JP2019123540A - Gable-top container - Google Patents

Abstract

To provide a gable-top container of which gripping performance can be improved with a simple structure.SOLUTION: A gable-top container 1 comprises a cylindrical barrel part 2, a bottom 3, and a gable roof 4. The gable roof 4 comprises: a pair of roof panels 41, 42 which are opposite to each other; a pair of gable wall panels 44 which face each in a direction crossing an opposite direction of the pair of roof panels 41, 42, and are folded between the pair of roof panels 41, 42; and a top seal 46 which is formed in such a manner that upper end parts of the pair of roof panels 41, 42 and upper end parts of the pair of gable wall panels 44 are joined to each other. The cylindrical barrel part 2 comprises a barrel part panel which is provided on an opening part side of the gable-top container 1, and a barrel part panel 24 on a non-opening par side which is so located as to be opposite to the barrel part panel on the opening part side. The barrel part panel on the opening part side is formed into a rectangular shape, and the barrel part panel 24 on the non-opening part side comprises a wide part 241 of which a width in a horizontal direction is wider than a width of the barrel part panel on the opening part side.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

Description

  The present invention relates to a gable top type container for containing a beverage liquid such as milk, milk drink, juice or the like and a gel-like food such as yogurt or jelly.

  Conventionally, as a paper container for drinks etc. represented by a milk carton, there exists a gable top type | mold container comprised with the paper-board material which laminated | stacked thermoplastic resin on front and back. The gable top container includes a cylindrical body in which a beverage liquid or the like is stored, and a gable roof provided continuously at the upper end of the cylindrical body and provided with an opening portion. As such a gable top type container, one that attempts to improve the gripping property of the container when pouring a beverage liquid or the like is known (see, for example, Patent Documents 1 and 2).

The gable top type | mold container of patent document 1 is comprised so that a cylindrical trunk | drum may be dented at the opening part side by a user's holding force.
The gable top type container described in Patent Document 2 is a state in which three out of four barrel panels constituting a tubular barrel are recessed inward, and both ends of the central barrel panel are adjacent to each other. A rib adhered to the panel is formed, making it easy to hook a finger on this rib.

JP 2013-43686 A Unexamined-Japanese-Patent No. 2017-24741

The gable top type container described in Patent Document 1 has a problem that the gripping property can not be improved in that the container must be indented in a state in which the beverage liquid and the like are stored, and must be gripped with a corresponding force. is there.
The gable top type container described in Patent Document 2 has a problem that the structure becomes complicated because it is necessary to bond the both ends of the body panel to the body panels on both sides to form a rib.

  An object of the present invention is to provide a gable top type container which can improve the gripping property with a simple structure.

  The gable top container according to the present invention comprises a cylindrical body, a bottom continuously connected to the lower end of the cylindrical body, and a gable roof continuously connected to the upper end of the cylindrical body, The roofs are a pair of roof panels facing each other, a pair of end wall panels facing each other in a direction intersecting the opposing direction of the pair of roof panels, and folded between the pair of roof panels, and the pair of roofs And a top seal formed by joining the upper end portion of the panel and the upper end portions of the pair of end wall panels, and the cylindrical body portion is a body portion panel provided on the opening portion side of the gable top container. And a non-uncovering portion side trunk panel disposed opposite to the unsealing portion side trunk panel, the unsealing portion side trunk panel having a rectangular shape, the non-opening portion side The body panel has a width in the horizontal direction of the body panel on the side of the opening portion. Characterized in that it comprises a wide wide portion than the width.

  According to the present invention, when pouring a beverage liquid or the like, the trunk panel on the non-opening part side located on the upper side is provided with a wider part wider than the width of the trunk panel on the opening part side located on the lower side. Therefore, the gripability of the gable top container can be improved with a simple structure.

  In the gable top container of the present invention, preferably, the trunk panel on the non-unsealing part side has the same width as the trunk panel on the unsealing part side and continues to the bottom.

