DE1192099B - Shipping container for bottles - Google Patents

Description

Shipping container for bottles The invention relates to one for bottle-shaped and the like devices specific shipping containers.

Shipping containers of this type are known with a bottom wall and four Sidewalls, with flaps hinged to certain sidewalls at right angles foldable to the side walls for the purpose of forming closures or partial closures are. These flaps are provided with openings that the necks of bottles or pick up the tops of other packaging items. In such containers only a certain number of packaging items can be used.

The new shipping container is now characterized by the fact that the flaps have additional openings in their central portions extending along each Take up bottle necks located on the side wall and a greater distance from each other than the bottle diameter. This makes the container for bottles usable, either in even, lengthways running rows are arranged or arranged in parallel rows inclined to the container are, with the bottles alternating rows by half a bottle diameter are offset.

As a result of these additional openings can be in one and the same Container depending on the choice of insert openings for the bottle necks either for example seven rows of bottles or six rows of bottles can be accommodated. So while only a certain number of bottles are used in the known containers can, can change the number of bottles in the new container, so that the wishes the consumer can be met without using another shipping container can.

A preferred embodiment is that the additional Openings on containers are provided, in which the two on the longitudinal walls located flaps six substantially uniformly spaced from each other have standing openings.

In the drawing, Fig. 1 is a plan view of an inventive Container with four packs of six bottles arranged in the container, F i g. 2 is a plan view of the container filled with unpacked bottles, wherein alternating rows are staggered or staggered so that twenty-five bottles can be inserted into the container, and F i g. 3 is a top plan view of FIG preferred shape a cardboard blank from which the container is made.

The one for bottles or similar objects, e.g.

Crown lock cans, certain containers preferably have a long, rectangular shape, the inner height of which is slightly smaller than the height of the bottle.

Each container wall has a flap on its upper edge that can be folded over to partially close the container. These flaps have Openings that receive the upper portions of the bottle necks so that the upper Sections of the bottle necks protrude slightly over the top flaps when the top flaps are folded down.

Certain bottom flaps of the container have recesses in a known manner (50, 50a, 51, 51a), of which the protruding sections of the bottle necks a similar stacked lower filled container. at Such an embodiment, the upper container remains in a fixed position on the lower container.

The container can easily be made from a one-piece blank made of corrugated cardboard or solid fiberboard (Fig. 3). The cut has incisions and score lines so that four interconnected side walls 1, 2, 3 and 4 are present, separated from each other by score lines 5, fi and 7 are. A fastening strap hinged to the side wall 1 along the score line 9 8 is used to join the walls 1 and 4 together so that the container folded up and can be shipped in this condition.

In the embodiment shown, the bottom of the container has two Pairs of overlapping flaps 11, 12, 13 and 14 on the lower edges of the side walls 1, 2, 3 and 4 are hinged along a common score line 15.

The upper edges of the side walls have narrow flaps 17, 18, 19 and 20 on the side walls 1, 2, 3 and 4, respectively, along a common score line 21 are hinged. These flaps have openings that wrap around the necks of the bottle from bottles inserted in the containers. The openings can if desired be offset inward from the edges of the flaps. In the illustrated embodiment on the other hand, the flaps are so narrow that the openings extend up to the flap edges extend. The distance of the openings from the hinge line 21 of the flaps becomes like this chosen that the center of an opening substantially coincides with the center of a bottle collapses when the bottle is close to the side wall to which the flap is hinged is located. In the illustrated embodiment, there are four in the flaps 18 and 20 Openings 23 and 24 are present. In the flaps 17 and 19 are at a distance standing openings mate at each end of the flap. These opening pairs are in flap 17 with 25 and 26, in flap 19 with 27 and 28 designated. Two additional openings are in the central zone of each flap 17 and 19. Each of these openings exists from two intersecting arches, the centers of which are in the longitudinal direction of the flap have a distance from each other. Each of these combined openings looks like two Sections adjacent to the neck of the bottle. The from arches 29 and 30 in flap 17 and portions of the openings formed by the arcs 31 and 32 in flap 19 extend with the same distance from the pairs of openings on the end sections of the flaps, while that of the arches 33 and 34 in flap 17 and the arches 35 and 36 in flap 19 formed sections of the openings are attached to the bottle necks of the near the side walls put on bottles located when the bottles in the in F i g. 2 shown Patterns are arranged.

In the case of the in FIG. 1 bottle arrangement shown are located the bottles in four packs, each pack having two rows of three bottles each having. Each group consisting of six bottles is packed in a cardboard box 38 with a lid 40 packed. This cover 40 has six openings 41 for the bottle necks and two additional gripping openings 42. The container has 2 along the side walls and 4 dimensions such that it can accommodate a row of four bottles, when these bottles are inserted into the cardboard boxes 38.

So the inside width of the containers is made slightly larger than four Bottle diameter plus four cardboard thicknesses that make up the cardboard boxes 38.

In the case of the in FIG. The bottle arrangement shown in FIG. 2 are the bottles are not packed, but are loosely inserted in diagonal rows in the container.

Cross rows of four bottles alternate with rows of three Bottles together. The centers of the bottles of adjacent rows are around one half the bottle diameter offset, so that a close-fitting interior arrangement with Cavities about the size of half a bottle knife at the ends of the rows of three bottles are created. There are a total of seven transverse rows available, namely four rows of four bottles each and three rows of three each Bottles, so that there are a total of twenty-five bottles in the container.

