EP0057042A2 - Récipient pour fleurs coupées - Google Patents

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EP0057042A2
EP0057042A2 EP82200088A EP82200088A EP0057042A2 EP 0057042 A2 EP0057042 A2 EP 0057042A2 EP 82200088 A EP82200088 A EP 82200088A EP 82200088 A EP82200088 A EP 82200088A EP 0057042 A2 EP0057042 A2 EP 0057042A2
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Jacobus Johannes Petrus Smeets
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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
    • B65D81/00—Containers, packaging elements, or packages, for contents presenting particular transport or storage problems, or adapted to be used for non-packaging purposes after removal of contents
    • B65D81/24—Adaptations for preventing deterioration or decay of contents; Applications to the container or packaging material of food preservatives, fungicides, pesticides or animal repellants
    • B65D81/26—Adaptations for preventing deterioration or decay of contents; Applications to the container or packaging material of food preservatives, fungicides, pesticides or animal repellants with provision for draining away, or absorbing, or removing by ventilation, fluids, e.g. exuded by contents; Applications of corrosion inhibitors or desiccators
    • B65D81/263—Adaptations for preventing deterioration or decay of contents; Applications to the container or packaging material of food preservatives, fungicides, pesticides or animal repellants with provision for draining away, or absorbing, or removing by ventilation, fluids, e.g. exuded by contents; Applications of corrosion inhibitors or desiccators for ventilating the contents
    • 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
    • B65D21/00—Nestable, stackable or joinable containers; Containers of variable capacity
    • B65D21/02—Containers specially shaped, or provided with fittings or attachments, to facilitate nesting, stacking, or joining together
    • B65D21/06—Containers specially shaped, or provided with fittings or attachments, to facilitate nesting, stacking, or joining together with movable parts adapted to be placed in alternative positions for nesting the containers when empty and for stacking them when full
    • B65D21/062—Containers specially shaped, or provided with fittings or attachments, to facilitate nesting, stacking, or joining together with movable parts adapted to be placed in alternative positions for nesting the containers when empty and for stacking them when full the movable parts being attached or integral and displaceable into a position overlying the top of the container, e.g. bails, corner plates
    • 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
    • B65D25/00—Details of other kinds or types of rigid or semi-rigid containers
    • B65D25/02—Internal fittings
    • B65D25/10—Devices to locate articles in containers
    • 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
    • B65D85/00—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials
    • B65D85/50—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for living organisms, articles or materials sensitive to changes of environment or atmospheric conditions, e.g. land animals, birds, fish, water plants, non-aquatic plants, flower bulbs, cut flowers or foliage
    • B65D85/505—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for living organisms, articles or materials sensitive to changes of environment or atmospheric conditions, e.g. land animals, birds, fish, water plants, non-aquatic plants, flower bulbs, cut flowers or foliage for cut flowers
    • 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
    • B65D85/00—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials
    • B65D85/50—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for living organisms, articles or materials sensitive to changes of environment or atmospheric conditions, e.g. land animals, birds, fish, water plants, non-aquatic plants, flower bulbs, cut flowers or foliage

