US3734280A - Shipping container for supporting and protecting a plurality of articles - Google Patents

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US3734280A
US3734280A US00209717A US3734280DA US3734280A US 3734280 A US3734280 A US 3734280A US 00209717 A US00209717 A US 00209717A US 3734280D A US3734280D A US 3734280DA US 3734280 A US3734280 A US 3734280A
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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
    • B65D5/56—Linings or internal coatings, e.g. pre-formed trays provided with a blow- or thermoformed layer
    • B65D5/566—Linings made of relatively rigid sheet material, e.g. carton
    • 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
    • B65D5/44—Integral, inserted or attached portions forming internal or external fittings
    • B65D5/50—Internal supporting or protecting elements for contents
    • B65D5/5028—Elements formed separately from the container body
    • 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
    • B65D71/00—Bundles of articles held together by packaging elements for convenience of storage or transport, e.g. portable segregating carrier for plural receptacles such as beer cans or pop bottles; Bales of material
    • B65D71/06—Packaging elements holding or encircling completely or almost completely the bundle of articles, e.g. wrappers
    • B65D71/08—Wrappers shrunk by heat or under tension, e.g. stretch films or films tensioned by compressed articles
    • B65D71/10—Wrappers shrunk by heat or under tension, e.g. stretch films or films tensioned by compressed articles and provided with inserts
    • 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
    • B65D2571/00—Bundles of articles held together by packaging elements for convenience of storage or transport, e.g. portable segregating carrier for plural receptacles such as beer cans, pop bottles; Bales of material
    • B65D2571/00006—Palletisable loads, i.e. loads intended to be transported by means of a fork-lift truck
    • B65D2571/00012—Bundles surrounded by a film
    • B65D2571/00018—Bundles surrounded by a film under tension
    • 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
    • B65D2571/00—Bundles of articles held together by packaging elements for convenience of storage or transport, e.g. portable segregating carrier for plural receptacles such as beer cans, pop bottles; Bales of material
    • B65D2571/00006—Palletisable loads, i.e. loads intended to be transported by means of a fork-lift truck
    • B65D2571/00037—Bundles surrounded by carton blanks

