JPH0217424B2 - - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a multi-compartment product holder (carrying container) of the type made from a single piece of flexible sheet-like material and a method of making the multi-compartment product holder. The material is divided into a number of plates by cuts and fold lines, which plates are then folded and glued to each other in a predetermined manner, thus creating a product holder having a number of product receiving chambers.

A multi-chamber bottle holder is designed for use in the sale of bottled beverages and is constructed from a relatively light material so that each chamber is separated by a thickness of material necessary to pass rail transport regulations. . For this purpose,
In some such containers, a double thickness of material is provided between each individual chamber, and in some constructions for providing such double thickness of material, the retainer is removed from the material. A complex bending operation is required to make it. According to the invention, the desired result is achieved with relatively few bending operations, and at the same time an economical use of the material is made possible.

A multi-compartment product holder according to the present invention has a bottom plate; two spaced apart walls hinged (flexibly connected) to opposite ends of the bottom plate; and side ends of these walls. an end wall plate at one end of the retainer, each hinged to said end wall plate along the edge remote from said side wall and extending inwardly at the center of the retainer; an intermediate septum structure having a set of intermediate plates; at the other end of the retainer;
an intermediate wall structure having a pair of intermediate plates hinged to the end wall plates along an end remote from the side walls and extending inwardly at the center of the retainer, transversely extending from each of the intermediate plates; A directional bulkhead structure is stamped, the lateral bulkhead structure including a main transverse bulkhead plate hinged to the intermediate plate, an auxiliary transverse bulkhead plate hinged to the main transverse bulkhead plate, and an auxiliary transverse bulkhead plate hinged to the main transverse bulkhead plate. a hinged fixing piece, the fixing piece being attached to a side wall proximate the transverse bulkhead structure to hingely connect the transverse bulkhead structure to the side wall; one side of the auxiliary transverse bulkhead plate being bent; a portion that is brought into surface contact with the free end portion of the main transverse bulkhead plate, and the bending includes:
This is done so that the overlapping surfaces of all auxiliary partition plates face the same end of the retainer.

Description will be given below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

In the material shown in FIG. 2, reference numeral 1 indicates the side wall of the retainer, and an adhesive piece 2 is hinged to the bottom end (upper end in the figure) of the side wall 1 along the fold line 3.
An end wall plate 4 is hingedly connected to one end of the side wall 1 along a fold line 5, and a similar end wall plate 6 is hingedly connected to the other end of the side wall 1 along a fold line 7. Intermediate plates 8 and 9 are hinged to the end wall plates 4 and 6 along fold lines 10 and 11, respectively, and the intermediate plate 8 has a protruding locking piece 8a.

The lower part of the material is similar to that described above and has a side wall 12 with end wall plates 13 and 14 hinged to each side of the side wall 12 along fold lines 15 and 16, respectively. The intermediate plate 17 is hinged along the line 18, and the end wall plate 14 has a fold line 2.
An intermediate plate 19 is connected along 0. Side wall plate 12
A bottom plate 21 is hingedly connected to the bottom end along a fold line 22, and the bottom plate 21 is divided into two parts by an intermediate fold line 23. The intermediate plate 17 has a protruding locking piece 17a, and the bottom plate 21 has a triangular locking groove 21a.

The handle structure of the retainer consists of handle plates 24 and 25.
The handle plates 24 and 25 are hinged to the intermediate plates 9 and 19, respectively. The handle plates 24 and 25 are mirror images of each other about the center fold line 28, and grip holes 26 and 27 are made in the handle plates 24 and 25, respectively, and cushion pieces 29 and 30 are provided at these holes. provided.

A transverse bulkhead structure is provided to create individual product chambers in the cage, and this structure is connected to the main transverse bulkhead plates 31, 3.
2, 33 and 34.

