EP0513095B1 - Package of fibre mass (locking means) - Google Patents

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EP0513095B1
EP0513095B1 EP91903246A EP91903246A EP0513095B1 EP 0513095 B1 EP0513095 B1 EP 0513095B1 EP 91903246 A EP91903246 A EP 91903246A EP 91903246 A EP91903246 A EP 91903246A EP 0513095 B1 EP0513095 B1 EP 0513095B1
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Pierre Fakhri
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Brodrene Hartmann AS
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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
    • B65D85/00—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials
    • B65D85/30—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for articles particularly sensitive to damage by shock or pressure
    • B65D85/32—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for articles particularly sensitive to damage by shock or pressure for eggs

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  • the invention concerns a package of a fibre mass or another yielding material for fragile objects, especially eggs, consisting of a bowl shaped lower part and an upper part shaped in a corresponding manner, both having recesses which do form pockets for embracing the upper and the lower part, respectively, of the objects, and where the lower part and the upper part are in tipping up hinge connection with each other and provided with locking members in order to hold the parts releasably together in a position in which the upper part is tipped over the lower part, said locking members each comprising a pair of interengaging parts arranged such that they are unlocked by pressing one part inwardly relative to the other part.
  • Known packages of that kind are normally provided with several locking members, usually two, and more specified in such a manner that their directions for release by disconnection are running in parallel with each other.
  • the object of the invention is to indicate how the locking members can be disconnected in a simple way also by only using one single hand.
  • this object is obtained by the fact that the locking members are arranged in pairs belonging together at side wall portions of the lower part and the upper part, respectively, in such a manner that their directions for unlocking by disconnection are converging towards the package.
  • a grasping movement may be carried out by hand having a gathering and an advancing component whereby it becomes possible to hold the package and at the same time to carry out the disconnecting operations.
  • an appropriate embodiment of such a package consists in the fact that said side wall portions are projecting side parts of a recess forming a pocket which are extending past neighbouring recesses placed on each side of that recess.
  • the protruding parts of said recess forming a pocket may be utilized as a steering member for the disconnecting manipulation when the locking members are to be influenced in disconnecting purposes.
  • the package has at least three recesses arranged in succession side by side with each other in such a way that a centrally positioned recess is staggered in a direction transversely to a connection line between the centers of two neighbouring recesses, that the outline of the package corresponds to an outer outline which is derived from the outline of the recesses of the lower part and the upper part of the package, and that the protruding side parts with the locking members belong to said centrally positioned recess.
  • this package would comprise said side parts projecting from the one side of the package and forming a protrusion as well as with a corresponding bend brought about on the opposite side of the package.
  • this package would comprise said side parts projecting from the one side of the package and forming a protrusion as well as with a corresponding bend brought about on the opposite side of the package.
  • the shown package for eggs made from a fibre mass or another yielding material consists of a lower part 10 and an upper part 12 shaped in a corresponding manner. Both said parts have recesses which form pockets, 14 and 16, respectively, for embracing the lower and the upper part, respectively, of non shown eggs, one egg for each pair of the pocket-shaped recesses 14 and 16.
  • a horizontal cross-section through a recess is circular or polygonal, and in a vertical section, the shape of a pocket is frustroconical, corresponding to the general shape of an egg.
  • the lower part 10 is provided with three rows 18, 20 and 22 of recesses 14, each row comprising two recesses 14.
  • Each row 18, 20 and 22 is extending transversely to a connection line 24 between the centers of two recesses 14 placed at their corresponding ends of the rows 18 and 22.
  • the rows 18, 20 and 22 are extending in parallel with each other.
  • the arrangement is made in such a way that the recesses 14, from row to row are placed side by side with each other in such a way that a recess of the centrally positioned row 20 is staggered in relation to the corresponding recesses of the two neighbouring rows 18 and 22 as shown in Fig. 4 in a direction transversely to a connection line 24 between the centers of said last mentioned recesses.
  • the upper part 12 has a corresponding shape as it is provided with three rows 26, 28 and 30 of recesses 16, each row comprising two recesses 16. As shown in Fig. 4, each of the rows 26, 28 and 30 are extending coaxially with the corresponding row 18, 20 and 22 respectively of the recesses 14 of the lower part 10, and thus also in parallel with each other.
  • the recesses 16 of the upper part 12 are placed staggered in relation to each other and from row to row in such a way that a recess 16 of the centrally positioned row 28 is staggered in relation to the corresponding recesses of the two neighbouring rows 26 and 30 as shown in Fig. 4 in a direction transversely to a connection line 24 between the centers of said last mentioned recesses.
  • the arrangement of the recesses disclosed above results partly in a reduction of the total extension of the package in the direction of the connection line 24 compared to an arrangement where the neighbouring recesses of the three rows were lying in a connection line 24, and partly a shape of the outer outline of the package having a bend 32 placed opposite to the rows 20, 28 on the one side of the package and a corresponding protrusion 34 opposite to the rows 20, 28 on the opposite side of the package.
  • the packages may engage each other by means of the bends 32 and the protrusions 34 and thus being locked against mutual displacement in the direction of the connection line.
  • the package is easy to catch and to hold by hand.
  • the lower part 10 and the upper part 12 of the package are connected with each other by means of hinges 36 placed on each side of a recess 14, 16 arranged in the center rows 20,28 and extending beyond the ends of the recesses 14, 16 of the neighbouring rows 18, 26 and 22, 30 respectively, and thus adjacent to the bend 32.
  • the central recesses 14a, 16a placed in between two neighbouring recesses 14 and 16 respectively are somewhat staggered upwards from the level of the neighbouring recesses. That too results in a reduction of space in the direction of the said connection line 24.
  • a contour part projecting from the top side of the package and receding from the bottom side of the package which may facilitate the handling of the package.
  • the upper part 10 and the lower part 12 are provided with edges 38 and 40 by means of which they, in the closed state of the package abut on each other.
  • the edges are extending in wave lines which, as far as the edges 38 are concerned, are lying in a horizontal plane and, as far as the edges 40 are concerned, are lying in a vertical plane.
  • the edges 38 and 40 are shaped in such a way to correspond to the outer outline of the lower part 10 and upper part 12 of the package derived from one of the recesses 14 and 16 which do form pockets. This shape may serve a fixing of the upper part 12 of the package in relation to its lower part 10 when the package is closed.
  • the lower part 10 and the upper part 12 of the package are connected with each other in a releasable manner by means of locking members which generally are designated by 42 (Figs. 1-3) and which consist of projecting locking tounges 42a arranged on the lower part 10 and corresponding locking openings 42b in the outer side of the upper part 12 receiving the locking tounges, cf. Fig. 4.
  • these locking members 42 are placed on each side of the protrusion 34 formed by the centrally positioned recesses 14,16 in such a way that their directions for unlocking by disconnection are converging towards the package.
  • the protrusion 34 in a natural way may be utilized as a steering member for the disconnecting manipulation when the locking members are to be influenced by pressing their locking tounges 42a inwards the package and thus being released from the locking engagement position in the openings 42b.
  • the shown hand grasps around the package in such a way that the thumb is lying in the bend 32, and e.g. the forefinger lies on the one side, and the ring finger on the other side of the protrusion 34, and the long finger abuts on the protrusion 34, whereby the package is hold and at the same time, the forefinger and the ring finger may push, in mutually converging disconnecting operations, their respective locking tounge 42a which substantially has the form of a reversed L inwards toward the package and thus release them from the engagement with the lower limitation edges of the locking openings 42b.

