FR2677957A1 - CASE FOR THE TRANSPORT AND PRESENTATION OF PRODUCTS, ESPECIALLY CHIPS BAGS. - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a box (1) for transporting and presenting products, in particular bags of chips, comprising a base (1a), vertical walls (2, 3, 4, 5), a cover (6) intended to be placed on the upper part of said walls and at least one intermediate plate (7) forming a shelf. The box comprises means (10) for supporting the intermediate plate (7) and for stiffening at least two opposite vertical walls (3, 5).

Description

i The present invention relates to a transport and

product presentation

  various, including sachets of chips.

  This type of boxes, generally of rectangular and cardboard shape, has a bottom, vertical walls, a cap intended to be placed on the upper part of said walls and at least

  an intermediate plate forming a shelf for support

  ter several layers of products, while avoiding the

deterioration of these products.

  These cases serve simultaneously for the trans-

  wearing of products and the sale thereof, in particular

in large areas.

  For this purpose, one of the vertical walls of the box has a portion of cut surface

  forming an opening to facilitate access to the interior

  the cashier and the withdrawal of the products.

  The intermediate plate (s) are

  supported by a support system which, until pre-

  sent is formed by cutting directly on the packaging boxes, or by braces or by belts forming a support arranged inside the box between the bottom and the various intermediate plates. But, the mounting of these support systems

known is relatively long.

  In addition, the use of belts requires a product storage plan through the remaining free spaces and, at the opening this kind

  of support system makes the presentation of pro-

very unsightly.

  In addition, this type of crate which also serves

  transport of products, must be able to withstand heavy loads, of the order of 300 Kg, because

  they are stacked on pallets to facilitate

  liter handling of these cases and several pa-

  lettes can be superimposed on each other

  very to reduce storage space. Given the charges applied to these

  boxes, the vertical walls must be able to resist

  ter to buckling in order to avoid crushing of the pro-

  products, especially when these products are fragile

  like for example the sachets of chips.

  So far, the solution is to

  use thick cardboard which increases

  lies the weight of the cases and, therefore, their price

  cost and charter cost.

  The object of the present invention is to avoid these drawbacks by proposing a box which has better resistance to dynamic compression and to dihedral compression, while using thinner cartons and which eliminates all

  internal shaping and centering operation

laughing at the checkout.

  The present invention therefore relates to a case for transporting and presenting products, in particular sachets of chips, comprising a bottom, vertical walls, a cap intended to be placed on the upper part of said walls and at least

  an intermediate plate forming a shelf,

  laughing in that it comprises means for supporting said intermediate plate and for stiffening at least

  minus two opposite vertical walls.

  According to other characteristics of the invention

tion:

  the support and stiffening means

  tion are formed by at least two parallel links comprising at each end a fitting member

  in a corresponding opening made in the

  your opposite vertical walls, said links are flexible or rigid, each interlocking member is formed by a profile comprising a horizontal plate provided with a passage orifice at one end of the link, a first vertical plate disposed on one edges of the horizontal plate and extending on either side of this horizontal plate and a second vertical plate extending perpendicular to one of the faces of the horizontal plate and disposed between the orifice of said horizontal plate and said

  first vertical plate, said second plate ver-

  sparing with the portion of the first plate

  vertical extending on the same side of the horizontal plate

  zontale, a notch intended to receive one of the

  edges of the corresponding opening in the vertical wall

  wedge of the body, the first vertical plate has any shape, for example rectangular, square or round the second vertical plate has a height greater than the height of the portion of the first

  plate extending on the same side of said horizontal plate

zonta le,

  the second vertical plate has sensitive-

  ment a height identical to that of the portion of the first vertical plate extending from the other side of said horizontal plate, the distance between the second vertical plates of the two opposing interlocking members

  connected by the link is substantially equal to the dis-

  tance separating the two opposite vertical walls of the body, connected by said link and said interlocking members, the openings intended to receive rcvi

  each an interlocking member are rectan-

  gular, the length of each opening is

  substantially equal to the length of an embo body -

really,

  the height of each opening is less

  greater than the height of the first vertical plate of an interlocking member, each opening is provided in its part

  upper part of a pivoting flap to facilitate intro

  duction of the first vertical plate of an interlocking member. Other characteristics and advantages of the present invention will become apparent during the course of the

  description which follows, made with reference to

  attached drawings, in which: Fig 1 is a partially cutaway perspective view of a box according to the present invention, Fig 2 is a perspective view of the support and stiffening means, Fig '-: is a view in perspective of an interlocking member and an opening intended to receive this interlocking member, FIG. 4 is a view of a variant of an opening, FIGS. 5 a to 5 c are plan views showing the introduction of an interlocking member in

an opening.

