FR2781205A1 - Box for layers of identical containers, e.g. wine containers, comprises side walls with cover and base containing apertures allowing neck and handle of containers to pass through them - Google Patents

Abstract

The box (10) is used for arranging layers of identical containers (3). Each container is shaped as a polygon with an upper flat face (4) that has a handle (5) and a neck (6) protruding from it, and a lower face (7) with a cavity formed in it to accommodate the handle and neck of the identical container stacked above. The box is made up from a number of rectangular side walls (11,12,13,14,15) with a cover (17) and a base (18). The cover and base are arranged to rest on the upper and lower faces respectively of the containers when they are arranged in the box. The cover and base have apertures (19,20) formed in them through which can pass the handles or necks of the containers arranged below the cover or base.

Description

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  CARDBOARD BOX AND BLANK FOR STORAGE OF CUBITAINERS

  The present invention relates to a storage box for at least one row of two containers, each of the containers being of the type having a polygon shape comprising a flat upper face provided with a handle and / or a neck protruding from the said flat face and a partially recessed lower face capable of containing the handle and / or the neck of an identical container situated below, said box comprising a series of at least four rectangular walls, a

cover and bottom.

  It also relates to a blank making it possible to

make such a box.

  It finds a particularly important although not exclusive application in the field of

  storage and transport of wine cubitainers.

  Cubitainers or containers in the shape of a regular polygon of the type described above are already known,

  usually in the shape of a plastic cube.

  Such containers can be stacked on top of each other which facilitates their storage, but on the one hand must be handled one by one and on the other hand do not make it possible to constitute batteries and / or pallets for transport and storage very

stable.

  The present invention overcomes these drawbacks.

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  To do this, it aims to provide a box and a blank allowing the packaging of cubitainers which meet the requirements of the practice better than those previously known, in particular in that it allows more stable storage and more secure transport, all thanks to a packaging that is simple to implement, solid and which allows the shape and self-locking of the cubitainers to be respected

when stacked.

  For this purpose, the invention essentially provides a storage box for at least one row of two identical containers, each container being of the type described above, said box comprising a series of at least four rectangular walls, a cover and a bottom. , characterized in that the cover and the bottom are arranged to bear respectively on the upper faces and the lower faces of the containers when the latter are contained in said box, and in that said cover and said bottom respectively have recessed parts arranged to allow the handles and / or the necks of the receptacles located in

  below said cover or said bottom.

  In advantageous embodiments, recourse is had to one and / or the other of the following arrangements: - the recessed parts of the cover and of the bottom consist of parallel slots or in the extension of one of the other, substantially

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  rectangular, extending over most of the width of said bottom or said cover; By essential width, we mean at

  minus two-thirds of said width.

  - the bottom slots are perpendicular to the cover slots; - the box is arranged to contain two rows

of two containers side by side.

  The invention also provides a cardboard or corrugated cardboard blank for constituting a storage box for at least one row of two identical containers of the type described above, the blank comprising a series of flaps and flaps suitable for forming the walls, cover and bottom of the box, characterized in that the flaps and flaps are arranged to rest on the faces of the containers when the box is formed and filled, and in that the flaps or flaps forming the cover and the bottom have recessed portions arranged to allow the handles and / or the necks of the containers situated below the said passage to pass.

  lid or said bottom when the box is formed.

  In advantageous embodiments, recourse is had to one and / or the other of the following arrangements: - the series of flaps comprises a first rectangular or octagonal flap constituting the bottom of the box, provided in two with its opposite sides of first lateral flaps suitable for forming at least in part

