JP2009516624A - Paperboard or cardboard containers with aroma passages - Google Patents

Abstract

  The present invention relates to a container made of paperboard or cardboard that can be made with at least one folded blank 1 and serves to contain a product, such as a detergent, that emits a fragrance. The container includes a passage 10 through which a fragrance passes, and covers 11 and 13 that can repeatedly open and close the passage 10, and the passage 10 does not allow the product to pass through.

Description

  The present invention relates to a container made of paperboard or cardboard, which can be made with at least one folded blank and serves to contain a scented product, for example a detergent.

  Powder or tablet detergents are generally sold in folded boxes made of paperboard or cardboard. At that time, a large amount of detergent is sold in a transport package. For product protection reasons, detergent containers or packages are constructed and constructed so that as little water vapor as possible enters the product inside the container from the outside. To ensure this, usually a paperboard material with a barrier layer is used to make the container, and the container is sealed as tightly as possible.

  Based on the paperboard material with the barrier layer and the hermetic adhesion of the container or package, the fragrance will not or will not ooze out from the container interior to the exterior. Therefore, the consumer cannot feel the special scent of the detergent contained in the container on the sales shelf or the like (at the store).

  Various tests have shown that detergent scent is an important factor in the purchase and repurchase of products. For example, in the prior art, it is known to fix a scent sample in a container for a product containing fragrance. For example, patent document 1 is disclosing the container which accommodates a product with rich aroma. A chamber that accommodates a substance having the same odor as the product in the container is integrally formed on the wall of the container. In this case, since the chamber wall passes the fragrance, the fragrance of the substance can reach the outside through the chamber wall.

  However, in general, it takes time and cost to match the substance in the chamber with the scent of the product. In addition, the integral formation of the chamber on the container wall requires additional manufacturing costs.

  Furthermore, it is known that the scent sample is not provided directly on the container, but is provided on the shelf on which the container is sold. A common scent sample for a number of containers in the shelf can reduce the production cost per container, but again, the scent sample and the scent of the product sold must be matched. In addition, scent samples or scent devices mounted on the shelf must be regularly inspected and maintained.

German Patent Application Publication No. 197 26 179 A1

  Thus, the underlying problem of the present invention is to enable consumers to feel the fragrance of a product in a closed container that does not leak fragrance at the store shelf (or generally) at the “store”. That is.

  The problem underlying the present invention is solved by a combination of features according to claim 1. Advantageous embodiments of the invention can be taken from the dependent claims.

  A container made of paperboard or cardboard according to claim 1 includes a passage through which a fragrance passes and a cover that can repeatedly open and close the passage, and the passage does not allow the product to pass through. In that case, the passage can take out the aroma of the product from the inside of the container to the outside. The cover of the passage is formed so that it can be opened and closed many times without damaging the appearance of the container and without being particularly damaged or damaged. Thereby, even after other consumers have confirmed the scent before (Duftprobe), the container is still worth buying for consumers.

  With the solution according to the invention, no additional costs are incurred for preparing additional substances as scent samples. The aroma that goes out through the passage when the cover is opened is directly emitted from the product contained in the container. Therefore, since it is a genuine fragrance of the product, a consumer who opens the container to take out the product at home feels exactly the same fragrance as confirmed on the sales shelf.

  In an advantageous embodiment, the passage consists of at least one aroma hole provided in the side wall of the container. Therefore, in the case of a rectangular parallelepiped container, the passage can be provided in one of the six side walls (front wall, back wall, first and second end walls, bottom wall, and lid wall). Furthermore, a plurality of passages can be distributed on one side wall or a plurality of side walls.

  At least one aroma hole has a diameter of 0.2-2 mm. At that time, the fragrance hole is measured so that the product does not go out from the inside of the container through the fragrance hole. As a result, the “storefront” is not soiled by the product leaving the container or flowing in portions. Thus, at least one aroma hole in the container should be determined for the product. Thus, the container and the product can form one structural unit having the features of claim 1 and dependent claims.

  The passage preferably consists of a number of aroma holes arranged side by side. Since a large number of fragrance holes can release a large amount of fragrance from the inside of the container to the outside in a relatively short time, the consumer can smell the fragrance strongly in a short time. At that time, the aroma holes can be arranged according to a certain pattern. For example, the aroma holes can be arranged in a uniform arrangement. Furthermore, a logo, a figure, etc. can be imitated by arrangement | positioning of a fragrance hole.

