FR2808780A1 - Container for bottle or urinal used by bed-ridden patient has upper end flaps with pairs of holes for hooks used to suspend container - Google Patents

Abstract

The container (1), designed for packaging and suspending a bottle or urinal, has upper end flaps (3, 4, 5, 6) perforated with pairs of holes (7) to receive a hooked component (8) for suspending the container and bottle from a display unit, bed or the interior of an ambulance. The container is made from a cut, folded and fastened panel of a polyolefin material such as an opaque or transparent plastic, and the hooked component is made from a rigid rod bent to the required shape.

Description

There are bottle holders, urinals, kinds of baskets metal rods endowed to their upper anterior parts of a system of hooks to hang them especially after structures of a bed.

For bottles, urinals, etc. <B> .... </ B> their known packaging are not used in particular as bottle holders or urinals or as display stands for them.

Their packaging, when they have one, is neither designed nor designed to be used as a bottle rack, a urinal container or a display. Indeed, none of these packages has an equivalent hole system in conjunction with one or more connecting elements allowing these packages to be positioned for example against the structure of a bed so that the bed can have within reach of a bottle of water or urinal contained in said packaging.

In addition, existing bottle racks or urinals have no surface suitable for possibly print a text etching.

The multi-function packaging, object of the invention is a packaging for bottle or urinal, etc ..., one of the original features is that this package, for example a case opening at its upper end to receive bottle or urinal, is established to be also used as bottle holder or urinal holder and for this purpose it has at least one set of means able to position it for example against the structure of a bed, its upper walls and those of their flaps being equipped in particular to their upper parts with a hole system judiciously provided with one or more removable or non-removable connecting elements which are engaged and designed to hold in a fixed and removable manner and which exceed in particular outwardly the case ending to form a fixed or removable system capable of being maintained after the structure of a bed - for example a system of hooks.

To store the junction elements in the package and keep them there when they are not used, just introduce them judiciously into holes provided for this purpose in particular in two upper half-flaps previously folded for them only partially protrude from them and then press them in with the large upper flap, which is locked by another flap.

easily conceives that the binding element of the packaging against for example the structure of a bed can be made differently than that just described to fix removably or permanently the package relative to the structure of the bed, from a wheelchair or inside an ambulance.

We claim for this purpose in the context of the invention by way of non-limiting examples four other means of connection between the packaging and the structure of a bed, a wheelchair and others.

These means are 11 A link between the packaging and the structure of a bed. 2I A system of direct adhesive between the packaging and the structure of a bed, or others.

A system of two adhesive strips respectively attached to the parts to be assembled and held together through their textile fibers (Velcro).

41 A system of nail or screws protruding from the stowage structure on which the buttonhole of the upper flaps or the body of the holster hangs.

A preferred embodiment of the invention described hereinafter by way of non-limiting example.

According to a first embodiment of the invention FIG. 1 represents the invention in a cavalier perspective, with open flaps.

The twin holes of the type (2) are of similar spacing to the spacing between the two branches of the connecting element (8).

The package according to the invention is constituted by a case (1) forming a box that closes, capable of containing a bottle or a urinal, etc ..., having on its body four twin holes type on its front face and four flaps (3) (4) (5) (6) open at its upper end having a total of twelve suitably positioned twin holes (2) for receiving the connecting element (8) dimensioned accordingly and bent eight times to pass in particular through the four twin holes of the type (2) of the flap (6). In this position (one of six possible positions in height), the two hooks of said connecting element (8) are in the flap (6) wedged in position to hook for example to the side structures of a bed of hospitalization. The other four pair-type holes (2) located lower on the body of the case (1) are suitably positioned to also receive the link member (8) and even the four paired holes of the type (2) judiciously positioned on the flap (4). The use of twin lower holes of the type (2) raises all the case (1) thus allowing to adjust its height relative to the external attachment structures of the connecting element.

The perforation 1) forming a buttonhole is intended to let the rod of a linear to suspend the case (1) in a store or to be traversed by a nail a screw protruding for example from the lateral side of a bed to maintain suspended the case (1) against the lateral structures of said bed.

The bottom of the case consists of three flaps (12) (13) (14). A locking tongue (15) is housed in the perforation (16) to keep the lower opening of the case (1) closed. To maintain the tongue (15) in the locking position, its center is judiciously cut along three sides to form a flexible pin (17) capable of preventing the tongue (15) from coming out of the perforation (16). Figure 2 shows the invention, in a cavalier perspective, made of transparent plastic material to fully distinguish the connecting element (8), the flaps (3) and (5) being closed.

When the flaps (3) and (5) close the opening of the case (1), their four suitably positioned paired holes (2) receive the connecting element (8) as shown in FIG. 2. To keep stored in the case (1) this connecting element when it is not used to position for example the case (1) against the structure of a bed, it is sufficient to press on him the flap (4) locked in this position by the tongue (9) by introducing it into the perforation 0).

