CN101652289A

CN101652289A - Means for securing a transport base to a shipping pallet

Info

Publication number: CN101652289A
Application number: CN200880010384A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 詹姆士·贝歇尔; 马修·马罗; 爱德华·拉姆
Original assignee: Sonoco Development Inc
Current assignee: Sonoco Development Inc
Priority date: 2007-03-30
Filing date: 2008-03-14
Publication date: 2010-02-17
Anticipated expiration: 2028-03-14
Also published as: TR200907332T1; WO2008121538A1; MX2009010329A; KR101103413B1; CN101652289B; CA2682181C; KR20100006561A; CA2682181A1

Abstract

A unitary palletized packaging assembly (10) in which the outer carton (32) and the manufacturing transport base (18) are secured to the shipping pallet (12) to prevent lateral movement of the transport base (18) and packaged article (50) with respect to the shipping pallet (12).

Description

Be used for transport base is fixed to the device of shipping pallet

Background

Invention field

This patent relates to the package component (palletized packaging assembly) that is lined with supporting plate.More specifically, this patent relates to package component, and wherein, the transport base of outer carboard and manufacturing (transport base) is fixed to shipping pallet (shipping pallet), to prevent that connection with wrapping of piece is with respect to the shipping pallet sideway movement.

Description of Related Art

Article, such as outdoor air-conditioning or large household appliance (laundry machine, dryer, cooking stove etc.), the transport base upper edge of being made by the combination of board fiber board, honeycomb structure, foam or these materials of fold the fitting line carrying through being everlasting.When these equipment were boxed and are placed on shipping pallet (slideway) and go up, they tended to move, and cause that the vanning article are suspended on the edge of shipping pallet, caused the damage of connection with wrapping of piece sometimes and/or piled up and difficult treatment.

Therefore, main purpose of the present invention provides a kind of packaging system that prevents to case article and move with respect to the shipping pallet of shelving these vanning article.

Another object of the present invention provides a kind of shipment packing, and wherein transport base of Zhi Zaoing and outer carboard are fixed to shipping pallet, moves on shipping pallet to prevent product.

Further and other purpose will appear in description, accompanying drawing and the additional claim.

Summary of the invention

The present invention is used for the assembly (unitary palletizedassembly) that the integral type of connection with wrapping of piece is lined with supporting plate, wherein, transport base and the outer carboard made are fixed to shipping pallet removedly, move with respect to shipping pallet in any side direction (level) direction to prevent connection with wrapping of piece.

Package component comprises three major parts: shipping pallet, and it is generally made by timber; The transport base that composite material is made, it is shelved on this supporting plate; And the carboard of bottom opening, it centers on and protects the side and the top of connection with wrapping of piece.The corner posts that is used for lateral impact protection and axial strength can be inserted in carton interior between carboard and connection with wrapping of piece.Can be with packaged article for any big article, such as conditioning unit or large household appliance.

Shipping pallet has load-bearing surface, and this surface is generally defined by a plurality of parallel transverse members, and these transverse members itself are supported by two parallel slideways (runner).Elongated front and rear shutdown feature is fixed to the relative end of shipping pallet.Carboard and transport base are wedged between the front and rear shutdown feature, to prevent that connection with wrapping of piece is in both direction (forward and backward) sideway movement.

Transport base is a rectangle in fact, and comprises: bottom panel, and it has the periphery that defines with second group of relative fold line by first group; The front and rear panel, it hingedly is connected to bottom panel along one group of relative fold line; And side panel, it hingedly is connected to bottom panel along the relative fold line of other group.A plurality of carrying buffer elements are by the periphery of spaced apart relation near bottom panel, so that support and cushion the article of packing.The front and rear panel upwards and is inwardly folded, so that encapsulate buffer element at least in part.

When carboard is placed on article and above the transport base time, four sides of carboard encapsulation transport base, and extend upward from it.Carboard comprises the bottom flap of four sidewalls, four top flap and four relative narrower.Bottom flap is made up of front and rear flap and two side flaps, and narrower than top flap.

In shipment, in the stack-mounted packing, carboard front and rear flap is folded or tucks in below transport base, and is inserted between transport base and the shipping pallet.Carton side flaps is extended downwards above transport base side panels, and is fixed to the shipping pallet slideway by nail or other connecting device, and the transport base side flaps is sandwiched in and is fixed between carton side flaps and the shipping pallet slideway.

