ES1279747U - One-dimensional volumetrically packed, shock resistant for unit of fragile containers of equal capacity with possibility of thermal insulation (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding) - Google Patents

Abstract

One-dimensional box for different sizes of fragile containers, characterized by being protected against shocks, thermally protected, with optional thermal insulation that fills gaps in the packaging where it is located. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)

Description

DESCRIPTION

One-dimensional volumetrically packed, shock resistant for a unit of fragile containers of equal capacity with the possibility of thermal insulation

Technical sector

The writing of the present invention refers to a high protection packaging valid for multiple formats of fragile containers of the same volumetric capacity (a fixed height, width and length) in a transport unit, protected and resistant to impacts caused by transport of long logistics journey. Its application in other capacities than the main one contemplated is described with the calculation system, being able to establish the manufacture of this box from miniature sizes to large capacity formats. Mainly it has been thought of its use for wine, being valid for other sectors of presentation in glass, ceramics, clay and other fragile materials that present contents in any format and state: solid, liquid or gaseous. Thus, its extension to sectors such as oil, honey, distillates, glass decoration boat sails or perfumes are collected for this need for shock-resistant transport with the possibility of including thermal insulation. The material of this packaging can be cardboard, cardboard, wood, padded wood, plastic, metal and the usual ones for packing, being common and preferable corrugated cardboard (for miniatures it can also be cardboard) because it is a recyclable and reusable element very respectful with the environment that we must take care of.

State of the art

With the packaging of products with fragile containers, the common thing is to pack in cardboard boxes, covering the bottles on the outside with cardboard and with cardboard dividers to isolate each gap of each container with a cardboard sheet between containers, when they are grouped in the same packaging or also when they use packaging in a unit to be transported if they present supposed high protection, which frequently suffer breakages in the transport of parcels due to handling, automation (already in origin through the classification belts of the operators of logistics) or irregularities in the transport used (roads in poor condition, sudden changes in speed, sudden agitation in transport), especially when the boxes are transported in medium and long distances, even if the boxes are labeled as "very fragile" content. This practice, on the rise with retail e-commerce, is a disadvantage in terms of customer service on time when one of the products breaks with liquids in the package, affecting the entire package and perhaps the rest of the cargo of the package. carrier. In these cases, a second shipment is necessary to complete the customer's order when all or part of the shipment has been destroyed, with the resulting financial, delivery time and customer satisfaction losses. Thermal oscillations for sensitive liquids have not been solved until now, in cardboard boxes that transport products sensitive to temperature change when they only cover the fragile product with the minimum packing material for delivery to the buyer in each acquisition. Transportation presents the problem of using cartons that are insufficiently protective of the containers they contain, generally when they are manufactured with a single layer of cardboard in contact with the containers for this type of transport. This is due to occupying the maximum number of containers in the smallest possible space without taking into account the physics of shocks, falls and blows, which coincides in the packaging already in use, with the maximum contact of the containers with each other, even if they are separated by some cardboard sheets when stacking more than one package.

Different product presentations diversify the packaging sizes and, therefore, their separate manufacture, which sometimes raises production costs for containers that are very close in size, even with the same volume capacity, with the need to manufacture materials for each different measurement of height, width and length. When different container formats are handled by manufacturers, they usually generate at least one box for each container and grouping, having a volumetric dimension for each format, although they are of the same capacity but not identical in their measurements, due to this desire to adjust to the Contain the packaging with the minimum amount of wrapping that is supposed to be sufficient for its commercialization. Thus, 10 centiliter, 37.5 centiliter or 75 centiliter bottles will generate as many packages as different models and groups are used, but also - for example - in different 75 centiliter models, which with 1 centimeter difference in one of their three spatial measures of the container generate separate manufacturing of packaging, rarely coinciding two different models of the same capacity in the three spatial measures: height, width and length, for this packaging. The utility model presented here establishes normative sizes that will be applied with multipurpose extended results for similar products.

Publication 1043573, document ES 1043573 U, application number U 009901641, filing date 06.23.1999, appears to be a duplicate of the subsequently mentioned publication 1 047 759.

Publication 1047759, document ES 1047759 U, application number U 200003074, filing date 12/15/2000, focuses on external coatings, where jars or bottles lack dividing protection between units and is restricted to outer packaging in coated wood made of expanded polystyrene or cork only.

