US3892348A - Folding container - Google Patents

Folding container Download PDF

Info

Publication number
US3892348A
US3892348A US374514A US37451473A US3892348A US 3892348 A US3892348 A US 3892348A US 374514 A US374514 A US 374514A US 37451473 A US37451473 A US 37451473A US 3892348 A US3892348 A US 3892348A
Authority
US
United States
Prior art keywords
containers
container
tongues
carrier
wall
Prior art date
Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed.)
Expired - Lifetime
Application number
US374514A
Other languages
English (en)
Inventor
Benedikt Rohner
Current Assignee (The listed assignees may be inaccurate. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation or warranty as to the accuracy of the list.)
NEHER AG
Original Assignee
NEHER AG
Priority date (The priority date is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the date listed.)
Filing date
Publication date
Priority claimed from CH1220172A external-priority patent/CH569628A5/xx
Priority claimed from DE19732324897 external-priority patent/DE2324897C3/de
Application filed by NEHER AG filed Critical NEHER AG
Application granted granted Critical
Publication of US3892348A publication Critical patent/US3892348A/en
Anticipated expiration legal-status Critical
Expired - Lifetime legal-status Critical Current

Links

Images

Classifications

    • 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
    • B65D5/54—Lines of weakness to facilitate opening of container or dividing it into separate parts by cutting or tearing
    • B65D5/5495—Lines of weakness to facilitate opening of container or dividing it into separate parts by cutting or tearing for separating interconnected 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
    • B65D5/32—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 having bodies formed by folding and interconnecting two or more blanks each blank forming a body part, whereby each body part comprises at least one outside face of the box, carton or tray
    • B65D5/321—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 having bodies formed by folding and interconnecting two or more blanks each blank forming a body part, whereby each body part comprises at least one outside face of the box, carton or tray at least one container body part formed by folding up portions of a single blank connected to a central panel from all sides
    • 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
    • B65D5/32—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 having bodies formed by folding and interconnecting two or more blanks each blank forming a body part, whereby each body part comprises at least one outside face of the box, carton or tray
    • B65D5/322—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 having bodies formed by folding and interconnecting two or more blanks each blank forming a body part, whereby each body part comprises at least one outside face of the box, carton or tray at least one container body part formed by folding a single blank to essentially U-shape with or without extensions which form openable lid elements
    • 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
    • B65D5/32—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 having bodies formed by folding and interconnecting two or more blanks each blank forming a body part, whereby each body part comprises at least one outside face of the box, carton or tray
    • B65D5/326—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 having bodies formed by folding and interconnecting two or more blanks each blank forming a body part, whereby each body part comprises at least one outside face of the box, carton or tray at least one container body part formed by folding a single blank to a permanently assembled tube