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  two first opposite side walls of said box, said first flap being connected on its two other opposite sides respectively to a second and a third rectangular flap, suitable for forming two second opposite side walls of the box and a fourth rectangular or octagonal flap forming the cover of said box, said fourth flap being provided on two of its opposite sides with second side flaps suitable for forming io with said first side flaps, said first opposite side walls of said box, in that the first and fourth flaps are arranged to bear respectively on the upper faces and the lower faces of the containers when the latter are contained in the box formed from said blank, and in that the first and the fourth flap respectively comprise said recessed parts arranged to allow the handles and / or container necks ients located below said first and fourth flaps when the box is formed; - The first and fourth flaps comprise two parallel rows of two recessed parts, said recessed parts of each row being located in the extension of one another; - the flap suite comprises at least four rectangular flaps forming the side walls of the box and terminated by a bonding tab, and two sets of side flaps arranged on each

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  side of said suite, namely a first assembly suitable for forming the bottom and a second assembly suitable for forming the cover of said box, each set of flaps comprising two first flaps attached to two first non-adjacent flaps, said first flaps being suitable for form two opposite walls, and two second flaps attached to two second non-adjacent flaps, said second flaps being adapted to form the other two opposite walls, in that each first flap has at least two first recessed parts arranged to allow the handle to pass and / or the neck of the containers located below said first flap when the box is formed, and in that each second flap of the first set of flaps comprises at least two second hollowed out parts perpendicular to said first hollowed out parts and arranged to be placed at right of said first recessed portions of the first flaps of the first set when that the box is formed; - The hollowed-out parts consist of slots which are parallel or in the extension of one another, substantially rectangular, extending over most of the width of the corresponding flaps or flaps; the slots of the first flap or of the first flaps of the first set are perpendicular to the slots of the fourth flap or of the first flaps of the

second set.

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  The invention will be better understood on reading the

  description which follows of embodiments given to

  title of nonlimiting examples. The description is

  refers to the accompanying drawings in which: - Figure 1 is a perspective view of four containers usable with a box according to the invention. - Figure 2 is a perspective view, partly symbolized, of a stack of two boxes according to the embodiment of the invention more

particularly described here.

  - Figure 3 is a plan view of the blank

  to obtain the box of Figure 2.

  - Figure 4 is a plan view of another mode

  for making the blank according to the invention.

  FIG. 1 shows two rows 1 and 2 of two identical containers 3, each container being in the form of an octagonal cross section box comprising a flat upper face 4 provided with a handle 5 and a neck 6 with cap, protruding by relative to said flat face 4 and a lower face 7 partially hollowed out at 8 and suitable for receiving the handle and the neck of a container

identical located below.

  The containers 3 are of the cubitainer type with flat walls, but may also have cylindrical and / or prismatic walls with a plus or minus

large number of sides.

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  In FIG. 1, the containers have parallel vertical walls 9 which, for some, will be able to cooperate in contact with the storage box which will now be described with reference to FIG. 2. FIG. 2 shows two storage boxes 10 and ' identical octagonal cross section, stacked one on the other, the box 10 'and its

  content being shown in phantom.

  Each box 10 has four main side walls 11, 12, 13 and 14 separated by secondary side walls forming cut corners 15, the walls being interconnected by fold lines 16. The main walls 11, 12, 13 and 14 and

  the cut corners 15 are rectangular.

  The box 10 has a cover 17 and a bottom 18. It is made of double-sided corrugated cardboard,

for example 3 mm thick.

  The cover 17 is arranged to rest on the upper face 4 of the containers 3 which appear

  in broken lines in Figure 2.

  The cover 17 further comprises openings or recessed portions 18 arranged to allow the handles 5 and the necks with plugs to pass through.

containers 6.

  The box 10 further includes a bottom, which will be described with reference to the box 10 'stacked on the

  box 10 and shown in phantom in Figure 2.

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  This box 10 ′ therefore has a bottom 18 ′ which is pierced with openings and / or recessed parts 19 ′ arranged to allow the handles and the necks 5 and 6 of the receptacles 3 located below the bottom 18 ′, to pass through cover 17 of the box 10. As shown in FIG. 2, and taking into account the direction for the recesses 8 at the bottom of the containers 3, which are perpendicular to the protuberances formed by the handle and the neck of the same container, the recesses 18 ' allow 90 and 10 'boxes to be stacked one on top of the other. The cut corner shape allows the main side walls 11, 12, 13 and 14 to be in contact with the vertical walls 9 of the containers, guaranteeing excellent hold, the cover 17 being in contact and resting on the upper face of the containers, and the bottom of the containers resting on the

bottom of the box.