Auxiliary transverse bulkhead plates 51, 52, 53 and 54 are provided to sufficiently separate products placed in adjacent product chambers.
will be provided. The transverse bulkhead plate 31 is hinged to the auxiliary bulkhead plate 51 along the fold line 55, and further includes:
It is connected to the intermediate plate 8 along fold lines 56 and 57. Transverse bulkhead plate 32 is hinged to auxiliary bulkhead plate 52 along fold line 58 and further connected to intermediate plate 17 along fold lines 59 and 60. On the other side of the material, the transverse bulkhead plate 33 is hinged to the auxiliary bulkhead plate 53 along fold line 61 and further connected to the intermediate plate 19 along fold lines 62 and 63, and similarly The bulkhead plate 34 is hinged to the auxiliary bulkhead plate 54 along a fold line 64 and further connected to the intermediate plate 9 along fold lines 65 and 66.
As shown, each auxiliary bulkhead plate is stamped partially from its respective main bulkhead plate and partially from a nearby intermediate plate.

A fixing piece 35 is hingedly connected to the auxiliary partition plate 51 along the fold lines 36 and 37.
A semicircular cut 38 is provided between and 37. Similarly, the fixing pieces 39 are connected to the auxiliary partition plate 52 along the fold lines 40 and 41, and
A semicircular cut 42 is made between and 41. On the other side of the material, a fixing piece 43 is connected to the auxiliary partition plate 53 along fold lines 44 and 45,
There is a semicircular cut 46 between the fold lines 44 and 45.
Similarly, the auxiliary bulkhead plate 54 has a fold line 4.
A fixing piece 47 is connected along lines 8 and 49, and a semicircular cut 50 is made between fold lines 48 and 49. Each fixing piece is stamped from an intermediate plate near them, as shown in FIG.

In order to increase the strength in the area of the handle, a stepped piece is provided which projects into the indentation cut out from the left end of the material as seen in FIG. 67 and a slightly longer finger 68 that is integral with the intermediate plate 17, and both of the fingers are aligned along the fold line 69.
are interconnected along the Similarly, the right end of the material is provided with a stepped piece that projects into the indentation cut out of the material, and this stepped piece has a finger 70 that is integral with the intermediate plate 9 and a finger 70 that is integral with the intermediate plate 19. The fingers 70 and 71 are connected along a fold line 72. When the material is made into a retainer, the finger 6
7, 68, 70 and 71 are sandwiched in the center of the handle structure.

To make a cage from the material shown in Figure 2, first. Adhesive is applied to the free ends of each of the main bulkhead plates 31, 32, 33, 34 along fold lines 55, 58, 61, 62 as shown in dots in FIG. 51, 52, 53, 54, together with their respective fixing pieces, are raised upwardly from the surface of the material, and the respective fold lines 55, 58, 6 are raised upwardly from the surface of the material.
1,64, the bulkhead plate 3 is bent 180° to the right as seen in FIG. 2 and is thus placed in the position shown in FIG.
1 and 51 are bonded together, similarly, the surfaces of partition plates 32 and 52 are bonded near fold line 58, and the surfaces of partition plates 33 and 53 are bonded near fold line 61.
The surfaces of the partition plates 34 and 54 are bonded near the fold line 64, and the first folding operation is now completed (i.e., the shape shown in FIG. 3 is obtained). .

Adhesive is then applied to specific areas of the side walls 1 and 12 and to the handle plates 24, 25, as shown in stippling in FIG. If desired (if it is convenient), the side walls 1, 2 and the handle plate 2
Adhesive application to 4 and 25 can be done simultaneously with the first adhesive application.

Then, a second bending operation is performed, in which both the intermediate plates 9 and 19
Lifted upward from the surface of the material as shown in the diagram, fold line 1
1 and 20 to the left, so that the fixing pieces 43 and 47 are glued to a pair of adhesive areas (areas coated with adhesive) of the side walls 1 and 12, respectively. This state is as shown in FIG. 4, and in this state, the center portions of the intermediate plates 9 and 19 are bonded to the handle plates 24 and 25, and in particular,
Stepped finger fingers 70, 71 are glued to handle plates 24 and 25.

