WO1997023389A1 - Locking and securing device - Google Patents
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- WO1997023389A1 WO1997023389A1 PCT/EP1996/005384 EP9605384W WO9723389A1 WO 1997023389 A1 WO1997023389 A1 WO 1997023389A1 EP 9605384 W EP9605384 W EP 9605384W WO 9723389 A1 WO9723389 A1 WO 9723389A1
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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
- B65D55/00—Accessories for container closures not otherwise provided for
- B65D55/02—Locking devices; Means for discouraging or indicating unauthorised opening or removal of closure
- B65D55/06—Deformable or tearable wires, strings, or strips; Use of seals, e.g. destructible locking pins
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- the present invention relates to devices for locking and securing concealment elements on containers and receptacles in accordance with the preamble of claim 1.
- a known problem with containers that are used to hold confidential and personal information or objects is the fact that one wants to protect the objects contained in the container against unwanted or even unauthorized access.
- For the recipient of the objects or information contained in such containers it is usually of great importance that the object contained in a container is not only protected against external influences, but that the interested person is ensured in a comprehensible manner that the container has not been opened during transport.
- they are therefore closed with lids or other covering elements, the lid being generally fixed to the container using a suitable device and then being marked with a seal or a seal, whereby the lid and container can only be separated by destroying the seal or the seal.
- Seals or seals are however not able to secure the cover itself to the container.
- an additional securing element is normally necessary, which secures a device for locking a lid on a container against unintentional opening.
- B. conventional seals and adhesive seals extremely unwieldy, time-consuming and difficult, often even with tools to handle.
- the object of the present invention is therefore to provide a device for locking and securing concealment elements on containers, which manages with a small number of individual elements which can be handled clearly and in a time-saving manner during operation.
- a device for locking and securing concealment elements on containers or containers which consists of only three basic elements. These basic elements are a lock part, a spring pawl which engages in the lock part in the closed state of a container, and a sealing element which fixes the spring pawl within the lock part in the closed state of the container, the sealing element after closing a container is locked with the spring pawl, so that it can only be removed by destroying the sealing element itself.
- Both the arrangement of the spring pawl on the concealment element and the lock part on the container, but also an inverted arrangement are possible.
- the spring pawl is preferably connected in one piece to the concealment element or the container, depending on the arrangement, the spring pawl for engagement with the complementary lock part preferably being provided with latching edges which engage under the corresponding latching surfaces or edges in the lock part when in the closed position.
- the spring pawl is provided with an actuating device which extends outwards beyond the container or the covering element and which is preferably equipped with a finger pressure surface, so that the Spring latch can be released in a simple and advantageous manner by a finger pressure from the latching with the lock part.
- the spring pawl is also designed so that it can be locked quickly and easily by simply pushing it into the lock part.
- the sealing element of the device according to the invention is designed such that it is placed on the spring pawl in the closed position and locked with it, the sealing element preferably being provided with a locking stop which, when the sealing element is attached, fixes the spring pawl in the closed position and actuates the opening - facility prevented.
- the sealing element is preferably provided with a latching clamping element which, after the sealing element has been placed on the spring pawl, engages in the spring pawl or under the spring pawl and fixes the sealing element on the spring pawl.
- the locking stop and the locking clamp element of the sealing element are connected via a separating part which is preferably formed in one piece with the two aforementioned elements and whose interfaces with the locking stop or with the locking clamp part are preferably designed as a defined separating seam.
- the separating part is preferably provided with an opening bracket or a corresponding opening part which protrudes outward beyond the sealing element and by means of which the separating part can be separated from the locking stop and the latching clamping element by pulling or folding over.
- the opening bracket of the separating part is pulled or folded up, it is completely separated from the latching clamping part, but it remains connected to the locking stop at at least one point.
- the sealing element can be provided on one of its outer sides with an information field which either has a sequential numbering, a Barcode, an electronic information carrier (transponder) or a corresponding identification can record.
- FIG. 2 shows a cross section through the exemplary embodiment for locking with a sealing element before insertion
- FIG. 3 shows the device according to FIG. 2 with the sealing element during insertion
- FIGS. 2 and 3 shows the device according to FIGS. 2 and 3 with inserted sealing element
- FIGS. 2 to 4 shows the device according to FIGS. 2 to 4, with the opening bracket folded up
- FIGS. 2 to 5 shows the device according to FIGS. 2 to 5, with the locking stop of the sealing element separated and lifted out
- FIG. 8 shows a container with a lid, on which the device for locking and securing is preferably used, and 9 is a bottom perspective view of a narrow side of the lid of FIG. 8.
- FIG. 1 shows a perspective view of the embodiment of a sealing element, which consists of a locking stop 1 and a locking clamp part 2, the locking stop 1 and locking clamp part 2 being connected to one another via a separating part 3.
- the clamping part 3 is made in one piece with the locking stop 1 and the locking clamping part 2, the interfaces of the separating part 3 with the locking stop 1 and the locking clamping part 2 being designed as a target separating seam.
