DE8806821U1 - Picnic basket - Google Patents

Description

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DESCRIPTION
Ulrich Schlösser Picnic Basket

TECHNICAL AREA

The invention relates to a picnic basket made of plastic iu

for holding closed beverage cans or cups as well as long or round sandwiches.

Picnics are understood as the consumption of food and drink outdoors. While in the past people picnicked in idyllic places in the open air, in today's age of mass tourism, ever larger sections of the population consume food and drink purchased from fast food restaurants and similar outlets in inner-city places visited by tourists. 20

The drinks are available in the form of beer cans, for example, while the food can be long or round white bread sandwiches with a variety of toppings. The so-called hamburgers also have a roughly round shape.

STATE OF THE ART

There are no known special containers for holding such food and drinks. Beer cans or drinking cups filled with milk or juice and sealed can be bought loose. Sandwiches or hamburgers, for example, can also be purchased in a similar way. The sandwiches are then handed directly to the buyer by the seller. This means that the sandwich has to be eaten more or less immediately.

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DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

The invention is based on the task of providing a picnic basket adapted to the needs of today's mass tourism.

This invention is for a plastic pick-n-pick basket for holding closed drinks cans or cups as well as long or round sandwiches by the features of patent claim 1. The invention is in iö

This picnic basket is marked accordingly by

two side wall parts which are connected in the area of their front side by at least one hinge and which have bulges which are so large and arranged so that in the folded state of the two side wall parts 15

two bulges are arranged exactly one above the other and together form the wrapper for a beverage can or cup or the long or round sandwich; a first type of these bulges is intended as a wrapper for a beverage can or cup and a second type of these bulges as a wrapper for either a long or round sandwich. The invention is therefore based on the knowledge that there is a great need in today's world for a cost-effective disposable container that is designed to hold beer cans, drinking cups and sandwiches or the like sold in fast food restaurants and the like.

Packaging containers made of plastic are known for transporting eggs. They consist of two side wall parts which are provided with a large number of similar bulges that mimic the shape of an egg. However, such a packaging container does not have the at least two different bulges that are essential for the invention, so that - and this is very important for the invention - both a drink and a meal can be purchased in a fast food restaurant and easily transported to any location that is far away.

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Since an elongated sandwich is not as wide as a round one, one type of bulge has additional bulged areas on the sides in its preferably middle area.

before, so that in this middle area a round sand· 05

wich can be placed. Alternatively, an elongated sandwich can still be stored in the entire area.

The two types of covers are sized so that the type of food or the beverage can or drinking cup in question can easily fit into them.

So that the P1ckn1ck basket according to the invention can also be carried

> can be carried out, a support is provided on the front side of at least one side wall part opposite the hinge. 15

loop present, which in particular is integral with this

It is preferably designed as a recess in this side wall part. For easy closing and opening of the picnic basket, _the

&Egr; facing edge areas of the two side wall parts are further provided with mutually corresponding bulges, which

designed as interlocking snap fasteners or snap eyelets .

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To ensure that the picnic basket is closed as tightly as possible

can, which means that the side wall parts can, for example, be folded as close together as possible, the j bulges designed as snap fasteners or snap eyelets

L „„ from the side wall parts so that the two side

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§ walls that can be laid almost flat against each other. This means

For example, when _the two side wall parts are folded together, the snap fasteners

and pressure eyes project in the same direction from the three wall sections.

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Further developments and advantages of the invention can be found in the features further listed in the claims.

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SHORT DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING

The invention is described and explained in more detail below using the embodiment shown in the drawing. The only figure shows a perspective view of a partially unfolded picnic basket according to the invention.

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HEGE FOR IMPLEMENTING THE INVENTION

A picnic basket 10 consists of two wall parts 12 and 14. Both wall parts 12, 14 consist of a deep-drawn _plastic part and hang together in the area of one of their front sides so that they form a hinge 16 with each other. The wall parts 12, 14 thus hang together in one piece so that they can be made from a single plastic plate.

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The remaining free edges of these wall parts 12, 14 are

an edge 18 (wall part 12) and 20 (wall part 14) bent in the same direction, which is shown in the drawing bent out of the plane of the sheet.

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At its front end opposite the hinge 16

At the end, the wall parts 12 and 14 are each provided with a recess 20. The area surrounding the recess 20 on the outside of both the wall part 12 and the wall part 14 thus forms a carrying handle 22 for the picnic basket 10.

In the two wall parts 12, 14 there is a first bulge that bulges outwards from the wall 12 or 14. The size of this bulge 24 serves as half a cover for a beer can. When the two wall parts 12, 14 are folded together and thus when the picnic basket 10 is closed, the two form exactly the same...

