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
  • 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
  • B65D71/14—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 without end walls
  • B65D71/16—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 without end walls with article-locating elements
  • B65D71/18—Tabs inwardly folded tabs from the upper or lower wall
• • 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
  • B65D2571/00129—Wrapper locking means
  • B65D2571/00135—Wrapper locking means integral with the wrapper
  • B65D2571/00154—Wrapper locking means integral with the wrapper interlocked
  • B65D2571/00185—Wrapper locking means integral with the wrapper interlocked by tabs cut within one end and facing away from the other end when blank is unfolded, and co-operting with openings at the other end
• • 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
  • B65D2571/00277—Slits or openings formed along a fold line
• • 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
  • B65D2571/00333—Partitions, i.e. elements contacting a major part of each aarticle or extending across the whole length of the wrapper
  • B65D2571/00339—Partitions, i.e. elements contacting a major part of each aarticle or extending across the whole length of the wrapper extending from the upper or lower wall
• • 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
  • B65D2571/00555—Wrapper opening devices
  • B65D2571/00561—Lines of weakness
  • B65D2571/00574—Lines of weakness whereby contents can still be carried after the line has been torn
• • 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
• • 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
  • B65D2571/00709—Shape of the formed wrapper, i.e. shape of each formed element if the wrapper is made from more than one element
  • B65D2571/00716—Shape of the formed wrapper, i.e. shape of each formed element if the wrapper is made from more than one element tubular without 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
  • 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
  • B65D2571/00833—Other details of wrappers
  • B65D2571/0087—Special features for machine processing, e.g. gripper apertures

Definitions

• This invention relates to a keel structure in a package of the wraparound type formed from paperboard or similar foldable sheet material and accommodating containers arranged in a number of parallel rows.
• a keel structure in a wraparound type carton comprises a structure which may be continuous or which may comprise a plurality of keel elements which separate one row of containers from another row within the carton.
• the platform of each keel element may be hinged at spaced locations to each of a pair of upstanding panels, but otherwise is unattached thereto, and wherein said platform interconnects said pair of upstanding means to provide a bridge-like structure.
• a first upstanding panel of said pair may provide a flexible face of said keel element and may be substantially coextensive with the hinged locations between that first panel and said platform and wherein the second upstanding panel may provide an opposed flexible face of said keel element and may extend beyond the hinged locations between that upstanding panel and said platform.
• said second upstanding panel is a single substantially continuous panel common to a plurality of like said keel elements and providing one edge of the blank of said carton.
• said platform may be struck from said second upstanding panel.
• a pair of panels of said upstanding panel means may be struck from a base panel of the carton and wherein said platform is struck from one of the upstanding panels.
• the platform may be defined by curved edges extending towards one another.
• parts of at least one of said upstanding panels adjacent said curved edges of said platform are separable so that those parts can be flexed more readily.
• FIGURE 1 is a plan view of a carton blank having a keel structure according to the invention.
• FIGURE la is an enlarged plan view of a portion of the blank shown in Figure 1;
• FIGURE 2 is a perspective view of a part of a carton, as seen from one end, formed from the blank shown in Figure 1;
• FIGURE 3 is a plan view of a part of a carton blank having a different partition panel arrangement
• FIGURE 4 is a perspective view showing a part of the modified keel structure of Figure 3.
• FIG. 1 there is shown a carton blank 10 of the wraparound type formed from paperboard or similar foldable sheet material. Keel elements K are formed in series in one of the base panels of the carton blank. Blank 10 comprises a series of joined panels including a first base panel 12, first side wall panel 14, a top panel 16, a second side wall panel 18 and a second base panel 20 hinged one to the next along transverse fold lines 22, 24, 26 and 28 respectively.
• Keel element K comprises a bridge-like structure comprising an upstanding panel P and a platform PI hinged together along short hinge lines h and hi.
• the upstanding panel is hinged to the base panel 12 along hinge line h2 and the platform PI is hinged to a support partition panel 32 at hinged connections h3 & h4 respectively.
• the support partition panel 32 is hinged to base panel 12 along interrupted fold line 34.
• the upstanding panel P and the partition panel are each formed with slits or score lines S, SI so that parts of the panel adjacent the slits are separable and can be flexed about the adjacent hinged parts with relative ease.
• upstanding panel P can be flexed inwardly towards the platform by being flexed between its hinged connections with the support platform into the space defined by a curved edge C of the support platform.
• the partition panel immediately adjacent slit 51 can be flexed inwardly about its hinged connections with the platform into the space defined by a similar opposed curved edge Cl of the platform.
• the other keel elements K1-K3 have like features. In some instances it is envisaged that the slit or score line 51 can be omitted.
• the containers adjacent these parts of the keel construction are allowed to "bed in” and so be more closely received against the adjacent curved edge of the platform PI to improve the retention between the keel elements their respective containers in the neighbouring rows so that dislodgment of the containers is resisted.
• partition panel PI is in the form of substantially continuous single marginal panel which is folded out of the plane of the blank into an upstanding position.
• the partition panel is substituted by several individual partition panels, one for each keel element.
• each keel element Ka comprises an upstanding panel Pa having a slit or score line Sa to facilitate flexing of the panel towards the curved edge Ca of its support platform Pla.
• the partition panel is not continuous as previously described but an individual panel 32a is associated with each keel element Ka and is hinged to base panel 20a along interrupted fold line 36.
• Each partition panel is struck from the base panel 20a and hinged into an upstanding position, out of the plane of the base panel, so that the slit or score line Sla is disposed alongside the curved edge Cla of the platform Pla.
• the function of the keel structure of this embodiment nevertheless is similar to that earlier described and, in some instances the slit or score Sla may be omitted.

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• Heterocyclic Carbon Compounds Containing A Hetero Ring Having Oxygen Or Sulfur (AREA)
• Motor Or Generator Frames (AREA)
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• Piezo-Electric Or Mechanical Vibrators, Or Delay Or Filter Circuits (AREA)
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• Wrapping Of Specific Fragile Articles (AREA)

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