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
  • 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
  • B65D5/64—Lids
• • 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
  • B65D5/20—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 by folding-up portions connected to a central panel from all sides to form a container body, e.g. of tray-like form

Definitions

• the present invention relates to packages, more particularly those which allow small objects to be enclosed and, in an advantageous application, packages intended to contain pawns or the like which are used for games such as "Checkers” or “Chess” . At least one structure of this type of packaging is already well known.
• a box made up of a plurality of side walls and a bottom associated with the side walls to delimit with them a volume capable of containing objects, the side walls further delimiting an entry opening of the volume, and at least one cover able to adapt to the box to at least partially cover the inlet opening.
• the packaging that currently exists to contain objects such as board game pawns can take several forms.
• the pawns are in a package that is only used for packaging and sale. Users are then forced to find a box to store the pawns in the usual place of their use. There are also boxes which are specifically made for the marketing and storage of these pawns, but which generally require additional packaging to protect them, as well as boxes which have the additional function of constituting the tray, for example a checkerboard or a chessboard, on which the pawns can move for the implementation of the game. These last achievements are generally of a very expensive implementation and therefore have a very limited commercial success, their price limiting the number of potential buyers.
• the object of the present invention is therefore to produce packaging which makes it possible to overcome the drawbacks mentioned above, in particular for application to so-called board games with a board and pawns, by constituting both the packaging means for marketing the games. , the plate means on which the pins can move and the means for storing the pins. More specifically, the subject of the present invention is a package comprising at least:
• a box made up of a plurality of side walls and a bottom associated with said side walls to delimit with them a volume capable of containing objects, said side walls further delimiting an inlet opening of said volume, and
• a cover able to adapt to said box to at least partially cover said inlet opening characterized by the fact that it further comprises:
• the present invention also relates to a package comprising a box defining a volume and comprising an inlet opening defined in a plane, and a cover capable of at least partially covering said opening of said box, characterized in that said box is made in a plate of a relatively rigid material and with a thickness of a value "e", and that it comprises:
• each side element being constituted
• first hinge means for associating in rotation about an axis said first and second parts so that a first width of the first part is substantially coincident with a width of the second part and that the axis of rotation is defined at the intersection of two faces of the first part and of the second part so that, when the two parts are arranged to form a flat angle, they are both on the same side of the plane passing through one face of the one of the two parts, and
• Means for associating each lateral element with said central part said means for associating each lateral element with said central part being constituted by second hinge means for associating in rotation the first part of a 'lateral element with one side of the central part so that a length of said first part is combined with a first side of said central part along a straight line defining the axis of rotation between this first part and the central part, that the second width of said first part and a second side of said central part are contained in the same plane perpendicular to said axis of rotation between said first part and said central part, and said four axes of rotation of the first parts of the lateral elements with respect to the central part and said four axes of rotation between the first and second parts of the lateral elements are all in one same plane when the central part and the lateral elements, as well as the first and second parts of said lateral elements, are arranged to form flat angles.
• FIG. 1 represents a first embodiment of the packaging according to the invention, in an arrangement where the two elements "box” and “cover” of the packaging are separated,
• FIG. 2 represents, seen in section, a detail of the embodiment according to FIG. 1,
• FIG. 3 represents a top view of the embodiment according to FIGS. 1 and 2,
• FIGS. 4 and 5 represent two views of a second embodiment of a package according to the invention.
• Figures 6 and 7 show two views of a third embodiment of a packaging according to the invention, and Figure 8 shows a detail of an improvement to the embodiment according to Figures G and 7.
• the packaging includes a box 1 made up of a plurality of side walls 2, 3, 4 and 5, generally four in number, to form a rectangular or square parallelepiped, and of a bottom 6 associated with these side walls to delimit with them a volume 7 capable of containing preferably small objects, for example the pawns of a board game or the like.
• the side walls 2-5 further delimit an inlet opening 8 generally defined in a plane to access the volume 7.
• the packaging further comprises a cover 10 which can be adapted to the box 1 to cover at least partially the inlet opening 8.
• the cover 10 does not not entirely cover the opening 8 because it can include a central recess 13, as it appears in FIGS. 1 and 2.
• Figure 1 shows the box 1 and the cover 10 released from each other, but in a relative arrangement which makes it possible to highlight the way in which they can cooperate with each other when they are associated, that is to say - say when the cover at least partially covers the opening 8 as shown partially and in section in FIG. 2.
• the packaging further comprises at least one tab 1 1, this tab being associated with the cover 10 so that it plunges into the volume 7 when the cover at least partially covers the opening 8, and a projecting part 14 integral with the tab 11, this projecting part comprising a stop surface 15 arranged so that the latter and the bottom 16 of the cover 10 are located on either side of the plane 17 passing through the opening 8, when the cover 10 covers the opening 8.
• the packaging also comprises at least one flap 20 and means 21 for mounting this rotary flap 20 substantially on the edge 22 of the opening 8, for example on one of the side walls 2-5.