Definitions

  • ABSTRACT A folding container which may be set up from a flat prepared blank and a carrier for housing a plurality of such containers also set up from flat prepared blanks, wherein the carrier has top tongue and bottom tongue portions connectable with corresponding individual containers along the inner surfaces of the tops and bottoms thereof, and the individual containers have side walls which are formed by folding surfaces back across one another, one side wall receiving a folded flap of the top thereof between its folded surfaces, while the top itself is formed by folding the outer surface of the other side wall thereover.
  • the present invention relates generally to file containers and more particularly to a folding container which may be set up from a flat prepared blank and a carrier adapted to house a plurality of such containers which also may be set up from a flat prepared blank.
  • Folding containers particularly such containers designed to hold files intended to be filed away and adapted to be set up from flat prepared blanks which are suitable for being stacked, for example in a filing room, and when set up permit the contents thereof to be accessible from one side, have already been suggested.
  • These containers have loose, insertable intermediate walls by which the container can be subdivided.
  • a folding container characterized in that it consists of a carrier and a plurality of individual containers, each having two side walls, a rear wall, a bottom, a top wall, and also a front hinged cover, the carrier having a rear wall, and being connected through a folded edge along one of its long edges to a cover wall and along its other longitudinal edge to pivotable bottom tongues, and the cover wall being provided along its longitudinal edge which is remote from the rear wall with top tongues which serve to join the carrier to the individual containers, each bottom tongue being pushed over the bottom of an in dividual container, and each top tongue being folded over the top front edge of an individual container.
  • FIG. I is a perspective view of a number of closed containers in a carrier
  • FIG. 2 is a diagrammatic view of a not yet completely opened-up individual container
  • FIG. 3 is a corresponding view of the carrier and of an individual container in a semi-erected position
  • FIG. 4 is a section on the line IV-IV in FIG. 1;
  • FIG. 5 is a section on the line V-V in FIG. 4.
  • the folding container carrier 1 which preferably consists of corrugated cardboard, has a rear wall 2 and a cover wall 4 connected to it along a longitudinal edge via a fold line 3. On a longitudinal edge 5 which is directed away from the fold line 3, there are hinged on the rear wall 2 three bottom tongues 6, each of which is associated with one of a plurality of individual containers 7.
  • top tongues 8 hinged on the top edge of the cover wall 4 are corresponding top tongues 8, each of which is provided at a certain distance from an articulation axis 9, on each lateral edge, with two incisions, each pair forming a securing flap 10 which can be bent upwards.
  • each has two side walls Ila and III), a rear wall 12, a bottom 13, a top wall 14, and a hinged cover 15. All these parts are erected from one flat preferred blank, the bottom 13 being connected through corresponding fold lines to the two side walls Ila and 11b and the hinged cover 15, while along the rear edge of each side wall Ila and I lb there is a flap 16, the flaps together forming the rear wall 12.
  • the height of the flaps I6 is so selected that a push-through gap is left between the bottom 13 and the rear wall 12 which they form.
  • the side walls 11a and Ilb each consist of two side parts 17 which are folded over each other along the front edge 18 of the container.
  • the top edge of one of the side parts 17 of the side wall 1112 is integrally con nected via the fold line 19 to the top wall 14, the free end of which has a downwardly folded-over flap 20 as shown best in FIG. 2.
  • the hinged cover 15 has, parallel with its folding axis 21, two fold lines 22 and 23, and is folded inwardly about the first line 22 and again outwardly about the second line 23, its edge which is remote from the hinge axis 21 being formed with an out wardly projecting opening flap 24.
