CN1946610A

CN1946610A - Corrugated cardboard supports

Info

Publication number: CN1946610A
Application number: CNA2005800129651A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 伊恩·赖利; 斯蒂芬·马尔卡希
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 2004-03-18
Filing date: 2005-03-10
Publication date: 2007-04-11
Also published as: US20080163800A1; DE602005004764D1; RU2006133246A; GB0406087D0; ATE385961T1; CA2559923A1; PT1725463E; ES2302188T3; EP1725463A1; DE602005004764T2; WO2005090178A1; EP1725463B1

Abstract

A corrugated cardboard blank (2) for the construction of a support (100), the blank comprising two main body forming panels (4, 6), a middle panel (8) between said body forming panels and two end panels (10, 12), each main body forming panel, middle panel and at least one of the end panels having opposing end flaps (24, 26, 28, 30, 32).

Description

Corrugated cardboard support

Technical field

The present invention relates to improvement, particularly but not exclusively relate to corrugated cardboard pallet to corrugated cardboard support.

Background technology

Tray all will use and be made by timber, polyethylene, plastics or metal usually every day.Tray can have general size, those trays that in retail business and Retail commodity manufacture, use for example, and perhaps they can be made and be used for special application.Their main application is to deposit the commodity or the product of some safely and allow to use these commodity of mechanical handing or product in pay unit.Tray often arrives retail shop via vehicular transport also as the shipping unit.In addition, at retail shop, tray before being transported to each shop with mechanical handing with deposit.Tray can be placed directly on the floor in shop and be used for displaying merchandise or product subsequently, as the form of sales unit.

Tray has high prime cost usually, and in the locality tray lease system is arranged.Also can buy old tray, but very expensive, and may be easily contaminated.Their volume has the height and the size of standard greatly and usually, so just makes that manufacturer and retailer's memory system is compatible.Because often be that the tray of several commodity or product stacks and deposits,, and increased the crushing weight of depositing or having transported commodity or product so that wooden pallets is manually moved is very heavy.The typically heavy 25kg to 50kg of the wooden pallets of standard.This just means that a dead lift is difficult, and commodity or product can be subjected to the damage of the weight of its tray of shelving above.Such tray also makes the cost of transportation costliness because of its intrinsic weight.

A kind of typical operation of reusable tray is as follows.The for example box-packed dried food and nuts of manufactured product is arranged and is stacked on the standard wooden pallets.The workman can place a tray on this tray that piles up subsequently, and continues to arrange and place more box-packed product thereon.According to what of the product number of plies of using on each tray, each independent heap can comprise a plurality of trays.Usually hide described heap to form a unit with stretch package then, this unit is followed by manual pump truck or mechanical forklift mechanical handing and is placed into the warehouse.After a period of time, product is ordered by the retailer, and described unit just installs on the transport trolley with machinery.In retailer's warehouse, described unit is removed and deposits another section period.It is loaded onto another car subsequently, is transported in the retail shop, and there for merchandising, it may be stored or directly be placed on the floor in shop.

The problem of operation that the front is carried is that the manufacturer does not regain tray.This is concerning the manufacturer and be very high for expense the user finally.After product or commodity used from tray, the retailer then must dispose this huge and heavy wooden pallets.The disposal of tray is needed expensive cost of transportation, and because most of trays are discarded in landfill yard, havoc environment.Everyone existingly has about 5 wooden pallets in The British Isles in estimation.

If the employing lease system, the manufacturer just must rent tray.Need a tray track channel not only labour-intensive but also expense is high.Tray is left the retailer subsequently for.The retailer has the empty tray that a pile can return to the manufacturer, and this needs retailer oneself to spend huge, heavy empty tray entrucking is transported back to the manufacturer.The manufacturer also is necessary for the tray given back and defrayment, and if lose one, also be necessary for its payment full price.The tray that returns can be leased in repetitive cycling once more.The tray that re-uses also brings cleaning and maintenance problem.Wooden pallets nails together usually, and these nails may expose and damage commodity or the product of shelving on the tray.In addition, wooden pallets may produce either large or small fragment, and these fragments can damage product, perhaps even enter and polluted product, especially food.

The calibrated altitude of common most trays is approximately 160mm, and this has determined a car, for example can transport how many products on the dividing plate coaster (curtain slider).Wooden pallets is very heavy, and weight may double when moist, and this makes that a dead lift is dangerous.