The stack-mounted packing is called as " integral type ", because the transport base of carboard, manufacturing and shipping pallet are fixed together to form stable unit.

Accompanying drawing

Fig. 1 is for being lined with the exploded drawings of the package component of supporting plate according to integral type of the present invention.

Fig. 2 is the transparent view of the shipping pallet of the part of the integral type package component of formation Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is the part close up view of the shipping pallet of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is the transparent view of the transport base of the part of the integral type package component of formation Fig. 1.

Fig. 5 is another transparent view of the transport base of Fig. 4.

Fig. 6 is the transparent view of the transport base of Fig. 4, and it is shown as on the shipping pallet that is shelved on Fig. 2.

Fig. 7 is the transport base of Fig. 6 and the part close up view of shipping pallet.

Fig. 8 is the transparent view of the carboard of the part of the integral type package component of formation Fig. 1.

The part close up view of Fig. 9 on the carboard of Fig. 4 and Fig. 8 and the shipping pallet that transport base is placed to Fig. 2 the time.

Figure 10 is shelved on the carboard on the shipping pallet and the part close up view of transport base.

Figure 11 is shelved on carboard on the shipping pallet and another width of cloth part close up view of transport base.

Figure 12 is still for being shelved on carboard on the shipping pallet and another width of cloth part close up view of transport base, and it is shown as and has carton bottom flaps and folding and by the transport base side flanges of binding to the side of shipping pallet downwards.

Figure 13 is the interior views of stack-mounted carboard, transport base and the shipping pallet of Figure 12, and it is shown as and does not have connection with wrapping of piece or interior corner posts.

Detailed Description Of The Invention

Though the present invention can realize with a lot of forms, but illustrated in the accompanying drawing and this paper will describe one or more embodiment in detail, should be understood that simultaneously this disclosure is considered to be the example of principle of the present invention, and be not to limit the invention to shown embodiment.Though the present invention will be described as the package component that is used for air-conditioning now, should be understood that the present invention can be used to pack other article, include but not limited to large household appliance.

Forward accompanying drawing now to, the exploded drawings of an embodiment of the invention has been shown among Fig. 1, it shows the package component 10 that integral type is lined with supporting plate, wherein the transport base 18 of carboard 32 and manufacturing is fixed to shipping pallet 12, moves with respect to shipping pallet 12 side direction (level) to prevent connection with wrapping of piece 50.Package component 10 comprises three major parts: shipping pallet 12, and it is generally made by timber; The transport base 18 that composite material is made, it is shelved on this supporting plate 12; And the carboard 32 of bottom opening, its when article are assembled or after article are assembled, be placed on article 50 and transport base 18 above.Selectable corner posts 17 can be inserted between carboard 32 and the connection with wrapping of piece 50, so that protection article 50 power that is not hit, and provides axial compression strength to whole packing 10.Other selectable parts comprise the corner posts cap 19 and the top frame 21 of the end, top that is installed to corner posts 17, and corner posts cap 19 and top frame 21 are the theme of common pending trial and total patent application.

Packaged article 50 can be large item, such as the conditioning unit of describing among Fig. 1.In manufacturing process, article 50 generally are shelved on the transport base 18, and transport base 18 finally plays the effect of the bottom of carboard 32 simultaneously.By carboard 32 and transport base 18 are wedged between two relative end stops 16 of a part that forms shipping pallet 12, and, make the connection with wrapping of piece can not be with respect to shipping pallet 12 shifted laterallys by carton side bottom flap 38 and transport base side panels 28 being fixed to the side of shipping pallet 12.

As shown in Fig. 2 and Fig. 3, shipping pallet 12 comprises the load-bearing surface that is defined by a plurality of carrying transverse members 14, and these a plurality of carrying transverse members 14 are arranged in parallel, and relatively are fixed to parallel side slideway 15.Basic shipping pallet 12 can be modified to shown such by relative leading section and the rearward end that parallel, elongated, isolated preceding and back shutdown feature 16 is fixed to shipping pallet 12.Preceding and back shutdown feature 16 can like that directly be connected to side slideway 15 as shown in Figure 3, perhaps is connected to side slideway 15 indirectly by being connected to carrying transverse member 14.In addition, preceding and back shutdown feature 16 can be oriented orthogonal to slideway 15 as that shown in FIG. or be parallel to slideway 15.