  According to the present invention, since the body panel on the non-unsealing part side and the body panel on the unsealing part side have the same width on the bottom side, the area on the bottom side of the cylindrical body does not protrude in the width direction, When a plurality of gable top containers are accommodated in the case, interference between the gable top containers can be suppressed.

  In the gable top container of the present invention, preferably, the wide portion is provided at a position within a range of 30% to 80% of the height of the cylindrical body from the bottom.

  According to the present invention, the wide portion is provided at the height position at which the user tends to grip the gable top type container, so that the gripping property of the gable top type container can be effectively improved.

  The gable top container of the present invention is preferably used for containing a beverage liquid such as milk, a milk drink, juice or the like, and a gel-like food such as yogurt or jelly.

  According to the present invention, the gable top type container can be used to store beverage liquids such as milk, milk drinks and juice, and gel foods such as yogurt and jelly, so that the versatility of the gable top type container can be utilized.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS The perspective view of the gable top type | mold container which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention. Development view of the gable top container. The perspective view which shows the state which held the gable top type | mold container. The top view which shows the state which held the gable top type | mold container. The expanded view of the gable top type | mold container which concerns on the modification of this invention.

Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described based on the drawings.
In addition, when showing a direction in the following description, as shown in FIG. 1, it is based on the state which made the gable top type | mold container 1 stand.

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a gable top type container 1 according to the present embodiment. FIG. 2 is a developed view of the gable top container 1 (a plan view of the gable top container panel 10 (also referred to as a carton blank)). The gable top type container 1 is made of a paperboard material in which a thermoplastic resin is laminated on the front and back, and is used for containing a beverage liquid such as milk, a milk beverage and juice, and a gel food such as yogurt and jelly.
In FIG. 1 and FIG. 2, the gable top type container 1 has a cylindrical body 2, a bottom 3 connected to the lower end of the cylindrical body 2, and a gable connected to the upper end of the cylindrical body 2. The roof 4 is provided.

  The cylindrical body portion 2 includes four body portion panels 21 to 24 connected in the circumferential direction (horizontal direction) of the cylindrical body portion 2 via the body portion longitudinal fold lines 21A, 23A, 24A extending in the vertical direction, and the body portion And a seal panel 25 connected to the body panel 22 via the vertical fold line 22A. The body panels 21 to 24 form the substantially square tubular body 2 by heat sealing the seal panel 25 to the body panel 24.

  The torso longitudinal fold lines 21A, 23A, 24A are all formed by straight lines extending in the vertical direction. On the other hand, the body vertical fold line 22A is constituted by a curve convex toward the outside in the width direction of the seal panel 25 and a straight line extending vertically at a position above and below the curve. ing.

The body panels 21 and 23 each have a rectangular shape. The body panel 23 is provided on the opening portion side of the gable top container 1.
The body panel 24 is disposed to face the body panel 23 and is provided on the non-unsealing portion side of the gable top container 1. The side edge 24B of the body panel 24 on the side of the body panel 22 is a curve convex toward the outside in the width direction of the body panel 24 and a vertical direction at a position above and below the curve. And a straight line extending in

The body panel 24 is provided below the wide part 241 and the wide part 241 whose width in the horizontal direction is wider than the width of the body panel 23 and is the same width as the body panel 23 and continues to the bottom part 3. And the same width portion 243 provided above the wide portion 241 and having the same width as the body panel 23 and continuing to the gable roof 4.
The wide portion 241 is defined by the side edge 24B of the body panel 24 and is wider than the width of the body panel 23 at one horizontal end (the body panel 22 side) of the body panel 24. There is. As described above, by providing the wide portion 241 only at one end of the body panel 24 in the horizontal direction, the gripability of the gable top container 1 is improved, and the accommodation in the case is also ensured. . The wide portion 241 is preferably provided at a position within the range of 30% to 80% of the height of the cylindrical body 2 from the bottom 3. By providing the wide portion 241 in such a range, the wide portion 241 is disposed at a height position at which the user tends to hold the gable top type container 1, so that the gripping property of the gable top type container 1 is effective. Can be improved. For example, in the case of the gable top type container 1 having a capacity of 1 L, since the height of the cylindrical body 2 is about 20 cm, the height of the wide part 241 is 10 cm, and the height of the lower same part 242 is 6 cm. The height of the upper same width portion 243 may be 4 cm.

