WO2000012393A1 - Carton et ebauche y relative - Google Patents

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WO2000012393A1
WO2000012393A1 PCT/GB1999/002562 GB9902562W WO0012393A1 WO 2000012393 A1 WO2000012393 A1 WO 2000012393A1 GB 9902562 W GB9902562 W GB 9902562W WO 0012393 A1 WO0012393 A1 WO 0012393A1
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Victor Roger Wadner
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Clifford Packaging Limited
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Priority to AU52941/99A priority patent/AU743906B2/en
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    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65DCONTAINERS 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
    • B65D5/00Rigid 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
    • B65D5/42Details of containers or of foldable or erectable container blanks
    • B65D5/44Integral, inserted or attached portions forming internal or external fittings
    • B65D5/48Partitions
    • B65D5/48024Partitions inserted
    • B65D5/48026Squaring or like elements, e.g. honeycomb element, i.e. at least four not aligned compartments
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65DCONTAINERS 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
    • B65D5/00Rigid 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
    • B65D5/02Rigid 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 by folding or erecting a single blank to form a tubular body with or without subsequent folding operations, or the addition of separate elements, to close the ends of the body
    • B65D5/0281Rigid 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 by folding or erecting a single blank to form a tubular body with or without subsequent folding operations, or the addition of separate elements, to close the ends of the body the tubular body presenting double or multiple walls
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65DCONTAINERS 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
    • B65D5/00Rigid 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
    • B65D5/36Rigid 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 specially constructed to allow collapsing and re-erecting without disengagement of side or bottom connections
    • B65D5/3607Rigid 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 specially constructed to allow collapsing and re-erecting without disengagement of side or bottom connections formed by folding or erecting a single blank
    • B65D5/3614Rigid 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 specially constructed to allow collapsing and re-erecting without disengagement of side or bottom connections formed by folding or erecting a single blank to form a tubular body, at least one of the ends of the body remaining connected
    • B65D5/3621Rigid 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 specially constructed to allow collapsing and re-erecting without disengagement of side or bottom connections formed by folding or erecting a single blank to form a tubular body, at least one of the ends of the body remaining connected collapsed along two fold lines of the tubular body

