EP0603361B1 - Recipient pour plusieurs objets - Google Patents

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EP0603361B1
EP0603361B1 EP93914580A EP93914580A EP0603361B1 EP 0603361 B1 EP0603361 B1 EP 0603361B1 EP 93914580 A EP93914580 A EP 93914580A EP 93914580 A EP93914580 A EP 93914580A EP 0603361 B1 EP0603361 B1 EP 0603361B1
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Felix Karl Keller
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Stratop Management und Treuhand AG
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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
    • B65D5/00—Rigid or semi-rigid containers of polygonal cross-section, e.g. boxes, cartons or trays, formed by folding or erecting one or more blanks made of paper
    • B65D5/42—Details of containers or of foldable or erectable container blanks
    • B65D5/72—Contents-dispensing means
    • 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
    • B65D85/07—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for compressible or flexible articles
    • B65D85/08—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for compressible or flexible articles rod-shaped or tubular
    • B65D85/10—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for compressible or flexible articles rod-shaped or tubular for cigarettes
    • B65D85/1009—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for compressible or flexible articles rod-shaped or tubular for cigarettes provided with proffering means
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10S—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10S206/00—Special receptacle or package
    • Y10S206/804—Special receptacle or package with means to lift or draw out content
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10S—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10S206/00—Special receptacle or package
    • Y10S206/815—Finger opening

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  • the present invention relates to a box made of cardboard in a cuboid shape, whose width is greater than the thickness and whose length is greater than the width for receiving a cigarette packet comprising several cigarettes, whose cigarettes can be removed manually via a box opening with an ejection device opposite the box opening, why part of the box wall opposite the box opening as an L-shaped flap swiveling into the inside of the box with an am not free end of the first leg of the L-shape lying pivot axis is cut free, the flap width being less than the box width, so that when swiveling the flap inwards, it moves from behind surface coming to be sloping downwards towards the top different Movement paths are transferred to the cigarettes and so at the opening of the box of different lengths, in the middle of the front of the box Area longest, protrude,
  • Cigarette pack is no precautionary measure that the free end of the pivotable tab does not follow the contour of the cuboid box swivel outside and can thereby be damaged or even torn off.
  • this is achieved in that the free second tab leg essentially a section of the front of the box and the first Tab leg a section of the box bottom adjacent to the front surface and the fold line between the two legs of the L-shape by at least cardboard thickness compared to the fold line between the bottom and The front of the box is set back parallel to the back of the box is for reaching under the front of the box through the free flap leg.
  • an advantageous embodiment is that the pivot axis forming fold line by at least the carton thickness compared to the fold line between the bottom and the back of the box, and further in a cigarette box, the bottom side two rags and one has bottom-forming box wall, which the two tabs from the outside covered, in that the two lobes overlap the flap from the outside, for Prevention of a pivoting movement of the tab over the bottom-forming Box wall to the outside.
  • this tab part can also be advantageous due to special coloring be visually highlighted.
  • GB-A-1 385 540 is already known a rectangular box-shaped cigarette box, where the whole cigarette packet from the cardboard box by means of a pivotable tab can be pushed out. The free end of the tab but engages behind the box bottom, so that the free end of the The tab is not visible and therefore cannot be highlighted.
  • the present invention relates to a cutting sheet for folding the inventive Cigarette box, with a backing Box wall, on which a folding line forms the bottom Connect the box wall as well as two flaps via further folding lines, which by the box wall forming the bottom are separated by cutting lines, wherein on the box wall forming the bottom via a fold line Connects to the front of the box wall and the one that forms the bottom Box wall and the box wall forming the front one is limited by a folding line L-shaped foldable tab by a cutting line.
  • this cut sheet is characterized in that the Folding line forming the pivot axis and that between the two legs of the Fold line lying flap by at least cardboard thickness to the fold lines of the bottom are staggered parallel to the back of the box.
  • the box 5 contains a cigarette packet that contains several cigarettes includes. These can be removed manually from a box opening 1 will.
