Special receptacle or package – For a book
Patent
1994-03-24
1995-12-26
Fidei, David T.
Special receptacle or package
For a book
206 835, 150154, A45F 512
Patent
active
054779650
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The invention relates to a packaging element, especially for packaging and shipping a stack of printed products, like newspapers, magazines, books, prospectuses, catalogs or the like.
BACKGROUND AND SUMMARY
To protect newspapers or magazines from damages when shipping from the printing plant to the magazine trade, when delivering from house to house by means of a newspaper messenger or when forwarding, it is necessary to package said newspapers or magazines.
Usually the stacked newspapers or magazines are enveloped in a plastic film. At the same time the envelopment is done by means of a special packaging machine, which wraps the plastic film around a stack of newspapers or magazines and closes the wrapper, formed in this manner, by welding. In addition, a packaging band is cemented around the packaging element or a band is wound around said packaging element. For this method of packaging large amounts of film and other packing materials are consumed.
The filled packaging element is provided with a labelled stick-on with the address of the newspaper dealer or the newspaper messenger and delivered. As soon as the filled packaging element arrives at its place of destination, it is opened by tearing or severing the band material and the plastic wrapper in order to remove the newspapers or magazines. Finally the newspapers are removed and the packaging material is thrown away.
Disposal of the packaging materials becomes increasingly more difficult. To date reuse of the packaging material was possible only to a limited degree. A foreseeable change in the legal rules concerning the disposal of waste will demand of the producer that he take back and reuse the packaging material. This seems logical both with respect to the existing problems with waste disposal and in light of the ever decreasing amount of raw materials and the high consumption of energy in the manufacture of packaging material.
An unfoldable container for receiving objects, in particular a school bag for carrying books, which is made of a light-weight, flexible, relatively tough and relatively solid material, is known from the DE-OS 21 20 668. This container exhibits a central field and two pairs of opposing flaps, made of one piece with the central field. The inner surfaces of one flap and the outer surfaces of the respective opposing flap are provided with interacting connecting means, which mesh together so as to be detachable, in order to hold together the flaps, when, upon tucking in the one flap is laid on the opposing other flap.
Furthermore, a foldable cardboard shipping container for objects, in particular cans of beverage, is known from the FR-OS 25 97 835, where a belt is wound around the objects to be shipped. This belt absorbs the weight of the objects during shipment, so that the load is taken off of the shipping container. The belt is run through slots in the shipping container to the outside and serves as a handle element. While carrying by means of the handle element, not the packaging but rather the objects are braced, whereas the packaging in turn rests on the objects.
The invention is based on the problem of providing a reusable packaging element, which makes it possible to localize tightly and rigidly a stack of printed products not only by hand but also by machine and also facilitates the manipulation and shipment of the stack of printed products.
This problem with a packaging element described above is solved by means of the features cited in the characterizing part.
The special blank of the packaging element, the connection of the individual sections of the blank for its construction with predominantly detachable fastening means and the choice of packaging material enable a reuseability and a mechanical and manual localization of the printed products and guarantees their optimal protection against damages especially during shipment, as explained in detail in the following.
The packaging element according to the invention is made of a tear-resistant woven fabric or film material. This material prev
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