Palletizable box

• US 20050103665A1
• Filed: 01/29/2003
• Published: 05/19/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 02/13/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, Mars Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Mars Incorporated
• Inventors: Poirier, Jean-Luc, De Turckheim, Bernard, Barron, Edouard
• Application Number:
  US10/504,196
• Publication Number:
  US 20050103665A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 206/386
• CPC Class Codes: B65B 5/08 Packaging groups of articles, the articles being individually gripped or guided for transfer to the containers or receptacles
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 71/0096 the dimensions of the supports corresponding to the periphery of the load, e.g. pallets
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 77/062 Flexible containers disposed within polygonal containers formed by folding a carton blank

Abstract

The invention relates to a pallet comprising a plurality of boxes (1), these boxes containing pouches (2a, 2b, 2c, 2d), the pouches being arranged flat in relation to the pallet. The invention also relates to this box, to the methods of manufacturing the pallet and the box, and to devices for manufacturing the box.

Claims

1. A pallet comprising a plurality of boxes, these boxes containing pouches, wherein the pouches are arranged flat in relation to the pallet.

2. The pallet according to claim 1, in which the pouches are of the doypack type and are placed head-to-tail in the boxes.

3. The pallet according to claim 1, in which the pouches are of the uniformly flat type and are partially superpositioned.

4. The pallet according to claim 1, in which the boxes have widths and lengths corresponding to dimensions which are submultiples of 400×

600 mm.

5. The pallet according to claim 1, in which the boxes open at their top.

6. The pallet according to claim 1, in which the boxes open at their side.

7. The pallet according to claim 1, in which the boxes are obtained by folding with a mandrel, the mandrel having the same width and length as the boxes.

8. The pallet according to claim 1, measuring 800×

1200 mm.

9. The pallet according to claim 1, measuring 1000×

1200 mm.

10. A box containing pouches, having widths and lengths corresponding to dimensions which are submultiples of 400×

600 mm, the pouches being arranged flat in the plane defining said widths and lengths.

11. The box according to claim 10, in which the pouches are of the doypack type and are placed head-to-tail in the box.

12. The box according to claim 10, in which the pouches are of the uniformly flat type and are partially superpositioned.

13. The box according to claims 10, opening at the top.

14. The box according to claims 10, opening at the side.

15. The box according to claim 10, obtained by folding with a mandrel, the mandrel having the same width and length as the box.

16. A method of manufacturing a pallet comprising a plurality of boxes containing pouches, the method comprising the following steps:

(i) provision of boxes containing pouches;

(ii) orientation of said boxes in such a way as to have the pouches flat in relation to the pallet; and

(iii) palletization of said boxes.

17. A method of manufacturing a box containing pouches, comprising the following steps:

(i) provision of an empty box having at least two dimensions corresponding to dimensions which are submultiples of 400×

600 mm;

(ii) filling of said box with pouches, the plane of the pouches corresponding to the plane defining said at least two dimensions; and

(iii) closure of the box.

18. The method according to claim 17, in which step (i) comprises a step of folding with a mandrel, the mandrel having the same at least two dimensions as the box.

19. The method according to claim 17, in which step (ii) comprises inserting the pouches horizontally.

20. A device for carrying out the method according to claim 19, comprising:

(i) a conveyor belt delivering empty boxes, the boxes being arranged on the conveyor belt in a plane containing said at least two dimensions;

(ii) at least one conveyor belt delivering pouches and arranged substantially perpendicular to the conveyor belt delivering empty boxes, said pouches being arranged flat on said conveyor belt;

(iii) an arm arranged above said conveyor belts and comprising a gripper device at its end, said arm alternating between a position for gripping the pouches and a position for filling the box; and

(iv) a device for closing the box.