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Emballage distributeur à grand volume

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Publication number
EP2004518A1
EP2004518A1 EP07713211A EP07713211A EP2004518A1 EP 2004518 A1 EP2004518 A1 EP 2004518A1 EP 07713211 A EP07713211 A EP 07713211A EP 07713211 A EP07713211 A EP 07713211A EP 2004518 A1 EP2004518 A1 EP 2004518A1
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Prior art keywords
opening
package dispenser
package
gloves
chamber
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EP07713211A
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German (de)
English (en)
Inventor
Mark R. Ellswood
Alan G. Shuman
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Kimberly Clark Worldwide Inc
Kimberly Clark Corp
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Kimberly Clark Worldwide Inc
Kimberly Clark Corp
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Publication of EP2004518A1 publication Critical patent/EP2004518A1/fr
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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
    • B65D83/00—Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents
    • B65D83/08—Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents for dispensing thin flat articles in succession
    • B65D83/0805—Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents for dispensing thin flat articles in succession through an aperture in a wall
    • 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
    • B65D5/5405—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 in tubular form
    • B65D5/542—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 in tubular form the lines of weakness being provided in the container body

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  • the present invention relates to a package dispenser unit for storing and providing protective articles, such as gloves or face masks.
  • Conventional containers for protective articles such as glove or facemasks often resemble tissue boxes. Commonly, these tend to be rectangular in shape and oriented largely a horizontally, for instance, with the gloves layered one on top another, alternating cuff and finger direction every few pairs. The opening of the packaging through which one access the protective article is also like that in tissue boxes, simple rectangular or oval slots in the top surface of the container.
  • Conventional glove dispensing containers typically can hold up to about 100 gloves. In laboratory or clinical setting, where gloves are used at a relatively high volume, this means that a box of gloves can be consumed in a short period of time (e.g., a few days to a week).
  • a more economical, high volume pack can have several advantages. For the consumer, a larger package can provide greater convenience to the user, because one would not need to replace cartons as often, as well as lower consumer cost per unit. And, for the manufacturer, a larger package can reduce material and manufacturing cost per unit.
  • the present invention relates to a packaging system and design.
  • the new design rotates the gloves from a conventional horizontal configuration to a largely vertical position. All of the gloves are orientated in one direction with the cuff side toward the top.
  • the product orientation makes it easier for a user to access and dispense from the package.
  • the present package design allows a user to grab the glove at the cuff area and avoid physical contamination of the rest of the glove body where a lab work may handle a sample or a healthcare worker may contact a patient.
  • the package dispenser unit 10 has an opening 2 to access the package contents.
  • the opening is shaped with a narrowing or tapering 4 of the aperture, located in between a first 6 and a second terminus region 8.
  • the first and second terminus regions can be either symmetrical or asymmetrically shaped, such as depicted in accompanying Figures 2A-D and 3A.
  • the first can be terminus region is significantly larger in size than said second terminus region.
  • the opening has an outline that is like can being dog-bone or hour-glass shaped, or either a rectangular, trapezoidal, triangular, tear-drop-like, or a paddle-like shape.
  • the package can be configured to dispense product from two sides simultaneously, if needed, without needing to flip the package 180 degrees.
  • an internal insert or divide 12 separates the overall dispenser into two chambers 14a, 14b, each containing a product count, as well as adds mechanical strength to the package for structural integrity.
  • a tote handle 16 on the top panel 17 of the package carton 10 makes the dispenser portable, and addresses a common issue associated with traveling home-based healthcare nurses and emergency medical technician (EMT) personnel.
  • EMT emergency medical technician
  • four rounded or chamfered corners 18 add to the overall design look and can help center the protective article for dispensing at the opening.
  • the footprint of the base 20 of a double or multi-chambered package dispenser should be sufficiently large in area to ensure stability of the package; hence, the resulting combined dispensing feature.
  • the dispenser was single sided, it would tend to be unstable and likely to fall over when product is being dispensed. Or if the base was sufficiently large enough to be stable, yet only single sided, the depth would become too great and not allow for efficient dispensing near the end of the glove supply.
