DE3145140A1 - Bottle transporting container - Google Patents

Abstract

In order to allow automatic, smooth loading in a bottle transporting container produced integrally from plastic and having compartments open at the top and side walls rising obliquely outwards from the bottom of the compartments for receiving one bottle in each case and having a carrying handle moulded onto the crate, provision is made for the bottle transporting container, together with the carrying handle, to have a height lower than the bottles, for the central spacing "a" of adjacent compartments from one another in each row to be equal in each case to the central spacing "b" of the compartments from one row of compartments to another, and for the lateral spacing of the crate opening edge from the centre of the respectively adjacent compartment to correspond to half the central spacing "a" of the compartments, and for the compartment bottoms to have a raised curved bottle bottom support which is smaller than the bottle bottom in each case on the upper side and centrally. <IMAGE>

Description

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The invention relates to a one-piece manufactured from plastic Bottle transport containers with the following features: a. in a box open at the top are several compartments that are open at the top and that rise at an angle from the compartment base to the outside Septa walls are provided to accommodate one bottle each, b. the compartments are in two rows parallel to one another, arranged next to one another at the same level, c. the box height is smaller than that of a bottle, i.e. a mounting bracket is formed on the box in such a way that that its bracket web is arranged centrally between the rows of compartments and above the box is, and the Handlebar legs are tapered upwards as well formed continuously to each other and at least connected to the box wall and eo in the box between the rows of compartments there is a 9 to the base of the box above aiming support bracket demoulding opening which is designed so that when Stacking containers of the carrying handle of the lower container in the carrying handle release opening of the upper container can intervene until the compartments of the upper On the 5 bottles in the lower container support and in the empty state at least partially nested are Such bottle transport containers are known from practice.

However, their own weight is many times greater than their own weight Capable of bottle transport containers made of cardboard of the same size, which results in a considerable difference in the production price that the use of plastic bottle transport containers as opposed to those made of cardboard a priori excludes.

Bottle transport containers made of cardboard are sensitive to moisture.

In addition, the latter have perpendicular outer and partition walls, the one automatic filling of such bottle transport containers with bottles at least make it more difficult, since bottles with their bottoms may be more or less inclined butt against the upper wall edges and then tip over instead to slide into the container compartments, In addition, there is also the risk of that the relatively unstable walls for example during transport to the filling station be bent to their target position, after which a trouble-free automatic filling the bottle transport container also with bottles fed in exactly vertically is at least at risk.

In addition, the well-known bottles are transport containers made of cardboard only closed at the bottom at the filling station and require relatively complicated Furthermore, with the known such bottle transport containers Stacking security achievable from cardboard, for example on pallets one above the other and next to one another stacked bottle transport containers do not do justice to all circumstances.

The object of the invention is now to provide a bottle transport container the type specified in the preamble of claim 1 to improve that while retaining the advantages that already exist in the prior art In addition, a considerable reduction in the cost of materials can be achieved, which is a results in a considerably cheaper production option, with an automatic, Filling the transport container with bottles, which is not prone to failure, and also a sufficient one Load capacity as well as a higher security of stacked bottle transport containers than should be given so far.

The solution to this problem is characterized in that the bottle transport container including the support bracket has a bottle smaller height, the distance between centers is wag neighbors Divide each row from one another according to the center-to-center spacing "bn" from Compartment row to compartment row is the same and the lateral distance of the box mouth edge half of the center-to-center spacing of the center of the adjacent compartment , .au corresponds and that the compartment bottoms on the top and in the middle each have a bottle bottom veil have raised, domed bottle bottom supports.

This has the advantage that when bottle transport containers are stacked on top of one another the bottles in the upper bottle transport container are concave despite the fact that they are concave curved bottle bottoms now perpendicular without any bending load on the container and without play on the raised bottle bottom supports on the mouths respectively. the bottle caps of the bottles located in the lower bottle transport container support so that the bottle transport container now also at multiple stacking only have to carry their own felling weight and therefore are much easier and cheaper to manufacture than before.

In addition, stacking in a cross connection is now also possible, which means the stacking security is considerably higher than before.

To further increase the stacking security, it is advantageous if in the underside of the shelves, one perpendicular to the top support under this arranged slasher neck mouth larger vault is provided.

It is there for the dimensional stability of the bottle transport container advantageous if the support bracket legs are at least approximately at the base of the box are trained beginning.

