FR2990197A1 - Package for transport and presentation of products, has extensions placed from flap emerging from lower edge of sides and being used to form raised support or platform, and elements forming panel on free edge of support or platform - Google Patents

Abstract

The package has large sides (E, G) and two small sides (F, H) placed in an alternate and consecutive manner, and joined by folding lines. Flaps (M-P) emerge respectively from a lower edge of the large and small sides. Elements form a box with automatic assembly of the bottom. Retention elements of the flaps form the bottom. Consecutive extensions are placed from one of the flaps emerging from the lower edge of two of the sides, where the extensions are used to form support in height or platform. Elements form a panel (Q1) on the free edge of high support or platform. An independent claim is also included for a method for pre-assembling a package.

Description

PACKAGING FOR THE TRANSPORT AND PRESENTATION OF PRODUCTS AT DIFFERENT HEIGHTS DESCRIPTION OBJECT OF THE INVENTION As the title of the invention indicates, the object of the present invention consists of a packaging used for the transport and presentation of products at different levels. different heights, built with a material such as cardboard and which allows to expose and present the products it has two different height levels relative to the support surface. This invention is characterized by the particular configuration and design of the cut and rolled cardboard plate, where each of the different parts, the cutting lines, the precut or upset lines allow, from a single cardboard plate, to design a package for the transport and posterior presentation of products at different heights, which facilitates the visualization and presentation of several different products in one display. Therefore, the present invention is part of packaging for transport and posterior exposure of products, but also in the context of displays for exposing products at different heights. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION At the technical level, many packagings have been designed to allow dual functionality of serving for transportation and subsequent delivery, once delivered to the distribution point, after separation of a portion of the package, to configure it as a display, without the need to remove the products from their shipping packaging to place them on a display stand. One of these embodiments is described in the patent published under the number FR 2743779 AI, which is presented a box for the transport and exposure of the products contained therein, composed of two separable parts which, prior to their separation, are attached by several points of collage.

This creation does not allow to expose the products contained in its interior at different heights. Another known embodiment is that disclosed in Patent No. FR 2545062 A1, which describes a display of products, mainly bottles or the like, which makes it possible to expose them in a more attractive manner. This creation allows neither the transport of the products, nor their exposure to a double height. Attempts to create displays with double height have involved manual intervention that requires the products to be exposed to be removed and then placed, which is a manual operation of low technical efficiency. Therefore, the object of the present invention is the creation of a packaging for the transport and presentation of the contained products, formed from a single cardboard plate and which allows, in addition, to present the products to different heights, which facilitates the choice and allows, in addition, to expose several products in the same display, thus forming a package such as that described below and whose main features are described in claim number one.

DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The packaging, object of the invention, is formed from a single cardboard plate, previously cut, having upsetting lines and having been subjected to a pre-assembly process, thus making it possible to be stored in folded mode, and then unfolded for use. Its interior has a support height, such as a podium, which allows to arrange the products at different heights, some directly on the bottom of the package and the others on the podium.

In addition, the box has retention elements flaps forming the bottom, and elements forming a stop on the free edge of the podium or high support, so that the products disposed on this support do not fall to the lower level.

It is important to take into account that the cardboard plate ensuring the configuration of the package provides: A packaging suitable for transport. A display formed by the own packaging used for transport. - A display that includes, in its interior, a podium or a support height that allows to present products at different heights, support that installs automatically when unfolding the pre-assembled packaging, after folding some parts and flaps of the cardboard plate cut and pushed back.

Throughout this specification, terms such as "faces", "parts", "panels" or "zones" will be used indiscriminately, these referring to the parts or areas of the cardboard plate separated from the rest by cutting lines, upsetting.

