JP2003063522A - Container box for housing tube container - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a container box for housing tube containers, of which the assembling and unfolding is easy. SOLUTION: Corner boards 5 are connected to both sides of a pair of side boards 3, and respective corner boards 5 are made to turn at folding lines 8 formed between the corner boards 5 and the side boards 3 to make left and right corner boards 5 abutted on each other. Projects strips 5a formed on corner boards 5 are fitted into a pair of long holes 2a formed on a bottom board 2. Other pair of side boards 4 opposed to each other and connected to the bottom boards 2 are made to turn at folding lines 6 formed between the side boards 4 and the bottom board 2 to make the side boards 4 overlap the corner boards 5. Then, corners 10 are fixed with tapes 9 to form the container box for housing the tube containers. The empty tube containers 31 are housed in a box 1, which is covered with a lid 11 and is loaded onto a truck and the like, then is transported. The container box needs no guide or guide board, nor partition plate, cause no paper powder, and is easily assembled and unfolded.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a tube container storage container used when an empty tube container before content filling is stored in a box and transported from a tube container manufacturing factory to a content filling factory. Regarding the box.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Generally, in a tube container in which contents such as medicines and cosmetics are filled, a cap is screwed into the mouth and the hem of the body is filled until the contents are filled. It is opened and packed in an inverted box. Most of such boxes have a box body and a lid body made of synthetic resin or cardboard.

As such a conventional box, for example, there is one as shown in FIGS. 7 and 8. In FIG. 7, reference numeral 50 is a cross-sectional view showing a box body of a tube container storage box, and an empty tube container 51 is stored in the box body 50. Since the box body 50 is made of synthetic resin such as polyethylene and polypropylene and is molded by an injection molding die, it is necessary to make it easy to take out the box body 50 from the die after molding. Therefore, since the cavity and the core of the mold are provided with an inclination as a draft, the side plate 51 of the box body 50 after being formed has an inclination angle θ, as shown in FIG. 7.

Further, FIG. 8 shows a box body 60 of a tube container storage through box made of paper corrugated board. In this box body 60, in order to prevent the deformation of the empty tube containers 61, the grid-like partition plates 6 for separating the tube containers 61 one by one.
Two are provided.

[0005]

However, such a case has the following drawbacks. (1) In the container box shown in FIG. 7, an empty tube container 5
In order to arrange and store 1 in order, the guide 53 and the guide plate 54 are provided in the gap between the side plate 52 that is inclined (θ) and the tube container 51 that is aligned at the end. It must be regulated to be vertical. Therefore, there is a drawback that the guide 53 and the guide plate 54 need to be prepared and housed in the box body 50 each time. (2) Further, since the through box shown in FIG. 8 is a cardboard box made of paper, paper dust is generated during the operation of storing the tube container 61 or during transportation, and the paper dust is mixed into the tube container 61. In addition, there is a disadvantage in that a grid-shaped partition plate 62 must be prepared in order to prevent deformation of the box body 60 and align the tube containers 61.

The present invention has been made in view of such conventional problems, and a tube which does not generate a guide and a guide plate or a partition plate, does not generate paper dust, and is easy to assemble / deploy. The purpose is to provide a container storage container.

[0007]

In order to solve this problem, the means corresponding to the invention according to claim 1 is a counter
A pair of long holes in which the corner plates are connected to both sides of the pair of side plates, the corner plates are bent along a fold line with the side plates, the left and right corner plates are attached together, and the projection pieces formed on the corner plates are formed on the bottom plate. A pair of side plates facing each other, which are connected to the bottom plate and which are connected to each other, are bent at a fold line with the bottom plate to overlap the corner plate, and the corner portions are fixed with tape, and the tube container storage box. It is a box. This box is easy to assemble and deploy.

According to a second aspect of the invention, a corner plate is connected to both sides of a pair of opposing side plates, the corner plate is bent along a fold line with the side plate, and another pair of opposing side plates are connected. The side plate having the folded side plate is overlapped with the corner plate, and the corner plate is wound inward by the folded side plate so that the projection pieces formed at the ends of the folded side plate are fitted into the pair of long holes formed in the bottom plate. Is a lid for a through box for storing a tube container. Like the box body, this lid body is easy to assemble and deploy.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, an empty tube container is housed in the box body of the first aspect, the lid body of the second aspect is covered, and the box container is loaded on a truck or the like. It is a tube container storage box that is transported. Since the side plates of this box are not inclined, it is not necessary to provide guides and guide plates in the gap between the side plates of the box and the tube container when the tube containers are aligned and stored.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a through box for storing a tube container, wherein the material of the box body and the lid body is a plastic cardboard or a foamed plastic. No paper dust is generated unlike conventional paper cardboard boxes.

[0011]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Next, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a plan view showing a state in which a tube container storage through box according to the present invention is developed, and a box body 1 is composed of a bottom plate 2, side plates 3, 4 and a corner plate 5, and fold lines 6 and 7 respectively. , 8 are connected so as to be bendable. As shown in FIG. 2, the box body 1 includes folding lines 6, 7,
At 8, the rectangular box 1 is assembled by being bent inward. As shown in FIG. 2, the box 1 has a configuration in which a projecting piece 5 a is formed at an end of a corner plate 5 bent inward at a side plate 3 and a folding line 8.
a is inserted into the long hole 2a formed in the bottom plate 2, and the side plate 3
And the bottom plate 2 are assembled so that they can be maintained at a right angle. Further, after the bottom plate 2 and the side plate 4 which is bent along the folding line 6 are overlapped behind the corner plate 5, the tape 9 is attached to the corner portion 10. This can prevent the box 1 from unfolding during transportation.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing a lid 11 which is put on the box body 1 of the tube container storage box according to the present invention. The lid body 11 includes a bottom plate 12, side plates 13 and 14, corner plates 15 and side plates. It is composed of a folded side plate 16 that is connected to 14 and. The lid 11 is formed by folding lines 17, 1
8, 19 and 20 are connected so as to be bendable. As shown in FIG. 3, the lid 11 includes folding lines 17, 1
The rectangular lid 11 is assembled by bending inward at 8, 19, and 20, respectively. As shown in FIG. 3, the characteristic feature of the lid body 11 is that the side plate 13 and the folding line 19 are arranged.
The projection piece 16a formed at the end portion of the folding side plate 16 is fitted into the long hole 12a formed in the bottom plate 12 so that the corner plate 15 bent inward by the inside is wound inward, and is assembled. is there.