  Such an arrangement allows excellent resistance to compression of the box allowing the storage of the containers four by four, stacked at 90 °

on each other.

  Advantageously and in a manner known per se, the body comprises on one of its vertical main walls 11, a handle 20 constituted by an oblong recess, said recess being connected by each of the sides of its ends, to lines 21

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  partially pre-cut, which allow the body to be torn off and opened (arrow 22), the cover of which can then be removed by giving

  access to the containers inside.

  The partially pre-cut lines 21 are in fact at an angle, for example upwards and end at the adjacent fold line 16, a line also weakened upwards so as to

facilitate said uprooting.

  There is shown in Figure 3 the blank 23 in corrugated cardboard to obtain the box

shown in figure 2.

  We will use in the following the same reference numbers to represent the same elements as

  those described with reference to Figure 2.

  The blank 23 comprises a series of shutters and flaps suitable for forming the walls, the cover and the

bottom of the box.

  The flaps and flaps are arranged to fold when coming into contact on the faces of the

  containers when the box is formed.

  The blank has a first octagonal flap 18, that is to say substantially rectangular with cut corners, constituting the bottom of the box. It is provided on two of its opposite sides with two first lateral flaps 24, rectangular, suitable for forming at least partially the first side walls

opposite 12 and 14 of the box.

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  The first flap 18 is also connected on its two other main sides, by folding lines 25, respectively to a second flap 11 and a third rectangular flap 13 suitable for forming the opposite side walls 11 and 13 of the box. Each rectangular flap 11 and 13 comprises on each of its sides perpendicular to the fold lines 25, and connected to said sides by fold lines 26, primary flaps 27, rectangular, suitable for forming the cut corners of the box, and flaps secondary 28, rectangular, connected by fold lines 29, to said primary flaps 27,

  line 29 being parallel to lines 26.

  The secondary flaps 28 are arranged to be glued to the first flaps 24, the flaps 28 and 24 being suitable for forming the walls 12 and 14 of the

body once formed.

  The series of shutters of the blank 23 further comprises a fourth octagonal shutter 17, that is to say substantially rectangular with cut corners,

  suitable for forming the lid of the box.

  The fourth part 17 is connected to the third part 13, on the other side of the first part 18, by a

  fold line 30 parallel to fold line 25.

  It comprises, similarly to the first flap 18, two lateral flaps 31, rectangular or substantially rectangular, identical to the flaps 24 and comprising for example small tabs 32

  on their lateral external periphery.

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removable 34 from flap 11.

  The flap 18 is arranged to form the bottom of the package. It comprises recessed parts 20, constituted by slots of length L, rectangular, possibly partially terminated

end by semicircles.

  The slots 20 are of width l, for example constant and equal to the largest width of the neck and the handle, so that the latter two can pass through the bottom of the package

  indifferent on either side of the slit.

  The parts recessed in slots 20 are arranged in two parallel rows 40 and 41, the two slots being in the extension of one another, their length L being such that 2 XL is substantially between 2/3 and 9 / 10 of the width of the flap 18, for example 8/10. and the width 1 of the slots being between it

  fifth and tenth of the length of the flap 18.

  The flap 17 also comprises two rows 42 and 43 of two slots 19 located in the extension of one another. These slots are substantially rectangular, and similar in

  dimensions L and 1 with respect to the slots 20.

  They include for example an end 44 provided with a recess of substantially circular shape

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  wider than the rest of the slot, to allow

the passage of caps.

  In this case, the flap 17 corresponding to the cover of the box implies a specific orientation of the containers. This is not the case for the bottom 18 which can accept containers and cases from the

  underneath, arranged at 180 indifferently.

