JP2016147711A - Package container formed of container body and lid body - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a package container which allows visual inspection from a side wall, which can be molded by sheet molding from a thin synthetic resin sheet, and has sufficient and required rigidity.SOLUTION: A package container 100 comprises: a container body 10 comprising a bottom wall 11, side walls 12 standing from the bottom wall, having no reinforcement rib, and in which corner parts 14 exist between adjacent side walls, and an opening 13 formed at upper ends of the side walls 12; and a lid body 20 fitted to the container body 10. The container body 10 further comprises inclination step parts 16 formed on parts where respective side walls 12 and the bottom wall 11 cross, and at least one vertical-long rib 30 formed on the respective corner parts 14, and continuous from the opening 13 in the vertical direction.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

Description

  The present invention relates to a packaging container comprising a container body and a lid, and more particularly to a packaging container in which a container body and a lid are co-formed.

  A packaging container formed from a synthetic resin sheet is hygienic and can be mass-produced at a low cost. Therefore, it is mainly useful as a food packaging material in supermarkets and convenience stores. On the other hand, from the viewpoint of consumers, if the packaging container is transparent, the freshness, content, type, etc. of the contents salad and cut fruit can be easily recognized. In particular, a packaging container having a transparent and flat side wall is convenient because the contents can be visually confirmed through the side wall without distortion.

  In general, the label describing the contents and the manufacturer is often affixed to the upper surface of the lid or the bottom surface of the container body, and this label itself becomes an obstacle to the visual recognition of the contents from the outside. Further, in recent supermarkets, as a method for displaying merchandise, a method of stacking packaging containers storing contents on a display shelf in many stages has been increasingly adopted. From the above situation, the contents are often visually recognized through the side wall on the container body side. In addition, in the packaging container which accommodates a cake etc., the circumference | surroundings of the cake put on the plate-shaped container main body may be covered with the lid body made into the cup shape, and in this case, said relationship is reversed.

  In recent packaging containers, the thickness of the synthetic resin sheet, which is a material for molding the sheet, is as thin as possible. To ensure the strength of the container body (in the case of the cake described above), For example, as seen in Patent Literature 1 and Patent Literature 2, “reinforcing ribs” are formed on the side wall of the container body. Needless to say, these “reinforcing ribs” refract light in a complicated manner even if they are made of the same transparent material as that of the side wall.

  Having said that, “reinforcing ribs” should be made with a fairly innovative alternative to omit this in situations where it is necessary to reduce the thickness of the synthetic resin sheet, which is the sheet molding material, as much as possible. Is required.

Japanese Patent No. 4396468 Patent No. 5428024 publication

  Furthermore, the container main body to which the lid is fitted needs to have a rigidity that can withstand the pressing force when the lid is fitted, in addition to the rigidity necessary to accommodate the stored items. For example, when packaging cut vegetables and fruits in small portions at the backyard of a supermarket or a convenience store, a packaging container consisting of this type of container body and lid is used. The container body is required to have such rigidity that it can withstand the force applied when the opening of the container body packed with the lid is covered with a lid.

  In general, since the work in the backyard is diverse, it needs to be completed within a short time, and the force applied to cover the opening of the container body packed with cut vegetables or the like with the lid increases. Of course, if it is pressed at each corner, the container body will not be damaged, but such troublesome work cannot be done in the backyard, so the entire lid body is pressed and fitted at once. The For this purpose, the container body needs to have a certain degree of rigidity. In addition, when the contents stored in the packaging container are heavy, such as “cut pine”, the packaging container itself has rigidity in the vertical direction when it is stacked and displayed on the display shelf. It goes without saying that is required.

  Therefore, the present inventors have been able to form a sheet from a thin synthetic resin sheet by a conventional technique while ensuring that the packaging container composed of this type of container body and lid can be visually confirmed from the side wall. In addition, as a result of various studies on how to make a packaging container composed of a container body and a lid of this kind having sufficient required rigidity, the present invention has been completed. It is.

  That is, an object of the present invention is to provide a packaging container that can be surely seen from the side wall, can be formed from a thin synthetic resin sheet, and has sufficient rigidity. There is.

In order to solve the above problems, first, the means taken by the invention according to claim 1 will be described with reference numerals used in the description of the best mode described below.
“A side wall 12 having a corner portion 14 existing between a bottom wall 11 and an adjacent one that does not have a reinforcing rib and rises from the bottom wall, and an opening portion 13 formed by the upper end of the side wall 12. A packaging container 100 comprising a container body 10 provided and a lid 20 fitted to the container body 10,
The container body 10 has at least one vertically long rib formed in an inclined step portion 16 formed in a portion where each side wall 12 and the bottom wall 11 intersect, and in each corner portion 14 and continuous in the vertical direction from the opening portion 13. 30 and a packaging container 100 characterized by comprising:
It is.

