WO2009148032A1 - Packaging container - Google Patents

Abstract

A package (2) as a packaging container is provided with a rectangular-parallelepiped-shaped outer body (4) having an opening end (20) in a side thereof, and also with an inner case (6) housed in the outer body (4) such that the inner case (6) can be drawn out of the opening end (20).  The inner case (6) has a box body (24) for holding therein an inner pack (8), and also has a side cover (25) projecting from the opening end (20) with the box body (24) housed in the outer body (4), the side cover (25) functioning as a lid for the opening end (20).

Description

Packaging container

The present invention relates to a packaging container, and more particularly to a slide box type packaging container.

Various packaging containers have been developed in consideration of the properties of the goods. When the article is a tobacco product such as a filter cigarette or cigarette, for example, a hinge-lid type packaging container is often used as the packaging container.
Here, as one form of the hinge lid type packaging container, for example, a hinge lid type packaging container disclosed in Patent Document 1 has been proposed.
A conventionally known hinge lid type packaging container includes a box-shaped outer body, and the outer body has an open end at an upper end thereof. The outer body accommodates an inner pack therein, and the inner pack includes a bundle of cigarettes and an inner packaging material that wraps the bundle of cigarettes.
The open end of the outer body has a box-shaped lid connected to the rear edge of the outer body via a hinge. The lid rotates around the hinge and can open and close the open end.

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By the way, since a conventionally known hinge lid type packaging container has been used for many years, its opening and closing form is familiar to consumers, but it is not attractive to promote consumers' willingness to purchase.
The present invention has been made on the basis of the above circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to provide a packaging container having a simple configuration and a novel opening / closing mode that stimulates consumers' willingness to purchase.

To achieve the above object, a packaging container of the present invention has a rectangular parallelepiped shape, an outer body having an open end on a side portion, an inner case accommodated in the outer body, and holding an article. The inner case has a side portion that can reciprocate in the width direction of the outer body with respect to the outer body and can be pulled out from the opening end.
The inner case described above can be pulled out by sliding sideways from the open end of the side portion of the outer body.
Specifically, the inner case includes a box body having an extraction port for the item at an upper portion thereof, and a side cover attached to a side end portion of the box body and opening and closing the opening end. When housed in the outer body, the side cover projects from the open end.

Preferably, the box body has a rectangular parallelepiped shape and includes a front wall, a rear wall, a bottom wall, and two side walls, and the side cover is located on the opening end side of the outer box among the two side walls. It covers one side wall located and has an outer peripheral edge surrounding this one side wall.
Since the inner case described above includes the side cover, the consumer can easily pull out the inner case from the outer body by simply pinching the side cover, and the product can be easily taken out. Further, since the side cover closes the opening end of the outer body, the product in the packaging container can be blocked from the outside world, and the storage stability of the product can be improved.
Further, according to the packaging container of the present invention, at least one of the front wall and the rear wall of the box body has a substantially rectangular cutout in the upper part thereof, so that it is easy to take out the item from the inner case.

Furthermore, the packaging container of the present invention may further include stopper means for preventing the inner case from coming off from the opening end of the outer body. Accordingly, the sliding amount of the inner case can be limited when the inner case is pulled out from the outer body by a predetermined length, and the inner case can be effectively prevented from falling off the outer body.
Specifically, the stopper means extends from the other side wall of the box body in a direction that intersects the direction in which the inner case is pulled out, and extends from the opening end of the outer body toward the protrusion. And a contact piece engageable with the protrusion, and the contact piece is sandwiched between the outer body and the box body.
When the inner case is pulled out from the outer body, the above-described contact piece engages with a protrusion provided on the box body. As a result, the inner case does not advance any further and stops when a predetermined amount is drawn from the outer body. The contact piece is sandwiched between the outer body and the box body of the inner case and is always in contact with the outer surface of the box body. Suppresses unnecessarily jumping out of the outer body.

