ES1063003U - Compartimentadora tray boxes for fruit and vegetable products. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding) - Google Patents

Abstract

Compartment tray of boxes for fruit and vegetable products, of the type intended to house a consumption dose of the product in question and to be packed, together with other identical ones, in a considerably larger cardboard box, characterized for being constituted from a laminar and single-piece body, preferably made of cardboard, in which a central, rectangular sector is defined, delimited by four folding lines beyond which said central sector extends into trapezoidal and divergent sectors constituting the side walls of the tray, said walls being related to each other at their ends and through folding lines, with double triangular fins obtained by folding the area of the sheet body corresponding to the corners of the trays, fins that are fixed by adhesive and after its convenient lowering, to any of the side walls of the tray, prefer The smaller ones have been foreseen that the other side walls, preferably the larger ones, are extended by their free edge in flaps of a length considerably greater than that of said walls, so that they form beyond the same small, adjustable tabs intended to be inserted within the double triangular fins, for assembling said flaps in the plane corresponding to the tray mouth, constituting support areas for stacking between loaded trays. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)

Description

Box compartmentalizer for products fruit and vegetable

Object of the invention

The present invention relates to a tray destined to the commercialization of fruit and vegetable products, of type of those that constitute a unit or sales dose of the product in question, such as strawberries or similar, and of the type of which, for their transport are destined to stay in a box, usually cardboard, which houses a plurality of trays.

The object of the invention is to achieve a structurally very simple tray, low cost, capable of stack in a vacuum with minimal space and stack also in a loading situation, when necessary and within levels determined by the box to be contained trays

Background of the invention

In certain types of products Horticultural, as in the aforementioned strawberries, is desirable that they do not suffer any type of manipulation, from the moment of its packaging to its acquisition by the consumer, to avoid deterioration in them.

For this they use trays with a dose of adequate consumption, such as 500 grams or 1 kilogram, of so that the consumer has to adapt his purchase to this Dosing, because without the need to perform weighing maneuvers, since this has been done previously at the time of filling the trays, and so that, as previously said, the product reaches the consumer without any kind of intermediate manipulation during its commercialization, that is to say in optimal conditions.

Usually plastic trays are used, that in addition to not being biodegradable, when they adopt a truncated pyramidal configuration, to be stacked in vacuum with minimum space occupation, cannot be stacked in a situation of load, which requires the provision of covers that act as a base of support for tray immediately superior, covers that obviously have a considerable impact on both costs as at the level of space occupation.

Description of the invention

The tray that the invention proposes resolves from fully satisfactory way the problem above exposed, constituting a simple, economical and effective solution, as already noted above and as will be apparent from the following description.

To do this and more specifically said tray It is constituted from a laminar, single-piece body and cardboard, of adequate size for the capacity provided to the tray, in which a central sector is defined, constituting the fund of the tray, rectangular, delimited by four folding lines, plus beyond which are trapecial sectors constituting their major and minor side walls, related between their ends by small folding sectors both for its line average as with respect to said side walls, determinants double triangular fins, designed to fold down interchangeably on the major or minor side walls of the tray, and to be fixed to the latter, preferably by adhesive, to get the assembly of the tray, which thus adopts a trunk-pyramidal, rectangular configuration, divergent from its mouth.

According to another of the characteristics of the invention, two of the side walls of the tray, preferably the two major side walls, extend to tray opening level in respective flaps, which are relate to the corresponding walls through lines of folding, preferably of combined folding and cutting lines, which facilitate the folding of said flaps towards the plane corresponding to the mouth of the box.

These flaps have a length significantly larger than that corresponding to the walls of which they emerge, so that at their ends tabs are defined, by respective transverse folding or cutting lines partial, which are collapsible downward and introducible into the breast of the aforementioned double triangular fins, for the definitive armed of the box, specifically for the stabilization of said flaps when the tray is completely finished.

According to this structuring of origin the trays appear armed through triangular fins doubles, but with their flaps in prolongation of the walls sides from which they emerge, which allows coupling tongue and groove between boxes, stacking them, so that the volumetric occupation is minimal, while at the moment in the which comes to the filling of the trays, immediately before or after said filling, the flaps are lowered towards the mouth of the tray and are properly armed with respect to the body of the same, to constitute marginal zones of support for the tray immediately above, when a stacking between loading trays.