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  • the invention relates to a packaging suitable for packaging cut flowers in a compressed state, consisting of a holder with an essentially rectangular base delimited by four standing walls and a pressing device for the flowers.
  • Holders made of wood, aluminum, cardboard and plastic are known for packaging cut flowers for shipping and storage, but they all have one or more of the following disadvantages.
  • a disadvantage of wood is the absorption of moisture and the formation of chips. Cardboard holders are quickly worn out, which is also due to their sensitivity to moisture. Aluminum holders are expensive and show dents after a short period of use.
  • plastic holders have these disadvantages to a much lesser extent, the known holders made of plastic and other materials have the disadvantage that they cannot be stacked one inside the other, which increases the space costs to be occupied when empty holders have to be stored or transported.
  • Another disadvantage of the known block-shaped holders is that, filled with flowers, they are stacked very compactly in cold stores and refrigerated vehicles. This seriously impedes the circulation of cold air between the holders. As a result, the flowers cannot be stored at a certain temperature which is as uniform as possible.
  • the pressing of the flowers in the holder is often done in a very provisional manner, for example by placing waste paper on the flowers, which is pressed on by another holder stacked on the holder.
  • a wooden slat is sometimes used, which is attached from the outside with nails through the cardboard wall.
  • the purpose of the invention is a flower packaging which does not have the aforementioned disadvantages and which, by means of an additional function of the flower pressing device, allows the production of plastic holders with relatively thin walls which meet the practical requirements in terms of strength.
  • the walls preferably diverge from the floor and their edges are turned upside down once or twice to form diverging standing wall parts and horizontal or also vertically depending edge parts.
  • the first fastening elements expediently consist of openings which are arranged in mirror image with respect to a symmetrical surface between two opposite walls in the standing wall parts, the flower pressing device being rod-shaped with grooves arranged as second fastening elements at some distance from the ends perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the pressing device, the distance between the grooves center to center is just as long as the distance between two openings in the wall arranged in mirror-image with respect to one another. It is also possible to provide the pressing device with thickened ends as second fastening elements, the internal dimension between the thickenings being just as long as the distance between two openings arranged in mirror image with respect to one another.
  • a plastic holder with boundary slats is known from the Benelux model No. 05540-00, but these holders cannot be stacked one inside the other, has rather heavy walls and the boundary slats have no second fastening elements within the meaning of the relevant invention, so that they are not so easy to attach.
  • the vertically hanging edge parts extend further than the upper side of the openings made in the standing wall parts and the pressing device is almost as long as the internal distance between the hanging edge parts.
  • the first fastening elements consist of openings which are mirror-like with respect to a symmetrical surface between two opposite walls in the horizontal edge parts are attached and in which the pressing device consists of a cover with a recessed central part and a supporting edge surrounding this part, in which openings are arranged as second fastening elements with locking pins located in them with resilient wings, in such a way that the openings in the supporting edge when attaching the Press device coincide with the openings in the horizontal edge part, with the resilient wings reaching under the horizontal edge part.
  • ribs can be arranged on the inside of the base.
  • the holders are preferably provided with openings for ventilation. In addition, the cooling air can reach the flowers.
  • the holders are preferably injection molded from plastic.
  • the pressing device can be made of a material other than plastic. This is advantageous if a pressing device made of plastic would withstand the upward pressure of the compressed flowers too little.
  • the pressing device can e.g. be made of wood.
  • the external dimensions are adapted to the dimensions of the holders already in use so that they can be replaced.
  • the first embodiment of a flower packaging according to the invention consists of a holder with an essentially rectangular base 2 and four walls diverging upwards, the edges of which are turned inside out twice to form divergent wall parts 3, 4, 5 and 6, horizontal edge parts 7, 8, 9 and 10 and vertically depending edge parts 11, 12, 13 and 14.
  • openings 15 are provided which serve as first fastening elements for a rod-shaped flower pressing device 16, which in some distance from the ends is provided with grooves 17, see Fig. 2.
  • the grooves serve as a second fastening element for the flower presser.
  • the effect of the individual parts of the flower packaging is as follows. If a number of bundles of cut flowers are stacked up above the holder in the holder, the ends of the flower press device are inserted into the openings 15 with the grooves 17 facing upwards. Due to the fact that the pressed flowers now push the device 16 upwards, the grooves surround the upper sides of the openings 15, that is to say the wall parts 5 and 6. The device 16 then comes into the position as shown in FIG. 2 and remains in it. Since the walls 5 and 6 lie in the grooves at the location of the openings 15, they cannot diverge under the lateral pressure of the flowers.
  • the flower press device has an additional function, so that the relatively long walls cannot be additionally stiffened.
  • This cost-saving solution It is all the more important for a technical problem because the pressure of the flowers on the wall is greater in the holder with diverging walls than in holders of the same type with vertical walls.
  • the diverging walls have the great advantage that they still leave ventilation channels open during storage and transport, although they are then stacked against and on top of one another, so that the cooling air passes through the ventilation openings 18 can reach the content of the holder.
  • FIG. 3 the dashed-framed part III from FIG. 2 is shown enlarged, with the flower press device 19 (dashed line in FIG. 3), in a somewhat modified version. in the pushed up position.
  • the rod-shaped device 19 has at its ends an end 20 which is thickened with respect to the rest of the device and which engages angularly behind the part 21 of the wall 5, so that here too the long wall is prevented from escaping to the outside.
  • the vertically depending edge part 13 extends further than the upper side 22 of the opening 15.
  • the device the length of which is almost as long as the internal distance between the vertically hanging edge parts 13 and 14, is first inserted with one end into the hole 15 until it abuts the hanging edge part.
  • the groove 17 is then immediately in the right place.
  • the other end can be brought into its place after the wall 6 has been slightly bent.
  • the part already in its place serves as a fulcrum, which makes it very easy to compress the contents of the holder.
  • the distance over which the wall 6 has to be bent is limited in that the wall parts 21 lying above the openings 15 are held vertically.
  • brackets 23 and 24 on the short walls 3 and 4.
  • the brackets shown in FIG. 1 in their stacking position can be folded outwards so that they hang vertically on the walls 3 and 4 .
  • the advantage of the known foldable hangers is that irregularities on the inner walls are avoided as far as possible, which would damage the packed flowers.
  • a second embodiment of the flower packaging according to the invention is that in which a holder shown in FIG. 1 is used, with the difference that the first fastening elements in the form of openings are now arranged in opposite horizontal edge parts.
  • a quarter of the flower presser device belonging to this embodiment is shown in FIG. It consists of a cover with a countersunk central part with a support edge 26 on its circumference, which can rest on the horizontal edge part of the holder.
  • the second fastening elements also include locking pins 31 which are inserted through the openings 27 into the support edge 26 and rest on it with a head 32.
  • the locking pins have resilient wings which are pushed through the openings 28 during the assembly of the flower pressing device and then spread out under the underside of the horizontal edge part 30, as shown in FIG. 6.
  • Figure 7 shows a section along the line VII-VII in Figure 4 at the point where the stacking bracket is in the stacking position.
  • the bracket is shown with the dashed line 34 in Figures 6 and 7.
  • the flowers are pressed with the sunken middle part 25.
  • the second embodiment of the flower packaging offers similar advantages as the first.
  • the additional advantage is the protection against theft or at least the fact that one can determine whether the flower packaging has been opened because the locking pins can only be removed by destruction.
  • the flower packaging described is preferably produced by injection molding from plastic.
  • the flower packaging described can also be used to pack other compressible goods.

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NL8100363A NL8100363A (nl) 1981-01-27 1981-01-27 Bloemverpakking.

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