WO2013084015A1

WO2013084015A1 - Container for bottles of drinks

Info

Publication number: WO2013084015A1
Application number: PCT/HU2012/000131
Authority: WO
Inventors: Dezső MATYI
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 2011-12-09
Filing date: 2012-12-07
Publication date: 2013-06-13
Anticipated expiration: 2014-06-09
Also published as: HUP1100675A2

Abstract

The subject of the invention is a container for bottles of drinks, which allows the safe and breakage-free transport of glass or plastic bottles, and at the same time, which withstand mechanical loads as well as dropping, and it has a simple structure, its production is inexpensive, and it can be manufactured preferably with environment-friendly base material and simply disposed off. The container according to the invention has a rigid supporting frame (6) made of light structure, and in the internal part of this a supporting frame (6) a storing part (14) is formed for placing bottles of drinks (12), which is characterised by that the supporting frame (6) consists of two frame parts (7, 8), that are produced from rigid planar sheets by means of cutting out and embossing, where the said frame parts (7, 8) are fitted together after folding them to shape, and are connected at the lower and upper ends of the supporting frame (6) with the help of connecting disks (9, 10), that are prepared from rigid planar sheets by means of cutting out, so that the slots (16) in the connecting disks (9, 10) are connected in a shape closing and self supporting manner into the slots (16) established for this purpose in the frame parts (7, 8), and cut-out windows (18) are prepared in advance by means of punching in the frame parts (7, 8), where the said cutout windows (18) form the storing part (14) inside the supporting frame (6) after folding it to the appropriate shape.

Description

Container for bottles of drinks

The subject of the invention is a container for bottles of drinks, which allows the safe and breakage-free transport of glass or plastic bottles, and at the same time, which withstand mechanical loads as well as dropping, and it has a simple structure, its production is inexpensive, and it can be manufactured preferably with environment- friendly base material and simply disposed off.

The transport of fragile bottles of drink has always been a great problem for the manufacturers and for the distributors. It is also customary recently to deliver individual bottles or small lots of bottles by package delivery services. The technology used by the package delivery services for transporting and sorting the packages, however, were not designed for fragile products, therefore, the delivery of fragile products means rather challenging task for the service providers.

According to the state of the art the patent description published EP 1422150 makes known a packaging assembly, in particular for one or more bottles. The container consists of one or more sleeves designed to hold an elongated object such as a bottle, each sleeve being made from a single panel of a semi-rigid material such as corrugated cardboard. Each sleeve has two pairs of parallel opposite side walls and inner partitions forming a cavity to receive an object, and fits inside an outer parallelpiped pack with inner partitions forming compartments for the sleeves. The ends of the pack are closed by flaps in two or more thicknesses.

The patent document JP 2010247891 makes known a bottle container and storage method of bottle container, which solves a conventional problem of bottle containers. Such a problem for example, that a sealing cap attached to the top end of a bottle container has to be removed, when drinking potable water stored therein, for example, with the bottle container being held with one hand while the cap being held by the other hand, thus requiring the use of both the hands, resulting in the inconvenience of having to find where to store the cap, whereas to dissolve such wastefulness as caused by the resulting increase in the commodity price due to conventional bottle containers not being able to be held together in combination for storage.

According to the solution makes known the bottom of a bottle container is provided with a cap holding part, while a cap is held by friction or by hooking to the holding part so as to heighten the convenience in drinking. In addition, a storing means of bottle containers is disclosed such that the cap part of a bottle container on the first stage is fitted in to the cap holding part of a bottle container in the second stage for linking. The height dimension of the storing means can be minimized by repeating this process for several stages. The patent description US 6793076 makes known aglass bottle protective enclosure designed to protect a glass bottle in the event the bottle is subjected to an impact shock. The enclosure is provided with a leak-proof seal and is particularly adapted for protecting glass bottles containing toxic injectable medication. The enclosure, which is preferably made from a transparent plastic, consists of a lower bottle container which includes a base and a plurality of shock absorbing protrusions, which are located to allow a bottle label to be clearly visible, on the base is located at least one sensor cavity into which is inserted an enclosure leakage sensor consisting of either a water soluble sensor or an electronic sensor, both of which provide an indication if a bottle leakage occurs. To complete the enclosure the container includes a threaded bottle container cap which includes a plurality of cap shock absorbing protrusions.

