WO1997045327A1

WO1997045327A1 - A pileable folding box for multiple purposes

Info

Publication number: WO1997045327A1
Application number: PCT/GR1997/000017
Authority: WO
Inventors: Dimitrios Pairis
Original assignee: Dimitrios Pairis
Priority date: 1996-05-30
Filing date: 1997-05-30
Publication date: 1997-12-04
Also published as: CA2228315A1; GR960100181A

Abstract

A folding light-weight box that can be assembled by various manufacturing materials, able to be carried one onto the other, to convey the loads of all the boxes of the pile via posts (4) provided in the feet (6), and may also increase/decrease its height by simply modifying the side wall (3) and can be generally conveyed very easily full or empty, occupying much smaller space than its original volume.

Description

A pileable folding box for multiple purposes.

The invention refers to a folding box for carrying items, merchandise and for various multiple purposes, allowing the conveyance of various items, enabling simultaneously their storage as well as the return of the box to the sender.

It may be used in any industrial or manufacturing procedure wherein massive package and conveyance of products is required. At the same time, it is foldable so that it requires minimum space when empty, and may be piled up when full, conveyed by dark machine, provided with wheels, rendered waterproof, when it is made of plastic material so that it is not destroyed when it must be carried under rain or rests on a wet pavement or elsewhere, and it also has the alternative of various applications such as:

1. Having plastic lid with metal side 2. Having plastic lid with paper side

3. Having plastic lid - plastic side

4. Having plastic lid of any material that could be laminated.

Additional possibilities include convenience in increasing/decreasing the height of the box, while keeping the same dimensions of lid/bottom, as well as the fact that the lid and the bottom of the box are exactly the same thing.

Current technology provides boxes for massive conveyance of various products, which could be easily conveyed, light plastic boxes which are difficult to be piled up, heavy plastic boxes which are difficult to be conveyed, metal boxes which, due. to their weight and volume, are not suitable, and generally all the above mentioned are difficult to be piled up and they cause problems during manufacturing procedures. Another main object of the invention is to deal with various problems such as strength, functionality and durability of such materials, giving shape to manufacturing solutions, some of which will be described in details hereinafter, wherein the above mentioned and the advantages of the present invention will be obvious.

The invention will be obvious to those skilled in the art with reference to the accompanying drawings, wherein some preferred industrial embodiments of the invention are illustrated by way of example:

Fig 1 shows the box of the invention in perspective Fig. 2 shows the box being piled up

Fig. 3 shows a side section of the box of the invention

Fig. 4 shows one foot of the box and its fitting at the post

Fig. 5 shows the conveyance of the box by a person, with the aid of a wheel fulcrum Fig. 6 shows the fitting point of the side wall and the lid of the box.

Fig. 7 shows in perspective the manner in which one box fits and engages into the other.

Fig. 8 shows a view of a box wherein the bottom and lid are secured by hoop and seal. Fig. 9 shows a view of 3 boxes secured together by hoop and seal.

In relation to a selected indicative example of an industrial application of the invention, a numbering of the main parts of the object follows, with reference to the respective numerals of these parts in the attached drawings, wherein these are showed in an indicative describing illustration, without scale, only in size ratio between each other.

According to a preferred embodiment of the invention, the box in fig. 1 consists of the following main parts and accessories: Lid 1 , Lid 2, Side 3, Post 4, Wheels 5, Feet 6, Adjusting Guides during piling-up 7.

Fig. 2 shows:

Box 8 provided with a Box 9, a fitting point 10 thereof, posts for load conveyance 1 1 , securing elastic part 12, feet fitting point 13. Fig. 3 shows:

A section of lid/bottom 14, a section of the fitting point between side/lid/bottom 15, a section of the post 16, a securing elastic part for bottom/lid 17, rubber fitting point 18, side 19, pin fitting point 20, feet for load conveyance 21.

