Anti-bulging bag-in-box

• US 5,562,227 A
• Filed: 07/31/1995
• Issued: 10/08/1996
• Est. Priority Date: 07/31/1995
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Honshu Paper Co., Ltd., Kikkoman Corporation
• Original Assignee: Honshu Paper Co., Ltd., Kikkoman Corporation
• Inventors: Sugimaru, Nobuo, Akita, Kinzaburo, Takayanagi, Mitsuo, Kawase, Shoichi, Takezawa, Taihei, Takanashi, Hyozaemon, Watanabe, Yutaka
• Primary Examiner(s): Elkins, Gary E.
• Application Number:
  US08/509,355
• Time in Patent Office: 435 Days
• Field of Search: 229/191, 229/918, 220/403, 220/410, 220/416, 220/462, 220/463, 220/441
• US Class Current: 229/117.13
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/5021 Integral elements for containers formed by folding-up portions connected to a central panel from all sides
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 77/062 Flexible containers disposed within polygonal containers formed by folding a carton blank
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 229/918 Corner construction

Abstract

To provide a packaging container with anti-bulging function comprising a bag inside a box in which an inner bag is set in an octangular inner cylinder integrated with a quadrangular outer casing. The bag inside the box provides an anti-bulging function to prevent the outer casing from bulging, by developing a counter bulge in the inner bag acting on an oblique surface of the octangular inner cylinder to pull a side wall of the quadrangular outer casing inward.

Claims

1. A packaging container with anti-bulging function comprising:

a bag made of a flexible material;

a box;

said bag inside a said box;

said box being made of a one piece blank;

said one piece blank being made of a corrugated-fiberboard or a paperboard sheet;

said one piece blank further has a rectangular bottom plate, two pairs of faced side panels with a plurality of top edges, a quadrangular cylindrical casing with a lid extending to each of said plurality of top edges of said two pairs of side panels, and an inner cylinder with a substantially octangular cross section, wherein said two pairs of faced side panels are erected at four sides of said bottom plate;

said octangular cylinder is formed with four inner-cylinder forming pieces extending to both sides of one pair of said two pairs of side panels;

said inner-cylinder forming pieces are formed into said octangular cylinder by folding to the inside of the casing through ruled limes drawn between said inner-cylinder forming piece; and

said bag having dimensions larger than the inside diameter of said octangular cylinder is arranged inside said inner cylinder.

2. A packaging container with anti-bulging function, comprising a bag inside a box according to claim 1, wherein the relation of LO>

α

or β

is effected when an oblique length of the octangular inner cylinder is set as LO and the length of the fixed surface between the inner cylinder and the side panel of the casing is set as α

or β

.

3. A packaging container with anti-bulging function, comprising a bag inside a box according to claim 1, wherein the relation of Lp<

α

p or β

p is effected when, Lp is set as the stress to internal pressure of an oblique surface of the octangular inner cylinder, and the α

p or β

p is set as the stress to internal pressure of the fixed surface between the inner cylinder and a side panel of the casing.

4. A packaging container with anti-bulging function, comprising a bag inside a box according to claim 1 wherein a fold is formed at the approximate center of an oblique surface of the octangular inner cylinder in the direction of the inner cylinder depth.

5. A packaging container with anti-bulging function, comprising a bag inside a box according to claim 1 wherein the ends of said forming pieces are butted against each other so that a gap or stepped portion is not produced between the ends of said inner cylinder forming pieces arranged so as to adjoin each other.

6. A packaging container with anti-bulging function, comprising a bag inside a box according to claim 1 wherein a hand hole is formed on a side panel of the casing at the outside of a triangular space formed between the casing and the inner cylinder.

7. A packaging container with anti-bulging function, comprising a bag inside a box according to claim 1 wherein a disassembly hand hole is formed on any one pair of lids.

8. A packaging container with anti-bulging function, comprising a bag inside a box according to claim 1, wherein an air vent hole is formed at the bottom of an oblique surface of the octangular inner cylinder.

9. A packaging container with anti-bulging function, comprising a bag inside a box according to claim 1, wherein a circuitarc recess for concentrating the holding stress for folding is formed at both ends of an inner-cylinder fold piece up to 180 deg.

10. A packaging container with anti-bulging function comprising:

a box;

a thin-walled container;

said thin-walled container inside said box;

said box being made of a one piece blank;

said one piece blank being made of a corrugated-fiberboard or a paperboard sheet;

said one piece blank further has a rectangular bottom plate, two pairs of faced side panels with a plurality of top edges, a quadrangular cylindrical casing with a lid extending to each of said plurality of top edges of said two pairs of side panels, and an inner cylinder with a substantially octangular cross section, wherein said two pairs of faced side panels are erected at four sides of said bottom plate;

said octangular cylinder is formed with four inner-cylinder forming pieces extending to both sides of one pair of said two pairs of side panels;

said inner-cylinder forming pieces are formed into said octangular cylinder by folding to the inside of the casing through ruled limes drawn between said inner-cylinder forming pieces; and

said thin-walled container having dimensions larger than the inside diameter of said octangular cylinder is arranged inside said inner cylinder.

11. A packaging container with anti-bulging function according to claim 10 wherein the relation of LO>

α

or β

is effected when an oblique length of said octangular inner cylinder is set as LO and the length of the fixed surface between said inner cylinder and said side panel of said casing is set as α

or β

.

12. A packaging container with anti-bulging function according to claim 10 wherein the relation of L_p <

α

p or β

p is effected when, L_p is set as the stress to internal pressure of an oblique surface of said octanhilatr inner cylinder, and said α

p or β

p is set as the strss to internal pressure of the fixed surface between said inner cylinder and said side panel of said casing.

13. A packaging container with anti-bulging function according to claim 10 wherein a fold is formed at the substantial center of an oblique surface of said octangular inner cylinder in the direction of said inner cylinder depth.

14. A packaging container with anti-bulging function according to claim 10 wherein the ends of said forming pieces are butted against each other so that a gap or stepped portion is not produced between said ends of said inner cylinder forming pieces arranged so as to adjoin each other.

15. A packaging container with anti-bulging function according to claim 10 wherein a hand hole is formed on a side panel of said casing at the outside of a triangular space formed between said casing and said inner cylinder.

16. A packaging container with anti-bulging function according to claim 10 wherein a disassembly hand hole is formed on any one pair of lids.

17. A packaging container with anti-bulging function according to claim 10 wherein an air vent hole is formed at the bottom of an oblique surface of said octangular inner cylinder.

18. A packaging container with anti-bulging function according to claim 10 wherein a circuitarc recess for concentrating the holding strss for folding is formed at both ends of an inner-cylinder fold piece up to 180 deg.