  • the side walls lla and 11b are set up with folded side parts 17, the flap 20 being pushed between the side parts 17 of side wall Ila, and the flaps 16 for forming the rear wall 12 are folded through with respect to the side walls Ila and 1117, then these individ ual containers 7 are connected to the carrier 1 by the fact that each bottom tongue 6 thereof is pushed through on the underside of the flaps 16 until each bot-- tom tongue 6 rests on the bottom 13 of the correspond ing individual container 7 as shown in FIG. 3.
  • each top tongue 8 can then be folded around the front top edge 25 of each individual container 7 until it rests on the underside of the relevant top wall 14, the dimensions being so chosen that each top tongue 8 is held in this position by its retaining flaps 10. It is then sufficient to close the hinged cover 15 whereby, in the position of closure, the front edges of the retaining flaps it) serve as stops for the hinged covers 15. By the double folding of the hinged covers 15 and their appropriate dimensioning, it is possible further to ensure that they remain resiliently in the position of closure, whereby at the same time it is also possible to compensate for certain manufacturing tolerances.
  • the flaps 16 can be provided at their lower edges with notch-noses 160 which, when the flaps are folded closed, enter into a notch 29 having undercut side edges and thus secure the flaps in their closed position.
  • a folding storage file comprising:
  • a plurality of individual containers each having in its closed position two side walls, a rear wall, a bottom integral with said side walls and spaced slightly from the lower edge of said rear wall to provide a gap therebetween along the rear edge of said bottom, a top wall, and a front hinged cover being integrally connected to the front edge of said bottom and pivotable about said front edge;
  • a carrier in its closed position having a rear wall being connected along one longitudinal edge via a fold line to a cover wall and being provided along another longitudinal edge with a plurality of pivotable bottom tongues, said cover wall of said carrier being provided along its longitudinal edge which is remote from its rear wall with a plurality of top tongues, such that the tongues serve to connect the carrier to the individual closed containers when the same are to be enclosed therewithin, with each bottom tongue being received through said gap between the rear wall and the bottom of a respective one of said containers to overlay the bottom of said respective one of said containers and each top tongue being disposed against the inside surface of the top wall of a respective one of said containers, being folded along the longitudinal edge of said carrier cover wall remote from its rear wall about the top front edge of said respective one of said containers.
  • a folding storage file characterized in that one of the two side walls of each individual container is formed of two side parts which are integrally connected to each other by a vertical fold line at the front edge of said container and which are located in erected position one beside the other in parallel disposition in the closed condition of said container, whereby it is possible for a flap of the top wall pivotable about the upper edge of the other of the two side walls of the container to be received between said two side parts.
  • a folding storage file characterized in that said other of the two side walls of each individual container is formed by two side parts which are integrally connected with each other by a vertical fold line and are located one beside the other in parallel disposition when said container is fully erected.
  • top tongues have retaining flaps formed by slits in the lateral edges, said flaps being bent out of the plane of said top tongues and braced on the one hand against the side walls of a respective one of said containers and which serve on the other hand as a stop for said hinged cover of the said respective one of said containers when it is closed.
  • a folding storage file characterized in that said hinged covers are folded twice in different directions about fold lines parallel to their hinge axis, first into the container and then out from the container, starting from the hinge axis, the remote edge portion of said hinge cover being folded out wardly serving as a pull flap.
  • a folding storage file characterized in that said top tongues and said bottom tongues are respectively spaced apart in a longitudinal direction of the carrier to provide slit-shaped gaps therebetween and that said carrier has linear transverse weakenings of the material in its cover wall and its rear wall as continuations of said slit-shaped gaps between the bottom tongues and the top tongues.