  First, what is important in the packaging container 100 according to the first aspect is that the corner portion 14 exists between the side walls 12 in which the container body 10 does not have reinforcing ribs. As described in the prior art, the container body 10 needs to have no “reinforcing ribs” that cause light refraction or blocking when the contents are visually recognized through the side wall 12 from the outside. It is. In addition, each side wall 12 may be a curved surface as long as the corner portion 14 exists between adjacent ones as well as a planar surface.

  In the container main body 10 of the packaging container 100 according to the first aspect, a portion where the four side walls 12 intersect is a total of four corner portions 14 as in an embodiment described later. An inclined step portion 16 is formed at a portion where the bottom wall 11 and the bottom wall 11 intersect. As shown in FIGS. 2, 6, and 7, these inclined steps 16 smoothly connect the side walls 12 and the bottom wall 11, and the pressing force applied via the lid 20. Are distributed from the side wall 12 to the bottom wall 11 without being deformed. In addition, these inclined step portions 16 can also solve the so-called “die-cut” problem, and facilitate the molding using a thin synthetic resin sheet as a material.

  And in this container main body 10, as shown in FIG.1, FIG.3, FIG.6 and FIG. 7, it is at least 1 continuous in the up-down direction from the opening part 13 in all the corner parts 14 or some corner parts 14. A vertically long rib 30 is formed.

  Each of the vertically long ribs 30 has an upper end 31 starting from the vicinity of the opening 13 of the container main body 10 and a lower end 32 reaching the lower end of the corner 14 of the container main body 10. It is assumed that the lower end portion 32 is continuous in the vertical direction. In other words, these vertically long ribs 30 are formed so as to be continuous up and down to the corner portion 14 where the consumer never wants to visually recognize the contents in the container body 10 from the outside, The original visibility of each side wall 12 is maintained.

  Of course, each of the vertically long ribs 30 is formed so as to be continuous with the top and bottom of the corner portion 14, so it goes without saying that the corner portion 14 in the container body 10 is “reinforced”. It fulfills the function of being configured as a “pillar”.

  Here, when the lid 20 shown in FIG. 4 or the like is fitted to the container main body 10 packed with stored items such as cut vegetables, the entire lid 20 aligned with the container main body 10 is placed on the palm or The container body 10 is supported against the table or the like by the longitudinal ribs 30 against the pressing force. Then, the pressing force applied to the container body 10 through these vertically long ribs 30 is dispersed from the lower end portion 32 of each vertically long rib 30 toward the bottom wall 11 of the container body 10. Further, as described above, the inclined step portion 16 also smoothly connects each side wall 12 and the bottom wall 11, so that the pressing force applied through the lid body 20 is applied from the side wall 12 to the bottom wall 11. These are dispersed without being deformed. Therefore, the pressing force from the lid 20 is dispersed throughout the container body 10 and the container body 10 is not crushed.

  Then, when the packaging container 100 containing heavy contents such as cut pine is stacked on the display shelf, gravity from the upper packaging container 100 is applied to the lower packaging container 100. In order to crush each side wall 12 of the container main body 10 constituting the packaging container 100, the vertical ribs 30 formed in the corner portions 14 between the side walls 12 support this. In this case, the lower packaging container 100 is not deformed or crushed. Of course, each side wall 12 does not have a reinforcing rib, and each side wall 12 and the bottom wall 11 are smoothly continuous by the inclined step portion 16, so that the contents can be sufficiently visually recognized through the side wall 12.

  In forming the container body 10 as described above from a synthetic resin sheet, a conventional forming technique as seen in Patent Documents 1 and 2 may be employed. The problem is how to form the vertically long ribs 30 in the corner portion 14, but the corner portion 14 (generally at a right angle when viewed from the cross-section) when the “box container” was originally formed into a sheet. Is already established.

  That is, by forming a portion corresponding to the longitudinal rib 30 in a portion corresponding to the corner portion 14 of the sheet forming die, the above-described sheet forming of the container main body 10 can be sufficiently performed. Simply put, the “longitudinal rib 30 forming portion” having the same shape as the longitudinal rib 30 in the corner portion 14 of the container body 10 shown in FIG. 1 may be provided in the mold. In this case, the conventional technique can sufficiently cope with the so-called “die-cut” problem.

