This application claims priority to Taiwan Application Serial Number 111117553, filed May 10, 2022, which is herein incorporated by reference.
The present disclosure relates to a supporting structure and a packing box, and more particularly, to a supporting structure and a packing box for accommodating a work piece.
Conventional packing structure for work pieces is to drill placement holes on a plate to position the work pieces or use trays with elasticity for direct placement of the work pieces. However, these structures often over take the space in the packing box or cannot effectively affix the work pieces, which causes damages to the work pieces during transportation.
In view of this, how to stably affix work pieces in a packing box while reducing the size of the related structure is indeed highly anticipated by the public and has become the goal and the direction of relevant industry efforts.
According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a supporting structure includes a plate-shaped body. The plate-shaped body includes a first supporting area, a second supporting area, and a foldable area. The first supporting area includes at least one first through hole, and the at least one first through hole includes a supporting portion and a passage portion. The passage portion is in communication with the supporting portion. The second supporting area includes at least one second through hole, wherein the at least one second through hole is in communication with the passage portion of the at least one first through hole. The foldable area is located between the first supporting area and the second supporting area. The first supporting area and the second supporting area are foldable related to each other along the foldable area so as to form an accommodating space by the at least one first through hole and the at least one second through hole.
According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a supporting structure for positioning at least one work piece is provided. The at least one work piece has a head portion, and the head portion has a maximum outer diameter. The supporting structure includes a plate-shaped body. The plate-shaped body includes a first supporting area and a second supporting area. The first supporting area includes at least one first through hole, wherein a maximum diameter of the at least one first through hole is smaller than the maximum outer diameter of the head portion. The second supporting area is connected to the first supporting area and is substantially perpendicular to the first supporting area. The second supporting area includes at least one second through hole, wherein the at least one second through hole is in communication with the at least one first through hole to form an accommodating space. When the work piece is disposed in the accommodating space, the head portion of the work piece protrudes from the at least one first through hole and is positioned on the first supporting area.
According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a packing box includes a packing box main body and a supporting structure. The supporting structure is located in the packing box main body, and the supporting structure includes a plate-shaped body. The plate-shaped body includes a first supporting area and a second supporting area. The first supporting area includes at least one first through hole. The second supporting area is substantially vertically disposed in the packing box main body and is connected to the first supporting area. The second supporting area is substantially perpendicular to the first supporting area and includes at least one second through hole. The at least one second through hole is in communication with the at least one first through hole to form an accommodating space.
The present disclosure can be more fully understood by reading the following detailed description of the embodiment, with reference made to the accompanying drawings as follows:
The embodiment will be described with the drawings. For clarity, some practical details will be described below. However, it should be noted that the present disclosure should not be limited by the practical details, that is, in some embodiment, the practical details is unnecessary. In addition, for simplifying the drawings, some conventional structures and elements will be simply illustrated, and repeated elements may be represented by the same labels.
It will be understood that when an element (or device) is referred to as be “connected to” another element, it can be directly connected to the other element, or it can be indirectly connected to the other element, that is, intervening elements may be present. In contrast, when an element is referred to as be “directly connected to” another element, there are no intervening elements present. In addition, the terms first, second, third, etc. are used herein to describe various elements or components, these elements or components should not be limited by these terms. Consequently, a first element or component discussed below could be termed a second element or component.
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In specific, a material of the plate-shaped body of the supporting structure 100 can be a paperboard, a cardboard, or a corrugated fiberboard. If the material of the plate-shaped body is the corrugated fiberboard, the corrugated fiberboard may be characterized as G flute, F flute, E flute, B flute, C flute, A flute, BC flute, BE flute, and AB flute. In the 1st embodiment, the plate-shaped body is made of E flute. If the supporting structure 100 is made of the materials mentioned above, the foldable area 103 can be arranged on the plate-shaped body of the supporting structure 100 in a manner of puncturing or piercing by a perforation line. The foldable area 103 can also be arranged on the plate-shaped body of the supporting structure 100 by a score line, a crease line, a cutting line, or any formation, such as a combination of the score line and the perforation line so as to allow the first supporting area 101 and the second supporting area 102 to fold relative to one another. In the 1st embodiment, the foldable area 103 is formed by a way of the score line, which allows a user to fold but still provide adequate support and connection, so that the first supporting area 101 and the second supporting area 102 are unlikely to break or separate due to the folding or bending. It is to be noted that the material or manufacturing method of the present disclosure is not limited thereto. Moreover, the first supporting area 101 and the second supporting area 102 after folding are substantially perpendicular to one another, and the term “substantially perpendicular” in the present disclosure refers to the second supporting area 102 standing on a flat plane, and the first supporting area 101 can support the work piece 10 in a horizontal direction. An angle between the first supporting area 101 and the second supporting area 102 is preferably 90 degrees, but the present disclosure is not limited thereto.
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In particular, the maximum diameter A1 of the supporting portion 111 and the central axis diameter c12 of the body portion 12 of the work piece 10 can satisfy the following condition: A1=c12+1 mm. Therefore, the work piece 10 can be taken and placed more smoothly. Furthermore, since the work piece 10 can be disposed in the accommodating space through the second through hole 120, a horizontal diameter A4 of the second through hole 120 can be greater than the maximum outer diameter d12 of the body portion 12 or be greater than the maximum diameter A1 of the supporting portion 111 of the first through hole 110 in order to enhance the convenience of taking and placing the work piece 10. Hence, the interference of the second through hole 120 can be reduced when taking and placing the work piece 10.
