JPH10230932A - Container with cover and blank thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To securely keep the closed state of a cover and easily open or close the cover, by providing a fixing lip punched out at the front end of an insertion flap and putting the cover in one edge of a lateral slit of the body. SOLUTION: An insertion flap 10 is inserted in a container body 2 from the opening thereof, with a drawing flap 12 at the head and arranged to pass a lateral slit 16 and completely draw to the outside of the front face wall 14 of the container body 2. And further, the drawing flap 12 is pulled out to completely expose together with the fixing lip 26 to the outside of the container body 2. And the drawing flap 12 is elastically deformed by fingers to make the front end of the fixing lip 26 float from the insertion flap 10. And in this state, the drawing flap further pulled out is returned. In this way, one edge of the lateral slit 16 is held between the fixing flap 26 and the insertion flap 10 and hence, the cover 6 can be securely kept close to the container body 2.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a container with a lid for storing small articles such as smoking products, confectionery, medicines and miscellaneous goods.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Generally, a container with a lid is provided with an insertion flap integrally with the lid, and the insertion flap is obtained by folding a part of the lid. According to such a container with a lid, when the container body is closed by the lid, the insertion flap is inserted into the container body, thereby preventing the lid from being opened carelessly.

In a container with a lid, the above-described insertion flap is separated into two insertion pieces separated from each other, while a retaining piece is provided on the container body, and after the lid is closed,
Some lids are fixed by inserting a hooking piece between the insertion pieces and between the lid and the container body.

[0004]

In the former container with a lid, it is easy to close the lid, but since the insertion flap is simply inserted, the lid is inadvertently opened. Sometimes. On the other hand, in the latter container with a lid, as long as the hanging piece is inserted, the lid is not opened and the lid is not opened carelessly. However, in this case, in order to completely close the lid, it is necessary to insert both the insertion piece on the lid side and the latching piece on the container body side, and the lid cannot be opened and closed by a series of operations. It's not easy.

[0005] The present invention has been made based on the above-mentioned circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to provide a cover with a cover that can securely close the cover and that can be easily opened and closed. It is to provide a container and its blank.

[0006]

The above object has been achieved by the present invention, and a container with a lid according to claim 1 has a container main body having a lateral slit formed in a front surface thereof in a width direction;
A lid connected to the container body via a self-hinge, and when the lid is closed, an insertion flap inserted into the container body, and connected to a tip of the insertion flap, and connected through a lateral slit. It has a drawer flap to be drawn out and a latching lip formed by punching out the tip end of the insertion flap and holding one edge of the lateral slit between the drawer flap.

According to the first aspect of the present invention, the insertion flap is inserted into the container main body, the container main body is closed by the lid, and at the same time, the drawer flap is pulled out from the lateral slit of the container main body. Then, grasp the leading end of the drawer flap, further pull out the drawer flap until the latch lip is completely exposed outside beyond the lateral slit, and then, when returning the drawer, the latch lip is connected with the drawer flap. One edge of the horizontal slit is sandwiched between the slits, and is hooked to the container body. In this state, the locking lip is locked on one edge of the horizontal slit, and the lid cannot be opened. However, if the drawer flap is grasped and further pulled out to release the engagement of the latching lip with one edge of the lateral slit,
The insertion flap can be withdrawn from the container body without the locking lip hanging on one edge of the slit, and the lid is easily opened.

[0008] In the container with a lid according to claim 2, the boundary between the insertion flap and the drawer flap is formed as a folding line except for the portion of the retaining lip. In this case, the drawer flap completely drawn out of the container body can be bent along the fold line, so that the drawer flap can be grasped between fingers. Therefore, further pulling out of the drawer flap and hooking / non-hanging of the hook lip are smoothly performed.

[0009] The container body of the container with the lid according to claim 3 further has an arc-shaped slot formed so as to be continuous with the other edge of the horizontal slit, and the leading ends of the draw-out flap and the retaining lip are provided. Each has an arc shape. In this case, the lateral slit is wide open, and the drawer flap can be pulled out through the opening, and the retaining area of the retaining lip with respect to one edge of the lateral slit is largely secured in the width direction of the container body.