Publication 1076734, document ES 1076734 U, application number U 201101183 with filing date 05.12.2011 uses an outer cover for a similar packaging, which implies an increase in costs for the package to be produced, in addition to having a double cover, that differ in materials to be applied for their manufacture.

The design presented to the European Union Intellectual Property Office with description number 000023643-0005 is similar in appearance but uses a lot of packaging material.

The design presented at the European Union Intellectual Property Office with description number 002239780-0001 presents a very complicated development for the reason that concerns us in this model.

The design presented in the European Union Intellectual Property Office with description number 003480722-0004 has a simple appearance with a complicated manufacturing if we need agile work with packaging.

Explanation of the invention

The present utility model has the task of presenting a fragile container packaging system - mainly thinking about glass - for products, which can be used for various formats and volumetric dimensions of equal or very close capacity in the container (generally in bottle, and may be jars or jars as well), with different magnitudes of height, width and length determined by the standards of the sector for which it is used and the capacity of the product in question. Its validity is only possible for containers that can be placed in a regular quadrangular prism with a straight square base, such as containers of exterior cylindrical or similar format, excluding measurements of different width and length at the base for these valid prisms, due to the characteristics of the system devised. A standardized packaging is presented that comprises walls by folds between the outside and the container that in this way can be located with padding for the product to be transported where the fold calculation system is arranged avoiding direct contact of fragile containers with the impact surface of shocks, which allows the optimization of shock absorption, its standardizable production and recycling.

We will mention "bottle" or "container" as a generic term to refer to all these containers.

With different heights, widths and lengths of containers that are usual in the market for each specific product, normal practical standards can be established to be stored in a single standardized volume of packaging for these units of products, for better preservation of the transported content when the maximum of the measurements of the internal gap generated is not reached. These measurements are determined as follows: 1) Height, width and length of the container being packed (in the case of bottles with an outer cylindrical body, width and length are identical due to their diameter), measurements whose placement in the tables will determine the rest of components, 2) Channel or thickness of the packaging material (mainly corrugated cardboard), 3) Padding folds, 4) External dimensions of the box, 5) Final measurements of the cutting plate with all these elements, generated by the appropriate calculations , 6) Optional thermal insulation plates and 7) Closures for sealing prior to the transport of the product. These components are the parameters of the Tables, then producing, with the system, the necessary measurements to generate the packaging elements. The calculations are determined with the reference in column letter and row number in the corresponding Tables that will be used in the appropriate spreadsheet according to the needs of each product.

When packaging bottles, up to three orientations and six different types of positions - two positions for each orientation - are established in three-dimensional spaces: face up (vertical orientation 1), face down (vertical orientation 2), lying down to the north (horizontal orientation 1) , lying towards the South (horizontal orientation 2), lying towards the East (horizontal orientation 3) and lying towards the West (final horizontal orientation), which here are minimized by considering that a position and its inverse consist of the same position in the packaging, simply with the container up and turned down, having only one valid orientation of all the possible ones for the packaging that is generated with this invention. In terms of packaging, the same box is considered with a container upside down and upside down, although it is advisable to properly label its position for transport in cases such as wine.

The task of generating a shockproof packaging and slight thermal oscillations is solved with a system of measures, necessary for the interior coatings of the packaging that protect the bottles and are adjusted for their transport in claim 1. In the Tables, for the claim, the method and result of these calculations are recorded for their materialization, with examples in the Tables for necessary cases that are presented, without limitation of generating other calculations in different tables.

In this way, the need to produce one type of box for each different shape of container with slight variations is eliminated, reducing production costs due to price escalation to a larger order valid for more products, in this case, similar. If a producer produces a single product, its optimization is carried out from the beginning.

The measures exposed in the embodiments must be altered for each sector, modifying height, width and length to better adapt to their standards of containers of different capacities when it is the case. The study of usual measures will be necessary.

This invention makes use of a single closed exterior material, being able to use a thermally insulating interior material (expanded polystyrene, expanded polypropylenes, expanded polyurethane and the like) for the interior areas without a container, calculating its cut for insertion in the gaps according to the provided Tables described. in Figure 1. In order to choose the insulating material, it is necessary that it complies with the elasticity before blows that this system establishes because, if it is not fulfilled, the complete blow is transmitted to the container that is intended to be protected with this system of shock-absorbing pleats. The manufacture of thermal insulation is not usually of millimeter precision, so the factory variation is usually 2 to 3 millimeters of difference for these realizations, which supposes a sum of about 5 mm of variation between some sheets of a factory and another, by arranging them in the box. This must be taken into account before entrusting the work to the manufacturer selected in its production, being desirable to establish a margin that considers the measurements of the folded box with the factory variation of the insulating material for its gaps between the exterior and the product space, keeping fixed the measurements of the final box and in the rest of the elements that make up the cavity inside the box that forms the complete package. A box identical to the resulting calculations, may or may not contain the insulation sheets - in case of not needing thermal insulation - saving on their manufacture.