  • FIGs. 1 A and 1 B is a schematic of a conventional package container for holding protective articles such as gloves or face masks with an opening in a panel that will become the top panel of a box.
  • Figure 1 A shows the components of the container laid out flat and unfolded
  • Figure 1 B shows the container properly folded and assembled into a box, with the oval-shaped opening in a top panel.
  • FIGs 2A-D depict schematic illustrations of different embodiments of package cartons according to the present invention.
  • FIG. 3A is another iteration of a carton unfolded and laid flat.
  • FIG. 3B is a three-dimensional illustration in three-quarter view of the carton of Fig. 3A as assembled.
  • FIGs. 4A and 4B show an assembled carton according to Fig 3B with a tote handle projecting from an upper panel of the package, and adapted for ease accessibility for manual carriage.
  • FIG. 5A is a three-quarter view of a package container according to the embodiment of Fig. 3B, showing a flap or piece of card stock panel that covers the opening, partially detached from the face of a side panel face.
  • FIG. 5B is a schematic showing a transparent view of a number of gloves arrayed in a largely vertical orientation, with glove cuff up and accessible to a user by taking hold and pulling on the cuff to withdraw a glove from the container.
  • FIGs. 6A and 6B show a cut-away view of the package carton, with two chambers side-by-side.
  • Each chamber adapted to hold a certain amount of protective articles. As indicated, for instance, on each side, the chamber holds up to about 250 gloves, making a combined total of about 500 gloves. This feature, however, in no way limits other possible permutations and number of articles that may be included within each chamber.
  • the present invention relates in part to a package dispenser unit that includes has a housing surrounding a chamber with a substantially vertical orientation, unlike conventional package boxes 1, such as shown for comparison in Figure 1A and 1 B, which has an wide relatively opening 1a located in a top panel.
  • the package in certain embodiments includes a double or multi-chambered dispenser unit that can provide within substantially the same footprint as a conventional dispenser container a greater volume of product.
  • the package can store and dispense at least 50%, up to about 200% or greater capacity than conventional dispenser for protective article products.
  • Each chamber is adapted to contain a plurality of protective articles, such as medical examination gloves or face masks.
  • the chamber has at least an aperture or opening along one side of the housing, so as to access the interior of the chamber from the side.
  • the opening can be shaped having an outline with a narrowing or tapering along a part of the aperture. Desirably the narrow or taper is situated either near the middle or center of the opening, or to one end of the opening; hence, creating for instance, either a generally dog-bone, hour-glass, tear-drop, or paddle-like shapes.
  • the accompanying Figures 2A-D present some illustrative examples of the opening shape 2.
  • FIG. 2A shows an opening having an outline that is a relatively rectangular to trapezoidal shape, with straight and curving major sides narrowing toward each other and shorter rounded or archuit ends.
  • Figure 2B depicts an opening with an outline that has a generally circular or rounded portion 2a and a tapering, elongated tail-like portion 2b extending away from the rounded portion.
  • Figure 2C shows an asymmetric hour-glass or dog-bone-shaped aperture 2 with one end substantially larger than the other.
  • a largely hour-glass shaped opening is also illustrated in Figure 2D; however, part of a panel of the packaging carton is pre-perforated to allow a user to fold or pull out a carry handle 19, which is designed to extend from a top panel once the package carton is properly folded together.
  • Figure 3A depicts the unfolded panels, laid out flat, of another package dispenser design.
  • Figure 3B shows in three-quarter profile, the same package dispenser when properly assembled.
  • a handle extends from the top of the dispenser.
  • the dispenser box contains two chambers positioned back-to-back.
  • a dog-bone-like or hour-glass-like shape outlines the opening 2, which forms part of the face of a panel on one end of the package.
  • the opening 2, as shown, has one end 2a being relatively wider or larger than the other 2b.
  • the opening is covered with a perforated card to protect the dispenser contents until ready to be opened for use.
  • the opening according to the embodiment, has a slightly larger upper end and smaller lower end.
  • An identical opening is situated in the panel face of the box opposite the one shown.
  • a handle is show projecting from the top panel assembled package, as illustrated in Figures 4A and 4B.
  • the tote handle desirably should permit a user to easily pick-up the handle without cutting into the hand of a user, be flexible, and strong enough to carry the weight of a full dispenser package without either tearing the top panel.
  • the handle can be made from either some kind of pliable plastic, hard thermoplastic, woven-cloth fabric, or nonwoven fabric material, or combination of such materials.