The packaging has a rectangular parallelepipedal or prismatic configuration, which has two large sides and two other small sides, arranged in line and alternating, thus forming a set closed at the side by a closure flap. The packaging is closed at the upper level thanks to the flaps that emerge from the upper edge of the sides, while the package is closed at the lower level with closure flaps that have retention elements of said flaps, arranged and glued together. and which make it possible to form the bottom automatically. Once the cardboard plate has been cut, and after the marking of the crease lines, it is proceeded to the gluing of certain parts or faces of the cardboard plate, thus forming a pre-assembled and folded assembly, which makes it possible to unfold the packaging and to forming the bottom automatically without any mounting operation, with a simple pressure on the opposite peaks of the premounted and folded assembly.

Not only does it make it possible to configure the packaging immediately from a pre-assembled assembly, but it also allows the internal configuration of a support in height or podium in the part of the surface of the bottom. This height support is not only automatically configured but is also designed so as to ensure a stop on the free edge of the podium, so that it prevents the falling of the products from the upper level to the lower level. In order to form the podium or the support in height on at least one of the sides, there appears a set of at least four parts or faces disposed in succession, and the first of which, which is united to the side, is part of the bottom. It is then followed by another part constituting the vertical support of the podium, and then by another part composing the horizontal surface of the support in height, followed by a last part for the assembly on the side from which it leaves.

The elements for forming the abutment on the limit edge of the support in height are various. In one case, it may be the interposition of a face or a panel between the vertical wall of the podium and the horizontal surface, so that the vertical wall has a height greater than the horizontal area, it is an inserted zone, folded and glued on the vertical wall, which defines the limit of the free edge of the podium. Another way of forming the abutment of the support in height could consist of a face or a flap emerging from a lateral side of the panel or of the face forming the horizontal part, where this emergent panel is glued to a set of two consecutive articulated extensions. , arranged on a cut made on the side or on the lateral edge of the panel forming the vertical wall of the support in height or of the podium.

EXPLANATION OF THE DIAGRAMS To complete this description and to allow a better understanding of the features of the invention, by means of a relevant example of practical realization of this invention, a series of diagrams is attached to this memory as an integral part of said description and where The following is presented for illustrative and non-exhaustive reasons: In Diagram 1, we can observe a plate of cardboard that has been pushed back and cut in accordance with a first embodiment of a packaging for the transport and presentation of products, object of the invention. In Diagram 2, we can observe the automatic pre-assembly and unfolding process of the package with the above-mentioned shutter.

Figure 3 shows the packaging mounted as a display and where some faces or parts of the cardboard board shown in Figure 1 can be appreciated.

In diagram 4, we can observe a cardboard plate pushed back and cut according to a second embodiment, and according to the same principles of the invention.

Figure 5 shows the pre-assembly process of the assembly before it is unfolded automatically. Figure 6 shows the package as a display already unfolded and where some of the features shown in diagrams 4 and 5 can be appreciated. Figure 7 shows the repressed and cut cardboard board, making it possible to produce a third model of the invention. packaging for transportation and exposure, and that can be considered as an alternative to the pattern of Figure 4. Figure 8 shows the pre-assembly process of the assembly before it is unfolded automatically. Figure 9 shows the package as a display already unfolded and where one can appreciate some of the features shown in Figures 7 and 8. PREFERRED EMBODIMENT OF THE INVENTION. In view of the above schemes will be described, below, the preferred embodiment of the proposed invention. As explained above, the terms "parts", "panels" or "faces" will be used indiscriminately and refer to the area of the cardboard plate delimited or separated from the rest by trimming lines or upsetting referenced by capital letters, while the fold lines and the dashed lines are referenced by numbers.

We can see, in diagrams 1, 4 and 7, that the cardboard plate has a series of common parts. The plate comprises: Four sides (E), (F), (G) and (H), arranged consecutively. In the case of mounting a rectangular set, two of the sides are large sides (E) and (G), while two of the sides are small (F) and (H), so arranged alternated and united by folding lines (3), (4) and (6) and (7). Flaps that emerge from the upper edge of some or all sides (E), (F), (G) and (H), used to close the package.

