Packing system and method of packing

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11008145-B2
Application number	US-201815954637-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 17, 2018
Priority date	Apr 28, 2017
Publication date	May 18, 2021
Grant date	May 18, 2021

Abstract

A packing system for a plurality of articles comprising:
first and second packages; wherein each of the first and second packages comprises: a housing comprising a front wall and a rear wall, wherein the rear wall comprises a recessed portion; an article disposed within the housing, at least a part of the article protruding from the front wall of the housing; wherein the rear wall comprises a recessed portion, a shape of the recessed portion corresponding to a profile of the at least a part of the article protruding from the front wall, wherein the front wall of the second package is adjacent to the rear wall of the first package.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A packing system for a plurality of articles comprising:
first and second packages;
wherein each of the first and second packages comprises:
a housing comprising a front wall and a rear wall;
an article disposed within the housing, at least a part of the article protruding from the front wall of the housing;
wherein the rear wall comprises a recessed portion, a shape of the recessed portion corresponding to a profile of the at least a part of the article protruding from the front wall,
wherein the front wall of the second package is adjacent to a rear wall of the first package,
wherein the front wall comprises an opening through which the at least a part of the article protrudes from the front wall, and the rear wall comprises a rear protrusion for receiving a back portion of the article for maintaining the article in a fixed position within the housing, wherein the front wall is a cardboard card, and wherein the rear wall is a thermoformed blister, wherein one of the first package and second package is disposed in a standing position and the other one of the first or second packages is disposed in an upside-down position relative to the standing position,
wherein the recessed portion comprises at least one concave profile, and wherein the at least a portion of the protruding portion of the article is matingly engaged with the concave profile of the recessed portion of the rear wall.

2. The packing system according to claim 1 , wherein the at least a part of the article comprises a top end and a bottom end, wherein the shape of the recessed portion corresponds to a vertically inverted profile of the at least a part of the article such that at least one surface of the recessed portion corresponds to the top end.

3. The packing system according to claim 1 , wherein the recessed portion comprises first and second adjoining surfaces, one of the first and second adjoining surfaces comprising a concave profile while the other one of the first and second adjoining surfaces comprising a planar profile, wherein the concave profile corresponds to a corresponding convex surface of the at least a part of the article.

4. The packing system according to claim 1 , wherein the rear wall comprises a plurality of recessed portions arranged for receiving a periphery of the at least a part of the article.

5. The packing system according to claim 1 , wherein a base of the article is at a height (H) with respect to a bottom end of the front wall.

Assignees

• Procter & Gamble

Inventors

• Beck Wolfram
• Govindan Radhakrishnan Kumaresh
• Lane Richard Lee

Classifications

• B65D21/0202 Primary

  and loosely interengaged by integral complementary shapes · CPC title

• B65D73/0057

  by means of a preformed enclosure, e.g. a bulb · CPC title

• B65B35/56

  Orientating, i.e. changing the attitude of, articles, e.g. of non-uniform cross-section · CPC title

• B65D2577/047

  stacked and arranged side by side · CPC title

• B65D77/0413

  the inner and outer containers being rigid or semi-rigid and the outer container being of polygonal cross-section formed by folding or erecting one or more blanks, e.g. carton · CPC title