US20180251283A1 - Package for food products - Google Patents

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US20180251283A1
US20180251283A1 US15/771,552 US201615771552A US2018251283A1 US 20180251283 A1 US20180251283 A1 US 20180251283A1 US 201615771552 A US201615771552 A US 201615771552A US 2018251283 A1 US2018251283 A1 US 2018251283A1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D77/00—Packages formed by enclosing articles or materials in preformed containers, e.g. boxes, cartons, sacks or bags
    • B65D77/02—Wrapped articles enclosed in rigid or semi-rigid containers
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D5/00—Rigid or semi-rigid containers of polygonal cross-section, e.g. boxes, cartons or trays, formed by folding or erecting one or more blanks made of paper
    • B65D5/42—Details of containers or of foldable or erectable container blanks
    • B65D5/44—Integral, inserted or attached portions forming internal or external fittings
    • B65D5/50—Internal supporting or protecting elements for contents
    • B65D5/5002—Integral elements for containers having tubular body walls
    • B65D5/5007—Integral elements for containers having tubular body walls formed by inwardly protruding of folded parts of the body
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D71/00—Bundles of articles held together by packaging elements for convenience of storage or transport, e.g. portable segregating carrier for plural receptacles such as beer cans or pop bottles; Bales of material
    • B65D71/06—Packaging elements holding or encircling completely or almost completely the bundle of articles, e.g. wrappers
    • B65D71/12—Packaging elements holding or encircling completely or almost completely the bundle of articles, e.g. wrappers the packaging elements, e.g. wrappers being formed by folding a single blank
    • B65D71/36—Packaging elements holding or encircling completely or almost completely the bundle of articles, e.g. wrappers the packaging elements, e.g. wrappers being formed by folding a single blank having a tubular shape, e.g. tubular wrappers, with end walls
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D85/00—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials
    • B65D85/60—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for sweets or like confectionery products
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D2571/00—Bundles of articles held together by packaging elements for convenience of storage or transport, e.g. portable segregating carrier for plural receptacles such as beer cans, pop bottles; Bales of material
    • B65D2571/00123—Bundling wrappers or trays
    • B65D2571/00246—Locating elements for the contents
    • B65D2571/00253—Locating elements for the contents integral with the wrapper
    • B65D2571/00302—Locating elements for the contents integral with the wrapper consisting of an inward deformation of at least a wall, e.g. embossed, keels
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D2571/00—Bundles of articles held together by packaging elements for convenience of storage or transport, e.g. portable segregating carrier for plural receptacles such as beer cans, pop bottles; Bales of material
    • B65D2571/00123—Bundling wrappers or trays
    • B65D2571/00648—Elements used to form the wrapper
    • B65D2571/00654—Blanks
    • B65D2571/0066—Blanks formed from one single sheet

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  • the present invention relates to a package containing foodstuff products that have brittle edges or ends, in particular confectionery products.
  • wrappers for example wrappers of a flowpack type, and arranged in several units in containers to be sold in lots.
  • the object of the present invention is to provide a container that will be able to keep the products intact, with particular reference to those products that have particularly brittle edges or ends, such as products constituted by shells or halfshells made of chocolate, wafers, etc.
  • the object referred to above is achieved via a package having the characteristics specified in claim 1 .
  • the present invention moreover regards a container according to claim 7 , and a sheet according to claim 10 .
  • FIG. 1 is an exploded perspective view of one embodiment of the package described herein;
  • FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view of the package of FIG. 1 ;
  • FIG. 3 is a schematic view, in partial cross section, of various examples of embodiment of the bottom of the container of the package illustrated in FIG. 1 .
  • the package described herein constitutes a packaging set for foodstuff products that has been specifically designed for use in packaging of so-called snacks.
  • the package described herein designated in the figures as a whole by the reference number 10 —comprises a container 2 constituted by a folded rigid or semirigid sheet, for example made of paper or cardboard, and a plurality of products 4 arranged in one or more rows inside the container.
  • the individual products are contained inside wrappers 6 so that, once the container has been opened, the consumer can consume the individual products at different times and in particular can carry them around with him either individually or in subsets, to consume them during the day.
  • the wrapper of the individual product only constitutes a protective membrane that separates the product from the external environment, but does not provide, instead, any protection of a mechanical type.
  • the wrapper in question may, of course, be of any known type commonly used in the field of packaging of foodstuff products.
  • hermetic wrappers of a flowpack type owing to the simplicity of their production process and to the good protection that they guarantee for the product.
  • non-hermetic wrappers According to the type of product, it is possible to envisage also use of non-hermetic wrappers.
  • the package described herein has been devised above all for those products having particularly brittle edges or ends, which are hence more likely to break during handling and transport of the package.
  • the products in question are, for example, represented by the products constituted by a shell or halfshell made of non-elastic rigid material, such as wafer, chocolate, etc.
  • the bottom of the container has one or more channels 20 , each defined by at least one inclined wall 22 provided on the bottom of the container, and the inclined wall in question is configured for supporting the products in a region thereof close to the edges or ends indicated above, but in such a way that these edges or ends are housed inside the channel without being in contact with any wall or other part of the bottom.
  • FIG. 2 illustrates how the products 4 rest on the walls 22 at their end regions but without, however, the walls coming into contact with the tips 4 ′ that constitute the most delicate part of the product.
  • the individual product is thus supported, at the bottom, by the inclined wall of the channel, and, at the sides, both by the side walls of the container and by the other adjacent products.
  • the products 4 are arranged in a row along the channel, alongside one another, and the number of channels provided on the bottom of the container is only a function of the number of products that the container is designed to house.
  • FIG. 3 illustrates three different examples of container provided, in order, with one, two, and three channels 20 .
  • image A the solution with a single channel
  • the bottom is obtained simply as a result of the inclined condition of the bottom with respect to the two opposite side walls of the container, the bottom being in this case identified throughout its extension by the inclined wall 22 .
  • the bottom is instead folded in bellows fashion so as to define a plurality of inclined walls.
  • image B each of the channels is defined by an inclined wall and by the corresponding side wall facing it.
  • the external channels are each defined by the corresponding side wall and by the inclined wall facing it, whereas the central channel is defined by the two central inclined walls, diverging upwards.
  • the container 2 is constituted by a single sheet cut and folded. It is in any case clearly possible to provide alternative embodiments in which the container is constituted by a number of assembled sheets, one of which is, for example, purposely provided to constitute just the bottom of the container.

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US2348509A (en) * 1941-01-10 1944-05-09 Ralph W Wheeler Means and method of packaging potato chips
US3367489A (en) * 1966-01-12 1968-02-06 William S. Schneider Packing flexible packages
US4437569A (en) * 1982-07-13 1984-03-20 Champion International Corporation Shipping carton with case knife protection for inner cartons
US6637940B1 (en) * 1998-10-29 2003-10-28 Michael Metz Curved tear guide on tubular packagings
US6254908B1 (en) * 1999-06-07 2001-07-03 Kraft Foods, Inc. Packaging system for ventable bags
US20120266628A1 (en) * 2009-04-23 2012-10-25 Packit, Llc Collapsible Insulated Container
US20120006651A1 (en) * 2010-07-12 2012-01-12 Frito-Lay North America, Inc. Robotic row collector
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