FR2500809A1 - INTEGRATED PALLET CONTAINER - Google Patents

Abstract

1. Container of folded cardboard, to the base of which supporting elements have been added, spaces being provided between them to give passage to the forks of a pallet conveyor, the said supporting elements consisting of cross-pieces, preferably of wood, made up of at least one sole piece 7 and two studs 4, 5, affixed to the ends of the sole piece, the said cross-pieces being inserted sandwich-wise between the outer and the inner flaps 1 of the container base, the said container being characterized by the fact that the outer flaps have side edges 2 folded to enable the supporting elements to slide and lateral cut-outs 3 in the prolongation of the said folding edges, the said folding edges being returned to the flat position to enable the supporting elements to be locked in their final position situated on a level with the cut-outs 3.

Description

The present invention relates to the palletization of certain containers

  of corrugated board or other material to be handled by different mechanical means, carriage arm, pallet carrier,

elevator, etc ...

  There are many systems for container palletizing. The latter can be placed on a wooden pallet or any other material, assembled or not beforehand by stapling, gluing, strapping etc. There are also accessories that can be fixed in several ways s or through the floor of a container: plastic feet, cardboard, screws

  or stapled, etc ..., rolls like expanded polystyrene, glued etc ...

  All these devices only partially meet the requirements of users. Among other drawbacks: for the wooden pallet, its cost, its size, its weight with the considerable use of raw material. For other systems, there may be difficulties in using them on a conveyor or in limiting them to two

entries instead of four etc ...

  The present invention avoids all these disadvantages.

  The object of the invention is to use primarily the flaps of under, overlapping or overlapping small or large, a container type American box. These flaps upset and cut in an appropriate manner and in locations adapted as needed, allow to receive "skates", consisting of sleepers and studs, wood or any other material which have for object the raising of the load . The

  dimensions of these elements are variable in all directions and in thickness.

  This installation is done without equipment and without special skills. When the load or the dimensions of the container impose it, the longitudinal members or skids constituted more often than two crosspieces between which and at each end of which is fixed a stud, can be reinforced by X pads 6, then disconnected on the same side of one of the two sleepers thus leaving the passage of the cardboard or other material making floor.

  The following description, by way of nonlimiting example and in

  look at the attached drawings, is only for the purpose of making it clear

  how the invention can be put into practice.

  Fig. 1 represents the flaps 1 of a cash box container

american being edited.

  Fig. 2 shows on a bottom flap the ups and downs 2 and hinged cuts 3 or not, according to a first embodiment according to the invention.

  Fig. 3 represents different pads or sleepers with studs.

  Fig. 4 represents the successive phases of the assembly. In fig. 5 the

  usual closure of the flap 1 which positions the sleepers with studs.

  Fig. 6 shows a second embodiment according to the invention for higher loads and container dimensions

  relatively important. A third stud 6 instead of two with distortion

  tion of the cross member 8 not fixed to the stud 6, to allow the passage of the flap

1 acting as a floor.

  In fig. 7 the device object of the invention is shown on container bottoms whose flaps are different. There are also variants

  in the articulation of the cuts 3.

  Fig. 9 represents a container whose assembly is almost complete.

  Fig. 10 represents some non-limiting variants of folding 2

  and the precut 3 for the stud perpendicular to the crossbar 7.

  Fig. It presents an application of the invention on small flaps. The sleepers 7 with the studs 5 are then perpendicular to

the length of the container.

  Placement: The lower legs of the container are normally folded to form the inner floor of the package; on the flaps 1 opposed repressed and decoped according to the device object of the invention fig. 2, we fold the shutters fig. 4 exterior articulating in 2 so that the reduced dimension of the flap 1 allows the introduction of the elements consist of a crossbar 7 with its pads 5, 6 and optionally its sole 8. These elements slide fig. 6 to the chosen location 3. This shutter 3 can be cut totally or articulated parallel or perpendicular to the sleepers

  Fig. 10. It can even if necessary be stapled or glued etc ... on the stud 5.

  The shutters 2 are placed in the same plane as the flap 1; this flap 1 is then normally folded until application fig. 5 against the inner floor, thus sandwiching the cross 7. This is thus blocked. The flaps between them are then closed by the usual systems stapling, gluing,

strapping etc ...

3.

Claims (5)

  1 - Device making it possible to make a container or part of a container palletizable, without particular increase in area   of material, characterized by the fact that flaps pushed back and   Pés position and fix one or cross with their studs, with or without sole. 2 - Device according to claim I characterized in that the pads when intermediate are fixed only one   same side of the crossbar allowing the passage of the floor.   3 - Device according to claims 1, 2 characterized   in that the normally folded flaps ensure the closure of the   content by blocking the sleepers.   4 -Dispositif according to claims 1 and 2 characterized   in that the sleepers thus held with their studs ensure the   raising the container, thus making it an integrated pallet container.   5 - Device according to claims 1, 2, 3 and 4 characteristics   in that the locations 3, the shapes, the materials used cant of the container that carrying elements can be adapted according to needs.   By proxy of the Société Anonyme known as COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES PAPIERS, The Agent,