The seal panel 25 includes a wide portion 251 and the same width portions 252 and 253.
The wide portion 251 has a shape corresponding to the wide portion 241 of the body panel 24, and the width in the horizontal direction is wider than the width of the same width portions 252 and 253.
The same width portions 252 and 253 are portions sealed to the same width portions 242 and 243 of the body panel 24, and the width in the horizontal direction is formed to be constant in the vertical direction.

The bottoms 3 are connected to each other through the bottom vertical folds 31B, 33B, 34B, and four bottom panels 31 to 34 connected to the lower ends of the body panels 21 to 24 through the bottom horizontal folds 31A, 32A, 33A, 34A. And a seal panel 35 connected to the lower end of the seal panel 25 while being continuous with the bottom panel 32 via a bottom vertical fold line 32B.
The bottom panels 31, 32 have a pair of valley fold lines 311, 321 formed therein.

  The gable roof 4 is opposed to each other in a direction intersecting with the opposing direction of the pair of roof panels 41, 42 facing each other and the pair of roof panels 41, 42, and the pair of folded roofs between the pair of roof panels 41, 42 A seal panel 45 connected to the end wall panels 43 and 44 and the roof panel 42 through the upper vertical fold line 42B and connected to the upper end of the seal panel 25, an upper end 412 and 422 of the pair of roof panels 41 and 42, and a pair A top seal 46 is formed by joining upper end portions 435 and 445 of the end wall panels 43 and 44. The pair of roof panels 41 and 42 and the pair of wife wall panels 43 and 44 are horizontally continuous in the order of the wife wall panel 44, the roof panel 41, the wife wall panel 43, and the roof panel 42.

  The roof panel 41 is connected to the end wall panels 43 and 44 via upper vertical fold lines 41B and 44B extending in the vertical direction, and is connected to the trunk panel 21 via an upper horizontal fold line 41A extending in the horizontal direction. The roof panel 41 is provided below a valley fold line 411 formed along the horizontal direction, an upper end 412 located above the valley fold line 411, and a valley fold line 411, and downward toward the upper vertical fold line 41B And a valley fold line 413 inclined toward the intersection point P1 between the upper vertical fold line 41B and the upper horizontal fold line 41A.

  The roof panel 42 is connected to the end wall panel 43 through the upper vertical fold line 43B extending in the vertical direction, and is connected to the trunk panel 22 through the upper horizontal fold line 42A extending in the horizontal direction. The roof panel 42 is provided below a valley fold line 421 formed along the horizontal direction, an upper end 422 positioned above the valley fold line 421, and a valley fold line 421, and downward toward the upper vertical fold line 43B And a valley fold line 423 inclined toward the intersection point P2 between the upper vertical fold line 43B and the upper horizontal fold line 42A.

The end wall panel 43 is a panel that constitutes the unsealing portion of the gable top type container 1, and is connected to the trunk panel 23 via an upper horizontal fold line 43A extending in the horizontal direction. The end wall panel 43 includes a mountain fold line 431 formed along the horizontal direction, a pair of valley fold lines 432 extending from the intersection points P1 and P2 to the intersection point P3 located at the center of the mountain fold line 431, and a pair of valley fold lines A first fold-in portion 433 surrounded by the second cross-section 43A and the upper horizontal fold line 43A and provided on both sides (both sides in the horizontal direction of the first fold-in portion 433) sandwiching the first fold-in portion 433 A second folded portion 434 and an upper end portion 435 located above the mountain fold line 431 are provided.
The upper end portion 435 is provided with a folding line 436 extending upward from the intersection point P3 at the center in the horizontal direction, and forms the top seal 46 in a state of being folded back at the folding line 436.

