FR3082188A1 - IMPROVED LOCKER FOR HOLDING AND SEPARATING OBJECTS FOR A MESSAGING BOX AND A MESSAGING BOX PROVIDED WITH SUCH A DEVICE - Google Patents

Abstract

The object of the invention is a locker for holding and separating objects, in a package such as a mail box, characterized in that it is produced from a rectangular blank (100, 200) cut flat, with at least two adjoining rectangular sections, each provided with plates (101a, 101b, 103a, 103b, 105a, 105b, 201a, 201b, 201c, 203a, 203b, 203c, 205a, 205b, 205c) and strips (102a, 102b, 104a, 104b, 106a, 106b, 107a, 107b, 202a, 202b, 202c 204a, 204b, 204c, 206a, 206b, 206c, 207a, 207b, 207c) for making walls of a module (1000a , 1000b, 2000a, 2000b, 2000c) of the rack, the sections being connected on a part of their contiguous edge by a fold line (113, 113a, 113b), the modules each being produced by folding its corresponding section over it- even, the rack being constituted by the modules folded over each other at the level of said common fold line.

Description

IMPROVED LOCKER FOR HOLDING AND SEPARATING OBJECTS FOR A MESSAGING BOX AND A MESSAGING BOX PROVIDED WITH SUCH A DEVICE

Field of the invention

The present invention relates to a locker for holding and separating objects for a message box and a message box equipped with at least one such device.

Mail boxes are cardboard transport boxes suitable for packaging and shipping objects by carrier from a purchasing and distribution center such as a distance selling company for example.

In the case in particular of the transport of bottles, several bottles are packed in the crates and separated by separating devices of type 10 in between

Technological background

Figures 1A and 1B show a message box provided with a bottle protection device of the prior art.

This device consists of several intermediate pieces made from cardboard blanks, namely split back walls for framing the bottles on the inner sides of the box and intermediate sheets formed from blanks folded back on themselves and split so complementary to split back walls which are inserted into the split walls to form separators between the bottles and complete the protection device.

In the case of a receiving container of twelve bottles as shown, the device comprises two folded framing walls each of a group of six bottles and six interlayer sheets.

It is a complex multi-room device to manage and assemble.

Brief description of the invention

The present invention aims to provide a locker for holding and separating objects in a package such as a message box made in the form of a piece cut from a cardboard blank, folded, laid flat for storage and then formed and inserted developed in the box to form at least one rack provided with cutouts for holding and separating objects.

More specifically, the present invention provides a locker for holding and separating objects, in a package such as a mail box, produced from a rectangular blank cut out flat, comprising at least two adjoining rectangular sections, each provided of plates and strips for making the walls of a module of the crate, the sections being connected on a part of their contiguous edge by a fold line, the modules each being produced by folding its corresponding section back on itself, the locker being constituted by the modules folded over each other at the level of said common fold line.

Advantageously, each module comprises an upper plate, an intermediate plate and a lower plate each provided with cutouts for holding the objects.

Preferably, the plates are produced by means of the plates which are part of the sections, the said plates being separated by the strips for producing lateral faces of the modules.

According to a particular embodiment, each section comprises, in the direction of its length, a first lateral strip, a first rectangular plate provided with cutouts for holding objects, a second lateral strip, a second rectangular plate provided with cutouts, a third lateral strip , a third rectangular plate provided with cutouts and a fourth side strip.

According to a first embodiment, to form a module of the rack, said section is folded in Z on itself from the first rectangular plate, which thus forms one face of the module, with the second strip folded at 90 ° in a first direction, the second rectangular plate folded at 90 ° in said first direction to come parallel to the first rectangular plate, the third lateral strip folded at 90 ° in a reverse direction to said first direction, the third rectangular plate being folded at 90 ° in the opposite direction from the first direction so as to produce a second face of the module.

Once the module has been formed, the first lateral strip is advantageously itself folded at 90 ° in said direction opposite to the first direction and is applied and fixed on the third lateral strip.

Preferably, the fourth side strip is folded at 90 ° in the opposite direction to said first direction and is applied and fixed on the second side strip.

According to a particular embodiment, the third and fourth side bands have tabs cut from the third rectangular plate.

