Special receptacle or package – For plural beverage-type receptacles – Strap-type handle
Patent
1996-03-29
1998-04-28
Foster, Jimmy G.
Special receptacle or package
For plural beverage-type receptacles
Strap-type handle
206431, 206821, 220 234, 220756, 22911723, B65D 7100
Patent
active
057434000
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The present invention concerns a carrier and/or connector for a series of packages, e.g. milk, juice and the like.
During filling, handling and storage it is often advantageous to be able to handle a set of packages as a unit, time, spillage, costs etc. being saved in this way. This is true for the manufacturers, the distributors and the consumers of the marketed product. Also, it is an advantage, if such packages can be seized and carried in a way, which is simple, secure and advantageous for the rest, no expensive and complicated means being required for this purpose. Finally, it is an advantage, if one unit comprising several separate united packages at any time can be subdivided in an easy and simple fashion, by what means it will always be feasible to select and detach an arbitrary small number of packages from such a multiple unit. Also, the attachment of such devices to one or several packages has so for resulted in problems of various types. In order to be easy to be siezed a carrying and/or uniting device ought to protrude quite much from the corresponding packages. However, this has so far rendered storage, paricularly stacking, transportation and handling for the rest more difficult. To the extent that devices of this type already are known, they are impaired by at least some of the above-mentioned deficiences.
Known technique in this field is described in EP-A-2 060 504, U.S. Pat. No. 3,221,875, GB-A-2 170 470, NO-B-154 263 and U.S. Pat. No. 4,946,037, EP-A-2 060 504 being considered representing the state of the art the best. However, the handles according to this pulication require, provided a lateral handle positioning is not selected, which is disadvantageous because of bad carrying characteristics, a set of packages also in the transverse direction, between which lateral packages a V-shaped element must be introduced and glued onto package sides facing each other. The handles themselves have rather weak base sections and cannot be regarded as being easy to seize due to their flat shape with minor holes, through which individual fingers are to be introduced. Also, it may be difficult and time-consuming for persons who are not very deft with their fingers to lift the handles out of their adjacent cut out contour, where glue spillage below the handle portions may cause additional problems.
The object of the present invention is to provide a carrying and/or uniting device, designed for a set of packages, which device removes all the above-mentioned deficiences and results in all the desired advantages combined. The device is to be designed to meet ergonomical requirements and not only allow stacking of package sets provided with such devices on top of each other but facilitate such stacking and make the stacking promote the continued handling.
This object is attained according to the present invention by means of a carrying and/or uniting device of the type described in the introduction, which mainly is designed according to the characterizing clause of patent claim 1.
Additional characterizing features and advantages of the present invention till be set forth in the following description, reference being made to the enclosed drawings, which in more detail show a few not limiting, partially schematicly drawn embodiments:
FIG. 1 is a partial perspective view of a set of packages, united by a carrying and/or uniting device according to the invention;
FIG. 2 is a planar view of a blank for a device according the invention, shown in FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 is an alternative blank for a carrying and/or uniting device according to the invention in a planar view.
FIG. 4 shows a process of stacking package rows, devices and troughs according to the invention being used;
FIG. 5 shows an additional alternative blank for a carrying and/or uniting device according to the invention in a planar view; and
FIG. 6 shows an additional alternative blank for a carrying and/or uniting device according to the invention in a planar view.
In the drawings the same or similar parts are throughout provided with the same referenc
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Bjorge Bjorn
Hansen Finn R.
Dalwell AB
Foster Jimmy G.
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