U.S. patent application number 12/528605 was filed with the patent office on 2010-07-29 for easy-to-dismantle display packaging.
This patent application is currently assigned to POWER RETAILING GROUP S.A. DE C.V.. Invention is credited to Luis Felipe Rego Garcia De Alba.
Application Number | 20100187226 12/528605 |
Document ID | / |
Family ID | 39721443 |
Filed Date | 2010-07-29 |
United States Patent
Application |
20100187226 |
Kind Code |
A1 |
Rego Garcia De Alba; Luis
Felipe |
July 29, 2010 |
EASY-TO-DISMANTLE DISPLAY PACKAGING
Abstract
This invention is related with packages and wrappings in
particular, it is referred to a package for the containment and
display of products in selling points destined to the final
consumer. More particularly it refers to a package-displayer and
self-sustainable supplier to transport the product contained from
the manufacturer up to the selling points; the self-sustainable
package allows its easy disassembling to re-use it by being
integrated by an inferior frame formed by four angular elements,
horizontal, with the horizontal plane facing inside and in the
inferior part, united in their ends by means of iron fittings that
comprise horizontal and vertical planes, the iron fitting is at the
interior of the vertex uniting the vertical planes of the angular
horizontal elements by union means that fix the planes to vertical
planes of the iron fittings; in each corner of the frame there is
an iron fitting; each iron fitting has two segments, an interior
segment separated from the vertical plane of the horizontal angular
element, leaving a crack in which one end of the angular vertical
element with grooves to surround one of the union means and one
segment bordering the vertical plane of the horizontal angular
element.
Inventors: |
Rego Garcia De Alba; Luis
Felipe; (Loma De Santa Fe, MX) |
Correspondence
Address: |
FULBRIGHT & JAWORSKI, LLP
1301 MCKINNEY, SUITE 5100
HOUSTON
TX
77010-3095
US
|
Assignee: |
POWER RETAILING GROUP S.A. DE
C.V.
MEXICO, D.F.
MX
|
Family ID: |
39721443 |
Appl. No.: |
12/528605 |
Filed: |
February 26, 2008 |
PCT Filed: |
February 26, 2008 |
PCT NO: |
PCT/MX08/00030 |
371 Date: |
March 8, 2010 |
Current U.S.
Class: |
220/4.28 |
Current CPC
Class: |
B65D 2519/00288
20130101; B65D 2519/00268 20130101; B65D 2519/00532 20130101; B65D
2519/00318 20130101; B65D 2519/00233 20130101; B65D 2519/00626
20130101; B65D 2519/00666 20130101; B65D 2519/00562 20130101; B65D
2519/00497 20130101; B65D 2519/00995 20130101; B65D 2519/00621
20130101; B65D 19/385 20130101; F16B 12/48 20130101; B65D
2519/00701 20130101 |
Class at
Publication: |
220/4.28 |
International
Class: |
B65D 6/00 20060101
B65D006/00 |
Foreign Application Data
Date |
Code |
Application Number |
Feb 26, 2007 |
MX |
MX/A/2007/002322 |
Claims
1. Displaying package easily disassembling, featured by being
integrated by an inferior frame formed by four horizontal angular
elements regarding the horizontal plane inside and in the inferior
part, joined in their ends by means of iron fixes that comprise
horizontal planes and vertical planes, leaving the iron fix inside
the vertex and joining the vertical planes of the horizontal
angular elements by means of union that fix such planes to vertical
planes of the iron fixes and the horizontal planes of the angular
horizontal elements fixed by union means to the horizontal planes
of the iron fix; in each corner of the frame the iron fix is
located; each iron fix has two segments, one interior segment
separated from the vertical plane of the horizontal angular
element, leaving a gap through which one extreme of the angular
vertical element with grooves will slide to surround one of the
union means, and one segment bordering with the vertical plane of
the horizontal angular element; in each corner there is an angular
vertical element and in their free ends the corners of a superior
frame are inserted with the same structure of the inferior; finally
the secondary package comprises diagonal tightners in each one of
the diagonals of the surfaces formed by the angular vertical
elements and horizontal angular elements.
2. Displaying package easily disassembling, as it is claimed in the
foregoing claim, featured also because the tightners are joined in
a manner easily releasable from the corresponding corners, for that
the tightners comprise in their ends a fastener and a hook; using
the hook to attach and the fastener to pull and slide the tightner
and the fastener in order for the tightner not to return.