  • the box has a diametrically opposite box opening 1 Removal device 2, a part of the box opening 1 diametrically opposite box wall 3 as inside the box pivotable tab 4 is formed for ejecting one or more in Path of movement of the tab 4 lying cigarettes.
  • the cardboard one The cigarette box is shaped as a cuboid, with the box opening 1 adjoining is a narrow side of the box and the removal device 2 with it Tab 4 is located on the other side of the narrow box.
  • FIG. 1 shows the cut sheet of a cigarette box which is customary today made of cardboard shown.
  • This common, well-known cut sheet has a first one Box wall 5, also an adjacent one by means of a second folding line 6 second box wall 7.
  • the well-known cutting sheet still has one third box wall 12.
  • Figure 1 only those parts of the known Cut sheet has been referred to for understanding the invention required are.
  • a tab 4 with the outer contour 18 and 19 is formed, the contour 18 represents a third cutting line and the contour 19 is the first folding line.
  • Out Figure 3 shows that the third cutting line 18 on the first box wall 5 and adjacent to the second box wall 7.
  • the tab 4 borders with the fold line 19 to the third box wall 12.
  • the two fold lines 6 and 19 lie parallel to each other; fold lines 14 and 19 are also parallel to one another.
  • the fold line 19 is opposite the fold line 14 e.g. is offset by the carton thickness or more such that the fold line 19 extends into the third box wall 12.
  • the flap 4 When the cut sheet is unfolded, the flap 4 becomes rectangular around the fold line 20 bent so that the tab 4 is L-shaped. At the not free leg end the L-shape is the first fold line 19.
  • the semicircular leg of the tab 4 lies in the plane of the second box wall 7 and the other part of the tab 4 lies in the plane the box wall 3 ( Figure 5).
  • the tab 4 can e.g. with a colored rondelle 21, as can be seen from FIGS. 4 and 5. This rondelle 21 is e.g. glued to the tab 4 and also through the fold line 20 L-shaped. In the example according to FIGS.
  • the tab 4 consists of one semicircular part 22 and a rectangular part 23.
  • the known Rag 8 and 9 according to Figures 1 and 2 are in the example of the Figures 3-5 provided with cutouts 24 and 25 so that tabs 8 'and 9' are formed will. Through these cutouts 24 and 25, the tabs 8 'and 9' are on the contour of the rondelle 21 has been adapted, as can be seen from FIGS. 4 and 5 is.
  • the box wall 5 covers the two tabs 8 and 9 from the outside; the same also applies to the box according to the invention according to FIGS. 3 to 5, the box wall 5 covering the two tabs 8 'and 9' from the outside.
  • the two lobes overlap 8 'and 9' the tab 4 from the outside, to prevent a pivoting movement the tab 4 over the box wall 5 to the outside.
  • the cut sheet 3 is unfolded differently, namely in such a way that the two tabs 8 ' and 9 'overlap the box wall 5 from the outside, ie no longer inside the box wall 5 but outside of this, then the two Tabs 8 'and 9' on an adjacent part of the box wall 5 e.g. by gluing, must be attached. By sticking it on, this is one less advantageous solution.
  • the tab 4 ' has a slightly different shape, since it rectangular part 23 no longer extends over the entire height of the box wall 5, but only about half their height, so that the fold line 19 'of the flap lies approximately in the middle between the two fold lines 14 and 6.
  • the flaps 8 and 9 ' have differently shaped cutouts so that they in turn the tab 4, of buses can overlap to prevent one Swiveling movement of the flap outwards over the box wall 5.
  • the Fold line 20 is in turn offset from fold line 6, in the same way as in the example according to FIG. 3.
  • the distance between the two fold lines 19 and 20 is the same as the distance between the fold lines 6 and 14 from each other, so that, as already said, the tab is pivoted under the box wall 7 can be and underpins them.
  • the tab can still have other shapes, especially the part lying at the box wall 7 22 of the tab.
