JP4825039B2 - Packaging container - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a packaging container for storing and selling food, and in particular, an accessory is put in a top-sealed inner container, and the inner container containing the accessory is put together with other foods. The present invention relates to a packaging container that is housed and sold in a container.

  For example, salads stored in transparent resin containers are sold at supermarkets and convenience stores. Some resin containers contain multiple types of vegetables (such as bite-sized lettuce, cut cucumbers, shredded carrots, etc.) and an inner container with dressing enclosed as an accessory. .

Patent Document 1 discloses a configuration in which a container for an accessory is provided on the lid of the container body.
JP-A-9-86571

  As described above, the packaging container in which the accessory is accommodated has a problem that the appearance as a product is poor because the inner container (attachment) moves in the container and is buried in vegetables.

  Not only examples of salad dressing, but also foods to be enclosed in the inner container can be exemplified by nectar, jelly-like food, tofu, etc. There is a problem that the contained inner container moves in the packaging container.

More specifically, for example, when selling salad and tofu as a set, the tofu as an accessory in the inner container must be stored in a single packaging container together with the salad. There are the following problems.
(1) When salad and tofu are stored in a single container, the tofu may move in the packaging container and be hidden in the salad, or the salad may be offset during the distribution of goods to a sales location, etc. There is.
(2) When salad and tofu are accommodated in separate containers, the container cost increases.

In addition, salads and tofu that are sold as a set must always be handled together, and handling of products is inconvenient.
(3) Each of the salad and tofu must be nicely accommodated in one packaging container, but a packaging container that has solved such problems has not yet been developed.

  On the other hand, in the configuration described in Patent Document 1, the container for the accessory does not move, but the lid is provided with a recess for receiving from the upper surface, and the accessory must be further covered to provide the accessory there. Therefore, the configuration is complicated.

  The present invention has been made based on such a background, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a packaging container that can accommodate a salad and tofu in a good-looking manner when the salad and tofu are sold as a set. And

  The present invention also accommodates a dressing enclosed in a top seal in the inner container, a jelly-like food, a liquid such as tofu, a gel-like or food that tends to collapse in a packaging container as an accessory, It is another object of the present invention to provide a packaging container in which the food contained in the packaging container and the accessory are arranged nicely in the packaging container and the accessory does not move.

The invention of claim 1 includes a bottom surface and a side wall rising from the periphery of the bottom surface, the top surface being open, a container body for containing contents, and a lid for closing the top surface of the container body; A protrusion formed on the side wall of the container body, the installation surface extending in the horizontal direction, and the inner container mounted on the installation surface being horizontally placed to mount the inner container with the accessory attached and top-sealed so as not to move in the direction, comprising a fixed surface extending from the outer edge of the installation surface upward, saw including a projection projecting from the side wall to the container body inwardly to the upper end of the fixing surface, towards the outside of the container body The packaging container is characterized in that the inclined surfaces extending obliquely upward are continuous .

  The invention according to claim 2 is the packaging container according to claim 1, wherein the protrusions are formed at least at three locations on the side wall.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, the inner container has a flange to which the sealing film is attached around an opening that is top-sealed with the sealing film, and the flange of the inner container is placed on the installation surface. characterized in that it is a packaging container according to claim 1 or 2.

  According to the first aspect of the present invention, the container main body is provided with a protrusion for placing the inner container that is top-sealed with an accessory. The protrusion is formed on the side wall and protrudes from the side wall into the container body. The protrusion includes an installation surface on which the inner container is placed and a fixed surface that restricts the inner container from moving. Therefore, the inner container put in the container body is supported by the installation surface of the protrusion and is regulated so as not to move on the fixed surface.

  Therefore, the contents contained in the container body and the accessories enclosed in the inner container are not mixed in the container body, and the contents contained in the container body and the accessories enclosed in the inner container are not mixed. However, the state where it was arranged in the container main body with good appearance is maintained.

Therefore, it can be set as the packaging container which can accommodate food with good appearance so as not to reduce the willingness to purchase.
In addition to the installation surface and the fixing surface, the protrusion includes an inclined surface that extends obliquely upward from the upper end of the fixing surface toward the outside of the container body. The inclined surface serves to guide the inner container and guide it onto the installation surface when the inner container is stored in the container body. Therefore, when putting an inner container in a container main body, it can be set as a packaging container with good workability | operativity.

  In the invention described in claim 2, since the protrusions are formed at least at three positions on the side wall, the inner container is received at at least three positions and stably held so as not to move.

