Method for packaging a plurality of containers for substances for medical, pharmaceutical or cosmetic applications, and packaging structure

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10336479-B2
Application number	US-201615343796-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 4, 2016
Priority date	May 5, 2014
Publication date	Jul 2, 2019
Grant date	Jul 2, 2019

Abstract

Disclosed is a method for packaging a plurality of containers for substances for medical, pharmaceutical or cosmetic applications in a packaging structure. The structure has a box-shaped upper part and a box-shaped lower part, forming a box-shaped receptacle in which the containers are accommodated. The plurality of containers are disposed directly on the bottom of the lower part that the containers are supported vertically on the bottom of the lower part, and the upper part is put onto the upper ends of the containers. The positions of the containers on the lower part are secured using side walls that project vertically from the bottom of the lower part and/or of the upper part, and the upper part and/or the lower part is configured and provided in a way that the containers are in direct contact with each other in the box-shaped receptacle and cannot be displaced relative to each other.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A package, comprising:
a packaging structure; and
a plurality of containers for substances for medical, pharmaceutical or cosmetic applications, wherein the plurality of containers are in the packaging structure, and wherein the containers have a cylindrical side wall and a bottom or a lower edge extending perpendicularly to the side wall,
the packing structure comprising:
a box-shaped upper part; and
a flat or lower part comprising a flat bottom,
side walls between the upper part and the lower part,
wherein the plurality of containers are directly on the flat bottom of the lower part and are perpendicular to the flat bottom,
wherein the upper part is at the upper ends of the plurality of containers or on a box-shaped intermediate part, which is placed at the upper ends of the plurality of containers, wherein
the positions of the plurality of containers on the flat bottom of the lower part are fixed by the side walls that protrude perpendicularly from at least one of the bottom of the lower part and the upper part, and
wherein the lower part comprises a plastic sheet and two clamping webs extending along two opposite longitudinal sides of the flat bottom, and wherein each clamping web is formed by folding a respective longitudinal edge of the plastic sheet so that the plurality of containers together with the upper part placed on the upper ends of the plurality of containers or on the intermediate part can be displaced from a flat surface onto the bottom of the lower part,
wherein the package further comprises:
a sleeve or resealable bag made of a plastic material, wherein the packaging structure and the plurality of containers are in the sleeve or resealable bag; and
a latch, wherein the lower part and the upper part are detachably connected to each other with the latch.

2. The package of claim 1 , wherein the lower part comprises at least one side wall that can be removed or opened by folding downward or laterally.

3. The package of claim 1 , wherein the upper part and/or the lower part is configured so that the containers contact each other directly in the box-shaped receptacle and cannot be displaced relative to each other.

4. The package of claim 1 , wherein the lower part is made of a material or is provided with a slide coating having a coefficient of friction with respect to the material of the containers of less than 0.6.

5. The package of claim 1 , wherein the upper part comprises lateral edges that are folded along folding lines to form the side walls of the upper part.

6. The package of claim 1 , wherein the sleeve or resealable bag further comprises a gas-permeable plastic foil as a seal, and wherein the gas-permeable plastic foil is a web or film of synthetic fibers.

7. The package of claim 6 , wherein the bottom of the upper part and/or of the lower part and/or the side walls of the upper part and/or of the lower part have perforations, which are sealed by the gas-permeable plastic foil.

8. The package of claim 1 , further comprising guiding structures that are formed along side walls of the lower part, the guiding structures extending in the longitudinal direction of the lower part and which are guided by side walls of the upper part upon insertion of the lower part into the upper part.

9. The package of claim 8 , wherein the guiding structures are accommodated by correspondingly shaped side wall portions of the upper part by positive locking or frictional locking.

10. The package of claim 1 , wherein the side walls of at least one of the lower part and the upper part are elastic at least in sections, so that the containers are accommodated in the box-shaped receptacle so as to be biased resiliently against each other and so that a slippage of the containers relative to each other in the box-shaped receptacle is prevented.

11. The package of claim 1 , wherein the side walls of at least one of the lower part and the upper part are formed at least in sections from a material that is selected from the group consisting of a thermoplastic, thermosetting or elastomeric plastic, wherein the material is foamed or formed as a twin-walled sheet having hollow chambers.

Assignees

• Schott Ag

Inventors

• Deutschle Gregor Fritz
• Pawlowski Edgar
• Wassenberg Jörn
• Dubrau Isabell
• Auerbach Judith

Classifications

• B65B7/02

  Closing containers or receptacles deformed by, or taking-up shape, of, contents, e.g. bags, sacks · CPC title

• B65D45/20

  pivoted · CPC title

• B65D5/4204

  Inspection openings or windows · CPC title

• B65D2231/005

  the container being rigid · CPC title

• B65D77/003 Primary

  Articles enclosed in rigid or semi-rigid containers, the whole being wrapped · CPC title