferably automatic since the sheets of the material from which the shoemaker is made must be cut and worked individually to ensure the accuracy of the cuts.

In the manufacture of the pieces using low intensity LASER beam cutting technology, it is based on a CAD bounded plan that contains all the perimeter, dotted, cut and emptied dimensions. The construction data is dumped into the LASER cutter and the operations that result in the packaging ready for assembly are automatically performed. This manufacturing system is preferable to that of mechanical technology because it does not require its own industry: any engraving and cutting workshop of plastic materials (methacrylate, PVC, polypropylene, etc.) can do the job.

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This invention has a main application: to store footwear in an orderly way, visible without manipulation, occupying a minimum of space and keeping both feet of the same model together. The "do it yourself" philosophy allows you to have as many packing units as you want at home without taking up space.

In the event that the packaging has a logo or trademark printed or screened - from the manufacturer or the seller - such packaging may be considered a promotional item that is given as a gift for customer loyalty.

Claims (6)

5 10 fifteen twenty 25 30 1. - Packaging for storing shoes consisting of a sheet or sheet of transparent, translucent or opaque resilient material with or without color, whose perimeter is shaped so that when manually folded in cold it becomes the self-supporting three-dimensional receptacle constituting the packaging. 2. - Packaging for storing shoes according to claim 1 characterized in that the folding lines are indicated by weakening the resilient material. 3. - Packaging for storing shoes according to claim 2 characterized by having cuts that delimit elements necessary for assembly. 4. - Packaging for storing shoes according to claim 3 characterized by having empty areas for housing elements of the sheet itself. 5. - Packaging for storing shoes according to claim 4 characterized by having a small regular perimeter area prepared for emptying where the base of a stiletto heel can be housed. 6. - Packaging for storing shoes according to claim 4 characterized by having lateral stiffeners that contribute to the dimensional stability in height of the three-dimensional receptacle.