EP1832521A2 - Packaging - Google Patents

Abstract

The packaging has a transparent housing (10) formed for the admission of a lamp (2, 3) and has a retaining mechanism (14) to position the lamp in the interior. The housing has two identical half shells (12, 13) where in the longitudinal axis, the lamp lies in an interface level (100) of the housing (10).

Description

Technical area

The invention relates to a packaging for at least one lamp, in particular for a halogen vehicle lamp, with a transparent erectable housing for forming an interior for receiving the lamp and with a holding device for positioning the lamp in the interior.

State of the art

Such packages are used in particular in counter sales and are used to display the housed in the packaging halogen vehicle lamps such as H1, H4, H7 and HB3. These halogen lamps usually have a lamp vessel and a plate base. The plate base is encompassed by a positioning ring for arranging the halogen lamp in a lamp socket and has electrical contact springs on a side facing away from the lamp vessel end face.

A known package has a cuboid transparent plastic housing with a side facing away from a footprint of the housing hinged lid, which is articulated via a film hinge to the housing. In the interior of the housing, a holding device for pairwise positioning of the lamps is provided, which consists of a folded cardboard. The holding device subdivides the interior of the housing into a lamp base space, which is not visible near the surface, for receiving the lamp base and a lamp cover space which can be seen close to the lid for the presentation of the lamp vessels. The lamp socket space and the lamp vessel space are over one separated parallel to the base extending partition of the holding device. The halogen lamps are accommodated upright in the holding device, wherein they pass through the partition wall with their plate sockets and are supported with their positioning rings on a lamp vessel space facing partition wall surface. For displaying product information, the holding device has a surface portion which extends from the partition wall surface in the direction of the hinged lid and covers an inner surface of the lamp vessel space.

A disadvantage of this packaging is that the base of the lamps and in particular the contact springs are not visible. Another disadvantage is that the halogen lamps must be handled to remove them from the packaging on their lamp vessel, which can be damaged and dirty. Furthermore, a different holding device is to be provided for each lamp type, since the partition wall must have lamp-specific receptacles for securing the halogen lamps in the holding device. Furthermore, such a package is only partially stackable and has a poor quality appearance.

Presentation of the invention

The invention has for its object to provide a package for at least one lamp, in particular for a halogen vehicle lamp, which is inexpensive to produce and awakens a high-quality impression in a viewer.

This object is achieved by a packaging for at least one lamp, in particular for a halogen vehicle lamp, with a reusable transparent deployable housing for forming an interior for receiving the lamp and with a holding device for positioning the lamp in the interior, wherein the housing is formed of two identical half-shells, and wherein the longitudinal axis of the lamp is in the parting plane of the housing. Particularly advantageous embodiments of the invention are described in the dependent claims.

In the solution according to the invention is particularly advantageous that only one tool is necessary for the preparation of the two half-shells, so that the packaging according to the invention is inexpensive to produce. Preferably, the half shells are produced by injection molding.

The half-shells may be formed like a trough and each having an end-side top wall and an end-side bottom wall, which are connected to each other via a side wall.

Preferably, the top wall and the side wall extend to the parting plane of the housing and the bottom wall extends beyond the parting plane, so that wall sections of the bottom wall overlap.

In order to achieve a mutual sliding engagement of the wall sections of the bottom walls for closing the packaging, it is advantageous if the wall sections are arranged offset from each other in the longitudinal direction of the respective half-shell and at least sections of a gap is formed between them.

The top wall and side wall may abut each other in the assembled state with their respective narrow surfaces.

For centering the half-shells, it is advantageous if at least one guide projection and a guide recess complementary to the guide projection are formed on the side wall.

Furthermore, for centering on the side wall, at least one centering pin can be formed with a centering bore that is complementary to the centering pin.

The holding device is advantageously composed of two intermediate walls, each extending from a half-shell, wherein in each intermediate wall an arcuate recess is provided for gripping the lamp in the region of its base.

The intermediate walls preferably have at least one arcuate annular groove which is open to the recess and into which a positioning ring of the lamp can be inserted in sections, so that the lamp is fixed in the axial direction.

For aligning the intermediate walls to one another, each intermediate wall can have at least one tongue and at least one pocket that is complementary to the tongue.

The packaging is preferably stackable, wherein the cover wall is provided with at least one web and the bottom wall with a rib complementary to the web for intermeshing in stacking.

Furthermore, the bottom wall can each have an edge section for reliable stacking.

