CN1083793C - Protective multi-unit packaging arrangement - Google Patents

Abstract

In order to make the structure of a pair of buffer sleeves used for protective packaging more compact, which can hold multiple identical products such as fragile electronic devices, a pair of upper and lower buffer sleeves are alternately arranged on one side. Parallel vertical grooves and horizontal grooves. The respective surfaces of the buffer sleeves are opposite to each other, and a small space is formed between the vertical grooves and the horizontal grooves adjacent to each other. Therefore, this protective packaging structure uses the upper and lower vertical grooves to firmly clamp the opposite ends of each product in the erect state, and uses the upper and lower horizontal grooves to clamp each product in the vertical position. The opposite end of the product in the recumbent position.

Description

Protective multi-pack construction

The present invention relates to a protective multi-package structure for packing together a plurality of substantially cuboid objects to be packed, such as external storage devices for computers.

In order to efficiently and safely transport items such as computer external storage devices, a protective multi-pack structure has been used, and Figures 8 to 11 show an existing example of such a protective multi-pack structure .

In FIGS. 8 to 11 , a protective multi-package structure 30 includes a packing box 31 and a pair of upper and lower cushioning sleeves 32 accommodated in the packing box 31 . There are a plurality of grooves 33 on the opposite surfaces of the two buffer sleeves 32 , and the upper and lower ends of the external storage device 7 placed along the length direction are respectively embedded in these grooves. These grooves 33 are distributed in two areas, left and right, bounded by a central partition wall 34 between these two areas, and five grooves 33 are arranged parallel to each other in each area. An adjacent partition wall 35 protrudes between the two adjacent grooves 33 . All these grooves 36 are surrounded by various side walls 36, and the thickness dimensions D3 and D4 of the side walls 36 are sufficient to protect the performance of the external storage device 7 from being damaged by horizontal impacts in the packaged state.

On the opposite side of each buffer sleeve 32 having the groove 33, there are a plurality of shock-absorbing protrusions 37, and the height H of these shock-absorbing protrusions 37 is sufficient to protect the performance of the external storage device 7 from being impacted in the vertical direction in the packaged state. destroy.

In the above structure, the lower buffer sleeve 32 is embedded in the packaging box 31 with the bottom sealed. The lower end of the external storage device 7 is covered with an antistatic bag 11 , which just fits into each groove 33 of the lower buffer sleeve 32 . After the external storage device 7 is inserted into each groove 33 , the upper buffer sleeve 32 is inserted into the packing box 31 , and the upper end of each external storage device 7 is inserted into each groove 33 . After the flap 31a on the top of the packaging box 31 is folded up, the top thereof is sealed with an adhesive tape or the like, thus completing the packaging.

In the protective multi-pack structure 30 packaged in this manner, shocks in the vertical direction are absorbed by the shock-absorbing bosses 37 and shocks in the horizontal direction are absorbed by the surrounding side walls 36 . Adjacent partition walls 35 can prevent adjacent external storage devices 7 from colliding with each other.

However, according to the above-mentioned existing examples, although it is possible to prevent the adjacent external storage devices 7 from colliding with each other by providing the adjacent partition wall 35 between the adjacent grooves 33, because of the strength of the buffer material and its ability to Problems in formability, it is impossible to shrink the package by making the partition wall thinner. That is, the buffer cover 32 is formed of a buffer material such as foamed styrene, and in order to obtain a desired strength for the weaker buffer material, a certain thickness (about 10 mm) is required. . In the case of molding the buffer sleeve 32 by pouring the buffer material into the mold, the adjacent partition wall 35 needs to have a certain thickness (approx. . It can be seen from the above description that the thickness T of the adjacent partition wall 35 will become thicker, and the size of the buffer sleeve 32 will become larger. The large size of the buffer sleeve 32 has caused unfavorable factors such as increased materials and transportation costs.

It is therefore an object of the present invention to overcome these disadvantages of the prior art.

It is a further object of the present invention to provide a protective multipack structure in which a pair of cushioning sleeves are made compact and durable to provide a highly reliable seal during shipment of the packaged items.