As following the explanation, preceding and back shutdown feature 16 helps to prevent that carboard 32 and transport base 18 from moving forwards or backwards with respect to shipping pallet 12.This shipping pallet can be made by timber or any other suitable material.Preferably, this load-bearing surface is raised built on stilts, so that package component 10 energy and fork truck move together.

Referring now to Fig. 4 and Fig. 5, play the effect of bottom of carboard 32 and the transport base 18 that is shelved on the shipping pallet 12 and comprise: smooth (plane) bottom panel 20, it has the periphery that defines with second group of relative fold line 24,22 by first group; Front and rear panel 26, it hingedly is connected to bottom panel 20 along second group of relative fold line 22; Side panel 28, it hingedly is connected to bottom panel 20 along first group of relative fold line 24; And two or more carrying buffer elements 30, its periphery near bottom panel 20 is arranged by spaced apart relation, and is fixed to bottom panel 20.

Buffer element 30 can be positioned in any suitable position on the bottom panel 20, but preferably, their compartment of terrains are around the periphery of bottom panel and near the bight, so that article 50 are shelved on the buffer element 30 of encapsulation.In the embodiment that illustrates in the drawings, be disposed in each bight of bottom panel 20 for 30, two buffer elements 30 of eight buffer elements altogether.Every pair of buffer element 30 in each bight is positioned at fold line 22,24 next doors of the quadrature that adjoins each other in the right angle, and spaced apart from their common bight, so that slot milling holds corner posts 17.

Still with reference to Figure 4 and 5, front and rear panel 26 is arranged to by upwards folding each front and rear panel 26 and it is folded into buffer element 30 tops partly encapsulate buffer element 30.Particularly, each front and rear panel 26 comprises sidewall 27 and roof 29, and this sidewall 27 is connected to transport base bottom panel 20 collapsibly along first fold line 22, and this roof 29 is connected to sidewall 27 along the 3rd fold line 25.In order to encapsulate buffer element 30, front and rear panel 26 is spent on the angles folding along second fold line 22 with 90, and folding along the 3rd fold line 25 subsequently with 90 degree inside (towards each other), so that cover at least a portion of buffer element 30 towards outer side and top.Sidewall 27 and roof 29 are by gluing or be fixed to the side and the top of buffer element 30 with other form.As shown in FIG., roof 29 is a U-shaped in fact, so that encapsulation (covering) whole eight buffer elements 30 at least in part, and be (cut angledly in the bight with respect to transport base 18) that is the oblique angle, to hold corner posts 17.

With reference to Fig. 1 and Fig. 8, shipment carboard 32 comprises the

bottom flap

36,38 of four vertical sidewalls 34, top flap 40 and four relative

narrower.Bottom flap

36,38 comprises front and rear flap 36 and side flaps 38, and does not play carton bottom, and itself does not play carton bottom at least.On the contrary, as following the explanation, carboard front and rear flap 36 cooperatively interacts to form carton bottom with transport base 18.More specifically, in stack-mounted packaging unit 10, carboard front and rear flap 36 is tucked in below transport base 18 and between transport base 18 and shipping pallet 12 (sees Fig. 9 and 11), and side flaps 38 in identical with carboard sidewall 34 haply plane to extending down, and by binding to supporting plate slideway 15 (seeing Figure 12).

Corner posts 17 shown in Fig. 1 is disposed in the carboard 32, near the inner corners of carboard 32, thinks that the bight provides surge protection and axial strength.Corner posts 17 can be by Sonoco Products Company of Hartsville, the corner posts of the general type of South Carolina produce and market.Yet, can use any proper supporting structure to provide surge protection and axial strength as the bight, include but not limited to angle board (angle board).

Integral type of the present invention is lined with the package component 10 of supporting plate can be assembled and used in the following manner.

At first, the transport base 18 of composite material is by buffer element 30 being positioned on the bottom panel 20 and assembled, as shown in Figure 1, subsequently front and rear panel 26 is upwards folded and is folded in buffer element 30 tops to form the transport base 18 shown in the Figure 4 and 5.Side panel 28 can approximately keep stretching out in the plane identical with bottom panel 20.

