Package set for piece mass consumption goods

Description

CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

Applicants claim priority under 35 U.S.C. 119 of Russian Application No. 2006107793 filed Mar. 14, 2006. Applicants also claim priority under 35 U.S.C. 120 of International Application No. PCT/RU2007/000114 filed Mar. 12, 2007. This application is a by-pass continuation-in-part application of said International Application No. PCT/RU2007/000114 filed Mar. 12, 2007. The International Application under PCT Article 21(2) was not published in English. The disclosure of the aforesaid International Application and Russian application are incorporated by reference.

FIELD OF THE INVENTION

The invention relates to multi-purpose package means for different piece goods.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

As science and engineering developed over the past century, so did industries producing consumer goods in large quantities, which arose and advanced to meet growing demand for these mass-produced goods. Examples of industries producing consumer goods in high demand include cars, electronics, electrical appliances, household durables, electronic recording media, perfumery, books, and much else.

Growth in the sales and production volumes of these goods called for the need to place mass-produced goods in separate packages to give them an attractive appearance, display the name and trade mark to the manufacturer, and to induce consumers to buy them. These criteria and the ease of manufacture have made cardboard the best choice for packaging mass-produced piece goods. Familiar examples of these packages are cartons for car spares, various devices and spares, electronic, electrical, and household goods, perfumes and toilet water dispensed into glass containers, and so on.

Cartons now used to package mass consumption goods have several disadvantages, in particular:

• • cartons and the packaged goods are completely unprotected from moisture;
  • handling and transportation have a low efficiency, that is, cartons are little resistant to pressure and have to be stacked in a limited number of rows during transportation in a vehicle; and
  • the producer's trade mark cannot be protected against forgery.

All these disadvantages derive from the properties of the carton material, which is regular cardboard, and the carton manufacturing techniques. The obvious suggestion that cardboard be replaced with plastics is confronted with serious technical, technological, and economic impediments. The geometry and size of mass-produced piece goods vary widely, and it is difficult and economically unjustified and unproductive to fashion a new mold each time a new item is produced. But for this major obstacle, the world would have long shifted to individualized plastics packaging. This is best illustrated by the changeover to plastics bottles to contain beverages. In the case of beverages, the content takes the shape of the container, while in our case exactly the opposite is true.

A prior art vessel used in this field has a side wall that is a corrugated pipe or polygonal receptacle that has threaded truncated cones at the top and bottom, the bottom being concave (see: RU Patent No. 2,202,501, class B65D1/02; 21/028; 81/36, published Apr. 20, 2003).

The prior art vessel is impracticable because it is only used to be filled with liquids and does not have stiffening ribs required for packaging various piece products.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The practical effect of the claimed invention is a multi-purpose package that is devoid of the drawbacks inherent in the prior art referred to above.

This effect is achieved by designing a package set that comprises two lids provided with external and internal threads, respectively, and at least one tubular element provided with external and internal threads on the corresponding ends thereof.

The lids and tubular elements may have a cylindrical shape, and at least one threaded joint can be provided during package manufacture with a lock that is broken on opening.

The lids and tubular elements can be provided with ribs and impressed with serial numbers.

DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIGS. 1 and 2 show an assembled package set, FIG. 2 showing a longitudinal sectional view of the package elements.

DESCRIPTION OF A PREFERRED EMBODIMENT

Any plane figure being described by a circle and a three-dimensional one by a cylinder, this invention relates to the following prefabricated plastics package design for mass consumption goods.

It comprises:

• • a hollow cylinder 1—a tubular element substantially provided with threaded necks at both ends thereof, internal thread on one end and external thread on the other;
  • two lids 2 and 3 provided with threaded ends, one lid 2 having external thread and the other lid 3 having internal thread;
  • a design mainly of the threaded part comprises a specific lock making the connection permanent;
  • one of the package elements may be imprinted with a serial number;
  • the hollow cylinder 1 is, in need, provided with ribs of a certain configuration that will match similar ribs provided on the lids; and
  • the hollow cylinder 1 has a small taper lengthwise.

Depending on the configuration and height of a product, the product is to be packed in two lids 2 and 3, or in two lids 2,3 and one or more cylinders 1, which are joined together by the threads. The lock provided on the threaded portion makes for reliable connection of the package components during transportation of the product and renders the package disposable to protect the producer's trade mark.

A serial number provided to protect the producer's trade mark is useful in tracking the manner in which, the time when, and the source from where the package was delivered to the producer and the product was supplied to the retailer. The ribs are provided to protect the producer's trade mark as well. Decoration techniques are used to apply the producer's trade mark and serial number. The cylinder is tapered to make handling during package transportation more efficient.

INDUSTRIAL APPLICABILITY

The hollow components of a plastics package are manufactured by blowing, which is the basic manufacturing technique used to produce blow-molded plastics packages.

The claimed invention has the following advantages:

• • The multi-purpose plastic package is customized for packing a variety of mass consumption piece goods of different shapes and dimensions. It has many advantages over cartons, and gives a higher level of protection to the manufacturer's trade mark;
  • The package is produced on high-speed equipment (a single machine is capable of producing more than 20,000 packages an hour). A small workshop using the claimed invention is capable of meeting the demand for such packages in markets of any size and producing high economic returns.