Classifications

• • 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
  • B65D85/1036—Containers formed by erecting a rigid or semi-rigid blank

Definitions

• the present invention relates to a rigid package for containing small items.
• the present invention relates to a rigid package for containing small tiger-like articles such as pencils, sticks or smoking articles or small articles of any other shape and introduced into the package in no particular order, such as candy , paper clips and other small items.
• the rigid package according to the invention is part of the packets with lateral opening and by pivoting.
• rigid packets which have not been provided with a lid giving access to the contents of the pack by the top of the latter, but which are formed by an outer box and an inner box and for which opening the package is obtained by pivoting the inner box relative to the outer box.
• a rigid package is known for example from US-A-I 992 373.
• This rigid package is also equipped with means that limit the pivot angle. These limiting means consist of hooks formed on the inner box and which hook into corresponding slots formed on either side of the inner box on the inner faces of the outer box.
• the rigid package known from US-A-992,373 is manufactured from two separate blanks from which the inner box and the outer box are respectively obtained.
• the two boxes are glued to each other so that relative pivoting between the two boxes is possible. Bonding the two boxes by gluing is economically and technically binding.
• the object of the invention is to overcome this drawback.
• the object of the invention is achieved with a rigid package for containing small items, the pack being formed by an outer box and an inner box interconnected by a pivot connection about an axis of articulation located at the bottom of the package, so that the package is closed when the inner box is tucked into the outer box and the package is opened after pivoting the inner box relative to the outer box.
• the outer box and the inner box are independent of one another and interconnected by first clipping or hooking means, each of the two boxes comprising part of the first clipping or clipping means. hooking.
• the rigid package according to the invention is therefore designed so that the two boxes are connected to each other without requiring a bonding step. This is achieved with a system of attachment or clipping.
• the clipping or hooking system facilitates assembly and ensures both the connection and the possibility of pivoting.
• the chosen assembly technique is called indifferently clipping or hooking. This is justified by the fact that the invention is not limited to the use of a particular material for producing respectively the outer box and the inner box. If it is considered that the clipping assembly technique can not be realized, strictly defined, that thanks to the elasticity of profile areas or body areas concerned, the invention would not apply to packages made cardboard or paper. Indeed, cardboard and paper are soft but not elastic materials. As a result, we should only talk about hooking when using paper or cardboard for the implementation of the invention.
• hooking and clipping will be used interchangeably and without delimitation of one with respect to the other.
• the rigid package according to the invention uses the assembly technique clipping or hooking at least for the realization of the pivot connection between the outer box and the inner box.
• the clipping or hooking technique can be used also for the realization of a means limiting the pivot angle between the two boxes.
• the rigid package is made from two blanks cardboard.
• the principle of the present invention also applies to any other embodiment and any other material that allows to give up a bonding step or equivalent mode of attachment.
• the rigid package according to the invention has a pivot opening of the inner box with respect to the outer box.
• the inner box is for housing articles and the outer box contains at least a portion of the inner box when the package is closed.
• the two boxes of said packet are connected to each other by interlocking clipping or hooking means, each of which comprises two boxes.
• the clipping means thus comprise a latching tongue and a slot in which the latching tongue is intended to engage.
• the hooking tongue is made in the form of an arrow, which makes it possible to optimize its insertion into the slot by translation.
• the tongue-shaped tongue ensures both its introduction into the slot and its anti-shrinkage effect by anchoring on the edges of the slot.
• the slot is adapted with regard to its dimensions, to those of the tongue, and is advantageously formed with a cutout which provides an elastic opening necessary for the introduction of the tongue without initiation of tearing of the slot to be able to fully maintain the anchoring function of the tongue.
• the positioning of the tongue at the bottom of the inner box is advantageously chosen in such a way that the contents of the pack contribute to the following effect: if the contents are tight, the tip of the attachment tongue is subjected to an elastic deformation leading to at a moment of return in rotation favoring the closed maintenance of the packet; if on the other hand the content is not tight, the rigidity of the tip of the latching tongue can allow the contents to be lifted when the inner box is pivoted relative to the outer box, which makes it possible to improve the setting at disposal of articles when the contents are formed by tigiform articles.
• the invention provides means in the form of a connecting tongue coming from the material of the inner box or the outer box and hanging on the other box.
• the connecting tongue may be in the form of clipping or hooking elements or in the form of a band whose free end is trapped in the other box.
