JP2002104395A - Packing box - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a packing box capable of cutting costs by reducing the usage of a cushioning material and capable of facilitating setting operations for the cushioning material. SOLUTION: The packing box 10 for packing an article 11 is provided with a tray 20, the plural cushioning materials and a carton member 32. The tray 20 has a bottom surface part and raised parts 62, 64, 66 and 68, respectively, raised for formation from the four sides of the bottom surface part. The cushioning materials are separately disposed in respective corner parts 80, 82, 84 and 86 within the tray 20 and respectively fixed to the inner surface of the bottom surface part so as to bring about cushioning against force applied to the article 11. The carton member 32, having a space surrounding the periphery of the article 11, is held by having a lower part inserted into a gap formed between the two adjacent inner surfaces of the raised parts 62, 64, 66 and 68 near the respective corner parts 80, 82, 84 and 86 and the two adjacent outer surfaces of the cushioning materials.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a packing box for packing articles such as electronic equipment.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A packing box for packing a television receiver, which is an example of electronic equipment, has a structure as shown in FIGS. As shown in FIG. 14, two large cushioning members 1001 are accommodated in the tray 1000. Each bumper 1001 has four projections 10
03 is formed. As a result, as shown in FIG. 15, a gap C formed by the amount of protrusion of the projection 1003 is formed between the inner surface 1004 of the tray 1000 and the outer surface 1005 of the cushioning material 1001. On the other hand, the carton 100 shown in FIG.
6 has a plurality of slits 1007. This slit 1007 is provided with a cushioning material 1001 shown in FIGS.
Is a slit for avoiding the convex portion 1003, and when the carton 1006 is inserted into the gap C, the convex portion 1003
3 is inserted into the slit 1007 at the corresponding position.

[0003]

However, such a conventional packing box has the following problems. Cushioning material 100
1 is formed between the outer surface 1005 and the inner surface 1004 of the tray 1000, and the lower part of the carton 1006 is inserted into the gap C.
In order to securely insert and fix the tray 6 into the tray 1000, a large-sized cushioning material 1001 is required. That is, the cushioning material 1001 needs the length of the width W of the tray 1000. Alternatively, when each cushioning material 1001 is set in a direction opposite to that of FIG.
Requires one length. From this, the cushioning material 1001
Is large and it is difficult to reduce the amount of use of the cushioning material 1001 made of, for example, styrene foam or cardboard, and it is difficult to reduce the cost. Further, since the large-sized cushioning material 1001 is used, it is troublesome to set the cushioning material 1001 in the tray 1000 when the operator packs the electronic device, and the workability at the time of packing is not good. Therefore, an object of the present invention is to solve the above-described problems, and to provide a packing box capable of reducing the amount of buffer material used, reducing costs and facilitating the work of setting the buffer material.

[0004]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a packaging box for packing articles, the tray having a bottom portion and a rising portion formed from each of four sides of the bottom portion. And a plurality of cushioning materials separately arranged at each corner in the tray, a plurality of the cushioning materials fixed to the inner surface of the bottom surface portion to buffer a force applied to the article, and the tray The inner periphery of the article is held by inserting a lower portion into a gap formed between two adjacent inner surfaces of the rising portion and two adjacent outer surfaces of the cushioning material in the vicinity of each corner. And a carton member having a space surrounding the packing box.