Both the dead weight of the bottle transport container continues reducing, as well as its automatic filling improving design consists in the fact that in opposing compartment side walls elongated, rectified in the longitudinal direction to the insertion direction of the bottles, up to the Compartment bottoms reaching recesses with upwards towards each other from the compartment bottoms running edge parts leading towards the center of the compartment when the bottles are inserted are arranged9 with the width of the shelves, at right angles to the longitudinal extension of the rows of compartments, each smaller than the projection of a bottle is like that that these protrude laterally through the recesses over the shelves.

To this end, an advantageous further development is characterized in that that in the compartment side walls at the mouth edge the compartment beginning downwardly directed recesses provided with downwardly running edges are, the recess edges each at least approximately along the projection an imaginary one, which is concentric to the center axis of the compartment and is the size of a bottle Circle are arranged to run.

In addition, the automatic filling of the bottle transport container Improving embodiment consists in the fact that the side, bottle introduction in the bracket web aid-forming constrictions are provided, each at least approximately along the projection of an imaginary bottle-diameter concentric to the center axis of the compartment Circle are arranged to run.

In order to continue to reduce the cost of materials without compromising the load-bearing capacity of the container, it is advantageous to if that of the support bracket release opening facing compartment side walls by spaced apart, narrow Bars are formed, and each with one end part on the bracket web and with the the other end part are connected to the shelf.

Further the material costs and consequently the manufacturing price Reducing design features are disclosed in claims 8 to 11.

To get the bottles introduced into the container with simple means To keep each other contactless, can be on the tops of the bottle bottom supports With the webs connecting the compartment side walls, a raised ring-shaped per compartment is provided Rib must be formed with a clearance that is at least as large as the bottle diameter.

For this purpose, a characterizes at the same time on the dimensional stability the bottle transport container increasing variant in that between adjacent Compartments of each compartment row compared to the Kastezibhe lower at least at the Partition walls connected to compartment side walls are arranged.

It is important for the bottle transport to be able to be filled, which is not susceptible to failure container advantageous if the sides of the partition walls facing the compartments are each arranged obliquely downwards and towards the center of the compartment.

Others, on the one hand facilitating the introduction of the bottle, and the imported ones Bottles in the correct position, on the other hand, the dimensional stability of the Bottle transport case Improving design that at the same time enables extremely thin wall thicknesses Features are disclosed in claims 15 and 16.

It is also used to achieve a high degree of rigidity for the Support bracket as well as for convenient handling of it with little material expenditure advantageous if the support bracket is designed as disclosed in claim 17.

In addition, all container edges should be rounded so that the automatic To facilitate the introduction of the bottles into the bottle transport containers.

The features of the invention and its technical advantages emerge also from the following description of exemplary embodiments in conjunction with the claims and the drawings.

The drawings show in Fig. 1 a bottle transport container in the front view, seen partially in section along the line I-I of Fig. 2; Fig. 2 likewise in the side view; Fig. 3 also in section III-III of Fig. 2; FIG. 4 shows a variant corresponding to the section I-I of FIG. 2; FIG. Fig. 5 Front view of parts of nested bottle transport containers.

This one-piece plastic bottle transport container to accommodate six, identical, round cross-sections having bottles 1 for Beer, lemonade or other drinkable liquids consists of an open top Box 2 with six compartments open at the top 3.

The latter are level in two parallel rows 4 with three compartments 3 each arranged side by side.

The box bra is about half the height of a bottle 1.

In the middle between the spaced-apart rows of compartments 4, a support bracket 5 is provided whose legs 6 on the box front sides and are tied to the box bottom, while the support bracket web 7 above the box 2 runs parallel to the base of the box.

The total height of the box 1 including the support bracket 5 is smaller than that of a bottle lo To this bottle transport container by means of a merely To be able to produce two-part mold is in box 2 between the rows of compartments 4 a demolding opening 8 starting at the base of the box is provided 0 all upright Wall parts of the box 2 are arranged obliquely that several such empty bottle transport containers can be nested inside each other to save space as can be seen from FIG. 5.

The center-to-center distance between adjacent compartments 3 of each compartment row 4 from each other is equal to the compartment-center distance "bX from compartment row to compartment row and the lateral distance flcu of the box mouth edge from the center of the respective adjacent compartments 3 corresponds to half the compartment center distance "a", so that too in the case of the same bottle transport containers arranged close to one another, the spacing between the compartments and the centers are the same from container to container.

In the middle of each compartment there is a raised, concave one Bottle bottom curvature at least approximately adapted bottle bottom support 9 is formed, the height of which corresponds at least to the depth of the concave curvature of the bottle bottom, so that the bottles 1 are no longer with their bottom edges as before, but in the middle of the bottle base on the bottle transport container without play.

