DE3402729C2 - Container carrier - Google Patents

Abstract

Container carrier made from a one-piece blank of foldable flat material, in particular for bottles, with a central longitudinal web with a handle, furthermore with at least partially double-layered four transverse webs arranged on both sides of the longitudinal web, the ends of which are each hinged to a longitudinal side wall running parallel to the longitudinal web. The section forming the longitudinal and transverse webs (28, 29, 34, 35) is articulated as a coherent part (T) at one end of the blank to the end wall sections (12, 14); the continuous part (T) is folded against the inside of the side walls (10, 11); a flap (24) is hinged to the other end wall sections (13, 15) and is folded onto the contiguous part (T) lying against the inside of the longitudinal side walls and is partially connected to it, and the flap (24) has two weakened areas connected, punched-out reinforcement sections (26, 27), which are each connected to a transverse web section (28, 29).

Description

The invention relates to a container carrier made of a one-piece blank made of durable flat material, especially for bottles, with a middle, at least partially double-layered longitudinal web, on the top of which a handle is formed, furthermore with arranged on both sides of the longitudinal web, at least partially double-layered cut out of the longitudinal web, two first and two second each Crossbars, the ends of which are each hinged to a longitudinal side wall running parallel to the longitudinal bar are, the opposite end walls are in two parts with one on the associated side wall hinged end, the other end of the end wall sections of an end wall on which the longitudinal web forming portion is articulated, furthermore, the cross-webs forming portion on the opposite End is hinged to the section forming the longitudinal web and with the other end wall sections one tab is hinged each.

Such a container carrier is known (DE-OS 18 615). Such a container carrier is for example used for beer bottles. The bottles are held loosely in six compartments, one from the side and one End walls or longitudinal and transverse webs are formed. A handle section extends over the longitudinal web upwards, over which the container carrier can be worn. A pair of cross bar sections will be in the lower section glued with tabs that have previously been attached to the front wall with the help of further tabs. the The first-mentioned tabs therefore overlap the transverse webs, so that over a minimal part of their height a Double layer is given This double layer can, however, because of its low height extension do not serve as effective container protection. Furthermore

ίο is, as already mentioned, the double layer on one Crossbar pair limited

The invention is therefore based on the object of developing the known container carrier in such a way that that better protection of the bottles without additional material expenditure or higher production costs is guaranteed by the double layer of the crossbars

This object is achieved according to the invention in that one over weakening areas in each of the tabs The separable reinforcing section is punched out and is glued to the central area of the first crosspiece and that following the scoring line of the two second transverse webs from the longitudinal web, second reinforcing sections are cut out, the same with the second transverse webs in the middle area are sufficiently glued.

When the container carrier according to the invention is pre-assembled, the reinforcement sections are the The flap is glued to a crossbar in each case the flap are connected, they are separated from the flap when the container carrier is fully erected In this way, double layers are achieved in the particularly critical areas of the first transverse webs serve to improve container protection.

So that the second transverse webs also have a corresponding double layer, a further reinforcing section is formed from the longitudinal web, which is foldable against the transverse web.
Without additional material expenditure and with a minimum wall for pre-packaging - only four folding processes are required - a double layer is achieved in the desired reinforcement area not only for the longitudinal web, but also for the transverse webs and thus an effective protection against breaking the bottles in one Collision against each other.

According to one embodiment of the invention it is provided that the tabs are connected to one another via a scoring line are. This is how the falling and sticking process becomes facilitated during pre-assembly.

According to a further embodiment of the invention, the second reinforcement sections have a tooth or wavy contour. In this way, the transverse webs are largely reinforced without the corresponding longitudinal web section to open too much.

An exemplary embodiment of the invention is explained in more detail below with reference to drawings.

F i g. 1 shows a top view of the blank of a container carrier.

F i g. FIG. 2 shows a perspective top view of the blank according to FIG. 1 during a first assembly stage.

F i g. 3 shows a plan view of the blank according to FIG. 1 in a second assembly stage.

F i g. 4 shows in perspective a third assembly stage of the blank according to FIG. 1.

F i g. 5 shows in perspective one from the blank according to FIG. 1 erected container carrier.

The drawings are extremely schematic and not to scale.

The blank according to FIG. 1, for example made of cardboard consists has two longitudinal side walls 10, 11. On this longitudinal side wall 10 are two end wall sections 12, 13 hinged by means of scoring lines End wall sections 14, 15 are attached to the longitudinal side wall 11 by means of scoring lines hinged side walls 10 and 11 and end wall sections 12 to 15 are through handle sections 16,17, which are articulated to each other by fine central crease line 13, separated by appropriate punching. The handle sections 16, 17, however, leave a cutout 19 free. A crease line is on the long side wall 10, a bottom section 20 is hinged, which is divided by a central scoring line 21. A scoring line is on a fastening tab 22 hinged to the bottom 20 At the level of the crease line 21 there is a small one in the bottom 20 Detail 23.

At the end wall sections 13, 15 is a continuous The tab 24 is hinged via corresponding creased lines which consequently also extends over the cutout 19 and this closes the flap 24 is marked by a scoring line 25, which is at the level of the scoring line 18, divided. At the level of the end wall sections 13, 15 there is a reinforcing section in each of the tabs 24 26, 27, which is formed by punching. The reinforcement sections are over unmarked easily shearable bridges 26, 27, however, are connected to the tab 24.