According to this first embodiment of the invention, the constituent material of the case (1) being in particular the sheet of polypropylene plastic material, the case (1) is insensitive to water and acids, and it is sterilizable. Finally, the polypropylene was chosen in a transparent quality so that this case (1) can serve as a display for what it contains and advertising base with text and prints.

Other non-illustrated embodiments of the invention exist. They differ in their holster / outer tie-down connection systems from the means described in the first embodiment of the invention. According to a second embodiment of the invention A link in the form of, for example, a ribbon passes through a system of holes judiciously placed in the wall of the case (1) and then surrounds an element of the external structure tie down. two ends of this ribbon are assembled in particular by a system of nodes.

According to a third embodiment of the invention A double-sided adhesive tape connects one against the other wall of the case (1) to the external lashing wall of the tape.

According to a fourth embodiment of the invention, a tape system, one side of which comprises adhesive, the other of the textile fibers, is glued against the wall of the case (1). Another identical ribbon system is glued against the outer lashing wall of the ribbon. It is sufficient to bring the two fibrous surfaces which then fit together and hold the case (1) against the external lashing wall of the ribbon.

According to a fifth embodiment of the invention a buttonhole (11) located in the wall of the case or in some of its flaps receives and supports the stem of a nail or a screw whose stem is incompletely inserted into the outer wall fixing the nail or the screw. The usual fate for a bottle or urinal packaging, in this case an ordinary case, is to be discarded after recovery of its contents.

The originality of these packings made according to the invention has the consequence that it can not be made, since in addition to its natural packaging function, it is provided with other important, practical and economic functions.

Indeed, we have seen that in addition to being a packaging, it is usable as a box to keep bottle or urinal, that being transparent, it is used as a display in a window for the articles it contains and as advertising base for text and prints printable on its surface. It dispenses with the production of a separate printed record (economy).

This packaging a case that, except when it is folded, is able to be closed thanks to its flaps. Its height relative to the ground is adjustable and depends on the choice of twin holes in which the connecting element is wedged. The materials that constitute are sterilizable by autoclaving. A perforation in its small upper flap suspends this case on the stems of the store shelves or a screw of its external stowage structure.

Finally, the case can be used as a bottle holder or as a urinal holder thanks to a connecting element that allows it to be fixed after the structure of a bed thus putting within reach of a bed, bottle of water or urinal arranged in holster. It exempts from the purchase of a bed bottle holder or urinal holder (economy).

Claims (1)

Claims 11 Packaging characterized by the fact that it is a case (1) capable of holding a bottle or a urinal, etc. This case (1) comprises the flaps (3) (4) (5) located at its upper end. The flaps (12) 3) (14) are located at its lower end. At its upper end, the case (1) and its flaps (4) (5) (6) comprise twin holes (7) of type (2) for anchoring a connecting element (8). A perforation 0) is on the flap (4). A perforation (11) and a tongue (9) are on the flap (6). At the lower end of the case (1), a perforation (16) is on the flap (13). A tongue (15) with its lug (17) are at the bottom of the wall of the case (1). 21 Packaging according to claim 1 characterized in that it consists of a sheet of material judiciously cut, folded, glued, stapled or welded forming the case (1). 31 Packaging according to claims 1 and 2 characterized in that the constituent material of the case (1) is of the family of polyolefins. 41 Packaging according to the preceding claims characterized in that the case (1) is made of opaque plastic material or transparent. <B> 51 </ B> Packaging according to the preceding claims characterized in that it has a system of connecting elements (8). 61 Packaging according to the preceding claims characterized by connecting element (8) which is a rigid rod whose section allows it to be easily introduced into the twin holes type (2), it is judiciously bent a number of times to support the wall of the case (1), that its two extremities end in the shape of a hook. 71 Packaging according to the preceding claims characterized by the fact that its body and its upper flaps (3) (4) (5) (6) comprise twin holes of the type (2) judiciously positioned to receive and accommodate at different levels of the case (1) the connecting element system (8). 81 Packaging according to the preceding claims characterized in that the flaps (3) and (5) are folded down, they comprise twin holes of the type (2) in which the connecting element has been partially accommodated ( 8) to remain stowed, that the flap (4) in the folded position plate the connecting element (8) and holds it under the pressure of the flap (6) maintained folded by its tongue (9) introduced into the perforation (10). 91 Packaging according to the preceding claims characterized by the perforation (11) on its flap (6) to allow to suspend the multi-function packaging to the rods of the linear stores or to hang it on a screw or a nail protruding from the structure of a stowage point. 10! Packaging according to the preceding claims, characterized in that the packaging / structure connection element of a tie-down point is a link, one end of which passes through a system of holes in the wall of the holster and then passes around a element of the structure of a docking point is tied with the other end of said link. <B> 111 </ B> Packaging according to the preceding claims characterizes the fact that a system of ribbons one side comprises adhesive bonded against the wall of the case and the other side of which exceed many textile fibers . Analogous maneuver with identical ribbon glued against structure of the stowage point. It is sufficient to bring the two fibrous surfaces which interlock and bring the case against the structure of the stowage point. Adhesive tapes with textile fibers can be replaced with a single double-sided tape.