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US20040173629A1
US20040173629A1 US10/793,511 US79351104A US2004173629A1 US 20040173629 A1 US20040173629 A1 US 20040173629A1 US 79351104 A US79351104 A US 79351104A US 2004173629 A1 US2004173629 A1 US 2004173629A1
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Gerhard Schafer
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D55/00—Accessories for container closures not otherwise provided for
    • B65D55/02—Locking devices; Means for discouraging or indicating unauthorised opening or removal of closure
    • B65D55/10—Locking pins
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D1/00—Rigid or semi-rigid containers having bodies formed in one piece, e.g. by casting metallic material, by moulding plastics, by blowing vitreous material, by throwing ceramic material, by moulding pulped fibrous material or by deep-drawing operations performed on sheet material
    • B65D1/22—Boxes or like containers with side walls of substantial depth for enclosing contents
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D43/00—Lids or covers for rigid or semi-rigid containers
    • B65D43/14—Non-removable lids or covers
    • B65D43/16—Non-removable lids or covers hinged for upward or downward movement
    • B65D43/162—Non-removable lids or covers hinged for upward or downward movement the container, the lid and the hinge being made of one piece
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D2251/00—Details relating to container closures
    • B65D2251/10—Details of hinged closures
    • B65D2251/1083—Closures formed of several sections hinged to the container or base
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
    • Y02W—CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO WASTEWATER TREATMENT OR WASTE MANAGEMENT
    • Y02W30/00—Technologies for solid waste management
    • Y02W30/50—Reuse, recycling or recovery technologies
    • Y02W30/80—Packaging reuse or recycling, e.g. of multilayer packaging

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  • the present invention relates to a box for shipping and/or storing goods. More particularly this invention concerns such a box that has a two-part permanently mounted hinged cover and that is intended for reuse.
  • a standard shipping/storage box of the high-security type typically has as shown in U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,161,261 and 4,432,467 a floor and side walls forming an upwardly open vessel. Upper, edges of the side walls are permanently hinged to cover halves or flaps that each extend somewhat past a centerline of the top.
  • the cover halves have interdigitating formations that lock them together when the box is closed, and a security strap or padlock can often be fitted through the cover halves and a lip of the box to secure the contents.
  • the cover halves can be pivoted back so that the empty boxes can nest.
  • the side walls may also be hinged at edges of the floor so the entire box can be flattened out to make it compact when it is not in use and/or is empty.
  • Another object is the provision of such an improved storage/shipping box which overcomes the above-given disadvantages, that is which will stay solidly closed when the cover halves are fitted together.
  • a box has according to the invention floor and side walls, a pair of parallel and spaced hinges at upper edges of the side walls and defining respective generally parallel hinge axes, and respective cover halves having inner edges pivoted at the hinges and outer edges each formed with a plurality of outwardly projecting tabs and a plurality of outwardly open complementary seats.
  • the cover halves are pivotal about the respective axes between a generally coplanar closed position with the tabs of the outer edge of each cover half fitting complementarily in the seats of the outer edge of the other cover half and an open position extending nonparallel to each other from the respective axes and with the outer edges spaced from each other.
  • the cover halves have at ends of their outer edges corners that are closely juxtaposed with the side walls in the closed position. Latches at each of the corners are each formed by a tongue projecting generally radially outward relative to the respective axis from one of the cover halves and a hole open only radially of the respective axis on the other of the cover halves. Each tongue fits in the respective hole in the closed position.
  • each outer edge has the tongue and the other corner of each outer edge has the hole. It is also possible to provide both tongues on one outer edge and both holes on the other. Each tongue and each hole are of generally square cross section.
  • FIG. 1 is a top view of the box according to the invention with the cover open;
  • FIG. 2 is a large-scale view of the detail indicated at II in FIG. 1;
  • FIG. 3 is a perspective bottom view of the region where corners of the cover halves in a partially closed position
  • FIG. 4 is a bottom view of the FIG. 3 region in a fully closed position
  • FIG. 5 is a perspective view of the box according to the invention fully closed.
  • a reusable shipping/storage box 1 basically has a rectangular and normally horizontal floor 2 from which two long side walls 3 and two short end walls 4 extend upward. These walls 3 and 4 could be hinged on the floor wall 2 .
  • Upper edges of the side walls 3 are provided with hinges 5 that define respective parallel hinge axes 5 A and that carry respective planar cover flaps or halves 6 a and 6 b each having an outer edge formed with three tabs 7 a that project radially of the respective axis 5 A past a centerline of the box 1 and three complementary seats 8 a in which the tabs 7 a fit.
  • the two cover halves 6 a and 6 b thus meet at a generally sinusoidal line 9 .
  • the cover halves 6 a and 6 b are locked together at their outer corners by latches 10 each comprising a pin or tongue 11 projecting in the plane of the respective half 6 a or 6 b from the outer edge thereof at one of its corners and a complementary pocket or hole 12 opening also parallel to the cover-half plane at the opposite corner.
  • each tongue 11 engages in the hole 12 of the opposite one of the halves 6 a and 6 b , thereby locking the cover halves 6 a and 6 b at the corners against relative shifting, in particular parallel to the side walls 3 or the axes 5 A of the hinges 5 as well as perpendicular to the plane of the cover flaps 6 a and 6 b , which is generally the same as the plane of the axes 5 A of the two hinges 5 .