  Therefore, the packaging container 100 according to the first aspect of the present invention can be surely visually recognized from the side wall 12, can be formed from a thin synthetic resin sheet, and has sufficient rigidity. It is a thing.

  In the packaging container 100, the longitudinal ribs 30 to be formed at the corner portions 14 of the container body 10 are convex toward the inside of the container body 10 as shown in FIGS. However, by doing so, first, protrusions can be eliminated around each side wall 12 of the container body 10. For this reason, the packaging container 100 containing the contents can be prevented from being caught by other objects during movement and transportation, and the dead space can be reduced as much as possible when each packaging container 100 is displayed. It can be done.

  In addition, inside the corner portion 14 of the container body 10, the vertically long ribs 30 formed in the vertical direction here protrude toward the inside of the container body 10 as shown in FIG. It is something that can be removed cleanly until the end. Normally, when taking out the reduced contents, it is brought to the corner portion 14, but the gathered contents are scraped out with cutlery such as chopsticks along the vertically long ribs 30 protruding vertically inside. If you want, you can easily and cleanly take out everything.

  Accordingly, the packaging container 100 according to the first aspect of the present invention exhibits the same function as described above, and the vertical ribs 30 do not become an obstacle, and the vertical ribs 30 allow the contents to be taken out to the end. Can be done.

  If the cross-sectional shape of the longitudinal ribs 30 formed on the container body 10 of the packaging container 100 is rounded, the round pipe is less likely to “buckle” than the square pipe. The structural physical characteristics can be applied. That is, the longitudinal ribs 30 formed on the corner portion 14 of the container body 10 have rigidity against the pressing force applied from the lid body 20, but are rigid by making the cross-sectional shape round. This increases even further, and even if a large force is applied or stacked in multiple stages, it becomes difficult to “buckle”.

In order to solve the above problem, the means taken by the invention according to claim 2 is about the packaging container 100 according to claim 1,
“The lower end 32 of the longitudinal rib 30 extends to the lower end of the corner 14”
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  As shown in FIGS. 1 to 3, 6, and 7, each of the vertically long ribs 30 is formed in a portion that coincides with each corner portion 14 of the container body 10, and is continuous above and below the container body 10. It is what you are doing. That is, the upper end 31 of the longitudinal rib 30 is located in the vicinity of the opening 13, and the lower end 32 of the longitudinal rib 30 is located below the container body 10 as shown in FIG. is there.

  Therefore, the packaging container 100 according to the second aspect of the present invention exhibits the same function as that of the first aspect, and the lower end portion 32 of the longitudinal rib 30 reaches the lower end portion of the corner portion 14. It is difficult to “deform” even if force is applied or stacked in multiple stages.

  In particular, since each of the vertically long ribs 30 has its lower end portion 32 reaching the lower end portion of the corner portion 14, the pressing force applied to the vertically long ribs 30 through the lid body 20 passes through the vertically long ribs 30. It is transmitted directly from the upper end portion 31 to the lower end portion 32 and is transmitted to the inclined step portion 16 that is continuously formed so as to wrap around the lower end portion 32. As a result, the pressing force is directed to the bottom wall 11 located in the vicinity of the lower end portion 32, and is distributed to the inclined step portion 16 and the surrounding bottom wall 11 without deforming them.

As described above, in the present invention,
“A side wall 12 having a corner portion 14 existing between a bottom wall 11 and an adjacent one that does not have a reinforcing rib and rises from the bottom wall, and an opening portion 13 formed by the upper end of the side wall 12. A packaging container 100 comprising a container body 10 provided and a lid 20 fitted to the container body 10,
The container body 10 includes at least one inclined step 16 formed at a portion where each side wall 12 and the bottom wall 11 intersect, and each corner 14, and continuous in the vertical direction from the opening 13. A longitudinal rib 30 of the book "
The packaging container has a main feature in its structure, and can be surely seen from the side wall 12, can be molded from a thin synthetic resin sheet, and has sufficient rigidity required. 10 can be provided.

It is a top view of container body 10 which constitutes packaging container 100 concerning the present invention. 2 is a front view of the container body 10. FIG. FIG. 2 is a partial longitudinal sectional view taken along line 2-2 in FIG. It is a top view of lid 20 which constitutes packaging container 100 concerning the present invention. 3 is a front view of the lid body 20. FIG. It is the perspective view of the state which looked up at the mode of longitudinally long rib 30 in one corner part 14 of the packaging container 100 from the lower part. It is the fragmentary perspective view which expanded and showed the principal part of FIG.