According to the first aspect, the tray has a bottom portion and a rising portion. The rising portions are formed by rising from four sides of the bottom surface, respectively. The cushioning material is a cushioning member arranged at each corner of the tray, and each cushioning material is fixed to the inner surface of the bottom surface of the tray so as to cushion the force applied to the article. The carton members are held by inserting the lower portion into the gap formed between two adjacent inner surfaces of the riser near each corner in the tray and two adjacent outer surfaces of the cushioning material. I have.
This carton member has a space surrounding the article. Thus, the cushioning material is fixed to the inner surface of the bottom portion of the tray only by separately arranging it at each corner in the tray, so that the force applied to the article can be buffered even if a small cushioning material is used. . The carton member is held by simply inserting the lower portion into a gap formed between two adjacent inner surfaces of the rising portion near the corners in each tray and two adjacent outer surfaces of the cushioning material. Can be. Since a smaller cushioning material can be used as compared with the related art, it is possible to reduce the amount of the cushioning material to be used to take measures against environmental problems, and to reduce costs. Since each cushioning material can be reduced in size as compared with the related art, it is easy for an operator to fix the cushioning material to a corner in the tray. Since there is no need to form a slit in the carton member as in the related art, it is not necessary to cut the carton member, and the strength of the carton can be improved.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the packing box according to the first aspect, an upper portion of the carton member is closed.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the packing box according to the first aspect, the bottom surface portion at each corner in the tray is raised into the tray to fix the cushioning material. A lifting and holding portion, and a hole formed in the bottom portion in relation to the rising and holding portion to fit and fix a part of the cushioning material, wherein the cushioning material forms a hole in the bottom portion. A first convex portion abutted against the surrounding portion, and a second convex portion abutted against a rising holding portion of the bottom surface portion with the first convex portion abutted against the peripheral portion. Have. According to the third aspect, the first convex portion of the cushioning material abuts on a peripheral portion forming a hole in the bottom surface portion. In this state, the second convex portion of the cushioning material is abutted against the rising holding portion on the bottom portion. Accordingly, each cushioning material can be fixed in the tray simply by abutting the first convex portion and the second convex portion against the bottom portion.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the packing box according to the first aspect, there is provided a holder for detachably holding the carton member and the rising portion of the tray. Claim 4
Then, the carton member and the rising portion of the tray can be integrally held by a detachable holder.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, in the packing box according to the first aspect, the size of the gap corresponds to the thickness of the carton member.

According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, in the packing box according to the first aspect, the article is an electronic device.

[0011]

Preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. Note that the embodiments described below are preferred specific examples of the present invention,
Although various technically preferable limits are given, the scope of the present invention is not limited to these modes unless otherwise specified in the following description.

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a preferred embodiment of the packing box of the present invention. FIG. 2 is an exploded perspective view of the packing box 10 of FIG. 1, and FIG. 3 shows an electronic device 11 packed in the packing box 10. As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the packing box 10 is schematically composed of a tray 20, four cushioning members 30, a carton member 32, a middle lid 34, and an upper cushioning member 3.
6, 38 and a plurality of holders 40 and the like. The tray 20 shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 is made of, for example, cardboard. The carton member 32 and the inner lid 34 are also made of cardboard. The cushioning material 30 is made of corrugated cardboard, but can be made of other materials, for example, plastic such as styrofoam.

The cushioning members 36, 3 located at the upper part shown in FIG.
8 is made of, for example, styrofoam or cardboard. The plurality of holders 40 are made of, for example, plastic, and hold the tray 20 and the carton member 32 integrally and detachably in a state where the tray 20 and the carton member 32 are assembled as shown in FIG. It is. The bottom surface of the electronic device 11 is directly held on the inner surface of the tray 20 in FIG. 2, but the four cushioning materials 30 hold the lower peripheral surface of the electronic device 11, and The shock force to be applied is buffered.

FIG. 3 shows an example of the electronic device 11, and the electronic device 11 is, for example, a large-sized television receiver. The lower part 11A of the electronic device 11 is packaged by, for example, a transparent packaging bag 11B, and
C is packaged in another transparent packaging bag 11D, for example. The electronic device 11 packaged in this way is similar to that of FIGS.
Tray 20 and carton member 32 of packing box 10 shown in FIG.
Packed by. In a state where the carton member 32 is inserted into the inside of the tray 20, the carton member 32 is integrally held by the plurality of holders 40 shown in FIG. 1 and FIG. There is no. The upper part of the carton member 32 of FIG. 1 has four flaps 42,
The upper opening 44 of 2 is closed. After the cushioning materials 36 and 38 holding the upper part of the electronic device 11 are inserted into the opening 44, the inner lid 34 is inserted. By closing the flap 42, the opening 44 can be closed.

As shown in FIG. 2, a plurality of handles 46 are provided around the carton member 32 so that an operator can hold the packing box.
Are formed. These handles 46 are handles formed by cutting the peripheral surface of the carton member 32.
For example, a label 48 is attached around the carton member 32. The label 48 indicates the model, product number, and the like of the packed electronic device 11. Holder 40
A hole 50 into which a part of the holder 40 is fitted is formed in the lower part of the carton member 32 so that the carton member 32 and the tray 20 can be integrally held. Holes 54 are formed in the tray 20 at positions corresponding to the holes 50 of the carton member 32.