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  • Packaging Of Annular Or Rod-Shaped Articles, Wearing Apparel, Cassettes, Or The Like (AREA)
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USD572902S1 (en) * 2005-10-10 2008-07-15 Fritz Schafer Gmbh Stackable and reusable transport box
WO2014105962A1 (en) * 2012-12-28 2014-07-03 Mercury Capital Management L.L.C. Distribution container with hinged half-lids and hinged lid-pockets
JP2019127268A (ja) * 2018-01-22 2019-08-01 三甲株式会社 蓋付き容器
US20230257160A1 (en) * 2022-02-17 2023-08-17 Visionat International Limited Collapsible box and methods of using same

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US762952A (en) * 1901-04-03 1904-06-21 James C Lynch Hinge.
US2712894A (en) * 1954-08-16 1955-07-12 Gen Nailing Mach Shipping box
US3362561A (en) * 1964-08-13 1968-01-09 Plasticase Inc Beverage bottle container
US3463345A (en) * 1968-08-28 1969-08-26 Ms Ind Inc Lidded tote box
US3754676A (en) * 1971-07-14 1973-08-28 T Box Poultry transport cage
US3935958A (en) * 1973-12-13 1976-02-03 Frangos John W Utensil basket for institutional dishwashing machines
US4261261A (en) * 1978-01-21 1981-04-14 Data Card Corporation Roller platen imprinter for vertical mounting
US4364489A (en) * 1980-04-28 1982-12-21 Nestier Canada Inc. Container lid
US4432467A (en) * 1982-03-08 1984-02-21 Menasha Corporation Reinforced lid construction for security containers or the like
US5328048A (en) * 1993-02-08 1994-07-12 Otto Industries, Inc. Tote box
US5353948A (en) * 1993-04-28 1994-10-11 Ipl Inc. Plastic container with hinged lids
US5318191A (en) * 1993-06-01 1994-06-07 Shirley Pomales Nipple klipper

Cited By (5)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
USD572902S1 (en) * 2005-10-10 2008-07-15 Fritz Schafer Gmbh Stackable and reusable transport box
WO2014105962A1 (en) * 2012-12-28 2014-07-03 Mercury Capital Management L.L.C. Distribution container with hinged half-lids and hinged lid-pockets
JP2019127268A (ja) * 2018-01-22 2019-08-01 三甲株式会社 蓋付き容器
JP7048078B2 (ja) 2018-01-22 2022-04-05 三甲株式会社 蓋付き容器
US20230257160A1 (en) * 2022-02-17 2023-08-17 Visionat International Limited Collapsible box and methods of using same

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