The present invention relates to a tray for conveying a cup and a container, which is used for easily conveying multiple cups and containers, and particularly, to a tray for conveying a cup and a container, which is coupled to a cup holder and a dish (vessel) and effectively prevents motions of the cup and the container to stably convey multiple cups and containers only by a simple structure.
In recent years, the number of take-out type coffee shops has been increasing. The coffee shop provides a cup carrier and tray for conveniently conveying multiple cups when one or more cups of coffee is ordered, and the cup carrier and tray becomes a major necessity that should be provided in the coffee shop.
That is, the take-out type coffee shop can sell one or more cups of coffee according to an order of a customer. In this case, it may be difficult that one customer moves while holding one or more cups. In particular, it may be difficult for one person to hold and convey two or more cups containing hot and cold coffee with both hands.
As a result, the coffee shop uses the cup carrier and tray for a purpose in which one customer can easily convey multiple cups.
A commonly used disposable cup carrier and tray may have a box type or tray type structure in which a paperboard is pasted with a glue or an adhesive or a tray type structure in which a pulp is poured into a mold and solidified by a scheme of making an eggbox panel.
However, in the case of the cup and tray, a cost weight of a raw material required for production of the cup carrier and tray is large and a manufacturing process is complicated, so manufacturing cost depending on a process becomes large and a volume of a finished product is large, and as a result, costs such as packing cost, conveying cost, and storage cost are largely consumed.
As such, the cup carrier and tray made by the existing used scheme has various problems including a problem that the cup carrier and tray is complicated in terms of the structure and manufacturing process thereof, so a price cannot but be large as a disposable consumable, a problem that the cup carrier tray is inconvenient, and a problem that a weight of logistics cost becomes too large due to a large volume.
An object of the present invention is to provide a tray for conveying a cup and a container, which is coupled to a cup holder or a dish (container) and effectively prevents motions of the cup and the container to stably convey multiple cups only by a simple structure.
An object of the present invention is to provide a tray for conveying a cup and a container, which is coupled to a cup holder and effectively prevents the motion of the cup to be immediately used without a manufacturing process and does not occupy a large volume in a simple structure of a plate shape and is simple in terms of the manufacturing process to save cost.
An object of the present invention is to provide a tray for conveying a cup and a container, which can save a material and more stably support the cup and the dish (container) in a simple and robust structure.
An object of the present invention is to provide a tray for conveying a cup and a container which can provide a beverage and dessert in a space when purchasing both the beverage and the dessert.
The objects of the present invention are not limited to the above-mentioned objects, and other objects and advantages of the present invention that are not mentioned can be understood by the following description, and will be more clearly understood by embodiments of the present invention. Further, it will be readily appreciated that the objects and advantages of the present invention can be realized by means and combinations shown in the claims.
In order to achieve the object, a tray for conveying a cup and a container according to the present invention may include: a body part having a space accommodating at least one of a cup or a food; and at least one fastening unit positioned on one side of the body part and into which a protrusion of an external member (a cup and a container) is inserted and coupled into, and the fastening portion has a slit or a cutting line having a clamp shape, and the fastening portion may have a slit or a cutting line having a clamp shape.
Preferably, the tray for conveying a cup and a container may further include a fixation bar penetrated, inserted, and fastened into the fastening portion to form at least one pole to protrude upwards from a bottom surface of the body part.
Preferably, the fixation bar may be provided as a plate part having a predetermined width, and include a folding line having a predetermined distance while both centers correspond to each other, and further include a folding line slantly inwards of the center by extending the folding line.
The tray for conveying the cup and the container according to the present invention described above has the following effects.
First, the tray for conveying the cup and the container according to the present invention is coupled to the cup holder and effectively prevents the motion of the cup to stably convey multiple cups only by a simple structure.
Second, the tray for conveying the cup and the container according to the present invention can be immediately used without the manufacturing process and does not occupy a large volume in the simple structure of the plate shape and is simple in terms of the manufacturing process to save cost.
Third, the tray for conveying the cup and the container according to the present invention can save a material and more stably support the cup and the container in a simple and robust structure.