The blank of claim 4 forms the above-described container with a lid by folding the blank.

[0011]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Referring to FIG. 1, a container with a lid is connected to a rectangular container main body 2 having an open upper end surface, at the opening surface of the container main body 2 via a self-hinge 4 at a rear edge thereof. The container body 2 and the lid 6 are made of an elastically deformable material, for example, PP.
(Polypropylene), PET (polyethylene terephthalate), PVC (polyvinyl chloride resin), PS (polystyrene), PC (polycarbonate), transparent synthetic resin sheet made of acrylic resin, etc., synthetic paper, paperboard, etc. ing. Note that these elastically deformable materials may be transparent or translucent, or may be colored.

The lid 6 has a top wall 8, an insertion flap 10 and a drawer flap 12 from the self hinge 4 side. When the lid 6 is closed, the insertion flap 10 of the lid 6 is inserted into the container body 2 as is clear from FIG. Have been withdrawn. That is, as is apparent from FIG.
The lateral slit 16 is formed by a cut extending in the width direction of the container body 2. In this case, the horizontal slit 16 extends over the entire width direction of the container body 2,
Both ends are terminated by round holes 18.

Furthermore, a slot 22 is formed in the front wall 14 with respect to the horizontal slit 16 so as to be continuous with the bottom wall 20 of the container body 2. This slot 22 is located at the center of the horizontal slit 16 when viewed in the width direction of the container body 2, and has a bottom wall 20.
It has an arc shape convex toward. On the other hand, the top wall 8 of the lid 6 has a size that closes the opening surface of the container body 2, and the insertion flap 10 connected to the top wall 8 facilitates insertion into the container body 2. It has a trapezoidal shape whose width is gradually reduced toward the drawer flap 12. The drawer flap 12 has an arc shape extending from the insertion flap 10, and has a size such that both ends of the arc are continuous with both side edges of the insertion flap 10.

A punching hole 24 is formed at the tip of the insertion flap 10.
Is located at the center in the width direction of the insertion flap 10 and has an arc shape opposite to the drawer flap 12. Both ends of the punched hole 24 are the insertion flap 10 and the extraction flap 12
To form a bow-shaped, or arc-shaped, locking lip 26 with this boundary as a chord.

Furthermore, the insertion flap 10 and the drawer flap 1
2 is formed as a fold line 28 that allows bending, except for the portion of the retaining lip 26. Therefore, the drawer flap 12 can be easily bent along the fold line 28. In addition, in the insertion flap 10,
The length between the fold line 28 and the top wall 8 is set equal to the length between the horizontal slit 16 and the opening edge of the container body 2.

According to the above-described container with a lid, the lid 6 is opened and closed as follows. First, as shown in FIG. 2, the lid 6 is opened, and the insertion flap 10 together with the extraction flap 12 is completely removed from the container body 2. From this state, the insertion flap 10 is inserted into the container main body 2 from the opening surface thereof with the drawer flap 12 at the head. At this time, if the center of the front wall 14 of the container body 2 is depressed with a finger, the horizontal slit 16 is greatly opened up and down in cooperation with the arc-shaped slot 22, and the drawer flap 12 has an arc shape. As a result, the draw-out flap 12 smoothly passes through the lateral slit 16 and is completely drawn out of the front wall 14 of the container body 2. At this point, the top wall 8 of the lid 6 closes the opening surface of the container body 2.

After that, the draw-out flap 12 is folded
8, it is easy to bend, so the drawer flap 12
Are easy to grasp between the fingers and therefore the drawer flap 12
Can be further pulled out, and even the locking lip 26 can be completely exposed to the outside of the container body 2 as shown in FIG. Thereafter, the drawer flap 12 is elastically deformed by a finger, and the tip of the latch lip 26 is lifted from the insertion flap 10. In this state, if the drawer flap 12 is further pulled out, the latch lip 26 is inserted. One edge of the lateral slit 16 is sandwiched between the flap 10 and the lid 6, as is apparent from FIGS. In such a hooking state, even if the lid 6 is about to be opened, the draw-out flap 12 is hooked at one edge of the horizontal slit 16 of the container body 2 at the fold line 28, and The opening operation is disabled, and the lid 6 can be reliably maintained in the closed state.

