FR2821065A1 - Corrugated cardboard package for bottles or tubes of cosmetic comprises base with apertures and four walls attached to this which have tabs attached to them, forming feet - Google Patents

Abstract

The corrugated cardboard package for bottles or tubes of cosmetic comprises a base (3) with apertures (4) of the same shape as the bottles or tubes. Four walls (5, 6) are attached to this which have tabs (9, 10) extending into the apertures When the walls are folded upwards the tabs move downwards, forming feet.

Description

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prenant appui sur les produits à emballer. Le calage de l'invention permet de regrouper des produits à emballer pour constituer un lot et de conférer à une des extrémités de ce lot une forme parallélépipédique dans laquelle viennent s'inscrire les produits à emballer. The present invention relates to a packaging wedging made from a sheet material such as corrugated cardboard. This setting comprises a horizontal plane hollowed out by lights and vertical walls connected to this bottom and held in this position by fingers or tongues

based on the products to be packaged. The setting of the invention makes it possible to group products to be packaged to form a batch and to give one of the ends of this batch a parallelepiped shape in which the products to be packaged are inscribed.

A stretchable or shrinkable plastic film then surrounds the products to be packaged and the packaging but is not the subject of the invention.

The setting of the invention makes it possible to constitute palletized loads by juxtaposition and superposition of batches thus obtained which are stable.

The wedges allow on the one hand to ensure the consistency of the products between them and are supported against each other to prevent the inclination of the products and the palletized load.

The application of these calibrations usually carried out in cardboard, relates mainly to the packaging of bottles or tubes of cosmetics in particular, which have curved shapes which do not determine or have very little contact surfaces of these products to be packaged together, which explains their instability in case of juxtaposition during transport.

There are trays or trays whose bottom is perforated and which are usually arranged at the base of the batch to be constituted. It can also sometimes happen that a tray or tray is turned over the batch or the palletized load. There are packaging or wedging panels provided with extensions beyond their folding articulation, usually used to absorb shocks.

There is no simple setting and low consumption of material which ensures both a coherent grouping of the products to be packaged, an external rectangular shape in the upper part of the batch and which contributes to the stacking of the batches formed. The invention provides a solution for products which are difficult to pack, such as bottles or tubes of curved or left shapes.

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d'une découpe de matériau en feuille utilisée pour réaliser le calage de l'invention. FIG. 1 is a flat view, after manufacture by the packaging producer and before implementation by the packer conditioner,

a cut of sheet material used to perform the setting of the invention.

Figure 2 is a perspective representation of the setting of Figure 1 alone after its final shaping by the user packer conditioner.

Figure 3 is a side view of the batch of products to be packaged and the setting in the final position around the products to be packaged. This view is a front view of the products to be packaged.

Figure 4 is a side view of the batch of products to be packaged and the setting in the final position around the products to be packaged. This view is a profile view of the products to be packaged.

Figure 5 is a flat representation of a first variant of the setting before implementation by the user.

Figure 6 is a perspective representation of the setting of Figure 5 alone after its final shaping by the user.

Figure 7 is a flat representation of a second variant of the setting before implementation by the user.

Figure 8 is a perspective representation of the caalge of Figure 7 only after its final shaping by the user.

FIG. 9 represents a asymmetrical variant of the invention in the configuration of a grouping of three products to be packaged.

FIG. 10 represents a variant of the invention for twenty-four products to be packaged with different lights for the products which are not on the periphery of the batch.

As shown in Figures 3 and 4 the setting 1, object of the invention, takes its final position in the upper part of the batch of products to be packaged 2 after implementation at the packer conditioner.

The setting object of the invention consists of a bottom 3 which is placed in a horizontal plane.

This bottom 3 is hollowed out, see FIG. 1, and has as many lights 4 as there are products to be packaged 2. These lights 4 have substantially the shape of the section of the products to be packaged 2 generated by the cutting plane corresponding to the bottom 3 of the setting .

When the packer packer is used by the user, the walls

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 side 5 and side walls 6 pivot about the respective folding axes 7 and 8 to end their travel substantially in a vertical position and perpendicular to the plane of the bottom 3.

Only this position allows correct subsequent bundling.