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  • This invention relates to a carton, and concerns in particular a carton of card or the like made by erecting a suitably cut, creased and folded blank.
  • Erectable cartons or boxes of the sort referred to generally as "cardboard boxes” (although in fact they can be made of materials other than cardboard), are of great value in the packaging industry, for they may be preformed then stored in their space-saving un-erected (collapsed) state, only being opened up (and usually further folded and interlocked) and erected into their use state immediately prior to their actual utilisation.
  • such a box or carton is manufactured from a sheet of the relevant material in a number of stages.
  • the sheet is cut and creased to form what is known as a "blank"; the cuts and creases both mark out the relevant portions of the carton - panels which will form the carton's front, rear and side walls, its top and bottom surfaces, and any necessary flaps and tongues and slots, and so provide the blank with the shape that will define the carton formed therefrom - and also are such as to enable the basically flat sheet to be folded in the way required to construct the desired three-dimensional carton.
  • the blank may be of the "base” type, with a central panel (to form the bottom of the carton) having wall and top panel extensions disposed around it, or it may be of the "peripheral” type, witJti a sequence of side-by-side panels (to form the walls of the carton) having base and top panels extending therefrom.
  • a "peripheral" construction commonly requires one flap-like part of the blank to be permanently affixed - by glue or staples, for instance - to another part (usually one of the areas of the blank defining a wall of the carton); the next, stage, then, is to effect this fixation, and the blank is conveniently designed so that this can be done with only a single fold of the blank, and in such a way that what is formed is a flat, easily storable, "collapsed" version of the carton (strictly speaking, this folded and affixed "pre-form” is better described as an "un-erected” version, but in the Art such pre-forms are conventionally referred to as "collapsed”). Finally, when required for use the folded and affixed blank is opened up and then further folded (along the provided creases) so as to move the various wall and top and bottom portions into their required carton-defining positions.
  • Figure 1 carton is erected from a blank which, in its collapsed state, has its floor/base portions folded upwards to lie against its inner wall” surfaces, and upon erection these portions are encouraged to drop down into place, passing - as they do so - through the volume that is the inside of the carton.
  • Figure 2 "archive" carton is made from a comparatively uncommon type of blank which, in its collapsed state, has its floor/base portions extending downwards, to lie away from its inner wall surfaces, and upon erection these portions are pushed up into place, a movement which does not require them to pass through the internal volume of the carton.
  • the bottles may range in size from 250ml beer bottles through 75cl wine bottles up to 2 litre bottles of soft drinks, disposed in regular arrays of two, four, six, eight, nine, twelve, fifteen, twenty-four and more (usually as groups of 2x1, 2x2, 3x2, 4x2, 3x3, 5x2, 4x3, 5x3, 6x4 and so on).
  • the carton is indeed to be used for this type of purpose then it is convenient to provide it with interior space dividers - slotted card strips that fit together to make an appropriate array of rectangular cells into each of which a bottle fits - and thus to prevent the bottles when in si tu rattling around in the box.
  • this invention provides a collapsed carton of the "archive" type, and an erected carton formed therefrom, wherein fixedly located in position within the portion forming the inner section of the carton are spacer strips disposed to define a cellular array of spaces within the erected carton.
  • the invention provides a carton - either a collapsed carton or an erected carton - of the "archive” type. By this is meant not that the carton need be exactly like any particular "archive” carton but that it is of this general type.
  • the blank for such a carton is usually an elongate oblong in overall shape, and has along one of its long sides those portions (or panels) which form the four side wall surfaces (the two ends and the left and right sides) of the inner section and along the other of its long sides those portions (or panels) which form the four side wall surfaces of the outer section, these two sets of four panel portions being joined by a matching set of four pairs (two sets of four) of "facing" trapezium portions (each pair mounted with the shorter of the two parallel sides together along a line that is the central long axis of the blank and the longer sides adjacent the related side portion), which trapezium portions fold, concertina-fashion and in an interlocking manner, to form the bottoms of the inner and outer box sections.
  • the carton - and thus the blank - can of of any suitable size.
  • an appropriate size - for the erected box - is roughly 12
  • spacer/divider strips Fixedly located in position within the part forming the inner section of the carton are spacer/divider strips disposed to define - to divide the interior of the erected carton into - a cellular array of spaces within the erected carton.
  • the spacer strips may be of any height, but will typically be conventional part- or whole-height strips of card slotted to enable them to be fitted together to define the required array of cells.
  • a 4x3 cell array is thus defined by two long strips (extending in the "4" direction) and three shorter strips (extending in the orthogonal "3" direction).
  • the strips may be located "fixedly" in any convenient way - it is preferred to give some of the strips flaps at each end which in use lie flush against the relevant strip-normal inside wall surfaces of the inner box section, and can be attached thereto (glueing is the preferred attachment method, possibly using a contact glue that holds them directly as the carton blank is assembled in its collapsed form, but stapling is a possibility) .
  • glue is the preferred attachment method, possibly using a contact glue that holds them directly as the carton blank is assembled in its collapsed form, but stapling is a possibility
  • Just which of the strips has the end flaps is generally immaterial - they can be on either or both the length-wise strips and the cross-wise strips - as long as sufficient strips have them to render the array stable.
  • the carton of the invention may be made from a sheet of any appropriate material (typically a fibre board such as a thin or thick, corrugated or plain card or board made from natural cellulose fibres, or even a wholly or partially synthetic material such as a plastic like a polythene or a polystyrene, or a fibre board coated therewith) .
  • the divider strips can likewise be made from a sheet of any appropriate material (though, not having to take any significant stresses, the strip material may be lighter - thinner, and less strong - than the carton material). All this is well-known in the Art, and needs no further comment here.
  • Figures 1A,B show respectively the blank for the carton type known by its International Fibreboard Case Code No: 0714, and (in see-through form) the carton erected therefrom;
  • Figures 2A,B show respectively the blank for the carton type referred to herein as the "archive” type, and (in see-through form) the carton erected therefrom (it is this type that is used in the present invention);
  • Figure 3 shows the carton of Figure 2 in partially-erected form
  • Figures 4A-C show in section (on the plane IV-IV of Figure 3) three stages in the further erection of the partially- erected carton of Figure 3;
  • Figures 5A,B show respectively the erected carton of Figure 2B with spacer/divider strips added thereto in accordance with the present invention, first in perspective (from above and one side) and then from directly above (a top plan view);
  • FIGS 6A-E show the sequence of operations necessary to construct the Figure 5A carton of the invention.
  • the blank of Figure 1A is of interest merely for the flaps (11), which in the erected carton of ( Figure IB) from the base thereof.
  • these flaps are folded up between the walls (12) of the carton, and as the erection process takes place they drop down into place through what is becoming the volume enclosed by the carton.
  • this space was already taken up by an (unfolding) set of spacer/divider strips the flaps would be unable to fold down into place, and the carton could't be properly erected. Accordingly, with this type of carton any divider strips to be used therewith must be positioned after the carton has been erected; they cannot be fixedly located in place within the collapsed version.
  • the blank and carton of Figure 2 is of that general type on which the present invention is based. It is a double-skinned carton, having inner and outer box sections (11,12).
  • the blank is an elongate oblong, and has along one of its long sides those portions (or panels: lla,b,c,d) which form the four side wall surfaces (the two ends and the left and right sides) on the inner section and along the other of its long sides those portions (or panels: 12a,b,c,d) which form the four side wall surfaces of the outer section, these two sets of four panel portions 11,12 being joined by a matching set of four pairs (two sets of four : Ilia, b, c,d; 112a,b,c,d) of "facing" trapezium portions (each pair - llla/112a, 11lb/112b, etc - mounted with the shorter of the two parallel sides together along a notional line (15) that is the central long axis of the blank and
  • Figures 3 and 4 show - in diagrammatic form - how the double-skinned carton of Figure 2B is erected. From its collapsed form (much like that of Figure 5B discussed hereinafter) it is opened out to give the Figure 3 form, in which the inner box 11 is positioned "above" the outer box 12, supported on the four pairs of trapezium sections (Ilia, 112a, etc), and then the inner box is simply pushed down into the outer box, the trapezium sections folding down, in a concertina, interlocking fashion, to form the base of the carton.
  • Figures 5A,B show a double-skinned carton like that of Figure 2B but with full-height divider strips (as 51) fixedly located therewithin.
  • the crosswise strips 51c reach out to (and may touch) but are not fixed to the walls they extend between, though they are located on the lengthwise strips.
  • Figure 5A shows the carton in its fully-erected form; the top plan view of Figure 5B shows what it looks like in what is essentially its collapsed form (it is in fact "opened out” slightly to show the divider strips 51 therein) .
  • Figure 6 shows how the blank of Figure 2A is folded, and provided with divider strips, to form the collapsed blank of the invention.
  • the blank of Figure 6A - which is the same as the blank of Figure 2A - is an elongate oblong, and has along one of its long sides those portions (or panels: lla,b,c,d) which form the four side wall surfaces (the two ends and the left and right sides) on the inner section 11 and along the other of its long sides those portions (or panels: 12a,b,c,d) which form the four side wall surfaces of the outer section 12, these two sets of four panel portions 11,12 being joined by a matching set of four pairs (two sets of four: Ilia,b,c,d; 112a,b,c,d) of "facing" trapezium portions (each pair - llla/112a, lllb/112b, etc - mounted with the shorter of the two parallel sides together along a notional line (15) that is the central long axis of the blank and with the longer sides adjacent the related side portion).
  • the longer sides of the outer section trapeziums 112 are joined to the relevant outer box wall sections 12 by a fold line (61), and the first step is to fold the wall sections 12 underneath so that they lie behind the trapezium portions 112.
  • This state is shown in Figure 6B (in an actual production line the sections 11, 111 and 112 would normally be folded over on top, and the carton formed in an "inverted" state).
  • the pre-prepared collapsed divider strip assembly (62) is laid in position along inner box walls lib and lie - which are going to become part of the inner surface of the inner box 11 - and the relevant end flaps 52 are glued to the inner surface lib.
  • Figure 6C The right-hand (as viewed) end of the blank - the four "d" sections - is then folded over on top (and is glued to the other strip end flaps 52), to give the state shown in Figure 6D.
  • the left-hand end (as viewed) of the blank - the four "a” sections - is folded over on top of the strips, and the main flap 16 is glued into place on the outside surface of the outer box wall 12d. This is the fully-collapsed state of the carton of the invention, and is shown in Figure 6E .
  • Erecting the carton is essentially exactly like erecting the more conventional carton of Figure 2B, and as shown in Figures 3 and 4.
  • the carton is opened out from its fully-collapsed state (Figure 6E), passing through a partially-erected state (Figure 5B), into the "open" - rectangular - state like that of Figure 3.
  • the inner box 11 is then simply pushed down into the outer box 12 (as in Figures 4), the trapezium portions folding down to form the double-skinned base as this is done.