FIG. 4 shows the tray 20, the lower portion 32 A of the carton member 32, and the four cushioning members 30. FIG.
Shows a tray 20 and four cushioning members 30. FIG.
As shown in FIG. 5 and FIG.
And four rising portions 62, 64, 66, 68. Each of the rising portions 62, 64, 66, 68 has a bottom surface portion 60.
, And are connected to each other by, for example, an adhesive tape. Starting parts 62, 6
6 faces each other, and the rising portions 64 and 66 face each other. As shown in FIG. 4, the inner surface 70 of the bottom surface portion 60, the inner surface 62A of the rising portion 62, the inner surface 64A of the rising portion 64, the inner surface 66A of the rising portion 66, and the inner surface 68A of the rising portion 68.
Forms a space for accommodating the four cushioning members 30.

As the four cushioning members 30, for example, those having the same structure and the same size can be adopted. By using the cushioning material 30 having the same structure and the same size in this way, it is possible to reduce the cost in manufacturing the cushioning material 30. Each of the four cushioning members 30 is connected to the tray 20.
At the corners 80, 82, 84, 86, respectively,
The tray 20 is fixed to the inner surface 70 of the bottom surface portion 60. In order to fix the cushioning material 30 to the bottom portion 60 at each corner 80 in this way, as shown in FIGS. 5 and 6, the bottom portion 60 has four sets of the rising holding portions 90 and the holes 9.
Two. FIG. 6 is an exploded view of the tray 20. By folding along the folding lines 94, 96, 98, and 100 shown in FIG. 6, the rising portions 62, 64, 66, and 68 rise from the bottom surface portion 60 and are formed. be able to.

The set-up holding portion 90 and the hole 92 of each set are arranged at the corners 80, 82, 84, 86 in the tray 20, respectively. Start-up holding part 90 of corner 80
The hole 92 is disposed symmetrically with respect to the center line CL with respect to the rising holding portion 90 of the corner 86 and the hole 92. Similarly, the rising holding portion 90 of the corner portion 82 and the hole 92
Are formed symmetrically about the center line CL with respect to the rising holding portion 90 and the hole 92 at the corner 84. Since the structures of the rising holding portions 90 and the holes 92 at the corners 80, 82, 84, 86 in FIG. 6 are substantially the same, FIG.
As shown in FIG. 8 and FIG. 8, the structure of the rising holding portion 90, the hole 92, and the cushioning material 30 located at the corner 82 will be described as a representative.

FIG. 7 shows the vicinity of the corner 82.
The corner 82 is formed between the inner surface 64 </ b> A of the rising portion 64 and the rising portion 66.
The vicinity of the inner surface 66A is shown. FIG. 8 is an example of a sectional structure taken along line XX in FIG. As shown in FIGS. 6 and 7, the start-up holding section 90 has a length E and a width F. As an example, the length E is set to be larger than the width F. The hole 92 is formed continuously with the start-up holding section 90, and the start-up holding section 90 is, as shown in FIG.
In the state in which it is raised in the direction R1 from 0, the hole 92 is formed as a hole 90 formed by raising the rising holding portion 90.
H is continuous. The hole 92 is smaller than the hole 90H, and the length G and the width J of the hole 92 are set to be the same as shown in FIG.

On the other hand, as shown in FIGS. 5, 7 and 8, a protrusion 110 is formed on the bottom surface of the cushioning material 30 so as to protrude. The size of the protrusion 11 shown in FIG. 7 corresponds to the size of the hole 92. As shown in FIGS. 5, 7, and 8, the protruding portion 110 is a portion to be fitted into the hole 92, and has a protruding portion (also referred to as a twill) 114. Projection 1
The projection 114 of the tenth is a twill 116 around the hole 92.
It comes to hit. On the other hand, another protruding portion (also referred to as a twill) 118 of the cushioning material 30 is arranged to abut against a twill 120 which is a lower portion of the rising holding portion 90 and a peripheral portion forming the hole 90H. It has become.
As a result, with the protrusion 110 of the cushioning material 30 fitted into the hole 92, the protrusion 114 of the protrusion 110 is
And the other convex portion 11 of the cushioning material 30
8 is hit against the twill 120. Thereby, the cushioning material 3
0 can be securely fixed to the inner surface of the bottom portion 60 at two places.

In such a fixed state, as shown in FIGS. 4, 7 and 8, two adjacent outer surfaces 130 and 140 of the cushioning member 30 are formed by the rising portions 66 and the inner surfaces 66A of the rising portions 64, respectively. , 64A. And FIG.
A gap S is formed between the outer surface 130 and the inner surface 66A. Similarly, a gap S is formed between the outer surface 140 and the inner surface 64A. The size of the gap S is set substantially equal to or slightly smaller than the thickness of the material of the lower portion 32A of the carton member 32 in FIG. The cushioning member 30 described above has four corners 80, 82, 84, 8 in FIG.
6 and can be reduced in size as compared with the size of a conventional cushioning material.