  • the body of the handle can be a cloth or nonwoven fabric, while the anchors of the handle are made from a thermoplastic.
  • Figure 5A demonstrates how one may access the contents of the dispenser's interior by means of pealing away and detaching the cover from the opening.
  • Figure 5B illustrates a transparent schematic view of a package dispenser having two identical chambers situated back-to-back.
  • a feature of the present dispenser design is that all of the gloves can be oriented and packed in a unidirectional fashion. That is, the all gloves have cuffs on the same side, and all of the fingers point in the same direction. As shown here, in a preferred embodiment, all of the gloves are oriented in a vertical fashion, with cuff region upward and fingers pointing downward.
  • Figure 5B also demonstrates how a user can pull out gloves from either side of the dispenser by the cuff of each glove, thus avoiding contacting and contaminating the palm, back or finger regions of the glove. It is desirably for stability that the dispenser box generally has a larger area foot-print than its height, even though individual chambers may have a greater height to foot print area.
  • Figures 6A and 6B show that each chamber can hold, according to an embodiment, up to about 250 gloves, which in a package dispenser with two chambers can contain up to about 500 gloves. Other embodiments may contain more or less, such as up to about 275 gloves per chamber, or a total of up to about 550 gloves in a double pack. This is a significantly greater ( ⁇ 2 or 2.5X to ⁇ 5X) number of product articles per dispenser than available in current glove box packaging.
  • the combined two or multi-chambered (odd or even numbered, desirably even) (e.g., 3 or 4) package desirably take the form of a substantially square or rectilinear body. For instance, with four chambers, the combined package would be a cube with each chamber occupying one of the corners.
  • the packaging container can have in certain design embodiments either square, rounded, or chamfered corners.
  • the package dispenser opening is situated either within or proximal to a face of the unit that has a largely curved or chamfered side.
  • the side or face panel of the package dispenser in which the opening or aperture is situated can be either flat planar and parallel with an opposing counterpart panel (shown) or substantially at right angles to an adjacent side panel, or slightly bowed outward and projecting forward from the container (not shown), to maximize the size of each chamber and accommodate a higher capacity of product articles within.
  • the protective articles such as gloves or face masks, that are dispensed from the package unit are oriented within the chamber in a predetermined uniform manner, and the first terminus region is situated either over or proximal to a portion of said protective articles and adapted to facilitate access to said protective article.
  • the package unit can have at least a chamber adapted to contain a plurality of gloves that have all of their cuffs oriented in the same direction.
  • the chamber can have an opening with a substantially hour-glass-like shape, with a narrowing between a first end and a second end.
  • the first and second ends are asymmetrically shaped, wherein said first end is significantly larger than said second end, and said first end is situated proximal and to adapted to access the glove cuffs.
  • the package dispenser unit can include two or more separate chambers. An even number of chambers are desired to have a symmetrical orientation relative to each other. Each chamber can contain at least about 20% to about 50% more gloves per unit volume than a comparable container of identical physical dimensions.
  • the package can further have a handle made from, for instance, either cardstock or plastic can be pulled out to form an arc over a top panel of the package container. This handle can facilitate transport, portable carriage or handling of the container box.
  • a double chamber increases the overall amount of gloves in a dispenser.
  • Vertical orientation of the gloves one to pack more gloves per chamber than conventional allows for more the depth of the container is not as much of an issues as with horizontal orientation.
  • the narrowing or tapered shape of the panel opening prevents the gloves from falling out of its chamber, while presenting the glove cuff outward.

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Abstract

L'invention concerne un système d'emballage distributeur pour des articles de protection, présentant une nouvelle orientation, sensiblement verticale, de stockage des produits et un nouveau design. L'emballage comprend une unite de distribution à deux chambres ou plus qui peut offrir, dans sensiblement le même encombrement qu'un contenant de distribution conventionnel, un plus grand volume de produit. L'emballage peut stocker et distribuer au moins 50%, jusqu'à environ 200% ou plus en capacité par rapport à un distributeur conventionnel pour des articles de protection tels que des gants ou des masques faciaux.
EP07713211A 2006-03-10 2007-03-06 Emballage distributeur à grand volume Withdrawn EP2004518A1 (fr)

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PCT/IB2007/050738 WO2007105145A1 (fr) 2006-03-10 2007-03-06 Emballage distributeur à grand volume

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