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Des cartons constituant des boîtes du type destiné au transport de bouteilles et analogues, comportent avantageusement des séparateurs d'un espace intérieur. L'invention consiste à utiliser des cartons du type « archive » et, tenant compte de la manière dont ils doivent être dressés (ce qui leur confère une structure à double paroi (11, 12), est caractérisée en ce que les portions du fond et les portions supérieures (111, 112), à l'état replié, se trouvent plus à l'extérieur qu'entre les parois intérieures (11), et en ce que, lorsque le carton est dressé, lesdites portions du fond et supérieures sont pliées et se déplacent en position, sans passer par l'espace intérieur du carton. De cette façon, les bandes séparatrices et d'espacement (51) peuvent être placées en position à l'intérieur du carton replié, sans barrer le passage.
PCT/GB1999/002562 1998-09-01 1999-08-04 Carton et ebauche y relative WO2000012393A1 (fr)

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DE69904732T DE69904732D1 (de) 1998-09-01 1999-08-04 Karton und zuschnitt dafür
EP99938433A EP1109724B1 (fr) 1998-09-01 1999-08-04 Carton et ebauche y relative
AU52941/99A AU743906B2 (en) 1998-09-01 1999-08-04 Carton, and blank therefor

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GB9818811A GB2341171B (en) 1998-09-01 1998-09-01 Carton,and blank therefor
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