It may also be that an outer box is molded or painted with printed material or its different graphic techniques such as thermo-engraving, flexography, stamping, etc.

The assembly of all the parts contained in the box is described in Figure 1. Thus, with the observations of the description of the invention, the external measurements common to all the calculations can be defined. This could lead to an ISO standard for wine glass manufacturers and so on for other application sectors.

The identification of the contents of the box will be necessary, as it will be identical in appearance for all containers in all the formats to which it is accommodated, as well as the recommended packaging indications in each case: box content, temperature range, indication of fragile content (must continue to be indicated), protect from the sun, protect from rain, indication of recycling and how many indications apply to the content of the containers to be transported, preferably standardized.

The figures, as they consist of realizations by calculation patterns, do not necessarily present all the modes of realization, since their automatic calculation is established in the tables from the measurements entered manually in the described system, which will be specified according to the technical sheets of the products established by the manufacturers. Still, it is reflected how they would result in the calculation results of the examples presented. It is only necessary to follow the same method of calculations in a new table, and thus with other measurements, in the desired position for each specific case.

Each bottle size will have specific manufacturing characteristics. The channel thickness is recommended with a minimum of 0.3 cm for 75 cl bottles, and it can be cardboard for reduced sizes in this case, in all its values for containers with reduced capacity (for example, 10 centiliters) due to its lower risk of breakage by presenting an isolated volume and mass of lower magnitudes in each part of the cavity, with the channels distributed in a smaller proportion for each container, a measure that allows the protection of these smaller objects, also depending on the properties of the insulating material if its insertion and the characteristics of the container are worked on. The thickness of the plates is recommended with a minimum of 3 centimeters thick (1.9 cm in the thinnest case studied) with bottles of 70 or 75 centiliters of glass in the manufacture of each volume of filling in the material studied, for reasons of protection against shocks and thermal insulation, depending on the properties of the insulating material that is being worked on. It is not the same channel (cardboard, micro-type thin cardboard or even double corrugated cardboard) nor the same proportions required for a 5 centiliter container as for a 15 liter bottle. The outer box must meet the needs of the cardboard channel or material used for the weight and degree of fragility of the container, which will be determined with a greater or lesser thickness of the material used in each embodiment. Thus, 15-liter bottles of wine will need physical tests to study the thickness of the material to be used (wood and not cardboard may be necessary) or choose another material to fulfill the function of protection against blows.

The sizes distributed in the hollow interior to the cavities can be varied in the container boxes with the reduction or enlargement that the container needs, being able to multiply or divide the proportions in the formulas to increase or decrease the voids and even add fixed units, always thinking This system shares common external measurements and channels that allow savings in scale-up from the factory order of the same box for the needs of different sizes of bottles of similar capacity.

If the automatic results are negative, obviously the measurements cannot be provided with the entered data and correct values must be entered.

Although the channels have room only in thickness, their application in the three volumetric coordinates facilitates the change from one position to another when working, especially in the manufacture of cardboard to respect the cuts that facilitate their final folding.

The assembly of all these measures according to the established system reflects the complete package, valid for all container formats that are considered to have an external volumetric dimension common to all. The system presented is the object of this utility model with the rest of the characteristics of the claim. It is not recommended to establish the calculation channels in the tables before the chosen packaging factory establishes its available standards, or container dimensions without studying their practical standardization in the market, since generating a packaging of this type that has to be remanufactured by 1 centimeter it would fail its purpose as a standard one try. A complete factory pre-order sample and physical testing is always recommended. The choice of modified proportions, material and finishes must be verified with a real physical test with the product that verifies the validity of the options taken. The logistics request a guarantee of undamaged product to free fall of 2.7 meters of the packages (maximum measure of height of pallets in international transport).