Furthermore, the packaging container of the present invention further includes an overwrap film that covers the entire outer body and the side cover, and the overwrap film has a tear tape that extends along the outer periphery of the open end. preferable.
According to this configuration, when the film is torn, it can be clearly seen that the item in the packaging container has been damaged, which helps to prevent mischief to the item. Further, since the tear tape is disposed along the opening end of the outer body, the side cover of the inner case is exposed only by peeling off the tear tape. Therefore, the inner case can be slid by pinching the exposed side cover, and there is no need to remove the entire film.

According to the packaging container of the present invention, the inner case holding the product is pulled out by being slid sideways from the outer body. As a result, the packaging container of the present invention can provide a unique opening / closing mode as compared with a normal package and can appeal strongly to the consumer, and thus can promote the consumer's willingness to purchase.

It is the perspective view shown in the state where the package of one Embodiment was closed. It is the perspective view which showed the package of FIG. 1 in the state by which the inner case was pulled out. FIG. 2 is a partially cutaway perspective view showing the package of FIG. 1 in an exploded state. FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view taken along line AA in FIG. FIG. 4 is a view of the box body as viewed from the direction of arrow B in FIG. 3. It is the figure which showed the blank which forms an outer body. It is the figure which showed the blank which forms a box body. It is the figure which showed the blank which forms a side cover.

FIG. 1 shows a package 2 of one embodiment.
The package 2 is a packaging container that accommodates tobacco products such as filter cigarettes and cigarettes, and has a rectangular parallelepiped shape as a whole and is covered with a transparent overwrap film 120.
The package 2 includes an outer body 4 as shown in FIG. The outer body 4 has an opening end 20 on the side, and accommodates an inner case 6 that can be pulled out from the opening end 20.
More specifically, as shown in FIG. 3, the outer body 4 has a rectangular parallelepiped shape as a whole having a front wall 10, a rear wall 12, a bottom wall 14, an upper wall 16 and a side wall 18. One side surface of the outer body 4 is open. That is, the opposite end of the side wall 18 is the opening end 20 described above. Further, at the opening end 20, contact pieces 22 are provided at opening edges along the front wall 10 and the rear wall 12, respectively. More specifically, as shown in FIG. 4, these contact pieces 22 are formed in the front wall 10 and the rear wall 12 from the opening edge of the opening end 20 toward the inner side in the width direction of the outer body 4 (in the direction of arrow C in FIG. 4). It is the extending plate-shaped member. The contact piece 22 is bent with a ridge toward the front-rear direction of the outer body 4, that is, the inner side in the thickness direction. That is, the inner case 6 accommodated in the outer body 4 is urged in a direction in which the inner case 6 is sandwiched (direction of arrow D in FIG. 4).

As shown in FIG. 2, the inner case 6 is a drawer that is reciprocated in the width direction of the outer body 4, and includes a box body 24 that houses the inner pack 8.
As shown in FIG. 3, the box body 24 has a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape having a front wall 26, a rear wall 28, a bottom wall 30, and two side walls 32 and 34, and an upper portion is opened. The inside of the box body 24 has a space that can accommodate the inner pack 8. Here, the inner pack 8 is one in which, for example, 20 tobacco products having a length of 85 mm are wrapped with an inner packaging material. This inner packaging material includes paper and an aluminum film deposited on the surface of the paper. The encapsulating aluminum film not only protects the cigarette bundle from moisture, but also prevents the release of fragrance from the cigarette commodity bundle, i.e. the individual tobacco commodity. Instead of the above-described aluminum vapor-deposited paper, laminated paper can be used as the inner packaging material, and this laminated paper has a shielding layer for preventing passage of moisture and fragrance therein.
As apparent from FIG. 3, the front wall 26 and the rear wall 28 have substantially rectangular cutouts 36 and 38 in the upper part. The cutouts 36 and 38 open an upper opening of the box body 24, that is, a product outlet, so that the tobacco product in the inner pack 8 can be easily taken out.
The bottom wall 30 has a rectangular shape, and is positioned at a position facing the above-described upper opening to form the bottom of the box body 24.

