GB2440211A

GB2440211A - A dispensing container and blank for same

Info

Publication number: GB2440211A
Application number: GB0614283A
Authority: GB
Inventors: Li Jun Dan
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 2006-07-19
Filing date: 2006-07-19
Publication date: 2008-01-23
Also published as: GB0614283D0

Abstract

A dispensing container, and a blank therefore, the container comprising a cooperating first and second flaps 106,128 forming the dispensing opening that prevent retraction of the web of rolled sheet material to be dispensed into the dispensing container. The container mat also comprise foldable panels 17,18,19 that form stub axles that cooperate with the roll of web material to be housed in and dispensed from the dispensing container.

Description

BLANK AND ASSOCIATED CONTAINER FOR DISPENSING ROLLED SHEET MATERIAL

THEREFROM

DESCRIPTION

This invention relates to a blank and associated container for dispensing rolled sheet material, such as cling film, aluminium foil, greaseproof paper or the like, from a wound roll thereof acconunodated therein. to

In most know types of such a container, a roll of sheet material is loosely accommodated therein, with a lid, usually constituted by the top panel of the container, being openable to permit sheet material to be dispensed from the now-open container top. A blade, such as a serrated bar, may be provided along an edge of the container for cutting dispensed sheet material from the remaining unwound material of the roll.

Alternatively from the container and the required amount of material is unwound from the roll and either cut, torn off, or otherwise detached therefrom.

Sometimes, the container is formed in such a way that a user has to remove the roll of sheet material therefrom, in order to locate the leading edge of the roll. Thereafter, the roll is replaced within the container, with the leading edge exposed for dispensing purposes.

Also it has been found that, with cling -film in particular, there is a tendency to pull the roll completely from the container as the leading edge is pilled initially and, sometimes, the leading edge retracts back on to the roll within the container, due to the elasticity and cling properties of the film. When this occurs, it is very troublesome and difficult to locate the leading edge again, due to the thinness of the film. Thus, and as indicated above, a user then has to open the container and remove the roll of sheet material therefrom, in order to separate the leading edge of the film from the roll. Further, the leading edge of the film has a tendency to crinkle and fold upon itself after a length has been cut from the roll.

In the case of aluminium foil, it is often necessary to open the container on each occasion foil is required to be dispensed, in order o to locate the leading edge and to pull it from the container, resulting in damage to the container and/or the foil. Similar problems can occur with rolls of other sheet material.

Thus, these known methods of dispensing sheet material from a roll thereof from a container are somewhat haphazard, due also to the fact that the roll is accommodated loosely within the container and thus capable of being pulled or otherwise removed therefrom when the lid is open.

It is an object of the present invention to overcome, or at least substantially reduce, the disadvantages associated with the known containers for dispensing sheet material from a roll thereof, as discussed above. I0

Accordingly, a first aspect of the invention resides in a blank which is cut and creased to define front, base, rear and top wall panels erectable into a generally rectangular container and which comprises also, an elongate panel defined by a pair of opposed cut lines at respective opposed ends of the free edge region of the front wall panel, with a reverse crease between that elongate panel and the front wall panel.

Upon erection of the blank, the elongate panel can be folded about that reverse crease, to define at least partially an access slot along the top of the front wall of the container, and it is hinged freely to the top edge of the front wall of a container erected from the blank, so that it can cooperate with an outer access flap, to prevent retraction of the Clingfilm or other dispensed material into the container.

The opposing front wall panel of the blank is connected to an outer access flap panel, preferably by means of another normal crease, which, in a container erected from the blank, is capable of opening and closing the access slot, without opening the container' s lid I the top wall, on each occasion cling film or foil is required to be dispensed. Also the access flap panel can cooperate with the elongate panel of the front wall, to prevent retraction of the Clingfilm or other dispensed material into the container.

Such access flap panel preferable has, at each end thereof, an extension flap insertable and movable between multi-thicknesses of the corresponding end wall panels of a container erected from the blank. In such arrangement, the extension flap can move freely in between the corresponding end wall panels, that making the access flap panels are capable of opening and closing the access slot.

In an embodiment of blank to be described in more detail below, at each of two opposed ends of the blank, a plurality of panels which are cut and creased and which, during erection of the container from the blank are foldable to define, at each of the opposed ends of the so-erected container, a stub axle, preferably generally tubular, adapted to receive the open end of a roll of sheet material to be dispensed from the container erected from the blank.

Preferably, the plurality of tubular stub axle-forming panels is located at each end of end wall panel, which connected with each end of the base wall panel of the blank.

That plurality of panels may comprise three or more further panels io which are connected together by respective normal creases and which are foldable about those creases, to define the respective tubular stub axle during erection of the blank.

Those at least three further panels may comprise an intermediate is panel which is connected to the corresponding end wall panel of the blank, with any intermediate panel being connected to that extension panel by a reverse crease.

An extension panel may be located between the plurality of stub axle-forming panels and the corresponding end wall panel of the blank, with any intermediate panel being connected to that extension panel by a reverse crease In such arrangement, any extension panel may be connected to the zs corresponding end wall panel by a normal crease, such that upon erection of the blank, an at least partially multi-thickness end wall is formed.