3. Displaying package easily disassembling, as it is claimed in
claim 1, also characterized ever since it to attach the hook to the
tightner one of the means of union of the iron fixes and the
angular elements, it consists of a rivet with two spaced flanges to
allow accommodation in the space of the hook.
Description
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
[0001] This invention falls within the field of the industry of
packages and wrappings, particularly this industry referring to a
package for the containment and displaying of products in selling
points, destined to the final consumer. More specifically this
industry referring to a package-displayer and self-sustainable
supplier which allows transportation of the product contained from
the manufacturer up to the selling points; such self-sustainable
package features the allowance of an easy disassemble even for its
re-use.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
[0002] In the recent years the need of packages that, besides from
allowing transportation from the factory to the selling places,
allow the exhibition thereof within the purchase centers has risen,
avoiding the movements that unpacking the goods for placing them in
the stands or bases in which the merchandise is placed within the
spaces of access for the purchasers in order for them to take the
merchandise from them, imply.
[0003] Another manifest need has been to obtain the foregoing with
cheap elements that prevent an increase in production costs,
meeting the conditions that a secondary packages has to meet, this
means, product packaging.
[0004] The need of optimizing the spaces in trucks and vans has
also manifested, to optimize payments per cubic meter or the
transportation expenses such as fuel, tolls, depreciation of the
trucks, etc. having fewer trips per cubic meter of merchandise
transported.
[0005] Finally, with the environmental conscience that is being had
in all the fields, trying to care for the environment, it has been
intended to provide the elements of the displaying package that
feature being reused in other instances. This means, their use by
other suppliers of the sale centers.
[0006] Even more, another need has been the one of having secondary
packages that could be automatically supplied in the manufacturing
centers of the product to be shipped, transported and displayed in
the selling points.
[0007] In the state of the technique we found some patents that
protect and disclose structures of packages that fill the needs
mentioned in the foregoing paragraphs, such as patent U.S. Pat. No.
5,251,753 of Piggot, et al. dated Oct. 12, 1993, that refers to a
combined unit to transport and display the product, which includes
a number of containing trays supported vertically with divisions
supported vertically that maintain the separations between the
containers of the product. In this condition of shipping, the
bottom tray is accommodated and received within a tail that rests
over a conventional shipping stand.
[0008] Each tray is provided with a member of individual angular
support which is extended between an adjacent pair of trays
vertically separated. A post in each corner is extended in the
complete altitude of the unit to provide an additional structural
support only during the shipping. Notwithstanding, as it can be
deducted and as it can be appreciated in the figures, each tray or
plate, contains product which is sustained by the superior attached
tray or plate and so on, which provokes an orderly acquisition in
the selling points of the products first from the superior tray or
plate and then remove it to access the products of the immediately
inferior tray and so on, until finishing the product packed and
displayed in the unit.
[0009] The patent U.S. Pat. No. 5,161,692 property of Stanley E.
Knierin dated Nov. 10, 1992, refers to a containing device of open
sides that includes a member of cap with an intern wall of division
to form cavities to receive corner posts that have an inferior
extreme wall to tight and hold the corners of an electro-domestic
device. The cap and the corner posts can be used separately if it
is so desired. These kinds of structures has the purpose of being
only used for the shipping of products or more precisely devices of
higher dimensions as electro-domestic devices and with purposes of
protection and stabilization of the device during its moving not
for the display thereof in selling points.
[0010] The patent U.S. Pat. No. 4,638,941 property of Robert L.
Watson dated Jan. 27, 1987, that refers to a cardboard container
for shipping and display that comprises a plurality of trays for
the support of the product that are placed vertically one over the
other, where the product of the inferior tray is the one that
supports the tray with the product immediately superior.
[0011] Notwithstanding it is the inventor and holder of such patent
who has achieved to approach more to a design of displaying
packages that meet the majority of the requirements already
mentioned, he has not achieved to satisfy the need of easy and
rapid disassemble as well as the reuse of the same for other
instances.
[0012] And so, the analysis of the patents that describe structures
that can comply with the function of being a package for shipping
and transportation and display will show that none of them comply
with all the commercialization needs.
OBJECTIVES OF THE INVENTION
[0013] The main purpose of this invention is to provide a structure
of secondary packaging to exhibit the merchandise easily in the
selling points.
[0014] Another objective is to provide a design of a structure
rapidly and easily disassembling to allow the display of the
products.
