DE2128507B2 - Stackable transport and storage containers for objects of all kinds, in particular packages of goods - Google Patents

Description

The invention is based on a known transport and storage container which can be stacked one on top of the other for objects of all kinds, in particular packages of goods that are provided with a movable wall, which is provided with horizontal axes, the ends of which are attached to either side of the movable wall vertical sliding guides up and down are displaceable, the sliding guides each through a Guide bar and a spaced apart therefrom further bar are formed, and wherein the guide rails are provided with retaining members in the form of notches for receiving the upper ones Axle ends.

In the known storage container, the movable walls which close the container at the front are like that designed that they cover about half the height of the container (GB-PS 6 94 312). The other part of the The container is closed by a solid wall. The movable wall can either be parallel to it in the Area of the fixed wall lowered or by means of a horizontal guide above the container as movable ceiling can be inserted over the interior of the container. Even when it is open, lowered or inserted movable wall, the container is always about halfway through a fixed one Front wall closed, which makes it very difficult to remove the goods.

The invention is therefore based on the object of a transport and storage container of the initially described type in such a way that it is stacked on top of one another State can be emptied even more easily and conveniently.

This object is achieved by the features mentioned in the characterizing part of claim 1.

Roller doors are generally known per se and are used, for. B. od to lock office cabinets. Like. used. By using them in the present transport and storage container it is achieved that the container space is partially or fully exposed when the door is partially or fully open, see above that the removal of or loading with goods is considerably facilitated. The height of the individual container can be increased until it is equal to its depth, so that the roller door is complete recorded in their receiving chamber under the bottom of the container and thus the container front is fully released. From this limit, the height of the movable wall can vary Needs to be reduced. The contents of the container are

ίο also always easily accessible when on him identical or similar containers are attached.

Another embodiment of the invention results from claim 2.

Exemplary embodiments of the invention are shown in the drawing. It shows

1 shows the basket-like container in a perspective view,

F i g. 2 shows a perpendicular cross-section to FIG. 1 with the movable wall completely closed,

F i g. 3 and 4 vertical partial cross-sections with partially open and fully open movable wall,

Fig. 5 with the upper part of the movable wall their releasable attachment in perspective view, and

F i g. 6 to 8 a modified version of the vertical guidance of the movable wall in vertical section.

The basket-like container is with a double bottom provided in the case of the one shown

jo embodiment consists of two gilter gratings arranged at a distance from one another and made of metal wire. Of the For a better overview, FIG. 1 only the upper grating I shown, while the lower Grating is only indicated by its surrounding frame 2. At some distance above the frame of the upper grating 1, another frame 3 made of metal wire is arranged with the Surrounding frame of the grating of the container floor is connected by vertical intermediate rods to with these together to form a reinforced enclosure for the lower part of the container. Near the Support feet 5 are attached to the corners of this enclosure, with which the container is placed on the ground can be, but at the same time are designed so that when they are stacked several in the same Wise trained container prevent mutual lateral movement of the same.

On three frame legs of the upper frame 3 are an end wall 6 and in a vertical arrangement two side walls 7 and 8 attached, which can be designed fully or openwork and in the The embodiment shown are designed as metal gratings. These walls that are in the drawing only with their surrounding frame are indicated, can be permanently attached in the respective vertical plane be. But they can also be designed as hinged walls that fold down flat on the bottom of the container can be sent back empty or together with other empty containers of the same type should be stacked. In the embodiment shown, the walls 6, 7 and 8 are foldable appropriate. For this purpose, the side walls 7 and 8 are each by means of hinges 10 around the vertical frame legs the end wall 6 can be folded inwardly onto this flat and the end wall 6 itself by means of Hinges 9 around one horizontal frame leg of the upper frame 3 down to the The bottom of the container can be folded down so that when it is empty

Container first kljppt the side walls 7 and 8 to the end wall 6 and then together with this can be folded down onto the upper grating 1 of the double floor; The empty one The container can thus be folded up to take up the smallest space for shipping or stacking, the three walls 6, 7 and 8 lying in a recess, which is slightly higher than the upper grating I arranged upper frame J is limited.

The fourth wall or the other end wall of the container is designed as a movable wall, which consists of several horizontally arranged lamellae, which are connected to one another rotatably about horizontal axes. In the embodiment shown, the movable end wall consists of the four slats 11a, 116, lic and 11t /, each of which in turn can be formed by a grating made of metal wire. The outer horizontal grate bars 11 of two adjacent lamellae Ua to WI are, as shown in particular in FIG. 6 to 8 can be seen, hingedly connected to one another by rings 12 or similar links in the manner of hinges, so that the slats can each be pivoted against one another. In the embodiment according to F ⁷ i g. 1 to 5, the two ends of the hinge rods 13 of the uppermost lamella 11a according to FIG. 1 protrude slightly beyond the corresponding ends of the lamella and lie on two vertical sliding guides which are arranged on both sides of the movable wall. Each of these sliding guides is formed by a vertical guide bar 14 which is attached to the edge of each side wall 7, 8 and in front of each a vertical rod 15 is arranged, which can consist of a metal wire and serves as a counter guide or holding member.

According to Fig. 5 are at the ends of the slats II.J, js lift two bars 18 arranged, which can be curved or straight and on both sides of the guide bar 14 run.

