The present invention relates to a pulp-molded packaging article applied in a technical field of packaging materials, and in particular, a pulp-molded packaging article manufactured by a wet fiber pulp-molding process.
In the most of the fabrications for conventional paper-made boxes, primarily a large-size two-dimensional planar cardboard are divided into a number of side-by-side interconnected and/or separated small-size two-dimensional planar cardboards. Essentially, those small-size two-dimensional planar cardboards are rendered with different and/or same geometrical shapes, such as rectangles, squares, circles and so forth. Next, each two of the small-size two-dimensional planar cardboards integrally interconnected by a side edge thereof are manually folded positive or negative 90 degrees against each other along the side edge (i.e. a lower box body having a bottom with four side edges integrally interconnected with four standing sidewalls, respectively), and/or cut-apart side edges between each two of the small-size two-dimensional planar cardboards are firmly jointed against each other (i.e. a cover body having four standing sidewalls where their adjacent side edges are jointed against each other). By the above procedure, a paper-made box can be assembled eventually in a three-dimensional structure. For example, Chinese utility model patent numbers CN204624080U and CN206750590U promptly brought forth solutions for the afore-mentioned paper-made box.
Furthermore, there were a number of conventional paper-made boxes such as a Chinese invention patent publication number CN104386330A which promptly reveals a forming process for a pulp-molded packaging article and its foldable lined structure packaged therein, wherein a solution is provided that primarily by a wet-fiber pulp-molding process, a semi-finished product of a pulp-molded packaging article having a three-dimensional structure is manufactured; next, by performing the same steps for a number of respective planar side edges of the semi-finished product, which include die-cutting for the side edges and then manually folding the die-cut side edges, the side edges are formed in reverse-fold shapes for fixedly bracing an object packaged therebetween.
Nevertheless, for all of the afore-mentioned conventional paper-made boxes, it is necessary to crop the cardboard to have a number of side edges for later on jointing together with each other; and also, it is necessary to manually fold the side edges on their integrally-connected positions so as to form respectively standing sidewalls for further assembling the paper-made box in manual, thereby resulting in laboriousness and a large of time consumption. Besides, regardless of boring through and trimming off any one of the sidewalls for shaping, it is apt to make each of the cropped side edges incurring a stress concentration phenomenon, and also it is apt to damage a structural strength or seal tightness of the whole paper-made box. Furthermore, the conventional paper-made boxes disclosed in these Chinese utility model patent numbers CN204624080U and CN206750590U can almost not provide a cushioning protection effect for objects respectively packaged therein. Although a Chinese invention patent publication number CN104386330A discloses a pulp-molded packaging article and its foldable lined structure packaged therein, a structural strength and an elastic force of a position where is folded in the lined structure are still insufficient. In a case while the object packaged within the conventional pulp-molded packaging article comes to suffer accidental collision during transportation, the folded lined structure within the pulp-molded packaging article would be hard to provide an effective cushioning protection for the packaged object therein, resulting in poor workability of the packaging article.
Hence, for solving the afore-mentioned technical issues of the conventional paper-made boxes, it is essential to propose an improved structure for the paper-made boxes.
In order to solve the aforementioned technical problems of the conventional arts, an objective of the present invention is to provide a pulp-molded packaging article where its whole structure is integrally formed by a wet fiber pulp-molding process, which avoids a damage to an ecological environment, and avoids the above technical problems resulted from the conventional paper-made boxes, including, for example, laboriousness and the large of time consumption in their fabrications which uses the manufacturing steps of: cropping the cardboard to have use-to-joint side edges, reversely folding each of the side edges of the cardboard on an interconnection thereof to form respective standing sidewalls, boring through the standing sidewalls to form respective snap-in apertures thereon, and then assembling the conventional paper-made box in manual.
Another objective of the present invention is to provide a pulp-molded packaging article in which its whole structure is completely and integrally formed, without a need of extra adding a formed-by-folding lined structure thereto, by a wet fiber pulp-molding process, thereby being not only capable of raising both a structural strength and an elastic force of the whole pulp-molded packaging article but also being capable of providing several functions of cushioning protection, rapid orientation and effective snap-in retention, for a to-be-packaged object which is packaged in pulp-molded packaging article.
In order to accomplish the above inventive objectives, the present invention provides a technical solution with a pulp-molded packaging article, which is integrally formed by a wet fiber pulp-molding process, used for carrying a to-be-packaged object thereon. The pulp-molded packaging article is primary structured with a horizontal bottom wall and a standing lateral wall.
The standing lateral wall is integrally extended upwardly from and around an outermost periphery of the horizontal bottom wall. The standing lateral wall is formed with an inner sidewall and an outer sidewall located opposite to the inner sidewall. The standing lateral wall is formed with transversely cross-sectional thicknesses between the inner sidewall and the outer sidewall. An accommodation space is defined commonly by between the horizontal bottom wall and the standing lateral wall, for accommodating the to-be-packaged object. A top opening communicated with the accommodation space is formed adjacent to the top of the standing lateral wall, used for providing entry or exit of the to-be-packaged object.