Solutions are know according to the state of art, where the bottles are protected with polyurethane foam packaging for delivering with package delivery services, or for protection against mechanical impact, for example, when the bottle is dropped, but this solution is rather expensive, and the residual packaging material is not environment- friendly.

The disadvantages of the known and used solutions according to the state of art include the fact that the means used for sufficient mechanical protection are rather expensive, have complicated structures, or are made of non environmental-friendly materials. No inexpensive protecting means is presently know, which has simple structures, which can be handled in an environment-friendly manner, and which can withstand the mechanical loads sufficiently.

During the development of the solution according to the invention our aim was to create a container, that ensures sufficient mechanical protection, is inexpensive to produce, has a simple structure, and possibly has an environment-friendly nature, which provides better and sufficiently durable packaging for glass and plastic bottles of drinks, and withstands impacts and throwing better than the knows structures. Furthermore, our aim was to develop a structural solution, that allows multiple use for packaging and transport, and can be used either as internal packaging or external packaging.

During the creation of the solution according to the invention we recognised, that if we create a container for the bottles of drinks, which container has a rigid supporting frame made of light structures, where a storing location is formed within this supporting frame for bottles of drinks, and the supporting frame consists of two frame parts fitted to each other that are established from planar plates by means of cutting and embossing, which frame parts are folded to the proper shape and then fitted together, and they are connected at the top and at the bottom of the supporting frame by connecting disks, that are produced from planar plates by cutting, so that the slots produced in the connecting disks are meshed in a shape closing and self supporting manner in the slots of the frame parts prepared for this purpose, and windows are prepared in advance by means of punching in the frame parts, which windows form the storing location within the

frame after folding the frame to the proper shape, then the set out aim can be achieved. The invention is a container for bottles of drinks, where the said container has a rigid supporting frame made of light structure, and in the internal part of this a supporting frame a storing part is formed for placing bottles of drinks. It is characterised by that, the supporting frame consists of two frame parts, that are produced from rigid planar sheets by means of cutting out and embossing, where the said frame parts are fitted together after folding them to shape, and are connected at the lower and upper ends of the supporting frame with the help of connecting disks, that are prepared from rigid planar sheets by means of cutting out, so that the slots in the connecting disks are connected in a shape closing and self supporting manner into the slots established for this purpose in the frame parts, and cut-out windows are prepared in advance by means of punching in the frame parts, where the said cut-out windows form the storing part inside the supporting frame after folding it to the appropriate shape.

In a preferred embodiement of the container according to the invention a supporting disk is installed at the upper part of the bottle within the supporting frame, where the said supporting disk is connected in a shape closing and self supporting manner into the slots established for this purpose in the frame parts.

In another preferred embodiement of the container according to the invention a supporting cone is formed at the lower portion of the frame part at the middle of the bottom of storing part for supporting and fixing the position of the bottle, where the said supporting cone is established in advance by means of punching at the cut-out windows of the frame parts, which form the supporting cone within the supporting frame after folding to shape and fitting the frame parts together.

In a further preferred embodiement of the container according to the invention each of the fame parts consists of three cut-out plates in developed conditions, in which three cut-out windows are prepared by means of punching, and two double folding lines are prepared between them by means of embossing, and the assembled frame parts form a hexagonal supporting frame.

In a further preferred embodiement of the container according to the invention there are chamfers at the corners of the developed frame parts, and cut-outs are made at the ends of the folding lines in the developed frame parts.

In a further preferred embodiement of the container according to the invention the cpnnecting disks are prepared as two-layer components in a manner, that two attached symmetrical units are prepared from a planar sheet by means of cutting, and that folding line is established by means of embossing at the part where they are joined to each other.