- the separating part 3 is - as shown in Fig. 1 - provided with an opening bracket 4 which projects freely beyond the sealing element to the outside.
- Locking stop 1 and latching clamping part 2 delimit an opening 5 between them which serves to accommodate the opening device of the clamping element of the locking device to be described in more detail below.
- an additional information field 6 is provided on the locking stop 1, which can be used to record consecutive numbering, a bar code or an electronic information carrier (transponder).
- FIG. 2 shows the cross-sectional view of the embodiment of a device for locking and securing concealment elements on containers, with a spring pawl 7, which is connected in one piece to a cover 9 by an extension 8 pointing downward.
- the spring pawl 7 is provided with an opening device protruding upwards through an opening above the cover 9, which at its end carries a pressure surface 11 for finger pressure actuation. So that the opening device 10 with the finger pressure surface 11 cannot be opened by snagging or other accidental contact with other objects, the opening through which the opening device 10 extends upwards beyond the cover is provided with a bar projecting upwards 12 surrounded, the height of the strip 12a directed in the direction of the main surface of the cover being reduced.
- the locking device - as shown in FIG. 2 - consists of one Lock part 13, which is provided with latching edges, not shown, under which latching elements on the spring claw 7, which are also not shown when the cover is attached, engage. Due to the pawl-like design of the spring pawl 7, the locking edges on the spring pawl 7 can be brought into engagement with the lock part 13 by simply pushing the spring pawl 7 arranged on the cover side into it. Furthermore, a sealing element is also shown in FIG.
- the elements of the sealing element namely locking stop 1, latching clamp part (2) and the opening bracket (4) of the separating part (3) being seen in cross section.
- the stop surface 1 a of the locking stop 1 and the clamping element 2 a of the latching clamping part 2 are shown in FIG. 2.
- FIG. 3 shows the embodiment of the device for locking and securing concealment elements on containers with all the elements and devices already known from FIGS. 1 and 2, the sealing element with the locking stop 1 and the locking clamp part 2 being placed on the Spring pawl 7 or on the opening device 10 is shown.
- the dimensions of the sealing element with locking stop 1, latching clamping part 2 and separating part 3 are chosen so that the sealing element can be inserted overall between the strips 12 projecting upwards above the cover 9.
- the spring part 2a of the locking clamp part 2 is designed such that when the sealing element is placed on the opening device 10 or the spring pawl 7 it springs back, so that a latching fitting of the sealing element onto the opening part 10 is only possible in the first place.
- FIG. 4 shows the locking device from FIG. 3 with the sealing element placed on the opening part 10.
- the locking stop 1 is arranged between the opening part 10 and the ledge 12 projecting upward above the cover in such a way that the space between the ledge 12 projecting upward over the cover and the opening part 10 is essentially filled, so that the stop surface La comes into contact with the corresponding surface of the opening part 10 or is arranged in the immediate vicinity thereof.
- a movement of the opening part 10 in the opening direction by pressure on the pressure surface 11 is therefore not possible in this state.
- the spring part 2a of the snap-in clamping element 2 engages in the inserted state of the sealing element under the pressure surface or the projection provided with the pressure surface 11 on the opening part 10.
- the sealing element in the inserted state sits between the upwardly projecting strips 12 or 12a in such a way that it does not extend in the horizontal plane ⁇ device can be moved, removal of the locking stop 1 from the locking position of the opening device 10 is only possible if the locking stop 1 and the locking clamp part 2 are separated.
- the opening bracket 4, also shown in FIG. 4, of the separating part 3, not shown, is used, which is connected in one piece to the locking stop 1 and the locking clamp part 2.
- the separating part 3 tears off like a zipper at the interfaces to the locking stop 1 and the latching clamping part 2, the separating part 3 remaining connected to the locking stop at at least one point.
- FIG. 5 shows the device according to FIGS. 2 to 4, the opening bracket 4 of the separating part 3 having already been actuated in the state shown in FIG. 5, so that there is no longer any connection between the locking clamp part 2 and the locking stop 1 consists.
- Fig. 6 shows the embodiment of the device for locking and securing known from the previous figures, wherein the locking clamp part 2 is shown separated from the locking stop 1 after actuation of the opening bracket 4 on the separating part 3 and wherein the locking stop 1 by the at least one point with the Locking stop 1 connected part 3 is lifted out of the locking position for fixing the opening part 10 of the spring pawl 7, so that actuation of the opening part 10 by the pressure surface 11 is possible.
- the locking clamp part 2 of the sealing element is still in its locking position between the cover 9 and the pressure surface 11, since the cover is still seated on the container with the lock part 13.
- FIG. 7 shows the spring pawl 7 with the opening device 10 and the pressure surface 11 after actuation and after the cover 9 has been lifted off a container.
- FIG. 8 shows an exploded view of a container with a corresponding cover 831, on which the device for locking and securing is preferably used.
- the container base element with two longitudinal side walls and two opposite narrow side walls 81 to 84 and a bottom 85 preferably has at least on the narrow side walls 81 and 84 two opposite, vertically directed, preferably parallel, strip-like webs 87 and 88, respectively protrude outwards with respect to the side walls 81 and 84 and terminate at the top in a projecting strip 89 arranged at the edge.
