Special receptacle or package – For bale
Patent
1995-02-17
1998-09-01
Carone, Michael J.
Special receptacle or package
For bale
B65D 7100
Patent
active
H00017485
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
DESCRIPTION
The present invention relates to a package, particularly but not exclusively for packs of sanitary products, for example, plastics packs for products such as babies' disposable nappies.
Plastics bags are becoming the most widespread type of pack for sanitary products such as babies' disposable nappies and are particularly suitable for compressed products, that is, products which have been subjected to a certain degree of compression before insertion in the bags in order to obtain smaller packs which occupy less space and use less raw material.
Once packed, the bags are package in corrugated cardboard boxes for despatch; the cardboard box simplifies the handling and transportation of the bags and also constitutes a sales unit for the product.
However, cardboard boxes represent a considerable quantity of material which has to be purchased and stored by the user who uses it to pack products and which, once the goods have arrived at their destination, is then generally disposed of by the purchaser.
Moreover, when bags of disposable nappies are packaged in cardboard boxes the space inside the boxes cannot be fully utilised because of the tolerances imposed by the usual automatic mechanical boxing systems generally used.
The problem of the utilization of space is made even more important by the increasingly widespread use of pallets of standard dimensions for the transportation of the boxes, in response to the requirements of large distribution and sales organisations.
The object of the present invention is to improve the characteristics of packages, for example, for plastics packs of sanitary hygiene products, such as babies' disposable nappies, by means of a package which avoids the use of corrugated cardboard boxes and which has the characteristics recited in the followwing claims.
Further characteristics and advantages of the invention will become clear from the following description, given purely by way of non-limiting example with reference to the appended drawings, in which:
FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a conventional package of four plastics packs of sanitary hygiene products which are housed in a corrugated cardboard box with the box shown transparently to show its contents more clearly,
FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the same four packs, packaged according to the present invention,
FIG. 3 shows a portion of the adhesive tape used to form the package according to the present invention,
FIG. 4 is a view of a roll of adhesive tape from which the portion shown in FIG. 3 can be formed,
FIGS. 5-9 are perspective views of a corresponding number of alternative configurations of a package of four packs formed according to the present invention,
FIG. 10 is a perspective view of the arrangement of corrugated boxes of the type illustrated in FIG. 1 on a pallet,
FIG. 11 is a perspective view of the arrangement of packages formed according to the present invention on a pallet of the same type, and
FIGS. 12-19 show a perspective schematic view of different configurations of a package according to the invention.
The package of the present invention will be described herein, by way of example, in relation to its use for plastics packs of sanitary products such as babies' disposable nappies; in this connection, it should be pointed out that the following description relates to a preferred embodiment of the present invention; it should be understood, however, that the present invention is also applicable to packs of other types, such as containers made of semi-rigid material, for example light card, or of different shapes.
By way of reference, FIG. 1 shows a conventional package constituted by a corrugated cardboard box 1 containing four plastic packs 2 of disposable nappies.
The packs 2 are of the type commonly available commercially and generally comprise a handle 3 at the top to enable the user to carry them.
FIG. 1 shows one of the possible configurations with the four packs 2 disposed in the two superposed layers within the box 1.
To enable the packs 2 to be inserted by packaging machines, however,
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Marinelli Luigi
Palumbo Gianfranco
Carone Michael J.
Wesson Theresa M.
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