The transversely cross-sectional thickness located at the bulge region is larger than the transversely cross-sectional thickness located at the groove region. The standing lateral wall further comprises a bulge region located beneath the top opening and a groove region located beneath the bulge region. The bulge region and the groove region both are integrally formed side-by-side along a direction in which the standing lateral wall is upwardly extended. The bulge region is formed with a snap-in convex surface which is protruded from the inner sidewall toward the accommodation space, and the groove region is formed with a concave surface which is concaved from the inner sidewall toward the outer sidewall. While the to-be-packaged object enters into the accommodation space to oppress the snap-in convex surface, the bulge region is therefore actuated in elastic deformation to reach an outwardly deflected position. After the to-be-packaged object continues to pass through beside the snap-in convex surface to reach the concave surface of the groove region, the bulge region is rebounded therefore to exert reverse elastic forces on the to-be-packaged object, resulting in a snap-in retention onto the to-be-packaged object, which makes the snap-in convex surface stopping the to-be-packaged object from moving toward the top opening.
In a preferred embodiment, the bulge region and the groove region both located on the outer sidewall are revealed in a successively-flat curve surface formed along the upwardly-extended direction.
In a preferred embodiment, an inner contour of the inner sidewall conforms with an outer contour of the to-be-packaged object.
In a preferred embodiment, an upper of the bulge region has a guiding inclined curved plane formed on the inner sidewall, which is used to direct the to-be-packaged object into the accommodation space by an inclined plane principle.
In a preferred embodiment, the snap-in convex surface of the bulge region is formed in a shape of a snap-in annular bar along an inner circumferential direction of the inner sidewall, and the concave surface of the groove region is formed in a shape of a snap-in annular recess along the inner circumferential direction of the inner sidewall.
In a preferred embodiment, the transversely cross-sectional thickness located at the bulge region is larger than the transversely cross-sectional thickness of the other portions of the standing lateral wall.
In a preferred embodiment, a draft direction of the bulge region has a negative draft angle relative to a longitudinal draft direction of the inner sidewall of the standing lateral wall.
In a preferred embodiment, the concave surface is integrally connected side-by-side with the snap-in convex surface along the upwardly-extended direction of the standing lateral wall.
The present invention brings the following technical efficiencies that: in comparison with the conventional arts, a whole structure of the pulp-molded packaging article according to the present invention is integrally formed by a wet fiber pulp-molding process, thereby being capable of avoiding a damage to the ecological environment; furthermore, adopting the wet fiber pulp-molding process does not only strengthen both an elastic force and a structural strength of the pulp-molded packaging article but also avoid having the same technical issues, of laboriousness and a large of time consumption, as resulted from the conventional paper-made boxes; and moreover, in the present invention, since the whole structure of the pulp-molded packaging article is integrally formed entirely by way of the wet fiber pulp-molding process, without the need of extra increasing a formed-by-folding lined structure therein, it is capable of providing several functions of cushioning protection, rapid orientation and effective snap-in retention, for a to-be-packaged object which is carried inside the article.
The technical proposals in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described in the following with reference to the accompanying drawings of the embodiments of the present invention. The directional terms mentioned in the present invention, such as “upper”, “lower”, “before”, “after”, “left”, “right”, “inside”, “outside”, “side”, etc., are merely illustrative the direction of the drawing. Therefore, the directional terminology used is for the purpose of illustration and understanding of the invention, which is not intended to limit the invention.
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In this embodiment, the wet fiber pulp-molding process used to manufacture the pulp-molded packaging article 1 according to the present invention is a conventional manufacturing technology; nonetheless, in order to be conveniently realized, a number of essential steps implemented in the wet fiber pulp-molding process are introduced as follows in simplicity, which comprise: (1) by a set of male and female mold assembly (not shown) for sucking pulps made up of plant fibers and then applying initial compressions on the sucked pulps, achieving a wet rough body made of the plant fibers; then, (2) the male and female mold assembly further applying compressive forces in an upward-and-downward matching manner for the wet rough body, thereby shaping a semi-finished article from the wet rough body; then, (3) by at least one set of thermo-compression forming male and female mold assembly (not shown) acting on an upward-and-downward matching manner for the semi-finished article, thereby integrally thermo-compressively forming the whole structure of the pulp-molded packaging article 1 which comprises the horizontal bottom wall 10, the standing lateral wall 20 and the connecting plate 40; and then (4) removing excessive leftover bits located around a periphery of the pulp-molded packaging article 1. Alternatively, it can not be limited to the afore-mentioned introduction. Any other pulp-molding process that is capable of being adopted to manufacture the pulp-molded packaging article 1 of the present invention belongs to the wet fiber pulp-molding process designated in the present invention.
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In conclusion, since the whole structure of the pulp-molded packaging article 1 according to the present invention is integrally formed by the wet fiber pulp-molding process, it is capable of avoiding the damage to the ecological environment, strengthening both the elastic force and the structural strength of the pulp-molded packaging article 1, and avoiding the technical issues resulted from the above-mentioned conventional paper-made boxes, such as laboriousness and a large of time consumption in their fabrications. Besides, by the wet fiber pulp-molding process to integrally form the whole structure without the need of extra increasing a formed-by-folding lined structure, the pulp-molded packaging article 1 according to the present invention can provide several functions of effective cushioning protection, rapid orientation and effective snap-in retention, for the to-be-packaged object 50 which is packaged in the article 1.
As described above, although the present invention has been described with the preferred embodiments thereof, those skilled in the art will appreciate that various modifications, additions, and substitutions are possible without departing from the scope and the spirit of the invention. Accordingly, the scope of the present invention is intended to be defined only by reference to the claims.
Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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201922084120.5 | Nov 2019 | CN | national |