US3061081A - Package of watch parts - Google Patents
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- US3061081A US3061081A US9519A US951960A US3061081A US 3061081 A US3061081 A US 3061081A US 9519 A US9519 A US 9519A US 951960 A US951960 A US 951960A US 3061081 A US3061081 A US 3061081A
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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
- B65D77/10—Container closures formed after filling
- B65D77/20—Container closures formed after filling by applying separate lids or covers, i.e. flexible membrane or foil-like covers
- B65D77/2024—Container closures formed after filling by applying separate lids or covers, i.e. flexible membrane or foil-like covers the cover being welded or adhered to the container
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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
- B65D77/04—Articles or materials enclosed in two or more containers disposed one within another
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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
- B65D77/22—Details
- B65D77/24—Inserts or accessories added or incorporated during filling of containers
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- G—PHYSICS
- G04—HOROLOGY
- G04D—APPARATUS OR TOOLS SPECIALLY DESIGNED FOR MAKING OR MAINTAINING CLOCKS OR WATCHES
- G04D1/00—Gripping, holding, or supporting devices
- G04D1/06—Supporting devices for clockworks or parts of time-pieces
- G04D1/066—Packaging and boxes for transport
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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
- B65D2577/00—Packages formed by enclosing articles or materials in preformed containers, e.g. boxes, cartons, sacks, bags
- B65D2577/04—Articles or materials enclosed in two or more containers disposed one within another
- B65D2577/041—Details of two or more containers disposed one within another
- B65D2577/042—Comprising several inner containers
- B65D2577/043—Comprising several inner containers arranged side by side
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- spare parts for watches have hitherto been sent to the user in small packages containing one single part each. Since such packages are very small, their largest dimension being in the order of mm., little information may be provided on such packages with the classical methods of printing texts or pictures on the surfaces of the package. Therefore such informations used to be limited to one or more reference numerals characteristic of the part contained in the package, and the user had to look up the special information from a standard list of information.
- sending this list of information to all users of spare parts and completing all these lists by new information on new parts rbrought onto the market proved to be extremely complicated and expensive and therefore the wish of adding all necessary information to the package of each part has already existed long ago, but no satisfactory solution was found up to date.
- Printing sheets of information and adding them to the package in folded form would not be practicable because even small folded papers would require more space than available in the package. Moreover it would not pay preparing different printing plates for a high number of specific parts.
- a portion of the package preferably a cover, is made of a substantially llat sheet of micro-film.
- This sheet of micro-film may comprise drawings, texts and other information on an appreciably reduced scale, the width of the lines of such information being for example in the order of 1-5/10() of a millimeter.
- trademarks, reference numbers or the like may be provided readable without optical magniiication.
- the sheet of information should be substantially flat in order to allow easy observation thereof by means of an optical instrument, for instance a magnifying glass. It is a particular object of this invention to provide a package wherein a ilat sheet of micro-film carrying the information may readily be assembled with a body of the package and to make a package of a shape allowing easy observation of the sheet of information with a magnifying glass.
- Another object of the invention consists in providing a package and magnifying glass assembly particularly suitable for allowing easy observation of the information.
- Another object of this invention to render the production of information to be attached to the package much more economic as compared with classical methods, such as printing the packing material or printing sheets to be added to the package in folded state, by preparing information on a large scale and reproducing them on micro-film on a reduced scale. It was found that this method of producing the information sheets is much more economic than any printing method, particularly when relatively small numbers of similar information sheets are to be prepared. As an example, about 20,000 different spare parts have to be packed and dispatched'to users in watch industry and the numbers of similar parts to be packed at a time may be relatively small. It would practically be impossible and in any case highly uneconomic to prepare printing stockl for each of 20,00() different information -sheets required. However, asimilar number of micro-film sheets may be produced relatively economically by purely photographic reproduction of large-scale'.
- the negative copies are provided on a common micro-film strip of any desired length and comprising any number of negative copies.
- An unexposed photographic hn is stepwise fed past the negative copy and the picture of the negative copy is repeatedly projected onto different places of the unexposed lilm.
- any desired number of positive copies may be made of any negative copy, such positive copies being attached to the package after developing and fixing the positive information and after having cut individual positive information sheets from the film.
- a high number of informations individually associated to parts to be packed may -be stored on an inexpensive carrier requiring little space.
- FIG. 4 shows an information sheet for use with the packages shown in FIGS. 1 to 3 on an appreciably enlarged scale.
- the package shown in FlG. 1 comprises a body 1 having the shape of a truncated cone, a ilange 2 extending outwards from the wider open end of this body.
- Parts 1, 2 and 6 may preferably be made of a thermo-plastic material whereby the cover 3 ⁇ is coated with photographic layer comprising information elements as broadly set out above.
- the cover 3 is llat and is welded to the llat tlange 2 of the package.
- This flat form of the cover is particularly advantageous, because the carriers of photographic layers are yusually relatively hard and cannot be folded without damaging the carrier and/ or the photographic layer. Therefore, it is one particular advantage of using a flat cover for avoiding any bending or folding thereof. y
- the relatively wide flange 2 allows ia solid attachment of the cover to this flange. Further, the stability of the llat cover is substantially increased due to its connection to the wide flange 2. The size of the flat 'cover and cousequently the area available for providing information on this cover is relatively large due to the construction shown in FIG. 1 wherein the cover is attached to a wide flange.