The applicant's copending application WO 03/082685 and WO 03/082688 provide a kind of solution of the problems referred to above by a kind of collapsible corrugated cardboard support and tray are provided.Though these intended purpose for them are to satisfy fully, the user may not need tray collapsible in some cases.In this case, be desirable to provide a kind of cheap, uncomplicated corrugated cardboard pallet.Yet weight that provides a kind of its internal intensity to be enough to bear to apply thereon and firm the cardboard pallet that is enough to stand repeatedly mechanical handing and transportation are difficult.

Summary of the invention

An object of the present invention is to provide a kind of purpose and be to overcome or alleviate at least above-mentioned defective, improved corrugated cardboard support.

Another object of the present invention provides a kind of purpose and is to overcome or alleviate at least above-mentioned defective, improved corrugated cardboard pallet.

Therefore, a first aspect of the present invention provides a kind of corrugated cardboard blank that is used to construct support, this blank comprises two main body shaping plates, the intermediate plate between described main body shaping plate and two end plates, and each main body shaping plate, intermediate plate and at least one end plate have the relative end wing.

The described plate and the wing separate by the adjacent panels or the wing of broken line with them.

It should be understood that by the suitable part of fold blank and also use suitable manner, most preferably they are fixed together, thereby this blank is assembled into a support with adhesives.Adjacent panels is basically each other in folding squarely, makes the edge of one of them end plate in abutting connection with main board unconnected with it.Outside face at this end plate applies glue then, and relative end plate is folded on this plate and with suitable manner and is fixed on this plate.The end wing of the plate of formation box is inwardly folding and fixed to one another, to form an osed top box.

The gravel size decision of described blank end plate is substantially the same.Like this, in the box that assembles, relative end plate is overlapping with all following end plates basically.

Preferably, blank vertically, promptly form scrimp (fluting) to another end plate, because this has increased the intensity of the box that blank forms from an end plate.

Preferably, two end plates all are provided with the relative end wing.Preferably, the height of each end wing is 25% to 50% of its respective panels height, more preferably 40% to 50%.

The end wing of relative end plate preferably separates by reflexed line and plate, and in the box that assembles, the end wing can be folded-out and be fixed on the plate.

A second aspect of the present invention provides a kind of corrugated cardboard support, and this support comprises two substantially parallel relative main boards and two pairs of relative sidewalls, and wherein the thickness of at least one sidewall is the twice at least of main board thickness.

The thickness of at least one sidewall is that this set of two-fold at least of main board thickness provides inherent strength for support.In this respect, the main body shaping plate bear the load and by side wall support.

Preferably, the double thickness of described at least one sidewall is provided by double layer material.More preferably, described overlapping skin is provided with the end wing, and being used for folding and being fixed on this skin also further increases the thickness of described wall to increase intensity.Preferably, a pair of relative sidewall that does not have a double thickness is by becoming from other sidewall and the extended end of main body shaping plate are wing.

It should be understood that blank according to first aspect present invention is preferred for forming the support according to second aspect present invention.In addition, the mainboard of support and wall can be the sizes of wanting arbitrarily.

A third aspect of the present invention provides a kind of corrugated cardboard pallet, this tray comprises slice, egative film and described last slice and described egative film between at least one transom, this transom is by forming according to the blank of first aspect present invention or according to the box of second aspect present invention.

In preferred disposition, described last slice and egative film between nine supports with any different size are set.Preferably, described support arrangement is at each turning of sheet, and support is positioned at the centre of these corner supports along its every side, and another support is arranged on described center.Preferably, the support that is arranged on the center is the size maximum support, is arranged on the size minimum of the support at turning.

Egative film preferably is provided with the zone of removing material and enters to provide below tray.Preferably, two rectangular areas are removed material.The place that enters of any suitable number can be set in tray, and pass egative film and form and/or form by the space between the adjacent supports between the sheet that is arranged on tray at the place of entering.

In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the parts of tray only by adhesive together.Varnish finish is to provide water-proofness on can and/or supporting last, egative film.

Description of drawings

In order to understand the present invention better and to clearly show that how the present invention realizes, now only with reference to the accompanying drawings by example, wherein:

Fig. 1 is used for the planar view of the blank of box according to an embodiment of the invention;

Fig. 2 is according to the transparent view by the upright box of the stack-mounted of blank shown in Fig. 1 part of the present invention;

Fig. 3 is the lateral plan of box fully upright shown in Fig. 2;

Fig. 4 is used for the planar view of the upper-part of tray according to an embodiment of the invention;

Fig. 5 is used for the planar view of the bottom parts of tray according to an embodiment of the invention;

Fig. 6 is the transparent view of the tray that assembles according to an embodiment of the invention, has adopted at the parts shown in Fig. 1 to 3,4 and 5; And

Fig. 7 is the view of the downside of tray upper-part, shows the position of box.