The invention also comprises a container erected from the blank in accordance with the first aspect of the invention or any modifications thereof, as discussed above.

In order that the invention may be more fully understood, a preferred from of blank and associated container in accordance therewith will now be described by way of example and with reference to the accompanying drawings in which: Figure 1 is a plan view of a blank from which a container for dispensing sheet material from a roll can be erected; Figure 2 is a perspective view of a container almost half erected from the blank of Figure!; Figure 3 is a front elevational view of a fully erected container; Figure 4 is a perspective view of the fully erected container in use, and illustrating an access flap, the extension flaps and the elongate edge panel flap.

Figure 5 is a side view of the fully-erected container of Figure 4.

Figure 6 is a front view of the fully-erected container of Figure 3 but accommodating a roll of wound sheet material, with access panel io and front panel removed for reasons of clarity.

Figure 7 is a perspective view of the fully erected container of Figure 4, but accommodating a roll of wound sheet material.

Figure 8 is a side view of the fully-erected container of Figure 5, but accommodating a roll of wound sheet material, and illustrating an access flap panel and the elongate edge flap panel.

Referring firstly to Figure 1 of the drawings, a panner unitary blank, indicated generally at 1 and made of any suitable material, such as cardboard, paperboard or a plastics material, comprises respective front, base, rear and top wall panels 2 to 5, with adjacent panels 2 and 3, 3 and 4 and 4 and 5 being joined at respective normal creases 22, 23 and 24.

An access flap panel 6 is joined to the top wall panel 5 by another normal crease 25. A glue panel 7 is joined to the access flap panel 6 by tearing line 37.

The front and rear wall panels 2 and 4 are provided, at there opposed ends, with respective glue flaps 12 and 14, whist the opposed ends of the base and top wall panels 3 and 5 are provided with respective end wall panels 13, 15.

The flaps 12 and 14 and end wall panels 13 and 15 are joined to there respective wall panels 2, 4 and 3, 5 by a Continuous normal crease 20.

When the blank 1 is erected, the glue flaps 12, 14 and end wall panels 13 are folded about there respective normal crease 20, in conventional manner, to provide the end walls of the erected container, as will be described below.

In the erected container, one or more of the flaps 12, 14, may be glued together, to retain the container in its erected condition.

Each end wall panel 13 has an extension panel 17 joined thereto by a normal crease 30. Each extension panel 17 also has jointed thereto an intermediate panel 18 via a reverse crease 31.

Each intermediate panel 18 has, on respective opposed sides thereof, a pair of outer panels 19 jointed thereto by respective normal crease 32. A cut line 33 between each extension panel 17 and pair of outer io panels 19 permits the latter to be folded with respect to the intermediate panel 18 about respective normal creases 32.

The access flap panel 6 has, at each end thereof, an extension flap 27 joined thereto by the crease 20.

The front wall panel 2 is provided with an elongate edge flap panel 28 defined by a pair of opposed cut lines 29 and a reverse crease 26.

Upon erection of the blank 1 into the container 101, as shown in Figure 2, the front, base, rear and top wall panels 2 to 5 are folded, in conventional manner, through 90 about respective normal creases 22,23 and the corresponding glue flaps 12,14 and end wall panels 13, are also folded about respective creases 20, again in conventional manner, through 90 to provide the partially erected container 101 comprising front, base, rear walls 102 to 104 and opposed partially multi-thickness end walls 113 including the glue flaps 12, 14 and end wall panels 13 in confronting relationship with each other. Glue is applied to the flaps 12, 14, to retain the partially, and eventually fully, erected container in proper shape. Glue is not applied between the glue flap and end wall panel 13.

During erection of the container 101, the opposed extension panels 17 are folded through 180 about their respective normal creases over the corresponding flaps 12 and 14, such that each panel 17 lies inwardly of its corresponding end wall 113. These so-folded extension panels 17 are preferably glued to the respective flaps 12 or 14.

Before the extension panels 17 are folded about their respective normal creases 30, each pair of outer panels 19 are rolled over about respective normal creases 32 through about 100 with respect to the intermediate panel 18, each pair of outer panels 19 are preferably glued together, to provide a generally tubular stub axle 118 of, say, tubular section, with each intermediate panel 18 folded through 90 about its corresponding reverse crease 31, inwardly of the respective end wall 113.

In this manner, the pair of opposed tubular stub axles 118 are located within the partially, and eventually fully-erected container 101, extending generally axially thereof.

Also, the elongate edge flap panel 28 has already been or is now folded about the reverse crease 26 through about 950 to 170 , to provide, along with the top wall 105, an access slot at the top edge of the front wall 102 of the container 101. The so-folded panel 28 provides an elongate io edge flap 128, may be hinged freely to the outer surface of the front wall 102.

The opposed tubular stub axles 118 can be formed at any suitable time during erection of the container 101, to suit manufacturing needs.

is For example, prior to, during or after the accommodation of a roll of sheet material to be dispensed from the fully-erected container 101.

