EP1623933B1 - Distanzstück für Glasplatten - Google Patents

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EP1623933B1
EP1623933B1 EP05356131A EP05356131A EP1623933B1 EP 1623933 B1 EP1623933 B1 EP 1623933B1 EP 05356131 A EP05356131 A EP 05356131A EP 05356131 A EP05356131 A EP 05356131A EP 1623933 B1 EP1623933 B1 EP 1623933B1
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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
    • B65D57/00—Internal frames or supports for flexible articles, e.g. stiffeners; Separators for articles packaged in stacks or groups, e.g. for preventing adhesion of sticky articles
    • B65D57/002—Separators for articles packaged in stacks or groups, e.g. stacked or nested
    • B65D57/003—Separators for articles packaged in stacks or groups, e.g. stacked or nested for horizontally placed articles, i.e. for stacked or nested articles
    • B65D57/004—Separators for articles packaged in stacks or groups, e.g. stacked or nested for horizontally placed articles, i.e. for stacked or nested articles the articles being substantially flat panels, e.g. wooden planks
    • 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
    • B65D85/48—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for articles particularly sensitive to damage by shock or pressure for glass sheets

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  • the invention relates to a separator for plates of fragile material, especially for glass plates, comprising a strip of material equipped, at least at one end, with a wedging member whose one face is generally perpendicular to a main plane of the glass plate, the face being adapted to bear on an edge of a plate.
  • Such separators are used to keep apart fragile plates from each other.
  • separators generally cardboard, are used to maintain the plates during their transport and thus avoid any risk of shock between them.
  • EP-B-1 075 435 a strip of material, made of cardboard honeycomb structure, a length corresponding to one of the dimensions of the plates to be separated.
  • This strip is equipped at one end with a square made of rigid cardboard, which has a branch extending perpendicularly to the honeycomb cardboard strip. This branch is located near the end of the strip.
  • the bracket is arranged in such a way that the branch extending perpendicularly with respect to the strip of material bears on one end of the glass plate. In other words, the square works in compression.
  • Such a separator must be adapted to the glass plate that must be kept apart.
  • WO-A-97/12818 relates to a separator made of honeycomb material.
  • This separator comprises a band whose one end is folded on itself and forms a nose bearing on one end of a glass plate.
  • Such a separator does not allow spaced apart glass plates of different thicknesses.
  • the invention more particularly intends to remedy by proposing a separator of small size, easy to achieve, offering a high resistance when in place and suitable for all types of glass plates.
  • the subject of the invention is a separator for plates of fragile material, in particular for glass plates, comprising a strip of material intended to be interposed between two successive plates, which is equipped, at least at one end, with a wedging member whose one face is intended to be generally perpendicular to a main plane of a plate, the face being adapted to bear on an edge of a plate, the wedging member comprising at least two first parallel sails , adapted to be oriented in a direction generally parallel to the main plane of the plate, one of the first webs bearing against the web of material, the first webs being interconnected by a transverse web clean to come into bearing against the edge of the plate, characterized in that the wedging member is hollow and in that one of the first parallel sails is connected only to the transverse sail, so that the parallel sails are suitable for undergo, in use, a lateral movement so that the wedging member has a lateral flexibility, in order to be able to adapt to plates of different thicknesses.
  • a wedge member forming a volume allowing a damped separation between two plates and adapting to the different thicknesses of the plates.
  • This relative flexibility of the wedging member is accompanied by a lightness due to the mere presence of the sails without any filling material between them.
  • the wedging member 1 shown in Figure 1 is rectangular, hollow, formed by four webs.
  • Two sails 2, 3 form the short sides and are interconnected by a sail 4 forming one of the long sides.
  • the other veil 5 forming the second large side is connected to the veil forming the short side 3, so that the wedging member 1 has a certain lateral flexibility.
  • the webs 2, 3, 4, 5 are made of a light and rigid material, while having a certain flexibility. They may be, for example, metal, polymer or cellulose fiber based, especially cardboard.
  • the wedging member 1 is made by folding a strip of cardboard or by gluing the webs 2, 3, 4 and 5 previously cut in a strip of cardboard.