Landscapes

  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
  • Cartons (AREA)
  • Rigid Containers With Two Or More Constituent Elements (AREA)
US374514A 1972-08-17 1973-06-28 Folding container Expired - Lifetime US3892348A (en)

Applications Claiming Priority (2)

Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
CH1220172A CH569628A5 (sh) 1972-08-17 1972-08-17
DE19732324897 DE2324897C3 (de) 1973-05-17 1973-05-17 Faltbehälter

Publications (1)

Publication Number Publication Date
US3892348A true US3892348A (en) 1975-07-01

Family

ID=25709817

Family Applications (1)

Application Number Title Priority Date Filing Date
US374514A Expired - Lifetime US3892348A (en) 1972-08-17 1973-06-28 Folding container

Country Status (8)

Country Link
US (1) US3892348A (sh)
JP (1) JPS5411755B2 (sh)
AU (1) AU461469B2 (sh)
CA (1) CA992920A (sh)
FR (1) FR2196273B1 (sh)
IT (1) IT990798B (sh)
NL (1) NL154928B (sh)
SE (1) SE389080B (sh)

Cited By (14)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US4261627A (en) * 1979-09-05 1981-04-14 Felsenthal James M Collapsible drawer-receiving cabinet
US4653651A (en) * 1983-12-09 1987-03-31 Paul Flum Ideas, Inc. Stackable shelving system
US4671451A (en) * 1985-09-09 1987-06-09 Yeaman Packaging Group, Inc. Sleeve package having reverse tucked tabs for holding multiple aseptic cartons
US4693412A (en) * 1985-09-09 1987-09-15 Yeaman Packaging Group, Inc. Sleeve package having locking tabs for holding multiple aceptic cartons
US4820001A (en) * 1987-01-20 1989-04-11 Bernard Paul File drawer dividers
US5318223A (en) * 1993-09-29 1994-06-07 Gale Gregory W Separable modular container
US5555982A (en) * 1994-12-29 1996-09-17 Stone Container Corporation Convertible shipping container-display apparatus
US5657872A (en) * 1995-02-06 1997-08-19 The Procter & Gamble Company Shipping/display container
US6371365B1 (en) * 2000-12-21 2002-04-16 Kraft Foods Holdings, Inc. Display and shipping carton
US20080116214A1 (en) * 2006-11-21 2008-05-22 Apps William P Crate for containers
US20080314771A1 (en) * 2007-06-25 2008-12-25 Daniel Barbalho Tray for containers
US20090206088A1 (en) * 2008-02-18 2009-08-20 Ogburn Sean T Crate for containers
CN110088012A (zh) * 2016-10-31 2019-08-02 维实洛克包装系统有限公司 篮筐式装载件、装运纸箱和包装系统
US20190352086A1 (en) * 2018-05-21 2019-11-21 Sky Pave Inc Packaging system and method of packaging a botanical arrangement using the same

Families Citing this family (5)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US4742917A (en) * 1986-09-18 1988-05-10 Square D Company Multiple packaging arrangement
IT208805Z2 (it) * 1986-10-30 1988-05-28 In Pak Spa Contenitore perfezionato per articoli vari
FR2630999B1 (fr) * 1988-05-06 1990-09-28 Cartonneries Associees Dispositif d'emballage d'une pluralite d'objets
JP2549970B2 (ja) * 1992-06-11 1996-10-30 渡口 善明 文書の保存管理方法及びこの方法に用いられる文書保存整理箱
US6027017A (en) * 1998-12-02 2000-02-22 Stone Container Corporation Container apparatus and method for converting a shipping container into one or more display trays

Citations (7)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US1637299A (en) * 1926-11-19 1927-07-26 William R Graham Box
US2020176A (en) * 1934-12-31 1935-11-05 Norbert A Fleischer Savings bank
US2104828A (en) * 1934-07-10 1938-01-11 Richard B Brinnon Shoe box
US2757849A (en) * 1955-02-01 1956-08-07 Container Corp Container unit and carrier for multiple units
US2989222A (en) * 1959-09-11 1961-06-20 Ellis Paperboard Products Inc Box construction
US3253765A (en) * 1964-08-04 1966-05-31 Owens Illinois Glass Co Separable plural container
US3698624A (en) * 1969-08-13 1972-10-17 Cordotex Sa Packaging containers of parallelepiped shape

Family Cites Families (4)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US3143273A (en) * 1962-04-04 1964-08-04 St Regis Paper Co Multi-box like container
FR1450616A (fr) * 1964-06-20 1966-06-24 Pierrel Associate S P A Boîte en carton avec système particulier de fermeture à emboîtement des extrémités
FR1603168A (sh) * 1968-07-22 1971-03-22
DE2124160C3 (de) * 1971-05-14 1979-12-13 Kurt Wien Neumann Aus zusammenhängenden Faltzuschnitteilen hergestellter stapelbarer Behälter

Patent Citations (7)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US1637299A (en) * 1926-11-19 1927-07-26 William R Graham Box
US2104828A (en) * 1934-07-10 1938-01-11 Richard B Brinnon Shoe box
US2020176A (en) * 1934-12-31 1935-11-05 Norbert A Fleischer Savings bank
US2757849A (en) * 1955-02-01 1956-08-07 Container Corp Container unit and carrier for multiple units
US2989222A (en) * 1959-09-11 1961-06-20 Ellis Paperboard Products Inc Box construction
US3253765A (en) * 1964-08-04 1966-05-31 Owens Illinois Glass Co Separable plural container
US3698624A (en) * 1969-08-13 1972-10-17 Cordotex Sa Packaging containers of parallelepiped shape