In a further preferred embodiement of the container according to the invention the supporting frame, together with the bottle of drink located in the storing part of the supporting frame, are inserted into the internal space of an external box, and the external box is hexagonal shaped preferably. In a further preferred embodiement of the container according to the invention the external box has a lid which is provided with closing flap and guiding flaps, which forms a unit together with the external box prepared by means of folding after cutting out from a planar plate.

In a further preferred embodiement of the container according to the invention the material of the frame parts, the connecting disks, the supporting disk and the external box is single or multiple layer sheet of paper and/or plastic, and/or metal, and/or wood, and/or multiple layer composite of these materials, the thickness of which is in the range 0.5 - 1.5 mm, preferable 1 mm.

In a further preferred embodiement of the container according to the invention the material of the frame parts, the connecting disks, the supporting disk and the external box is single or multiple layer corrugated sheet of paper, or ribbed sheet of plastic.

The solution, according to the invention is furthermore set forth by the enclosed drawings:

Fig. 1 shows the front view of a preferred embodiment of the supporting frame of the container according to the invention together with the bottle inserted in it.

Fig. 2 shows the embodiment of the solution according to the invention, introduced in Fig 1, in empty condition.

Fig. 3 shows the embodiment of the solution according to Fig. 2 by empty status, positioned in a somewhat rotated position.

Fig. 4 shows the top view of the solution according to the invention introduced in Fig. 1. Fig. 5 shows a possible embodiment of the frame part according to the invention in developed condition.

Fig. 6 shows a possible embodiment of the connecting disk used for the supporting frame of the container according to the invention.

Fig. 7 shows the container according to the invention.

Fig. 8 shows the developed image of the external box 1 of the container according to the invention.

The figure shows the supporting frame 6 of the container, which is made from frame parts 7, 8, showing also the bottle 12 inserted in the storing location 14, which is formed in the supporting frame 6. The connecting disks 9, 10 are shown, which connect the frame parts 7, 8 together, where the said connecting disks 9, 10 are fastened in a shape closing manner into the slots 15 that are established in the frame parts 7, 8.

Additionally, the figure shows the slots 17 produced in the frame parts 7, 8, as well as the supporting disk, which is fastened in a shape closing manner in this case in the uppermost slot 17 of the frame parts 7, 8, which is located just above the top of the bottle 12, and it ensures the fixing the position of the bottle in vertical direction within the supporting frame 6. Additional items that can be seen in the figure the double folding lines 20 created in the fame part 7, as well as the corner chamfers 25 produced in the frame parts 7, 8. These are required to facilitate the insertion of the supporting frame 6 into the external box 1.

The figure shows the supporting fame 6 of the container formed with frame parts 7, 8, as well as the storing location 14 established within the supporting frame 6. The connecting disks 9, 10 can also be seen, which connects the frame parts 7, 8 together, where the said connecting disks 9, 10 are fastened in a shape closing manner into the slots 15 prepared in the frame parts 7, 8. Also, the figure shows the slots 17 prepared in the frame parts 7, 8, together with the supporting cones 13. The supporting cone 13 ensures, primarily in case of wine bottles, that the supporting cone 13 engaged into the concave bottom of the wine bottle determines the position of the bottle 12 in the supporting frame 6. In case of differently shaped bottles, the supporting cone 13 can be omitted, or can be specifically formed to match the bottom of the given bottle 12.

Additional items that can be seen in the figure the double folding lines 20 prepared in the frame part 7, as well as the corner chamfers 25 made in the frame parts 7, 8.

The figure shows the supporting frame 6 of the container established with frame parts 7, 8, together with the storing location 14 formed within the supporting frame 6. The connecting disks 9, 10 can be seen in the figure, which connect the frame parts 7, 8 together, where the said connecting disks 9, 10 are fastened in a shape closing manner into the slots 15 prepared in the frame parts 7, 8. Also, the figure shows the slots 17 prepared in the frame parts 7, 8, as well as the supporting cones 13. Furthermore, the figure shows the corner chamfers 25 made at in the frame parts 7, 8.

