WO2001042095A1 - Displaying box provided with a quick opening system - Google Patents
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- WO2001042095A1 WO2001042095A1 PCT/IT2000/000096 IT0000096W WO0142095A1 WO 2001042095 A1 WO2001042095 A1 WO 2001042095A1 IT 0000096 W IT0000096 W IT 0000096W WO 0142095 A1 WO0142095 A1 WO 0142095A1
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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
- 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
- B65D5/548—Lines of weakness to facilitate opening of container or dividing it into separate parts by cutting or tearing for opening containers formed by erecting a blank to U-shape
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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
- 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
- B65D5/545—Lines of weakness to facilitate opening of container or dividing it into separate parts by cutting or tearing for opening containers formed by erecting a "cross-like" blank
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- the present invention relates to a displaying box provided with a quick opening system.
- the present invention relates to a displaying cardboard box provided with a quick opening system, said box being advantageously but not exclusively suitable for being used by carpenter's shops, mechanic's workshops or ironmonger's shops, whereby said box is provided with a structure allowing the box to be very easily opened and, subsequently, to be used for showing its contents.
- Said box comprises a tearing-off opening allowing a closure underlying the cover to be set free, said closure including a flap which can be inserted into said box on the same side of the box that is provided with a label that is applied while assemblying the box in an industrial plant, said label being well visible from the outer side of the box.
- the containers which are used to carry out these operations are generally constituted either by plastic bags, or by blisters, or by cardboard boxes made of plain or corrugated cardboard, whose upper face or cover may firstly be opened in order to allow an automatic filling up operation to be carried out, and it is then reclosed.
- Said cover generally comprises a flap which can rapidly be glued to a corresponding front side face of the box in order to close the latter.
- this kind of closure is conceived for being realised by an automatic plant operated at high speed, and it does not take into account that the final user needs a box that can correctly be opened and closed, that can be superimposed to other similar boxes without causing stability problems, and that is provided with a perfectly readable label on the user's side.
- Another drawback is constituted by the fact, that since the flap is glued on the external surface of the front side of the box, it is operatively not possible to apply to said box a well readable label for identifying the products contained therein, and all the more so when the box has small dimensions, i.e. its respective length, width and height being less than 10 cm.
- a further known solution is constituted by a box that differs from the described one only in that it is assembled in a manual way.
- the present invention aims at providing a displaying box having a quick opening system that is able to prevent or to substantially reduce the above-described inconveniences, and to provide then for a box that can be mass produced by means of a plant working at high speed, that is provided with a label, or with indications relative to its contents on a face thereof, thereby exploiting the whole surface of said face, furthermore having a cover which is hermetically sealed during the assemblying operation, but which can be later opened and re-closed on the box side where said label is present, whereby said box may easily be stacked and superimposed to other similar boxes in a simple and reliable way.
- a displaying box comprising a quick opening system having the features disclosed in the main claim.
- the dependent claims outline some particularly advantageous forms of embodiment of the invention.
- the displaying box including a quick opening system comprises a container having a cover that can be opened along a preferential tearing-off line, a portion thereof being easily accessed from the outside and having at least a grip or notch suitable for enabling a manual grasping and a subsequent tearing-off operation .
- said grip or notch is cut inside of a niche that is adjacent to the face comprising said preferential tearing-off line.
- the cover By grasping the grip or notch and by firmly dragging it along the preferential tearing-off line, the cover is lifted and the inner side of the box can be accessed to from the side opposite the closure flap, whereby the rear face of the box is mantained entirely visible; said rear face is provided with a label that is applied while manufacturing the box and that carries all possible indications relative to the contents of the box, in a way that is readable by a user or by a suitable machine.
- figure 1 shows a sheet prepared for assemblying a displaying box according to a first form of embodiment of the invention
- figure 2 shows a perspective schematic view of an open displaying box that is ready for being filled up with products
- - figure 3 shows a perspective schematic view of the displaying box according to figure 2, as hermetically sealed
- figure 4 shows a perspective schematic view of the displaying box, after having been opened
- figure 5 shows a sheet prepared for assemblying a displaying box according to a second form of embodiment of the invention
- figure 6 shows a sheet prepared for assemblying a displaying box according to a third form of embodiment of the present invention.
- reference sign 10 generally indicates a displaying box provided with a quick opening system, in particular a displaying cardboard box 10.
- box 10 may have a parallelepipedic shape comprising: - a base face 11; a smaller tearing-off side face 12; a larger rear side face 13 ; a smaller smooth side face 14; a larger front side face 15; - an upper cover 16.
- Face 12 is provided with a niche 17 surrounded by a preferential tearing-off line 18 that runs along the whole upper side 19 of face 13.
- Tearing-off line 18 delimits, inside niche 17, a grip or notch 20 (see figure 3) for the insertion of a finger; said grip or notch 20 can be easily removed when the box is open.
- the free edge 21 of cover 16 can be provided with a closure flap 22 that can be inserted inside box 10 in order to guarantee an hermetic seal thereof.
- Edge 23 of cover 16, that is opposed to free edge 16 is provided with a fixing flap 24 that is fixed, for example glued, to large front face 15 (see in particular figure 3 ) .
- the surface of fixing flap 24 may easily be designed in such a way as to guarantee a perfect and hermetic seal of box 10 once the products have been filled up and flap 24 has been glued on the surface of f ce 15.
- Each small side face 12, 14 has a respective tab 25, 26 which, in use, is bent inwardly inside box 10, thereby delimiting, together with face 13, a slot 27 for inserting closure flap 22 when box 10 is closed.
- each face 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 is surrounded by folds 28 that distinguish it from an adjacent face and/ or tab.
