US3738562A - Stacking box for transportation and storage of fruit - Google Patents

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US3738562A
US3738562A US00150528A US3738562DA US3738562A US 3738562 A US3738562 A US 3738562A US 00150528 A US00150528 A US 00150528A US 3738562D A US3738562D A US 3738562DA US 3738562 A US3738562 A US 3738562A
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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
    • 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
    • B65D5/001—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 stackable
    • B65D5/005—Separate or attached stacking elements
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  • ABSTRACT Stacking box for transporting and storing fruit made from sheets of cardboard or the like having reinforced sides with the stiffened front and back higher than the sides.
  • Centering means for stacking are provided made from two rectangular shaped sheets transversely divided into three parts each crossing each other in assembly so that their respective middle zones which are of equal dimensions, are superimposed and folded in such a way that their ends are vertically located and related to each other by the stiffening bars in front and back.
  • the superimposition of the middle parts is effected so that the part whose extremes are prolonged on the front and back remains on top.
  • the stiffening bars in front and back may be prismatic slats whose bases are shaped in isosceles rectangle triangles which are joined by one of their faces defined between legs to the longitudinal borders of the ends which constitute the front and back, having the other face defined between legs facing outward.
  • FIG-6 'SHLOMO JACQUES SCHWARZ, Inventor 'ZLZkMZZXA M Attorneys Patented June 12, 1973 3,738,562
  • Boxes currently utilized for storing and transporting fruit are generally made of cardboard because of the low cost and light weight of such material.
  • boxes as currently known are extraordinarily complex to develop, offering serious problems insofar as assembly and imply a considerable expenditure of cardboard, or else they have so many stiffening components that assembling them becomes a laborious operation requiring the use of a large number of supporting items, such as nails, staples, etc.
  • the object of the present invention is the creation of a box which will meet all the requirements stated above, but which it will be possible to construct starting from an extremely simple operation which will markedly affect its manufacturing cost.
  • the proposed box is noteworthy mainly because it is constituted starting from two pieces of cardboard or similar material, substantially rectangular in shape, each of which is transversally divided into three parts which, respectively, constitute the bottom and two of the sides.
  • the pieces are placed crossing each other during assembly so that the central parts of both give rise to the formation of a double and consequently reinforced bottom, while the end parts conjugated to each other, originate the formation of the four lateral partitions.
  • the invention also covers several forms for reinforcing the front and back of the box and, also, the incorporation of double sides in order to equip the ensemble with greater mechanical resistance.
  • these are secondary characteristics and therefore susceptible of various ways of achievement.
  • the proposed invention involves incorporation of means to allow centering the boxes during stacking, such means being constituted by solid projections of the cardboard sheets used for making the box.
  • FIG. 1. is a perspective of a box constructed according to the present invention.
  • FIG. 2. is a perspective of one of the principal parts of the box shown in FIG. 1, the same showing the means for stiffening the fronts and sides arranged in assembling position.
  • FIG. 3. shows another perspective of the part which cooperates with that in FIG. 2 for shaping the box shown in FIG. 1.
  • FIG. 4. shows a longitudinal section of the box appearing in FIG. 1.
  • FIG. 5. shows a perspective of a box built according to the invention and according to a different manner of achieving it.
  • FIG. 6. shows one of the parts composing the box represented in FIG. 5 being developed.
  • FIG. 7 shows the development of a part which cooperates with that shown in FIG. 6 for shaping the box shown in FIG. 5.
  • FIG. 8. is a lateral elevation of the part being developed as shown in FIG. 7.
  • FIG. 9. is a front elevation of the same part.
  • FIG. 10. is a longitudinal section of the box shown in FIG. 5.
  • FIG. 11 is a perspective view and assembly position of one side of the box made in accordancewith one of its possible variations.
  • FIG. 12. is a transversesection of the side shown in the preceding figure.
  • FIG. 13 is a transverse section of one side of the box made in accordance with another possible variation.
  • FIG. 14 is a longitudinal section of the box to show one mode of construction of the means for centering during stacking, which differs slightly from that shown in the preceding figures.
  • end parts 3 and 4 in sheet 1, which during assembly will constitute the front and back, will be higher than the ends (5 and 6) in sheet(2) which in assembly will constitute the sides.
  • theselatter parts (5) and (6) be so shaped that the folding thereof will result in a reinforced structure.
  • assembly occurs when, after folding the end parts of each of the sheets 1 and 2 upwardly at the sheets are crossed and overlayed so that their central parts are superimposed.
  • FIGS. 2 and 3 have been arranged so that the parts they represent are shown in assembled position.
  • the manner chosen for constructing the box is that shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, it is planned that the folded ends (3) and (4) of sheet 1, which when assembled will constitute the front and back, will incorporate along their lateral borders as many bars 7 and 8 of wood or other similar material shaped so that they form seehave one of the faces defined between two legs facing outward, and are joined at the top by a slat serving as a bar (9).
  • the side ends 5 and 6 of the other sheet (2) are constituted by rectangular extensions which can be folded over each other along their entire length to constitute walls twice as thick as those of the sheet.
  • the invention also involves that the central part of the sheet (2) which in assembly is located underneath the central part of sheet 1, has its extremes adjacent to those constituting the side walls (5) and (6) folded over themselves along the entire width of the box, thus constituting folded rims (10) which simultaneously serve as supports or legs to hold up the ensemble and determine the formation of a hollow or recess (11) (FIG. 4) adequate for receiving the upper ends of the front and back of other boxes for centering the boxes during stacking.
  • the operation is fundamentally analogous, with the only difference that the parts (3) and (4) which constitute the front and back are extended to constitute a flap (12) which is flattened over the slat (9) joining the reinforcing bars, and that the reinforcing bars for the aforesaid front and back are constituted by joining the slats (13) attached to the parts (3) and (4) and slats (14) attached to the extremes of the sides (5) and (6).
  • the sheet of cardboard constituting the box have an extension which can be folded over the rest of the partition, but not totally covering it as is the case in the preceding operation. Furthermore, folding is outward instead of inward, so that it is possible to place therein it the aforementioned stiffening part 15.
  • the proposed box can be equipped in the conventional manner with as many perforations as are deemed necessary to reinforce ventilation.
  • the box has all the components necessary for its effective utilization, no difficulties in assembling nor addition of foreign parts being implied.
  • a stacking box for transporting and storing fruit and being formed from two rectangular shaped cardboard sheets folded in a U-shaped manner to provide a bottom and two opposite sides, said two sheets being superimposed in a manner such that said opposite sides of one of said folded sheets form the wider opposite walls of said box and that said opposite sides of the other of said folded sheets form the narrower opposite walls of said box, said narrower walls being taller than said wider walls, and stiffening bars joining the edges of the adjacent of said walls,
  • each of said stiffening bars comprising a pair of longitudinal vertical prismatic shaped slats, the crosssection of which form right-angle isosceles triangles having a pair of equal legs joined by a hypotenuse, a first of said slats having a face defined by one of its legs adjacent one of said narrower walls and the other of said slats having a face defined by one of its legs adjacent one of said wider walls, such that the faces defined by said hypotenuse of each of said slats abut each other, thus constituting a stiffening bar having a square cross-section.

