ES2287992T3 - SALES TRAY. - Google Patents

Abstract

TRAY WITH HOLDING DEVICES FOR THE EXPECTED OBJECTS CHARACTERIZED BECAUSE AS HOLDING DEVICES CARRIED OUT HIGHLIGHTS ON THEIR SIDE WALLS.

Description

Sales tray

The present invention refers to a sales display especially suitable to contain several Small packages or various objects.

The so-called sales trays are known, that serve to present various objects as products packed in individual boxes (FR-A-2 290 359 or USA-2,967,002), so that the boxes are placed  in a concave tray open at the top. In the stores, this type of trays presents an attractive appearance for customers, who can take individual packages from the tray. Thus, the trays ensure that the boxes remain centered and ordered all the time.

A rectangular tray of this type -made of plastic-, which has some divisions intermediates that cross perpendicularly the surface of the side wall to side wall tray (DE-U-295 03 625). At a compartment thus created can be placed a box with the product, That will remain upright. Contrary to what happens with the non-compartmentalized trays, tall packages and thin will not fall when a few are removed, since each Package holds by itself.

However, this type of tray presents some inconveniences: it is laborious to place the units in them, both manually and automatically; its manufacture requires the use of expensive tools and lots of material; in addition, due to the width of the slats, they need a lot of space for packing additional.

The slats can have small protrusions where the anterior and posterior surfaces of the packages are supported  or objects This setting increases the distance between packages and, therefore, the need for space is greater.

The objective of the invention is to eliminate these disadvantages and create a sales tray without intermediate divisions or with the least possible number.

Said objective, rationale for the invention, remains achieved in the light of the claims, which also illustrate the preferred embodiments thereof.

The object of the present invention is a tray with devices to hold the intended objects, characterized due to the fact that, as clamping devices, it has some handles of different sizes on the inside of the walls lateral.

Said handles or holding handles or projections in handle shape secure and hold objects placed on their edges or in the area of its edges. They can also be called knots or cams

Preferably, the tray according to the invention is a flat, concave and rectangular display stand (this is especially important), which can also be called a display . It can serve, for example, as a receptacle for placing small items of sale, especially cardboard boxes, thin cardboard or plastic.

In the tray according to the invention, the handles are distribute so that, for example, they remain in the delimited area perpendicular edges of two adjacent objects or packages (which may be in contact). So, for example, between the face posterior of a first object and the anterior face of a second -o between two packages of this type-, it is formed in the area of the edges a narrow groove - e.g. wedge-shaped, which opens towards the side wall and in which the handle is placed centered invention, which fits the edges of two objects or packages in contact, securing and holding said edges or the area of said edges, so that a handle secures and holds two objects or Contact packages.

In the tray according to the invention, the objects or packages with rounded or chamfered edges are especially suitable to retain their position in the tray, as they fit correctly on the handles according to the invention, provided that two of these objects or packages are placed sufficiently close to each other - that is, be in contact - with the front face of one facing the back of the other.

For this type of distribution they result Especially suitable boxes made of thin cardboard or cardboard.

The tray according to the invention is used preferably to contain the type of object mentioned previously.

However, in the tray according to the invention objects or packages with pointed edges can also be placed or straight that do not deform by putting them in it. In this case, the outer side faces of the objects are in contact with the outer side faces of the tray, as was the case in the configuration described above. However, in this case the objects do not touch each other and preferably there is a distance between the front and back sides of them approximately equivalent to the width of the holding handles. The edges of the objects adhere to the lateral edges of the handles

This type of configuration results Especially suitable plastic items with non-edged edges rounded.

Preferably, the handles or holding handles according to the invention they are arranged two by two, symmetrically and facing each other, in which case the tray is suitable for place square or rectangular base objects on it. The distance between the handles - located on the side wall of the tray- matches the depth of the objects and depends on the Edge shape. If it's objects with a base of irregular geometry, it is also possible to adjust the position of the handles to hold the position of the edges of the object.

For objects or packages with borders rounded in contact with each other, said distance is adjusted so that  match the distance between two adjacent handles, taking as reference, for example, the center of the handles. In the case of individual objects, separated from each other and with straight edges or pointed, said distance is adjusted to the existing distance between two lateral grooves of two adjacent handles.

If necessary - for example due to size and to the weight of the objects-, the tray according to the invention can count with one or several intermediate divisions.

In a preferred embodiment, the tray consists of five pairs of holding handles, allowing you  carry 6 objects. However, an even more interesting one rectangular tray with four pairs of handles and a division intermediate, which replaces a (fifth) pair of handles. In both ways of preferred embodiments, the tray can be stocked, using both hands at the same time, in two shifts of 3 objects. Therefore the Manual supply of trays is simplified and accelerates in big measure.

Preferably, the internal sides of the front and back side of the tray and the side faces of the intermediate divisions have a projection, although preferably with a minimum of two, which presses on the anterior or posterior surfaces of objects or packages placed in the tray and, thus, keeps them together and fixed in position. This is especially suitable for packages and objects of rounded edges located next to each other. Outgoing sayings they can be, for example, like the handles according to the invention and installed similarly.