  FIG. 4 shows another embodiment of a blank 45 according to the invention. This blank consists of a series of eight flaps 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52 and 53, interconnected by fold lines 54 parallel to each other, and terminated at a

  end by a bonding tab 55.

  More specifically, this blank has 4 main flaps 47, 49, 51 and 53 rectangular suitable for constituting the main walls of an eight-sided package, and four intermediate flaps 46, 48, and 52, rectangular, of shorter length ,

  suitable for forming the cut corners.

  Each of the main flaps 47, 49, 51 and 53 has flaps on its opposite lateral edges, namely a first set 56 of flaps intended to form the bottom of the box and a second set 57

  flaps intended to form the cover.

  The first set of flaps 56 comprises two first identical flaps 58 substantially rectangular at an angle cut on the side of the fold lines to form a cover of the same shape and dimensions as the horizontal section of the box a

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  once formed, attached to the first two non-adjacent flaps 47 and 51 suitable for forming two opposite walls, by fold lines 61, and two second flaps 59 attached to two second non-adjacent flaps 49 and 53, by fold lines 60 aligned with the fold lines 61 of the first

flaps 58.

  The first set of flaps and more particularly the first flaps 58 include two recessed parts or slits 62 arranged parallel to the fold lines 61, substantially rectangular, arranged to let pass the handle and the neck of the containers situated below.

  the first flap when the box is formed.

  Each second flap 59 comprises two recessed parts 63 which are parallel to each other, perpendicular to the first parts 62 and arranged to be placed in line with said first parts 62

when the box is formed.

  These parts 63 are advantageously wider than the parts 62 so as to avoid any catching

necks and handles.

  Such a provision allows a double bottom

excellent strength.

  According to the embodiment of the invention more particularly described here, the first flaps 58 are the same width as the second flaps 59, and when the box is formed come edge against

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  edge, contiguously with each other, of the same

so that the second flaps 59.

  The second set of flaps 57 comprises meanwhile first flaps 64, connected to the flaps 47 and 51 by fold lines 65. They include recesses or slots 66 of substantially rectangular shape, perpendicular to the lines 65, with a close portion lines of

folding 65.

  The flaps 64 include junction angles between the flaps and the first set of flaps which project obliquely outwards so as to match the cut corners of the box formed, in known manner

in herself.

  The recessed portions 66 are arranged to leave

  pass the necks and handles of the containers.

  The second set 57 of flaps further comprises second flaps 67, substantially rectangular, with corners starting at an angle from the fold lines 68, joining with the flaps 49 and 53, arranged to be glued to the first flaps 64 adjacent, to constitute the cover of

  the packaging obtained from this blank 45.

  The width of the flaps 67 is less than the distance between the peripheral edges

  side 69 of the flaps 64 and the slots 66.

  As is obvious and as also follows from the foregoing, the present invention is not limited to the embodiments plus is 2781205 particularly described here. On the contrary, it embraces all variants and in particular those where the body is not eight-sided but four-sided, where it is intended for two or eight cubitainers, that where the containers have slightly different shapes but always have a flat upper and lower surface with protruding parts for handles and recesses for receiving said handles for cubitainers

from below.

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Claims (10)