  The protrusions on the side walls may be three or more. For example, if the packaging container has a substantially rectangular shape in plan view, the protrusions are provided on the four side walls, and a total of four protrusions are provided. Is preferred.

In the invention according to claim 3 , the inner container includes a flange for top sealing, and the flange portion is placed on the installation surface of the protrusion. Therefore, the inner container is stably placed on the projection installation surface, and it is possible to reliably prevent the inner container from moving or rattling within the container body.

  In the following, referring to the drawings, as an embodiment of the present invention, an example in which the accessory contained in the inner container is tofu and the food contained in the container body is a salad will be described.

  However, the present invention broadly covers packaging containers in which the first food contained in the container body and the second food contained in the inner container are housed and sold together in the container body. As described above, the food is not limited to tofu and salad.

  FIG. 1 is a packaging container according to an embodiment of the present invention, and is an exploded perspective view with a lid omitted, FIG. 2 is a central longitudinal sectional view of the packaging container, and FIG. It is a perspective view (however, the lid | cover is abbreviate | omitted) which shows the state which cut | disconnected the packaging container shown in FIG. 2 along line AA.

  1 to 3, the packaging container 1 includes a container body 2, a lid 3, and an inner container 4.

  In this embodiment, the container body 2 has a substantially square shape in plan view, and has an overall shape with a slightly narrower bottom surface than the top surface opening. Specifically, the container main body 2 includes a bottom plate that forms a bottom surface 5 having a substantially square shape in plan view, and four side walls 6 that rise obliquely upward from the periphery of the bottom surface 5 toward the outside. The container body 2 has a shape in which the upper surface defined by the upper end edges of the four side walls 6 is open, and the contents can be freely taken in and out of the container 7 defined by the four side walls 6 and the bottom surface 5 from the upper surface. is doing.

  Each of the four side walls 6 has a protrusion 8 that is long in the vertical direction at the center in the width direction of the side wall 6. Each protrusion 8 includes an installation surface 9 extending in the horizontal direction, a fixing surface 10 extending upward from the outer edge of the installation surface 9, and an inclined surface 11 extending outward from the upper edge of the fixing surface 10 obliquely upward. It is included.

  The installation surface 9 is located substantially at the center when viewed in the depth direction of the storage 7. The inner container 4 is received by each installation surface 9 provided on each projection 8. Further, the fixing surface 10 formed on each protrusion 8 prevents the inner container 4 received by the installation surface 9 from being displaced or moved in the horizontal direction.

  In this embodiment, the projecting dimension D of the installation surface 9 into the container 7 is about 2.0 to 7.0 mm, and the width W1 of the installation surface 9 is about 2.0 to 30.0 mm.

  The height H of the fixed surface 10 is about 1.0 to 20.0 mm, and the width W2 of the fixed surface 10 is about 2.0 to 30.0 mm.

  Each protrusion 8 has an inclined surface 11 at the top thereof. The inclined surface 11 is inclined obliquely from the upper opening edge 12 of the container body 2 toward the inside of the container 7. For this reason, the inclined surface 11 serves to guide the inner container 4 when the inner container 4 is placed in the storage 7 and facilitates work when the inner container 4 is placed on the installation surface 9. .

  In this embodiment, the container body 2 is made by thermoforming a resin sheet, and the bottom surface 5, the four side walls 6, the four protrusions 8, etc. are all integrally formed.

  In addition, the molding method of the container body 2 can adopt injection molding instead of thermoforming the sheet.

  In this embodiment, the inner container 4 is made of a transparent resin sheet in a bowl shape having a circular shape in plan view by thermoforming. The inner container 4 is stored upside down in the container body 2 so that the bottom surface 13 thereof is up. A flange 15 projecting in the horizontal direction is provided around the opening 14 (located below in FIGS. 1 to 3) 14 of the inner container 4. Tofu as an accessory is put in the inner container 4, the opening 14 is covered with a sealing film, and the periphery of the sealing film is attached to the flange 15, whereby the inner container 4 is top-sealed. The top-sealed inner container 4 is turned upside down and placed in the container 7 of the container body 2.

  Therefore, the flange 15 of the inner container 4 is placed on the installation surface 9. Since the flange 15 protrudes in the horizontal direction and the installation surface 9 extends in the horizontal direction, both faces each other in the horizontal plane, and the inner container 4 is stably received by the installation surface 9.