According to a second embodiment, to form a module of the rack, the section is folded in on itself towards the inside, the first strip, the first plate, the second strip, the second plate and the third strip being folded successively at 90 ° relative to each other in the same first direction.

Advantageously, the third strip is folded back 90 ° in the opposite direction to said first direction to close the module.

Advantageously, the first strip is glued to the third strip, the first plate forming an intermediate plate between upper and lower plates produced by the second and third plates.

According to a particular embodiment, the cutouts for holding the objects are circular cutouts for holding the sides of bottles which unfolded racks are aligned along the axes of the bottles, the bottles being held parallel in the box by the racks.

The box may in particular be a rectangular parallelepiped box which has four side faces, including a pair of large opposite faces and a pair of opposite small faces, a bottom and a ceiling and for which the bottom and the ceiling are made from flaps from side faces and having fold lines at the edges of these side faces, the first flaps from the large opposite faces are cut so that their length and width allow them each to cover a major part of the bottom and ceiling , the second flaps from the small opposite faces being cut so as to have a length substantially equal to the length of the large faces.

The second flaps may according to an advantageous embodiment further comprise a central strip connected to the small face carrying them and two lateral zones each formed by two lateral bands separated from said small face by a cutout and for which two first lateral bands are connected to the central bands by a first fold line and two second lateral bands are connected to the first lateral bands by a second fold line.

The second side bands advantageously form flaps which fold over the first side bands.

Ears cut out between the central bands and the first lateral bands can more particularly maintain the second lateral bands on the first.

The bottom and the cover are preferably produced by folding a first first flap, folding the two second flaps and folding the second second flap.

Brief description of the drawings

Other characteristics and advantages of the invention will become apparent on reading the following description of a nonlimiting example of embodiment of the invention with reference to the drawings which represent:

In FIGS. 1A and 1B: a partial view of a cash register with dividers from the prior art;

In FIGS. 2A to 2C: A top view of a blank and perspective views of a device of the invention according to a first embodiment;

In Figure 2D: A schematic side view of a first embodiment of a locker module of the invention;

In Figures 2E and 2F: Perspective views of flat lay of the modules of Figure 2B;

In Figures 3A to 3D: Perspective views of a variant of the device in Figures 2A to 2C;

In Figure 3E: A schematic side view of a locker module of Figure 3B;

In Figures 4A to 4F: Perspective views of a message box adapted to the invention.

Detailed description of embodiments of the invention

Figures 1A and 1B show a message box 1 for example for transporting bottles and an intermediate device of the prior art.

The box 1 is a cardboard box comprising flaps 1a kept open during the positioning of the intermediate means 3, 4.

On the inner sides of the box there are split counter-walls 2 to hold the spacers 3, 4 vertical.

These dividers are of two types, transverse dividers 4 and longitudinal dividers 3. A longitudinal divider is shown unfolded in FIG. 1 B. It comprises two sides 3a, 3b which are positioned one against the other during the folding of the longitudinal interlayer, a slot 3c and 3d shoulders.

The transverse dividers are formed in the same way so that the longitudinal dividers form double walls which fit into each other at the level of the slots to form housings for the objects to be received, bottles or glassware for example .

FIGS. 2A to 2D represent a device for holding and separating objects of the invention according to a first embodiment.

For this embodiment, a blank 100 shown in FIG. 2A is cut and punched to make cutouts 110 for holding the objects to be received and kept in the box.

The blank is a rectangular blank which here comprises two parallel rectangular sections 100a, 100b allowing, after folding and attaching the ends to the blank, a two-storey locker without using other parts.

The sections 100a, 100b of the blank have in their length several parts dedicated to the formation of walls of a module of the rack and are connected by a fold line 113 over a first part of their length but separated by a cut line 120 on a second part of their length.

Each section is intended to produce a box module 1000a, 1000b by folding as follows.

The first section 100a comprises, in the direction of its length, starting from the right in FIG. 2A, a first lateral strip 107a, a first rectangular plate 101a provided with cutouts 110 for holding objects, a second lateral strip 102a, a second rectangular plate 103a provided with cutouts 110, a third side strip 104a, a third rectangular plate 105a provided with cutouts and a fourth side strip 106a.

The third and fourth side bands have tabs 114 cut from the third rectangular plate 105a.