Fig. 4 shows the top view of the solution according to the invention introduced in Fig. 1. The figure shows the supporting frame 6 of the container established with frame parts 7, 8, as well as the connecting disc 10 which connects the frame parts 7, 8 together. It is well visible in the figure, that the frame parts 7, 8 are slid onto the slots 16 of the connecting disc 10, by means of which they are fastened in a shape closing manner. In addition to that, the figure shows the corner chamfers 25.

Fig. 5 shows a possible embodiment of the frame part according to the invention in developed condition.

The design of the frame parts 7, 8 can be seen in the figure. It is well visible, that the frame parts 7, 8 are cut out from a flat rectangular shape, from a so called developed design, so that three cut-out plates 22, 23, 24 are established by preparing double folding lines 20 in the rectangle. In each of the cut-out plates 22, 23, 24 congruent cut-out windows 18 are prepared with slots 17, where the said cut-out windows 18 have a shape corresponding to the contour of a bottle, and the supporting cones 13 are established at the bottom parts of the cut-out windows 18. Slots 15 and folding lines 21 are prepared in the cut-out plates 22, 23, 24 just below and above the cut-out windows 18. It can be seen clearly in the figure, that a cut-out 19 is prepared at both ends of the double folding lines 20, and corner chamfers 25 are prepared at the corners of the two lateral cut-out plates 22, 24.

The connecting disks 9, 10, having slots 16 as shown in the figure, consist of two congruent shapes in this case, and are established by folding to one another along the double folding lines 20.

Fig. 7 shows the container according to the invention.

The external box 1 can bee seen in the figure, together with its lid 2, which is provided with closing flaps 3 and guiding flaps 4, and the supporting frame 6 placed in the external box 1 can also be seen with the frame parts 7, 8 and the connecting disk 10.

Fig. 8 shows the developed image of the external box 1 of the container according to the invention. ■■

The figure shows the lid 2 of the external box 1 which is provided with closing flaps 3 and guiding flaps 4, together with the folding lines 21 along which the respective sides are folded.

In case of a possible preferred actual embodiment of the solution according to the invention the frame parts 7, 8 are prepared first, so that three cut-out plates 22, 23, 24 are established from a flat rectangular shape called the developed design by making two double folding lines 20 (double perforation). In each of the cut-out plates 22, 23, 24 congruent cut-out windows 18 are prepared with slots 17, where the said cut-out windows 18 have a shape corresponding to the contour of a bottle, and the supporting cones 13 are established at the bottom parts of the cut-out windows 18 in this case. Then slots 15 are prepared in the cut-out plates 22, 23, 24 at the part just below and above the cut-out windows 18, and the folding lines 21 are prepared at the symmetry axis of the cut-out windows 18 in parallel with the double folding lines 20. Cut-outs 19 are made at both ends of the double folding lines 20, and corner chamfers 25 are prepared at the corners of the two lateral cut-out plates 22, 24.

Then the connecting disks 9, 10 are established. The connecting disks 9, 10 are made from flat circular shape with slots 16 prepared in them in a manner in this case, that the two congruent shapes are connected to each other along the double folding lines 20, therefore, the two shapes are folded onto each other around the double folding lines 20 for finalising the connecting disks 9, 10 to be used. The connecting disks 9, 10 can also be made from a single shape, if required, using a thicker and stronger material.

Finally, the external box 1 is prepared by means of a known method. In this case the external box 1 has a hexagonal base plate and the lid 2, which is fitted in a shape closing manner to the supporting frame 6 which has a rectangular shape. The hexagonal external box 1 lis prepared from the given developed design by means of cutting and with the help of the folding lines 21, and in the case of the base and the lid 2, the folding flaps 3 and the guiding flaps 4 are prepared with the help of the folding lines 21.

The supporting disk 11 is a circular unit, the diameter of which is matched to the areas determined by the slots 17 of the storing part 14 formed by the cut-out windows 18 of the supporting frame 6 produced by the frame parts 7, 8.

In case of a preferred actual use of the solution according to the invention, the folding of frame parts 7, 8 is made first. The frame parts 7, 8 are folded along the double folding lines 20 in the same direction according to the double perforation, then the cut-out plates 22, 23, 24 are folded along the folding lines 21 in the opposite direction using the double folding lines 20, thus producing a kind of bellows from the frame parts 7, 8.