The system does not consist of formulas, as they vary according to each embodiment (if desired, the formulas that generate the folds can be added, subtracted, multiplied or divided to increase or decrease the folds) and there can be a multitude of different cases, depending on the container studied. that optimizes the box under consideration. The abstraction of the system is achieved with the description of the Tables for all the cases that are generated, with descriptions in the Figures corresponding to the Tables generated.

Brief description of the tables

Table 1 consists of the description of the calculations for the folds of the container or bottle to be packed in the concrete abstract that is the object of this model.

Table 2 consists of an application for a 75 centiliter bottle of the calculations in Table 1 as an embodiment.

Table 3 consists of another application for a 150 centiliter bottle of the calculations in Table 1 as an embodiment.

Table 1 is presented on the following page completely on the same page of each one for better visualization and to check its application in the embodiments, which simply follow its presentation in the text continuum.

Table 1. Calculation of pleat measurements from the container

Table 1

The fixed parameters are the height, width and length of the bottle and the channel of packaging material. Table 1 that establishes the parameters of the invention, in this concrete example of the abstract system, is only one development of many. The values give the results.

This Table 1 can repeat how many sizes are in use by the producer, you just have to repeat the calculation pattern of the bottle with which you want to calculate. With identical container exterior measurements but different shapes (a square jar and a cylindrical bottle that give the same exterior measurements), the same model will be considered for calculation purposes as it is the same cubic capacity. The letters in boxes B2, B3, B4, C2, C3 and C4 are for manual input of measured numbers.

It is necessary to determine that:

1. The mathematical symbols used are: addition (+), subtraction (-), multiplication (*), division (/), power (A) and the square root follows the Pythagorean theorem, whereby the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the square of the legs of a right triangle. This formula varies according to the spreadsheet program used, that is why the basic mathematical formula is indicated, which is studied in basic education in Spain with the expression in this case RCUAD followed in parentheses its content to be calculated. Its application in this invention will be seen in the figures. The "X" in column E line 25 indicates that the values before and after are multiplied for the area in square meters (m2) and the expression (m3) indicates the cubic meters.

2. Cells are indicated first with the row name (its letter) and the column to which it corresponds (its number). The Total A and Total B measures determine the total packaging surface, the Totals C measure is within these cuts as can be seen in Figure 1.

3. Spreadsheet operations have been simplified to be valid in any program: SUM does the sum of cells in parentheses. The nomenclature of indicating a cell followed by an "a" and another cell establishes a summation line (sum of each cell in the interval), horizontal or vertical as appropriate, with the addition of other lines of sum of cells in indicated rows or columns followed. with ";" when they are included in the formula within parentheses.

4. By indicating a cell number it means that that cell has the source value of that data.

5. Shaded cells are indicated for calculation results that do not constitute folds. The abbreviations int. (interior), ext. (exterior) and Ple. (Fold or fold) are reflected in this way for the needs of collation.

Brief description of the drawings

Figure 1 is a plan view of the packaging model with all its folds according to Table 2 at 1/10 scale and the internal volume occupied by the bottles with their insulators (which will vary according to the container format models), generated set by the measurements in the box, with the opening and its sealing, which is presented with the upper part represented at the beginning of the reading of this type of vertical pages as the upper part of the plan. In this figure we will find the element fold with the cell references. The easy folding is done from the inside out, being the view from the inside and when folding all the starting numbering is left to the right from the outside with this folding order and from top to bottom.

Next, as an application of this invention, a first embodiment is described that will be described in drawings and a following embodiment that validates and describes its use as a different standardization on the next page.

Detailed exposition of an embodiment of the invention

For the example taken, of 75 centiliters of bottle, we have a model that is used to contain products of three different formats: one with a Bordeaux bottle higher than the rest, another with a medium Bordeaux bottle that does not exceed the measurements of the other two, and one of Burgundy bottle wider than the rest.

In this case, when considering wine bottles, the measurements that a 75 centiliter bottle can present have been studied: the general rule is that they do not exceed 35 centimeters in height, with a diameter that does not exceed 10.5 centimeters ; of course there are exceptionally rare cases that exceed these measures, but its commercialization of such little standardized formats is assumed to be very exquisite and differentiated from the common market. For its conservation, moderate thermal insulation increases the organoleptic characteristics of the wine at the time of consumption, once the storage and transport have already taken place. Its one-dimensional multi-format feature for producers who need to package different shapes of the same net content, as well as different content capacities of their product containers, make it ideal when using very fragile materials such as glass, without being limited to this material. Each production sector has its measurements, so just as the main case of a 75 centiliter bottle of wine has been studied, the cases of bottles of olive oil, distillates or vinegar have different capacity standards and need a study to normalize usual measures, which with this system would be established with the results of common uses.