Fig. 4 shows:

Lid/bottom 22, feet 23, grip 23, elastic part 25, grip 26, foot 27, side 28, post for load conveyance 29.

Fig. 5 shows: A box with an adjusted fulcrum 30 which, upon a slight deviation, brings the wheels 32 in contact with the ground, thus accomplishing movement.

Fig. 6 shows a detail of the fitting point between the side wall and the lid of the box, which is U-shaped with an aperture at its lower-most hollow point, so that no fluid could penetrate the inside of the box but, instead, fluids deviate to the outside. In this manner, the box is rendered waterproof and can be stored in non-covered places.

The accomplishment of this invention is an easy-to-use box, adjustable one onto another, regardless of orientation since the lid and the bottom of the box are identical and designed in such a manner that no precise handling is required for the adjustment of one box onto another. The said box of the invention can bear loads despite its light-weight structure, it has a varying height depending on the needs, the lid and bottom are identical and secured between each other while maintaining the in-between distance from one another with the post. After being used, the box folds and takes minimum space since the bottom and lid are placed one into the other. It can be stored in minimum space such as e.g. shelves or one onto the other, it has minimum weight and is provided with wheels and feet for support as well as posts, which are all secured between each other, it is provided with sockets for pins, and it is easy to convey by a wheel fulcrum and, when necessary, may be piled up in open space since it is waterproof. It may be made of various meterials such as e.g. paper, metal, pressured paper, plastic, etc.

It must be estimated that the object of the invention is not limited by the above examples. The accomplishment of the invention may be effected by several manufacturing ways, methods, accessories and devices which all fall in the scope of the present invention.

It must be also noted that the present description has been made with reference to only some exemplary embodiments. Thus, any alteration or modification in the shape, form, arrangement, utilised materials and accessories of construction and assembly are considered to be included in the scope and purposes of the present description.

Claims

C L A I M S

1) A folding - dismantling box for carrying merchandise, characterised in having identical bottom and lid, with specially formed sockets and protrusions, which is assembled for the conveyance of merchandise and dismantled in order to be returned or stored, also characterised in that the protrusions and sockets in the bottom of said box fit the sockets and protrusions in the lid thereof, thus keeping fixedly together two of the boxes and in a convenient parallel relationship when piled up.

2) A box according to claim 1 , characterised in that it has the ability of being formed with pre-constructed sides of different size, which are assembled with the box bottom and lid of the same shape.

3) A folding box for carrying merchandise according to claim 1 , characterised in that it comprises wheels 32, fixedly resting onto the ground when the box is raised in the opposite side or, otherwise, wheels positioned in such a way that, when the box is parallel to the ground, they do not abut to it.

4) A folding box for carrying merchandise as in claim 1 , characterised in that the fitting point of the side wall and the lid - bottom are Y-shaped, so that rain or any fluids do not penetrate the interior thereof but instead deviate to outwards. 5) A box according to claims I , 2, 3 and 4, characterised in that the lid- bottom may have feet 27 embodied or additional to the lid-bottom, fitted with posts 29, onto which loads are distributed and then to the supporting feet 27 therethough, so that they serve as a supporting column for merchandise, whereas the fork of the pin enters the underside of the supporting feet 27. 6) A box according to the above claims 1 , 2, 3, 4 and 5, characterised in that the lid fits with protrusions and sockets to the sockets and protrusions of the identical bottom of the said box when piling up boxes one onto another with no selection of orientation and precise handling. 7) A box according to the above claims, characterised in that, upon dismantling, its sides and the two identical bottoms-lids are placed one into the other, thus occupying small space.

8) A box according to the above claims, characterised in that it has a socket-aperture 35 through which a hoop 34 or wire or plastic strip with seal 36 is passed and the lid 2 and bottom 2 can be directly sealed, one by one or multiply one box to another, thus ensuring an intact box.

9) A flexible joint 25 bonded to a couple of members 24 and 26 under the feet 27 and above 23, thus drawing and holding directly the lid 22 and the bottom 2.