  Next, the invention according to each claim configured as described above will be described with respect to the packaging container 100 according to the embodiment shown in the drawings. FIG. 1 to FIG. The container main body 10 which concerns on embodiment which is shown is shown, and the cover body 20 fitted to the container main body 10 which concerns on this embodiment is shown by FIG.4 and FIG.5. 6 and 7 show the packaging container 100 according to the present invention centered on one longitudinal rib 30.

  The container main body 10 in the present embodiment is a sheet made of A-PET having a thickness of 0.40 mm to 0.70 mm (0.55 mm being optimal), and the lid 20 has a thickness of 0.00. A sheet made of A-PET of 20 mm to 0.30 mm (in particular, 0.22 mm or 0.27 mm is optimal) is formed by sheet molding. Moreover, in this embodiment, these synthetic resin sheets employ | adopted the transparent thing with sufficient visibility.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the container body 10 is a representative shape having a square shape in plan view, and each side wall 12 rising from the bottom wall 11 is shown in FIG. 1. And as shown in FIG. 2, it shall be a planar thing which does not have a reinforcement rib at all. In other words, when the container body 10 is used as a packaging container 100 and stacked on a display shelf, for example, in multiple stages, as shown in FIG. 2, one side wall 12 is substantially perpendicular to the consumer's line of sight. It is located so that the contents can be directly visually recognized.

  Moreover, in this container main body 10, although the upper end of each side wall 12 is made into the opening part 13, the internal shape of this opening part 13 is made slightly larger than the external shape of the bottom wall 11, and it is from a sheet forming machine. It is designed so that it can be easily removed. Of course, the fitting part 21 on the lid 20 side, which will be described later, is fitted into the opening 13, and when the lid 20 is fitted to the container body 10, the internal sealing performance is improved. It can be secured. A fitting flange is also formed around the opening 13 in the same manner as a general container.

  The container body 10 of the present embodiment has a total of four corner portions 14 where the four side walls 12 intersect, and the portions where the side walls 12 and the bottom wall 11 intersect are inclined. A step 16 is formed. Furthermore, a bent portion 15 having a substantially triangular shape whose upper end is the apex is formed at a boundary portion which is a lower end portion of each corner portion 14 among these inclined step portions 16, and each bent portion 15 is The bottom wall 11 and the side wall 12 that surround this are smoothly connected to the longitudinal ribs 30 described later.

  As shown in FIGS. 1 to 3, 6, and 7, each vertically long rib 30 is formed in a portion that coincides with each corner portion 14 of the container body 10. It is continuous. That is, the upper end 31 of the longitudinal rib 30 is located in the vicinity of the opening 13, and the lower end 32 of the longitudinal rib 30 reaches the lower part of the container body 10 as shown in FIG. It is.

  Further, as shown in FIG. 1, the vertically long ribs 30 are projected toward the inside of the container body 10. The longitudinal ribs 30 of the embodiment have a triangular cross section, but if this is rounded, the buckling strength can be further increased. Further, as shown in FIGS. 1 and 3, the vertically long rib 30 of this embodiment shows one groove portion 33 protruding toward the inside of the container body 10, but the present invention is not limited to this, and the groove portion There may be a plurality of 33 portions, and in this case, the (buckling) strength of the vertically long rib 30 can be further increased.

  On the other hand, although it is the cover body 20, as shown in FIG.4 and FIG.5, the thing of the general shape which can be fitted to the opening part 13 of the container main body 10 is employ | adopted in embodiment. This is because the lid 20 may be anything as long as the container main body 10 is devised as the vertically long rib 30.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 100 Container for packaging 10 Container body 11 Bottom wall 12 Side wall 13 Opening part 14 Corner part 15 Bending part 16 Inclined step part 20 Lid 21 Fitting part 30 Vertically long rib 31 Upper end part 32 Lower end part 33 Groove part

Claims (2)

A container body comprising: a bottom wall; a side wall that rises from the bottom wall and has a corner portion between adjacent ones without a reinforcing rib; and an opening formed by an upper end of the side wall; A packaging container comprising a lid fitted to the container body,
The container body includes an inclined step portion formed at a portion where each side wall and the bottom wall intersect, at least one vertically long rib formed in each corner portion and continuous in the vertical direction from the opening, A packaging container comprising:   The packaging container according to claim 1, wherein a lower end portion of the vertically long rib extends to a lower end portion of a corner portion.

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