Fourth, when both the beverage and the dessert are purchased, there is inconvenience in that a cup carrier and a dessert carrier should be separately provided at present, and the tray for conveying the cup and the container according to the present invention as a carrier in which the cup holder and the tray are coupled can provide the beverage and the dessert in one space when taking out the beverage and the dessert.
In addition to the above-described effects, the specific effects of the present invention will be described below together while describing the specific matters for the present invention.
Other objects, characteristics, and advantages of the present invention will become apparent through the detailed description of the embodiments referred to in the accompanying drawings.
Terms used in the present invention adopt general terms which are currently widely used as possible by considering functions in the present invention, but the terms may be changed depending on an intention of those skilled in the art, a precedent, emergence of new technology, etc. Further, in a specific case, a term which an applicant arbitrarily selects is present and in this case, a meaning of the term will be disclosed in detail in a corresponding description part of the invention. Accordingly, a term used in the present invention should be defined based on not just a name of the term but a meaning of the term and contents throughout the present invention.
A preferred embodiment of a tray for conveying a cup and a container according to the present invention will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings. The present invention is not limited to an embodiment disclosed below but may be implemented in various different shapes and the present embodiment just completes a disclosure of the present invention and is provided to completely inform a scope of the present invention to those skilled in the art. Accordingly, configurations illustrated in the embodiments and drawings disclosed in the present specification are only the most preferred embodiment of the present invention and do not represent all of the technical spirit of the present invention, and thus it is to be understood that various equivalents and modified examples, which may replace the configurations, are possible when filing the present application.
Hereinafter, any component being disposed “at an upper portion (or lower portion)” of a component or “above (or below)” a component may mean that any component is disposed in contact with an upper surface (or a lower surface) of the component and another component is interposed between the component and any component disposed above (or below) the component.
Hereinafter, a tray for conveying a cup and a container according to some embodiments of the present invention will be described. The tray for conveying a cup and a container illustrated in the drawings follows an embodiment, and constituent elements thereof are illustrated to the embodiment illustrated in the drawings and if necessary, some constituent elements may be added, modified, or deleted.
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However, the cup or the cup holder, or the dish or the container corresponding to the external member 200 may further include at least protrusion 210 which extends and protrudes downward from a body and is inserted into the fastening portion 120. In this case, in respect to the fastening portion 120, the fastening portion 210 is inserted according to the size of the container 200b or 200c may be distant.
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The body part 110 as a surface of which an upper portion is opened and which extends at a predetermined height may be configured in a rectangular box shape in which the periphery is blocked. However, the configuration is not limited thereto. That is, if the upper portion of the body part 110 is opened and the body part 110 includes a bottom portion for supporting the accommodated cup and container, the body part 110 may be configured in various figures including a circular shape, an oval shape, and a polygonal shape, and further, at least one of sides of the figure may be configured to be opened or blocked.
However, for easy description of the tray 100 for conveying the cup and the container according to the present invention, as the configuration of the tray 100 for conveying the cup and the container is illustrated in the drawings in the present disclosure, only a rectangular box type in which plate portions are configured in all peripheries will be described.
The body part 110 may include a handle 130 integrally configured in the body part 110 itself, and first and second coupling portions 140a and 140b fastened to one side and the other side of the body part 110, respectively opposite to the other side and one side of another body part 110′.
In this case, as illustrated in the drawing, the handle 130 may be configured by a hole type handle having holes into which a part of a hand may be inserted on both opposite side surfaces of the body part 110. However, the configuration of the handle 130 is not limited thereto, and the handle 130 may be configured by a ring type handle which is located on the bottom surface of the body part 110 or both opposite side surfaces of the body part 110, and in which a part of a paperboard of the body part 110 protrudes upward and is formed in a connection ring shape.