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EP91903246A 1990-02-06 1991-02-06 Package of fibre mass (locking means) Expired - Lifetime EP0513095B1 (en)

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Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
DK030790A DK163354C (da) 1990-02-06 1990-02-06 Pakning af fibermasse eller andet eftergiveligt materiale og til skroebelige genstande, isaer aeg
DK307/90 1990-02-06
PCT/DK1991/000035 WO1991012192A1 (en) 1990-02-06 1991-02-06 Package of fibre mass (locking means)

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EP0513095A1 EP0513095A1 (en) 1992-11-19
EP0513095B1 true EP0513095B1 (en) 1994-11-02

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AT (1) ATE113555T1 (da)
AU (1) AU7328791A (da)
CS (1) CS27291A2 (da)
DE (1) DE69104976D1 (da)
DK (1) DK163354C (da)
IE (1) IE910377A1 (da)
PT (1) PT96611A (da)
WO (1) WO1991012192A1 (da)

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DE19530156C2 (de) * 1995-08-16 2003-03-13 Omni Pac Ekco Gmbh & Co Kg Ver Eierkarton

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US5405009A (en) * 1993-08-10 1995-04-11 Tastee Apple Inc. Protective package for caramel apples

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FR2105059B1 (da) * 1970-09-21 1975-08-22 Boursier Pierre
US4715529A (en) * 1983-09-09 1987-12-29 Packaging Corporation Of America Beak-type carton lock

Cited By (1)

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DE19530156C2 (de) * 1995-08-16 2003-03-13 Omni Pac Ekco Gmbh & Co Kg Ver Eierkarton

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PT96611A (pt) 1991-10-15
DK163354B (da) 1992-02-24
CS27291A2 (en) 1991-09-15
DE69104976D1 (de) 1994-12-08
EP0513095A1 (en) 1992-11-19
DK30790A (da) 1991-08-07
WO1991012192A1 (en) 1991-08-22
DK30790D0 (da) 1990-02-06
ATE113555T1 (de) 1994-11-15
IE910377A1 (en) 1991-08-14
AU7328791A (en) 1991-09-03
DK163354C (da) 1992-08-03

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