PACK FOR FOOD, SET FOR FORMING SUCH A PACK, AND MATERIAL SHEET FOR SUCH A SET

• US 20140356489A1
• Filed: 02/28/2012
• Published: 12/04/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 08/31/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Ferrero Deutschland GmbH (Ferrero SPA), Ferrero OHG mbH (Ferrero SPA)
• Original Assignee: Ferrero Deutschland GmbH (Ferrero SPA), Ferrero OHG mbH (Ferrero SPA)
• Inventors: Pohl, Andreas
• Application Number:
  US13/985,540
• Publication Number:
  US 20140356489A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 426/124
• CPC Class Codes: A47F 5/112 hand-folded from sheet material
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/029 the tubular body presenting a special shape pyramidal B65D5/008
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/4204 Inspection openings or windows
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/5035 Paper elements in combination with wooden elements B65D5/5095
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/5206 External stands for supporting the container in display position, e.g. easels, covers forming a support for the containers in the display position
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 81/368 Foldable carton-boxes simulating, or transformable into, a special configuration, e.g. a car, a house, an animal cartons with spaced apart images to give a 3-D effect B65D5/4258; toy models made by folding paper A63H33/16
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 85/00 Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials B65D71/00, B65D83/00 take precedence; hand implements or travelling equipment A45C; cosmetic or toiletry equipment A45D; packages for surgical knives, scalpels or blades therefor A61B17/3215; containers specially adapted for medical or pharmaceutical purposes A61J1/00; paint cans B44D3/12; oil cans F16N3/04; containers for carrying small arms F41C33/06; packaging of ammunition or explosive charges F42B39/00; containers for record carriers, specially adapted for cooperation with the recording or reproducing apparatus G11B23/00
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 85/60 for sweets or like confectionery products

Abstract

Pack for food, in particular for an item of confectionery, comprising an originally flat material sheet (10) which is folded to form a three-dimensional, in particular theme-related, object, preferably a sports-related object, in particular a rattle, wherein the object comprises a holder (20) in which at least one separately packed food is accommodated.

Claims

1. Pack for food, in particular confectionery, comprising:

an originally flat material sheet (10) which is folded into a three-dimensional object, in particular a theme-related object, preferably a sport-related object, in particular a rattle, wherein the object comprises a receiver (20) in which at least one separately packed food is accommodated.

2. Pack according to any of the preceding claims, wherein the three-dimensional object is held in folded state by an additional, preferably flat element (30) which is in engagement with the material sheet (10) from which the three-dimensional object is folded.

3. Pack according to claim 2, wherein the additional element (30) surrounds the three-dimensional object over the full periphery and thus holds it together.

4. Pack according to any of the preceding claims, wherein the receiver is folded from a separate, originally flat, material sheet.

5. Pack according to claim 4, wherein the receiver (20) folded from the material sheet is held in folded state exclusively by the three-dimensional object or by form-fit engagement elements.

6. Pack according to any of the preceding claims, wherein the receiver (20) is held in the three-dimensional object by form fit and/or force fit, in particular only by form fit and/or force fit.

7. Pack according to any of the preceding claims, wherein the three-dimensional object is held in folded state by the engagement of two elements (242) which are part of the material sheet (10) from which the three-dimensional object is folded.

8. Pack according to any of the preceding claims, wherein an inspection window is provided in the region of the outer contour of the three-dimensional object, in particular an inspection window closed by a transparent material (240) and through which the food or its pack (40) is visible.

9. Material sheet to form the three-dimensional object for a pack according to any of the preceding claims.

10. Material sheet according to claim 9, with several flat portions (11) corresponding in cross section to the outer contour of the three-dimensional object and connected together via first fold lines (14).

11. Material sheet according to claim 10, wherein the portions (11) each have a second fold line (17) along their center lines, so that the second fold lines (17) of the portions, in the state folded into the three-dimensional object, lie in the center (31) of the three-dimensional object.

12. Material sheet according to any of the preceding claims 9 to 11, wherein the portions (11) each have a cut-out (15) which, in folded state of the three-dimensional object, form the receiver or which supplement each other to form a holder for the receiver (20).

13. Set consisting of a material sheet according to any of claims 10 to 12, and a preferably flat element (30) which can be pushed onto the material sheet (10) when folded into the three-dimensional object, in order to hold the material sheet folded into a three-dimensional object in folded state.

14. Set according to claim 13, wherein the preferably flat element (30) has a cut-out which has at least one, preferably several, longitudinal slots (32) running through the center (31).

15. Material sheet according to claim 9, furthermore comprising several outer fields (211) forming outer faces of the three-dimensional object and arranged in a row and connected together via first fold lines (214).

16. Material sheet according to claim 15, wherein at least three rows (R₁ to R₃) of fields (211) are arranged next to each other and the fields of adjacent rows are connected via second fold lines (217).

17. Material sheet according to claim 15 or 16, wherein every second field (211) of a row has third fold lines (241) which run together from one side of the field to the other into a triangle, the tip of which lies on one side on a center line of the field.

18. Material sheet according to any of claims 15 to 17, wherein at least one field, preferably two or more adjacent fields, are formed of transparent material or comprise transparent material (240) to form an inspection window.

19. Set consisting of a material sheet according to any of claims 15 to 18, and a further flat material sheet (200) to form a receiver.

20. Set according to claim 19, wherein the material sheet (200) for the receiver has three fields (260, 261) which are joined together via fourth fold lines (262), wherein the outline of the outer fields corresponds in cross section to the inner contour of the folded three-dimensional object, and the center field has a connecting portion (263) which joins two portions (264), the outline of which corresponds to half the outline of the outer fields, wherein the two portions (264) are connected to the connecting portion (263) via fifth fold lines (265).

21. Set according to claim 20, wherein a cut-out (268) is provided in at least one portion of the center field (261), wherein preferably a tab can be folded out of the plane of the portion to hold the food in the receiver.