Flaps (M), (N), (0) and (P) which emerge from the lower edge of the sides (E), (F), (G) and (H) respectively and which serve to mount the bottom of the box . A precut line (11) which, through windows made on the same cutting line, separates the upper part of the lower part of the assembly forming the display. Diagram 1 allows us to observe that a panel (L) emerges from the lower end of the shutter (M), followed by a first panel (Q1), a second (K) and a final panel (AT). The panel (M) is separated from the panel (L) by a dotted line (10). The panel (L) is separated from the panel (Q1) by a dotted line (1), while the panel (Q1) is separated from the panel (K) by the dotted line (8). The panel (K) is separated from the panel (A) by the dotted line (9).

All these panels and their dotted lines, serving as fold lines, allow to mount a support height or podium, as we can see in Figure 3, where the stop of the free edge of the podium is defined by the panel (Q1 ) located between the panels (L) and (K), arranged in folded mode and glued to the panel (L). A third panel or face (A), disposed after the panel (K), which serves for bonding on the face inside the side from which emerge the extensions forming the podium or support in height.

To hold the shutters forming the bottom on the union of the panels (M) and (L), a window has been created by means of a cut and on which there is a shutter (R) united thanks to a dotted line ( 16) to the panel (L), while on the lower edge of the flap (0) is a tongue (T) which fits into the unfolding below the panel (K) thus pushing the panel (R) to its placing in place. For the automatic assembly of the package, once premounted, the cardboard plate comprises: A part (B) defined as the extension of the flap (N), joined to the latter by a dotted line (5), and which is glued to the shutter (M). - A part (B ') is defined as the extension of the flap (0), united by a dotted line (5), and which is glued to the flap (P). - A tongue or glue flap (D) which, arranged on the side (E), is glued to the free edge of the side (H).

Diagram 3 allows us to observe how the height support or podium is located on the bottom of the package, on a large side, the display being oriented so that the large sides adopt a frontal position with respect to the customer.

Diagram 4 shows the cardboard plate from which it is based to form a new packaging for transport and exposure of products, according to a second embodiment, which has an inner podium formed from a single cardboard plate where the extensions used to form the support in height or podium comprise: - a first panel or face (L) disposed after the flap (M) and the flap (0), which serves to form the vertical wall of the support in height, - a second panel or face (K), disposed after the panel (L), which defines the horizontal surface of the support in height or podium, a third panel or face (A), disposed after the panel (K), which is used for bonding on the inner side of the side from which emerge the extensions forming the podium or support height. In this case, the extensions of the flaps (M) and (0) form two middle podiums or supports in height, as we can see it in the diagram 6, where the small sides of the packaging adopt a frontal position by report to the customer, as we can see in this same diagram 6. The means used to form the stop on the free edge of the support in height or podium consist of a shutter (J) united to the panel (K) thanks to a dotted line (12), said flap then being bonded (J) to a set of two consecutive articulated extensions, made on the sides (E) and (G), which comprise a first panel (Q2) united by a dotted line (13) to the board, followed by a second panel (I) joined to the first panel (Q2) through a dotted line (14), the flap (J) then being glued to the second panel (I) The means of retention of the shutters forming the bottom consist of tongues (U) whose edge is in the form of a harpoon and which emerge from the flaps (N) and (P), fitting at the cutouts (15) made on the tabs (14) of the flaps (M) and (0) respectively.

Diagram 7 allows us to observe a cardboard plate allowing to create a third model of realization and that one can consider as an alternative option to diagrams 4 and 6, where the extensions forming the support in height are equal, but which are not used to define the stop on the free edge of the support in height or podium.