  1. Storage box (10) for at least one row (1, 2) of two identical containers (3), each container being in the shape of a polygon having a flat upper face (4) provided with a handle (5) and / or a neck (6) protruding with respect to said flat face and a bottom face (7) partly recessed suitable for containing the handle and / or the neck of an identical container situated below, said box comprising a series of at least four rectangular walls (11, 12, 13, 14, 15; 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52 53), a cover (17) and a bottom (18), characterized in that the cover s15 (17) and the bottom are arranged to bear respectively on the upper faces (4) and the lower faces (7) of the containers (3) when the latter are contained in said box, and in that said cover and said bottom respectively have recessed portions (19, 20; 62, 65, 66) arranged to let pass the handles and / or the necks of the r containers located below said cover or said bottom.   2. Storage box according to claim 1, characterized in that the recessed parts (19, 20; 62, 63, 66) of the cover and the bottom are constituted by parallel slots or in the extension of one another , substantially rectangular, 17 2781205   extending over most of the width of said bottom or said cover.   3. Storage box according to claim 2, characterized in that the bottom slots (20; 62, 63) are perpendicular to the slots of the cover (19, 66).   4. Box according to any one of claims   previous, characterized in that it is arranged to contain two rows (1, 2) of two containers (3) side by side.   5. Blank (23) of cardboard or corrugated cardboard, for constituting a storage box (10) for at least one row of two identical containers, each container (3) being in the shape of a polygon having an upper face (4) plane provided with a handle and / or a neck protruding from said flat face and a lower face (7) partly hollowed out suitable for containing the handle and / or the neck of an identical container situated below , said blank comprising a series of flaps (11, 18, 13, 17; 46 to 53) and flaps (24, 27, 28, 31, 58, 59, 64, 67) suitable for forming the walls, the cover and the bottom of said box, characterized in that the flaps and flaps are arranged to rest on the faces of the containers when the box is formed and filled, and in that the flaps or flaps forming the cover and the bottom comprise recessed parts (19, 20; 62, 63, 66) arranged to allow the handles and / or the necks of the 18 2781205   containers located below said cover or said bottom when the can is formed.   6. Blank according to claim 5, characterized in that the series of flaps comprises a first flap (18) rectangular or octagonal constituting the bottom of the box, provided on two of its opposite sides with first side flaps (24) suitable for forming at least in part two first opposite side walls (12, 14) of the box (10), said first flap being connected on its two other sides opposite respectively to a second (11) and to a third (13) rectangular, clean flaps forming two second opposite side walls of the box and a fourth rectangular or octagonal flap (17) forming the cover of said box, said fourth flap being provided on two of its opposite sides with second lateral flaps (31) suitable for forming with said first side flaps, said first opposite side walls of said box, in that the first (18) and the fourth (17) flaps are arranged to bear respectively on the upper faces and lower faces (7) of the containers when the latter are contained in the box formed from said blank, and in that the first and fourth flap respectively comprise said recessed parts (19, 20) arranged to let the handles pass and / or the necks of the containers located below said first and   fourth part when the box is formed. 19 2781205   7. Blank (23) according to claim 6, characterized in that the first and fourth flaps comprise two parallel rows (40, 41; 42, 43) of two recessed parts, said recessed parts of each row being located in the extension l 'one of The other.   8. Blank (45) according to claim 5, characterized in that the flap suite comprises at least four rectangular flaps (46 to 53) forming the side walls of the box and terminated by a bonding tab (55), and two sets of lateral flaps arranged on each side of said series, namely a first set (56) suitable for forming the bottom and a second set (57) suitable for forming the cover of said box, each set of flaps comprising two first flaps ( 58, 64) attached to two non-adjacent first flaps (47, 51), said first flaps being able to form two opposite walls, and two second flaps (59, 67) attached to two non-adjacent second flaps (49, 53), said second flaps being able to form the two other opposite walls, in that each first flap (58, 64) comprises at least two first recessed parts (62, 66) arranged to let pass the handle and / or the neck of the containers located e n below said first flap when the box is formed, and in that each second flap (5, 9) of the first set (56) of flaps comprise at least two second parts 2781205   hollowed out (63) perpendicular to said first hollowed out parts (62) and arranged to be placed in line with said first hollowed out parts of the first flaps of the first set when the box is formed.   9. A blank according to any one of claims   8, characterized in that the recessed parts (18, 20; 62, 63, 66) consist of slots which are parallel or in the extension of one another, substantially rectangular, extending over most of the width corresponding flaps or shutters. 10. Blank according to any one of   claims 5 to 9, characterized in that the   slots (20, 62, 63) of the first flap or of the first flaps of the first set are perpendicular to the slots (19, 66) of the fourth flap or of the first flaps of the second set.