• the rigid package according to the invention may also have one or the other of the following characteristics, considered in isolation or in any technically possible combination:
• each of the two boxes is made in one piece with the corresponding part, first clipping means; each of the two boxes is made from a cardboard blank in which is formed the corresponding part of the first clipping means; -
• the rigid package comprises means for limiting the pivot angle of the inner box relative to the outer box, these means being second clipping means; each of the two boxes is made in one piece with a corresponding part of the second clipping means;
• the rigid package comprises means for limiting the pivot angle of the inner box with respect to the outer box, these means being constituted by a strip coming from one of the two boxes, either from the outer box or of the inner box, and fixed by its free end on the other of the two boxes, either on the inner box or on the outer box;
• the rigid package includes finishing elements for containing smoking articles.
• Figures 13 to 16 show a third embodiment of the embodiment of the invention.
• Figure 1 shows a rigid package according to the invention in a preferred embodiment and in the closed state.
• the rigid package 1 comprises an outer box 11 and an inner box 12 which are interconnected by a pivot connection 13 about an articulation axis 131 located at the bottom F of the package.
• the package 1 is closed when the inner box 12 is retracted into the outer box 11 and the package 1 is open after pivoting of the inner box 12 relative to the outer box 11, which also makes the opening O of the Package 1.
• Figure 1 also shows pivoting limiting means 14.
• the outer box 11 and the inner box 12 are made independently of one another and remain independent of each other after the realization of the rigid package 1 in the sense that they are attached to each other. other by no glued tongue or any other bonded bonding means. On the contrary, they are connected to each other only by first clipping means 132, 133 constituting the pivot connection 13 about a pivot axis 131.
• the first clipping means comprise a tongue 132 made in the form of a arrow and a slot 133, one of these two elements of the pivot connection 13 being formed of material on the outer box 11 and the other element being formed of material on the inner box 12.
• Figures 3 and 4 show these two elements in a distribution according to which the tongue 132 is formed on the box 11 and the slot 133 is formed in the bottom of the inner box 12.
• FIG. 2 shows the package 1 of the invention in an open position.
• FIG. 2 more particularly shows the position of the hinge axis 131 of the pivot connection 13 and further shows the change of position of the means 14 for limiting the pivot angle, between the closed position and the fully open position of the 1.
• the means 14 limiting the pivoting angle of the inner box 12 relative to the outer box 11 comprise a limiting tab 141 coming from the material of the outer box 11.
• the free end of the tongue 141 is made under the shape of an arrow, which allows the formation of second clipping means.
• the second clipping means 14 thus comprise the limiting tongue 141 and a limiting slot 142, both of which are visible in FIGS. 3 and 4.
• the rigid package 2 comprises an outer box 21 and an inner box 22 which are interconnected by a pivot connection 23 about an axis of articulation 231 located at the bottom F of the package.
• the package 2 is closed when the inner box 22 is retracted into the outer box 21 and the package 2 is opened after pivoting the inner box 22 relative to the outer box 21, which also makes the opening 0 of the 2.
• FIG. 5 also shows pivoting limitation means 24.
• the outer box 21 and the inner box 22 are made independently of one another and remain independent of each other after the realization of the rigid package 2 in the sense that they are attached to each other. other by no glued tongue or any other bonded bonding means. On the contrary, they are connected to each other only by first clipping means 232, 233 constituting the pivot connection 23 about a pivot axis 231.
• the first clipping means comprise a tongue 232 made in the form of a arrow and a slot 233, one of these two elements of the pivot connection 23 being formed of material on the outer box 21 and the other element being formed of material on the inner box 22.
• Figures 7 and 8 show the tongue 232 formed on the outer box 21 and the slot 233 formed in the bottom of the inner box 22.
• FIG. 6 shows the package 1 of the invention in an open position.
• FIG. 6 more particularly shows the position of the hinge axis 231 of the pivot connection 23 and further shows the change of position of the means 24 to limit the pivot angle, between the closed position and the fully open position of the 2.
• the means 24 limiting the pivot angle of the inner box 22 relative to the outer box 21 comprise a limiting tab 241 coming from the material of the outer box 21.
• the free end of the tongue 241 is made under the shape of an arrow, which allows the formation of second clipping means.
• the second clipping means 24 thus comprise the limiting tongue 241 and a limiting slot 242, both visible in FIGS. 7 and 8.