One side wall (hereinafter referred to as the inner side wall 32) is a side wall located in the outer body 4 and has a rectangular shape. And this inner wall 32 has a total of four protrusions 40, two each on the upper and lower portions of the front edge on the front wall 26 side and the rear edge on the rear wall 28 side. More specifically, as shown in FIG. 5, the protrusion 40 has a rectangular shape, and slightly protrudes in the width direction of the box body 24, that is, in the directions of arrow E and arrow F in FIG. 5. These protrusions 40 come into contact with the tip of the contact piece 22 of the outer body 4 described above when the inner case 6 is pulled out. That is, the box body 24 includes a protruding portion 40 that functions as a stopper that prevents the box body 24 from coming off from the opening of the outer body 4 at the periphery of the inner wall 32 positioned in the outer body 4.
As shown in FIG. 3, the other side wall (hereinafter referred to as the outer wall 34) has a rectangular shape and is positioned on the opposite side of the inner wall 32 described above. A side cover 25 is attached to the outer wall 34 (see FIG. 2), and the side cover 25 functions as a lid that closes the opening 20 of the outer body 4.

As is clear from FIG. 3, the side cover 25 includes a rectangular horizontal plate 42 and an outer peripheral edge 44 in which the outer peripheral edge of the horizontal plate 42 is raised. That is, the side cover 25 includes a rectangular recess 46 inside. The shape of the recess 46 is the same as that of the outer wall 34 of the box body 24, and the recess 46 is fitted with a portion on the outer wall 34 side of the box body 24. Further, the tip of the outer peripheral edge 44 of the side cover 25 is set so as to coincide with the entire opening edge of the opening end 20 in the outer body 4. For this reason, when the box body 24 is accommodated in the outer body 4, the side cover 25 can close the opening of the outer body 4.
The package 2 can be formed from an outer body blank 48 corresponding to the outer body 4, a box body blank 50 corresponding to the box body, and a side cover blank 52 corresponding to the side cover 25.

As shown in FIG. 6, the outer body blank 48 has a rear panel 54 that serves as the rear wall 12 of the outer body 4, and the rear wall is provided on one side edge (for example, the left side in FIG. 6) of the rear panel 54. The contact piece flap 56 which becomes the contact piece 22 on the 12 side is continuous. Further, an upper panel 58 serving as the upper wall 16 is connected to the upper portion of the rear panel 54, and a bottom panel 60 serving as the bottom wall 14 is connected to the lower portion of the rear panel 54. Further, the rear panel 54 is connected to a side panel 62 which is located on the side opposite to the contact flap 56 and serves as the side wall 18 of the outer body 4. The side panel 62 is connected to a front panel 64 that is located on the opposite side of the rear panel 54 and serves as the front wall 10 of the outer body 4. The front panel 64 is connected to a contact flap 66 that is located on the opposite side of the side panel 62 and serves as the contact piece 22 on the front wall 10 side. Further, an inner top flap 68 for the upper panel 58 is connected to the upper portion of the front panel 64. The inner top flap 68 is connected to an inner side flap 70 that is positioned above the side panel 62 and overlapped with the side panel 62. On the other hand, an inner bottom flap 72 for the bottom panel 60 is connected to the lower portion of the front panel 64. The inner bottom flap 72 is continuous with an inner side flap 74 that is positioned below the side panel 62 and overlapped with the side panel 62.

As shown in FIG. 7, the box body blank 50 has a front panel 76 and a rear panel 78 that become the front wall 26 and the rear wall 28 of the box body 24, and these panels 76, 78 are the bottom walls of the box body 24. They are connected to each other through a bottom panel 80 which becomes 30. An inner panel 82 serving as the inner wall 32 is connected to one side edge (right side in FIG. 7) of the rear panel 78, and an outer wall is connected to the other side edge (left side in FIG. 7) of the rear wall panel 78. The outer panel 84 which becomes 34 is connected. In addition, an inner side flap 86 for the inner panel 82 is connected to one side edge of the front panel 76, and an inner side flap 88 for the outer panel 84 is connected to the other side edge of the front panel 76. It is lined up. The inner side flaps 86 and 88 are connected to inner bottom flaps 90 and 92 that are positioned on both sides of the bottom panel 80 and overlap the bottom panel 80, respectively.
Here, substantially rectangular cutouts 94 and 96 are formed in the upper part of the rear panel 78 and the lower part of the front panel 76, and the cutouts 94 and 96 become the cutout recesses 36 and 38.