  In Fig 1 there is shown a box 1, according to the present invention, for transport and

  presentation of various products and in particular of its-

chips.

  Box 1, of generally parallelepepi-

  pedic and cardboard, consists of a bottom, four

  tre vertical walls 2, 3, 4 and 5 extending upwards and a cap 6 intended to fit on the

  upper part of the vertical walls.

  The vertical wall 2 forming the front wall of the body 1, may include a portion of cuttable surface, not shown, forming an opening to facilitate access to the interior of the body and

withdrawal of products.

  This box 1 comprises at least one intermediate plate 7 forming a shelf for superimposing

several layers of products.

  In addition, box 1 also includes

  means 10 for supporting the interchangeable plate

  area 7 and stiffening at least two walls

  opposite verticals, for example walls 3 and 5.

  These support and stiffening means 10 are formed by two parallel links 11 comprising, at each end a fitting member 20 in a corresponding opening 12, formed in the walls

opposite verticals 3 and 5.

  Referring to Fig 2, we see that the

  link 11 is connected at each of its ends to the or-

interlocking gane 20.

  As shown in Figs 2 and 3, the nesting member 20 is formed by a profile, for example

molded or extruded.

  This interlocking member 20 comprises a horizontal plate 21 provided with a passage orifice at one end of the link 11 and a first vertical plate 23 disposed on the edge 21 a of the horizontal plate 21 and comprising, on the one hand, a portion 23 a extending from one side of the horizontal plate 21

  and a portion 23 b extending on the other side of the

said horizontal plate 21

  The nesting member 20 also includes

  a second vertical plate 24 extending per-

  pendicular to one of the faces of the hori-

  zonal 21 and disposed between the orifice 22 and the first

vertical plate 23.

  The second vertical plate 24 cleans with the portion 23 b of the first vertical plate 23, a

  notch 25 intended to receive one of the edges of the

  groove 12 of the wall 3 or 5 of the body 1.

  Each end of the link 11 made of flexible or rigid material is introduced into the opening 22 of

  the horizontal plate 21 of each socket member

  ment 20 and said end perhaps, depending on the

  material used for link 11, knotted, welded, covered

  sue, glued or riveted with the central part of said link The first vertical plate 23 can be of any shape, for example rectangular, square or round and its face located outside the box can serve as an advertising medium The second vertical plate 24 has, on the one hand, a height greater than the height of the portion 23 b of the first vertical plate 23 and, on the other hand, a height substantially identical to that of the portion 23 a of said first vertical plate 23

  As shown in Fig 3, each open

  ture 12 intended to receive an interlocking member 20

has a rectangular shape.

  The length of each opening 12 is

  substantially equal to the length of a fitting member

  20 and the height of each opening is less

  higher than the first vertical plate 23

of said nesting member 20.

  When the link 11 is assembled with the two interlocking members 20 as shown in 7. Fig 2, the distance "d" separating the second plates

  vertical 24 of the two interlocking members 20 oppo-

  sées is substantially equal to the distance between the two vertical walls 3 and 5 opposite the body 1 According to a variant shown in Fig 4, each opening 12 is provided at its upper part with a flap 15 pivoting to facilitate the introduction

  of the first vertical plate 23 of an em-

limp 20.

  Referring now to Figs 5 a to c we will describe the introduction of a fitting member

20 in an opening 12.

  First the portion 23 a of the first

  plate 23 is introduced into opening 12 and main-

  held in contact with the upper edge of this or

verture 12 (Fig 5 a).

  The nesting member 20 is tilted so that the portion 23b of the first vertical plate 23 also enters the opening 12 (Fig 5b) Then, the nesting member 20 is lowered so that the edge bottom of the opening 12 enters the notch 25 formed between the portion 23b of the first vertical plate 23 and the second

vertical plate 24 (Fig 5 c).