The specific embodiment

Referring to the Fig. 1 in the accompanying drawing, illustrate the planar view of the blank 2 of the box that is used for constructing according to an embodiment of the invention support.This blank is cut by a corrugated board and forms, and adds folding line so that broken line to be provided in blank, represents with little dotted line among Fig. 1.Thick and long dotted line is represented the reflexed line.Described blank has two by intermediate plate 8 bonded assembly main body shaping plates 4,6.Described two main body shaping plates 4,6 are provided with respectively the end plate 10,12 relative with described intermediate plate 8 separately.The relative free end of each main board, intermediate plate and end plate is provided with the

end wing

24,26,28,30 and 32.All wings separate by broken line and their plates separately, except the end wing of one of them end plate separates by the reflexed line.Alternatively, these end wings can separate by secant well known in the art and the broken line end plate with them.Shown in arrow C among Fig. 1, longitudinally be provided with scrimp.

Can use the plate of arbitrary dimension according to required box size, but it should be understood that all plates preferably have identical length.As shown in the drawing, the width of main board can be than the length of intermediate plate and end plate, and two main boards are measure-alike, intermediate plate and at least one end plate measure-alike.The height of each end wing is preferably height only about half of of its bonded assembly plate.

In order to form box 100, adjacent panels is basically each other in folding squarely, makes the edge of one of them end plate 10 in abutting connection with main board 6 unconnected with it.Outside face at this end plate 10 applies glue then, and relative end plate 12 is folded on this plate the blended rubber hydropexis on this plate, thereby makes this side of box have two-fold thickness.The

end wing

24,26,28,30 that constitutes the plate of box inwardly folds (referring to Fig. 2), and the end wing of its end plates and intermediate plate is at first inwardly folding, and the end wingfold of main board is also using adhesive on these wings, to form an osed top box on these wings.In addition, the end wing 32 folded-out (shown in arrow A among Fig. 2) of end plate 12 and being bonded on their outside face of end plate (as shown in Figure 3).

Box 100 is configured such that the weight that can bear much larger than the standard paperboard box, and this is owing to the additional end plates and the setting folded-out and that be fixed in the end wing of end plate that are overlapped on its relative end plate.Being configured in so before is not describe, because this seems the meeting waste material.Yet in the present invention, the setting that has been surprised to find three layers of wall box of actv. provides a kind of support that meets its desired use.

In addition, have been found that as shown in fig. 1 the setting of the scrimp of C longitudinally provides a kind of more firm box, therefore make box can support bigger weight.This is opposite with the scrimp direction that is provided with in the traditional tile corrugated paper board box.

Can be according to box of the present invention as supporting, for example as the showing stand that supports goods for sale.Described box has the advantage that is better than the prior art support, for example transports lighter and reuse.It is made by cheap material equally.The box of type described in co-pending application WO 03/082685 and the WO 03/082688 when comparing the applicant, the simple designs of the blank of described formation box has been saved great amount of cost.In addition, because otch cuts out therefore also not waste so simply in machined blank.

According to the advantageous applications of box of the present invention is the structure tray, wherein a plurality of boxes adhere to slice and egative film on, so that a kind of cheap, light and tray that can reuse to be provided.Can provide the tray of any required size, and tray is big more, many more boxes will be used for the tray structure usually.

Fig. 4 to 7 in the accompanying drawing illustrates according to a tray of the present invention.This embodiment is made by 11 single-piece corrugated paper plates that stamp out as shown in Fig. 1, Fig. 4 and Fig. 5.Filled Rectangle sheet 280 is provided for forming the top of tray, and another rectangular sheet 290 of substantially the same size is provided for forming the bottom of tray, and this sheet has two rectangle parts 400,420 of removing material.

As shown in Figure 7, nine box 300-380 according to the present invention are bonded in last slice downside of 280 with upright form.This figure has described the position of box (double blind boxes) of nine closed at both ends of the compressive strength that produces tray in detail.In the illustrated embodiment, the box of four kinds of different sizes is arranged for each tray.The box 300,320,360,380 of size minimum is placed on each corner of sheet.Maximum box 34 is placed on tray central authorities.The box 310,370 of another size is arranged on centre between two comer boxes along two opposite faces of tray, in the middle of the box 330,350 of another size is arranged on along two other opposite face of tray.Apply glue on the plate 4 of box then, the egative film 290 with tray sticks on the smooth box again.

