CN101031479A

CN101031479A - Vehicle for beverage

Info

Publication number: CN101031479A
Application number: CNA2005800327281A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 约翰·布拉姆斯
Original assignee: INVENTOR EXPRESS Pty Ltd
Current assignee: INVENTOR EXPRESS Pty Ltd
Priority date: 2004-09-29
Filing date: 2005-09-28
Publication date: 2007-09-05
Anticipated expiration: 2025-09-28
Also published as: ZA200702839B; WO2006034537A1; CN100548827C; EP1794062A1; US20080128440A1; CA2582024A1

Abstract

A drinks carrier which consists of a flat body section with three or more apertures (12, 17, 22, 27) adapted to receive drinking cups or glasses and having at least one fold line (33A, 33B, 34A, 34B) that enables the carrier to be folded into a''smaller shape, the fold lines (33A, 33B, 34A, 34B) being arranged between the apertures (12, 17, 22, 27). The carrier includes an edge recess (14) to enable the body portion to be held in one hand, the apertures (12, 17, 22, 27) being arranged around the edge recess (14) so that the edge recess (14) is adjacent to the centre of mass of the carrier.

Description

Vehicle for beverage

Technical field

The present invention relates to the device that a kind of easy to use and cheap being used to delivers beverage.

Background technology

In the sports center, public bar or just in the work place, often need a people to take and deliver (or transporting) plural beverage, described beverage is generally the glass or the dixie cup of open-top.Provide pallet sometimes, but pallet is usually big and be only applicable in mechanism's facility.Because pallet is expensive and easily lose or stolen, so can not provide pallet under the more situation.

In some places, disposable mold-made paper pallet is sold to client, but these pallets have the common defects that any pallet has, be that glass is supported on its pedestal, if and pallet do not control with being stabilized, then glass can overturning, and it needs two-handed hand-held.

Still unresolved in the prior art problem at crowded place delivery glass.

US Patent 5971139 has disclosed a kind of handed cup and plate support, and it is made by injection-molded mode, but is unsuitable for delivering a plurality of glasses or cup.

US Patent 3908877 has disclosed a kind of circular beverage support with hole with support glasses or cup, and the top of described glass or cup is wideer than the bottom.More complicated and what there is no need is that this support has axial handle and supporting leg.

Australia's appearance design registration 122762 has disclosed a kind of both hands pallet with 6 holes with support glasses.This pallet is also big and be difficult to delivery or placement when not using.

Summary of the invention

One object of the present invention is to provide a kind of convenience and cheap vehicle for beverage, and it can overcome the defective of prior art.

For this reason, the invention provides a kind of vehicle for beverage, it is made of a flat body part, described body part has two or more and is suitable for receiving the perforate of beverage cup or glass and the edge groove that described body part is controlled by one hand, described perforate is around described edge groove setting, so that the barycenter of the contiguous described vehicle of described edge groove.

This configuration provides a kind of stable singlehanded vehicle, and it can hold 4 glasses or cup at an easy rate, and allows second hand free time to open the door or to deliver other object.Owing to be flats, above-mentioned vehicle can be at an easy rate by punching press and molded formation with respect to the scheme of prior art, and do not relate to expensive processing.

Described perforate can be and can overflow the dangerous Any shape that stably keeps glass or cup with minimum.Usually be preferably circle or ellipse.

In another aspect, the invention provides a kind of vehicle for beverage, it is made of a flat body part, described body part has three or more and is suitable for receiving the perforate of beverage cup or glass and has at least one making described vehicle be folded into the broken line of littler shape, and described broken line is arranged between the described perforate.

Preferably, have two or more crossing broken lines that can make folding twice of described vehicle.Described broken line preferably allows vehicle to be folded, so that described perforate can be alignd concentrically with respect to one another.This can realize by the line between the center of broken line being arranged to vertically divide equally two adjacent apertures.

In another aspect, the invention provides a kind of vehicle for beverage, it is made of a flat body part, described body part has three or more and is suitable for receiving the perforated container of beverage cup or glass and has at least one making described vehicle be folded into the broken line of littler shape, and described broken line is arranged between the described perforated container.Preferably, described vehicle comprises four perforated containers, and the edge that wherein supports perforate and each perforated container is equidistant, and two crossing broken lines begin to extend from the support perforate between the described perforated container.Preferably, another broken line begins along the straight line of the angle of the described crossing broken line of five equilibrium from described support perforate to extend, and described one-tenth broken line is parallel and separate at a certain distance, and described distance is at least the twice of the thickness of described body part.Additive vessel perforate if desired, paired mode that can be relative is added these perforated containers, and has broken line between each perforated container, so that described vehicle can finally be folded into a perforated container.For this reason, by extra a pair of perforated container, intersecting broken line will become a broken line that separates with the distance that equals container thickness at least respectively, and the distance between this broken line of the crossing broken line of five equilibrium is four times of body thickness.

Described vehicle can be enough to provide the stable support of all glasses or cup and enough firmly be made with any appropriate materials that can re-use by intensity.Described material can be wood or the veneer sheet that has the insert hinge that is used for broken line, but is preferably the synthetic plastics with adequate thickness, to provide strength characteristics and by indentation or line, so that can fold.Preferably, described broken line is only along the single direction operation that makes progress from the glass stayed surface.Suitable plastics are polyethylene and polypropylene.