- Base face 11 is provided with lateral fixing tabs 29, while face 15 is provided with lateral reinforcing tabs 30. It may be noticed that lateral reinforcing tab 30 that is placed on the same side of grip or notch 20, plays the important role of preventing any outlet of products from the hole that is made by acting on grip or notch 20 in order to open the box.
- fixing tabs 29 are bent with respect to face 11 until they overlook the inner part of box 10, whereby the tabs are fixed, for instance glued, to respective reinforcing tabs 30.
- each reinforcing tab 30 is bent in order to be superimposed to a respective tab 29, whereby tab 30 is interposed between tab 29 and a respective side face 12 or 14 that has to be fixed, for example glued, thereto.
- Flap 22 is provided with an extension 31 that can be fixed, preferably through glueing, to the surface of face 16 that is, in use, turned towards the inner side of box 10.
- grip or notch 20 may be made integral to a thread 32 which is resistant to tensile stress, for instance a nylon thread, which is applied to the inner side of box 10 in correspondance of line 19.
- Box 10 according to the invention may be quickly filled up with products by using automatic packaging machines; in fact, fixing flap 24 can be quickly fixed to face 15, thereby providing box 10 with a hermetic seal.
- an operator grasps grip or notch 20 and drags it along preferential tearing-off line 19, thereby setting free the cover 16 that can easily be lifted by means of a rotation about edge 23.
- the box is provided with a cover 16A, an end thereof being provided with external closure flap 24A.
- cover 16A extends laterally with an extension comprising a portion 16B whose dimensions substantially correspond to those of cover 16A, as well as a portion 22A, that forms an inner closure flap, that is realised on a larger side of portion 16B.
- cover 16A is provided with a pair of preferential tearing-off lines 18A, 18B, which can alternately be torn off by acting on a grip 20A, 20B or 20C; said grips can indifferently be placed on the side of cover 16A, or centered in respect of the latter.
- portion 16B is bent along line 35 (see the arrow in the figure) , in such a way as to be entirely superimposed to cover 16A.
- internal flap 22A is placed in a given position which, once the box is assembled, will be found inside said box.
- the cover may be opened on the rear side in respect of external flap 24 by acting on grips 20A, 20B, 20C.
- the inner flap can then be used for holding the box closed after it has been opened for the first time.
- Figure 6 shows another form of embodiment of the box according to the invention.
- the box according to figure 6 is not provided with an inner flap that is applied by glueing to the cover of the box, as is the case for the box according to figure 1.
- the assembly forming a cover that is constituted by cover portion 16C and external flap 24B, is connected along line 38 to a similar assembly that is formed by an element 24C (whose dimensions substantially correspond to those of flap 24B) and by an element 16D, whose dimensions are similar to those of cover 16C.
- Said element 16D is provided with a pair of cavities 20D, 20F acting as grips or notches for the subsequent opening operation of the box.
- the external end of element 16D extends in an inner flap 22C of the box.
- the box is assembled as previously described.
- the assembly internal flap 22C - element 16D - element 24C is bent at 180° along folding line 38, in such a way that flap 22C is brought to the inner part of the box.
- the newly formed external flap has a double thickness since it is constituted by elements 24B, 24C, and the cover has a double thickness too, since it is constituted by elements 16C, 16D.
- the box Once the box is closed, it can be re-opened by acting on grips 20C, 20D, 20E and, in this case too, it is re-opened on the opposed side in respect of the original closing side.
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AU38343/00A AU3834300A (en) | 1999-12-10 | 2000-03-21 | Displaying box provided with a quick opening system |
EP00917257A EP1150890A1 (en) | 1999-12-10 | 2000-03-21 | Displaying box provided with a quick opening system |
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IT1999VR000103A IT1308172B1 (en) | 1999-12-10 | 1999-12-10 | QUICK OPENING EXHIBITOR BOX. |
ITVR99A000103 | 1999-12-10 |
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Citations (5)
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US3111255A (en) * | 1961-02-16 | 1963-11-19 | American Can Co | Carton |
US3167237A (en) * | 1959-10-21 | 1965-01-26 | Int Paper Co | Easy opening container |
US3734390A (en) * | 1971-05-03 | 1973-05-22 | Brown Co | Front-opening carton with unique end flap arrangement |
US4634007A (en) * | 1985-12-02 | 1987-01-06 | Adolph Coors Company | Carton blank with perforated tear line |
US5743462A (en) * | 1995-07-13 | 1998-04-28 | Tenneco Packaging | Nestable blank for forming a side-filled, flip-top reclosable carton |
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- 2000-03-21 AU AU38343/00A patent/AU3834300A/en not_active Abandoned
- 2000-03-21 WO PCT/IT2000/000096 patent/WO2001042095A1/en not_active Application Discontinuation
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US3167237A (en) * | 1959-10-21 | 1965-01-26 | Int Paper Co | Easy opening container |
US3111255A (en) * | 1961-02-16 | 1963-11-19 | American Can Co | Carton |
US3734390A (en) * | 1971-05-03 | 1973-05-22 | Brown Co | Front-opening carton with unique end flap arrangement |
US4634007A (en) * | 1985-12-02 | 1987-01-06 | Adolph Coors Company | Carton blank with perforated tear line |
US5743462A (en) * | 1995-07-13 | 1998-04-28 | Tenneco Packaging | Nestable blank for forming a side-filled, flip-top reclosable carton |
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ITVR990103A1 (en) | 2001-06-10 |
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ITVR990103A0 (en) | 1999-12-10 |
EP1150890A1 (en) | 2001-11-07 |
AU3834300A (en) | 2001-06-18 |
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