Then the frame part 7 is fitted to the connecting disk 9, so that the plates located next to the double folding lines 20, that contain the lower supporting cones 13 of the cut-out plates 22, 23 of the frame part 7, are folded onto each other until the folding lines 21 are aligned entirely.

At this time, halves of the slots 15 located next to each other are overlapped, and the frame part 7 is pulled on the connecting disk 9 by grabbing its slot 15 being in overlapped condition at its slot 16, thereby, the slots 15 slide above the slots 16 and get their positions fixed at the internal part of the connecting disk 9, while the slots 16 slide above the slots 15 and get their position fixed inside the frame part 7. Almost simultaneously to that, the same process takes places with the cut-out plates 23, 24, therefore, these slots 15 also get their positions fixed with the help of the next slot 16 of the connecting disk 9. The slots 15 situated at the very edge of the cut-out plates 22, 24 of the frame part 7 fix the frame part 7 to the next slots 16. Then the above process is repeated for fitting the upper end of the frame part 7 into the connecting disk 10.

Then the frame part 8 is fixed to the connecting disks 9, 10 using the method described above. At this time, the extreme slots 15 of the frame parts 7, 8 and the given cut-out plates are overlapped, and they are inserted into the same slots 16.

The bpttle 12 is inserted into the supporting frame 6 that has been assembled as described above, so that the frame part 8 is dislodged slightly from its position, while the flexible nature of the various parts of the container allows a certain deflection, thus the bottle can be inserted into the storing part 14 of the supporting frame 6, and then the frame part 8 is pushed back to its original position. Then the supporting disk 11 is inserted into :the slot 17 located at the appropriate height relative to the height of the bottle 12, which ensures the fixing of the position of the bottle 12 in vertical direction.

Then the external box 1 is assembled with a known method, and then the supporting frame 6 is inserted into the external box 1 together with the bottle 12 placed in it. Because a number of slots 17 are available on the top of one another, therefore, bottles with large differences in height can be inserted with the help of the supporting disk 11 placed in the appropriate slot 17.

As a result of its folded structure, the supporting frame 6 of the container according to the invention is a statically stable and rigid structure, and together with external box 1 it produces a means of storing with high load bearing capacity when placed into it.

The material of the bottle 12 can be glass, plastic, or the bottle can made of any other material.

If required, a number of bottles 12 can be prepared and packaged for breakage-free transport by using supporting frames 6, so that the supporting frames 6 containing the bottles 12 are placed in rectangular boxes of appropriate size which are aligned next to one other in a space filling manner.

The material; used to produce the frame parts 7, 8, the connecting disk 9, 10, the supporting disk 11 and the external box 1 is corrugated paper sheet, or plastic, or metal or wood. If the container according to the invention is made of corrugate paper sheet, then the direction of corrugation of the frame parts 7, 8 is perpendicular to the double folding lines 20, while the direction of corrugation of the external box 1 is identical to the folding line 21.

Advantages of the solution according to the invention:

A durable and reusable structure is produced from simple components that are easy to manufacture, which efficiently withstands the transport and the associated loads.

Its further adyantage is that a high strength is ensured for the container with the use of relatively low quantities of paper base material. Yet another important advantage is that the higher strength of the corrugated paper sheet in the direction of the corrugation is well utilised in the construction.

A further advantage is that the assembling is made by folding without the use of other auxiliary material. The container according to the invention allows that the unused units can be; dismantled in a non-destructive manner, and can be stored in a simply way as flat sheets after spreading to flat shapes until they are to be used again. A further benefit is that it can be assembled from a low number of different components, and by assembling these simple components a durable and reusable structure is produced, which efficiently withstands the transport and the associated loads. It can be used as internal packaging only, or as external packaging. LIST OF REFERENCES

I - external box

2 - lid

3 - closing flap

4 - guiding flap

5 - internal space

6 - supporting frame (assembled as a unit)

7 - frame part (2 identical parts fitted)

8 - frame part (2 identical parts fitted)

9 - connecting disk (lower) (identical)