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other bulges 24 of the wall parts 12, 14 thus a complete covering for a beer can.

In addition to these bulges 24, there is another bulge 26 in the wall part 12 and 14, which also bulges outwards from the wall part 12 and 14. These bulges 26 have a central, cap-shaped, approximately rounded cross-section area 28. This area 28 is laterally adjoined by approximately semicircular cylindrical areas 30, 32. The area 28 is in turn shaped in such a way that when the two wall parts 12, 14 are folded together, the areas 28 lying exactly on top of one another form the casing for a rounded sandwich. The areas 30, 32, together with the area 28, also form a casing for a

elongated sandwich. This allows the areas 28, 30 and. 15

32 an elongated sandwich or only in the area 28 a rounded sandwich can be stored in the picnic basket 10 and transported in the same.

In the areas of the wall part 12 adjacent to the edge 18, projections 34 are present which protrude from the wall part 12 in the direction of the wall part 14. In the folded state of the two wall parts 12, 14, each of these projections 34 engages in a bulge 36 which is located on corresponding

Places on the wall part 14. These bulges

The edges 36 protrude outwards from the wall part 14. As a result, the non-bulging areas of the wall parts 12, 14 lie approximately flat on top of one another. Because the edge 20 comes to rest next to the edge 18 when the picnic basket 10 is closed, the food inside the picnic basket 10 - even if it is not specially packaged - is well protected from the outside.

- ₅ The special design of the projections 34 and the bulges 36 is not the subject of the invention; all designs commonly available on the market can be used for this. It is only important that the projections 34

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can be inserted into the bulges 36 like clips or pulled out of them again.

The picnic basket 10 can be used both as a disposable container and for multiple use. It is also possible to provide additional recesses to hold paper napkins or other ingredients.

Claims (1)

SCHLÖSSER, Ulrich &idigr;&idigr; : ..'::"...··..". 25.05.1988 '··"''"'-"<·''..·\.' -1- ADDRESS 01) Picnic basket (10) made of plastic for holding sealed beverage cans or cups as well as long or round sandwiches,
marked by - two side wall parts (12, 14;, -- which are connected to one another in the area of one of their front sides by at least one hinge (16), -- have bulges (24, 26) which are so large and arranged so that when the two side wall parts (12, 14) are folded together, two bulges (24 or 26) are arranged exactly one above the other and together form the casing for the beverage can or cup. or the elongated or round sandwich, whereby - a first type (24) of bulges forms the casing for the beverage can or cup and a second type (26) of these bulges forms the casing for either the long or the round sandwich. 02) Picnic basket according to claim 1,
characterized in that the elongated bulge (26) is additionally bulged approximately in its central region (28) in such a way that, due to this additional bulge, it can also be used as a covering for the round sandwich. 03) Picnic basket according to claim 1, characterized in that the one type (24) of casing which serves as a casing for the Drinks can usable 1pc, about 10-13cm long 1pc. SCHL-OSgDt ."\ ,: .··..·· .··&ldquor;.". Schlösser, Ulrich .' : : .: ::··..."..«·. 25.05.1988 "··' ·*· ""_' ₂ V'%.*%." 04) Picnic basket according to claim 2,
characterized in that the other type (26) of wrapping which can be used as wrapping for the sandwich is about 30 cm long and about 15 cm wide in its central region (28) while it is about 7 cm wide in the remaining region. 05) Picnic basket according to claim 1,
characterized in that a carrying loop is provided on the end face of at least one side wall part (12, 14) opposite the hinge (16). 06) Picnic basket according to claim 5,
characterized in that the carrying strap is integrally connected to the side wall (12, 14). 07) Picnic basket according to claim 6, characterized in that 20 there is a recess (20) in the side wall (12, 14) which can be used as a carrying strap. 08) Picnic basket according to claim 1,
characterized in that the edge regions of the two side wall parts facing each other in the folded state have mutually corresponding bulges (34, 36) which are designed as interlocking snap fasteners (34) or snap eyelets (36). 09) Picnic basket according to claim b, characterized in that the bulges serving as snap fasteners (34) and snap eyelets (36) protrude from the two side wall parts (12, 14) in such a way that the two side wall parts (12, 14) can be laid approximately flat against one another with their non-bulged wall areas. SCHL-03gDE SCHLÖSSER, Ulrich 25.05.1988 · · I -3- 10) Picnic basket according to claim 1, characterized in that the free front edge (18, 20) of the two side wall parts (12, 14) is bent in the same direction approximately at a right angle in such a way that the two side wall parts (12, 14) can be placed approximately flat against one another with their non-curved wall areas 1n in the folded state.