DE1429224A1 - Cup holder - Google Patents

Description

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Γί-l.-lnr ·. R. Psttz _u ,

L -, - 1. ing. Lamprecht 14 29224 Munich 22, Stelnsdorfstr, f S

6 ο 5.1964

AMERICAN CAN COMPANY, New-York, V.St.A

Cup holder

The invention relates to a holder for cups and, more particularly, to a one-piece nestable one or stackable holder for disposable beakers provided with flexible walls, which are usually made of paper and when Serving drinking liquids or dispensing ice cream and the like can be used.

The invention relates to holders such as those used to pick up or remove a cup. With such cup holders Cup gripping means are provided inside which grasp the lower part of the cup wall when pressed down of a holder, pressure is applied to the holder via an inverted cup. Usually the cups are in inverted position, and the holder is pressed down on the stack until the top cup is off Holder is recorded. When it is lifted from the stack, the holder only takes a single cup with it.

Various difficulties have arisen with such cup holders. One problem is that the holders do so tend to capture more than one cup of the stack, which the 35-Ref. 8849-BrH (7)

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Necessitates removal of the excess cup (s) by hand and eliminates the particular hygienic benefit that see then results when the disposable cup fails before use solitude can be grasped by hand.

Another difficulty is ensuring that the cup does not come off the holder when the holder is Consumption of the cup contents is tipped. This has so far been partially solved by practically the entire side wall of the cup adapts to the inner wall surface of the container in order to reduce the frictional forces for holding the filled cup in the holder to bring it to a maximum value. Again, this, of course, requires the holders to have straight sidewalls and large bases have what does not allow the holder to be nested and it is necessary makes that the holders must be stored individually, which requires considerable storage space when they are not to be needed"

The object of the invention is therefore to create a pull-up holder for disposable cups with elastic walls, which holder only nests the end cup from a stack, flat-bottomed cup decreases and the cup picked up during use of the cup firmly gripped, but easily releasing the cup in due course? the holder should be easy and stable to plug into one another allow a plurality of such holders and be so simplified that it can be produced easily and cheaply.

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A cup holder with a base or stand part and a tapered tubular body, which with the stand part from a Piece "consists and serves to receive and hold the cup, is characterized according to the invention in that the lower Inner surface of the body ends in a plurality of resilient cup-gripping fingers that extend downward and radially inward upward protrude, with each pinger ending in an inwardly directed tooth that ends in a cup gripping edge, as the gripping edges between them a recess "form, the shape of which is essentially the same as the outer shape of the cup in the area closed end and whose size is slightly smaller than its outer dimension, so that the edges of the wall of a Mug close to its closed end cooperatively grip under pressure and only the last cup from a stack Grasp nested cups when the cup holder is pressed against the end cup of this stack.

Numerous other features and advantages of the invention emerge from the following description with reference to the drawing, which reproduces a preferred embodiment of the invention; show it:

Mg. 1 is a side view of a beverage holder with a mug sitting in it;

Pig. Fig. 2 is a top view of this cup holder; Pig. 3 is a view from below of the cup holder;

4 shows a partially sectioned view of a container holder with a cup sitting in it and another one inserted into the first holder in dash-dotted lines Cup holder; 9098Ö6 / Ö202 BAO ORIGINAL

Pig 5 is an enlarged partial top view of the cup gripping elements;

Pig. 6 is an enlarged view of one of the cup gripping elements seen approximately from the line 6-6 in Fig. 5;

Pig. 7 shows an enlarged partial section approximately along the line 7-7 in Figs. 6 and

Pig. 8 shows a partial section through the cup holder in the reverse position "when grasping the end cup holder Stack of inverted nested cups.

The Pig. 1, 2 and 3 show as "preferred or" for example Embodiment of the invention in a one-piece receiving cup holder, which is generally designated 12 and a base part 14 * a substantially frustoconical hearing body 16, which is made of one piece with the base part and protruding from this to ofcen, a band 18 and a handle 20 has »which is formed in one piece with the body and protrudes outward from one side of the body · The body 16 iat for holding a container, for example a paper cup, tapered, as will be described in more detail below.

Within the holder 12 is calibrated a Beehermufnahme- ^J cavity 26 near the juncture of the Sasisteils 14 and the cavity 26 are Becheraufnahme- and support means ± L · the Porm element a plurality of separate arcuate gripping "or arranged pingers 28 a HMIS 30 Form reduced diameter, in which a cup sits, the side walls of which are gripped by the holding means near the cup base * '

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Within the cup receiving cavity 26 and approximately in the middle of the interior of the cup holder body 16 is a annular inner shoulder 32 is provided substantially parallel to the bottom 34 of the base or GrundteiIes 14 and has a Diameter which is formed slightly larger than the outer diameter of the holder base 34, which latter diameter is smaller than that of the mouthpiece of the holder body within the "band 18. This shoulder 32 thus forms a seat for the base part 14a (Fig. 4) of another cup holder 12a when a group of holders is stacked or in a small space should be kept.

The fingers 23 are shown more clearly 5, 6 and 7, this finger 28 is molded integrally with the bottom end of the inner surface of the body 16. The fingers 28 are on their base part, with which they sit on the body 16, formed wider and tapered slightly until they are in an arched surface 37 ends. From its base, each finger 28 extends downwardly and radially inward into neck 30 and 14 merges into a tooth 38, which is in a relatively sharp, ends convexly curved gripping edge 39, which is directed away from the surface 37 for gripping a Beohers.