• the free end of the limiting tongue 241 is engaged in the slot 242 formed in the rough portion forming the back of the inner box 22 and close to the bottom of the inner box 22 and the tab 241 limits, by its defined length, the pivot angle of the inner box 22 relative to the outer box 21.
• the rigid package 3 comprises an outer box 31 and an inner box 32 which are interconnected by a pivot connection 33 about an axis of articulation 331 located at the bottom F of the package.
• the package 3 is closed when the inner box 32 is retracted into the outer box 31 and the package 3 is opened after pivoting the inner box 32 relative to the outer box 31, which also makes the opening O of the 3.
• FIG. 9 also shows pivot limitation means 34.
• the outer box 31 and the inner box 32 are made independently of one another and interconnected by first clipping means 332, 333 constituting the pivot connection 33 about a pivot axis 331.
• the first means clipping means comprise a tongue 332 made in the form of an arrow and a slot 333, one of these two elements of the pivot connection 33 being formed of material on the outer box 31 and the other element being formed of material on the inner box 32.
• Figures 11 and 12 show the tongue 332 formed on the outer box 31 and the slot 333 formed in the bottom of the inner box 32.
• Figure 10 shows the package 3 of the invention in an open position.
• FIG. 10 more particularly shows the position of the hinge axis 331 of the pivot connection 33 and further shows the change of position of the means 34 to limit the pivot angle, between the closed position and the fully open position of the package 3.
• the means 34 limiting the pivot angle of the inner box 32 relative to the outer box 31 comprise a limiting tab 341 coming from the material of the inner box 32.
• the free end of the tongue 341 is made in the form of a band, folded in L which allows the formation of second clipping means.
• the second clipping means 34 thus comprise the limiting tongue 341 and a limiting slot 342, both of which are visible in FIGS. 11 and 12.
• the free end the limiting tab 341 is engaged in the slot 342 made in the outer box 31 and L-folded behind this slot.
• the tongue 341 limits, by its defined length, the pivot angle of the inner box 32 relative to the outer box 31.
• the rigid package 4 comprises an outer box 41 and an inner box 42 which are interconnected by a pivot connection 43 about an articulation axis 431 located at the bottom F of the package.
• the package 4 is closed when the inner box 42 is retracted into the outer box 41 and the package 4 is opened after pivoting the inner box 42 relative to the outer box 41, which also makes the opening O of the 4.
• FIG. 13 also shows pivoting limiting means 44.
• the outer box 41 and the inner box 42 are made independently of one another and interconnected by first clipping means 432, 433 constituting the pivot connection 43 about a pivot axis 431.
• the first means clipping means comprise a tongue 432 made in the form of an arrow and a slot 433, one of these two elements of the pivot connection 43 being formed of material on the outer box 41 and the other element being formed of material on the inner box 42.
• Figures 15 and 16 show the tab 432 formed on the box 41 and the slot 433 formed in the bottom of the inner box 42.
• FIG. 14 shows the pack 4 of the invention in an open position.
• FIG. 14 more particularly shows the position of the hinge axis 431 of the pivot connection 43 and also shows the change of position of the means 44 to limit the pivot angle, between the closed position and the fully open position of the 4.
• the means 44 limiting the pivot angle of the inner box 42 relative to the outer box 41 comprise a limiting tab 441 coming from the material of the inner box 42.
• the free end of the tongue 441 is made under the shape of a pre-folded band visible in FIG. 16.
• the free end of the limiting tab 441 is engaged between the two blank parts 411, 412 forming the back of the outer box 41 and the tongue 441 limits, by its defined length, the pivot angle of the inner box 42 with respect to the outer box 41.
• the tongue 441 is formed of material with the outer box 41 and its free end is engaged, during the assembly of the rigid package 4, between two blank parts 424, 425A forming the back of the inner box 42.
• the roughing portion 425A shown in FIG. 16 in dotted lines, is secured to the blank portion 421 and not to the blank portion 424.
• the tongue 441 is then formed in place of the part 413 of the blank of the outer box 41.
• a corresponding subvariant may also be formed for the rigid package 3.
• the blank portion in which is cut (according to Figure 12) the tab 341 remains intact and receives the slot 342, and vice versa the blank part provided (According to Figure 11) of the slot 342 is used to cut the tongue 341.
• the rigid package according to the invention can be provided with finishing elements in order to be able to fill it with smoking articles, by example of cigarettes.
• finishing elements are for example a metallized EM envelope containing cigarettes.

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