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The total length L1 of the work piece 10 can be greater than a vertical diameter A5 of the second through hole 120, and the following condition can be further satisfied: A5≥L1/2. Further, the horizontal diameter A4 and the vertical diameter A5 of the second through hole 120 can satisfy the following condition: A5≥A4. By the aforementioned arrangement, half of the work piece 10 is not exposed from the second through hole 120 and is restricted behind a wall of the second supporting area 102. Therefore, the work piece 10 can be restricted in the second supporting area 102, and the work piece 10 will not easily fly out from the second through hole 120 even if the work piece 10 encountered a strong bump during transportation. Further, a length of the body portion 12, which is the total length L1 of the work piece 10 minus the thickness t11 of the head portion 11, can be greater than the vertical diameter A5 of the second through hole 120 so as to further ensure that it is not easy for the work piece 10 to fall out from the second through hole 120.
Moreover, a rounded corner 130 is disposed at each of the two ends of a bottom edge of the second through hole 120. The rounded corner 130 has a curvature R (reference number is omitted), and the following condition is satisfied: R≤A4/3. Therefore, it is favorable for a sufficient space at the bottom edge of the second through hole 120 to make the rounded corner 130, which in turn enhances the aesthetic look of the supporting structure 100.
It is to be noted that the material of the plate-shaped body of the supporting structure of the present disclosure can be a plastic material, such as polypropylene (PP), polystyrene (PS), and polyethylene terephthalate (PET). The angle between the first supporting area and the second supporting area can be directly made substantially perpendicular during the manufacturing process, and it is not limited to a manner of additional bending between the two to form the accommodating space for the work piece.
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In the 2nd embodiment, the first supporting area 201 can further include at least one block set, and the at least one block set includes two blocking members 230. The two blocking members 230 are respectively connected to two sides of the first through hole 210 and extend toward a center of the first through hole 210, and the two blocking members 230 are detachably connected. More particularly, the two blocking members 230 are respectively connected to two sides of the passage portion 212 of the first through hole 210 and extend toward a center of the passage portion 212. In detail, the block set is a movable structure. When the work piece 20 is put into the first through hole 210 through the passage portion 212 along the placement direction X, the blocking members 230 at the two sides of the passage portion 212 can be separated so as to let the work piece 20 enter the first through hole 210 and be positioned at the supporting portion 211. Further, the blocking members 230 are naturally closed after the work piece 20 passes through to provide a blocking effect and prevent the work piece 20 from slipping out during transportation.
In the 2nd embodiment, other structures and dispositions of the supporting structure 200 and the work piece 20 can be the same as those of the supporting structure 100 and the work piece 10 of the 1st embodiment, and will not be described again herein.
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The second supporting area 302 further includes a restricting wall 330 located at one side of the second through hole 320. In the embodiment of
In the 3rd embodiment, other structures and dispositions of the supporting structure 300 and the work piece 30 can be the same as those of the supporting structure 100 and the work piece 10 of the 1st embodiment, and will not be described again herein.
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In the 4th embodiment, other structures and dispositions of the first through hole 410 of the supporting structure 400 can be the same as those of the first through hole 110 of the supporting structure 100 of the 1st embodiment, and will not be described again herein.
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In the 5th embodiment, a difference between the supporting structure 600 and the supporting structure 100 of the 1st embodiment is that the first supporting area 601 and the second supporting area 602 include respectively a plurality of first through holes 610 and a plurality of second through holes 620. In particular, a number of the first through holes 610 and a number of the second through holes 620 can be both four. After the first supporting area 601 and the second supporting area 602 are folded relative to one another along the foldable area 603, the first through holes 610 and the second through holes 620 correspondingly form an accommodating space for accommodating the work piece 50.
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Moreover, a thickness t11 of the head portion 51 of the work piece 50, a total length L1 of the work piece 50, and a height H602 of the second supporting area 602 can satisfy the following condition: H602≥L1−−t11+2 mm. In other words, the height H602 of the second supporting area 602 is slightly greater than a length of the body portion 52 of the work piece 50. The length of the body portion 52 of the work piece 50 is the total length L1 of the work piece 50 minus the thickness t11 of the head portion 51. Therefore, when the work piece 50 is placed in the supporting structure 600, a tail end of the work piece 50 does not touch or come in contact with the bottom side of the packing box main body 500, which in turn prevents a risk of the bottom side of the packing box main body 500 being punctured by the work piece 50 that is falling.
In the 5th embodiment, other structures and dispositions of the supporting structure 600 and the work piece 50 can be the same as the supporting structure 100 and the work piece 10 of the 1st embodiment, and will not be described again herein.
Although the present disclosure has been described in considerable detail with reference to certain embodiments thereof, other embodiments are possible. Therefore, the spirit and scope of the appended claims should not be limited to the description of the embodiments contained herein.
It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various modifications and variations can be made to the structure of the present disclosure without departing from the scope or spirit of the disclosure. In view of the foregoing, it is intended that the present disclosure cover modifications and variations of this disclosure provided they fall within the scope of the following claims.
Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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111117553 | May 2022 | TW | national |