  The inner container 4 is formed of a transparent resin, and an attached product (tofu in this embodiment) put in the inner container 4 is visible. And in the storage 7, the inner container 4 is arrange | positioned so that it may float on the upper half area | region of the storage 7, and the salad accommodated in the lower area | region in the storage 7 is pressed or crushed. There is no.

  Further, the movement of the inner container 4 in the horizontal direction is prevented by the fixed surface 10, and the inner container 4 is not displaced or moved in the storage 7. Therefore, the positional relationship and balance relationship between the contents (salad) stored in the storage 7 and the inner container 4 (tofu) are not changed, and the food (salad and tofu) stored in the container body 2 has a good appearance. . Moreover, the state where the appearance is good can be maintained.

  After the inner container 4 is accommodated in the container body 2, the lid 3 is put on the container body 2. At that time, the overhanging portion 16 constituting the outer peripheral edge of the lid 3 is fitted to the upper opening edge 12 of the container body 2, and the upper surface opening of the container body 2 is closed. Various known configurations can be adopted for the fitting structure of the lid 3 to the container body 2.

  In this embodiment, when the container body 2 is closed with the lid 3, the gap G between the bottom surface 13 of the accommodated inner container 4 and the lid 3 is designed to be about 0.5 to 5.0 mm. Has been. By designing the gap G between the bottom 13 of the inner container 4 and the lid 3 to be narrow as described above, the inner container 4 accommodated in the container body 2 is prevented from being displaced in the vertical direction. As a result, when the packaging container 1 is transported or placed on the product shelf, the inner container 4 in the container body 2 is displaced even if the packaging container 1 is slanted or somewhat rough. Or moving.

  The packaging container according to the present invention includes the following embodiment (modification).

  As shown in FIG. 4A, the planar shape of the container body 2 may be, for example, a substantially circular shape. The packaging container 2 having a substantially circular shape in plan view may be provided with, for example, three protrusions 8 that protrude from the side wall 6 into the container 7. The protrusions 8 are each provided with an installation surface 9, a fixed surface 10 and an inclined surface 11.

  Moreover, as shown to FIG. 4B, the planar shape of the container main body 2 may be substantially rectangular shape, for example. And it is also possible to adopt a configuration in which the inner container 4 is disposed closer to one side surface of the storage 7 than the configuration in which the inner container 4 is stored in the central portion of the storage 7.

  In this case, of the protrusions 8 formed on the side wall 6 of the container body 2, at least two protrusions 8 are provided with a fixing surface 10 for preventing the inner container 4 from moving rightward in FIG. 4B. It has been.

  From these modifications, it is understood that the planar shape of the container body 2 may be an arbitrary shape (for example, may be an ellipse or a polygon), and the number of the protrusions 8 may be provided at three or more locations. it can.

  Moreover, the lid | cover 3 should just block the upper opening of the container main body 2, and can employ | adopt various forms, such as what fits externally with respect to the upper opening of the container main body 2, and what fits inside.

  In addition, the present invention can be variously modified within the scope of the claims.

1 is an exploded perspective view of a packaging container according to an embodiment of the present invention, the packaging container having a lid omitted. It is a center longitudinal cross-sectional view of the packaging container which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention. It is a perspective view which shows the state which cut | disconnected the packaging container shown in FIG. 2 along line AA, and is the figure where the lid | cover was abbreviate | omitted. It is a figure for demonstrating other embodiment (modification) of the packaging container which concerns on this invention.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Container for packaging 2 Container body 3 Lid 4 Inner container 5 Bottom surface of container body 6 Side wall of container body 7 Storage box 8 Protrusion 9 Installation surface 10 Fixed surface 11 Inclined surface 15 Flange

Claims (3)

A container body for containing contents, comprising a bottom surface and side walls rising from the periphery of the bottom surface, the top surface being open;
A lid for closing the upper surface of the container body;
A protrusion formed on the side wall of the container body, the installation surface extending in the horizontal direction, and the inner container mounted on the installation surface being horizontally placed to mount the inner container with the accessory attached and top-sealed so as not to move in the direction, comprising a fixed surface extending from the outer edge of the installation surface upward, saw including a projection projecting from the side wall to the container body inwardly,
A packaging container, characterized in that an inclined surface extending obliquely upward toward the outside of the container body is continuous with an upper end of the fixed surface .   The packaging container according to claim 1, wherein the protrusions are formed at least at three locations on the side wall. The inner container has a flange to which the sealing film is attached around an opening that is top-sealed with the sealing film,
Wherein the flange of the inner container is placed on the installation surface, the packaging container according to claim 1 or 2.

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