Furthermore, it is advantageous if a suspension device is provided for suspending the packaging, which is mounted pivotably in the parting plane.

Advantageously, the top wall has a hook section extending beyond the dividing plane to form a pivot bearing section, which can be guided by a corresponding longitudinal groove of the suspension device and thereby articulates around a pivot axis of the suspension device.

The suspension device can be accommodated in the basic position lying on a recessed in the axial direction center portion of the ceiling wall and recessed against adjacent surface portions.

For additional fixation of the half-shells they can be encompassed in the assembled state of a film having a viewing window to allow a view into the interior, and the outer surface is provided with product information.

The film preferably surrounds the housing peripherally, so that the ceiling walls and the bottom walls allow a view into the interior and also the base is visible.

An inner surface of the film may be metallized to achieve optical effects.

Short description of the drawing (s)

Figur 1

eine perspektivische Vorderansicht einer erfindungsgemäßen Verpackung;

Figur 2

eine perspektivische Darstellung einer Halbschale der Verpackung aus Figur 1;

Figur 3

eine Aufhängeeinrichtung der Verpackung aus Figur 1.

The invention will be explained in more detail below with reference to a preferred embodiment. Show it:

FIG. 1

a front perspective view of a package according to the invention;

FIG. 2

a perspective view of a half-shell of the package of Figure 1;

FIG. 3

a suspension device of the packaging of Figure 1.

Preferred embodiment of the invention

Figure 1 shows a front perspective view of a package 1 according to the invention for receiving two Vehicle lamps 2, 3. The vehicle lamps 2, 3 are in particular halogen lamps of the types H1, H4, H7 or HB3. They each have a lamp vessel and a plate base. The plate sockets are each surrounded by a lamp-type-specific positioning ring 21, 31 for positioning the lamps 2, 3 in a lamp socket of a vehicle. At one of the respective lamp vessel remote base region end face electrical contact springs are arranged.

The package 1 has according to Figure 1, a transparent housing 10 which is placed on a footprint 11 frontally and composed of two identical half-shells 12, 13. The half-shells 12, 13 are connected to one another along a dividing plane 100 and delimit an inner space for receiving the vehicle lamps 2, 3. For fixing the vehicle lamps 2, 3 in the interior, a holding device 14 is provided, which accommodates the interior in a base space 101 for receiving in sections the plate base and a lamp vessel space 102 for receiving the lamp vessels divided.

The housing 10 is peripherally encompassed by a one-piece sheet 103 according to Figures 1 and 3, so that the half-shells 12, 13 are reliably pressed against each other and accidental opening of the housing 10 is prevented. To open the package 1, the film 103 is deported in the longitudinal direction of the housing 10. Furthermore, by the circumferential embracing of the housing 10, a frontal view into the interior through the film 103 is not obstructed, so that in contrast to the acknowledged in the introduction as prior art known packaging, the plate base in the contact springs and thus the contact springs themselves are visible. To allow a peripheral view of the lamp vessels, the film 103 has a viewing window 104. An inner surface of the film 103 is to achieve a appealing optical effect metallized or mirrored. An outer surface of the film 103 may be provided with product information about the vehicle lamps 2, 3. Instead of the film 103, a cardboard or the like is also conceivable.

The housing 10 can be suspended by means of a suspension device 106 pivotable about a pivot axis 105.

In Figure 2, one of the half-shells 12, 13 of the housing 10 is shown in perspective. Since the half-shells 12, 13 are constructed identically, the following explanations for half-shell 12 also refer to the second half-shell 13.

The half-shell 12 is made of a transparent plastic and is produced by injection molding. It is formed like a trough and has a front-side top wall 121, a front-side bottom wall 122 and a side wall 123 for connecting the top wall 121 to the bottom wall 122. Between the top wall 121 and the bottom wall 122 a parallel thereto extending intermediate wall 124 of the holding device 14 is arranged. The top wall 121, the side wall 123 and the intermediate wall 124 each extend to the parting plane 100 of the housing 10 and clamp with their edges on this, so that in the assembled state of the housing 10, the half-shells 12, 13 abut each other along their respective edges. The bottom wall 122 of the half-shell 12 extends beyond the parting plane 100 and is in sliding engagement with the bottom wall 122 of the half-shell 13 for closing the housing 10.

