JP2000203629A - Packaged body of packaged article of truncated cone shape - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To stably hold packaged articles by packaging the articles in the state of being disposed adjacently in an upside-down state. SOLUTION: Adjacent packaged articles of a truncated cone shape are turned over, and a pair of packaged articles in the state of being disposed in an outer packaging are taken out. In the arrangement line, the required outer packaging volume and area are reduced only in the portion corresponding to a square encircled only by dotted lines for a pair of articles. Therefore materials used for outer packaging for packaging pats of the same number can be reduced. For the outer packaging, a corrugated board to be used for the wrap-round method is provided, and cup noodles of the truncated cone shape are disposed. After passing through an upset process, a line disposing process and a guiding process, the cup noodles are arranged on the bottom plane of the corrugated board for the wrap-round method and the corrugated board is folded to form packed bodies. Cutting tapes for opening are provided on the backs of the outer packaging of the packed bodies in order to open the packed bodies easily.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention reduces or substantially eliminates a filler for stably holding an article to be packaged in the shape of a truncated cone inside an outer package, and is therefore applicable to dust problems and ecological problems. A package in which the same number of articles to be packaged are packaged in which the required volume of the package by the exterior is reduced (at least one of the vertical and horizontal widths is reduced), and the load-bearing and holding stability are improved by the mode of packaging the articles. About. In this specification, the truncated cone refers to a cone that is cut along a plane parallel to the bottom surface and the upper cone is removed. The exterior means a material for packing an aggregate of articles to be packaged. The package refers to a three-dimensional package in which an assembly of articles to be packed is held inside an exterior.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, as a package of a truncated cone-shaped article to be packaged, the articles to be packaged are packed in the same state, for example, arranged (erect) with all the wide sides of the truncated cone-shaped container facing upward. Therefore, if there is no filler, such as a plastic tray, for stably holding the articles to be packaged inside the exterior, for example, cardboard, all the articles to be packaged are in point contact with each other in view of the arrangement of the articles to be packaged. However, since a large space is formed between adjacent articles to be packaged, if a force is applied from outside for some reason, the force concentrates on the contact point of the packaged article, and stable holding may be difficult. .
Therefore, in order to remove such inconvenience, it has been necessary to pack a filler such as a plastic tray for stably holding the article to be packaged in the exterior. However, the above-mentioned filler is bulky, and in the case of a plastic tray, there is a problem in handling after unpacking, for example, a problem in compliance with the Containers and Packaging Recycling Law.

[0003]

Accordingly, a package that requires little packing such as a plastic tray, reduces the volume of the package, and can stably hold the truncated cone-shaped article to be packed. It is the task of the present invention to find a structure.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The gist of the present invention is to provide a package for a truncated cone-shaped article to be packaged in a state in which at least one article to be packaged is arranged adjacently (upright and inverted). It is a package characterized by packing. When the truncated cone-shaped wrapped articles are arranged with the truncated cone inverted as described above, the adjacent truncated cone-shaped wrapped articles have almost no space and are arranged in a line-contact state. Even if force is applied due to the cause, in the case of the present invention, the force is received at the line contact portion, so that compared to the case where all the articles to be packaged are point contact as in the conventional package, The packaged articles can be stably held. Further, when packing the truncated cone-shaped wrapped article in such a state, the truncated cone-shaped wrapped article can be stably held even if the amount of the member for protecting the wrapped article to be filled into a cardboard or the like is reduced. It is possible to obtain a package, and furthermore, it is possible to reduce the external volume required for packing the same number of articles to be packaged and to improve the load-bearing capacity as compared with the conventional packing method. Become. As described above, the present inventor has solved the above-mentioned problems of the present invention by a method of arranging truncated cone-shaped articles to be packaged in a state where at least one adjacent article to be packaged is inverted.

[0005]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1A shows a package body according to the present invention in which a pair of packaged articles arranged adjacent to each other in a truncated conical shape (CC) are taken out of the package. In this state, adjacent articles to be packaged are arranged in line contact. On the other hand, FIG. 1B shows a conventional arrangement of a pair of adjacent truncated conical articles to be packaged, and adjacent articles to be packaged are in point contact. It can be understood that the two are compared, but in the row arranged as in the present invention, the volume and area of the exterior required for each pair correspond to the square (S, equivalent to the reduction) surrounded only by the dotted line. (Width) can be reduced. Therefore, it is possible to reduce the amount of material used to make an outer package for packing the same number of articles to be packaged.

FIG. 2A shows a package (P1) of the present invention.
In the above, the articles to be packaged in the form of a truncated cone are arranged in a row (this is on the drawing, and if it is rotated by 90 °, it can also be called a column), the articles to be packaged adjacent to each other are alternately inverted. Shows the state of packing. The front view shown on the lower side is a view showing the arrangement state of the rows. By adopting such a packing form, stable packing can be performed from the arrangement state without using a filler such as a plastic tray. On the other hand, FIG. 2B shows an arrangement state of each packaged article in the case where the conventional truncated cone-shaped packaged article is a package (P2). As shown in the front view, a plastic tray (PT) is filled so that the article to be packaged in a truncated cone shape can be stably held inside the exterior. FIG. 3 shows a configuration of a package according to another embodiment, in which adjacent truncated conical articles to be packaged are alternately inverted in both the vertical and horizontal directions. In the case of this packing method, the required volume can be further reduced as compared with the packing body of FIG. FIG. 4 shows a configuration of a package according to still another embodiment, and the articles to be packaged adjacent to each other in line contact are arranged in an oblique direction. Therefore, the wrapped articles arranged adjacent to each other means that when one wrapped article of the aggregate of the wrapped articles is focused on, all of the conditions that the wrapped articles are arranged adjacent to the focused wrapped article are considered. Means the article to be packaged.

