RU210177U1 - Gift box - Google Patents

Abstract

The utility model relates to a universal gift package with individual inner cells, access to which is carried out only through special perforated windows located on 3, 4, 5, 6 or more sides of the box, and can be used for the purpose of picking and, accordingly, sale, storage, carrying, advertising gift sets of various subjects from different product categories. A gift box for sets of items of various product categories consists of outer and inner parts, where the outer part is a single cardboard blank with perforation lines applied to it, connected along the fold lines into a hollow box in the shape of a polyhedron, and the inner part is a single structure of individual cells, each having at least 1 face completely or partially open. The technical result is, while maintaining the specifics of opening the product like advent calendars (the user has direct and separate access directly to each of the internal cells where the item included in the set is), increasing the usable area inside. 6 w.p. f-ly, 11 ill.

Description

The utility model relates to a universal gift package with individual inner cells, which are accessed through special perforated windows located on 3 or more sides of the box, and can be used for the purpose of completing and, accordingly, selling, storing, carrying, advertising gift sets of various subjects. from different product categories: cosmetics, accessories, toys, household items, stationery, tea, sweets, spices, as well as other products and goods that are not large-sized, which can be presented to an adult or a child.

As a prototype, the design of the so-called "advent calendars" (Christmas calendars) was taken, which are gift boxes with individual cells, formed, as a rule, by partition walls or a special substrate that breaks part or all of the internal space of the box into separate cells - access to the inner content is carried out through special “perforated windows” (often, the perforation lines are in the shape of the letter “P” or “H” and therefore the folded edges look like drop-down window sashes), by pressing on which you can bend part of the outer box and gain access to the contents specific cell. For example, patent No. DE000020301527 issued on December 24, 2003 in the name of DAHLMANN YAVE LTD. or patent No. RU0002646736 dated March 6, 2018, issued in the name of TOBER Martsel (DE)

There are many useful models of Christmas calendars, however, they have certain disadvantages (some - all, some - only some), in particular:

1. The pockets are numbered and must be opened on a specific day - in fact, they clearly demonstrate the approach of a certain holiday / event and make it possible to conduct a “countdown”. There is a “seasonality” of a commercial product and certain restrictions in the circle of potential buyers (due to differences in religion, culture, etc.).

2. The content of the inner cells is secondary, the emphasis is on the method of opening or timing, in this regard, the sum of the volumes of the inner cells is much less than the volume of the entire internal space of the box. Thus, a lot of internal volume is lost, and the size of investments is often reduced to rather modest parameters, significantly limiting the selection of goods that can potentially be included in the set.

3. The design of the box assumes that the perforated windows are, as a rule, in the same plane and are immediately visible to the buyer.

The closest to the claimed product, in our opinion, is the packaging for storing, carrying, demonstrating and advertising sets of containers with liquid (patent for PM No. 112894 dated 2011, issued in the name of Lyubov Borisovna Yugrina (RU). The packaging for this patent is a cardboard a box in the form of a hollow parallelepiped or prism with internal intersectional partitions with or without holders for containers, having a base, a top cover made without the possibility of opening it, with a handle attached to it.This utility model is also not without the first drawback mentioned above, but it, unlike many other models, can be opened from 4 or more sides (though only side ones).Among the disadvantages of this box, one can note the lack of versatility.The design of cardboard intersection partitions is subject to certain geometric and physical rules for carrying and storing goods, and in for liquids, these rules are even greater. in a parallelogram or a prism in two or three tiers, it is impractical to place containers with liquid (unless they are very small, and this is also a significant limitation) - excessive load on the partitions leads to their deflection and loss of appearance and functionality of the product as a whole. In addition, in order for the cardboard partitions to be stable, some symmetry is required, both in geometry and in mass. Among other things, when tilting a partially empty box, deflection / displacement of the intersection partitions and the loss of part of the functionality of the box and even the appearance of the product may occur. To avoid such cases, it seems necessary to refine the internal cells.

In addition, in the mentioned utility model, the number of rows is limited and can be a maximum of 2-3. Even with 3 rows, an empty cell will remain in the center - after all, there will be no access to it (perforated windows are only in the side faces). And this is uneconomical in terms of transportation.

Thus, taking into account all of the above, when creating the claimed product, the task was to increase the functionality of the box, improve its consumer properties and consumer attractiveness due to:

1. avoiding "seasonality" and deprivation of binding to calendar holidays,

2. improvements to the box to a universal one, suitable for completely different categories of goods. This would make it possible to compose thematic sets in the most unexpected configurations, allowing for a significant difference in the volumes, sizes and weights of individual attachments relative to each other (where only the overall carrying capacity and strength of the outer box will be the limiting parameter).

3. optimizing the internal space of the box, increasing the stability of the walls of the internal cells and increasing the amount of usable space inside.

4. redistribution of perforated windows on different sides of the outer box (3,4,5 or more sides) so that a person could not immediately capture the number and places of opening of perforated windows. To open all the cells, you will need to rotate the box and examine it from all sides. The element of the game, which consists in searching for perforated windows, as well as the fact of surprises hidden inside, combined with the need to perform a certain “ritual” of actions, will significantly increase the value of the gift set and increase the number of pleasant emotions associated with the “unpacking” of such a gift.

