Package for wiper blade of windscreen wiper

Abstract

The invention relates to a package for a wiper blade (10) of a windscreen wiper. The invention relates to a package comprising a box (20) having at least one viewing opening (22), at least one viewing window (30), which is made of an at least partially transparent cellulose material and closes the viewing opening (22) of the box (20), and an insert (30), the box (20) being designed as a support frame for the viewing window (30), the insert (40) has an outer dimension substantially corresponding to the inner volume of the box (20), and wherein the insert (40) is designed to receive the wiper blade (10) by means of an inner shape corresponding to the wiper blade (10) and to insert the wiper blade (10) together with the wiper blade (10) into the box (20).

Description

Technical Field

[0001] The invention relates to a packaging for a wiper blade for a windshield wiper. Background Art

[0002] Packaging for wiper blades for windshield wipers is known from the prior art, comprising a box and an insert, wherein the insert is designed to receive the wiper blade and is inserted into the box.

[0003] In the prior art, the box is often designed in such a way that, in the packaged state, it completely surrounds the insert and the wiper blade.

[0004] In addition, so-called blister packs are known from the prior art, in which the wiper blade is, for example, completely surrounded by a transparent plastic material. Alternatively, blister packs are known in which the back of the pack is made of cardboard material and the remaining sides of the pack are made of transparent plastic material. Summary of the Invention

[0005] The present invention provides a package for a wiper blade for a windshield wiper, wherein the windshield wiper can be in particular a windshield wiper for a vehicle window (for example, a rear window or a front window). The wiper blade is, for example, a wiper blade consisting of a spring rail and a wiper rubber and, if necessary, further components.

[0006] The packaging comprises a box with at least one viewing opening, at least one viewing window and an insert (also referred to as a "tray"), wherein the viewing window is made of an at least partially transparent cellulose material and closes the viewing opening of the box. For this purpose, the viewing window is materially connected to the box, for example by means of an adhesive.

[0007] The shaping of the viewing opening of the box is advantageously determined according to the required rigidity of the box and the desired visibility of the wiper blade through the viewing opening. The required rigidity is predetermined, for example, by the minimum rigidity of the box, which is necessary for assembling the box in a machine and / or manual processing step.

[0008] It should be noted that the required rigidity of the cassette can be provided completely by the cassette itself or in combination with the viewing window when the viewing window is in the mounted state on the cassette.

[0009] The required rigidity of the box can be achieved, for example, by suitably determining the area and / or shape and / or arrangement of the opening and / or observing the distance between the opening and the corresponding edge of the box.

[0010] The box is furthermore designed as a supporting frame for the viewing window, so that the viewing window does not have to be designed to be self-supporting and can be designed flexibly with respect to thickness and / or rigidity.

[0011] The insert has an external dimension corresponding to the inner volume of the box. In addition, the insert is set up for receiving the wiper blade by means of an inner shape corresponding to the wiper blade and inserting it in the box together with the wiper blade.

[0012] The packaging according to the invention for windshield wiper blades offers the particular advantage that, by using an at least partially transparent cellulose material for the viewing window, the biodegradability of the viewing window allows for particularly environmentally friendly disposal of at least the viewing window, while at the same time allowing visibility of at least a portion of the wiper blade accommodated in the packaging. Particularly advantageously, the entire packaging, or at least a substantial portion of the packaging, can consist of a biodegradable material, thereby providing an overall particularly environmentally friendly packaging for the wiper blade.

[0013] Since the box is constructed according to the invention as a supporting frame for the viewing window, a particularly high degree of flexibility is provided in the design of the viewing window, which, due to its construction from cellulose material, can optionally have a lower rigidity, so that the viewing window itself does not influence the overall stability of the packaging, or only to a low extent.

[0014] The dependent claims reveal preferred developments of the invention.

[0015] Particularly advantageously, the box is made of cardboard and / or is based on natural fibers, so that environmentally friendly disposal of the packaging can be achieved. In addition, the box is preferably constructed as a folding box and / or is composed of a stamped part with an adhesive sheet provided. It is further preferred that the box is constructed as a cuboid in the assembled state. In particular, in conjunction with the design of the box as a folding box, the above-described minimum rigidity of the box is particularly important, because the minimum rigidity advantageously ensures that the box is placed in a square state, for example, quickly enough and / or with as little deformation of the box as possible during processing. In other words, the appropriate minimum rigidity of the box makes it possible to reliably manually and / or automatically flip the folding box upwards into the target state of the box.