Thus, such a roll of sheet material may be accommodated within the container 101 as the latter is erected, with the stub axles 118 being inserted in the opposed open ends of roll at any suitable time, depending upon the manufacturing process involved.

Referring now to Figure 3 to 5 of the accompanying drawings, here the container 101 is shown in its fully-erected form, with Figure 3 identifying the access flap 106 and associated a folded elongate edge flap 128 at the top edge of' the front wall 102. Also shown is the pair of opposed tubular stub axles 118 associated with respective end walls 113, with the glue panel 7 is glued to the surface of the front wall 102.

In Figure 4, the fully-erected container 101 is shown with the glue panel 7 being torn off along the tearing ling 37, with the access flap 106 in an at least partially open condition with respect to the front wall 102, with the opposed extension flaps 27 are freely inserted between respective pairs of adjacent, confronting wall panels of the multi-thickness end walls 113, thereby providing capable of opening and closing the access slot, without opening the container' s top wall 105.

In Figure 5, the side view of the fully-erected container 101, is shown position of the access flap 106, associated with the folded 4 elongate edge flap 128, with tubular stub axles 118 associated with respective folded and glued extension panel 17.

In Figure 6, the erected container 101 is shown with a roll 200 of sheet material accommodated therein, with the opposed stub axles 118 received in respective opposed open ends of the roll 200.

In Figure 7, the fully-erected container 101 without the glue panel 7, is again shown with a roll 200 of sheet material therein with the access flap 106 in an partially open condition with respect to the front wall 102, with the opposed extension flaps 27 are freely inserted between the multi-thickness end walls 113, thereby providing capable of opening and closing the access slot, without opening the container' s top wall 105.

In Figure 8, is Figure 5 shown with a roll 200 of sheet material accommodated therein, with the position of the access flap 106 and associated the folded elongate edge flap 128, thereby providing prevent retraction of the sheet material 200 into the container defined by the folded elongate edge flap 128 cooperated with the access flap 106.

Claims

CLAIMS

1. A blank which is cut and creased to define front, base, rear, top wall and access flap panels erectable into a generally rectangular container and which comprises also, an folded elongate edge flap is defined, to cooperate with an outer access flap, to prevent retraction of the Clingfilm or other dispensed material into the container.

2. A blank according to claim!, wherein the free edge region of the front wall panel comprises an elongate edge flap panel defined by a pair of opposed cuts at respective opposed ends of the free edge region of the front wall panel, with a reveres crease between that elongate flap panel and front wall panel.

3. A blank according to claim 2, such that upon erection of the blank, the elongate edge flap panel can be folded outward, about the reverse crease through about 950 to 1700, to define an elongate edge flap, which is hinged freely to the top edge of the outer surface of the front wall, cooperating with the outer access flap.

4. A blank according to claim I or 3, wherein the top wall panel is connected to an outer access flap which, has, at each end thereof, an extension flap, is capable of opening and closing an access slot that is between top wall panel and top edge of front wall of the container, without opening and closing the top wall as a sheet material is required to be dispensed.

5. A blank according to claim 4, wherein the access flap panel has, at each end thereof, an extension flap insertable and movable between multi-thickness of the corresponding end wall of a container erected from the blank.

6. A blank according to claim 5, wherein the multi-thickness end walls including the glue flaps and end wall panel in confronting relationship with each other. Glue is not applied between the glue flaps and end wall panels which connected to base wall panel, to define a gap which, to let the extension flaps insertable and movable between multi-thickness of the corresponding end wall of a container erected from the blank.

7. A blank according to claim 4, wherein the top wall panel is connected to the end wall panels which, in a container erected from the blank, is glued to the respective glue flaps, therefore, the top wall panel cannot be opened from the fully-erected container.

8. A blank which is cut, creased and erected into a generally rectangular container and which comprises also, the plurality of tubular stub s axle-forming panels are defined by extending at each end of end wall panel with creased, reverse creased and cut which, during erection of the container from blank, are foldable to form a tubular stub axle, to receive the open end of a roll of sheet material to be dispensed from the so-erected container.

9. A blank according to claim 8, wherein the plurality of tubular stub axle-forming panels are located at each end of end wall panel, which is connected with each end of the base wall panel of the blank.

is 10. A blank according to claim 9 or 8, wherein the plurality of panels comprises three or more further panels, which are connected together by respective normal creases, to define the respective tubular stub axles during erection of the blank.

11. A blank according to claim 10, wherein an intermediate panel which is connect to the corresponding extension panel, and the two tubular stub axle-forming panels to each end wall panel by means of a reverse crease.

12. A blank according to claim 10 and 11, including an extension panel located between each of the plurality of stub axle- forming panels and the corresponding end wall panel of blank, with the intermediate panel being connected to that extension panel by a reverse crease.

13. A blank according to clam 11 or 10, wherein each extension panels are folded through l80 over the glue flaps and connected inwardly of its the corresponding glue flaps by a normal crease such that upon erection of the blank, an at least partially multi-thickness end wall is formed.

14. A blank substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

15. A container erected from a blank in accordance with any preceding claim.