Package

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9850061-B2
Application number	US-201313887444-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 6, 2013
Priority date	May 7, 2012
Publication date	Dec 26, 2017
Grant date	Dec 26, 2017

Abstract

A package has two panels, one of which is a base part having at least one bubble that is intended for storage purposes. The bubble projects from an underside of the panel of the base part and opens into an opening in the upper side thereof. The other panel is a cover that is connected with the base part via a hinge in order to be rotatable between a raised position, in which the interior of the bubble is accessible, and a lowered position in which the panel of the cover covers the opening of the bubble. The panels of the base part and cover are each formed with two seats that in the lowered position of the cover are laterally and equidistantly separated from the bubble. The package allows exposure of information of one or two storage objects, while being stacked together with other packages in a compact pile.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A package comprising:
two panels;
one of the panels being included in a base part having two bubbles for storage purposes, the two bubbles extending downward from an underside of the panel of the base part and mouthing in an opening in an upper side thereof, each of the bubbles including a bottom and an endless wall having a rotationally symmetrical shape; and
the other panel being included in a cover, the cover being connected with the base part via a hinge turnable and rotatable between a raised position in which an interior of each of the two bubbles is accessible, and a lowered, closed position in which the panel of the covers the opening of the two bubbles, wherein each of the panels include two seats, which when the cover is in the lowered, closed position are laterally and equidistantly separated from the two bubbles, the two bubbles being mutually separated and located along a straight, first reference line, and the seats are located along a second reference line perpendicular to the first reference line, a mutual distance between the two bubbles being equal to a distance between the seats, the bubbles and the seats being of similar shape such that when the package is in the closed position the seats of the cover are arranged to receive bubbles of another, like package when the packages are stacked together.

2. The package according to claim 1 , wherein each of the seats and the bubbles have a circular contour shape.

3. The package according to claim 1 , wherein said wall converges in a direction from the opening of a bubble toward the bottom thereof.

4. The package according to claim 1 , wherein the panel of the base part and cover each have a periphery and transform along their respective peripheries into a downwardly extending border, the border of the cover being located on an outside of the base part when the cover is lowered.

5. The package according to claim 4 , wherein a height of each of the borders is half of a depth of an individual bubble.

6. The package according to claim 5 , wherein each border transforms along a lower boundary line into a plane brim that protrudes laterally from the lower boundary line.

7. The package according to claim 6 , wherein the brim extends to form a bottom of an individual seat.

8. The package according to claim 7 , wherein each individual seat is delimited by a round wall having an arc angle greater than 180° but less than 360°.

9. The package according to claim 4 , wherein each of the panels have a rectangular contour shape, said borders including four corner portions, at least the two of which are spaced farthest apart from the hinge and each of the panels including co-operating snap means for snapping the cover against the base part when the cover is in a lowered position.

10. The package according to claim 1 , wherein a material of the base part and the cover is transparent, and that an information carrier formed as a sheet folded in two is arranged between an underside of the panel of the cover and an upper side of the panel of the base part.

11. The package according to claim 1 , wherein the base part includes a solitary bubble situated in a corner of an imaginary, equilateral triangle, in the two other corners of which the two seats are situated.

12. The package according to claim 11 , wherein the seats are through holes located in the panels of the base part and cover, the panel of the base part including spacer members that project downward from the underside of the panel of the base part and having a height that is one-third of a depth of the bubble.

13. The package according to claim 12 , wherein each of the spacer members is an arched bulge situated in the vicinity of an individual through hole.

14. The package according to claim 1 , wherein a projection area of an individual panel is at least three times larger than a total projection area of the two seats.

Assignees

• Sandvik Intellectual Property
• Sandvik Intellectual Property

Inventors

• Pålsson Claes

Classifications

• B65D85/30 Primary

  for articles particularly sensitive to damage by shock or pressure · CPC title

• B65D75/24

  and formed with several recesses to accommodate a series of articles or quantities of material · CPC title

• B65D75/22 Primary

  the sheet or blank being recessed to accommodate contents {(containers simulating a book B65D77/006)} · CPC title

• B65D85/68

  for machines, engines or vehicles in assembled or dismantled form · CPC title

• B65D73/00 Primary

  Packages comprising articles attached to cards, sheets or webs {(B65D85/18 takes precedence)} · CPC title