A third folding operation is likewise carried out, in which the side wall plates 4 and 13 are raised upwardly at the fold lines 5 and 15 together with the intermediate plates 8 and 17 connected to each other; The fixing pieces 35 and 39 are bent 180 degrees to the right as seen in FIG.
and the portions of the intermediate plates 8 and 17 which contact the adhesively applied inner surfaces of the handle pieces 24 and 25, for example the fingers 67 and 68 of the protruding pieces, are glued to another set of 12 adhesive areas, respectively, and contact the glued inner surfaces of the handle pieces 24 and 25, 24 and 25, the material now takes the shape shown in FIG.

The bottom plate 21 is then folded at the fold line 23 after the adhesive has been applied in the areas shown in stipples in FIG. The part of the material lying above the center fold line F as seen is lifted, bent 180° and brought to the position shown in FIG. is glued to. Through the above steps, a crushed cage as shown in FIG. 6 is completed.

In order to make the cage three-dimensional from the crushed state shown in FIG. 6 to the state shown in FIG. 1, the side walls 1 and 12 must be secured so that they do not move to the left; It is sufficient to apply a leftward force to the intermediate end between the end walls 6 and 14, which inflates the holder and at the same time folds the bottom plate 21 back into a flat surface, so that the holder is free from the locking pieces 8a, 17a and the bottom. It is maintained in a three-dimensional state by cooperation with the lock groove 21a formed in the wall. The shape of the cage made three-dimensional in this way is as shown in FIG.

As is clear from the above description, the present invention
It provides a product holder with double thickness intermediate and lateral partitions in all areas where product contact may occur, thereby providing maximum protection, especially for fragile products such as glass bottles. is given.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Fig. 1 is a partially cutaway perspective view of a product holder according to the present invention, Fig. 2 is a plan view of the material for making the above-mentioned holder, and Figs. FIG. 6 shows the cage in a collapsed state. 1, 12... Side wall, 2... Adhesive piece, 4, 6, 1
3, 14... End wall plate, 8, 9, 17, 19...
Intermediate plate, 21... Bottom plate, 24, 25... Handle plate, 31, 32, 33, 34... Main transverse bulkhead plate, 5
1, 52, 53, 54... Auxiliary transverse bulkhead plate, 35,
39, 43, 47... Fixed piece.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. A bottom plate, spaced apart side walls that are hinged to both ends of the bottom plate, and end wall plates that are hinged to the side ends of these walls and extend inward. ,
an intermediate septum structure having a set of intermediate plates at one end of the retainer to be formed, each hinged to the end wall plates along the end remote from the side wall and extending inwardly at the center of the retainer; an intermediate wall structure having a set of intermediate plates at the other end of the retainer, hinged to the end wall plates along the end remote from the side walls and extending inwardly at the center of the retainer; A transverse bulkhead structure is stamped from each of the intermediate plates, the transverse bulkhead structure comprising a main transverse bulkhead plate hinged to the intermediate plate, an auxiliary transverse bulkhead plate hinged to the main transverse bulkhead plate; a fixing piece hinged to the auxiliary transverse bulkhead plate, the fixing piece being attached to a side wall proximate the lateral bulkhead structure to hingely connect the transverse bulkhead structure to the side wall; has a portion that is bent into surface contact with the free end of the main transverse bulkhead plate, and the bending is such that the overlapping surfaces of all of the auxiliary bulkhead plates face the same end of the retainer. Multi-chamber product holder being made. 2 A part of the auxiliary transverse bulkhead is stamped out from the main transverse bulkhead plate connected to it, a part is stamped out from the intermediate plate connected to it, and each fixing piece is stamped out from the intermediate plate. A multi-chamber product holder according to claim 1. 3. A multi-compartment product holder according to claim 1, wherein a multi-layer handle comprising a set of handle plates is attached to the septum structure, the handle plates being hinged to each plate of one of the septum structures. vessel. 4. A plate near each corner, a hinged main transverse bulkhead plate, an auxiliary transverse bulkhead plate hinged to the main transverse bulkhead plate, and a fixed piece hinged to the auxiliary transverse bulkhead plate. In a method for making a multi-chamber product holder having a double-thickness transverse bulkhead structure made from a planar material having A method of making a multi-compartment product holder, characterized in that a portion of a transverse bulkhead plate is stacked in surface contact with a portion of a main transverse bulkhead plate hinged thereto.