  In an advantageous embodiment, the passage is provided in a two-layer area of a container having an inner layer and an outer layer. The inner layer then has passages or fragrance holes. In an advantageous embodiment, the outer layer has a punch that completely opens the passage.

  The folding blank from which the container according to the invention can be produced generally has a number of side wall segments arranged side by side. This side wall segment can be glued in the form of a closed hose. A lid tongue piece is connected to the upper end of the side wall segment, and this lid tongue piece is folded up and down when the container is folded, thereby forming a two-layer region of the container side wall, that is, a lid side wall. The same is true for the bottom of containers that can be made from folded blanks. The bottom is formed by a plurality of upper and lower bottom tongue pieces. Furthermore, when the container is provided with an inner side plate that can be inserted into the outer box, two layers are formed.

  In an advantageous embodiment, the punching element formed by punching the outer layer forms part of the cover. In this case, the punching element covers the passage in the closed state. The punched portion directly coincides with the punching element produced by punching. The punch element is a passage lid. The lid can move relative to the inner layer and the outer layer, which is typically fixedly connected to the inner layer.

  Alternatively or additionally, the cover is provided with an adhesive label. If the cover comprises a punching element, the adhesive label is connected to the punching element and the side wall or the outer layer of the side wall. By peeling off the adhesive label from the container, the punching element is also peeled off together, opening the passage. The adhesive label thus serves to secure the punching element in its closed position. The adhesive label can further be formed such that a part of it cannot be peeled off from the side wall or the outer layer of the side wall or is very difficult to peel off. Thereby, the adhesive label serves to pivot the punching element to the container. In this case, the adhesive label functions as a hinge. The punching element is pivotable about the pivot axis of this hinge.

  The cover can further be formed without a punching element. In this case, the peelable adhesive label itself closes the passageway or the individual aroma holes. In that case, the adhesive label can be arranged above the passage. The passage is opened by peeling off the adhesive label and closed by placing the adhesive label.

  In an advantageous embodiment, the adhesive label is formed in two layers, the lower layer is fixedly connected to the side wall, and at least a part of the upper layer is detachably arranged on the lower layer. Thereby, the upper layer of the adhesive label is not in direct contact with the side walls. The separable connecting portion is formed only between the lower layer and the upper layer of the adhesive label. Thereby, the side wall or its printed part is prevented from being damaged by peeling off the upper layer of the adhesive label. This is because this side wall or its printed part is protected by a lower layer of an adhesive label fixedly connected thereto.

  The adhesive label can comprise an open tongue. Since the open tongue is not provided with an adhesive, the consumer can easily grasp the open tongue. The adhesive label can be peeled off by the open tongue.

  The lower layer of the adhesive label includes a punched portion disposed above the punched portion of the outer layer on the side wall. When the upper layer of the adhesive label is peeled off from the lower layer of the adhesive label, the fragrance passes from the inside of the container to the punched portion of the outer layer of the side wall and the punched portion of the lower layer of the adhesive label. Can go outside.

  In an advantageous embodiment, the punched portion of the lower layer of the adhesive label is smaller than the punched portion of the outer layer of the side wall and is completely surrounded by the punched portion. Thereby, the upper layer of the adhesive label is not in direct contact with the side wall or the outer layer of the side wall. Therefore, the upper side layer of the adhesive label does not damage the side wall or the outer side layer of the side wall. This is because the side walls are always protected by the lower layer of the adhesive label between them.

  Opening and closing the passage will indicate that the container remains closed. For the original opening of the container, i.e. for product removal, a lid element can be provided which can be opened upward. This lid element is connected to the rest of the container via an unbreakable strip element which can be broken. Based on the unbroken strip element, the consumer knows that the container is in an unopened state. Accordingly, it is possible to reliably notify the consumer that the product has not been taken out by another consumer before that time.

  The present invention will be described in detail based on the embodiments shown in the drawings.

  FIG. 1 shows a folded blank made of cardboard and paperboard. This folding blank is indicated in its entirety by 1. A rectangular parallelepiped container can be made with the bent blank 1. This container serves to contain a powder detergent or contains a powder detergent.

