Global Patent Index - EP 0440415 A1

EP 0440415 A1 19910807 - Containers.

Title (en)

Containers.

Title (de)

Behälter.

Title (fr)

Récipients.

Publication

EP 0440415 A1 19910807 (EN)

Application

EP 91300655 A 19910129

Priority

GB 9002082 A 19900130

Abstract (en)

Containers have an outline in underneath plan view which is wedge shaped. The wedge has a length greater than its width at the thicker end. The containers are packed on a rectangular floor area, which may be the base of a box, with at least some containers in pairs side by side touching each other but with their wedge shapes oriented oppositely so that the thinner end of each wedge shape is adjacent the thicker end of the wedge shape of the other container of the said pair, but with a gap between the thinner end of each wedge shape and a notional rectangle whose sides are parallel to or coincide with sides of the rectangular boundary, and which fits around the wedge shapes with one pair of sides contacting the non-touching sides of the wedge shapes and the other pair of sides contacting the thicker ends of the wedge shapes. This gives flexibility in fitting the containers onto a floor area, and in turn gives greater freedom of choice when designing packaging for a product. <IMAGE>

IPC 1-7

B65D 1/02

IPC 8 full level

B65D 77/04 (2006.01); B65D 1/02 (2006.01); B65D 79/00 (2006.01); B65D 85/00 (2006.01)

CPC (source: EP)

B65D 1/0223 (2013.01); B65D 2501/0081 (2013.01)

Citation (search report)

Designated contracting state (EPC)

CH DE ES FR GB IT LI NL SE

DOCDB simple family (publication)

EP 0440415 A1 19910807; EP 0440415 B1 19931118; AU 5947594 A 19940609; AU 7002391 A 19910801; BR 9100373 A 19911022; CA 2035056 A1 19910731; CA 2035056 C 19961022; DE 69100633 D1 19931223; DE 69100633 T2 19940310; ES 2046012 T3 19940116; GB 9002082 D0 19900328; JP H06211283 A 19940802; ZA 91687 B 19920930

DOCDB simple family (application)

EP 91300655 A 19910129; AU 5947594 A 19940415; AU 7002391 A 19910129; BR 9100373 A 19910129; CA 2035056 A 19910128; DE 69100633 T 19910129; ES 91300655 T 19910129; GB 9002082 A 19900130; JP 9829591 A 19910130; ZA 91687 A 19910130