  • the wedging member 1 can be easily fixed by the web 4, connected to the webs 2 and 3, on a front face F 1 of a strip of material 6 formed of a material lightweight and rigid, for example metal, polymer or cellulose fiber based, especially cardboard.
  • the strip 6 is made of cardboard with a honeycomb structure.
  • Fixing the wedging member 1 on the strip 6 may be made by techniques known per se, especially by hot gluing.
  • the wedging member is removably retained on the strip, for example by hook-and-loop strips or a non-polymerizable adhesive.
  • Fixing the member 1 on the strip 6 can be done, as shown in Figure 2, by the web 4 or in an unillustrated configuration, by one of the other webs 2 or 3.
  • the same setting member 1 allows to make separators adapted to different thicknesses of the glass plates.
  • such a member 1; 1 ' is supported by one of the sails, in this case the veil 3; 3 ', on a terminal edge B; B 'of a glass plate 7; 7 '.
  • This support is made to maintain the largest dimension of the strip 6; 6 '; 6 "of cardboard oriented in a direction generally parallel to a main plane P; P 'of the glass plate 7; 7'.
  • the veil 5; 5 'connected to the sole 3; 3 ' is, in this configuration, bearing on a face F' 2 ; F " 2 of another band 6 ', 6".
  • This face is the opposite face to that F 1 ; F 1 'supporting the veil 4; 4 'of an organ 1; 1 '.
  • the separators are effectively maintained in position so that they exert, generally, always the same effort of separation between the plates, whatever their thicknesses.
  • the web 104 connected to the two short sides of the wedging member 101 is connected to a web 108 parallel to the large webs 104, 105 of the member 101.
  • This connection is made by extending the web 102 forming, in the previous configuration, a small side.
  • a hollow wedging member 101 having two webs 105, 108 parallel between which is formed a housing 109 generally configured U.
  • the arms of the U formed by the webs 105 and 108 deviate by a distance substantially equal to the thickness of the strip of material 6.
  • the member 101 is itself configured in two U nested one in the other, head to tail.
  • One of the U is defined by the sails 104, 103, 105 and the other U by the sails 108, 102, 105.
  • the sail 102 connects the two U bearing, at its ends, the sails 104 and 108.
  • the wedging member 101 thus produced can be easily positioned on a cardboard strip 6, for example at one of its ends and / or along its length. This installation can be done definitively by techniques known per se, for example by hot gluing or, removably, by inserting force of the cardboard strip 6 into the housing 109 formed between the two webs 105 and 108.
  • separators equipped with setting member 101; 101 '; 101 "as shown in Figure 4 can be arranged 101 101 '101', so that the web 108; 108 '; 108 "is pressing respectively on a face F 2 ; F 1 "; F 1 "'strips 6 respectively 6";
  • the separators can be arranged indifferently in one direction or the other.
  • the wedging member 101 is arranged so that its web 104 bears on the face F 2 'of the strip 6'; In this way, the wedging members 101 and 101 'are arranged in mirror with respect to the cardboard strip 6' and they keep separate plates 7 and 7 'of the same thickness.
  • the advantage of the second embodiment, illustrated in Figures 3 and 4, lies in the removable nature of the wedging member 101; 101 '; This allows for reusable and adaptable wedging members of different lengths and / or thicknesses or type of material strips 6; 6 '; 6 ". In addition, transport, storage and handling are facilitated, the different parts of the separators can be handled separately.
  • the wedging member 1; 101 is used to hold and block in translation the strip of material to which it is connected.
  • the wedging member prevents the strip of material from sliding between two glass plates, these being held so as not to compress the strip of material.
  • the wedging member 101 is positioned on several material strips contiguous to each other.
  • a wedging member, 1; 101 may be supported on several glass plates 7 contiguous to each other.