FIG. 5 shows an embodiment of a method for filling the package shown in FIG. 2 with a truncated cone-shaped article to be packaged. It does not limit the method of performing. Step a shows the individual container transport line section for supplying the articles to be packaged in the shape of a truncated cone. Each row is sequentially transferred to the left, but the articles to be packed in the alternate rows are turned upside down by an appropriate reversing machine b in the reversing step and aligned as inverted articles C in the reversing step. Further, while moving to the alignment table d via the line alignment L,
While being adjusted to the package width by the guide G which becomes narrower in the traveling direction, one package is arranged on an aligning table, sent to a sorting machine or a box packing machine f, and further wrapped round caser g
And sent to a package. The exterior can be provided with a cutting tape around the side surface to facilitate opening. In some cases, a packaged article to be packaged is aligned on the bottom plane of a flat outer cardboard placed at the position of the alignment table connected to the guide, and then the cardboard is folded to be designed as a packaged article. Can be. A device for assisting opening such as a cutting tape for opening is provided on the side of the exterior, so that the structure g can be easily opened. It is also possible to adopt a method in which the upright line and the inverted line are boxed by one line, and in this case, the packing line is formed by packing the inverted line into a box and then packing the upright line into a box. Can also be designed. This packing method can be applied to the case of packing in the packing body of the embodiment of FIGS.

FIG. 6 shows the loadability in transportation when, for example, 20 cup noodles are used as the package of the present invention and the conventional package is used. Generally, pallets are used to load luggage on trucks and the like. The size of the pallet, for example, a T-11 type pallet is 1100 mm × 1100 mm as shown in FIG. Assuming that the cup noodle is the package of the present invention, FIG.
The package can be loaded as shown in FIG.
On the other hand, if a conventional package is used, the loading method shown in FIG. 6B will be used due to the area of the package. From FIG. 6, it is possible to stack 1.5 times as much as the conventional package by using the package of the present invention. It can be understood at a glance how the package of the present invention has excellent loading characteristics.

[0009] The form of the exterior used for packing is different from the case of completely wrapping the article to be packaged as in the above-mentioned wrap round system, and is separated into an exterior forming an upper surface and an exterior forming a bottom surface. The package may be wrapped by binding the upper and lower exterior materials with a binding tape or the like, with the outer side sandwiching the band-shaped portion not covered with the article to be packed on the side surface. If the exterior is in the form of a package that can be separated vertically when opened,
After opening, the upper exterior material is removed, the article to be packaged is held on the lower exterior material, and the product can be directly displayed in a store. At this time, a reduction in the area of the package leads to a reduction in the product display area, which also contributes to an improvement in the space efficiency of the product display shelf. In addition, it is also possible to design so that the inverted article to be packed is separated into the respective outer packagings by the adhesive material on the upper and lower outer packaging materials and taken out when separated.

Various articles can be considered as the truncated cone-shaped articles to be packaged. In general, cup-packed goods such as cup noodles and other foods and confections which can be distributed in large quantities can be mentioned. And, when the package of the present invention is applied to the packaging of something like cup noodles, it is very useful for reducing the number of exteriors, stable packaging, improving transport efficiency, warehouse area, and efficient product display space. This is as described above.

[0011]

Example 1 A cardboard (FIG. 7) used for a wrap round method was prepared as an exterior. Frusto-conical cup noodles (diameter of a circle on the top, about 96 mm, diameter of a circle on the bottom, about 68 mm) were arranged as shown in FIG. First, as shown in FIG. 5, through a reversing step b, a line aligning step L, and a guide G, it is aligned on the bottom plane (B) of the cardboard used for the wrap round method, and then the cardboard is folded to form a package. And A cutting tape for opening is provided on the side surface of the exterior of the package, and the structure g can be easily opened. The package had improved load resistance and holding stability of the article to be packed. In addition, the area and volume were reduced, and the loading characteristics were excellent.

[0012]

As described above, the package of the present invention is
It is possible to stably hold the article to be packaged in the shape of a truncated cone inside the package, to minimize or substantially eliminate the filler, and thus to deal with the problem of dust and ecology, and to reduce the required volume of the package package (at least vertically or horizontally). One of the advantages is that the width of either one of them is reduced) and the load-bearing state and the holding stability of the packaged article are also improved from the filling mode of the packaged article. Further, by reducing the required volume of the package exterior, it is possible to improve the transportation efficiency, the storage efficiency of the package, and the efficiency of the display space in the store.

[Brief description of the drawings]

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 shows a packing body of the present invention in which only a pair is taken out of a state in which frustoconical containers adjacent to each other in a row or a row are alternately inverted, and a conventional example (b).

FIGS. 2A and 2B show a truncated cone-shaped article to be packed according to the present invention in a state where packing articles arranged in a row are alternately inverted and packed (a), and a conventional example (b).

FIG. 3 shows another embodiment of the package of the present invention.

FIG. 4 shows still another embodiment of the package of the present invention.

FIG. 5 illustrates one embodiment of a method of filling the embodiment of the package of FIG. 2 according to the present invention.

FIG. 6 shows a state in which the packages of the present invention (a) and the conventional package (b) are loaded on a pallet.

FIG. 7 is a development view of a lapland type cardboard.

[Explanation of symbols]

C. C Truncated conical article S Part equivalent to reduction P1
Packing body of the present invention P2 Conventional packing body T plastic tray a
Individual container transport line b Reversing machine C Inverted object L Line alignment G Guide d Alignment table f Sorting machine or box packing machine g Wrap round caser T Cutting tape B Bottom plane

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A package for an article to be packaged having a truncated cone shape, wherein at least one article to be packaged disposed adjacently is packed in an exterior in an inverted state.