These bars serve not only to guide the slats, but also to stiffen the side walls 7 and 8. On the outer edge of the guide strips 14 are at least two notches 16a and 16fr in vertical distance one above the other, to which the protruding ends 1.16 of the upper edge or Rod 13 ") of lamella 11;" can be locked in place. The notches 16a are made at such a height that the four slats Ma to Mt / the movable Front wall the ip F i g. 2 position shown and can take the container at the end completely close when the ends 136 of the upper lamella 11a are inserted into the notches 16a. Against it the notches 166 are arranged at such a height that when inserting the ends 136 of the upper lamella lla in these notches the face of the Ltehäiter according to FIG. 3 is only partially closed. The guide strips 14 could each also have more than two notches so that the movable end wall or the lamella forming it;) I la to lic / between the position according to FIG. 2 and the position according to FIG. 4, in which it is the end face of the container give completely free, even other than those in FIG. 3 can assume intermediate positions shown.

As shown in FIG. 3 can be seen, the two lower lamellae 11c and I l </ slide when the ends 136 of the upper lamella Ha are inserted into the lower notches 166 and the resulting partial lowering of the lamellae into the cavity of the double container bottom, one When the movable wall according to FIG. The blade 11 is 4 completely lowered, then b slides into the receiving chamber until the blade lic / to a attached to the bottom grate of the receiving chamber abutment 19 applies. As a result, the lamella 11a is held in an inclined position in which it can be easily grasped by hand and pulled up again to partially or completely reclose the end face of the container.

To guide the slats when lowering and pulling up the movable wall again are the Longitudinal bars of the lower grating of the double container bottom with ends 17 bent upwards provided, which are gestallet so that the horizontal edges of the slats in both sides of the movable Wall arranged side guides 14,15 are performed.

The movable wall takes the when the container is completely full and when transporting the full container Position according to Fig.2 and can also use this position initially retained when the container or the like at its destination in a warehouse is. You can then to release the upper part of the front face of the container in the position according to F i g. 3 are lowered, in which the objects or packages of goods located in the container easily can be grasped by hand. Finally, the movable wall according to FIG. 4 completely lowered in order to be able to empty the container completely. For shipping or for stacking the empty Container, the movable wall can remain in the double container base, on which then the rear wall Front wall 6 can be folded down with the folded-in side walls 7, 8. When refilling the Container, the movable end wall can also initially remain in the double bottom, whereby filling is made easier. If necessary, a push member can then be used for filling. As a result of the movable design of the front end wall and the possibility of this whole or partially lowering, the interior of the container is easily accessible even when on a first Container several containers of the same or a different type are attached. The filled container can therefore with containers of the same or a different type arranged above it in a warehouse or the like. so that the objects or goods in it are used by buyers or sellers can be removed as required. In such a case, the support feet 5 are used to to keep containers placed on top of each other in their correct position on top of each other.

As already mentioned, the container is in particular for the transport of goods or objects and to Replenishment of warehouses in department stores or the like. Determined. He can then work with his content Destination remain until all objects or goods have been removed from it, and then be sent again immediately. However, the container can also be used for numerous other cases find in which it is of interest to be able to open a side or front wall more or less. Even the invention is not limited to the illustrated embodiment. In particular, the side and End walls and the bottom of the basket or container by elements other than grids made of metal wire formed and z. B. also be designed as a solid wall. as well

the joints or hinges can be designed differently than shown, and there can be more or fewer than four movable slats can be arranged.

6 to 8 show a slightly modified guide for the slats of the movable wall. The vertical guide strips 14a are each provided with a series of notches 16c distributed over their entire height, the vertical spacing of which corresponds to the height of one of the slats 11a, lift, lic, Wd of the movable wall of the same height. These lamellas are in turn connected to one another in a hinge-like manner at their upper and lower horizontal edges or rods 13 by rings 12 or similar organs. In this embodiment, however, all the horizontal edges or rods 13 of each lamella extend into the area of the two lateral guide strips 14a, so that when the movable wall is completely closed (see in the first embodiment only the ends 136 of the upper edge or rod 13a of the uppermost lamella 11a either engage in the notches 16a or 166 of the vertical guide strips 14.

The fact that according to FIG. 6 to 8 with the movable wall completely closed, the ends of all rods 13 of all lamellas engage in the notches 16c, two additional advantages are achieved. The one advantage is that during the transport of the filled container, the movable Wall is more fully supported and can better absorb the pressure exerted by the filling. this is due to the fact that the movable wall is superimposed on several at a smaller distance Place the vertical guide strips 14a is supported. The other advantage is that when opened the movable wall to the neck of the container, this wall inevitably slightly outwards or forwards is pushed, whereby between her and the objects or goods located in the container free gap is formed and the lowering of the movable wall is facilitated. These advantages are in the F i g. 7 and 8, which show that in order to lower the movable wall it is first necessary to the ends of the rods 13 of all slats by a combined lifting and pulling movement in the sense of Arrows / ″ out of the notches 16c Outer edges of the vertical guide strips 14a are placed so that they are down on this can slide. As a result, the lamellae 11a, 116, lic, etc. are also moved outward so that the mentioned gap is formed.

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Claims (2)

Patent claims: f. Stackable transport and storage containers for objects of all kinds, in particular packages of goods, which can be stacked on top of one another and which is provided with a movable wall which is provided with horizontal axes, the ends of which can be moved up and down in vertical sliding guides attached to both sides of the movable wall, the sliding guides are each formed by a guide bar and a further bar arranged at a distance from this, and the guide bars are provided with retaining members in the form of notches to accommodate the upper axle ends, characterized by the formation of the movable wall as a roller door, the slats (Ha , lift, Hc, Hd), as is generally known, are articulated to one another and by the formation of a roller door receiving chamber which is delimited by a double container base (1,2). 2. Stackable transport and storage container according to claim 1, characterized by a plurality of notches (16a, \% b) arranged one above the other.