To form a first module of the rack, the first section is folded in Z on itself from the first rectangular plate 101a forming a face of the module by folding the second strip 102a at 90 ° in a first direction, by folding the second rectangular plate in the same direction at 90 ° to come parallel to the first rectangular plate, then by folding the third lateral strip 104a then the third rectangular plate 105a at 90 ° in the opposite direction from the first direction so as to produce a second face of the module . Once the module has been formed, the side strip 107a is itself folded at 90 ° to come to be applied and to be fixed on the third side strip while the fourth side strip 106a is also folded at 90 ° to come to apply and attach to the second side strip 102a.

The second module of the locker is produced in the same way by Z-folding of the second section comprising, similarly to the first, a first lateral strip 107b, a first rectangular plate 101b provided with cutouts 110 for holding objects, a second lateral strip 102b, a second rectangular plate 103b provided with cutouts 110, a third side strip 104b, a third rectangular plate 105b provided with cutouts and a fourth side strip 106b.

Figure 2D shows the folding in Z starting from a numbered base 101 representative of the plates 101a, 101b and the successive folding of the plates and strips 102, 103, 104, 106, the strip 107 closing on one side the module in sticking to the strip 104 while the strip 106 closes the module on the other side by sticking to the strip 102.

Figure 2B shows the two finished modules 1000a, 1000b returned with respect to Figure 2D. The two modules are connected together at the level of upper plates 1010a, 1010b constituted by the rectangular plates 101a, 101b.

They each comprise an intermediate plate only the plate 1030a produced with the plate 103a being visible in the figure, and a lower plate, the lower plate 1050a produced with the plate 105a being visible in FIG. 2B.

Each module has lateral flanks made on one side with the strips 107a, 104a glued together for the first module, the strips 107b, 104b glued together for the second module and on the other side with the strips 106a, 102a glued together for the first module and the strips 106b, 102b glued together for the second module.

The tabs 114 from the strips 104a, 104b and 106a, 106b protrude from the modules downwards.

To complete the racks, the modules are folded over each other at the junction between the plates 101a, 101b which become a double central tray 1010 in the rack as shown in FIG. 2C.

The completed rack 1000 then comprises an upper plate 1050b, three intermediate plates 1030b, 1010, 1030a and a lower plate 1050a.

The lateral faces of the rack are produced on one side with the strips 104a, 104b, 107a, 107b and on the other side with the strips 102a, 102b, 106a, 106b.

The tabs 114 are then placed above and below the rack. In addition, all of the cutouts 110 are aligned one above the other in the case where the cutouts are intended to receive and hold bottles.

It should be noted that in the configuration of FIG. 2B, the modules can be laid flat for their storage before use by folding the plates back onto one another as shown in FIGS. 2E and 2F, the sides 107a, 104a and 107b, 104b folding down as an extension of the lower plates 101 (plate

1050a) in FIG. 2 along their fold lines and the opposite flanks as an extension of the upper plates.

FIGS. 3A to 3E show a variant of a rack in a three-level configuration.

According to this variant the blank 200 has three parallel sections 200a, 200b, 200c each intended to produce a module which allow, after folding and attachment of the ends on the blank, to produce a rack with three floors without using other parts.

The sections 200a, 200b, 200c of the blank have in their length several parts dedicated to the formation of walls of a module of the rack and are linked in pairs by a fold line 113a, 113b over a first part of their length but separated by a cutting line 120a, 120b over a second part of their length.

Starting from the right to the left in FIG. 3A, the sections 200a, 200b, 200c respectively comprise:

- a strip or strip 206a, 206b, 206c,

- a first plate 205a, 205b, 205c,

a first strip 204a, 204b, 204c, the strip 204a being provided with lugs 114,

- a second plate 203a, 203b, 203c,

- A second strip 202a, the strips 202a and 202c being provided with lugs 114;

- a third plate 201 a, 201 b, 201 c and,

- a third strip 207a, 207b, 207c.

To make the modules of the rack, the folding of the blank shown in FIG. 3E is done differently from the embodiment of FIG. 2D.

In fact, in this embodiment, the sections are folded back on themselves, the end of the blank sections being folded towards the interior of the module.

To do this, according to FIG. 3E, the strips or strips 206, the first plates 205, the strips 204, the plates 203 and the strip 202 are folded successively at 90 ° relative to each other in the same counterclockwise direction according to the Fig. The strip 207 is folded 90 ° clockwise to close the module.