These means also consist of a flap (J) joined to the panel (K) by a phantom line (12), flap (J) which is bonded to a set of two consecutive articulated extensions arranged on the panel (L) and which comprise a first panel (Q3) united, by a dotted line (13), to the board, followed by a second panel (1) joined to the first board (Q3) by a dotted line (14), the flap (J) state then glued to the second panel (I). The process allowing, from the boards shown in diagrams 1, 4 and 7, a pre-assembly with a view to subsequently obtaining an unfolding with automatic bottom formation, comprises the following steps: folding at 1800 of the extensions (K) and (A) by the fold line (1), where the portion or extension (A) thus adheres to the side from which it comes out, folding the flaps (M), (N), (0) and (P) on the sides (E), (F), (G) and (H) respectively, by means of the fold line (2) along its entire length, the part (B) is folded at 180 ° on the face of the shutter (N), while the part (B ') is folded 180 ° on the flap face (P) from which it comes out, that is to say on (0) or on (M), folding to 180 ° of the face or side (H) on the side (G) along the fold line (4), the part (B ') thus being glued to the flap of the adjacent side (P) or (0) ), 180 ° folding of the face or the side (E) on the side (F) along the fold line (3), the p part (B) is thus glued to the flap (M), bonding the flap (D) on the side or face (H) by superposition. The support in height or podium is formed only from the extensions emerging on one side, to form the abutment on the free edge of the support in height, at the same time as the 180 ° folding of the extensions (K) and (A) on the extensions (M) and (L) for the bonding of the extension (A) on the side (E), the extension (Q1) is bonded to the extension (L), in such a way that the extension (Q1) acts as a stop of the free edge of the podium when unfolding the package.

In the case where the support in height or podium formed at the bottom of the package would be mounted with two middle podiums formed by the extensions emerging from the large sides, so as to form the abutment of the free edge semipodiums, at the same time as the extension (A) is assembled on the sides, and once the extensions folded to 1800 thanks to the folding line (1), the shutter (J) lateral level of the extension (K) on the flap (Q2) of the two consecutive extensions (Q2) (I) articulated.

Therefore, based on the cardboard plates shown in Schemes 1, 4 and 7 and following the previously described steps, preformed assemblies are obtained which can be partially appreciated in Schemes 2, 5 and 8 respectively. allowing the unfolding of the package with automatic mounting of the bottom, packaging being thus ready for use.

Having amply described the nature of the present invention as well as the manner of using it, it should be pointed out that, essentially, it may be put into practice according to other embodiments which differ from that indicated for for example, and who would also enjoy the same protection, provided that one does not alter, change or modify its fundamental principle.

Claims (1)