The arched sections 33, 34 and 35, 36 of the in the middle of the flaps 17 and 19 located combined openings are placed on the bottle necks of the end bottles, which are in the two rows of four bottles in the middle. The centers of these arcs are closer to the edges of the flaps. If therefore the flaps are folded towards the inside of the container, the centers become the bottle necks contacted by the arch sections 33, 34, 35 and 36 with respect to the centers of the bottle necks touched by the outer openings 25, 26, 27 and 28 offset inwards. Like F i g. 2 shows the bottle necks of four bottles existing end rows arranged along the walls 2 and 4 of those in the flaps 18 and 20 located openings, while the end bottles in these rows on their bottle necks also from the outermost openings the flaps 17 and 19 are detected. By shifting the mids to the ends of the two middle rows consisting of four bottles inside compared to the position of the packaged bottles becomes the lack of both Cardboard layers balanced on the longitudinal centerline of the container, and the four bottles each middle row are kept in close contact with each other.

The arrangement of the bottles in diagonal rows (Fig. 2) results in staggered rows of alternating four bottles and three bottles that are in Run transverse to the container. Instead of the in FIG. 1 shown six Transverse rows, seven staggered transverse rows can be accommodated in the container.

The container is used to transport unfilled and filled bottles well suited. The collapsed container is delivered to the bottle manufacturing plant and is erected there, then the bottom flaps are secured and the container filled with twenty-five unwrapped empty bottles. The bottles are in the container in the in F i g. 2 used arrangement, whereupon the end flaps be folded down so that their openings lie against the bottle necks.

Because the flaps are narrow and there are those in the flaps Openings extending to the flap edges comprise the mouths of the flap openings When turning the flaps downwards, first the vertical sections of the bottle necks, whereby the flap material located at the opening mouths is slightly deflected, when the flap openings move down to grip the bottle necks. In this way, the openings in the flaps 18 and 20 are opened detected bottles, so that, as a result, the container, even if he made of relatively lighter and cheaper cardboard, the deformation of its opposed a resistance to the rectangular state.

The longer flaps 17 and 19 are then folded down, like this that they lay down on the necks of the four bottles that each run along Wall 1 and 3 (Fig. 2) are located. The bottle necks of those located in the corners of the container Bottles are located in the long flaps 17 and 19 openings and also detected by the openings located in the shorter flaps 18 and 20. the intermediate bottles located on each side of the container near walls 1 and 3 are of the arched portions 33 and 34 of the combined openings in flap 17 and captured by arch portions 35 and 36 of the combined openings in flap 19. The procedure for placing the flap openings around the bottle necks is the same the procedure of rotating the flaps 18 and 20. The port mouths are closed the bottle necks are turned towards and the openings are in full contact with it brought the bottle necks after the flap material on the opening mouths something has been bent. After the flaps are in their approximately horizontal end position have been rotated, the bottles are in a relatively fixed position held.

The arch sections 33, 34, 35 and 36 are from those in the flaps located end openings slightly offset, so that these arc sections the slope have the two rows of four bottles in the middle to push something inward (Fig. 2). This causes the bottles to vibrate Prevented during transport, and not just in the four-bottle both middle rows, but also in the middle row consisting of three bottles.

Because the bottles in the corners are different from those in the shorter ones Flaps located openings as well as those located in the longer flaps Openings are included, the rigidity of the corners of the container will increase even further increased so that the container effectively withstands deformation during handling.

In the bottle filling plant, the narrow flaps of the empty bottles incoming container lifted and the bottles removed. The container remains in an upright position and comes immediately with four packs of six bottles each filled, which are shown in the manner shown in FIG. are arranged. The narrow ones Flaps 18 and 20 are rotated downwards so that they are attached to the four bottles existing rows near walls 2 and 4. The narrow ones Flaps 17 and 19 are then turned down so that they join the rows Create from six bottles, which are located near walls 1 and 3. Every flap 17 and 19 is now on six bottles (Fig. 1). On the two middle bottles of each outer row of six bottles are the arched sections 29 and 30 of the combined openings in flap 17 and the arch sections 31 and 32 of the combined openings in flap 19. Four bottles from each pack of six bottles are then encompassed by the downwardly folded lid flaps. The ones in the corners The four corner bottles located in the container are each surrounded by two flaps, so that a relatively rigid cover design is formed.

Claims (2)

Claims: 1. Shipping container for bottles made of folded cardboard with flaps articulated by the side walls, which are perpendicular to the side walls can be folded with the flaps having openings of which the neck portions the bottles inserted in the container are taken up, which is marked with that the two flaps (17, 19) located on the longitudinal walls are in their central sections have additional openings (33 to 36) which are located along each side wall Pick up bottle necks and which have a greater distance from each other than the Bottle diameter. 2. Container according to claim 1, characterized in that the flaps (17, 19) six openings which are essentially uniformly spaced from one another (25, 29, 30, 26; 27, 31, 32, 28) have. References considered: U.S. Patents No. 2,842 304, 2 632 593, 2583672, 2515151, 2 090 882, 1962492.