Cited By (19)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US4261627A (en) * 1979-09-05 1981-04-14 Felsenthal James M Collapsible drawer-receiving cabinet
US4653651A (en) * 1983-12-09 1987-03-31 Paul Flum Ideas, Inc. Stackable shelving system
US4671451A (en) * 1985-09-09 1987-06-09 Yeaman Packaging Group, Inc. Sleeve package having reverse tucked tabs for holding multiple aseptic cartons
US4693412A (en) * 1985-09-09 1987-09-15 Yeaman Packaging Group, Inc. Sleeve package having locking tabs for holding multiple aceptic cartons
US4820001A (en) * 1987-01-20 1989-04-11 Bernard Paul File drawer dividers
US5318223A (en) * 1993-09-29 1994-06-07 Gale Gregory W Separable modular container
US5555982A (en) * 1994-12-29 1996-09-17 Stone Container Corporation Convertible shipping container-display apparatus
US5657872A (en) * 1995-02-06 1997-08-19 The Procter & Gamble Company Shipping/display container
US6371365B1 (en) * 2000-12-21 2002-04-16 Kraft Foods Holdings, Inc. Display and shipping carton
US20080116214A1 (en) * 2006-11-21 2008-05-22 Apps William P Crate for containers
US7677405B2 (en) 2006-11-21 2010-03-16 Rehrig Pacific Company Crate for containers
US20100132311A1 (en) * 2006-11-21 2010-06-03 Apps William P Crate for containers
US20080314771A1 (en) * 2007-06-25 2008-12-25 Daniel Barbalho Tray for containers
US20090206088A1 (en) * 2008-02-18 2009-08-20 Ogburn Sean T Crate for containers
US7735676B2 (en) 2008-02-18 2010-06-15 Rehrig Pacific Company Crate for containers
US20100213639A1 (en) * 2008-02-18 2010-08-26 Ogburn Sean T Crate for containers
CN110088012A (zh) * 2016-10-31 2019-08-02 维实洛克包装系统有限公司 篮筐式装载件、装运纸箱和包装系统
US20190352086A1 (en) * 2018-05-21 2019-11-21 Sky Pave Inc Packaging system and method of packaging a botanical arrangement using the same
US10870529B2 (en) * 2018-05-21 2020-12-22 Sky Pave Corp. Packaging system and method of packaging a botanical arrangement using the same

Also Published As

Publication number Publication date
SE389080B (sv) 1976-10-25
AU5786273A (en) 1975-01-09
NL7311136A (sh) 1974-02-19
AU461469B2 (en) 1975-05-29
FR2196273B1 (sh) 1976-05-07
JPS5411755B2 (sh) 1979-05-17
NL154928B (nl) 1977-11-15
CA992920A (en) 1976-07-13
JPS4993183A (sh) 1974-09-05
FR2196273A1 (sh) 1974-03-15
IT990798B (it) 1975-07-10

Similar Documents

Publication Publication Date Title
US3892348A (en) Folding container
US3899119A (en) Snack tray carton
US3343744A (en) Box construction and blank therefor
US2833458A (en) Folding trays
US4349147A (en) Tray with integral locking tab
US3744707A (en) Cardboard tray container
US5441151A (en) Storage system
US2544565A (en) Collapsible carton
US3404829A (en) Carton locking cover
US3669341A (en) Dispenser for continuous business forms
US2354098A (en) Cardboard box
US4136816A (en) Self locking container
US3003678A (en) Folded container
US4311268A (en) Footwear box with handles
US2155450A (en) Chick box
US2112062A (en) Folding box
US3738564A (en) Hexagonal package unit
US3438564A (en) Containers
US3207414A (en) Frozen poultry containers
US3145902A (en) Compartmented container
US4396145A (en) Self-locking carton
US2719665A (en) Container
US1974552A (en) Display carton
US4240576A (en) Distribution package
US2235800A (en) Collapsible box or carton