However, the draw-out flap 1 is placed between the fingers.
2 is further pulled out to release the locking by the locking lip 26, and thereafter, the locking lip 26 is pushed into the container main body 2 through the slot 22 of the container main body 2. The insertion flap 10 can be pulled out of the container body 2 and the lid 6 can be opened. Since the above-described latching lip 26 can be latched and released by a series of operations in a state where the drawer flap 12 is gripped,
The lid 6 can be easily opened and closed.

As shown by a two-dot chain line in FIG. 1, for example, a cigarette pack CP and a lighter L can be combined and accommodated in a container with a lid. However, the present invention is not limited to these. Instead, it can be used to accommodate various accessories and combinations of accessories of different items. Referring now to FIG. 5, there is shown a blank 30 for molding the lidded container of FIG. In the blank 30 in FIG. 5, the same reference numerals are given to the portions corresponding to the respective portions of the above-described container with a lid. As is apparent from FIG. 5, a rear wall 34 is connected to one side edge of the front wall 14 via a side wall 32, and an inner side flap 36 is connected to the other side edge.

A side wall 38 is connected to a side edge of the rear wall 34 opposite to the side wall 32.
The above-mentioned lid 6 is connected to the upper edge of the rear wall 34 via the self-hinge 4. Further, the front wall 14,
Bottom flaps 40, 42, 44, 46 are connected to lower end edges of the rear wall 34 and the side walls 32, 38, respectively.

When a container with a lid is formed by folding the blank 30 described above, the bottom flaps 40, 42, 4
The container bodies 2 are formed by engaging and combining with each other to form the bottom wall 20 described above, and by bonding the inner side flaps 36 to the side wall 38 and bonding them together. . The present invention is not limited to the embodiment described above, and various modifications are possible. For example, the draw-out flap 12 and the retaining lip 26 are not limited to those shown in the figures, and can be variously modified.

[0022]

As described above, according to the container with the lid and the blank of the container according to the first and fourth aspects, when the lid is closed, the drawer flap extending from the insertion flap of the lid is moved to the side of the container body. The lid is pulled out through the slit, and the latch lip is latched to one edge of the horizontal slit, so that the lid can be reliably kept closed. And opening and closing of the lid,
The operation can be performed by a series of operations just by operating the drawer flap, and the lid can be easily opened and closed.

According to the container with the lid according to the second aspect, the drawer flap can be easily grasped with a finger, so that the lid can be more easily opened and closed. According to the container with the lid of claim 3,
Since the draw-out flap and the latch lip are both formed in an arc shape, it is easier to pull out the draw-out flap and lock and release the latch lip.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a container with a lid in a state where a lid is closed.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the lidded container with the lid opened.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view of the lidded container immediately before or after the latching lip is latched.

FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view of a part of the lidded container with the lid closed.

FIG. 5 is a plan view showing a blank for molding a container with a lid.

[Explanation of symbols]

 2 Container main body 4 Self-hinge 6 Lid 8 Top wall 10 Insert flap 12 Draw-out flap 14 Front wall 16 Horizontal slit 22 Slot 24 Arc hole 26 Hanging lip 28 Folding line

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A container with a lid comprising: a container body; and a lid connected to the container body via a self-hinge, wherein the container body has a lateral slit formed in a front surface in a width direction, When the lid is closed, an insertion flap inserted into the container body, a drawer flap connected to the tip of the insertion flap and drawn out through the lateral slit, and a punch at the tip of the insertion flap. And a retaining lip for sandwiching one edge of the horizontal slit with the insertion flap. 2. The lidded container according to claim 1, wherein a boundary between the insertion flap and the drawer flap is formed as a fold line except for a portion of the retaining lip. 3. The container body further has an arc-shaped slot formed so as to be continuous with the other edge of the horizontal slit, and the leading ends of the draw-out flap and the latch lip are opposite to each other. The container with a lid according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the container has a circular arc shape. 4. A blank for folding and forming the container with a lid according to claim 1.