Special receptacle or package – For a fastener – Staple – clip – belt – or lacing hook
Patent
1996-09-09
1998-09-15
Sewell, Paul T.
Special receptacle or package
For a fastener
Staple, clip, belt, or lacing hook
206338, B65D 7300
Patent
active
058066764
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The invention relates to a device which packages annular or spiral binding combs for binding loose-leaf systems, in particular annular calendars, notebooks, planners, catalogues or advertising papers.
The said loose-leaf systems may for example be collated with such binding combs, which may also be designated as binding elements.
The binding combs are annularly or spirally shaped and are normally produced from wire. The wire may be made from plastics or also from a metallic material, which where appropriate may be provided with a plastic coating.
Previously the prefabricated, i.e. the annular or oval binding combs usually consisting of many loops and turns, spirally shaped and still open in their longitudinal direction were wound, transported and stored as endless material on rolls. If necessary they were only then cut to size corresponding to the format of the loose-leaf systems to be bound.
In this case inter alia the relatively high weight of the rolls to be transported is to be regarded as a disadvantage. By virtue of the very high quantity of binding combs, the described rolls are suitable only for large consumers, however not for occasional use or for users who only require small quantities of the described binding combs.
Since the loose-leaf systems have very different formats and divisions and consequently different lengths of the binding combs are required, the dimension to be cut has always to be newly measured in each case.
For this reason already cut-to-size smaller quantities of binding combs were already offered in so-called blister packs.
However, by virtue of the blister made of a plastic, blister packs do not take sufficient consideration of modern environmental awareness, and furthermore both manufacturing and disposal costs for the blister are relatively high.
A device for presenting textiles such as transverse binders is known from U.S. Pat. No. 1,356,588.
In this case the device is designed in many parts and the transverse binders are inserted into a depression in the device, with four elastically deformable retaining strips being biased and the retaining strips clamping each transverse binder at its outer sides so that the transverse binder is retained in the device.
The object of the present invention is to create a device of the type mentioned at the beginning, which is made from an environmentally friendly material, can be produced without great expenditure and which in a simple manner enables a secure and easy packaging for already cut-to-size binding combs.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
This object is achieved in accordance with the invention by a carrier plate which has several rows of elastically bendable retaining strips, which surround the cut-to-size binding combs partially in their base region.
As a result a simple and secure packaging and respectively a stable base for the binding combs is created. The binding combs which have already been cut to size and consequently adapted to the formats of the loose-leaf systems can be applied graded to the carrier plate.
Since they are only partially surrounded by the retaining strips, the binding combs can be removed easily and quickly also by hand for binding the loose-leaf systems. The carrier plates with the provided binding combs can furthermore be easily stacked and can be stored and transported in an ideal manner in matching containers.
If the containers are for example characterised with the corresponding format details, fast access for the subsequent binding operation is guaranteed.
By surrounding the binding combs in their base region is to be understood that each retained turn or each retained loop of the annularly or spirally shaped binding combs is retained at the same region in the retaining strips. In the case of a binding comb having an oval shape when seen in cross section and for example still open at the top, the base region is that broad side which lies opposite the open part. In particular with this shape it is possible to fix the binding combs on the carrier plate so that warping, twist
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Bui Luan K.
Chr. Renz GmbH & Co.
Sewell Paul T.
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