The tooth 38, which is also angled slightly upwards with the surface 37 and has a lenticular cross-section, tapers calibrate where it protrudes radially inward and upward to a sharp edge 39 · The thickness of the tooth 38 along the convex Curve shape of the edge 29 reaches its maximum value in the middle

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and decreases as the edges 39 approach the External parts of the surface 37 ″ in the illustrated embodiment the edge 39 does not extend entirely over the surface 37, but ends shortly before both ends of surface 37

The fingers 28 are separated from one another by a gap 40 separately, so that each finger 28 has a certain degree of elasticity and acts independently of the other fingers 28 when each finger is also integral with the inner bottom end of the holder body 16 surrounding the neck 30. The arch shape the sharp gripping edge 39 causes each edge to hold the cup detected in an arc line which lines extend around the circumference of the cup wall close to the cup bottom. Through this interaction one obtains three significant and somewhat opposing intended results »

1. a quick, easy »and firm grasp of the top one Cups of an inverted cup stack,

2. The grasping of the top cup alone and only

3. A quick and easy release of the gripped cup as required or after the cup has been used.

It has been shown that the holder by a manufacture thermoplastic resin suitable strength, wear and abrasion resistance, heat and chemical resistance to cleaning and sterilizing and the like and that it also has the necessary elasticity for the cup gripping Process the finger 28 has. Examples of such synthetic resins are

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Polypropylene, nylon (polyamide), polyoxymethylene (Delrin) and other suitable plastics.

Fig. 8 shows how the F ± ger 28 for detecting an Endbeehers 44 cooperate in the stack 42 when a single cup is removed from the stack 42 of nested cups The cup 44 is a frustoconical container with an integrally formed flat end base 46 which is used in cup manufacture has been pressed into its flat shape. However, it is possible to use a two-piece cup, i.e. cup body and bottom separated, although a one-piece cup is preferred because its relatively heavy bottom wall is that with it contiguous side wall on which the fingers 28 act, gives a sufficient degree of rigidity.

In the stack 42, the two outermost cup bottoms 16 and 46a are separated from one another by a distance which is the same is the thickness of the TJiafangswuletes 47 on the mouthpiece of the cup 44 «Se is therefore a space 48 between the bottoms of the End cup 44 and the next cup 44a in the stack 42. This gap only helps you lose weight of the end cup 44 from the stack by the holder 12.

When the inverted holder 12 is pushed down over the inverted stack of cups 42, the end puller slides 44 into the holder cavity 26 until substantially the entire inner surface of the edge 18 of the holder 12 on the hanging portion of the Cup wall 50 rests. Before this engagement occurs the bottom 46 of the

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Cup 44 through the neck 30 and on the gripping edges along. In the process, the elastic pingers 28 are pressed slightly outwards, and the gripping edges 39 dig into the cup 44 and compress it along an annular wall section near the bottom 46. When squeezing and grasping Sectors along the wall section 52 also assist the gripping edges 39 in separating the end cup 44 from the next cup 44a in the stack 42 by pushing the periphery of the bottom 46a of the cup 44a out of contact with the end cup 44.

Even if the gripping edge 39 compress the cup section 52, so they do not grasp the second cup 44a in the stack 42, since the bottom 46a of the next cup 44a is separated in the stack 42 by the gap 48, which is in the The thickness of the circumferential bead 47 on the mouth part is essentially the same of the cup 44 · After the holder 12 has been withdrawn from the stack 42, only the end cup 44 is therefore contained in the holder 12.

After taking it off the stack 42 and maintaining it upright, the Cup 44 on the inside of the de & retaining rim 18 and is in the Holder 12 safe by the holding effect of the gripping edge 39 of the fingers 28 by pressing together and light toothed sectors held along the lower band portion 52 of the cup 44 near the cup base 46.

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Claims (3)

Claims 1. Holder for tapered nestable cups si ;; elastic Walls that open at their larger end and at iar- ώ smaller ones End closed, with a basic part uiul eincai vsrjUr ^ th Tube body, which bsstaliü and the base part from one piece serves to hold and hold the disposable cup, f. '·. -by marked that the lower Inner surface of the holder body terminates in a plurality of resilient cup gripping fingers that extend downward and radially inward extend upwards that every 3? inger in an inward-facing Tooth ends that runs out into a cup gripping edge that a recess is formed between the gripping edges, the has essentially the same shape and is somewhat small in size is than the outer shape and size of the cup near its closed end, so that the edges together under pressure the ¥ and a3 Grab the cup near its closed end so that only the end cup of a stack of nested cups is detected when the cup holder is pressed against that end cup in the stack. 2. Holder according to claim 1, characterized in that the teeth have a lens-shaped cross section and taper in the region of the part protruding inward from the outer end of the finger to a convexly shaped engagement edge. 3. Holder according to claim. 1, characterized in that the teeth also protrude upward. _BATH 909806/0 2 02 - ίο - 4 «holder naeii claim 1 _S characterized in that an annular © shoulder which is substantially parallel to the Holder" boclea has \ m & a diameter ₉ of the bit is formed larger than the sowing & iidiirolimesser of the holder base portion, i.e. along a central portion © s interior of the holder body wall is arranged 5 ° holder according to claim 1, characterized in that the lower part the holder body has the shape of a truncated cone » 9 0 9806/02 0 2 BADOR ₁ GiNAL