  The end wall panel 44 is a panel which constitutes the non-opening part of the gable top type container 1, and is connected to the trunk panel 24 via the horizontally extending upper horizontal fold line 44A. Since the wife's wall panel 44 is configured in the same manner as the wife's wall panel 43, the second three symbols from the top of the numerals of the wife's wall panel 43 are replaced with 4 for illustration, and the description thereof is omitted.

The above gable top container 1 is formed from the gable top container panel 10 shown in FIG. 2 in the following procedure.
First, the seal panels 25, 35 and 45 of the gable top container panel 10 are heat sealed to the body panel 24, the bottom panel 34 and the end wall panel 44 to form a carton blank. The carton blank is then made into a square tube. In this state, while the bottom panels 31, 32 are valley-folded along the valley fold lines 311, 321, they are folded inward between the bottom panels 33, 34 by the bottom lateral fold lines 31A, 32A and overlapped with the bottom panels 33, 34 . Then, the entire overlapping portion of the bottom panels 31 to 34 is heat-sealed to form the bottom 3.

  Thereafter, while folding the second folding parts 434 and 444 at valley folding lines 432 and 442, the first folding parts 433 and 443 are folded inward at the upper horizontal folding lines 43A and 44A, and the wife wall between the roof panels 41 and 42 Fold in the panels 43, 44. At this time, the roof panels 41 and 42 are bent inward by the upper lateral fold lines 41A and 42A in conjunction with the folding of the end wall panels 43 and 44. Then, the roof panels 41 and 42 are valley-folded along the valley folding lines 411 and 421, and the wife wall panels 43 and 44 are mountain-folded along the mountain folding lines 431 and 441, and the wife folded at folding lines 436 and 446 The upper ends 435, 445 of the wall panels 43, 44 are interposed between the upper ends 412, 422 of the roof panels 41, 42. The top ends 412, 422, 435, 445 are then heat sealed together to form the top seal 46.

  When opening the gable top type container 1, the roof panels 41 and 42 are separated from each other while inserting a finger between the pair of roof panels 41 and 42 on the end wall panel 43 side, and the roof panels 41 and 42 and the end wall Fold back panel 43. In this state, the wife's wall panel 43 is made to project forward while applying force to the top seal 46 from the left and right direction, thereby peeling the wife's wall panel 43 from the roof panels 41, 42 and opening it. Thereby, a spout is formed by the end wall panel 43, and the user can pour the beverage liquid etc. from the spout by tilting the spout side forward while holding the gable top type container 1 It becomes.

At this time, as shown in FIG. 3, the body panel 23 on the unsealing portion side is located on the lower side, and the body panel 24 of the non-unsealing portion is located on the upper side. In this case, since the body panel 24 located on the upper side is wider than the body panel 23 located on the lower side, the user can easily grip the cylindrical body 2 and the gable can be achieved with a simple structure. The gripping property of the top container 1 can be improved.
Furthermore, as shown in FIG. 4, the amount of depression W2 on the side with the wide portion 241 is larger than the amount of depression W1 without the wide portion 241 as shown in FIG. 4. Become. The body vertical fold lines 22A, 24A are higher in rigidity than the other portions of the gable top type container 1, and the larger the dents W1 and W2, the higher the effect of supporting the gable top type container 1 by the user. The gripability can be further improved.

  According to the above-mentioned embodiment, when pouring a drink liquid etc., in the trunk panel 24 by the side of a non-opening part which is located above by the side, it is more than the width of the trunk panel 23 by the side of an opening which is located below. Since the expanded wide portion 241 is provided, the gripping property of the gable top container 1 can be improved with a simple structure.

  In addition, since the body panel 24 on the non-opening side and the body panel 23 on the opening side have the same width on the bottom 3 side, the area on the bottom 3 side of the cylindrical body 2 does not project in the width direction When the plurality of gable top containers 1 are accommodated in the case, interference between the gable top containers 1 can be suppressed.