As in the study carried out prior to the presentation of this invention and that is precisely where it is already clear that the vast majority of 75 cl bottles unusually exceed 35 centimeters in height and 10.5 centimeters in diameter, and these three bottles of For example, they are within these parameters, these are the measurements that will be established in Table 2.

These establamentos were determined in Table 1 to configure their formulas and here the results offered with these measurements are expressed, which are the beginning of the subsequent mathematical results, here in boxes B2, B3, B4, C2, C3 and C4, although the column C entries described for these rows in this sentence must all be the same but each for a different volume three-dimensional dimension. The boxes C2, C3 and C4 are the thickness of the material used, which must be flat to be able to work this utility model successfully.

Channel is called the thickness of the material that is used, whether it is the thickness of metal, use of wood, its derivatives such as cardboard or pieces of materials that by physical tests must offer the optimum or minimum thickness usable for manufacturing.

As Table 1 has been exposed on a page, the reference to rows and columns is the established one and these modes of implementation are only practical application, here it is not necessary more than to follow the model first with the results of what was previously offered as an abstract case. specifying in the system of formulas, which here are derived in forms with specific measures resulting from these mathematical elements thus arranged.

To adjust the protective folds, the calculation is performed (these results are expressed in the complete table on the next page):

Table 2. Calculation of pleat measurements from the container

Table 2

In Figure 1 you can see the arrangement of all these measures, which will be indicated with the cell nomenclature to which it belongs so that the manufacturer can identify each of the elements that will have to be arranged so that the packaging is definitively manufactured in this embodiment represented graphically. Note that these first introduction numbers are the result of a study of the appropriate measures for this type of product, with the fragility that must be protected by studying your specific case. By way of explanation of validity for other parameters, another mode of implementation is shown on the next page for better understanding.

Table 3. Detailed exposition of another embodiment of the invention as an example of valid standardization for different standardizable volumes

Table 3

The same methodological considerations of Table 1 apply here, differing these results in the fixed measurements (bottle and channel), producing the measurements that later in Figures resulting from these measurements may be applied.

This Table 3 can be repeated with how many different containers are in use, as it applies in previous cases. The rest is generated with this system and is only perfected when drawing according to the Figures according to what is measured and manufacturing the packaging.

The use of this box with a 0.5 cm channel is assumed with the use of corrugated cardboard, since using double corrugated corrugated cardboard is more expensive and the same impact protection effect is achieved for which this box is designed with these measures, with the observations present in the explanation of this utility model.

For large volume containers, padded wood may be more recommended than other materials, taking for example objects as specified of, for example, 1 hectoliter of volumetric capacity that may remain as an ISO standard to be developed.

Industrial application

Using the Tables, the Figure and their modified uses according to the needs of each container format, a volumetrically one-dimensional packaging can be generated for manufacturers that thus use a standardized, shock-resistant and thermally protected transport wrap for all presentations of very high containers. fragiles of the same format, with prior study of the usual measures in each format and market. A standard box can be formed in as many containers as considered. Each standardized packaging will constitute a model of dimensions so that manufacturers can find a lower cost in their product shipments, from collection at origin in their factories to arrival with transport to their buyers at the destination that payers wish to detail as the point of delivery of their ubiquitous shopping intact geographically.

Claims (1)

1. One-dimensional box for different sizes of fragile containers, characterized by being protected against shocks, thermally protected, with optional thermal insulation that fills gaps in the packaging where the product to be packed is not located, with a system that determines its measurements for all containers by: 1) Height, width and length of the standard container being packed (in the case of bottles with an outer cylindrical body, width and length are identical due to their diameter), 2) Channel or thickness of the packing material (mainly wood or corrugated cardboard), 3) Quilting folds, 4) External dimensions of the box, 5) Final measurements of the cutting plate, generated by the appropriate calculations, 6) Optional thermal insulation plates and 7) Closures for sealing prior to transport of the product. The assembly of all the parts in as many embodiments as necessary with the measurements generated in a box of identical external dimensions for the needs of multiple sizes of fragile containers unified in measurements that can be considered standardizations for each container capacity, which makes up this invention.