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  • ABSTRACT The disclosure is directed to a shipping container or package that is particularly adapted for enclosing and protecting a plurality of individual articles, preferably plastic bottles or the like.
  • the generic concept contemplates providing a base or tray member having its support surface coated with a pressure sensitive adhesive.
  • An array of bottles is placed on the tray so that their bodies are in contacting relationship in the area of their greatest cross-sectional dimension.
  • the bottles are immobilized at their bases by adherence to the adhesive coating on the tray support surface.
  • the upper ends of the bottles are immobilized for lateral movement by the provision of suitable means, such as an immobilizing spacer, sheet member or the like, which retains the upper portion of the bottles in their proper relative relationship with respect to the tray member.
  • An essentially U-shaped cover member is placed over the tray member and bottles such that its ends are supported by the tray member whereupon a shrinkable plastic film is fitted over the entire assemblage and thereafter shrunk to hold the several elements of the combination in rigid assembled relationship.
  • the invention relates broadly to the field of shrinkwrapped packages or containers for individual articles such as plastic bottles or the like. More particularly, it is directed to an improved shipping container, case or package which includes means for immobilizing a group of bottles or like articles thereby attaining numerous advantages over commonly employed shipping cases presently in commercial use.
  • packages of the above character are relatively expensive in relation to the number of individual bottles that are shipped therein. That is, the amount and weight of the materials such as corrugated paperboard or the like, used to encase and protect a given number of bottles is relatively great in relation to the number of bottles.
  • Such containers also suffer from an inherent disadvantage in that they enclose the product in such a manner that the container can not be subsequently used as a display device. They are also bulky, difficult to handle, and this leads to relatively high unit labor costs when the package is received and opened in a typical retail outlet.
  • the major object of the invention is the provision of a shipping container for supporting and protecting a plurality of articles, such as bottles.
  • Another object of the invention is the provision of a shipping container as aforesaid which permits immobilization of the bottles, as well as denser packing of the bottles, thereby promoting warehouse efficiency without any sacrifice in strength or protection of the bottles.
  • Another object of the invention is the provision of an improved shipping container which provides efficient protection from moisture, dirt and bottle scuffing without any sacrifice in opening ease and with a minimum hazard of damaging the bottles during opening.
  • Still another object of the invention is the provision of an improved shipping container which can be constructed with relatively less material, thereby reducing its cost, and yet one that is of simplified construction such that it results in labor savings when the container is processed and opened at a retail outlet.
  • a shipping container for supporting and protecting a plurality of articles such as bottles which includes a tray member having its support surfacecoated with a pressure sensitive adhesive to support, retain, and immobilize a plurality of articles after placement thereon.
  • the articles are placed on the tray such that their bodies are in contacting relationship and means are provided for immobilizing the upper ends of the articles by restraining them from movement in a direction parallel to the tray member.
  • a substantially U-shaped cover member is supported by the tray member such that its top surface extends over the articles supported by the tray member and the entire assemblage is covered by a shrink film which is ultimately shrunk in place to hold the several elements of the container in snug assembled relationship.
  • FIG. 2 is an elevation in cross-section taken on the line 2-2 of FIG. 1.
  • FIG. 3 is a fragmentary top view of the container of FIG. 1 illustrating the relationship of the articles as well as the immobilizing spacer member.
  • FIG. 5 is a fragmentary side elevation, similar to FIG. 2, illustrating an alternate form of cover member that provides additional stacking strength.
  • the tray member 11 is preferably made from a double layer or thickness of corrugated paperboard material with the flutes runnirig either at right angles in the two layers or they may all be parallel, preferably in the direction perpendicular to the open end of the container 10 to maximize compressive strength in the direction of the flutes.
  • the pressure sensitive adhesive applied to the support surface 14 is preferably selected so that it will maintain the bottles 12 in adherence thereto. Nevertheless, the properties of the adhesive should be such that the bottles can be readily removed from the tray element 11 when the shipping container of the invention is disassembled. It has been found that a pressure sensitive adhesive identified as l 13-DEV manufactured by Franklin Chemical Company of Columbus, Ohio, is suitable to achieve these objectives.
  • the pressure sensitive adhesive on the surface 14 is used to immobilize the bases of the bottles 12. As illustrated in FIG. 3, it is desirable that the bottles be placed on the surface 14 in an array such that they are in contact with other bottles in the same row as well as in adjoining rows in the area of the largest cross-sectional dimension of the bottles 12. This is an additional factor in rigidifying the final structure and in minimizing the amount and cost of packaging materials used in the container.
  • the immobilizing means comprises a spacer member 16 having a plurality of punched openings 17 formed by the provision of which form a plurality of radial tongues 18 and radial slits as will be appreciated by those skilled in the art. Openings 17 are formed so that they correspond to the position of the caps 13 when the array of bottles 12 is placed in contacting relationship upon the surface 14 of the tray element 11. As illustrated in the drawings, the spacer member 16 is preferably placed over the caps 13 so that it is essentially parallel to the tray element 11. As will be seen from an examination of FIG.
  • the spacer member 16 may be provided with a flange element 19 to obtain additional rigidity it being understood that a similar flange (not shown) will be provided at the other end thereof.
  • the spacer member 16 may be constructed from paperboard, cardboard, corrugated board or any like material.
  • the shipping container 10 of the invention is completed by surrounding the assembled components with a well-known-plastic shrink film material 24 and, thereafter, subjecting the shrink film 24 to sufficient heat so that it will shrink snugly into place and hold the several elements in assembled relationship.
  • Shrink films for this purpose are well known to those skilled in the art and they are typically provided in the form of a sleeve which is, in effect, a cylindrical tube of shrinkable plastic material which can be readily slipped over the assemblage and, thereafter, heated and shrunk in place to simplify the final assembly steps.
  • FIG. 4 An alternate embodiment of the invention is illustrated in FIG. 4 which employs another form of immobilizing means for the upper ends of the bottles 12.
  • a simple and more economical immobilizing means is used which comprises a flexible sheet member 25 of paperboard, heavy kraft paper, or the like material, which is adhered at its opposite edges in the areas 25a to the inner surface of the top wall 21.
  • the sheet member 25 is also adhered in the areas 26 to the top surfaces 27 of the caps 13.
  • the sheet 25 may be adhered in the areas 25a and 26 by the use of a pressure sensitive adhesive having the necessary properties for immobilizing the upper ends of the bottles 12 to prevent substantial movement in a plane parallel to the tray member 11.
  • the use of a flexible sheet 25 allows limited vertical movement of the bottles 12 but this is not detrimental to the overall rigidity of the finished container.
  • the other elements of the container of FIG. 4 are substantially similar to those previously described and do not need additional discussion for a thorough understanding thereof.
  • the bottles in the same row can be placed in contacting relationship although adjoining rows are separated by the intermediate spacer wall 30.
  • the beneficial effects of direct contact of the bottles 12 in adjoining rows is incorporated into the completed container of FIG. 5.
  • the upper immobilizing means has been heretofore described as comprising either a spacer member 16, as in FIGS. 1 3, or a sheet member 25 as in FIG. 4. It will be noted in FIG. 5 that another form of immobilizing means is used. In this later structure, the top surfaces 27 of the caps 13 are adhered directly in the areas 31 to the undersurface 32 of the top wall 33. In this way,
  • a shipping container for supporting and protecting a plurality of articles comprising:
  • a tray member having a support surface for supporting a plurality of articles
  • immobilizing means securing the upper ends of said articles to immobilize them from any substantial movement in a plane parallel to said tray memher
  • a shipping container for supporting and protecting a plurality of articles as claimed in claim 1 wherein said cover member includes side walls extending downwardly from its extremities and an integral intermediate spacer wall extending downwardly to said tray member, said intermediate spacer wall extending longitudinally between adjoining rows of articles to increase the compressive strength of said shipping container.

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