CLAIMS1.- Packaging for the transport and presentation of products at different heights formed from a pressed and cut cardboard plate 5 comprising: - two large sides (E) and (G) and two small sides ( F) and (H) arranged alternately and consecutively, and united by fold lines, flaps (M), (N), (0) and (P) which respectively emerge from the lower edge of the sides (E) , (F), (G) and (H), elements making it possible to form a box for automatic mounting of the bottom, elements for retaining the shutters forming the bottom, and characterized by the fact that it comprises, addition: consecutive extensions arranged from at least one of the flaps emerging from the lower edge of two of the sides, which serve to form the support in height or podium, elements forming a stop (Q1, Q2, Q3) on the edge free of high support or podium. 2. Packaging for the transport and presentation of products at different heights, according to claim 1, characterized in that the extensions, to form the support in height or the podium, comprise: a first panel or face (L) disposed following the flap (M) and / or the flap (0), which serves to form the vertical wall of the support in height, a second panel or face (K), arranged after the flap (L), which form the horizontal surface of the support in height or podium, a third panel or face (A), arranged after the flap (K) and which is used for bonding, on the inner side of the side from which the extensions forming the podium or support in height. 3.- Packaging for the transport and presentation of products at different heights, according to claim 1, characterized in that the elements for forming the abutment on the free edge of the support in height or podium consist of a panel or intermediate face (Q1) located between the panel (K) and the panel (L) and which unfolds and sticks to the panel (L), so that the panel (Q1) forms a stop on the free edge of the podium or support height. 4.- Packaging for the transport and presentation of products at different heights, according to claim 1, characterized in that the elements for forming the abutment on the free edge of the support in height or podium consist of a flap (J) united to the panel (K) with a dotted line (12), this flap being glued (J) to a set of two consecutive articulated extensions. 5.- Packaging for the transport and the presentation of products at different heights, according to claim 1, characterized in that the two consecutive articulated extensions on which is glued the flap (J), have a first panel (02, Q3) united by the dotted line (13) to the board, followed by a second panel (I) joined to the first panel (Q2, Q3) by a dotted line (14), the flap then being (J) glued to the second panel ( I). 6. Packaging for the transport and presentation of products at different heights, according to claim 5, characterized in that the two consecutive extensions are arranged on a partial cut made on the sides (E) or (G) where the extensions forming the podium emerge, the panel (Q2) being then joined to the (E) or (G) side by the dotted line (13). 7. Packaging for the transport and presentation of products at different heights, according to claim 5, characterized in that the two consecutive extensions are arranged on an edge of the panel (L) forming the podium, the panel (03) being then united by a dotted line (13) aupanneau (L), while the flap (J) has a extension (S) shaped tab defined on a cut made on the panel (K). 8. Packaging for the transport and presentation of products at different heights, according to claim 3, characterized in that the retention elements flaps forming the bottom consist of a tongue defined by a cut made at the union. panels (M) and (L) extensions forming the support in height or podium, and where there is, on this tongue, a flap (R) united by a dotted line (16) to the panel (L), and by a tab (T) defined on the lower edge of the flap (0) which fits at the time of unfolding, below the panel (K) thus pushing the panel (R) for its introduction. 9. Packaging for the transport and presentation of products at different heights, according to claims 4 to 6, characterized in that the retention elements of the flaps forming the bottom consist of tongues (U) at the edge shaped harpoon and which emerge from the flaps (N) and (P), fitting on cuts (15) made on tabs (14) at the flaps (M) and (0) respectively. 10. Packaging for the transport and presentation of products at different heights according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the elements for the formation of a package with automatic mounting of the bottom comprise: a part (B ) defined as an extension of the flap (N), joined to the latter by a dotted line (5), and which is assembled on the flap (M), a part (B ') defined as extension of the flap (P) or flap (0) united by a dotted line (5), and which is glued to the flap (P) or the flap (0) respectively, a tongue or a flap (D) arranged on the side (E) and which is glued on the free edge of the side (H). 11.- Method for pre-assembly of the previously claimed packaging and for which a preforming would be ready for a posterior unfolding with automatic formation of the bottom, characterized in that the method comprises the following steps: folding flaps (M), (N ), (0) and (P) on the sides (E), (F), (G) and (H) respectively, through the fold line (2) along its entire length, the part (B) is folded to 1800 on the sides of the flap (N), while the portion (B ') is folded 180 ° on the face of the flap from which it leaves, that is to say on (0) or on (P), folding at 180 ° of the extensions (M), (L), (K) and (A) through the fold line (1), the part or extension (A) thus adhering to the side of where it comes out, bending 180 ° of the face or the side (H) on the side (G) all along the fold line (4), the part (B ') thus sticking to the flap of the adjacent side (P) ) or (0), 180 ° folding of the face or the side (E) on the side (F) while lo ng of the fold line (3), the part (B) thus sticking to the flap (M), gluing the flap (D) to the side or face (H) by superposition. 12.- preassembly method according to claim 11, characterized in that, in the case where the support in height or podium formed at the bottom would be formed solely by the extensions emerging from one side, thereby forming the abutment on the edge free of height support, at the same time as the 180 ° folding of the extensions (K) and (A) on the extensions (M) and (L), for the bonding of the extension (A) to the side ( E), the extension (01) is bonded to the extension (L), so that when unfolding the package, the extension (Q1) acts as abutment of the free edge of the podium. 13.- preassembly method according to claim 11, characterized in that, in the case where the support in height or podium formed at the bottom would be formed solely by two average podiums formed by extensionspresentort of the two sides of large size, so forming the abutment of the free edge of the semi-podiums, at the same time that the extension (A) is bonded to the sides, once the extensions folded to 1800 thanks to the fold line (1), it is gluing method of the flap (J) emerging from the lateral portion of the extension (K), on the flap (I) of the two consecutive extensions (Q2), (I) hinged.