The material of the box body 1 and the lid body 11 is preferably made of plastic corrugated cardboard or foamed plastic which can be easily folded along a folding line, is water resistant, lightweight and does not generate paper dust. Resin such as polypropylene and polyethylene is suitable for the plastic corrugated board, and foamed polyethylene, foamed polypropylene and the like are suitable as the foamed plastic. It may also be a thin plate material such as ordinary polyethylene or polypropylene. Box 1 again
Also, the material thickness of the lid 11 is preferably 2 to 5 mm. This is because if the wall thickness is large, it becomes difficult to bend along the folding line. The tape 9 attached to the corner portion 10 of the box body 1 has an area capable of reliably connecting the side plates 3 and 4, and is preferably a washi tape or the like that can be easily cut by hand. It should be noted that as a configuration other than the embodiment of the lid 11 according to the present invention, a lid may be used in which the four corners are connected by using commonly known connecting means. This known lid is shown in FIG.
The box 1 according to the present invention shown in FIG.

As shown in FIG. 4, the assembled through box has an empty tube container 31 housed in the box body 1 and is covered with the lid body 11 and transported from the container manufacturing factory to the contents filling factory. . In the contents filling factory, as shown in FIG. 5, the industrial robot 32 is used to transfer the empty tube container 31 to the contents filling machine 35. That is, the industrial robot 3
The tube holder 32b of the second hand 32a sandwiches a plurality of tube containers 31 housed in the case 1 at a time and transfers them to another conveyor as shown in FIG. Then, the transferred tube container 31 is supplied to the content filling machine.

Next, the operation of the present invention will be described.
In the box body 1 of the through box according to the present invention, the end portions of the left and right corner plates 5 are butted, and the protruding pieces 5a of the corner plate 5 are fitted into the elongated holes 2a of the bottom plate 2 to form the corner portion 10.
Since the base plate 2 and the side plate 3 can be reliably held at a right angle, the side plate 3 does not incline or swell outward while swelling. Moreover, the assembly work of the box body 1 is very easy (see FIGS. 2 and 4). After the transportation of the tube container 31 is completed, as shown in FIG. 6, the unfolding operation of the box body 1 is easy. Further, the work of unfolding the lid 11 is similarly easy.

Similarly, since the lid 11 is assembled by inserting the protruding piece 16a of the folded side plate 16 into the elongated hole 12a of the bottom plate 12, it is easy to assemble the lid 11 and unfold it after use. Is. The container according to the present invention may be used once and discarded, or may be repeatedly used 2-3 times.

[0017]

As described above, according to the present invention, since the guide and the guide plate or the partition plate are not required unlike the prior art, the manufacturing cost is low and the number of storing steps is not required. Moreover, since the assembling and unfolding work is easy, the workability is excellent. Furthermore, by using plastic cardboard or foamable plastic as a material,
No paper dust is generated, and a light and hygienic box can be obtained.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a plan view showing a state where a box body of a through box according to the present invention is developed.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing a state where the box body of the through box according to the present invention is assembled.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing a state where the lid of the container case according to the present invention is assembled.

FIG. 4 is a perspective view showing a state in which an empty tube container is housed in a container box according to the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a plan view showing a state in which an empty tube container is transferred from the container box according to the present invention by using an industrial robot.

FIG. 6 is a plan view showing a state in which the boxes of the through boxes according to the present invention are stacked in a developed state.

FIG. 7 is a cross-sectional view showing a conventional resin case.

FIG. 8 is a plan view showing a conventional cardboard box made of paper.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 box 2 12 bottom plate 2a 12a long hole 3 4 13 14 Side plate 5 15 corner plate 6 7 8 17 18 19 Folded line 5a 16a Protrusion piece 9 tapes 10 corners 11 lid

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A corner plate is connected to both sides of a pair of facing side plates, and the corner plate is bent along a fold line with the side plate,
The left and right corner plates are attached to each other, and the projection pieces formed on the corner plates are fitted into the pair of long holes formed in the bottom plate, and another pair of side plates facing each other that are connected to the bottom plate are connected to the bottom plate. A box body for a container for storing a tube container, which is bent along a fold line and overlapped with the corner plate, and the corner portion is fixed with tape. 2. A corner plate is connected to both sides of a pair of facing side plates, the corner plate is bent along a fold line with the side plate, and the side plate having another pair of facing side plates opposite to each other is the corner plate. A tube container storage characterized in that a projection piece formed at an end portion of the folding side plate is fitted into a pair of long holes formed in the bottom plate so that the corner plate is rolled inward by the folding side plate. The lid of the box. 3. An empty tube container is housed in the box body according to claim 1, is covered with the lid body according to claim 2, and is loaded on a truck or the like for transportation. box. 4. The tube container storage box according to claim 3, wherein the material of the box body and the lid body is plastic corrugated cardboard or foamed plastic.