• the means for mounting this flap in rotation on the edge 22 of the opening 8 can be of different structures, for example hinges such as those described below.
• the flap 20 is further shaped so that, when the cover 10 covers the opening 8, FIG. 2, and the tab 11 plunges into the volume 7, at least part 23 of this flap is at least partially between the bottom 1 6 of the cover and the abutment surface 15.
• This part 23 advantageously consists of a portion 27 which faces the bottom 16 and another portion 28 which faces the abutment surface 15, the faces of these two portions 27 and 28 belonging respectively to the two main opposite faces 201 and 202 of the flap 20.
• the number of legs 1 1 is advantageously equal to two, one on each of two opposite sides of the cover and in a plane of symmetry of the cover.
• the number of flaps can also be equal to two, as illustrated in the figures.
• Each flap then advantageously has the shape of a bottom half-wall and has two notches 24, for example in the form of a notch or the like, to allow the two legs 1 1 to dive into the 'volume 7 when the cover 1 0 covers the opening 8, figure 2.
• the box can contain small objects like pawns which are well retained in volume 7 by the flaps which close off the opening 8.
• the flaps are clamped between the bottom 16 of the cover and the abutment surfaces 1 5 of the projecting parts 14 integral with the legs 11.
• the cover 10 and the box 1 When associated with each other, the cover 10 and the box 1 remain closely integral with each other, due of course to the friction forces between the edge 26 of the cover 10 and the outline of the box 1, but also by the fact that the flaps are held between the bottom 16 of the cover 10 and the abutment surfaces 15.
• the objects contained in the box are then securely retained there.
• the tab 1 1 is advantageously flat and the projecting part is delimited by at least two intersecting surfaces.
• One constituting the abutment surface 15 is substantially parallel to the plane 17 of the opening 8, the other 30 is oblique with respect to this plane 17 and turned towards the inside of the volume 7 when the cover covers the opening. In this way, during the introduction of the tab into the volume, the oblique surface 30 defined above abuts against the edge 31 of the notch 24 formed in the flap 20 but constitutes a sliding ramp for the edge 31 of the notch 24.
• the ball 1 1 (generally made of plastic) bends slightly thanks to its natural elasticity, then automatically returns to its original position when the edge 31 of the notch 24 reaches the end of the ramp located on the abutment surface 15 and that the part 23 of the flap is clamped between this abutment surface and the bottom 16 of the cover.
• To place the cover on the box we start by positioning the two flaps so that they close the opening 8 then we present the cover above the flaps so that the tabs can enter the volume 7 through the notches 24 which are advantageously combined as illustrated in FIG. 1.
• the two ramps 30 slide easily on the edge 31 of the notches and the tab 1 1 flexes slightly until the flaps abut against the bottom 16 of the cover and that, by the restoring force exerted on the tab, the surfaces of stop 15 pass behind portion 28 of part 23 of the flaps.
• the structure described above allows just as easily to release the cover of the box to open it. It suffices to pull the cover 10 and the box 1 in two opposite directions to overcome the friction forces. In the movement of movement of the cover and the box relative to each other, the abutment surface 15 acts on the flap to make it undergo a slight rotation around the edge 22 of the opening 8, towards the outside of the volume 7.
• the edge of the end 32 of the flap furthest from the edge 22 of the opening 8 tends to move away from the abutment surface 15 by resting on one side of the latter, until the flap bypasses this abutment surface 15 by sliding on its edge and completely escapes it by completely releasing the box from the cover.
• the rotation of the flap is facilitated by the fact that, in the embodiment described, the cover 10 has a central recess 13 whose section is slightly greater than the width of the flap 11 taken between the two notches 24, that is to say ie the length of the edge of the end 32 of the flap defined above.
• the packaging as described above can also be used as commercial packaging to offer for sale the objects it contains. Indeed, by inverting the packaging, that is to say by making it rest on the cover, by its border 26, the latter provides sufficient protection to guarantee the box against, in particular, friction and shocks which may occur. produce on store displays or the like.
• the packaging described above further comprises means 40 for holding the flap 20, and more particularly the portion 28 of its part 23, against the abutment surface 15, these means having the function of preventing the pivot the flap as described above when you want to remove the cover from the box.
• These means for holding the flap 20 against the abutment surface 15 comprise, as illustrated in FIG.
• this bar avoids dissociating the cover of the box, otherwise by at least partially damaging the edge 31 of the notch 24 of the flap 20 , which will allow the potential buyer to assume that the package has already been opened.
• Figures 2 and 3 illustrate an embodiment of the means 42 for securing the bar 41 to the cover 10. These means are constituted by means of clipping the two ends 43, 44 of the bar with parts 45, 46 integral with the cover 10 complementary to these two ends, these elements complementary to one another forming, for example, sets of the male-female type which can only dissociate under relatively high forces.
• these means 42 can also advantageously consist of the fact that the bar 41 is made of the same material as that in which the cover 10 is made, for example made of plastic.