  The folding blank 1 includes a plurality of segments 2, 3, 4, 5 arranged side by side. This segment is connected by a crease 6 to the immediately adjacent segment. An adhesive tongue piece 7 is connected to the segment 5. After folding the folding blank 1 into the shape of a hose, the segment 5 can be connected to the segment 2 by this adhesive tongue.

  A lid tongue piece and a bottom tongue piece are connected to the end portions of the segments 2, 3, 4, 5 respectively. For example, in the case of segment 2, the lid tongue is indicated by reference numeral 2a and the bottom tongue is indicated by 2b. For the other segments 3, 4 and 5, reference numerals are similarly attached to the lid tongue piece and the bottom tongue piece. The crease 8 separates the lid tongue pieces 2a, 3a, 4a and 5a from the segments 2, 3, 4 and 5. A crease 9 extending parallel to the crease 8 separates the bottom tongue pieces 2 b, 3 b, 4 b, 5 b from the segments 2, 3, 4, 5.

  The folding blank 1 forms a rectangular parallelepiped container while being folded and bonded. In that case, the segment 3 of the folding blank 1 is the front wall of the folded container. Similarly, segment 5 is the back wall of the container that extends parallel to the front wall of the container. Extending between the front wall and the back wall are two end walls of the container formed by the segments 2, 4 of the folding blank 1.

  The bottom of the container is composed of bottom tongue pieces 2b, 3b, 4b and 5b. In this case, the bottom has a two-layer range and part has a three-layer range. The lid tongue pieces 2a, 3a, 4a and 5a are partially folded in two or three layers in the folded state of the folding blank 1.

  The lid tongue piece 3 a has a large number of aroma holes 10. In the folded state of the folding blank 1, the hole 10 is covered with a strip-shaped adhesive label 11. The adhesive label is connected to the lid tongue piece 5a so as to be peeled off by an adhesive film or a glue film. At that time, the adhesive film is applied to the lower surface of the adhesive label 11 near the lid tongue piece 5a.

  FIG. 2a shows a part of the lid tongue piece 5a, and an adhesive label 11 is provided on the lid tongue piece. At this time, the adhesive label 11 covers the circular punched portion 12 of the lid tongue piece 5a. The circular punching part 12 forms a disc-like punching element 13. The adhesive label 11 has an open tongue 15 at one end 14. With this open tongue, the end 14 of the adhesive label 11 can be lifted and peeled away from the lid tongue 5a towards the opposite end 16.

  FIG. 2b shows the adhesive label 11 in the open state. At that time, the adhesive label 11 is peeled off from the lid tongue piece 5a up to the edge 17, and is bent by 180 ° around the edge 17, so that the lower surface of the adhesive label 11 faces the observer in FIG. 2b. . When the adhesive label 11 is peeled off and bent, the punching element 13 is swung outward from the circular punching portion 12, and in the case of the folded folding blank 1 in FIG. The aroma hole 10 of the arranged lid tongue piece 3a appears. Now, the scent of the product in the container comes out of the scent hole 10 and the consumer can feel the scent. At that time, the aroma hole 10 is measured so that the diameter of the aroma hole is smaller than the size of the particles of the powder product in the container in order to reliably prevent the product from flowing out.

  By rotating the adhesive label 11 back from the position shown in FIG. 2 to the closed position shown in FIG. 1a, the aroma hole can be closed again. The opening and closing process of the aroma hole 10 by the adhesive label 11 and the punching element 13 can be performed many times or can be performed any number of times depending on the design of the adhesive label.

  In an ideal case, the fragrance can be confirmed from the fragrance hole 10 that can be closed any number of times. The aroma hole 10 can be closed by the adhesive element 11 and the spacer, whereby no or substantially no aroma comes out of the interior of the container, so that undesired and persistent odor divergence due to the aroma from inside the container is prevented. It does not occur. At the same time, the consumer can easily check the aroma of the product in the container without breaking the container.

  As can be seen from FIG. 1, the container made by the folding blank 1 can be torn off by a breakable strip element 18. This strip element extends over the segments 2, 3, 4. After breaking the strip element 18, the container can be opened by opening the lid element around the crease 8. This lid element is composed of lid tongue pieces 2a, 3a, 4a, 5a and segments 2, 3, 4 between the strip-shaped element 18 and the crease 8. The lid element is pivoted open about a crease 8 in the region of the segment 5 or in the region of the back wall of the container.