For centering the half-shells 12, 13, each side wall 123 has an edge bounding the interior and extending beyond the parting plane 100 extending guide projection 1231 which is interrupted in the region of the intermediate wall 124, whereby two partial guides are formed. Along the other edge of the side wall 123, the half-shell 12, 13 on complementary guide recesses.

In addition, in corner regions of the top wall 121 with the side wall 123, a conical centering pin 1232 extending beyond the parting plane 100 and a complementary centering bore 1233 are formed. Likewise, in the bottom wall 122 facing corner regions of the intermediate wall 124 with the side wall 123, a beyond the dividing plane 100 also extending conical centering pin 1234 and a complementary center hole 1235 is provided.

The top wall 121 has according to the one in the direction of the intermediate wall 124 displaced center portion 1210. An axle web 1050 is formed on the center section 1210 and has a hook section 1051 extending beyond the parting plane 100 for the pivotable mounting of the suspension device 106 shown in FIG.

In order to achieve an exact alignment of the individual packages 1 during stacking, a web 1211, 1212 is arranged between the middle section 1210 and the outer surface sections of the cover wall 121, which merges with its ends flush into edge regions of the outer surface sections. The webs 1211, 1212 are arranged parallel to one another and each have a stop surface which can be brought into contact with the stacking of the packages 1 in contact with a contact surface of a rib 1221, 1222 of the bottom walls 122.

The bottom wall 122 is, as shown in Figure 2 stepwise with two in the longitudinal direction of the half-shell 12 mutually offset Wandungsabschnitten 1223, 1224 formed. The wall sections 1223, 1224 are separated by a V-shaped gap 1225. The gap 1225 extends in the sliding direction of the half-shells 12, 13.

When assembling the half-shells 12, 13 to the housing 10, the wall sections 1223, 1224 of the half-shell 12 are pushed together with the corresponding wall sections of the half-shell 13 in the sliding direction until the edges of the half-shells 12, 13 abut each other. The gaps 1225 of the half-shells 12, 13 engage with each other and the wall sections 1223, 1224 are brought into coincidence, so that the wall sections 1223, 1224 of the respective half-shells 12 and 13 respectively alternately once above and below lie down and thereby in operative engagement with each other , so that the housing 10 is already reliably closed without the enclosing film 103.

The bottom wall 122 is disposed opposite a front side of the side wall 123 in the direction of the intermediate wall 124, so that the side wall 123 has a projecting beyond the bottom wall 122 in the axial direction beyond edge portion 1226, which together with the corresponding edge portion of the half-shell 13 has a peripheral edge to 1 and 2), wherein the edge formed by the edge portions 1226 of the neck shells 12, 13 serves as a standing surface of the package 1.

According to Figure 2, the wall portion 1223 of the bottom wall 122 of the half-shells 12 and 13, which is not displaced in the longitudinal direction of the housing 10, a T-shaped rib 1221 and 1222 on. The facing sides of the ribs 1221, 1222 form the contact surfaces, the at Stacking of the packages 1 in contact with the stop surface of the webs 1211, 1212 of the top wall 121 can be brought so that the packages 1 are positioned exactly to each other.

The intermediate wall 124 has according to Figure 2, two arcuate recesses 1241, 1242 for inserting the not shown in this figure plate base of the vehicle lamps 2, 3 in the socket space 101. The recesses 1241, 1242 are designed such that the vehicle lamps 2, 3 lie with their longitudinal axes in the parting plane 100 of the packaging 1. The recesses 1241, 1242 are stepped in the direction of the top wall 121 and have in their radially recessed peripheral wall in each case two coaxial annular grooves 141, 142, in each of the axial securing of the vehicle lamps 2, 3 in the housing 10 in Figure 1 shown radial positioning projections the positioning rings 21, 31 are engageable. The coaxial annular grooves 140, 142 have the advantage that the recesses 14 are not specifically designed lamp type, but that they allow the positioning of different lamp types.

At the edge of the intermediate wall 124 which is interrupted by the recesses 14, two tongues 143, 144 extending laterally beyond the dividing plane 100 and laterally the other recess 14, two pockets 145, 146 complementary to the tongues 143, 144 are formed laterally of the one recess 14.

Figure 3 shows an enlarged view of the pivotally mounted about the pivot axis 105 suspension device 106. The pivot axis 105 is formed by a portion 1061 of the suspension 103, which is formed over a longitudinal groove 1062 and from opposite sides of the hook portions 1051 of the half-shells 12, 13 is embraced , To hang the package 1 on a hook or on a pole of a stall, the hanger 106 has a per se known opening 1060. In the basic position, the suspension device 106 lies substantially flat on the middle section 1210 of the top wall 121 shown in FIG. 2 and is thus recessed with respect to adjacent surface sections of the top wall 121, which is advantageous in particular when stacking a plurality of packages 1.