  • This tab part 22 can, in addition to the semicircular shape shown e.g. can also be rectangular, gable-shaped or triangular. This respective shape of the tab part 22 can thus also in an aesthetic manner remaining design on the box wall 7 can be adjusted.
  • the tab 4 is in the middle of the box, that is in the axis of symmetry 26. With another off the tab could also be eccentric, i.e. laterally offset from this Axis 26 are arranged.

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Claims (4)

  1. Boíte de cigarettes en carton de forme rectangulaire, dont la largeur est plus grande que l'épaisseur et dont la longueur est plus grande que la largeur pour recevoir un paquet de cigarettes comportant plusieurs cigarettes dont les cigarettes peuvent être retirées individuellement à la main par une ouverture de boíte (1), avec un dispositif de poussée vers l'extérieur (2) opposé à l'ouverture de boíte, où à cette fin une partie de la paroi de boíte (3) opposée à l'ouverture de boíte (1) est découpée sous forme de languette en forme de L (4) pouvant être pivotée dans l'intérieur de la boíte, avec un axe de pivotement (19) se situant à l'extrémité non libre de la première branche en forme de L, la largeur de languette étant plus petite que la largeur de la boíte de façon que lors d'un pivotement vers l'intérieur de la languette (4), celle-ci confère par sa surface se situant en biais de l'arrière en bas vers le devant en haut des trajets de déplacement différents aux cigarettes et que celles-ci dépassent à l'ouverture de boíte (1) suivant des longueurs différentes, et cela au côté frontal de la boíte dans la zone centrale de celle-ci sur la plus grande longueur,
    caractérisée
    en ce que la deuxième branche de languette libre (22) est essentiellement une découpure de la face frontale de boíte (7) et la première branche de languette (23) une découpure du fond de boíte (5) avoisinant la surface frontale et que la ligne de pliage (20) située entre les deux branches (22, 23) en forme de L est décalée parallèlement vers l'arrière suivant au moins l'épaisseur du carton par rapport à la ligne de pliage (6) entre le fond (5) et le côté frontal de boíte vers le côté arrière (12) de la boíte pour que la branche de languette libre (22) passe sous le côté frontal (7) de la boíte.
  2. Boíte de cigarettes selon la revendication 1, caractérisée en ce qu'également la ligne de plage formant l'axe de pivotement (19) est décalée vers l'arrière suivant au moins l'épaisseur du carton par rapport à la ligne de plage (14) entre le fond (5) et le côté arrière de boíte (12) dans celle-ci.
  3. Boíte de cigarettes selon la revendication 1, qui présente, côté fond, deux languettes (8', 9') et une paroi de boíte (5) formant le fond qui recouvre les deux languettes (8', 9') de l'extérieur, caractérisée en ce que les deux languettes (8', 9') recouvrent la languette (4) de l'extérieur, pour empêcher un mouvement de pivotement de la languette (4) sur la paroi de boíte (5) formant le fond vers l'extérieur.
  4. Feuille découpée pour le pliage d'une boíte de cigarettes selon les revendications 1 à 3, avec une paroi de boíte (12) formant le côté arrière à laquelle font suite, par une ligne de plage (14), une paroi de boíte (5) formant le fond ainsi que par d'autres lignes de pliage (13, 15) deux languettes (8', 9') qui sont séparées de la paroi de boíte (5) formant le fond par des lignes de coupe (10 ; 11), et à la paroi de boíte (5) formant le fond fait suite par une ligne de pliage (6) une paroi de boíte formant le côté frontal (7) et où à la paroi de boíte (5) formant le fond et à la paroi de boíte formant le côté frontal (7), une languette (4) pouvant être pliée par une ligne de plage (20) en forme de L est délimitée par une ligne de coupe (18),
    caractérisée
    en ce que la ligne de pliage formant l'axe de pivotement (19) ainsi que la ligne de pliage(20) située entre les deux branches (22, 23) de la languette (4) sont décalées parallèlement suivant au moins l'épaisseur du carton relativement aux lignes de plage (6, 14) du fond (5) vers le côté arrière (12) de la boíte.
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