[0015] Even more, another one of the objectives, in addition to the
foregoing, is the easy re-use of the elements of the packages.
[0016] Still another objective is to achieve, by means of the
design of the structure, the possibility to reduce the occupied
volume of the packed merchandise without damage with a standard
size package.
[0017] Some other objectives and advantages of this invention will
become evident from the study of the following description and the
drawings attached with exclusively illustrative purposes but not
limited to.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
[0018] This invention consists of a secondary package formed by an
inferior frame, four vertical elements and one superior frame, with
union means between them. The vertical elements are located in each
corner of the frames, superior and inferior. The frames are formed
by horizontal elements of angular configuration, joined in their
ends with the ends of the neighbor angular means to form the
square, by means of iron fixes fixed to the horizontal angular
elements by means of two kind of riveting.
[0019] The corner iron fixes that join the horizontal angular
elements have a configuration also angular in the vertical plane
and in the horizontal plane, creating a vertex. The horizontal
plane is joined to the horizontal planes of the horizontal elements
that integrate the inferior and superior frames. The vertical
planes of the iron fix are joined without space between the iron
fix and the vertical plane of the horizontal element. The vertical
planes of the iron fix are joined with a space of at least the
thickness of the planes of the vertical elements, between the
vertical planes of the horizontal elements that form the superior
or inferior frame.
[0020] Then the iron fixes are used to join the four angular
horizontal elements in their ends to form the superior and inferior
frames, as well as to join in a sliding manner the vertical
elements in their ends in the corners of the superior and inferior
frames.
[0021] To assembly the secondary package place the inferior frame
in the floor, slide the vertical angular elements in one of their
ends, in both the corners of such frame. Then, join in a sliding
manner the ends of the four vertical elements opposite to those
inserted to the inferior frame.
[0022] Finally, to give it stability in the form, some straps
diagonal to the corners of the secondary disassembling package in
the opposite corners are joined. Notwithstanding this straps form
tension by being united to opposite corners, an effort that could
deform the secondary package in one of the faces, is absorbed by
the strap that is in the tangential face.
[0023] In one preferred modality the number of straps is two per
face. One per each diagonal of the rectangular faces. With these
straps adjusted the stability of the shape is achieved.
[0024] In one preferred modality the straps are tapes with a
combination of hook and fastener in their ends and it is joined to
the faces formed by one of the planes of the vertical elements and
of the vertical levels of the horizontal elements, by means of a
rivet from the ones that join the iron fixes to the corners of the
horizontal and vertical elements of the disassembling secondary
package.
[0025] In one preferred modality the rivet that is used to fix the
hooks of the straps to the vertexes or to some zone near the
vertexes, consists of a rivet that has a first peripheral flange
and one second peripheral flange. The first peripheral flange is
used to join the iron fixes to the horizontal elements between
themselves to form the superior and inferior frames or to slide
tightly the ends of the angular vertical elements in the space that
the iron fix leaves in the interior end of the vertical planes of
such iron fix and the vertical planes of the horizontal angular
elements.
[0026] The other extreme flange in the rivets has the purpose of
allowing a space in which the hooks of the straps slide to maintain
themselves in their diagonal position. The external flange prevents
the hook to slide separating the strap of the secondary
disassembling package.
[0027] The fastener in the ends of the straps allows the sliding of
the end of the strap in one sense and avoids the sliding to occur
in the opposite direction.
[0028] Drawings of the invention are attached with an illustrative
character and for a better comprehension of the features of the
invention and as an integral part thereof.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0029] FIG. 1 illustrates one mode of iron fix to form the superior
and inferior frames joining in their ends the horizontal angular
elements.
[0030] FIG. 2 illustrates the union of the horizontal angular
elements in their ends to form one of the vertexes of the inferior
frame and how the vertical angular frame glides by one of its
ends.
[0031] FIG. 3 illustrates the angular vertical element with the
groove in their ends to allow sliding its end in the corners of the
superior and inferior fames releasing the rivets.
[0032] FIG. 4 illustrates the same corner illustrated in figure two
from another angle.
[0033] FIG. 5 illustrates one of the angles of the diagonal
straps.
[0034] FIG. 6 illustrates one of the rivets where the hooks of the
straps attach, between the superior flange and the inferior
flange.
[0035] FIG. 7 shows how the strap is joined to the hook and this
later to the rivet illustrated in FIG. 6.
[0036] FIG. 8 shows the secondary package without straps with the
horizontal and vertical elements joined by the iron fixes.