Perpendicular under the bottle bottom supports 9 are in the bottom of the Compartment bottoms of the bottle mouth larger bulges 10 are formed.

To save material and as bottle insertion aids are in each other opposite compartment side walls elongated in the longitudinal direction, to the insertion direction of the bottles in the same direction, reaching as far as the compartment bottoms 11 with the bottles 1 running upwards towards each other from the compartment bases when inserted each edge parts 12 leading towards the center of the compartment are arranged.

In addition, the width of the shelves is at right angles to the longitudinal extension the rows of compartments 4 seen, each smaller than the projection of a bottle 1, so that the bottles protrude laterally through the recesses 11 over the compartment bases protruding In addition, are in the compartment side walls at the mouth edge the compartment 3 beginning, downwardly directed recesses 13 with each other downward running edges 14 provided, the recess edges 12 and 14 each at least approximately along the projection of an imaginary, concentric to the center axis of the compartment arranged bottle diameter large circle 15 are arranged running.

Furthermore, there are lateral bubble insertion aids in the bracket web 7 forming constrictions 16 are provided, which are also along the imaginary Extend the circle.

The compartment side walls facing the support bracket release opening 8 are by spaced apart narrow webs 17 which are formed with the one end part on the bracket web 7 and with the other end part on the compartment bases are connected.

Those webs 17 increase the dimensional stability with little use of material of the bottle transport container considerably.

To further reduce the dead weight and thus the material consumption 9 recesses 18 are in the compartment bottoms next to the bottle bottom supports Provided0 between the recesses S8 are on the bottle bottom supports 9 begianendei radially directed webs 19 are provided, the outer ends of which on the up to the box base reaching upright compartment side walls are connected.

The bottle bottom supports 9 each consist of one to the central axis of the compartment concentrically arranged ring 20 and two arranged at the same level to the latter formed within the finger in the middle of the intersecting webs 21, the latter are arranged radially equally weighted to the supports 19.

Between adjacent compartments 3 of each compartment row 4 is one Intermediate wall 22 is provided whose sides 23 facing the compartments 3 on the one hand aiming diagonally downwards and towards the center of the compartment, on the other hand, transversely to the longitudinal extent seen in a row of compartments, at least approximately along the projection of the imaginary Circle 15 are arranged to run.

The partition walls 22 are profiled in a U-shape over their entire length, wherein the profile web is arranged aiming upwards and wherein the profile height is designed to decrease towards the middle of the partition walls, so that the longitudinal edges of the partition walls 22 form bottle insertion aids.

The support bracket 5 has U-shaped cross-sections over its entire length wherein the profile webs in the areas of the bracket legs / are each arranged on the outside are while the profile web in the 3 area of the support bracket web 7 forms its underside All container edges are rounded to facilitate the introduction of bottles.

The webs 17 can, as can be seen from FIG. 4, by means of a Transverse web 24 be connected to one another.

The longitudinal edges 25 of the webs 17 correspond approximately to the edges 12 and 14 and also serve to guide the bottle when it is inserted into the compartments.

Only the weight saving is still between the recesses 11 Serving recesses 26 are provided, which also begin at the base of the box and extend upwards.

The wall thicknesses are each about 1 mm, so that for this bottle crate from plastic a weight of about 70 gr. is achievable and therefore about can be made from cardboard for the same price as a well-known bottle crate.

Fig. 1 shows a part of a dash-dotted line similar, stacked bottle transport container, from which it can be seen that the bottle bottoms are centered on the bottle bottom supports 9 on the bottle closures Support the bottles in the lower bottle transport container without play.

All new items disclosed in the description and / or drawing and combination features are considered essential to the invention.

Claims (18)