  The same operation is performed for each

nesting member 20.

  The particular shape of each of the nesting members 20 does not allow, once it is

  mounted in the corresponding opening 12, to be re-

  pulled without the practice of the reverse movement of its setting

in place.

  The nesting members 20 are identified

  ques and require no right-left direction during assembly Once mounted, the two links 11 and the nesting members 20 constitute a support for

the intermediate plate 7.

  Thus, these links 11 and these interlocking members 20 which constitute a support for the intermediate plate 7, serve at the same time as means of stiffening the vertical walls 3 and 5 of the body 1, thereby avoiding buckling of these walls

  when several boxes are stacked and therefore

  the deterioration of the products transported.

  The box according to the present invention

  therefore has better resistance to compression

  dynamic sion and better resistance to com-

  dihedral pressure, which allows the use of

  thinner tones reducing the weight of the boxes and their cost price as well as charter costs. Another advantage of the box according to the present invention lies in the fact that all of the

  internal shaping and centering operations

laughing boxes are deleted.

  The support and stiffening means used in the box according to the present invention,

  can be quickly assembled and disassembled

  lontont without deterioration of the body and directly

  at the place of packaging of the products.

Claims (11)

  1 Transport and presentation case (1)   tion of products, in particular sachets of chips,   carrying a bottom (1a), vertical walls (2, 3, 4, 5), a cap (6) intended to be placed on the upper part of said walls and at least one intermediate plate (7) forming a shelf, characterized in that it comprises means (10) for supporting said intermediate plate (7) and for stiffening   at least two opposite vertical walls (3, 5).   2 Box according to claim 2, charac-   characterized in that the support and stiffening means (10) are formed by at least two parallel links (11) comprising a gold at each end   interlocking gane (20) in an opening (12) cor-   correspondent formed in said vertical walls (3, 5) opposite-   3 Box according to claim 2, charac-   terized in that said links (11) are flexible.   4 Box according to claim 2, charac-   terized in that said links (11) are rigid.   Box according to claim 2, characterized in that each interlocking member (20) is formed by a profile comprising a horizontal plate   (21) provided with an orifice (22) for the passage of an end   mite of the link (11), a first vertical plate (23)   arranged on one of the edges (21a) of the hori-   zontal (21) and extending on either side of this   horizontal plate (21) and a second vertical plate   wedge (24) extending perpendicular to one of the faces of the horizontal plate (21) and disposed between the orifice (22) of said horizontal plate (21> and said first plate (23), said second vertical plate ( 24) providing with the portion (23 b) of the first plate (23) extending on the same side of the horizontal plate (21), a notch (25) intended to   receive one of the edges of the corresponding opening (12)   dante of the vertical wall (3, 5) of the body 1.   6 Box according to claim 5, charac-   terized in that the first vertical plate (23) has   any shape, for example rectangular, car- rée or round.   7 Box according to claim 5, charac-   terized in that the second vertical plate (24) has a height greater than the height of the portion (23b) of the first vertical plate (23) extending   on the same side of the horizontal plate (21) -   8 Box according to claim 5, charac-   terized in that the second vertical plate (24) has   substantially a height identical to that of the door   tion (23 a) of the first vertical plate (23) extends   tending on the other side of the horizontal plate (21).   9 Cash box according to any one of the res-   previous indications, characterized in that the   tance between the second vertical plates (24) of the two opposing interlocking members (20), connected by the   link (11) is substantially equal to the distance between   rant the two vertical walls (3, 5) opposite the box (51), connected by said link (11) and said nesting members (20).   Box according to claim 2, charac-   characterized in that the openings (12) each intended to receive an interlocking member (20) are of rectangular shape.   11 Box according to any of   previous claims, characterized in that the   length of each opening (12) is substantially   equal to the length of an interlocking member (20).   12 Box according to any of   claims 1 to 10, characterized in that the height   the size of each opening (12) is less than the height of the first vertical plate (23) of a nesting member (20).   13 Checkout according to any of   previous claims, characterized in that   each opening (12) is provided, at its upper part   bottom of a flap (15) pivoting for easy insertion   production of the first vertical plate (23) of a nesting member (20).