DE7623086U1 - Pallet for picking up and transporting bottles - Google Patents

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PATENT ADVOCATE DIPu.-ING CO BOECKER ⁽ j

6670 ST.INGBERT (SAAI). ENSHEIMERSTR. 48

W ₁ July «76

Wes II

Dieter Ludwig V. esely
Sophienstrasse 7

6670 St. Ingbert

Pallet for picking up and transporting bottles

The innovation concerns a pallet for picking up and transporting a field of bottles arranged in rows, in particular lightweight plastic bottles, in which the bottles be grasped by the necks. Such devices are used in the area in front of a filling station for the bottles, around a delivered field of bottles arranged in rows take up and set down on a table from which the bottles are fed in rows one behind the other to the filling station. Frame-like pallets are known which are provided with an array of suction cups to grip the necks of the bottles .

The innovation is intended to provide a range of those described above Kind be improved and simplified. In particular, it should be avoided that a separate gripping device for each bottle is provided, which makes such a pallet complicated and expensive.

The new range according to the innovation is characterized by in Spaced pairs of flexible, strip-shaped Slats, which are in pairs between their free, Gegeneiruiuderwei «The ends of the longitudinal edges are at such a distance that

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that every pair of lamellas has a barb-like snap-in fastening for a row of bottles. This ensures that a separate gripping device in the form of the Pairs of lamellae must be provided.

The pairs of lamellas are expediently held on the opposite walls by elongated openings in the pallet floor, the simplest of the fixings being that the slats are inserted into slides in the opposing walls. The barb-like snap-fastening of the pairs of lamellae is supported by the fact that the lamellae are blunt in pairs Angles are directed to each other.

The range according to the innovation should also be set up for this be able to replace the shipping box during transport over longer distances. To a steadfast pile of To be able to form pallets hanging fields of bottles, the innovation provides that the pallet bottom on the top of is bordered by a peripheral edge which runs at a distance from the outline of a bottle field. This ensures that that each bottle field placed on a lower pallet is virtually positively secured and does not slip can. The manufacturer can deliver the empty bottles stacked on the platform of a truck.

The pallets according to the innovation must be returned to the bottle manufacturer as empties, for which the innovation provides that the pallets themselves can be stacked as empties. For this purpose, the innovation provides that the pallet floor also on the bottom is provided with an edge, the outer contour of which is slightly smaller than the inner contour of the top located edge. When empty pallets are placed on top of one another, it takes effect this lower edge into that of the upper edge of the pallet below.

In the drawing, an embodiment of a pallet according to the innovation is shown, namely show

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1 shows a diagrammatic representation of two on top of one another stacked fields of empty plastic bottles, each carried by a pallet,

Fig. 2 is a section along the line a-a in Fig. 1, Fig. 3 is a section along the line b-b in Fig. 1, and

Fig. 4 is a partial vertical section through a stack of empty pallets "

A pallet according to the innovation has a base I ₁ which is provided with a number of elongated openings 2. The opposite walls of each elongated opening are provided with slots into which flexible, strip-shaped lamellae 4, 5 are inserted. The elongated openings 2 in the pallet base 1 are spaced apart from one another which corresponds to the distance between rows of empty plastic bottles 6 and 6a, which are arranged in a field and are ready to be received by the pallet. As can best be seen from Fig. 2, the lamellae 4, 5 are directed in pairs at an obtuse angle to one another and form such a distance between their free, mutually opposing longitudinal edges that each lamellae pair forms a barb-like snap-fit for a row of bottles. As FIG. 2 shows, the flexible lamellae 4, 5 lie under the thread of each bottle 6a when the pallet as a whole is lowered onto a field of bottles provided. An empty, lightweight plastic bottle is held securely in a hanging arrangement in this way. To release a bottle from the holder, there is a compulsory relative movement between the pallet and the bottle in the opposite direction to that of the receptacle, whereby the strip- shaped flexible lamellae 4.5 slide off the bottle necks.

So that a bottle stack according to FIG. 1 can be formed, which is stable and non-slip and thus transportable, the bottom 1 of each pallet is bordered on the top by a circumferential edge 7 which runs at a distance from the outline of a bottle field . 2 clearly shows that a bottle 6 of the upper bottle field, which belongs to an outer row of bottles, is secured in its position by the edge 7. this applies

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for all the outside bottles of a Klaschcnf ßldea, so dnli. slippage of an upper bottle against Eldes ^f Ciner underlying pallet of a stack is impossible.

In order to make pallets according to the innovation also as empties stackable, the pallet base 1 is also see vei-on the bottom with an edge 8, whose outer contour is slightly smaller k indicates than the inner outline of the bcfindlichen at the top edge of Fig "as a stable stack of empty pallets is formed according to the innovation, with a lower edge 8 dipping into the inner contour of a square 7 on the top of the plate floor. In such stacks, according to the innovation, the pallets are returned from the bottler to the bottle manufacturer as empties. The pallet according to the innovation thus replaces the shipping carton, which is also used in shuttle traffic between the bottler and the bottle manufacturer, but has a limited service life. In addition, the empty pallet according to the invention requires considerably less space than empty cardboard boxes during return transport.

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Claims (6)

PATENT Attorney DIPL.-: Ν <3. C. O. DOfcCKER J 6670 & T, INGBI: RT (SAAR), ENSHEIMURSTR. 48 j Wee II Dieter Ludwig Wesely Sophienstrasse 7 6670 St. Ingbert SC H UTZANS P RUCH E 1. Pallet for picking up and transporting a field of bottles arranged in rows, especially light plastic bottles, in which the bottles are gripped by the necks, characterized by spaced apart Pairs of flexible, strip-shaped lamellae (4,5), which are in pairs have between their free, mutually facing longitudinal edges such a distance that each pair of lamellae one forms a barb-like snap holder for a row of bottles (6,6a). 2, pallet according to claim 1, characterized in that the lamellae pairs (4,5) are held on the opposite walls by elongated openings (2) in the pallet base (l). 3 · Pallet according to claim 2, characterized in that the slats (4,5) are inserted into slots in the opposite walls. 4. Pallet according to claim 1, characterized in that the slats (4,5) are directed in pairs at an obtuse angle to each other. 5. Pallet according to claim 1, characterized in that the pallets bottom (l) bordered on the top by a circumferential edge (7) is that at a distance from the outline of a bottle field runs. 6. Pallet according to claim 5, characterized in that the pallets Telephone: (068 94) 14396, apartment 7124 Accounts: Postscheckamt Essen 1013 28-438, Gebr.Röchling Bank St. Ingbert 20.013.-590 7623086 09.12.76 bottom (l) also on c) front right lower . ·. <uu.i ο nit ο! now ¹ , left-irx) (B) vir. · ..; ! .or. ' whose outer outline is about "smaller iat m.1" dor inner IJrnr: i.Ii of the edge located on the upper side * (7) <■