In addition, the first and second coupling portions 140a and 140b are formed by protruding pieces which protrude to one side of the body part 110 and fastened to protruding pieces which protrude to be opposite so as to be fastened to the other side of another body part 110′ to be opposite to connect at least two body parts 110 and 110′ to each other in a side surface direction. In this case, in the case of the fastened protruding pieces, a protruding piece of the first coupling portion 140a may be fastened to a protruding piece of the second coupling portion 140b, and the protruding piece of the second coupling portion 140b may be fastened to the protruding piece of the first coupling portion 140a.
Meanwhile, in the drawing, the first and second coupling portions 140a and 140b are configured only on both side surfaces, but not limited thereto, and it should be noted that the first and second coupling portions 140a and 140b may be configured on both side surfaces, i.e., four side surfaces.
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When both the beverage and the dessert are purchased at present, there is inconvenience that each of a cup carrier (tray) and a dessert carrier (tray) should be provided. The tray 100 for conveying the cup and the container according to the present invention may provide the dessert 300 such as the beverage and the donut in one space at the time of taking out the dessert 300. In this case, as the fastening portion 120 is configured by a cutting line which is formed to be cuttable through a perforated line, even though the food is contained in the tray 100 for conveying the cup and the container, the food is not extracted through the fastening portion 120.
Further, the inside and the container of the tray 100 for conveying the cup and the container may be made by a food paper that does not a problem even though the food contacts the food paper or an inner surface may be coated with the food paper, in order to directly contain the food.
Through this configuration, the tray 100 for conveying the cup and the container according to the present invention may include all of three functions as the cup carrier (tray), the dessert carrier (tray), or the cup carrier (tray)+the dessert carrier (tray).
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As an example, when the insertion hole of the first coupling portion 140a positioned on one side of the first body part 110 is formed to be cut from one surface (front surface), the insertion hole of the second coupling portion 140b positioned on the other side of the second coupling portion 110′ is formed to be cut from the other surface (rear surface).
Therefore, cut portions of the first coupling portion 140a and the second coupling portion 140b are opposite to each other and the insertion holes are fitted and coupled to cross each other, and as a result, the first body part 110 and the second body part 110′ are fastened, not separated and fixed.
In this case, the first body part 110 and the second body part 110′ support a load of loaded contents (external member 200) from the top to the bottom. In addition, in the first and second coupling portions 140a and 140b positioned on the side surfaces of the first body part 110 and the second body part 110′, when the formed insertion holes are cut front and back (or left and right), and the cut portions are opposite to each other and the insertion holes are fitted and coupled to cross each other, and as a result, the first body part 110 and the second body part 110′ are fastened to each other, the cut, the cup holder, the container, etc., may be supported in a rigid structure with the loaded generated from the top the bottom.
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Accordingly, the protruding piece which is the first coupling portion 150a of the first body part 110 is coupled to the fitting groove 150a which is the second coupling portion 150b of the second body part 110′, and as a result, first and second body parts 110 and 110′ may be rigidly coupled to each other.
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Accordingly, in the figures, one body part 110 is configured to accommodate three cups, but this is just one embodiment, and is not limited thereto. That is, the body part 110 may accommodate all cups of a number required for accommodation by a scheme of fastening the plurality of body parts 110 regardless of the number of accommodated cups.
Meanwhile, the fastening portion 120 may be a cutting line which has only a predetermined length without a width and is formed to be cuttable through the perforated line. As the fastening portion 120 is configured by the cutting line, even though the food 300 is contained in the tray 100 for conveying the cup and the container, the food 300 may be prevented from being extracted to the fastening portion 120.
However, the present disclosure is not limited thereto, and the fastening portion 120 may be a slit having a predetermined length and a predetermined width.
In this case, the slit and the cutting line may be formed by pressing a perforating press or mold or a cutter mold. The slit and the cutting line may have at least one shape of an arc shape and a clamp shape (or V shape).
As a result, the slit and the cutting line may be fixed by inserting a protrusion 210 of the external member such as the cup holder 200. In this case, in the slit, the protrusion 210 may be naturally inserted into the hole having the predetermined width. Further, when the protrusion 210 is inserted into the cutting line, the protrusion 210 may be inserted while the cutting line is slightly widened.