10 - connecting disk (upper) (identical)

II - supporting disk (at the upper part of the bottle)

12 - bottle

13 - supporting cone (the bottle is placed on it)

14 - storing part

15 - slot (Item 9 and 10 are inserted into it)

16 - slot (being in Items 9 and 10)

17 - slot (Item 11 is inserted into it)

18 - cut-out window

19 - cut-out

20 - double folding line

21 - folding line

22 - cut-out plate

23 - cut-out plate

24 - cut-out plate

25 - corner chamfer

Claims

CLAIMS:

1. Container for bottles of drinks, where the said container has a rigid supporting frame (6) made of light structure, and in the internal part of this a supporting frame (6) a storing part (14) is formed for placing bottles of drinks (12), characterised by that the supporting frame (6) consists of two frame parts (7, 8), that are produced from rigid planar sheets by means of cutting out and embossing, where the said frame parts (7, 8) are fitted together after folding them to shape, and are connected at the lower and upper ends of the supporting frame (6) with the help of connecting disks (9, 10), that are prepared from rigid planar sheets by means of cutting out, so that the slots (16) in the connecting disks (9, 10) are connected in a shape closing and self supporting manner into the slots (16) established for this purpose in the frame parts (7, 8), and cut-out windows (18) are prepared in advance by means of punching in the frame parts (7, 8), where the said cut-out windows (18) form the storing part (14) inside the supporting frame (6) after folding it to the appropriate shape.

2. Container according to Claim 1, characterised by that a supporting disk (11) is installed at the upper part of the bottle (12) within the supporting frame (6), where the said supporting disk (1) is connected in a shape closing and self supporting manner into the slots (17);established for this purpose in the frame parts (7, 8).

3. Container according to Claim 1 or 2, characterised by that a supporting cone (13) is formed at the lower portion of the frame part (6) at the middle of the bottom of storing part (14) for_; supporting and fixing the position of the bottle (12), where the said supporting cone (13) is established in advance by means of punching at the cut-out windows (18) of the frame parts (7, 8), which form the supporting cone (13) within the supporting frame (6) after folding to shape and fitting the frame parts (7, 8) together.

4. Container according to any of the Claims 1 - 3, characterised by that each of the fame parts (7, 8) consists of three cut-out plates (22, 23, 24) in developed conditions, in which three cut-out windows (18) are prepared by means of punching, and two double folding lines (20) are prepared between them by means of embossing, and the assembled frame parts (7, 8) form a hexagonal supporting frame (6).

5;. Container according to Claim 4, characterised by that there are chamfers (25) at the corners of the: developed frame parts (7, 8), and cut-outs (19) are made at the ends of the folding lines (20) in the developed frame parts (7, 8).

6. Container according to any of the Claims 1 - 5, characterised by that the connecting disks (9, 10); are prepared as jtwo-layer components in a manner, that two attached symmetrical units are prepared from a planar sheet by means of cutting, and that folding line (20) is established by means of embossing at the part where they are joined to each other. ;:

7. Container according to any of the Claims 1 - 6, characterised by that the supporting frame (6), together with the bottle (12) of drink located in the storing part (14) of the supporting frame (6), are inserted into the internal space (5) of an external box (1), and the external box (1) is hexagonal shaped preferably.

8. Container according to Claim 7, characterised by that the external box (1) has a lid (2) which is provided with closing flap (3) and guiding flaps (4), which forms a unit together with the external box (1) prepared by means of folding after cutting out from a planar plate.

9. Container according to any of the Claims 1 - 8, characterised by that the material of the frame parts (7, 8), the connecting disks (9, 10), the supporting disk (1) and the external box (1) is single or multiple layer sheet of paper and/or plastic, and/or metal, and/or wood, and/or multiple layer composite of these materials, the thickness of which is in the range 0.5 - 1.5 mm, preferable 1 mm.

10. Container according to any of the Claims 1 - 9, characterised by that the material of the frame pajrts (7, 8), the connecting disks (9, 10), the supporting disk (11) and the external box (1) is single or multiple layer corrugated sheet of paper, or ribbed sheet of plastic.