  Once the lid element is opened, the product can be easily removed from the container. The aroma hole 10 and the adhesive label 11 thereover are arranged on the lid tongue 5a and thus on the lid element of the container, but note that the aroma hole is completely independent of the lid element of the container. Should.

  FIG. 3 shows another embodiment of the cover of the passage hole 10. In the first embodiment, the passage hole is similarly provided in the lower layer indicated by 3a. Above the lower layer 3a, an upper layer indicated by 5a in the first embodiment is provided. Unlike the first embodiment, the adhesive label 11 of FIG. 3 has two layers, that is, a lower layer 19 and an upper layer 20. For ease of viewing, the adhesive label 11 or the individual layers of the container are spaced apart from each other but are in direct contact with each other in the use position.

  As in the first embodiment, the upper layer 5 a of the side wall of the paperboard is provided with a punched portion 12. However, the punched portion is formed in an oval shape or a long hole shape. The lower layer 19 of the adhesive label 11 is fixedly connected to the outer layer 5a by a lower adhesive film. In that case, the lower layer 19 has a notch 21 located immediately above the notch 12. Since the outer dimension of the notch 21 is smaller than the notch 12, the upper layer 20 of the adhesive label 11 cannot directly contact the outer layer 5a.

  In order to cover the fragrance hole 10, an upper layer 20 of the adhesive label 11 is provided. Unlike the embodiment of FIGS. 1 and 2, the punching element corresponding to the punching portion 12 is removed during the manufacture of the container.

  The upper layer 20 can be peeled off from the lower layer 19 by peeling off the upper layer 20 with the open tongue 15 formed in a triangle at the corner of the rectangular adhesive label 11. Thereby, since the fragrance hole 10 is exposed, the fragrance can go outside through the fragrance hole 10, the notch 12 and the notch 21.

The folding blank of a container is shown. The closed position of the container cover (FIG. 2a) and the open position (FIG. 2b) are shown. 4 shows another embodiment of a cover.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Folding blank 2 Segment 3 Segment 4 Segment 5 Segment 6 Fold 7 Adhesive tongue piece 8 Fold line 9 Fold line 10 Aroma hole 11 Adhesive label 12 Punching part 13 Punching element 14 End part 15 Opening tongue piece 16 End part 17 Edge 18 Band-shaped element 19 Lower layer 20 Upper layer 21 Punching part

Claims (8)

A container made of paperboard or cardboard for containing a product such as a fragrant, detergent or the like, which can be produced by at least one folded blank (1),
A side wall, a passage (10) provided on the side wall for allowing perfume to pass therethrough and not allowing the product to pass through, and a cover (11, 13) capable of repeatedly opening and closing the passage (10); The adhesive label (11) has a lower layer (19) fixedly connected to the side wall, and the upper layer (20) of the adhesive label (11) can be partially peeled on the lower layer (19). In the provided container,
The passage (10) is provided in a two-layer region of a sidewall having an inner layer (3a) and an outer layer (5a), the inner layer (3a) has a passage (10) and the outer layer is of the passage (10). Having a punched portion (12) above;
The lower layer (19) of the adhesive label (11) has a punched portion (21), and the punched portion (21) is disposed above the punched portion (12) of the outer layer (5a) on the side wall. And
Container, characterized in that the passage (10) can be directly closed by means of an adhesive label (11).   2. Container according to claim 1, characterized in that the passage (10) consists of at least one aroma hole (10) provided in the side wall of the container.   3. Container according to claim 2, characterized in that at least one aroma hole (10) has a diameter of 0.2-2 mm.   4. Container according to any one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that the passage consists of a number of aroma holes (10) arranged side by side.   5. A container according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the punched portion (12) of the outer layer (5a) completely opens the passage (10).   6. A container according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the adhesive label (11) is provided with an open tongue (15).   The punched portion (21) of the lower layer (19) of the adhesive label (11) is smaller than the punched portion (12) of the outer layer (5a) of the side wall, and is completely surrounded by the punched portion (12). The container according to claim 1, wherein the container is a container.   In order to remove the product, a lid element which can be opened upwards is provided and connected to the rest of the container via a strip element (18) which can be broken without opening the lid element. The container according to any one of claims 1 to 7, which is characterized by the following.

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