Next, an example of the structure of the holder 40 shown in FIG. 2 will be described with reference to FIGS. This holder 4
Numeral 0 is for integrally and detachably holding the tray 20 and the carton member 32 as shown in FIGS. In order to integrally fix, for example, the rising portion 62 of the tray 20 and the lower portion 32A of the carton member 32, the position of the hole 54 of the rising portion 62 and the position of the hole 50 of the lower portion 32A of the carton member 32 are matched with each other. Base 150 of tool 40
Through the hole 54 and the hole 50 to fix the rising portion 62 and the carton member 32. The holder 40 includes the base 150 and the contact part 151, and the operation part 153 and the operation part 1.
54. An operation unit 153 is provided in the base 150.
And the operation unit 154 are arranged to face each other. Operation unit 15
3 can rotate in the L1 direction about the fulcrum 153A.
The operation unit 154 can rotate in the direction of L2 about the fulcrum 154A.

As shown in FIG. 9, the operator compresses the pieces 170 and 171 of the operation section 153 with the finger F in the K direction so that the pieces 170 and 171 are engaged with the engagement section of the operation section 154. Mesh inside 174,175. This engaged state is shown in FIG. That is, when the operation unit 153 is rotated in the L1 direction in a free state as shown in FIG. 10, the pieces 170 and 171 of the operation unit 153 are engaged with the engagement portions 174 of the operation unit 154 as shown in FIGS. , 1
In FIG. 9, it is inserted into the K1 direction in the 75 direction. As a result, as shown in FIG.
3C and the holding piece 154C of the operation unit 154
In between, the tray 20 and the carton member 32 can be integrally fixed. In order to release the integral holding, the pieces 170 and 171 in FIG. 9 are pushed in the K direction to remove the pieces 170 and 171 from the engagement portions 174 and 175, thereby enabling the detachment as shown in FIG. State. In this manner, the base 150 is fitted into the holes 54 and 50, and the tray 20 and the carton member 32 are steadily detachably held between the two holding pieces 153C and 154C and the contact part 151. You can do it.

Next, a procedure for assembling the above-mentioned packing box will be described. As shown in FIG. 6, the tray 20 is molded from corrugated cardboard by an operation such as die-molding.
And four rising portions 62, 64, 66, 68 are formed, and four sets of rising holding portions 90 and holes 92 are formed on the bottom surface portion 60.

Next, as shown in FIG.
The fold lines 94, 96, 9 shown in FIG.
The tray 20 is formed by starting up at 8,100. The rising portions are connected to each other by, for example, an adhesive tape. Then, each start-up holding unit 90 is started up in the R1 direction shown in FIG. The cushioning material 30 is fitted in correspondence with each of the rising holding portions 90 and the holes 92. In this case, the convex portion (corresponding to the first convex portion) 114 of the cushioning material 30 is abutted against the twill 116 forming the peripheral portion of the hole 92 and the cushioning material 30 is formed.
The other convex portion (corresponding to the second convex portion) 118 is abutted against the twill 120 forming the peripheral portion of the hole 90H. As a result, the cushioning material 30 is connected to the twill 120 of the rising holding portion 90 and the hole 9.
The two sides can be securely engaged with each other and held. When the cushioning material 30 is thus fixed to the corners 80, 82, 84, 86 as shown in FIG. 4, the two outer surfaces of each cushioning material 30 and the corners facing these outer surfaces are formed. A gap S is formed between the inner surfaces of the portions. The lower portion 32A of the carton member 32 shown in FIG.

When the carton member 32 and the tray 20 are assembled in this manner, as shown in FIG.
Is accommodated. The bottom of the electronic device 11 is shown in FIG.
On the inner surface 70 shown in FIG. Each cushioning member 30 is in close contact with the periphery of the electronic device 11 in the tray 20, so that a force applied to the electronic device 11 from the outside can be buffered. And
After the carton member 32 is inserted into the gap S, the carton member 32 and the tray 20 are fixed so as not to come off using a plurality of holders 40 shown in FIG. Thereby, even if the operator holds the handle 46 of the carton member 32 shown in FIG. 2 by hand, the carton member 32 does not fall out of the tray 20 upward. Thereafter, the upper cushioning members 36 and 38 shown in FIG. 2 are arranged on the upper part of the electronic device 11, and after the inner lid 34 is accommodated, the electronic device 11 is completely closed by closing the flap 42 of the carton member 32. Can be packed.