- the material of the cover 3 ⁇ is produced as follows: a usual photographic carrier, for instance on Celluloid base, is first coated with thermoplastic material such as polyvinyl-chloride or the like on one face thereof.
- a similar cover may be clamped between iianges of a packing body 4 made for instance of aluminum foil. Again the cover is absolutely fiat and xis firmly clamped between the flanges of the packing body 4.
- Packages as shown in FIGS ⁇ 1 or 2 may be packed into a cardboard box 5 for dispatch, information sheets similar in shape and size to covers 3 being attached to one or both end faces ofthe cardboard box for identifying the contents of the box. Of course identical information svheets -are attached to all the packages contained in one ox 5. Y
- FIG. 4 is an example of an information sheet 3 ⁇ as used on a package for spare parts for Watches.
- a trademark l6 an indication 7 on the size vand type of watch wherein the spare part is to be used
- a reference numeral 8 of the spare part and an illustration 9 of the spare part with its most important dimension (2.55 mm.) are photographically reproduced on the sheet in a size allowing reading thereof without the use of auxiliary optical equipment.
- the information sheet further comprises in a small size requiring optical magniiication the designation 10 of the spare part is
- the information sheets 3 shown in FIGS. 1 to 3 are of a size 24 x 24 mm. and are shown in natural size in FIG.
- FIG. 4 clearly illustrates what appreciable amount of information may be condensed on this small space.
- the information is so disposed that only the user having llittle experience will need those elements thereof which 'cannot be read without optical magnifying.
- ⁇ It is an object of this invention to provide a special observing de- -vice allowing easy observation of the'information sheet ,attached to the packing.
- This device may comprise a magnifying lens fixed in a support, this support having mounting means spaced from the magnifying lens in a manner that the information sheet of a package mounted in the carrier is maintained at the correct distance from the magnifying lens for observation of the information.
- the support preferably compnises guideways at a proper distance from the magnifying lens such guideways having the form of slots spaced from each other by about 2S mm. and adapted to take up the iiange portions of the packages of FIGS. 1 or 2. Therefore, a package may be inserted with its flanges into the said slots in the manner of a drawer or observation of its information sheet 3.
- the information sheets 3 may be made of any usual photographic material wherein the information appears in black lines on a white surface. However, it may be an ladvantage to use a transparent carrier Whereon the information 1appears in black lines. In this case the part contained in the package will be visible through the substantially transparent cover so that no illustration of Vthe part is necessary on the information sheet.
- the layer of plastic material on the inside of the carrier of the photographic material has to be transparent itself or the rim portions only of the information sheets have to be provided with thermo-plastic material where the cover 3 has to be welded to the package body. It is further possible to provide informations in white lines on an otherwise black sheet, or multi-color informations may be produced by using color films for producing the information sheets.
- individual informations are preferably prepared on a larger scale, for instance the scale shown in FIG. 4, from single information elements. ⁇ Such elements are loosely assembled on a suitable carrier whereby for instance the trademark 6 and the 'frame surrounding reference number 3 may be prepared for all kinds of information.
- the other elements such as texts, drawings and particular reference numbers are subsequently added to the so prepared carrier and when the full information is assembled in this manner on a large scale the said negative coply of the so assembled information is produced on a micro-hlm by photographic reduction.
- an aluminum foil may be sued as a carrier of the photographic layer, this foil forming the information sheet to be attached to the package.
- the information sheet may removably be attached to the package.
- the sheet When it is desired to observe the information sheet by means of an optical magnifying system, the sheet may be removed from the package and inserted into an observing system which may be similar to lanternslide projectors used for projecting transparent positive pictures.
- Metallic spare parts contained in the package have to be protected against any effect of aggressive substances. Since the cover of the package is made of a photographic material which was treated with developers and fixing agents of somewhat aggressive character, measures should be taken for preventing any contact between eventual residues of such agents and the spare part contained in the package. As an example, a protective layer impermeabi for any of such aggressive residues that may be present in the photographic layer may be inserted between the information sheet and the packing space of the package. Of course it is an advantage to make the photographic carrier of a material having very little absorptive capacity for such agents and further the photographic material will carefully be rinsed after its treatment in such agents.
- the above mentioned material having a carrier for instance of Celluloid, a photographic layer on the outer surface and a layer of plastic material on its inner surface is particularly suitable for the purpose of this invention because the backing layer of plastic material will protect the contents of the package because it effectively prevents access of any aggressive substances to the interior of the package.
- FIG. 4 wherein the information sheet is shown on a scale of 5:1, it is seen that the elements of the information are of very small size.
- the exploded view 11 shown in the lower left corner covers an area of less than 0.8 x 0.8 mm., that is less than 0.6 cm?.
- the complete information takes a space of somewhat less than 2 x 2 cm.
- FIG. l wherein the rim of the information sheet is not clamped between flange portions of the package body, the available space is somewhat larger than in the package shown in FlG. 2, but even this bigger area *does not exceed 6 cm?.