According to one aspect of the present invention, a protective multi-package structure is provided, which includes: a pair of upper and lower cushioning sleeves made of cushioning material and shaped to accommodate items; The upper and lower ends of the article to be packaged in the recumbent state are embedded; the grooves in the recumbent state are used for the upper and lower ends of the article to be packaged in the recumbent state to be embedded in the opposite surface of the buffer sleeve alternately and parallel to each other; The vertical state groove of each of the buffer sleeves is pressed deeper than the horizontal state groove, and by pressing it deeper, the clamping surface used to clamp the article to be packaged is basically in the shape of a cuboid; The horizontal groove of each of the buffer sleeves protrudes longer than the vertical groove in the left and right directions, and the clamping surface used to clamp the item to be packaged is basically in the shape of a cuboid; The gap formed between the vertical state groove and the adjacent part of the horizontal state groove.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a protective packaging device, the shape of which is suitable for a plurality of quasi-hexahedron-shaped products to be embedded in it in a mutually fixed state, which includes: a packaging sleeve, on its first surface A plurality of insertion grooves are formed, and these insertion grooves include a transverse insertion groove adapted to neatly accommodate an axial end of a parallelepiped-shaped device and another vertical insertion groove adapted to neatly accommodate a transverse face of a parallelepiped-shaped device. Embedding grooves; the vertical embedding grooves of the packing sleeve are formed deeper than the horizontal embedding grooves in the first surface; the lateral and vertical embedding grooves are adjacently formed parallel to each other so that the axially embedding grooves of the two vertical embedding grooves The opposite faces of the two parallelepiped-shaped devices maintain a predetermined interval, and are suitable as the clamping surface of a device that is laterally embedded in the laterally embedded groove between them; the two parallelepiped-shaped devices laterally embedded in the two laterally embedded groove The opposite faces of the device are at a predetermined distance from each other, and are adapted to serve as clamping surfaces of a device axially embedded in the vertical insertion groove between them, so that the clamping surfaces formed are on both sides of the opposite faces of the axially embedded device. The sides extend to a greater lateral dimension; and a predetermined spacing is formed between each adjacent lateral and vertical insertion groove.

Figure 1 is an exploded perspective view of a protective multi-package structure in a first preferred embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 2 is the perspective view of the buffer sleeve of the first preferred embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 3 is the perspective view of the buffer sleeve of the first preferred embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 4 is the plane view of the buffer sleeve of the first preferred embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 5 is a cross-sectional view along line A-A in Fig. 4 of the first preferred embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 6 is a cross-sectional view of the first preferred embodiment of the present invention along line B-B in Fig. 4;

Fig. 7 is a three-dimensional exploded view of the protective multi-package structure of the second preferred embodiment of the present invention;

Figure 8 is a three-dimensional exploded view of a protective multipack structure according to the prior art;

Fig. 9 is a perspective view of a buffer sleeve according to the prior art;

Fig. 10 is a perspective view of a buffer sleeve according to the prior art;

Fig. 11 is a plan view of a buffer sleeve according to the prior art.

Embodiments of the present invention are described below with reference to the drawings. 1 to 6 show a first embodiment of the present invention, the first embodiment of the protective multi-pack structure 1 represents a suitable for use in such as computer external storage devices (such as CD-ROM drives, FD ( Cushion sleeves for items to be packaged such as disk cartridges, drives, etc.

FIG. 1 is an exploded perspective view of a protective multipack structure 1 . In FIG. 1 , the protective multi-pack structure includes a box 2 and a pair of upper and lower cushioning sleeves 3 accommodated in the box 2 . The packing box 2 is made of corrugated cardboard and is constructed such that its top can be closed by folding over a top flap 2a located on its upper part. The pair of upper and lower buffer sleeves 3 is made of a buffer material such as foamed styrene, and the shape of the pair of buffer sleeves 3 in the first embodiment is the same as each other.

Figure 2 and Figure 3 are perspective views of the buffer sleeve 3, Figure 4 is its plan view, Figure 5 is a cross-sectional view along line A-A in Figure 4, and Figure 6 is a cross-sectional view along line B-B in Figure 4.

In FIGS. 2 to 6 , the opposite surfaces of each buffer sleeve 3 have a plurality of integrally molded adjacent vertical grooves 4 and horizontal grooves 5 . The vertical grooves 4 and the horizontal grooves 5 are respectively arranged in rows on both sides of a central partition wall 6 which forms a boundary between them. The grooves 4 in the vertical state and the grooves 5 in the horizontal state are alternately arranged parallel to each other on each side of the partition wall 6 . According to the invention, five adjacent grooves 4, 5 are provided in each row.

The size of the upright groove 4 is suitable for inserting one of the upper and lower ends of an external storage device 7 in the upright state. The size of the groove 5 in the lying state is suitable for inserting one of the upper and lower ends of an external storage device 7 in the lying state.

The vertical state groove 4 is pressed deeper than the horizontal state groove 5, and by pressing it deeper, a clamping surface 4a for clamping the external storage device 7 in the vertical state is formed. The recumbent state groove 5 is made to extend longer than the vertical state groove 4 on the left and right two directions, and by extending it longer on the left and right two directions, an outer body that is used to clamp the recumbent state is formed. Clamping face 5 a of storage device 7 .

Apart from the clamping surfaces 4a and 5a, a space with a slight gap t is formed between the vertical groove 4 and the horizontal groove 5 adjacent to each other. In this first embodiment, this gap t is set to be around 1-3 mm.