Scrimp direction on last slice can be an any direction, but described scrimp is important with respect to the direction of box to the entire compression intensity that tray is provided.Box is located such that along all four edges of tray be that mechanical forklift provides access.Box also be located such that they always in correct position to be carried on the regular warehouse commodity shelf system.Illustrated as Fig. 6, the mechanical handing fork can insert at A or B place on the arbitrary edge of tray.If use pallet truck to carry, then wheel rolls on pallet base 290, promotes when mobile this wheel seating on the floor at tray then.

Mean that without any the metallo-machanical fastener tray can not damage or pollutes any product or the commodity that are positioned over wherein.The tray of relative traditional type, the height that reduces mean that can increase extra gas producing formation is used for transportation.Cardboard can also be handled so that its waterproof with varnish or other suitable manner, and for example can be printed on descriptor or other decoration when being used for the displaying sales unit in shop.

Tray according to the present invention has tangible economy and environmental benefit.Can only about 100mm height according to tray of the present invention, this is high almost half of standard wooden pallets, but this highly is enough to and can carries with the standard mechanical device.

Tray according to the present invention is designed for one way and uses.Must be enough to by repeatedly mechanical handing and transportation although tray is firm, estimate that this tray will reclaim after use.At this on the one hand, tray is 100% recycling.This has just saved parking space and expensive return transport.In addition, making this tray, to compare the wooden pallets of existing other type cheaply a lot, and it is minimum that this drops to end user's cost.

On average, tray nearly weighs 1-3kg greatly according to the preferred embodiment of the invention.By contrast, traditional wooden pallets weighs 25-50kg.Like this, this tray can a dead lift, and needn't worry to be subjected to the constraint of health and safety weight.When tray is used for the Duo Dui unit, its light damage that also helps to prevent product.It is designed for two-way or four-way entry, and can be with manual pump formula pallet truck or the carrying of various mechanical forklift under the situation of not reequiping.This tray is designed so that also it can be placed in most commodity shelf systems safely.

The another benefit that tray according to the present invention provides is the tray that its basic constructional design can be used to provide any required size.By changing the grade of used corrugated board, box or tray can be made and be used to bear the firm demand up to several tons that has nothing in common with each other.

In addition, be used for the danger that the providing of tray that single uses reduced any contamination of products that tray brings.Wooden pallets need be fumigated and be prevented that timber from being bored a hole by insect.The single use aspect of tray has also reduced and provides manpower to be used to control tray, cleaning tray and deposit and unload the relevant additional expense of tray.

Claims

1. corrugated cardboard blank (2) that is used to construct support, this blank comprises two main body shaping plates (4,6), the intermediate plate (8) between described main body shaping plate and two end plates (10,12), each main body shaping plate, intermediate plate and at least one end plate have the relative end wing (24,26,28,30,32).

2. blank as claimed in claim 1, wherein, the size of the end plate of described blank (24,26,28,30,32) is substantially the same.

3. blank as claimed in claim 1 or 2, wherein, blank (2) vertically, promptly form scrimp to another end plate from an end plate.

4. as claim 1,2 or 3 described blanks, wherein, two end plates (10,12) all are provided with the relative end wing (30,32).

5. blank as claimed in claim 4, wherein, the height of each end wing (30,32) is 25% to 50% of its respective panels height.

6. as claim 4 or 5 described blanks, wherein, the end wing (30,32) of one of them end plate separates by reflexed line and plate.

7. a corrugated cardboard support (100) comprises two substantially parallel relative main boards (4,6) and two pairs of relative sidewalls, and wherein the thickness of at least one sidewall is the twice at least of main board thickness.

8. support as claimed in claim 7 wherein, by double layer material is provided, doubles the thickness of described at least one sidewall at least.

9. support as claimed in claim 8, wherein, the overlapping skin of described double-ply (12) is provided with and is used for folding and is fixed in the end wing (32) on this layer.

10. one kind by the corrugated cardboard support (100) that forms according to each described blank (2) in the claim 1 to 6.

11. corrugated cardboard pallet, this tray comprise slice (280), an egative film (290) and described last slice and described egative film between at least one transom (300-380), described transom is by forming according to each described blank (2) in the claim 1 to 6 or according to each described support (100) in the claim 7 to 10.