Disclosed is a packaging 1 for at least one lamp 2, 3, in particular for a halogen vehicle lamp, with a transparent erectable housing 10 for forming an interior for receiving the lamp 2, 3 and with a holding device 14 for positioning the lamp 2, 3 in the interior, wherein the housing 10 is formed by two identical half-shells 12, 13, and wherein the longitudinal axis of the lamp lies in the parting plane 100 of the housing 10.

Claims (20)

Packaging for at least one lamp (2, 3), in particular for a halogen vehicle lamp, comprising a transparent housing (10) which can be set up to form an interior for receiving the lamp (2, 3) and holding means (14) for positioning the lamp (2, 3). 3) in the interior, characterized in that the housing (10) has two identical half shells (12, 13), wherein the longitudinal axis of the lamp (2, 3) in the parting plane (100) of the housing (10). Packaging according to claim 1, wherein the half-shells (12, 13) are formed like a trough and each have an end-side top wall (121) and an end-side bottom wall (122) which are interconnected via a side wall (123). The package of claim 2, wherein the top wall (121) and side wall (123) extend to the parting plane (100) of the housing (10) and the bottom wall (122) extends beyond the parting plane (100) so as to be assembled Condition wall portions (1223, 1224) of the bottom wall (122) overlap. Packaging according to claim 2 or 3, wherein the wall portions (1223, 1224) in the longitudinal direction of the respective half-shells (12, 13) are arranged offset from one another and in sections via a gap (1225) are separated from each other. Packaging according to one of claims 2 to 4, wherein the top walls (121) and the side wall (123) of the half-shells (12, 13) in the assembled state with their edges abut each other. A package according to any one of claims 2 to 5, wherein the side wall (123) has a guide projection (1231) and a complementary guide recess. Packaging according to one of claims 2 to 6, wherein each half-shell (12, 13) has at least one centering pin (1232, 1234) and at least one complementary centering bore (1233, 1235). Packaging according to one of the preceding claims, wherein each half-shell (12, 13) has an intermediate wall (124) extending away from the side wall (123), in which at least one arcuate recess (1241, 1242) for gripping the lamp in sections (2, 3) is provided in the region of its base, and wherein the intermediate walls (124) in the assembled state of the half-shells (12, 13) to the holding means (44) for the lamp (2, 3) complete. Packaging according to claim 8, wherein each intermediate wall (124) has an arcuate annular groove (141, 142) which is open to the recess (1241, 1242) and into which a positioning ring (21, 31) of the base is insertable in sections. Packaging according to claim 8 or 9, wherein each intermediate wall (124) has at least one tongue (143, 144) with a complementary pocket (145, 146). Packaging according to one of the preceding claims, wherein a plurality of packages (1) are stackable on the front side. Packaging according to one of claims 2 to 11, wherein the top wall (121) at least one web (1211, 1212) and the bottom wall (122) has at least one rib (1221, 1222) for engagement in stacking the packages (1). The package of claim 11 or 12, wherein the bottom wall (122) is encompassed by a rim portion (1226). Packaging according to one of the preceding claims, wherein a suspension device (106) for suspending the package (1) is provided, which is pivotally mounted in the parting plane (100). The package of claim 14, wherein the top wall (121) has a hook portion (1050) extending beyond the parting plane (100) to form a pivot bearing portion for the suspension means (106) which dips into a longitudinal groove (1062) of the suspension means (106) and thereby engages around a pivot axis (1061) formed on the suspension device (106). Packaging according to claim 14 or 15, wherein in the basic position, the suspension device (106) lying on an axially recessed center portion (1210) of the top wall (121) is received and sunk against adjacent surface portions. Packaging according to one of the preceding claims, wherein the housing (10) of a film (103) is detachably encompassed, which has a viewing window (104) for allowing a view into the interior and whose outer surface is preferably provided with product information. Packaging according to claim 17, wherein the film (103) surrounds the housing (10) on the circumferential side, so that the top wall (121) and the bottom wall (122) allow a view into the interior. A package according to claim 17 or 18, wherein an inner surface of the film (103) is metallised. Packaging according to one of the preceding claims, wherein the half-shells (12, 13) are produced by injection molding.

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