GB2081225A

GB2081225A - Container

Info

Publication number: GB2081225A
Application number: GB8118863A
Authority: GB
Original assignee: Seyfert Wellpappe & Co GmbH
Current assignee: Seyfert Wellpappe & Co GmbH
Priority date: 1980-08-02
Filing date: 1981-06-18
Publication date: 1982-02-17
Also published as: FR2487781A1; DE3029412A1; IT1138031B; BE889243A; IT8122849A0

Abstract

A container for goods such as plastics detergent bottles has a base 3 and side members 2 upstanding from the base, the side members being of corrugated form with corrugations extending perpendicularly to the base and serving both to make the side members rigid and to form separate locations for the goods. The container can be made of cardboard, corrugated paper or plastics. <IMAGE>

Description

SPECIFICATION Container The invention relates to a container having a base and opposed vertical side members located on opposite sides of the base for separating and supporting the container contents.

Containers formed of cardboard, corrugated paper or plastic, for example, for non-selfsupporting goods in plastic bottles have projections formed from folded sections which are glued at the opposite sides of the container. Since these projections are laterally resilient, they are only capable of separating the contents and are not capable of adequately supporting the contents of the container. This lack of support for the container contents prevents the containers from being easily stacked. Moreover, it is difficult to display the contents in the containers on account of this inadequate support.

The present invention provides a container for non-self-supporting goods, such as plastic bottles, which supports the goods and which, moreover, may be easily stacked.

The invention comprises a container for nonself-supporting goods eomprising a bottom member and two opposed vertical side members located on opposite sides of the bottom member and rising above the bottom member. Each of the side members has vertically extending projections directed toward the other side member. The projections are generally triangular in transverse cross-section and have legs secured to a connecting member located on the side of each side member facing away from the other side member.

By forming the container of the present invention in this manner, the projections are not laterally resilient, but are relatively fixed at the legs thereof to the connecting member. The fixing of the projections in this manner enables the vertical side members to support the container contents and to permit the containers to be stacked easily.

Thus, the side members both support and separate the container contents. Additionally, this arrangement of the side members produces a relatively stiff container from a minimum amount of raw material, thereby enhancing the efficiency of its manufacture. Since the two side members adequately support the container contents, the container may be used to display the contents with the contents visible from two sides and from above the container.

Embodiments of containers or the like will now be described with reference to accompanying drawings in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of a container in accordance with a first embodiment of the present invention; Figure 2 is a partial, top plan view of the container of Figure 1; Figure 3 is a partial, top plan view of a container in accordance with a second embodiment of the present invention; and Figure 4 is a partial, top plan view of a container in accordance with a third embodiment of the present invention.

Figures 1 and 2 illustrate a container comprising a base 1 and two opposed, vertical side members 2 of substantially identical configuration. The base and side members can be formed of cardboard, corrugated paperboard, plastic or other suitable material. The weight and thickness of the material depends on the size and weight of the intended contents for the container.

Base 1 includes a rectangular floor 3 and four side panels 4, 5 which are attached to and extend upwardly from the four side edges of floor 3. The base and side panels are formed from a unitary, substantially planar blank which is folded such that the relatively long side panels 4 are opposed and parallel and the relatively short side panels 5 are opposed and parallel to each other and perpendicular to side panels 4. Side panels 4 have triangular flaps 6 coupled at the longitudinal ends thereof adjacent side panels 5. These flaps fit into corresponding cutaways formed in side panels 5 when base 1 is erected from its substantially planar blank. When erected, side walls 4, 5 completely surround floor 3 and extend upwardly therefrom to an equal height.

In the embodiment of Figures 1 and 2, each side member 2 is formed from a unitary blank which is folded to form two layers. The inner layer that faces the other side member 2, is folded to provide three vertically extending projections 7, 8, 9 equally spaced across the side member. The end projections 7, 9 are similarly formed having transverse cross-sectional configurations in the form of right triangles with the right angles thereof located along the edges of side members 2 and fitted into the corners of base 1. The center projections 8 have transverse cross-sectional configurations in the form of isosceles triangles.