[0016] In an advantageous embodiment of the invention, the distance between the viewing opening and the corresponding edge of the box is at least 0.5 cm, preferably 1 cm, and more preferably 1.5 cm. This ensures, in particular, that the box functions as a supporting frame for the viewing window and / or that the rigidity required for assembling the box is ensured.

[0017] In a further advantageous embodiment of the invention, the viewing opening comprises at least one first viewing opening and a second viewing opening arranged adjacent to the first viewing opening, wherein the two viewing openings are separated from one another by a tab provided in the box. The tab advantageously has a predetermined minimum width, which is determined as a function of the required rigidity of the box and / or the packaging. The use of adjacent viewing windows enables a correspondingly better overall visibility of the windshield wiper within the packaging, while at the same time maintaining the supporting frame function of the box. It should be noted that the viewing window in such a case can be a single viewing window covering both viewing openings. Alternatively, it is also feasible to close each viewing opening with a separately manufactured viewing window.

[0018] The width of the tab between the corresponding adjacent viewing openings is at least 0.5 cm, preferably at least 1 cm, and further preferably at least 1.5 cm. In addition, it is conceivable that the tab is additionally reinforced, preferably by means of the material of the box and / or a material different therefrom, at the inner side of the box.

[0019] The packaging is particularly preferably designed to package the wiper blade in a prestressed state of the spring rails of the wiper blade, and / or the rigidity of the box ensures that forces acting on the box, in particular forces resulting from the prestressing of the spring rails, of between 10 N and 20 N, preferably between 14 N and 18 N, substantially do not result in any externally visible deformation of the box. "Substantially no externally visible deformation" is to be understood as meaning that the box can undergo slight deformations, such as forward bulging of the sides, without impairing the basic stability of the packaging and / or only affecting the visual quality of the packaging within a permissible range and / or without impairing the stackability and / or transportability of the packaging. The permissible deformation of the packaging can, for example, include forward bulging of one or more sides of up to 2 mm, preferably up to 1 mm, and more preferably up to 0.5 mm, without being limited to the aforementioned values.

[0020] In a further advantageous embodiment of the invention, the box and / or the viewing window and / or the insert and / or the adhesive for assembling the box and / or the adhesive for fixing the viewing window in the area of ​​the viewing opening consist of a biodegradable material. In a particularly advantageous embodiment, all of the aforementioned components of the package consist of a biodegradable material, so that the package can be advantageously transported as a whole to disposal, such as composting, without having to separate the individual components in a preparatory phase.

[0021] Advantageously, the length of the box lies in the range of 55 cm to 100 cm, without being limited thereto.

[0022] Furthermore, the length of the viewing opening is advantageously between 5 cm and 30 cm, preferably between 10 cm and 25 cm, and more preferably between 18 cm and 22 cm. Alternatively or additionally, the width of the viewing opening is between 1 cm and 5 cm, preferably between 2 cm and 4 cm, and more preferably between 2.5 cm and 3.5 cm. The aforementioned values ​​for the length and width of the viewing opening make it possible to achieve particularly advantageous overall stability of the package and a sufficient view of the packaged wiper blade. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0023] The embodiments of the present invention are described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. In the accompanying drawings:

[0024] Figure 1 A first embodiment of a package according to the invention for a wiper blade for a windshield wiper is shown;

[0025] Figure 2 A second embodiment of a package according to the invention for a wiper blade for a windshield wiper is shown; and

[0026] Figure 3 An embodiment of a box packaged according to the invention is shown in conjunction with two viewing windows. DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0027] Figure 1 A first exemplary embodiment of a package according to the invention is shown for a windshield wiper blade 10 for a windshield wiper and in particular for a windshield wiper of the windshield and / or rear window of a vehicle, which is designed as a passenger car or truck, for example.

[0028] The package comprises a carton 20 with an observation opening 22, an observation window 30, and an insert 40, wherein the observation window 30 is made of a transparent cellulose material and closes the observation opening 22 of the carton 20. For this purpose, the observation window 30 is fastened to the carton 20 by means of an adhesive (not shown), wherein during the production of the package, the adhesive is applied to the inside of the carton 20 around the observation opening 22 in order to fasten the observation window 30 to the inside of the carton 20.

[0029] The carton 20 , preferably designed as a folding box, is designed as a supporting frame for the viewing window 30 , in that the distance between the viewing opening 22 and the corresponding edge of the carton 20 is 1 cm in the present embodiment in order to ensure the stability or rigidity of the carton 20 required for this purpose.

[0030] The length of the viewing opening 22 corresponds here to 20 cm, while the width of the viewing opening 22 corresponds here to 3 cm. The length of the carton 20 corresponds here to 55 cm.

