Device for packaging cocoa beans and such natural products
Assignee=InnoSpecial Products B.V.
InventorHendrik Antonius Hoogland
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Abstract
A method for packaging coca beans and like bean-shaped natural products, wherein the cocoa beans are packaged in ventilating, at least partially relatively form-retaining and stackable packaging devices. Packaging devices for cocoa beans or like bean-shaped, natural products, which packaging device comprises a frame and a sack-shaped element suspendible therein, wherein a filling opening is provided for bringing the products into at least the sack-shaped element and wherein the frames with filled sacks are stackable.
Claims18
A packaging device for cocoa beans or like bean-shaped natural products, which packaging device comprises a frame and a sack-shaped element suspendible therein, which sack-shaped element is ventilating, wherein a filling opening is provided for at least bringing said products into the sack-shaped element and wherein the frame with the filled sack is stackable, wherein the sack-shaped element is removably suspended within said frame and is substantially manufactured from textile woven plastic and/or ventilating film, wherein the frame is substantially foldable or detachable, wherein, in operative condition, the sack-shaped element at least comprises an upstanding wall closed in itself including a pair of opposing wall parts each having a height and a bottom connected thereto, wherein the opposing wall parts are connected to each other by at least one dividing wall, wherein the at least one dividing wall has an edge running the length of the at least one dividing wall spaced from the bottom and has a height smaller than the height of each of the opposing wall parts, the arrangement being such that adjacent said at least one dividing wall an opening is formed between the bottom and the edge of the at least one dividing wall proximal to the bottom.
A packaging device for cocoa beans or like bean-shaped natural products, which packaging device comprises a frame and a sack-shaped element suspendible therein, which sack-shaped element is ventilating, wherein a filling opening is provided for at least bringing said products into the sack-shaped element and wherein the frame with the filled sack is stackable, wherein the sack-shaped element is removably suspended within said frame and is substantially manufactured from textile woven plastic and/or ventilating film, wherein the frame is substantially foldable or detachable and comprises a bottom frame and two frame wall parts, wherein the frame wall parts each include legs and extend at two opposite ends of the bottom frame and are pivotally connected therewith via hinging means, such that the frame wall parts can be brought into a first position wherein they extend approximately parallel to the bottom frame and into a second position wherein they extend approximately at right angles to the bottom frame and wherein the bottom frame is provided with recesses in which said legs of the respective frame wall parts are receivable, wherein the legs and the recesses are provided with cooperating blocking means, designed such that the frame wall parts should be lifted up somewhat before they can be pivoted from the second position to the first position such that, with a set-up frame, the frame wall parts are held in the first position at least under the influence of gravity and wherein in or adjacent the recesses or the legs, spring means are provided, such that the frame wall parts should be pivoted somewhat in a direction remote from each other against the spring action, before they can be lifted from the second position and be brought to the first position.
A storage space and processing apparatus for cocoa beans and like bean-shaped natural products comprising:
- packaging devices each comprising:
- a frame;
- and
- a sack-shaped element suspendible within said frame, which sack-shaped element is ventilating, wherein a filling opening is provided for at least bringing said products into the sack-shaped element and wherein the frame with the filled sack is stackable, wherein the sack-shaped element is removably suspended within said frame and is substantially manufactured from textile woven plastic and/or ventilating film, wherein the frame is substantially foldable or detachable;
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- wherein said storage space and processing apparatus is used for storing the cocoa beans or like bean-shaped natural products, wherein lifting means are provided for stacking and destacking the packaging devices, wherein, further, means are provided for tilting the packaging devices over at least more than 90° for emptying them into the processing apparatus and wherein racks with rolling means are provided in which the packaging devices can be arranged such that the packaging devices can be moved over the rolling means within the racks so that, each time, one of said packaging devices can be placed or taken out with the lifting means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.