- This invention is not necessarily limited to a method, wherein the information sheet forms a part of the package, such as a flat cover as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, or wherein the information sheet is removably attached to the outside of the package, but the information sheet produced from the above mentioned negative micro-hlm may be loosely added to the package.
- the cover of the package may be made of a transparent material and the information sheet may loosely be inserted into the package below this cover so that the sheet may easily be observed without opening the package. This is important because it is not desirable that the package must be opened for having eXact knowledge of the nature of its contents.
- a package containing a small spare part such as a watch repair part including a portion having a recess therein receiving the part, a flange about the edge of said portion having a recess, a at cover ⁇ member fixed to the ange portion, the cover member having an outer layer of photographic material, an intermediate carrier of a cellulose material, and an inner insulating layer, the insulating layer protecting the said part against any deleterious effects' which may be caused by chemicals of the photographic material.
- a package containing a small spare part such as a watch part including a lower portion having a recess therein receiving the part, a flange about the edge of said portion having a recess, the said portion and flange made of plastic material, a flat cover member fixed to the flange portion, the ycover member having an outer layer of photographic material, an intermediate layer of a cellulose material and an inner thermoplastic layer, the thermoplastic layer being welded to said flange and protecting the said part against any deleterious effects which may be caused by chemicals of the photographic mater-iai.
- a package containing small quantities of goods such as watch parts including a package body having a recess therein receiving the goods, an opening of said recess closed by means of a cover of photographic material, said cover carrying portions of photographically reproduced information in micro-size covering a at larea of said cover readily observable ⁇ by means yof optical magnifying means.
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US3339728A (en) * | 1966-01-20 | 1967-09-05 | Werner Heinz | Blister package and file system |
US20060103130A1 (en) * | 2004-11-12 | 2006-05-18 | Pekka Koivukunnas | Method, system and package for specifying products to be sold |
ITMI20100191A1 (it) * | 2010-02-08 | 2011-08-09 | Gi Bi Effe Srl | "confezione comprendente un involucro e un prodotto in esso racchiuso, entrambi aventi un medesimo segno identificativo, e metodo per realizzarla" |
WO2011095562A2 (en) | 2010-02-08 | 2011-08-11 | Gi.Bi.Effe S.R.L. | Package provided with a traceability and originality verification code, its production method and method for tracing it |
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DE3406259C2 (de) * | 1984-02-21 | 1995-08-10 | Siemens Ag | Schachtelverpackung |
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US721880A (en) * | 1902-05-23 | 1903-03-03 | American Waltham Watch Company | Merchandise-package. |
FR1109438A (fr) * | 1954-03-01 | 1956-01-27 | Ebauches Sa | Emballage pour petits objets |
US2789689A (en) * | 1955-06-01 | 1957-04-23 | Bymart Tintair Inc | Windowed package with label insert |
FR1183137A (fr) * | 1957-05-30 | 1959-07-03 | Nouveau procédé d'illustration d'un livre et livre en résultant | |
US2931557A (en) * | 1958-06-25 | 1960-04-05 | Richard E Loderhose | Record jacket with detachable photographs |
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US721880A (en) * | 1902-05-23 | 1903-03-03 | American Waltham Watch Company | Merchandise-package. |
FR1109438A (fr) * | 1954-03-01 | 1956-01-27 | Ebauches Sa | Emballage pour petits objets |
US2789689A (en) * | 1955-06-01 | 1957-04-23 | Bymart Tintair Inc | Windowed package with label insert |
FR1183137A (fr) * | 1957-05-30 | 1959-07-03 | Nouveau procédé d'illustration d'un livre et livre en résultant | |
US2931557A (en) * | 1958-06-25 | 1960-04-05 | Richard E Loderhose | Record jacket with detachable photographs |
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US3339728A (en) * | 1966-01-20 | 1967-09-05 | Werner Heinz | Blister package and file system |
US20060103130A1 (en) * | 2004-11-12 | 2006-05-18 | Pekka Koivukunnas | Method, system and package for specifying products to be sold |
WO2006051170A1 (en) * | 2004-11-12 | 2006-05-18 | Avantone Oy | Recognition system for packages using optical diffraction elements |
ITMI20100191A1 (it) * | 2010-02-08 | 2011-08-09 | Gi Bi Effe Srl | "confezione comprendente un involucro e un prodotto in esso racchiuso, entrambi aventi un medesimo segno identificativo, e metodo per realizzarla" |
WO2011095562A2 (en) | 2010-02-08 | 2011-08-11 | Gi.Bi.Effe S.R.L. | Package provided with a traceability and originality verification code, its production method and method for tracing it |
WO2011095562A3 (en) * | 2010-02-08 | 2012-11-08 | Gi.Bi.Effe S.R.L. | Package provided with a traceability and originality verification code, its production method and method for tracing it |
EP2949587A1 (de) | 2010-02-08 | 2015-12-02 | GI.BI.EFFE S.r.l. | Packung mit verfolgbarkeits- und echtheitsprüfcode, herstellungsverfahren und verfolgungsverfahren |
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