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  1. Trennvorrichtung für Platten aus zerbrechlichem Material, insbesondere für Glasplatten, umfassend einen Materialstreifen (6, 6', 6", 6"'), der dazu bestimmt ist, zwischen zwei aufeinanderfolgende Platten (7, 7', 7") eingefügt zu werden und mindestens an einem Ende mit einem Verkeilungsorgan (1, 1'; 101, 101', 101") versehen ist, dessen eine Fläche dazu bestimmt ist, allgemein senkrecht zu einer Hauptebene (P, P') einer Platte (7, 7', 7") zu sein, wobei die Fläche geeignet ist, gegen einen Rand (B, B', B") einer Platte zu drücken, wobei das Verkeilungsorgan (1, 1'; 101, 101', 101") mindestens zwei erste parallele Klappen (4, 5, 4', 5'; 104, 105, 104', 105', 104", 105") umfasst, die geeignet sind, in einer Richtung, die allgemein parallel zur Hauptebene (P, P') der Platte (7, 7', 7") ist, ausgerichtet zu werden, wobei eine der ersten Klappen (4, 5, 4', 5'; 104, 105, 104', 105', 104", 105") gegen den Materialstreifen (6, 6', 6", 6"') drückt, wobei die ersten Klappen (4, 5, 4', 5'; 104, 105, 104', 105', 104", 105") durch eine Querklappe (3, 3'; 103, 103', 103") miteinander verbunden sind, die geeignet ist, gegen den Rand (B, B', B") der Platte (7, 7', 7") gedrückt zu werden, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das Verkeilungsorgan (1, 1'; 101, 101', 101 ") hohl ist und dass eine (5, 5'; 105, 105', 105") der ersten parallelen Klappen (4, 5, 4', 5'; 104, 105, 104', 105', 104", 105") nur mit der Querklappe (3, 3'; 103, 103',) auf eine Weise verbunden ist, dass die parallelen Klappen geeignet sind, bei Verwendung einen seitlichen Ausschlag (Pfeil F) auszuführen, so dass das Verkeilungsorgan (1, 1'; 101, 101') eine Biegsamkeit in seitlicher Richtung aufweist, um sich an Platten (7, 7', 7") mit unterschiedlichen Dicken anpassen zu können.
  2. Trennvorrichtung nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das Verkeilungsorgan (1; 101, 101', 101") eine zusätzliche Klappe (108, 108', 108") umfasst, die durch eine Verbindungsklappe (102, 102', 102") mit mindestens einer der beiden ersten parallelen Klappen (104, 104', 104") verbunden ist und dabei parallel zu diesen ist, so dass eine Aufnahme (109) zur Unterbringung eines Endes des Materialstreifens (6, 6', 6", 6"') definiert wird.
  3. Trennvorrichtung nach Anspruch 2, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Aufnahme (109) allgemein als U ausgebildet ist, wobei die Klappen (108, 105, 108', 105', 108", 105"), die die Flügel des U bilden, einen Abstand zueinander aufweisen, der im Wesentlichen gleich der Dicke des Materialstreifens (6, 6', 6", 6"') ist.
  4. Trennvorrichtung nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die andere der beiden ersten parallelen Klappen (4, 5, 4', 5'; 104, 105, 104', 105', 104", 105") geeignet ist, gegen einen anderen Materialstreifen (6', 6", 6"') zu drücken, der zu einer anderen Trennvorrichtung gehört.
  5. Trennvorrichtung nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das Verkeilungsorgan (101, 101', 101") auf lösbare Weise an einem Teil des Materialstreifens (6, 6', 6", 6"') befestigt ist.
  6. Trennvorrichtung nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 4, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das Verkeilungsorgan (1) auf dauerhafte Weise, insbesondere durch Kleben, an einem Teil des Materialstreifens (6, 6', 6") befestigt ist.
  7. Trennvorrichtung nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass der Materialstreifen (6, 6', 6", 6"') mit mehreren Verkeilungsorganen (1; 101, 101', 101") versehen ist, die über die Länge eines seiner Ränder verteilt sind.
  8. Trennvorrichtung nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass der Materialstreifen (6, 6', 6", 6"') aus Karton mit Bienenwabenstruktur gebildet ist, wobei das Verkeilungsorgan (1; 101, 101'; 101 ") aus mehrschichtigem Karton gebildet ist.
  9. Trennvorrichtung nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die beiden ersten Klappen (4, 5, 4', 5'; 104, 105, 104', 105', 104", 105") und die Querklappe (3; 103, 103', 103") ein U bilden.
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