Egg carton

As an egg carton or egg-box is known a container for the transport and storage of eggs. The material is mostly cardboard or foam ( polystyrene).

Molding

Folding form

The egg carton folding into shape with cover and base is mostly used in supermarkets as packaging material. These boxes are available in different sizes, for example, to hold six or ten eggs.

A classic egg carton consists of a lower part which is such that the eggs one at rest in pre-formed cup-shaped depressions without them touching each other. Upper part serves as a smooth, connected to the lower part of the lid which can be closed by means of flaps. In the mass sale of the cardboard is still partially secured by a sticker or sealed as originally packed. It can still be found various decorations and printings for cash and customer information. The boxes are mostly smooth and have a brownish or greenish coloration.

By this, special forms are derived from clear plastic (usually PS or PET) from so -called blister packs, which are used mostly for the sale of already dyed Easter eggs. Here, the connection of the cover and base near the hinge is carried out even by about 6 mm and nubs trough pairs, which engage into each other, or by welding.

Due to its special form, these boxes will receive a high strength. Thus, it is possible to stack up loaded to 20 layers to each other, without the lower packages crushed and its contents are damaged.

Plate shape

For larger households and the food pallet-like cardboard boxes come with a side length of about 30 cm are used. It found about 30 eggs each place. This form can be found among others in use at chicken farms that practice direct sales via sales vehicle.

These boxes have a uniform array of pyramids that permits a relatively dense packing of eggs, and further the surface provides the necessary stability. Handle recess Related brands can be found on two opposite sides. The form itself is stackable in yourself and in turn by rotating pallet-like stackable when loaded. Anyone traveling in a station wagon can easily reach heights of over one meter. These cartons are mostly smooth only on the useful side and are gray in simple, such as various newsprint held. Space for advertising or similar is usually not available.

A certain amount of caution when handling is always required, as the product of the uppermost layer is largely open. On the other hand, damage is usually easy to recognize. If a single layer of hand transported, the entire area should be supported, as sagging - for example, by a sudden jerk or material weakness - to crash and the loss of the entire situation leads.

Storage and Reuse

Generally, a dry storage is recommended because the carton is soft or otherwise could be resolved at all. The folding cartons in supermarkets are disposable products generally. A return delivery to the packaging operation is not practiced. Palettkartons other hand, are usually reused. It is circulating goods, as are the cases for returnable beverage. A deposit is not applicable in view of the small value.

Misuse

Egg cartons were used for makeshift soundproofing the existing room acoustics such as in practice rooms of amateur musicians or at shooting ranges and rather erroneously as sound insulation to the neighborhood. Opposite this dubious method, there are now powerful and affordable solutions that show the benefits in terms of fire protection. For the treatment of dyscalculia in particular the ten eggs comprehensive egg carton is used as a tool for practicing amount of structured ideas.