- the strip 89 also forms a footprint for stacked containers.
- the two webs 88 on one side are set to the inside a small amount with respect to the webs 87 on the opposite side.
- the webs 87 and 88 are constructed in two parts, with an upper, wider, hollow-profile-like section that is open to the inside of the container, which ends in the strip 89 and breaks through upwards, and a solid, thin-walled section 88b and 87b arranged underneath.
- the lower web parts 87b on one side of the container are set outwards with respect to the axis of symmetry of the container and with respect to the top web parts 87a, whereas the lower web portions 88b on the opposite side are set inwards with respect to the axis of symmetry and with respect to the top web parts 88a.
- the inner width of the hollow profile-like upper web parts 87a and 88a is reduced in the area of the opening through the strip 89, so that an immersion groove is formed.
- the immersion grooves of the upper web parts 87a whose lower web parts 87b are offset outwards with respect to the axis of symmetry, are arranged offset inwards with respect to the axis of symmetry.
- the immersion grooves of the upper web parts 88a whose lower web parts 88b are offset inwards with respect to the axis of symmetry, are offset with respect to the outside with respect to the axis of symmetry.
- the arrangement of the immersion grooves of the upper web parts 87a and 88a by the strips 89 arranged on the edge therefore corresponds to that of the lower thin-walled web parts 7b and 8b on the opposite side of the container.
- the described design of the containers has the effect that when two containers are stacked in the same direction, the lower web parts 87b and 88b come to rest on the contact surfaces of the load-bearing strips 89.
- the upper container preferably dips slightly into the lower container due to the indentation at 86, the immersion depth being limited by the lower shoulder 815 of the lower web parts 88b and 87b. This slight immersion enables the containers arranged one above the other to be stabilized so that they are centered and stabilized.
- an upper container is rotated 180 ° about a vertical axis onto a lower container
- the web-like sections 87b and 88b are immersed in the immersion grooves of the upper web parts 87a and 88a through the load-bearing strips 89, since the immersion grooves of the upper web sections 88a or 87a, as described with respect to the line of symmetry, are each arranged so as to be offset from one another that they correspond to the lower web parts 87b and 88b of the opposite side wall.
- the immersion depth of the upper container only extends until the lower shoulder of the broad, hollow profile-like web sections 88a or 87a is seated on the contact surface of the strip 89.
- the lid 831 On the inner edge of the lid 831, projections (not shown) projecting inwards are shown on one narrow side, which engage in recesses 835 on the upper edge of the one narrow side of a container.
- the cover-side elements of the locking and securing device known from FIG. 2 are shown in the middle, including the spring pawl 7, which is integrally connected to the cover 831 via an extension pointing downward with an opening device projecting upwards through an opening 842 above the cover 831, which has a pressure surface at its end for finger pressure actuation.
- the spring pawl 7 engages to close the container through the lid 831 in an adapted recess 836 in the strip 89 on the corresponding side of a container.
- the top of the lid 831 is surrounded by a bar 837 projecting upwards, which allows containers closed with lids to be stacked on top of one another without the stacked-up slipping off Container from the underlying container is to be feared, since the area surrounded by the bar 837 has the dimensions of the container bottom.
- FIG. 9 shows a perspective bottom view of the narrow side of the lid 831 on which the spring pawl 7 is arranged for locking the lid with the container to be closed, the elements known from FIG. 2 being shown in use on the lid 831 are.
- a device for locking and securing cover elements on containers is provided, which is simple and unambiguous to use, can be inserted and removed quickly and which ensures that the interested person can understand that closed containers are not opened without being noticed can.
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JP9523253A JPH11500987A (en) | 1995-12-21 | 1996-12-03 | Lock guarantee device |
BR9607305A BR9607305A (en) | 1995-12-21 | 1996-12-03 | Locking and protection device |
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CA (1) | CA2212627A1 (en) |
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US3873006A (en) * | 1973-11-15 | 1975-03-25 | Mack Robert Fields | Safety secondary closure |
FR2621297A1 (en) * | 1987-10-05 | 1989-04-07 | Allibert Sa | Stacking and nesting goods-handling box. |
FR2650566A1 (en) * | 1989-08-03 | 1991-02-08 | Cartes Plastiques Services | Rigid security package for the transport and storage of valuables |
GB2234497A (en) * | 1989-08-04 | 1991-02-06 | Robinson & Sons Ltd | Child resistant closure |
US5100015A (en) * | 1991-07-05 | 1992-03-31 | Electro-Wire Products, Inc. | Latch unit for container and mating lid |
DE9302839U1 (en) * | 1992-06-24 | 1993-05-19 | Paul Hellermann Gmbh, 2080 Pinneberg, De | |
DE4315923A1 (en) * | 1992-06-24 | 1994-01-05 | Hellermann Gmbh P | Lead seal for security purposes - has shaft supporting head with laterally extending anchor unit spaced away from it |
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