In addition, a vertically long C-shape is formed between the rear panel 78 and the side panel 82 and between the front panel 76 and the inner side flap 86 so as to overlap the folding line indicated by a double line in FIG. A cut 98 is provided. The notch 98 slightly protrudes toward the front panel 76 and the rear panel 78 when the box body blank 50 is folded along the folding line, and becomes the protrusion 40 described above.
As shown in FIG. 8, the side cover blank 52 includes a horizontal panel 100 that serves as a horizontal plate 42 of the side cover 25, and upper and lower outer peripheral edges 44 of the side cover 25 are provided above and below the horizontal panel 100. The outer peripheral flaps 102 and 104 are connected to each other. In addition, the outer peripheral flaps 102 and 104 are located on the opposite side of the horizontal panel 100, and the inner top flap 106 and the inner bottom flap that are the inner surfaces of the outer peripheral edges 44 of the side cover 25 corresponding to the outer peripheral flaps 102 and 104. 108 are connected to each other.

On the other hand, the outer peripheral edge flaps 110 and 112 which become the outer peripheral edge 44 of the both sides of the side cover 25 are connected to both sides of the horizontal panel 100, respectively. In addition, inner side flaps 114 and 116 that are located on the opposite side of the lateral panel 100 and that are the inner surfaces of the outer peripheral edge 44 of the side cover 25 corresponding to the outer peripheral peripheral flaps 110 and 112 are respectively provided on the outer peripheral peripheral flaps 110 and 112. It is lined up. Further, the inner side flaps 118 overlapped with the outer peripheral flaps 102 and 104 are connected to the upper and lower sides of the outer peripheral flaps 110 and 112, respectively.
In the case of the present embodiment, the blanks 48, 50, 52 are made of paper material, their weight is 180 to 270 g / m ² , and their thickness is 0.2 to 0.5 mm. Here, the blanks 48, 50, and 52 may be card paper, Manila cardboard, or the like. The blanks 48, 50, and 52 described above are respectively folded from the folding lines indicated by the double lines in FIGS. 6 to 8, and the outer body 4, the box body 24, and the side cover 25 are respectively molded. As a result, the package 2 with the side cover 25 closed as shown in FIG. 1 is obtained.

More specifically, the inner pack 8 is combined with the box body blank 50. Thereafter, the box body blank 50 is folded with respect to the inner pack 8 to obtain the box body 24 that accommodates the inner pack 8.
On the other hand, the side cover blank 52 is folded in a separate process, and the side cover 25 is prepared. And the part by the side of the outer wall 34 of the box body 24 which accommodates the inner pack 8 is fitted and glued to the recess 46 of the side cover 25.
Next, in the outer body blank 48, first, the contact flaps 56 and 66 on both sides are folded. Thereafter, the box body 24 having the side cover 25 and containing the inner pack 8 is placed on the outer body blank 48, and the outer body blank 48 is folded around the box body 24 as is well known. The package 2 shown in FIG. 1 in which the box body 24 with 25 is accommodated in the outer body 4 is formed.

When the tobacco product is thus packaged in the package 2, each individual package is thereafter covered with, for example, a transparent overwrap film. As shown in FIG. 1, the overwrap film 120 includes a tear tape 122 disposed along the open end 20 of the outer body 4.
A consumer who has purchased the package 2 first opens the overwrap film 120 along the tear tape 122. The box body 24 connected to the side cover 25 is pulled out from the outer body 4 in the lateral direction while pinching the exposed side cover 25. As a result, the inner pack 8 is exposed from the outer body 4 together with the box body 24, as shown in FIG. be able to. Thereafter, when the box body 24 is returned into the outer body 4, the package 2 is used as a case for tobacco products.