Finally, the strip or strip 206 is bonded to the strip 202, the plate 205 then forming an intermediate plate between upper and lower plates produced by the plates 201,203.

Once the sections folded back, the modules are next to each other as shown in FIG. 3B, the plate 201a of the module 2000A forms a plate 2010a. This plate is connected to the plate 2010b of the module 2000b formed by the plate 201b on the upper face of the aligned modules. The plate 203b forms a plate 2030b of the module 2000b connected to a plate 2030c of the module 2000c, this latter plate being formed by the plate 203c of the module 2000c on the underside.

According to FIG. 3C, the module 2000c is folded down under the module 2000b and according to FIG. 3D, the module 2000a is folded down on the module 2000b, which produces the locker 2000 on three levels with an upper face 2030a, five intermediate plates 2050a, 2100, 2050b. , 2300, 2050c and a lower face 2010c.

The intermediate trays 2100 and 2300 are double trays reinforcing the structure of the rack in its central part.

The legs 114 are found below and above the rack to center it in the box receiving it.

The blank of the embodiment of FIGS. 3A to 3E can be modified to produce a bin on two levels as in the case of FIGS. 2A to 2D by deleting a section, for example section 200a or section 200c.

Similarly, the embodiment of FIGS. 2A to 2D can make it possible to produce a rack at three levels by adding a section connected to the section 100b at the level of the plate 105b.

For the two embodiments, the different parts of the blank sections, consisting of plates and strips, are connected together by fold lines. The fold lines between the plates and the strips as well as between the sections of the blank are in a known manner made by weakening the cardboard by a strong line and / or by making a series of slots or dotted cutouts.

FIG. 4A represents a message box adapted to the invention and in particular adapted to protect the bottoms and bottlenecks transported in the box.

To do this, the box is a rectangular parallelepiped box which has four side faces including a pair of large opposite faces 501 and a pair of opposite small faces 502, a bottom and a ceiling. The bottom and the ceiling are produced from flaps 510a, 510b, 520a, 520b coming from the lateral faces and comprising fold lines at the edges of these lateral faces. The first flaps 510a, 510b from the large opposite faces are cut so that their length and width allow them each to cover a major part of the bottom and of the ceiling. The second flaps 520a, 520b from the small opposite faces 502 are cut so as to have a length substantially equal to the length of the large faces.

The second flaps further comprise a central strip 521a, 521b connected to the small face carrying them and two lateral zones each formed by two lateral bands 522a, 523a, 522b, 523b separated from said small face by a cutout. Two first lateral bands 522a are connected to the central bands by a first fold line and two second lateral bands are connected to the first lateral bands by a second fold line.

The second lateral bands 523a, 523b form flaps which fold over the first lateral bands. Ears shown in FIG. 4A and cut out between the central bands and the first lateral bands are intended to hold the second lateral bands on the first.

The folding of the flaps is explained in FIGS. 4B to 4F.

According to FIG. 4B, the lockers, of any model among the models discussed above, are already inserted in the box and the lower flaps folded back.

The second flaps have their second side bands 523a, 523b folded over the first side bands 522a, 522b.

The first folding operation in FIG. 4C comprises the folding of a first first flap.

The second folding operation in FIG. 4D comprises the folding of a first second flap followed in FIG. 4E by the folding of the second second flap.

The stacking of the flaps of the first and second second flaps provides a damping device at the ends of the bottles housed in the housing of the lockers.

Finally, in Figure 4F, the second first flap is finally folded to close the box.

This arrangement is also that of the bottom flaps.

The invention is not limited to the examples shown and, in particular as seen above, the number of sections can be adapted between the embodiments.