All these vertical grooves 4 and horizontal grooves 5 are surrounded by sidewalls 8 whose thicknesses D1 and D2 are sufficient to protect the external storage device 7 from being damaged by horizontal impact in the packaging state. In the parts of the central partition wall 6 and the side wall 8, which are positioned at the two outer sides of the groove 4 in the vertical state, and in the bottom of the groove 5 in the horizontal state, respectively, a weight-reducing groove 9 is formed to reduce the amount of material .

On the other hand, as shown in detail in Fig. 3 and Fig. 5, each buffer sleeve 3 is provided with shock-absorbing protrusions 10 at a plurality of positions on the reverse side of one side having a vertical groove 4 and a horizontal groove 5. . In order to prevent being damaged by impact, each shock-absorbing protrusion 10 is mainly protruded on the part other than the part corresponding to the bottom of the groove 4 in the vertical state, and a part is protruded on the part corresponding to the bottom of the groove 4 in the vertical state. . But it is also possible to protrude all the shock-absorbing protrusions 10 on parts other than the part corresponding to the bottom of the vertical groove 4 . The shock-absorbing protruding portion 10 is set so that its height H is sufficient to protect the performance of the external storage device 7 from being damaged by a vertical impact in a packaged state.

In the above structure, the lower buffer sleeve 3 is inserted into the packaging box 2 with the bottom closed. The lower end of the external storage device 7 in an upright state and covered with an antistatic bag 11 is embedded in each vertical groove 4 of the lower cushion cover 3, and the external storage device 7 in a recumbent state and covered with an antistatic bag 11 The lower end is embedded in each horizontal groove 5 of the lower buffer sleeve 3 . After the external storage device 7 is embedded in all the vertical state grooves 4 and the horizontal state grooves 5, the upper buffer cover 3 is packed into the packing box 2, and the upper end of each external storage device 7 in the vertical state Each vertical groove 4 of the upper buffer sleeve 3 is embedded, and the upper end of each external storage device 7 in a recumbent state is embedded into each horizontal groove 5 of the upper buffer sleeve 3 . After the flap 2a of the packaging box 2 is folded up, the top thereof is sealed with tape or the like, thus completing the packaging.

In the above-mentioned packaging process, when the external storage device 7 is covered with the upper buffer sleeve 3, the external storage device 7, which is alternately arranged in an upright state and a recumbent state, is embedded in the upper buffer sleeve 3 step by step, so the insertion operation very easy.

In the protective multi-pack structure 1 packaged in this manner, shocks in the vertical direction are absorbed by the shock-absorbing bosses 10 and shocks in the horizontal direction are absorbed by the surrounding side walls 8 . The external storage devices 7 distributed on the left and right sides of the central partition wall 6 do not collide with each other because the central partition wall 6 forms a boundary between them.

Assuming that the length of the external storage device 7 is L and the width is W (W<L), the external storage device 7 in an upright state is clamped by a clamping surface 4a with a vertical range of (L-W)/2, and is in a horizontal position. The state external storage device 7 is held by a holding surface 5a with a horizontal range of (L-W)/2. Therefore, the external memory devices 7 adjacent to each other do not collide with each other only when there is a slight gap t between them.

Here, when the buffer sleeve 32 of the existing example is compared with the buffer sleeve 3 of the first embodiment, under the condition that their side walls 8 are equal in thickness, the size of the buffer sleeve 3 of the first embodiment in the horizontal direction can be reduced. 4(T-t), where T represents the thickness of the adjacent partition wall 35 of the conventional example. If the thickness of the side wall 8 and the thickness of the central partition wall 6 (the thickness between the two recumbent grooves 5 ) of the first embodiment and the prior example are the same as each other, then their dimensions in the longitudinal direction are also the same. In addition, since the shock-absorbing protrusion 10 of the buffer sleeve 3 of the first embodiment is protrudingly arranged on the part other than the part corresponding to the bottom of the groove 4 in the vertical state, that is, it is arranged on the part corresponding to the bottom of the groove 5 in the horizontal state. In part, the height of the buffer sleeve 3 of the first embodiment is the same as that of the existing buffer sleeve. That is to say, the present invention can make the size of the buffer sleeve in the length and height directions the same as that of the prior art, but smaller than the prior art in the width direction.

Figure 7 is an exploded perspective view of the protective multi-pack structure 15 of the second embodiment. In the protective multi-package structure 1 of the first embodiment, the pair of buffer sleeves 3 are designed so that even if the external storage device 7 falls in any direction of the six sides, they are not easily damaged, and in this second In the protective multi-package structure 15 of the second embodiment, a pair of buffer sleeves 17 and 18 are designed assuming that the packaged items are reliably transported on a pallet (where the bottom is always placed downwards), and they can only resist the bottom A fall to the ground.

