Individual packaging for elongate objects

• US 9,694,968 B2
• Filed: 11/21/2014
• Issued: 07/04/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 11/21/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Roesler Ip GmbH
• Original Assignee: Rose Plastic Ag
• Inventors: Roesler, Peter
• Primary Examiner(s): Cheung, Chun
• Assistant Examiner(s): Patel, Brijesh V.
• Application Number:
  US15/036,908
• Publication Number:
  US 20160272410A1
• Time in Patent Office: 956 Days
• Field of Search: 206 635, 206338-339, 206364-366, 206368, 206446, 220 421- 424, 220 427, 220831, 220844, 220918, 604192, 604198, 604403, D24156, D32031, D9432
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/865 Packages or dispensers for bone screws or threaded wires
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 85/20 for incompressible or rigid rod-shaped or tubular articles

Abstract

Packaging for elongate objects such as a screw (20, 30) having a head (21) of enlarged diameter and a bolt part (23, 24) having reduced diameter. The packaging (1) includes a packaging sleeve that is open at at least one end and that is made of an elastically bendable material. The packaging sleeve has at least one upper insertion opening (2) and securely holds the head (21) of the object screw (20) in an axial direction in an elastically expandable clamping collar (5) that is adjacent to the insertion opening (2) and maintains the bolt-side end of the object at a distance from the inside of the plastic packaging.

Claims

1. A packaging for an elongated objects that includes a head having an increased diameter such that said head defines an underside and a top, said elongated object also having a bolt part that adjoins said head and that has a reduced diameter said packaging comprising:

an approximately cylindrical packaging sleeve that defines an inside surface and an open end, said packaging sleeve being composed of an elastically bendable material and having an opening for introducing the elongated object; and

an elastically expandable clamping collar that adjoins the opening of said packaging sleeve in the axial direction, said elastically expandable clamping collar having an underside that forms a holding collar that narrows in the axial direction and that contacts the underside of the head, said elastically expandable clamping collar transitioning, in the axial direction, into an inlet collar that widens in the axial direction and that contacts the top of the head of said elongated object to hold the head of the elongated object in a secure position and maintain the bolt part of the elongated object at a distance from the inside of said packaging.

2. The packaging according to claim 1;

wherein a sleeve part adjoins said elastically expandable clamping collar in the axial direction, said sleeve part forming a radial free space relative to the bolt part of the elongated object.

3. The packaging according to claim 1 wherein said elastically expandable clamping collar contacts the head of the elongated object only by a circumference region of less than 340 degrees, said elastically expandable clamping collar having diametrically opposite widened regions that laterally follow said inlet collar and said holding collar, said widened regions being elastically deformable and expandable in response to finger pressure.

4. The packaging according to claim 3 wherein said elastically expandable clamping collar has an outer circumference and wherein said diametrically opposite widened regions are located on the outer circumference of said elastically expandable clamping collar and have a greater radius of curvature than said inlet collar and said holding collar that follow radially.

5. The packaging according to claim 3 that includes a total of two diametrically opposite widened regions that are configured to be deformed in the radial direction.

6. The packaging according to claim 3 that includes more than two diametrically opposite widened regions that are configured to be deformed in the radial direction.

7. The packaging according to claim 3 wherein the axial length of said widened regions corresponds to the length of said packaging.

8. The packaging according to claim 3 wherein the axial length of said widened regions is shorter than the length of said packaging.

9. The packaging according to claim 1 wherein a first sleeve part has a first diameter and adjoins said elastically expandable clamping collar in the axial direction, said first sleeve part making a transition into a second sleeve part that has an increased diameter by way of a transition part, the bolt part or threaded part of said elongated object projecting, at least in part into said second sleeve part and said elastically expandable clamping collar securing the head of said elongated object to prevent said elongated object from contacting the side walls of said second sleeve part.