[0031] The insert 40, which is made of a biofiber material, has outer dimensions that correspond substantially to the inner volume of the carton 20. The insert 40 is also designed to receive the wiper blade 10 by means of an inner shape that corresponds to the wiper blade 10 and to be inserted together with the wiper blade 10 into the carton 20.

[0032] On the basis of the configuration described above, the packaging for the wiper blade 10 is designed as a biodegradable packaging, which accordingly enables particularly environmentally friendly disposal.

[0033] Figure 2 A second exemplary embodiment of a packaging according to the invention for a wiper blade 10 for a windshield wiper is shown.

[0034] Compared to Figure 1 In the first embodiment shown in the figure, the box 20, which is also constructed as a cardboard box, has a first observation opening 22 and a second observation opening 24 arranged adjacent to the first observation opening 22, wherein the two observation openings 22, 24 are separated by a web 26 provided in the box 20, which has an exemplary width of 1.5 cm.

[0035] The viewing openings 22 , 24 are closed by means of a viewing window 30 which is formed continuously on the inner side of the box 20 , wherein the viewing window 30 is composed of a transparent cellulose material.

[0036] also, Figure 2 The wiper blade 10 is shown, which is inserted into a box 20 by means of an insert (not shown). The wiper blade 10 has spring rails, which are arranged in a prestressed state in the packaging. Since the wiper blade 10 is inserted into the box 20 with lateral support, a corresponding pressure 60 acts on the insert and the box 20, which can cause lateral deformation of the box 20. However, this deformation is suppressed by maintaining the required rigidity of the box 20.

[0037] Figure 3 An embodiment of a packaged box 20 according to the present invention is shown in combination with two observation windows 22 and 24, into which independent observation windows 30 made of transparent cellulose material are glued respectively, and the two observation windows are separated by a joint 26 of the box 20 to improve the stability of the box 20.

[0038] Here, a box 20 designed as a folding box is shown in a state in that the box 20 is punched out of cardboard and is in an unassembled state.

[0039] The opposite sides of the box 20 are then glued together by means of adhesive sheets 50 and the box 20 is folded into a cuboid in order to then be able to accommodate a wiper blade 10 with an inserted wiper blade. Figure 1 The insert 40 is shown in FIG.

Claims

1. A package for a wiper blade (10) for a windshield wiper, the package comprising: - a box (20) with at least one viewing opening (22); - at least one viewing window (30); and - an insert (30), in, - the viewing window (30) is made of an at least partially transparent cellulose material and closes the viewing opening (22) of the box (20), - the box (20) is configured as a supporting frame for the viewing window (30), - the insert (40) - has external dimensions that substantially correspond to the internal volume of said box (20), and - is designed to receive the wiper blade (10) by means of an inner shape corresponding to the wiper blade (10) and to be inserted into the box (20) together with the wiper blade (10).

2. The packaging according to claim 1, wherein The box (20) - Made of cardboard, and / or - based on natural fibers, and / or - as a folding box, and / or - as a cuboid in the assembled state, and / or - a stamped part with an adhesive sheet provided constitute.

3. A package according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein The distance between the viewing opening ( 22 ) and the corresponding edge of the box ( 20 ) is at least 0.5 cm, preferably 1 cm, and more preferably 1.5 cm.

4. A package according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein The observation opening comprises at least one first observation opening (22) and a second observation opening (24) arranged adjacent to the first observation opening (22), wherein the two observation openings (22, 24) are separated from each other by a tab (26) provided in the box (20).

5. The packaging according to claim 4, wherein The width of the web (26) between the respective adjacent viewing openings (22, 24) is at least 0.5 cm, preferably at least 1 cm and further preferably at least 1.5 cm.

6. A package according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein The packaging is designed to package the wiper blade (10) in a prestressed state of the spring rails of the wiper blade (10), and / or The rigidity of the box (20) ensures that a force (60) between 10 N and 20 N, preferably between 14 N and 18 N, acting on the box (20) does not substantially lead to an outwardly visible deformation of the box (20).

7. A package according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein The box (20) and / or the observation window (30) and / or the insert (40) and / or the adhesive for assembling the box (20) and / or the adhesive for fixing the observation window (30) in the area of ​​the observation opening (22) are composed of a biodegradable material.

8. A package according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein The length of the box (20) is in the range of 55 cm to 100 cm.

9. A package according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein - the length of the viewing opening (22) is between 5 cm and 30 cm, preferably between 10 cm and 25 cm, and further preferably between 18 cm and 22 cm, and / or The width of the viewing opening (22) is between 1 cm and 5 cm, preferably between 2 cm and 4 cm, and further preferably between 2.5 cm and 3.5 cm.

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