[0037] FIG. 9 describes the secondary package with the straps in
their place.
[0038] FIG. 10 is a perspective view of the secondary package with
the straps in their places.
[0039] Below, the preferred modes of the invention are detailed
with illustrative purposes but not limited to.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
[0040] The details characteristic of this novel secondary
disassembling package will be showed with the detailed description
of the mode illustrated in the attached drawings, pointing out the
same parts with the same reference signs to point them out.
[0041] FIG. 1 illustrates a mode of iron fixes to form the superior
and inferior frames joining in its extremes the horizontal angular
elements. There is a horizontal plane of iron fix 1 and the
vertical planes 2 of the iron fixes, the vertical planes have
practically two segments, one internal segment 3 moved towards the
center of the iron fix and an interior segment 4 that borders with
the external surface. It is in the space between the internal
segment 3 of the iron fix and the vertical plane of the horizontal
element that slides to the end of the angular vertical element.
[0042] FIG. 2 illustrates how the horizontal angular elements 5 are
joined in their ends to form one of the vertexes of the inferior
frame and how the vertical angular element 6 slides by one of its
ends. The vertical planes 7 of the angular horizontal elements 5
are joined to one another by means of the two corresponding
exterior segments 4 directly and through the two corresponding
internal segments 3 of the iron fixes with the vertical element in
the middle. The union between iron fixes and vertical elements is
by union means 8 selected between rivets, screw, nuts, bolts,
etc.
[0043] FIG. 3 illustrates an angular vertical element 6 with the
grooves 9 in its ends to allow sliding its end in the corners of
the superior and inferior frames releasing the union means.
[0044] FIG. 4 illustrates the same corner illustrated in figure two
seen from another angle. The elements of FIG. 4 are the vertical
planes 7 of the horizontal elements 5, the union means 8 and the
vertical element 6.
[0045] FIG. 5 illustrates one of the hooks of the diagonal straps
of the secondary disassembling package. In this case the hook 10
consists in one flat piece with several grooves, one superior
groove 11 through where the diagonal tightners are passed to be
joined to it. A groove 12 with a configuration of key entry in a
lock with a circle of diameter superior to the length of the
elongated groove. With this configuration of hook this later is
attached in respective union means introducing its exterior flange
by the circle and sliding afterwards towards the groove that has a
minor length than the flange but slightly superior to the most
elongated body of the union means.
[0046] FIG. 6 illustrates one of the union means 8 in its modality
of rivets, where the hooks of the straps are attached, between the
superior flange 13 and the inferior flange 14, as it is explained
in the description of FIG. 5.
[0047] FIG. 7 shows the union of the strap 15 to the hook 10 and
this later to the union means 8 illustrated in FIG. 6. In this
figure the hook already attached in the union means 8 is shown.
[0048] In this mode the union means to which the strap is hooked is
located in one of the ends of the vertical planes 7 of the
horizontal angular elements 5; notwithstanding, it is also possible
to locate this union point in another part near the vertex of the
secondary package.
[0049] FIG. 8 shows the secondary package without straps with the
horizontal and vertical elements joined by the iron fixes not
illustrated only showing the vertical elements and the horizontal
elements, as well as the union means.
[0050] FIG. 9 describes the secondary package with the straps 15 in
their place. In this figure, besides of the straps 15 the same
elements of FIG. 8 are shown along with plate 16.
[0051] With these elements the assembly of the secondary package
easily disassembling can be explained. First the inferior frame is
formed with the iron fixes in the ends of the horizontal elements.
The frame is placed in the plate and the primary package is placed
with the product to be shipped and transported over the inferior
frame, with the automatic stowage machine of primary wrapping.
Thereafter, the vertical elements are placed in each corner sliding
over the corresponding part of the iron fixes, the superior frame
is placed sliding it in its corners over the grooved end, of the
angular vertical elements 6. Finally, the diagonal tightners are
placed.
[0052] The invention has been described in such manner in order for
a person with medium knowledge in the subject to be able to
reproduce the results described in this invention. Notwithstanding,
any person with average knowledge in the field of the technique
that regards this invention can make modifications not described in
this application, notwithstanding, without moving away from the
spirit and reach of this invention therefore any modification in
the structure or in the manufacturing process thereof has to be
considered as part of the invention if the constitutive elements or
the subject of the claims are used, such structures will be
comprised within the scope of this invention.
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