Description of drawings

The preferred embodiments of the present invention are described with reference to the accompanying drawings, wherein:

Fig. 1 is the transparent view of observing from the top of the vehicle of a preferred embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 2 is the transparent view of the beneath of the vehicle from Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is the edge view of Fig. 2;

Fig. 4 shows the three phases of the vehicle among folding Fig. 1;

Fig. 5 is the transparent view that shows the vehicle of the Fig. 1 that is used for storing after folding.

The specific embodiment

As shown in Figure 1, in the present embodiment, vehicle (or carriage) is designed to the take-away coffee cup or the beverage glass cup that keep 4 to have similar diameter.Four

parts

11,16,21 and 26 comprise a perforate 12,17,22 and 27 respectively.Have identical size although described perforate is shown as, this is not to be essential, but can change according to the place needs.Similarly, described perforate needn't be rounded, but can be any convenient shape that is used for cup or glass are remained on settling position.

Selected material enough pliable and tough (or soft) at first can be folding along

line

33A and 33B to allow vehicle, so that fan section 11 places on the fan section 16 and fan section 26 places on the fan section 21.Double-

type wedge

35A and 35B guarantee that not folding

fan section

11 and 26 can be not crooked owing to the weight of whole glass.Shown in Fig. 4 A and 4B, foldingly make fan section 26 contact with fan section 21 along first time of line 33A.Foldingly make fan section 11 contact and expose lock pin 24 along second time of line 33B shown in Fig. 4 C with fan section 16.

Second fold line is a pair of

fold line

34A and 34B, and it makes fan section 11 contact with fan section 26.The distance of separation of a pair of

line

34A and 34B equals the thickness of two fan sections 11 and 26.Wedge 35A and 35B are set at the position that has different distance with fold line 34, so that carrying out avoiding mutually when folding at last along line 34A and 34B.Be in the folding position in order to ensure vehicle, lock pin 24 is configured to fit snugly against in the hole 28.

As shown in Figure 5, in the folding position, all 4 perforates alignment, and vehicle can lay at an easy rate on hook or be positioned over pocket or wallet in.

When opening, utilize groove 14 and make thumb place on the end face and make other fingers place the below, can control vehicle by one hand easily.

In use, glass is placed in the perforate and mentions vehicle, so the weight of glass is supported by vehicle and keep balance by one hand easily, and contiguous barycenter supports vehicle because groove 14 allows hand, and described barycenter is near the intersection point of broken line 33 and 34.

In the embodiment shown, the thickness of material is 3mm, and the diameter of perforate is 70mm, and vehicle is folded into the shape of wide 100mm, long 130mm and thick 12mm.Can use any suitable thermoplastic, polymeric materials.

Additive vessel perforate if desired can opposed paired mode be added these additive vessel perforates, and be provided with broken line between each perforated container, so that vehicle can finally be folded into a perforated container.In order to hold 6 perforated containers, can between perforate 12 and 27, add a pair of relative perforated container (referring to Fig. 1 and 2).So, the 5th perforate and perforate 12 shared broken lines, and the 6th perforate and perforate 27 shared broken lines, so all perforates are round supporting perforate 14.Intersecting

broken line

33A and 33B will become a broken line that separates with the distance near carrier thickness respectively, and the distance between this broken line 33A and the 33B will be 4 times of body thickness.

Person of skill in the art will appreciate that vehicle of the present invention has the pallet that is better than prior art and many advantages of vehicle, because:

1. it is a singlehanded device

2. it can be folded into the small size that can be contained in pocket or the wallet

3. its low cost of manufacture

4. when selecting suitable material, it is firm and reusable.

Those skilled in the art also will recognize, in the situation that does not break away from core teachings of the present invention Lower, the present invention can realize by the various embodiments beyond the illustrated embodiment.

Claims

1. vehicle for beverage, it is made of a flat body part, described body part has two or more and is suitable for receiving the perforate of beverage cup or glass and the edge groove that described body part is controlled by one hand, described perforate is around described edge groove setting, so that the barycenter of the contiguous described vehicle of described edge groove.

2. vehicle for beverage as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that, at least one broken line begins to extend between described perforate from described edge groove, so that can make described vehicle be folded into littler shape.

3. vehicle for beverage as claimed in claim 2 is characterized in that, comprises four perforates, and the edge of wherein said edge groove and each perforate is equidistant, and two crossing broken lines begin to extend between perforate from described groove.

4. vehicle for beverage as claimed in claim 3, it is characterized in that, another broken line begins to extend from described groove along the straight line of the angle of the described crossing broken line of five equilibrium, and described double-type broken line is parallel and separate at a certain distance, and described distance is at least the twice of the thickness of described vehicle for beverage.

5. vehicle for beverage, it is made of a flat body part, described body part has three or more and is suitable for receiving the perforated container of beverage cup or glass and has at least one making described vehicle be folded into the broken line of littler shape, and described broken line is arranged between the described perforated container.

6. vehicle for beverage as claimed in claim 5 is characterized in that, has two and can make described vehicle fold twice crossing broken line.

7. vehicle for beverage as claimed in claim 6 is characterized in that, one is shaped as the support perforate that described body part is controlled by one hand and is positioned near the intersection point of described broken line.

8. vehicle for beverage as claimed in claim 7, it is characterized in that, comprise four perforated containers, the edge of wherein said support perforate and each perforated container is equidistant, and described two crossing broken lines begin to extend between described perforated container from described support perforate.

9. vehicle for beverage as claimed in claim 8, it is characterized in that, another broken line begins to extend from described support perforate along the straight line of the angle of the described crossing broken line of five equilibrium, and described double-type broken line is parallel and separate at a certain distance, and described distance is at least the twice of the thickness of described body part.