The cushioning member 30 and the rising portions 62, 64, 6 of the tray 20 are simply arranged and fixed at the four corners of the tray 20 as in the embodiment of the present invention.
The gap S can be automatically and reliably set between 6, 68. By using four cushioning materials 30 according to the embodiment of the present invention, as shown in FIG. 13, the amount of material used to form the cushioning material by a reduced amount 200 shown by hatching as compared with the conventional cushioning material. Can be greatly reduced. In addition, by reducing the amount of such materials used, environmental protection measures can be taken and costs can be reduced. Moreover,
An operator can apply such a small cushioning material to the inner surface 7 of the tray 20.
Since it is only necessary to fix to the zero side, the work of arranging the cushioning material is facilitated, and the workability can be improved. Unlike the related art, since there is no need to provide a slit in the carton member 32, the strength of the carton member 32 can be improved, and the operation of forming a slit in the carton member 32 can be omitted.

Since the tray is divided into four corners at the front left, front right, rear left and rear right to reduce the amount of cushioning material used,
Eliminates carton slits and can be fixed to the tray. A hole and an upright were provided on the bottom of the tray to secure a gap for inserting a carton between the cushioning material and the tray, and the cushioning material could be securely fixed.

The present invention is not limited to the above embodiment. For example, the material of the tray and the carton member is not limited to corrugated cardboard, and it is a matter of course that other types of materials, for example, plastic and other materials can be adopted. The article to be packed is not limited to an electronic device such as a television receiver, but may be another type of device.

[0030]

As described above, according to the present invention,
The use amount of the cushioning material can be reduced, the cost can be reduced, and the work of setting the cushioning material can be facilitated.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a preferred embodiment of a packing box of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an exploded perspective view of the packing box of FIG.

FIG. 3 is an exemplary perspective view showing an example of an electronic device used in the packing box of FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is a perspective view showing a tray, a carton, and a cushioning material.

FIG. 5 is a perspective view showing a tray and a cushioning material.

FIG. 6 is a development view of a tray.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of a positional relationship between a cushioning material, a rising holding portion, and a hole at a corner.

FIG. 8 is a view showing an example of a cross-sectional structure taken along line XX of FIG. 7;

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing an example of a holder for holding a carton member and a tray.

10 is a diagram showing an example of a cross-sectional structure taken along line YY in FIG. 9;

FIG. 11 is a diagram showing a state in which the tray and the carton member are held by the holder.

FIG. 12 is a view showing an example of a cross-sectional structure taken along line ZZ in FIG. 11;

FIG. 13 is a perspective view showing a portion that can be reduced as compared with the related art by using the cushioning material in the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 14 is a perspective view showing an example of a conventional tray and cushioning material.

FIG. 15 is a perspective view showing a conventional tray, cushioning material and carton.

[Explanation of symbols]

10: packing box, 11: electronic equipment (article), 20
... Tray, 32 ... Carton member, 40 ... Holder, 62, 64, 66, 68 ... Tray rising part, 80, 82, 84, 86 ... Tray corner, 90
... Start-up holding part, 92 ... Hole, 110 ... Protrusion of cushioning material, 114, 116 ... Protrusion of cushioning material, S
..Gaps

Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. A packing box for packing articles, comprising: a tray having a bottom portion and a rising portion formed by rising from four sides of the bottom portion; A plurality of cushioning materials, each of which is fixed to an inner surface of the bottom surface portion and buffers a force applied to the article; and the rising portion near each corner in the tray. Adjacent two
Is held by inserting the lower part into a gap formed between two inner surfaces and two adjacent outer surfaces of the cushioning material,
A carton member having a space surrounding the article. 2. The packaging box according to claim 1, wherein an upper portion of the carton member is closed. 3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the bottom portion at each corner in the tray is provided with a rising holding portion for fixing the cushioning material by rising into the tray, and A hole formed in the bottom surface portion to fix a part of the cushioning material therein; the cushioning material is a first convex portion abutted against a peripheral portion forming a hole in the bottom surface portion; 2. The packing box according to claim 1, further comprising: a second projection that is abutted against a rising and holding portion of the bottom surface in a state where the first projection is abutted on the peripheral portion. 3. 4. A holder for detachably holding the carton member and the rising portion of the tray.
Packing box described in. 5. The packing box according to claim 1, wherein the size of the gap corresponds to the thickness of the carton member. 6. The packaging box according to claim 1, wherein the article is an electronic device.