For reference when the insertion of the protrusion 210 is completed, while the cutting line is closed by elasticity of the body part 110 itself, the protrusion 210 between the cutting lines is compressed, the cutting line may be rigidly fixed to a bottom of the body part 110. In particular, as the cutting line has the arc shape and the clamp shape (or V shape), elastic force may be provided to the protrusion inserted between the cutting lines to more rigidly fix the cutting line.
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Meanwhile, as the slit has a hole having a predetermined width, the slit may not be rigidly fixed when the insertion of the protrusion 210 is completed. In order to prevent this, as the slit has the arc shape and the clamp shape (or V shape) like the cutting line, the elastic force and a restoration force may be provided to the protrusion 210 inserted between the slits, and as a result, the slit may be rigidly fixed.
However, the slit may have lower fixation power to the body part 110 and the protrusion 210 than the cutting line. In order to solve this, the slit may further include an adhesive member for attaching the protrusion 210 penetrated through the slit on the bottom surface at one side of the bottom surface of the body part 110. In this case, the adhesive member may be provided while being attached to the bottom surface of the body part 110.
As an example, when the protrusion 210 is inserted into the slit and exposed to the bottom surface of the body part 110, the adhesive member is attached to one surface of the exposed protrusion 210. Through this, the protrusion inserted into the slit may be more rigidly fixed.
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However, the tray 100 for conveying the cup and the container according to the present invention can be immediately used without the manufacturing process and does not occupy a large volume in the simple structure of the plate shape configured only by an outer periphery and is simple in terms of the manufacturing process to save cost. Further, the tray for conveying the cup and the container can save a material and more stably support the cup in a simple and robust structure.
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The fixation bar 200d as a component for accommodating both the cup and the food 300 in the body part 110 may support the food 300 including desserts such as cakes, donuts, confectionery, braking, etc., on one side or both sides by using at least one pole so as to protrude upwards from the bottom surface of the body part 110.
Likewise, the fixation bar 200d may include or be coated with paper, plastic, metal, and all or some thereof, which have a support force in order to support the food 300 on one side or both sides.
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In addition, the clamp-shaped (or V shaped) pole of the fixation bar 200d is penetrated, inserted, and fastened into the cutting line of the fastening portion 120 and protrudes upwards from the bottom surface of the body part 110, and the central surface of the fixation bar 200d may be in close contact with a lower end of the body part 110.
In this case, as the cutting line of the fastening portion 120 is configured in the clamp shape (or V shape), elastic force and a surface friction force of the cutting line itself are generated, and the fixation bar 200d penetrated, inserted, and fastened into the cutting line of the fastening portion 120 may be rigidly fixed to the fastening portion 120. In this case, the fixation bar 200d is penetrated and inserted toward an upper end from the lower end of the body part 110 to prevent the fixation 200d from being separated downward from the body part 110 when conveying the tray for conveying the cup and the container.
Meanwhile, only the case where the cutting line of the fastening portion 120 has the clamp shape (or V shape) is described, but when the shape of the cutting line of the fastening portion 120 is changed, the shape of the fixation bar 200a should also be changed in response thereto.
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In addition, the fixation bar 200d coupled to the lower portion of the fastening portion 120 supports the food 300 including the desserts such as the cakes, the donuts, the confectionery, the baking, etc., on one side or both sides by using at least one pole so as to protrude upwards to prevent the food 300 from being discharged.
For understanding of the disclosed embodiments, reference numerals are described in the preferred embodiments shown in the drawing, and specific terms are used to describe the disclosed embodiments, but the embodiments disclosed by the specific terms are not limited, and the disclosed embodiments may include all components that those skilled in the art may generally consider.
Unless otherwise specified, like “essential”, “important”, etc., described in the disclosed embodiment, the corresponding components may not be components particularly required for application of the disclosed embodiment. Further, it will also be appreciated by those skilled in the art that various embodiments can be made within the scope of the technical spirit of the present invention. Accordingly, the true technical scope of the present invention should be defined by the technical spirit of the appended claims.
Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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10-2020-0117764 | Sep 2020 | KR | national |
10-2021-0033434 | Mar 2021 | KR | national |