Secondly, generally at article 50 when making fitting line and move, article 50 assembled and transportation are placed on the transport base 12.In the embodiment that illustrates, these article are the outdoor conditioning unit 50 with (outstanding) bottom (not shown) of protuberance, and it is engaged in the three dimensional space inside of being defined by buffer element 30 and bottom panel 20.Air conditioner frame or shell are shelved on the roof 29, cover buffer element 30.Therefore transport base top panels 29 is positioned at below the article 50, and transport base side panels 28 keeps stretching out.

Next, the shipment carboard 32 of bottom opening is placed on article 50 and the transport base 18.In this stage, when assembling final packaging unit 10,

carton bottom flaps

36,38 can outwards be opened, as shown in Figure 8.

Subsequently, the inner corners of contiguous carboard 32, the corner posts 17 that has selectable corner posts cap 19 is inserted between carboard 32 and the article 50.Selectable top frame 21 can be fixed to corner posts top cap 19.Corner posts bottom ends is shelved on the transport base bottom panel 20, near the bight of bottom panel 20.If used selectable cap 19 and top frame 21, then corner posts 17, top cap 19 and top frame 21 are extended whole height of carboard 32 together.If do not use selectable cap 19 and top frame 21, then corner posts 17 is extended whole height of carboard 32.

Continue when conveyor line moves at article 50, carboard 32 and transport base 18, carboard front portion (guiding) and rear portion (driven) flap 36 can automatically be folded in below the transport base 18, and can be fixed to or not be fixed to the bottom surface of transmission base bottom panel 20.Carton side flaps 38 keeps outwards opening, with still outward extending transport base side panels 28 is overlapping.

In the end of conveyor line, article 50, carboard 32 and transport base 18 are lifted together, and are placed on the shipping pallet 12.Carboard 32 and transport base 18 are wedged in as shown in Fig. 9-12 between the front and rear shutdown feature 16 of shipping pallet 12, move forward and backward to prevent carboard 32 and transport base 18.As illustrating best in Fig. 9 and 11, carboard front and rear bottom flap 36 keeps folding for 18 times at transport base, and is inserted between (being clipped in) transport base 18 and the shipping pallet 12.

The carton side flaps 38 of outwards having been opened as illustrated in fig. 10 above transport base side panels 28 is folded downwards subsequently, so that transport base side panels 28 quilts such insertion between supporting plate side slideway 15 and the carton side flaps 38 as shown in Figure 12.Carton side flaps 38 and side panel 28 subsequently by follow closely 42 or other device be fixed to shipping pallet slideway 15 removedly.

Figure 13 is the view of the inboard (not having article 50 or corner posts 17) of carboard 32, and it has showed how transport base 18 plays the effect that article 50 are shelved package base thereon.

At last, carton top flaps 40 is folded together to finish package component 10.The package component 10 of finished product is all-in-one-piece, and its meaning is that carboard 32, transport base 18 and shipping pallet 12 are fixed together by following closely 42, and on less degree, is assemblied between the shipping pallet shutdown feature 16 by carboard 32 and transport base 18.Corner posts 17 has or does not have cap 19 and top frame 21, extends to carton top flaps 40 from transport base bottom panel 20, and sufficient axial (vertically) intensity is provided, and is stacked on the top to allow other packaging units 10.

Therefore, the integral type package component of having described 10 comprises shipping pallet 12, be shelved on transport base 18 on the supporting plate 12, with the shipment carboard 32 of article 50 encapsulates of packing, and be inserted in corner posts 17 between carboard 32 and the connection with wrapping of piece 50.At critical aspects of the present invention, transport base 18 and shipment carboard 32 all are fixed to shipping pallet 12, to prevent that connection with wrapping of piece 50 is with respect to shipping pallet 12 sideway movements.Transport base 18 can be made such as cardboard and expanded polystyrene foams (EPS) by composite material.Corner posts 17 can be made by cardboard, and carboard 32 can be made by the plate of fold.Certainly, for various package component parts, can use any suitable material.

Should be understood that above-described embodiments of the present invention only are specific examples, it plays the effect of explanation principle of the present invention.Considered modification of the present invention and selectable embodiment, it does not deviate from the present invention as by fwd teaching and the additional scope that claim defined.Should be understood that claim covers all these change and the selectable embodiments in the scope that falls into them.