The need to solve the above tasks led to the following features of the claimed product:

The claimed product is combined and consists of external and internal parts:

1) The outer part is a flat single blank, connected along the fold lines into a hollow box in the form of a regular or irregular polyhedron (cube, parallelepiped, prism, octahedron, dodecahedron, etc.) with a glued base and lid, not intended for opening completely. Access to internal cells is carried out only through perforated windows (see Fig.1,2,5,8). Perforated windows can be located on any 3 or more sides of the outer box.

2) The inner part is a single system of inner cells formed in one of 3 ways or a combination of them:

2.1) From 3 or more flat blanks, separately assembled and / or glued into individual cells, open on 1 or 2 sides. The finished cells after assembly are glued together with adhesive tape or glue and / or fastened together in another way, for example, using a system of special slotted tongues (see Fig.3,4)

2.2) From partition walls made of cardboard, plastic, wood or other wood composite material capable of supporting the weight of the internal contents without deflection (see Fig.6,7). If necessary, for additional fixation in order to avoid displacement of the partition to the side, it is possible to use additional fixators, for example, small stops in the corners of the outer box or "corners" that secure the intermediate bases with vertical partitions, or additional supports / walls of the outer sections with appropriate cutouts opposite the perforated windows (if the opening of such windows is provided from this side). However, such supports/walls/retainers are not necessary if the geometry of the outer box itself holds the partition walls, preventing them from moving. For example, in FIG. 9,10 in the dodecahedron, each partition, repeating the inner contour of the outer box (at the place of installation), rests against the corners of the figure - in this case, the possible displacement of the partitions is negligible and can be ignored.

2.3) from one or more plastic or polyethylene molds obtained by casting (see Fig. 11)

The finished internal structure of the cells is filled with the appropriate gift filling and placed inside the outer hollow box, glued / attached to it if necessary (it is also possible to provide a special die-cut handle that is threaded through the upper face (lid). Thus, all or almost all of the internal space of the outer box It turns out to be represented by hollow inner cells fastened together, located inside so that the perforated "windows" of the outer box are exactly opposite the open parts of the cells filled with goods.

The design of the outer box of the product does not provide for opening the lid in the usual way: it does not make it possible to get acquainted with all the contents of the box at once. The lid and base of the box are carefully glued to the flaps of the corresponding side/end sides, although this does not exclude the placement of perforated windows on these sides (cutouts of appropriate size can be made in the side/end flaps to facilitate opening such perforated windows).

Access to each of the inner cells is carried out through perforated "windows" of the outer box with 3 or more faces. On one side there can be either one perforated window or several - depending on the size and geometric shape of the outer box, as well as the number of inner cells. The perforated lines through which the cells are accessed can be of any direction and, accordingly, can form any shape of the resulting hole. Moreover, the bend, length and dimensions of the perforated lines, as well as the shape of the sections of the outer box bent to the sides may differ from each other for different "windows". The foldable/tearable parts are called perforated windows only for the sake of convenience and, in fact, can be completely different in shape. The main thing is that the hole formed as a result of bending / tearing off the perforation is sufficient to pull out the contents of a particular cell through it, while the boundaries of the hole should be correlated with the boundaries of the inner cells (although it is not necessary that one perforated window provides access to only one inner cell).

Thus, the technical result is to increase the attractiveness of gift packaging for consumers, including by increasing the useful area inside, a greater variety of geometric shapes of the product. The modified structure of its internal cells allows you to create internal asymmetry, the cells can be different in volume and / or size. This, in turn, allows you to approach the internal content of gift sets with much more imagination, and therefore stimulate sales due to the possibility of completing sets with items of completely different product categories. The increased number of faces from which perforated pockets can be opened makes it possible to create cells in several rows, tiers allows you to include more positions in the gift set and extend the pleasure of receiving and “unwrapping” such a gift.

Claims (7)

1. A gift box for sets of items of various product categories, characterized in that it consists of outer and inner parts, where the outer part is a single cardboard blank with perforation lines applied to it, connected along the fold lines into a hollow box in the shape of a polyhedron, and the inner the part is a single structure of individual cells, each having at least 1 face completely or partially open. 2. Gift box according to claim 1, characterized in that the base and lid of its outer part are glued with side flaps and do not open, and access to the contents of individual cells is carried out only through "perforated windows" - special holes formed on any three or more the edges of the outer part of the gift box when bending or tearing off individual sections along the perforated lines. 3. A gift box according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that its inner part is a single structure of individual cells assembled / glued independently from each other from separate cardboard blanks. 4. Gift packaging according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that its inner part is a single structure of individual cells formed by partition walls made of cardboard, plastic, metal, metal alloy, wood or wood composite material, with additional clamps , struts/supports or without them, if the outer part of the gift box structurally supports the internal partitions and prevents them from moving. 5. Gift packaging according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that its inner part is a single structure of individual cells formed by partition walls made of cardboard, plastic, metal, metal alloy, wood or wood composite material, with additional walls , supporting the outer cells and having corresponding cutouts opposite the "perforated windows", if the opening of such "windows" is provided from this side, or without such walls, if the outer part of the gift box structurally supports the internal partitions and does not allow them to move. 6. Gift packaging according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that its inner part is a single structure of individual cells formed from one or more plastic or polyethylene parts made by casting. 7. Gift packaging according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that its inner part is a single structure of individual cells formed from the materials and methods listed in paragraphs. 3-6, in any combination.

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