Claims (17)

1 - Locker for holding and separating objects, in a package such as a message box, characterized in that it is produced from a rectangular blank (100, 200) cut flat, comprising at least two adjoining rectangular sections, each provided with plates (101a, 101b, 103a, 103b, 105a, 105b, 201a, 201b, 201c, 203a, 203b, 203c, 205a, 205b, 205c) and strips (102a, 102b, 104a, 104b, 106a, 106b, 107a, 107b, 202a, 202b, 202c 204a, 204b, 204c, 206a, 206b, 206c, 207a, 207b, 207c) for making walls of a module (1000a, 1000b, 2000a, 2000b, 2000c) of the rack, the sections being connected on a part of their contiguous edge by a fold line (113, 113a, 113b), the modules each being produced by folding its corresponding section back on itself, the rack being constituted by the modules folded over each other at the level of said common fold line. 2 - Locker according to claim 1 for which each module comprises an upper plate, an intermediate plate and a lower plate each provided with cutouts for holding objects. 3 - Locker according to claim 2 for which said trays are made by means of plates parts of the sections, said plates being separated by the strips for producing lateral faces of the modules. 4 - Locker according to any one of claims 1 to 3 for which each section comprises in the direction of its length a first side strip (107, 206), a first rectangular plate (101, 205) provided with cutouts (110) of holding objects, a second lateral strip (102, 204), a second rectangular plate (103, 203) provided with cutouts (110), a third lateral strip (104, 202), a third rectangular plate (105, 201) provided of cutouts and a fourth side strip (106, 207). 5 - Locker according to claim 4 for which, to form a module of the locker, said section is folded in Z on itself from the first rectangular plate (101), which thus forms a face of the module, with the second strip (102) folded 90 ° in a first direction, the second rectangular plate (103) folded 90 ° in said first direction to come parallel to the first rectangular plate, the third side strip (104) folded 90 ° in one direction opposite to said first direction, the third rectangular plate (105) being folded at 90 ° in the opposite direction to the first direction so as to make a second face of the module. 6 - Locker according to claim 5 for which once the module formed, the first side strip (107) is itself folded at 90 ° in said direction opposite to the first direction and is applied and fixed on the third side strip ( 104). 7 - Locker according to claim 5 or 6 for which the fourth side strip (106a) is folded at 90 ° in the opposite direction to said first direction and is applied and fixed on the second side strip (102a). 8 - Locker according to claim 5, 6 or 7 for which the third and fourth side bands have tabs (114) cut from the third rectangular plate (105). 9 - Locker according to claim 4 for which to form a module of the locker the section is folded in on itself towards the inside, the first strip (206), the first plate (205), the second strip (204), the second plate (203) and the third strip (202) being folded successively at 90 ° relative to each other in the same first direction. 10 - Locker according to claim 9 for which the third strip (207) is folded at 90 ° in the opposite direction to said first direction to close the module. 11 - Locker according to claim 10 for which the first strip (206) is glued to the third strip (202), the first plate (205) forming an intermediate plate between upper and lower plates produced by the second and third plates (201,203 ). 12 bottle transport messaging box comprising a locker according to any one of claims 1 to 11 and for which the cutouts for holding the objects are circular cutouts for holding the sides of bottles which unfolded lockers are aligned along the axes of the bottles the bottles being kept parallel in the box by the racks. 13- Mailbox according to claim 12 for which the box is a rectangular parallelepiped box which has four side faces, including a pair of opposite large faces (501) and a pair of opposite opposite faces (502), a bottom and a ceiling. and for which the bottom and the ceiling are made from flaps (510a, 510b, 520a, 520b) coming from the lateral faces and comprising fold lines at the edges of these lateral faces, the first flaps (510a, 510b) from the large opposite faces are cut so that their length and width allow them each to cover a major part of the bottom and the ceiling, the second flaps (520a, 520b) coming from the small opposite faces (502) being cut so to have a length substantially equal to the length of the large faces. 14- Mail box according to claim 13 for which the second flaps further comprise a central strip (521a, 521b) connected to the small face carrying them and two lateral zones each formed by two lateral bands (522a, 523a, 522b, 523b ) separated from said small face by a cutout and for which two first lateral bands (522a) are connected to the central bands by a first fold line and two second lateral bands are connected to the first lateral bands by a second fold line. 15- Mail box according to claim 14 for which the second side bands (523a, 523b) form flaps which fold over the first side bands. 16- Mailbox according to claim 15 for which ears (524) cut between the central bands (521a, 521b) and the first lateral bands (522a, 522b) maintain the second lateral bands (523a, 523b) on the first. 17 - Mail box according to any one of claims 12 to 16 for which the bottom and the cover are made by folding a first first flap (510a), folding the two second flaps (520a, 520b) and folding the second second flap (510b).