In FIG. 7, the same components as those of the protective multi-pack structure 1 of the first embodiment are denoted by the same reference numerals, and only the components different from the first embodiment will be described.

The protective multi-pack structure 15 includes a box 16 and a pair of upper and lower cushioning sleeves 17 and 18 housed in the box 16 . The upper folding cover 16a of the packaging box 16 is made to only keep the upper buffer cover 18 and not allow it to escape from the packaging box 16. The structures of the upper and lower buffer sleeves 17 and 18 in a pair are different from each other. Compared with the first embodiment, the thickness of the surrounding sidewall 19 of the lower buffer sleeve 17 is much smaller, and the circumference of the upper buffer sleeve 18 is much smaller. The thickness of the side wall 20 is also much smaller, and there are no shock-absorbing protrusions on the upper surface of the upper buffer sleeve 18 . That is to say, since it can only resist the drop on the bottom, the amount of cushioning material on the front, rear, left and right, and upper parts is also reduced.

Although the above embodiment shows a case where the item to be packaged is the external storage device 7, the present invention can also be applied to any item to be packaged that is substantially in the shape of a cuboid.

According to the present invention described above, a protective multi-package structure has a pair of upper and lower cushioning sleeves made of cushioning material; Vertical grooves for embedding the upper and lower ends of the upright cuboid-shaped articles to be packaged, and horizontal grooves for embedding the upper and lower ends of the recumbent-like cuboid-shaped articles to be packaged; each The vertical state groove of each of the buffer sleeves is pressed deeper than the horizontal state groove, and it is pressed deeper to form a clamping surface for clamping the similar cuboid-shaped article to be packaged; The horizontal groove of each of the buffer sleeves extends longer in the left and right direction than the vertical groove, and is used to make it extend longer in the left and right directions to form a shape for clamping the similar cuboid Shape the clamping surface of the article to be packaged; in addition to the clamping surface, a space containing a gap is also formed between the vertical grooves adjacent to each other and the horizontal grooves; therefore, in the vertical Between the state groove and the horizontal state groove, there is no need for those adjacent partition walls required in the prior art, because it only needs to establish a small gap to replace the adjacent partition wall, so the present invention has an effect, that is, Make the structure of a pair of buffer sleeves more compact, reduce the consumption of packaging materials, the cost of packaging materials, transportation costs, and so on.

Claims (9)

1. protective multi-unit packaging arrangement comprises:

A pair of that make by padded coaming, be the upper and lower cushion collar that can hold contoured article;

All setting attitude grooves are for the embedding of both ends up and down of the article to be packaged that are upright state;

The both ends up and down that all accumbency attitude grooves, confession are the article to be packaged of accumbency state replace, are embedded in the opposite face of described cushion collar in parallel with each other;

The described setting attitude groove of each described cushion collar is suppressed deeplyer than described accumbency attitude groove, by suppressing it darker, forms and is used for the described clamping face that is the article to be packaged of cuboid substantially of clamping;

The described accumbency attitude groove of each described cushion collar is longlyer more outstanding than described setting attitude groove at left and right sides both direction, forms to be used for the described clamping face that is the article to be packaged of cuboid substantially of clamping;

The gap that forms between the adjacent part of described setting attitude groove and described accumbency attitude groove, this gap make between the adjacent article to be packaged and leave the gap.

2. protective multi-unit packaging arrangement as claimed in claim 1; it is characterized in that; reverse side in the one side of being provided with of each described cushion collar described setting attitude groove and described accumbency attitude groove; in with erect on the corresponding part beyond that part of of attitude bottom portion of groove, protrude and be formed with a shock-absorbing lug boss.

3. protective multi-unit packaging arrangement as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that, but a plurality of article that are cuboid substantially of shape clamping of the described accumbency attitude of described packaging structure and setting attitude groove.

4. protective multi-unit packaging arrangement as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that, described this shape to cushion collar of described packaging structure can be packed and is distributed in two article in the adjacent set parallel to each other.

5. protective multi-unit packaging arrangement as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that, comprises that also one is used for described this packing box to the neat vanning of cushion collar.

6. protective multi-unit packaging arrangement as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that, described this made by octadecanol (stearol) cushion collar.

7. protective multi-unit packaging arrangement as claimed in claim 1; it is characterized in that; each described cushion collar is made by elasticity suction material, and the size of described groove is suitable for when the described article to be packaged that are cuboid substantially embed with its contact surface phase frictional fit.

8. protective multi-unit packaging arrangement as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that, the bottom surface of the described accumbency attitude of each of each described cushion collar groove is formed with a darker recessed portion.

9. protective multi-unit packaging arrangement as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that, each described cushion collar is formed with a corresponding recess on the same surface of part at described groove of each vertical end place formation sidewall of each setting attitude groove.

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