The outer layer of each side member 2 faces away from the other side member and forms a connecting member for the legs of the triangular projections 7, 8, 9. As illustrated in Figure 2, the two edges 10 of the blank forming each side member 2 face each other in close proximity to one another between projections 8, 9 in its folded configuration. Adhesive is applied to each side member 2 at location 11 between projections 7, 8 and at locations 12, 13 adjacent edges 10 and between projections 8, 9 where portions of each blank lie in contact with one another.

In this manner, the ends of each projecting leg of each projection are fixedly coupled to the connecting member. For projection 7, the projecting leg adjacent the right angle is fixed by the integral hinge connection to the connecting member and the other projecting leg is fixed to the connecting member by the adhesive at location 11. For projection 8, the ends of the projecting legs are fixed to the connecting member by the adhesive at locations 11, 12. For projection 9, the ends of the projecting legs are fixed to the connecting member by the adhesive at location 6 and by the integral hinge connection at the right angle thereof.

Once the side members 2 are fully formed and glued, they are disposed adjacent relatively short side panels 5 and are adhered thereto along the surfaces of mutual contact.

In the second embodiment of the present invention illustrated in Figure 3, side members 2 are likewise formed from a single blank of material. However, in this embodiment, each blank is folded such that the two edges 10 of the blank relocated in the inner layer facing the other side member Otherwise, the side members are folded and adhered in the same manner as that described above in connection with the first embodiment of Figures 1 and 2.

A third embodimentof the present invention is illustrated in Figure 4 in which each side member 2a is formed of two separate blank members 14, 1 5. Member 14 is located at the side of side member 2a facing away from the other side member and forms the connecting member. Blank member 1 5 is folded to form triangular projections 7a, 8, 9a as illustrated in Figure 4 on the inner layer of the side member facing the other side member. The ends of the projecting legs of end projections 7a, 9 are folded inwardly to extend generally parallel to and to overlie blank member 14. These folded in end portions of end projections 7a, 9a, are adhered to blank member 14. Additionally, the contacting surfaces of blank member 15 and blank member 14 between projections 7a and 8 and between projections 8 and 9a are adhered by a suitable adhesive.Thus, the ends of each projection leg are fixedly coupled to the blank member 14 forming the connecting member for this embodiment.

The embodiment of Figures 1 and 2 may be produced in the simplest manner.

Each of these embodiments may be employed as a container to receive four plastic bottles holding about 4 liters, which bottles may contain detergents.

Since the legs of the triangular projections are firmly connected to a connecting member, a rigid side member is formed which can both separate arid support the container contents. Additionally, this rigid side member facilitates stacking of similarly constructed containers. Since the side member both supports and separates the contents, the container may be used to display the contents with the contents being viewed from the other two sides of the container (i.e., those sides formed by side panels 4) and from the open top of the container.

While certain advantageous embodiments have been chosen to illustrate the invention, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes and modifications can be made therein without departing from the scope of the invention, as defined in the appended claims.

Claims

1. A container for non-self-supporting goods comprising a base and side members upstanding from the base, the side members being of corrugated form with corrugations extending perpendicularly to the base and serving both to make the side members rigid and to form separate locations for the goods to be contained.

2. A container according to claim 1, in which the base is rectangular and the corrugated, upstanding side members form separate compartments arranged on a rectangular grid for the goods to be contained.

3. A container according to claim 1 or claim 2, in which the corrugated, upstanding side members exhibit at least one part that is triangular in crosssection.

4. A container according to claim 3, in which each side member exhibits three parts that are triangular in cross-section.

5. A container according to claim 4, in which the edge parts of each side member are, in crosssection, right-angled triangles with their right angles at the edges of its base member.

6. A container according to claim 5, in which there are at least three triangular cross-section parts, the middle part or parts having the shape, in cross-section, of an isosceles triangle.

7. A container according to any one of claims 1 to 6, made of cardboard.

8. A container according to any one of claims 1 to 6, made of corrugated paper.

9. A container according to any one of claims 1 to 6, made of plastic.

10. A container substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to Figures 1 and 2 of the accompanying drawings.

11. A container substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to Figures 1 and 3 of the accompanying drawings.

12. A container substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to Figures 1 and 4 of the accompanying drawings.