  In addition, since the wide portion 241 is provided at a height position where the user tends to grip the gable top type container 1, the gripability of the gable top type container 1 can be effectively improved.

  In addition, since the gable top type container 1 is used to store beverage liquids such as milk, milk drinks and juice, and gel foods such as yogurt and jelly, the versatility of the gable top type container 1 can be utilized.

The present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment, and modifications, improvements, and the like in the range in which the object of the present invention can be achieved are included in the present invention.
For example, the gable top type container 1 may be provided with a plug as an opening part in one of the roof panels 41 and 42. In this case, one of the body panels 21 and 22 connected to the one roof panel 41 and 42 provided with the spout is the unsealing part side, and the other connected to the other roof panel 41 and 42 not provided with the spout The body panels 21 and 22 are on the non-opening part side.

The body panel 24 may not have the wide portion 241, and may have a rectangular shape as shown in FIG. In this case, the body panel 24 is sealed to the seal panel 25 so that the wide portion 251 is exposed, and the exposed portion causes the body panel 24 to include the wide portion 251.
The body panel 24 may be provided with a wide portion 241 not on one end side in the horizontal direction (the body panel 22 side) but on the other end side in the horizontal direction (the body panel 21 side). The wide portions 241 may be provided at both ends in the horizontal direction, and a plurality of wide portions 241 may be provided at the top and the bottom.
The body panel 24 may have a wide portion 241 from the upper end to the lower end of the horizontal end. In this case, it is preferable that the area on the bottom 3 side of the wide portion 241 be as close as possible to the width of the body panel 23.
The body panel 24 may have the same width portion 242 only below the wide portion 241.

  The shape of the side edge 24B of the trunk panel 24 and the trunk vertical line 22A is not limited as long as the wide portions 241 and 251 can be formed, and for example, a combination of a plurality of straight lines, straight lines and curved lines Or may be formed in a wave shape such as a sine waveform, a rectangular waveform, or a triangular waveform.

  Although the seal panels 35 and 45 are formed to have the same width in the above embodiment, the present invention is not limited to this. The seal panels 35 and 45 may be formed to have different widths. The seal panels 35 and 45 do not have to have a constant width in the vertical direction, and the width may be partially changed.

  In the said embodiment, although upper part horizontal fold line 41A, 42A, 43A, 44A was formed in linear form, it is not restricted to this and may be formed in curvilinear form. For example, the upper horizontal line 41A, 42A, 43A, 44A may be a curve that is convex downward.

  The present invention can be used for various gable top containers 1 capable of containing beverage liquids such as milk and juice, and gel foods such as yogurt and jelly.

  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Gable top type container, 2 ... cylindrical body part, 3 ... bottom part, 4 ... gable roof, 21-24 ... body part panel, 241 ... wide part, 242 ... same width part, 41, 42 ... roof panel, 43 , 44 ... wife wall panel, 46 ... top seal, 412, 422, 435, 445 ... top end.

Claims (3)

A gable top container,
A cylindrical body,
A bottom portion connected to a lower end of the cylindrical body portion;
And a gable roof continuously provided at the upper end of the cylindrical body;
The gable roof is
A pair of roof panels facing each other,
A pair of end wall panels facing each other in a direction intersecting the opposite direction of the pair of roof panels, and being folded between the pair of roof panels;
And a top seal formed by joining the upper ends of the pair of roof panels and the upper ends of the pair of end wall panels;
The cylindrical body includes a body panel provided on the opening side of the gable top container, and a body panel on the non-opening side disposed opposite to the body panel on the opening side. Equipped
The body panel on the unsealing side is rectangular in shape;
The gable top type container according to the present invention, wherein the body panel on the non-opening part side has a wide part in which the width in the horizontal direction is wider than the width of the body panel on the opening part side.   The gable top type container according to claim 1, wherein the body panel on the non-unsealing part side has the same width as the body panel on the unsealing part side and continues to the bottom part.   The gable top according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the wide part is provided at a position within a range of 30% to 80% of the height of the cylindrical body part from the bottom part. Mold container.