Preferably, the handles according to the invention are they will conceive as arches or projections - cylindrical, rounded or semi-rounded, but also angular- located on the walls sides of the tray and will invade the interior space of the same. However, from the perspective of a cross-section, They can also be triangular or polygonal.

The height at which the handles can be placed and the intermediate division goes from the base of the tray to the edge from the wall itself. Preferably, the handles or the division intermediate, especially if they end in rounded shapes or chamfered, they will be located below the edge of the wall. By way for example, the height of the handles or the division can correspond to two thirds of the side wall. A height of said order of magnitude allows to supply the tray easier and quickly.

The height of the side walls of the tray it is situated, for example, between 1 and 2 cm - preferably 1.5 cm - on a 7x11 cm rectangular base, for example. Then, the width of a handle can be between 3 and 5 mm, protruding about 2 mm of the side wall. Such a tray turns out Especially suitable for exposing light packages.

Preferably, the tray according to the invention is it will be arranged as a "directed" tray; in this kind of trays, the strength of the grip handles varies, which gives the tray a preferred direction (front to back). So, the first pair of handles, which adjoins the front face of the tray and that holds the first package or object on the front face (which looks forward or outward), it is configured with greater force; This guarantees a very stable position, even if the Packages that follow are removed from the tray. In figure 1, these handles are called 2a. In this way, it is kept in view of the Buyer all important information about full trays located behind it.

Often, it is enough that the holding handles stand out and / or are wider and / or are located at a higher height, from a few tenths of a millimeter to one or two millimeters more, although the effect is especially noticeable if they stand out more and are at more height

Based on the description in Figure 1, explains in detail one embodiment of the invention especially favorable, without wanting to restrict the possibilities of invention.

Figure 1 shows a plan view of A sales tray. On the inner sides of the walls on the sides of tray 1 are the handles 2 of different size and 2a (holding handles) according to the invention, which they hold the six objects that can be arranged. Preferably, the clamping handles 2a and the opposite ones are stronger than the rest of holding handles 2. Intermediate division 3 divides the tray in half, dividing the concave tray into one part previous and later. In each of these parts can put three objects. The anterior wall, the posterior wall and the side walls of the intermediate division have 4 projections that fit the back and front surfaces of the objects.

In the tray according to the invention can be fixed and extracting objects without intermediate division, without thereby Stability of the remaining objects is affected. The handles and the fastening handles according to the invention ensure that the position of the objects remain fixed and secure when a package is removed individual.

The tray is suitable to place in it, by example, objects, packages, boxes and bags that must remain standing on a small surface and that, without a means of subject, they would fall. In this way products are usually offered cosmetics, doctors, pharmacists or the food industry, like strips in flat cardboard boxes, cigarettes, candy, games, media for sound and images, cassettes, floppy disks, parts electronic, office supplies or fabrics.

The tray according to the invention can be manufactured in, for example, plastic, cardboard, thin cardboard, corrugated cardboard, cardboard stone or paper mache. Manufacturing takes place according to any of the methods already known.

There are other suitable materials such as polyethylene, polyester, polypropylene, polystyrene, plastics cell phones, especially hard cell materials like polystyrene, preferably hard polystyrene foam or foams EPS, like styropor®. The material can be translucent or color. Cellular materials are resistant, light and heavy. They protect delicate objects. Paper mache or stone cardboard It is also very appropriate for the same reasons, since forming holding handles is much simpler than placing divisions intermediate and, in addition, are more environmentally friendly materials ambient.

The trays according to the invention, lacking intermediate divisions, can be manufactured using smaller quantity of material and in a simpler way. Said material savings It is also positive in terms of waste disposal, for which also means a lower consumption of resources.

Trays can be stocked faster and faster. easily, especially if the task is done by hand. Also take less space - between 1 and 3 mm wide for each ribbon - due to the absence of intermediate divisions.

Claims (6)

1. A tray (1) with clamping devices for the intended objects, said clamping devices being handles (2F, 2a) located on its side walls, characterized by the fact that the first pair of clamping handles (2a) -located next to the front face; this is the front face if the tray is observed in the preferred direction (A) - it is larger than any other pair of holding handles (2) located behind it in the preferred direction (A). 2. A tray according to claim 1, characterized in that the holding handles (2, 2a) are symmetrically facing each other. 3. A tray according to claims 1 or 2, characterized in that it is preferably rectangular and has four pairs of handles and an intermediate partition (3), preferably located in the center of the tray. 4. A tray according to claims 1 to 3, characterized in that it is made of plastic, stone cardboard or cellular plastic, especially in EPS foams, for example in styropor®. 5. A tray application according to claims 1 to 4 for objects with rounded edges or chamfered, especially for cardboard boxes or boxes foldable 6. A tray application according to claims 1 to 4 for packaged products cosmetics, pharmacists and doctors, for example strips, which They usually come packaged in cardboard boxes or foldable.