A coherent part is attached to the other end wall sections 12, 14 and the handle sections 16, 17 hinged that contains sections for crossbars, the longitudinal bar and the handle. In detail are the first cross webs 28, 29 are provided, to which fastening tabs 30, 31 are articulated via a scoring line. The cross webs 28, 29 are hinged to the blank via creased lines 32 and 33, respectively. Furthermore, second transverse webs 34 and 35 are provided, which are linked to the blank via creased lines 36, 37. By punching in the first transverse webs 28,29 are Fastening tabs 38, 39 formed for the second transverse webs 34, 35. They are also attached to the with creased lines Cross webs 34, 35 articulated. Not designated punch lines for the transverse webs 28,29 and 34,35 enable Pivoting out of the drawing plane around the corresponding crease lines. The transverse webs 34, 35 have one outwardly facing approach 40, 41 coming near the blank side. By means of a wave-shaped Punched line 42 or 43, a reinforcing section 44 or 45 is formed which is attached via the crease lines 36 and 37, respectively the transverse web 34 or 35 or is hinged to the blank.

In the erected state, all other parts form sections of the longitudinal web that goes up into a Handle passes. For this purpose, grip holes 46, 47 are formed in the grip sections 16, 17 and in the the end wall sections 12,14 articulated part handle holes 48, 49, which handle holes in the erected state be brought to congruence. The crease line 18 continues to the left in one through individual cutouts interrupted scoring line 50, the scoring lines 18, 15 and 25 defining the longitudinal axis of the blank.

Noses 51, 52 are formed in the tab 24 by means of corresponding cutouts.

The pre-assembly of the blank according to FIG. 1 is based on FIG. 2 to 4 can be seen. The stiffening sections 44, 45 are folded out of the plane of the blank onto the transverse webs 34, 35 and glued to them. It goes without saying that the stiffening sections 44, 45 only with the transverse webs 34, 35, but not with glued to the material below.

Simultaneously or subsequently, the entire in FIG. 1 to the left of the end sections 12, 14 (curly brackets T) pivoted around the corresponding crease line in the plane of the side wall sections 10, 11 and end wall sections 12 to 15 (FIG. 3). In addition, at the same time or shortly thereafter, the part containing the end wall sections 13, 15 and the tab 24 is folded from above onto part T (see FIG. 3). When the part Γ is folded, the tabs 30, 38 and 31, 39 of the transverse webs are glued to the associated side walls. In addition, the handle sections 16, 17 are glued to the associated parts of the part T. From the other part in FIG. 3, on the one hand, the reinforcement sections 26, 27 are glued to the transverse webs 28, 29. In addition, the tab 24 is glued to the assigned handle sections in the middle area

Following this, the carrier halves are folded over one another around the crease line 50 (FIG. 4) and in the area the handle and longitudinal web sections are glued together (the individual glue application areas or points are shown in not specified in the drawings).

Finally, the tab 22 is glued to the outside of the side wall 10 (which is not shown in FIG. 4 is). In this way you get a flat-lying container carrier, which can be converted into a Container according to FIG. 5 can be set up.

As one can see from FIGS. 1 to 4, the four transverse webs 28, 29, 34 and 35 are partly double-layered, namely through the stiffening sections 44, 45 and 26 and 27. The latter are only when the Container carrier released from the tab 24 to which they were still tied by bridges. The longitudinal bar, which has no designation, is formed in two layers throughout. The handle 60 (FIG. 5) is formed in four layers.

The lugs 51, 52 lying one above the other underlie the bottom 20 in the recess area 23 so that it has a can take higher loads and does not bend too far.

From the drawings it can also be seen that the double-walled container carrier shown is with can be created and assembled with little technical effort

For this purpose 2 sheets of drawings

Claims (3)

Patent claims: 1. Container carrier made from a one-piece blank made of foldable flat material, in particular for bottles, with a middle, at least partially double-layered longitudinal web on the upper side a handle is formed, furthermore with at least partially double-layered, arranged on both sides of the longitudinal web formed from the longitudinal web cut out two first and two second cross webs, the ends of which are each articulated to a longitudinal side wall running parallel to the longitudinal web are, the opposite end walls are in two parts with one on the associated side wall hinged end, the other end of the end wall sections of an end wall on the the section forming the longitudinal web is articulated, furthermore the section forming the transverse webs is articulated at the opposite end to the section forming the longitudinal web and to which other end wall sections each have a tab is articulated, characterized in that in a reinforcement section (26, 27) that can be separated via weakened areas is punched out of each of the tabs (24) is, which is glued to the central region of the first transverse web (28,29), and that in the connection to the crease line (36,37) of the two second transverse webs (34, 35) from the longitudinal web second reinforcement sections (44, 45) are cut out with the second transverse webs (34,35) are glued to reach the middle area of the same. 2. Container carrier according to claim 1, characterized in that the tabs (24) have a scoring line (25) are interconnected. 3. Container carrier according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the second reinforcing sections (44,45) have a tooth-shaped or wave-shaped contour.