These side walls 5 and 6 are provided with fingers or tongues 9 and 10 respectively, hereinafter called fingers for simplicity, located in the same plane and beyond the respective pivot axes 7 and 8.

produits à emballer 2 quand ils sont sensiblement dans un plan vertical. These fingers 9 and 10 slide on the side walls of the products to be packaged 2 when the wedging is introduced from above the batch to be formed. These fingers are supported at the end of the race on the side walls of the

products to be packaged 2 when they are substantially in a vertical plane.

These fingers 9 and 10 thus contribute, on the one hand to vertically raising the respective walls 5 and 6 of which they are integral and, on the other hand, to preventing the lateral displacement of the products to be packaged 2.

In order to minimize the friction between the bottom 3 and the fingers 9 and 10 at the start of their pivoting movement around the respective axes 7 and 8, and thus prevent breakage of the fingers or their positioning in planes different from those of the respective walls 5 and 6, the fingers 9 and 10 are produced mainly in the recesses 4 of the bottom 3 so that their peripheral edge is as little as possible in contact with the edge of the bottom 3.

ainsi à la stabilité et à la résistance à l'empilement des lots superposés éventuellement en couches croisées. In a preferred embodiment, the setting comes to take its final position around the products when the vertices 11 of the products to be packaged 2 are in the same horizontal plane as the respective upper ends 12 and 13 of the vertical walls 5 and 6, contributing

thus the stability and resistance to stacking of the batches which may be stacked in crossed layers.

For this same purpose, two variants of the invention represented by FIGS. 5,6 and 7,8 will be produced, compared with the previously described embodiment represented by FIGS. 1,2.

Figure 1 shows a packaging type calibration called cross as suggested by its outer contour.

FIG. 5 represents a packaging wedging of the so-called rectangular section tray type.

FIG. 7 represents a packaging calibration of the so-called tray type with octagonal section.

One can thus easily realize that the invention applies to

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 several designs, the upper parts of which can adopt, after setting in volume, discontinuous or continuous sections of different geometric shape around the perimeter, thus lending themselves to various possibilities of mechanized shaping.

The wedges represented flat by FIGS. 5 and 7 and in perspective respectively by FIGS. 6 and 8 are different from FIGS. 1 and 2 by additional junction legs 14 for the rectangular horizontal sections and by the additional double junction legs 15 folding axis for octagonal horizontal sections.

The number of products to be packaged 2 is not an obstacle for the development of the invention.

As shown in Figure 9, it is possible to make a setting for a single row of products to be packaged. In this case, the fingers 9 and their respective walls 5 may have an asymmetry.

As shown in Figure 10, it is possible to make a setting for more than two or three rows of products to be packaged. The lights corresponding to the products which are not on the periphery of the batch may or may not have appropriate fingers 16 which contribute differently to the cohesion of the load. These fingers are then connected by articulation to the bottom of the packaging 3 and no longer to the vertical walls 5 and 6. Their movement when the setting is in place is therefore independent of that of the walls 5 and 6.

In all cases, it is necessary to design wedges whose overall dimensions in length (L) and width (1) correspond to the overall dimensions of the consignment and, in particular to the maximum overall dimensions of all the products to be packaged in order to obtain maximum cohesion of the batches of products juxtaposed with each other on palletization by the contact of the outer vertical flat surfaces of the wedges thus juxtaposed and the contact of the products to be packaged themselves with different batches juxtaposed on the same palletized layer.

See Figures 3 and 4.

Claims (3)

'OF CLAIMS  1) Wedging made from a sheet material such as corrugated cardboard which has a horizontal bottom (3) and four vertical walls (5 and 6) characterized by the presence of lights (4) in the bottom having the product section to be wrapped and by fingers or tabs (9 and 10) for guiding and holding in the extension of the walls (5 and 6), the walls (5 and 6) and the fingers (9 and 10) being located on either side other of the respective articulation plies (7 and 8) connecting them to the bottom (3). 2) Wedging according to claim 1 characterized in that it is possible to achieve a disymmetry of the fingers and their respective walls without changing the design of these fingers (9) or their respective walls (5) as shown in Figure 9 . 3) Wedging according to claim 1 characterized in that it has lights (4) in the bottom (3) devoid of fingers, or provided with complementary fingers (16) articulated with the bottom (3) but not connected to the vertical walls perimeter (5 and 6).