Description of the drawings

To complement the description that is being performing and in order to help a better understanding of the characteristics of the invention, according to a preferred example of practical realization of it, is accompanied as part member of that description, a set of drawings where with illustrative and non-limiting nature, what has been represented next:

Figure 1.- Shows a development in plant of a compartmental tray of boxes for products fruit and vegetable made according to the purpose of this invention.

Figure 2.- Shows, according to a view in perspective, a couple of trays like the one in the previous figure, stacked in vacuum.

Figure 3.- Shows, finally, another couple of trays like those in the previous figure, also stacked, but Now in loading situation.

Preferred Embodiment of the Invention

In view of the figures outlined and especially of figure 1, can be seen as the tray that is recommended it is constituted from a laminar and single piece body (1), preferably of cardboard, in which a central sector is defined and rectangular (2), corresponding to the bottom of the tray, delimited by four folding lines (3), beyond which the sector central (2) extends in trapecial and divergent sectors corresponding to the major side walls (4) and to the minor side walls (5) of the tray, so that said tray adopts once armed a configuration trunk-pyramidal, rectangular, inverted or divergent towards its mouth.

The aforementioned trapecial sectors (4-5) are related to each other, at the level of corners of the tray, by triangular and double fins (6), that relate to said walls (4-5) through of folding lines (7) and each one has a intermediate folding line (8), so that these fins (6), in the moment of the initial assembly of the tray, they fall for example on the minor side walls (5) of the tray, such as Figures 2 and 3 show, being fixed to said walls by adhesive.

As a complement to the structure described trapecial sectors (4) constituting the side walls larger than the tray, or optionally its smaller walls (5), is extend in flaps (9), through respective folding lines (10), discontinuous, related by cutting sections (11) for facilitate said folding, presenting these flaps a length substantially larger than that of the side walls (4) of which they emerge, as will be seen below, and a width such that in operational situation for them allow support on them of a tray immediately above, as shown in the figure 3.

The oversize in length of the flaps (9) is intended to establish at the ends of the same tabs (12), delimited by transverse lines of folding or partial cutting (13), folding and introducible between the corresponding triangular double fins (6), such as also shows figure 3, so that said flaps (9) are stabilized in horizontal layout and be able to withstand a tray placed on them, as well as ours repeatedly cited figure 3.

The flaps (9) are intended to adopt initially a coplanar position with the trapezoidal sectors (4) constitutive of the tray walls from which they emerge, to allow empty stacking between trays shown in the Figure 2, so that a large number of trays can be stored and transported in a vacuum with the minimum occupancy of possible space, and at the time of its filling and introduction into larger boxes, is when the flaps (9) are assembled to allow stacking of figure 3, so that a plurality  of trays (1) can be placed on the bottom plane of a box, and on them a second set of trays and even a third set or more, when necessary, until the filling of the box, which preferably will also be cardboard.

Claims (2)

1. Box compartmentalizing tray for fruit and vegetable products, of the type intended to house a consumption dose of the product in question and to be packed, together with identical ones, in a considerably larger cardboard box, characterized for being constituted from a laminar and single-piece body, preferably of cardboard, in which a central, rectangular sector is defined, delimited by four folding lines beyond which said central sector extends into trapecial and divergent sectors constituting the side walls of the tray, said walls being related to each other at their ends and through folding lines, with double triangular fins obtained by folding the area of the laminar body corresponding to the corners of the trays, fins that are fixed by adhesive and after its timely despondency, to any of the side walls of the tray, preferred mind to the minors, having provided that the other side walls, preferably the larger ones, are extended by their free edge in flaps of length substantially greater than that of said walls, so that they configure beyond the same small bending tabs intended to be introduced within the double triangular fins, for assembling said flaps in the plane corresponding to the mouth of the tray, constituting support areas for stacking between loading trays. 2. Box compartmentalizing tray for fruit and vegetable products, according to claim 1, characterized in that the folding line of said flaps is defined by dashed folding lines, alternated with cutting line, to facilitate folding of the flaps, while Extreme lashes are also defined by partial cut lines that facilitate folding.