Claims

1. assembly (10) that is used for connection with wrapping of piece (50), described assembly (10) comprising:

Shipping pallet (12), it has load-bearing surface, and described load-bearing surface is supported by parallel, isolated side slideway (15);

The transport base of rectangle (18) in fact, it is shelved on the shipping pallet load-bearing surface, and comprise bottom panel (20) and side panel (28), the periphery that described bottom panel (20) has four bights and partly defined by relative first fold line (24), described side panel (28) hingedly is connected to described bottom panel (20) along first group of relative fold line (24); And

Carboard (32), it is around described transport base (18), and comprise four sidewalls (34), described sidewall (34) has bottom margin and is connected to four bottom flap of carboard sidewall bottom margin collapsibly, described bottom flap comprises front and rear flap (36) and two side flaps (38), described front and rear flap (36) be folded in described transport base (18) below, and be inserted between described transport base (18) and the described shipping pallet, described side flaps (38) is extended downwards;

Wherein, transport base side panels (28) is extended downwards, and be inserted between supporting plate side slideway (15) and the carton side flaps (38), and wherein, described carton side flaps (38) and transport base side panels (28) are fixed to described supporting plate side slideway (15).

2. assembly as claimed in claim 1 (10), wherein, the transport base bottom panel periphery is further defined by relative second fold line (22), and wherein, described transport base (18) further comprises the front and rear panel (26) that hingedly is connected to described bottom panel (20) along described relative second fold line (22).

3. assembly as claimed in claim 2 (10), wherein, described transport base (18) further comprises a plurality of carrying buffer elements (30), described a plurality of carrying buffer elements (30) are gone up near its periphery at described bottom panel (20) and are arranged by spaced apart relation.

4. assembly as claimed in claim 3 (10), wherein, described transport base further comprises front and rear panel (26), described front and rear panel (26) encapsulates described buffer element (30) at least in part.

5. assembly as claimed in claim 4 (10), wherein, each in the front and rear panel (26) comprises that one in described second fold line (22) is connected to the sidewall (27) of described transport base bottom panel (20) and the roof (29) that is connected to described sidewall (27) along the 3rd fold line (25) collapsibly collapsibly.

6. assembly as claimed in claim 5 (10), wherein, described sidewall (27) extends upward perpendicular to described bottom panel (20) in fact from described relative second fold line (22), and described roof (29) is from inwardly on even keel extension of described the 3rd fold line (25), and wherein, described roof (29) covers at least a portion of described buffer element (30).

7. assembly as claimed in claim 6 (10), wherein, described roof (29) is fixed to one or more in the described buffer element (30).

8. assembly as claimed in claim 7 (10), it further comprises the corner posts (17) that is arranged in the described carboard (32).

9. assembly as claimed in claim 8 (10), wherein, buffer element (30) is arranged to each bight near described bottom panel (20), and from each bight spaced apart one section distance that is enough to hold described corner posts (17).

10. assembly as claimed in claim 1 (10), wherein, described shipping pallet (12) further comprises elongated, the isolated front and rear shutdown feature (16) that is fixed to described side slideway (15), and wherein, at least a portion of the base section of described carboard (32) and described transport base (18) is positioned between the described front and rear shutdown feature (16).

11. assembly as claimed in claim 11 (10), wherein, at least a portion of the base section of described carboard (32) and described transport base (18) is wedged between the described front and rear shutdown feature (16).

12. assembly as claimed in claim 10 (10), wherein, described shipping pallet load-bearing surface is defined by a plurality of isolated transverse member (14) that is fixed to described side slideway (15).

13. assembly as claimed in claim 12 (10), wherein, described front and rear shutdown feature (16) directly is connected to described side slideway (15), and is oriented orthogonal to described side slideway (15).

14. assembly as claimed in claim 1 (10), wherein, described carton side flaps (38) and described transport base side panels (28) are fixed to described supporting plate side slideway (15) by nail.

15. an assembly (10) that is used for connection with wrapping of piece (50), described assembly (10) comprising:

Supporting plate (12), it is used for holding articles (50);

Shock absorbing base (18), it is inserted between article (50) and the described supporting plate (12); And

Load-carrying element (17), it is inserted between article (50) and the protectiveness material (32);

Wherein, described base (18) is fixedly connected to base (12) with protectiveness material (34) on the relative side of described assembly (10); And

Wherein, the described protectiveness material (32) on the relative residue side of described assembly (10) is folded in below the product (50), is in original position to keep described protectiveness material (32) and article (50) with respect to described supporting plate (12).