Container and method assembling a container
AssigneeArboloom IP AG
InventorsLaurent Torriani, Philipp Bernhard
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Abstract
A method for assembling a container, the container including a veneer based tubular side wall and a veneer based bottom part and a connecting element made of a fusible material. The method includes arranging the connecting element and the bottom part at one end of the tubular side wall; imparting energy to the connecting element, thereby softening the connecting element; compressing the connecting element and the bottom part, thereby expanding the softened connecting element in the plane in which the bottom part extends; thereby bonding the connecting element to the side wall and to the bottom part.
Claims20
A method for assembling a container, the container comprising:
- a side wall, the side wall comprising a cellulose-based material, in particular veneer, and the side wall being bent to have a tubular shape,
- at least one bottom part, the bottom part comprising a cellulose-based material, in particular veneer;
- a connecting element, the connecting element being made of a fusible material;
- the method comprising the steps of
- arranging the connecting element and the bottom part at one end of the tubular shape in the side wall;
- imparting energy to the connecting element, thereby softening the connecting element;
- compressing the connecting element and in particular also the bottom part in a direction substantially normal to a plane in which the bottom part extends, thereby expanding the softened connecting element in the plane in which the bottom part extends;
- thereby bonding the connecting element to the side wall and to the bottom part.
An assembly device for manufacturing a container, the assembly device comprising
- an anvil shaped according to an inner shape of a side wall of the container to be manufactured:
- a plunger, the plunger being configured to be moved towards the anvil and to compress an object arranged between the plunger and the anvil, and optionally to impart ultrasonic energy to that object;
- optionally a heating element arranged to heat a side wall of the container to be manufactured.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.