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ES1970160378U ES160378Y (es) 1970-07-16 1970-07-16 Una caja bandeja tipo apilable para frutas.
ES1970162207U ES162207Y (es) 1970-10-06 1970-10-06 Parte prefabricada de caja.
ES1970162244U ES162244Y (es) 1970-10-07 1970-10-07 Reborde para cajas.

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US5913474A (en) * 1997-10-10 1999-06-22 Merryland Products, Inc. Foldable tote box
US6305599B2 (en) * 2000-01-19 2001-10-23 Fuji Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha Reusable assembled box and method of transport thereof

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US2074315A (en) * 1932-11-12 1937-03-16 Neely Frank Rodgers Box
US2345350A (en) * 1940-08-10 1944-03-28 Henry A Wallace Carton
FR1236617A (fr) * 1959-06-11 1960-07-22 Anciens Etablissements Walton Plateau destiné notamment à l'emballage des denrées telles que fruits et légumes
US3003676A (en) * 1960-05-31 1961-10-10 Nola Leone A De Reinforced carton
GB989310A (en) * 1962-03-23 1965-04-14 Jan Arthur Iversen Improvements in boxes
GB993401A (en) * 1960-03-04 1965-05-26 John Woolf Improvements in or relating to boxes
US3246826A (en) * 1964-09-04 1966-04-19 Clemens Ludwig Knock-down storage bin and connecting cap

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US2074314A (en) * 1931-09-18 1937-03-16 A H Balliet Corp Cigar box
US2074315A (en) * 1932-11-12 1937-03-16 Neely Frank Rodgers Box
US2345350A (en) * 1940-08-10 1944-03-28 Henry A Wallace Carton
FR1236617A (fr) * 1959-06-11 1960-07-22 Anciens Etablissements Walton Plateau destiné notamment à l'emballage des denrées telles que fruits et légumes
GB993401A (en) * 1960-03-04 1965-05-26 John Woolf Improvements in or relating to boxes
US3003676A (en) * 1960-05-31 1961-10-10 Nola Leone A De Reinforced carton
GB989310A (en) * 1962-03-23 1965-04-14 Jan Arthur Iversen Improvements in boxes
US3246826A (en) * 1964-09-04 1966-04-19 Clemens Ludwig Knock-down storage bin and connecting cap

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US5913474A (en) * 1997-10-10 1999-06-22 Merryland Products, Inc. Foldable tote box
US6305599B2 (en) * 2000-01-19 2001-10-23 Fuji Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha Reusable assembled box and method of transport thereof

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