• the cover and the bar can then be produced in one piece, for example by molding, the connection between the bar and the cover having a point of weakness which can be broken just before proceeding to the first separation of the cover 10 and the box 1.
• Figures 4 and 5 show two views of another advantageous embodiment of a package according to the invention.
• This embodiment incorporates the structural characteristics of the embodiment described above with reference to FIGS. 1 to 3.
• the projecting part 14 is decoupled from the tab 1 1 according to at least one degree of rotation about an axis 50 which is towards the end 51 of the tab which plunges into the volume 7.
• This axis 50 is substantially parallel to the plane of the bottom 16 of the cover 10. ⁇ this part in protrusion 14 decoupled from the blade 11, are associated means for applying an elastic restoring force between this protruding part 14 and the tab 1 1.
• These means are arranged to tend to bring the protruding part 14 substantially towards the center of the volume 7 when it has been moved away from it and are advantageously constituted by the fact that the tab 11 and the projecting part 14 are produced in a single piece, the restoring force being generated by the elasticity of the material in which the tab 1 1 and the protruding part 14.
• each notch 24 is produced substantially halfway between the edge 33 of the flap mounted in rotation on the edge 22 of the opening 8 and its opposite edge 32, so that the distance separating the two portions 27 and 28 defined above is relatively large.
• the portion 28 which comes into contact with the bottom 16 of the cover 10 is that which is in the vicinity of the free edge 32 of the flap opposite to that 33 which is associated with the edge 22 of the opening 8. In this way the distance separating the two portions 27 and 28 is then substantially that which separates the notch 24 from this free edge 32, distance which is clearly greater than that of the first mode which was almost zero.
• a package according to the invention is very advantageous since the box can, in addition, as illustrated in FIGS. 6 and 7, constitute a game board, for example for checkers, chess or the like, regardless of the number of flaps used to close the opening 8, even if, in these Figures 6 and 7, the box is shown with two flaps.
• the box, FIGS. 6 and 7 is produced in a plate of relatively rigid material and with a thickness of value "e".
• This box comprises, FIG. 6, a square central part 60 produced in the plate, the side of which has a value equal to "L”, four lateral elements 61, 62, 63 and 64 produced in the plate and means 65 for associating each lateral element 61-64 to this central part 60.
• Each lateral element 61-64 consists of two first 71 and second 72 superimposed rectangular parts made in the plate and first hinge means 77 for associating in rotation about an axis 78 its two parts 71, 72.
• These two superimposable parts have a length substantially equal to the value "Le” and a width substantially equal to "L-2e”, and are associated in rotation by the hinge means 77 so that a first width 74 of the first part 71 is substantially coincident with a width of the second part 72 and the axis of rotation 78 is defined at the intersection of two faces of the first part and the second part and further so that, when the two parts are arranged to form a flat angle as shown in Figure 6, they are both located on the same side of the plane passing through a face of one of them.
• the means 65 for associating each lateral element 61-64 with the central part 60 comprise second hinge means 80 for associating in rotation the first part 71 of a lateral element 61-64 and the central part 60 so that a length of this first part 71 is substantially coincident with a first side 73.
• the plate is constituted by at at least two layers secured to one another, one of a rigid material and the other of a flexible material.
• at least one of the two layers may even be made of a magnetic material, the pins then having at their base a magnet.
• the hinge means 65 and / or 77 can be constituted by a cut made in the layer of rigid material, over its entire thickness and up to the layer of flexible material.
• the box is obtained directly in a plate as defined above. Cutouts 76, 82 are made passing through the plate over its entire thickness to separate the second parts 72 of the first 71 from two contiguous lateral elements 61, 62 and partial cuts to define the hinges as described above.
• the packaging can advantageously further comprise two flat flaps 20 as described above with reference to FIGS. 1 to 5 each associated with a first part of two opposite lateral elements 61, 63, by hinge means similar to the hinge means described above and arranged in the same plane as them.
• FIG. 1 the packaging can advantageously further comprise two flat flaps 20 as described above with reference to FIGS. 1 to 5 each associated with a first part of two opposite lateral elements 61, 63, by hinge means similar to the hinge means described above and arranged in the same plane as them.
• the packaging comprises two flaps 95, 96 mounted pivoting on two opposite sides of the opening 8, the dimensions of the two flaps being defined so that they can together cover substantially the entire opening 8.
• One 96 of the two flaps comprises , in its plane and on its edge opposite to that which is linked to the edge of the opening, a male part 97, the other flaps 95 comprising, in its plane and on its edge opposite to that which is linked to the edge of the opening, a female part 98 complementary to the male part 97, so that these two male and female parts can cooperate in each other by interlocking when the two flaps come, by pivoting, substantially in the plane of the opening.
• This packaging structure is advantageous because it makes it possible to close the box and keep it in this state with a minimum of means, which is advantageous, in particular, in the application mentioned above.

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