Claims; 1. Bottle transport container made in one piece from plastic with the following features: aO in a box that is open at the top are several open at the top Compartments with side walls sloping outwards from the compartment base for storage one bottle each provided, b. the compartments are in two parallel rows arranged next to one another at the same level, c. the box height is smaller than that of one Bottle, d. on the box a bracket is formed so that its Bracket is located centrally between the rows of compartments and above the box is and the support bracket legs are tapering upwards and running towards each other formed and connected at least to the box wall, and e. is in the box between the rows of compartments one that starts at the base of the box and ends upwards çragbügel-demolding opening provided, which is designed so that when stacking Containers of the carrying handle of the lower container into the Xragbügel demolding opening of the upper container can intervene until the compartment bottoms of the upper container on the upright bottles in the lower container and in the empty state at least partially into one another nestable formed.} characterized in that f. the bottle transport container together Carrying handle (5) has a lower bottle height, g. the center-to-center distance aan of neighboring Compartments (3) of each row (4) from each other in each case the compartment center distance "b" from shelf row (4) to shelf row (4) is the same and the lateral distance "c" des The edge of the mouth of the branch from the center of the respective adjacent compartment (5) is half Compartment center distance "a" corresponds, and h. the shelves have and on the top in the center each has a smaller, raised, arched bottle base support (9). 2. Bottle transport container according to claim 1, characterized in that that in the bottom of the shelves each one perpendicular to the top support (9) under this arranged bottle neck mouth larger bulge (10) is provided is. 3. Bottle transport container according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that that the support bracket legs (6) beginning at least approximately at the base of the box are trained. 4. Bottle transport container according to one of claims 1 to 3, characterized characterized in that in mutually opposite compartment side walls elongated, rectified in the longitudinal direction to the insertion direction of the bottles, up to the Compartment bottoms reaching recesses (11) with one another from the compartment bottoms upwards running, the bottles at Insert each to the center of the compartment leading edge parts (12) are arranged, the width of the compartment bases, seen at right angles to the longitudinal extent of the rows of compartments (4), each smaller than the projection of a bottle, so that it protrudes through the recesses (11) protrude laterally over the shelves. 5. Bottle transport container according to one of claims 1 to 4, characterized characterized that in the compartment side walls at the mouth edge of the compartments (3) beginning, downwardly directed recesses (13) with edges running downwards towards one another (14) are provided, the recess edges (12, 14) each at least approximately along the projection of an imaginary bottle diameter that is concentric to the center axis of the compartment large circle (ins) are arranged running. 6. Bottle transport container according to one of claims 1 to 5, characterized characterized that in the bracket web lateral, bottle insertion aids forming constrictions (16) are provided, each at least approximately along the projection of a imagined9 to the center axis of the compartment concentric, bottle diameter-sized circle (15) are arranged to run. 7. Bottle transport container according to one of claims 1 to 6, characterized characterized in that the support bracket demould opening (8) facing compartment side walls are formed by spaced apart, narrow webs (17) which each with one end part on the bracket web (7) and with the other end part on the Shelf are tied. 8. Bottle transport container according to one of claims 1 to 7, characterized characterized in that in the compartment bottoms in each case next to the centrally and raised Bottle bottom support (9) recesses (18) are provided. 9. FiL ash transport container according to claim 8, characterized in that that the central9 raised and bottle-diameter smaller bottle bottom supports (9) in each case by means of several radially directed D, distributed around the circumference molded webs (19) on the compartment side walls reaching up to the box base are connected. 10. Bottle transport container according to one of claims 1 to 9, characterized characterized in that the bottle bottom supports (9) weight-reducing recesses exhibit. 91. Bottle transport container according to one of claims 1 to 10, characterized in that the bottle base supports (9) each consist of a ring (20) and at least two arranged at the same level to the latter within the ring (20) intersecting webs (21), the latter also to the bottle bottom supports (9) with the webs (19) connecting the compartment side walls arranged radially in the same direction are. 12. Bottle transport container according to one of claims 1 to 11, characterized characterized in that on the upper sides of the bottle bottom supports (9) with the compartment side walls connected webs (19) per compartment a raised, annular rib with at least bottle diameter large clear width is attached. 13. Bottle transport container according to one of claims 1 to 12, characterized characterized in that between adjacent compartments (3) each compartment row (4) opposite the box height lower partition walls at least connected to the compartment side walls (22) are arranged0 14. Bottle transport container according to claim 13, characterized in that that the sides (23) of the partition walls (22) facing the compartments (3) are arranged obliquely downwards and towards the center of the compartment. 15. Bottle transport container according to one of claims i3 or 44, characterized in that the sides (23) of the partition walls facing the compartments (3) (22) a seen transversely to the longitudinal extent of a row of compartments (4), at least nearly along the projection of an imaginary bottle diameter, concentric to the center axis of the compartment Circle (15) are arranged to run. 16. Bottle transport container according to one of claims 13 to 15, characterized in that the partition walls (22) over their entire length approximately U-shaped profiled and are arranged with the flanges aiming downwards. 17. Bottle transport container according to one of claims 1 to 16, characterized indicate that the support bracket (5) has a shapeless profile over its entire length is, the profile webs in the areas of the bracket legs (6) each on the outside are arranged, while the profile web in the area of the support bracket web (7) Underside forms. 18. Bottle transport container according to one of claims 1 to 17, characterized marked that all container edges are rounded.