Here, contact pieces 22 are disposed on the front wall 10 side and the rear wall 12 side of the opening end 20 of the outer body 4, and the contact pieces 22 are bent so as to rise toward the inside of the outer body 4. Yes. For this reason, the tip of the contact piece 22 is along the front wall 26 and the rear wall 28 of the box body 24. When the box body 24 is pulled out from the outer body 4 in this state, the protrusion 40 provided on the inner wall 32 of the box body 24 comes into contact with the tip of the contact piece 22, and the box body 24 does not advance any further. That is, the sliding of the inner case 6 is limited by the engagement between the contact piece 22 and the protrusion 40.
Further, since the front end of the contact piece 22 is always in contact with the front wall 26 and the rear wall 28 of the box body 24, resistance against the sliding of the box body 24 is obtained. On the other hand, since the protruding portion 40 of the box body 24 is also in contact with the inner surfaces of the front wall 10 and the rear wall 12 of the outer body 4, resistance against the sliding of the box body 24 occurs. For this reason, the box body 24 is prevented from moving undesirably by the action of the contact piece 22 and the protrusion 40.

As described above, the package 2 according to this embodiment can be pulled out by the consumer by holding the side cover 25 and sliding the box body 24 in the horizontal direction, so that the opening / closing mode is novel compared to the conventional package. , Can motivate consumers to buy.
Further, since the box body 24 can be pulled out simply by pinching the side cover 25, there is no need to make a hole in the side wall 18 of the outer body 4 and push out the box body 24. For this reason, the outer peripheral edge 44 of the side cover 25 is exposed only by peeling off the tear tape 122 arranged along the opening end 20 of the outer body 4, and the side cover 25 can be easily pinched, and the entire overwrap film There is no need to remove. Further, since the package 2 has a shape in which the tobacco product enters the recess 46 of the side cover 25, the package 2 has a dimension that can be easily pinched with respect to the outer peripheral edge 44 of the side cover 25 in the width direction of the package 2. The overall width of the package 2 can be the same as that of other types of packages that accommodate 20 tobacco products.

The present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment, and various modifications can be made.
For example, the packaging container of the present invention is not limited to an aspect in which the contact piece 22 is provided over the entire open end 20 of the front wall 10 and the rear wall 12, and is an aspect in which the contact piece 22 is disposed only at a position corresponding to the protrusion 40. It does not matter.
Also, in this embodiment, a description has been given of a package of a size that wraps the inner pack 8 that accommodates 20 tobacco products of 85 mm in length, but it is compatible with tobacco products of a length of about 95 mm to 100 mm. It does not matter even if it is the size.
Furthermore, the packaging container of this invention is applicable also to accommodation of foodstuffs, such as confectionery other than tobacco goods.

2 Package 4 Outer body 6 Inner case 8 Inner pack 20 Open end 22 Contact piece 24 Box body 25 Side cover 40 Protruding part 120 Overwrap film 122 Tear tape

Claims (7)

An outer body having a rectangular parallelepiped shape and having an open end on a side portion;
An inner case accommodated in the outer body, the inner case holding an article,
The inner case is a packaging container that can reciprocate in the width direction of the outer body with respect to the outer body and has one side portion that can be pulled out from the opening end. The inner case is
A box body having an outlet for the item at the top;
A side cover attached to a side end of the box body and opening and closing the open end;
The packaging container according to claim 1, wherein when the box body is accommodated in the outer body, the side cover protrudes from the opening end. The box body has a rectangular parallelepiped shape, and has a front wall, a rear wall, a bottom wall, and two side walls,
The packaging container according to claim 2, wherein the side cover is placed on one of the two side walls located on the opening end side of the outer box and has an outer peripheral edge surrounding the one side wall. The packaging container according to claim 3, wherein at least one of the front wall and the rear wall of the box body has a substantially rectangular cutout in an upper part thereof. The packaging container according to claim 4, further comprising stopper means for preventing the inner case from coming off from the opening end of the outer body. The stopper means includes
A protruding portion that protrudes from the other side wall of the box body in a direction intersecting with the direction of drawing out the inner case;
A contact piece that extends from the open end of the outer body toward the protrusion and is engageable with the protrusion;
The packaging container according to claim 5, wherein the contact piece is sandwiched between the outer body and the box body. The packaging container according to claim 6, further comprising an overwrap film that covers the entire outer body and the side cover, wherein the overwrap film has a tear tape extending along an outer periphery of the open end.

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