DK3248899T3

DK3248899T3 - CONTAINER CARRIER FOR TRANSPORTING SINGLE CONTAINERS AND A FLAT CARTON CUT FOR MANUFACTURING SUCH A CONTAINER CARRIER

Info

Publication number: DK3248899T3
Application number: DK17170532.0T
Authority: DK
Inventors: Achim Nettelmann
Original assignee: Nordpack Gmbh
Priority date: 2016-05-26
Filing date: 2017-05-11
Publication date: 2018-11-26
Also published as: DE202016102814U1; EP3248899A1; EP3248899B1

Description

DESCRIPTION

The invention relates to a container carrier for storing or for transporting individual containers, in particular, bottles, wherein the container carrier has a polygonal bottom surface and a plurality of container receptacles formed by compartments thereon, a holding portion, two, in particular, parallel longitudinal walls and two, in particular, parallel end walls, wherein the end walls extend with respect to the bottom surface beyond the plane of a respective upper lip of the longitudinal walls. Furthermore, the invention relates to a flat cardboard blank for such a cardboard box designed as a container carrier.

In its basic form, the container carrier corresponds to the standardized format 0717 in accordance with the FEFCO-ESBO code (International fibreboard case code).

The features of the preamble of Claim 1 result from US 4,601,390, which describes a rectangular container carrier made of a cardboard blank. Two sides of the known container carrier located opposite from each other protrude upwardly over the upper edge of the two other sides and are provided with closed carrier recesses.

For storing and for transporting, known container carriers have compartments, into which bottles, in particular, beverage bottles, can be inserted. The compartments are bounded by intersecting walls running in the longitudinal and transverse direction and are additionally designed in such a way that the bottlenecks of the inserted bottles protrude at the top. A foldable flat material, most of the time, cardboard, is used to produce a container carrier. One or a plurality of blanks are punched out of the flat material. Then the blank is folded, wherein, if necessary, glue is applied onto specified regions of the blank before or during folding.

The container carriers can be transported individually by means of the holding portion. As an alternative, a plurality of container carriers are often transported in combined form in bottle crates.

From the most recent prior art, bottle carriers made of a cardboard blank have become known, for example, by means of DE 20 2011 003 191 Ul, DE 698 18 222 T2, as well as DE 20 2012 005 947 Ul. EP 0 485 791 A describes a bottle crate made of plastic, which has single-sided open carrying recesses and free-standing carrying handles located at opposite sides.

In practice, it has been proven to be disadvantageous that the carrying handle that is arranged at the centre longitudinal plane of the container carrier is only appropriate for fixation to stationary objects to a limited extent. Therefore, the carrying handle can essentially be used as a handle. One could think of temporarily attaching the container carrier to a stationary hook by leading this through the breakthrough of the carrying handle. However, this idea has proven to be less practical since, due to its length, the hook tends to slip into the direction of the ends when subjected to uneven load levels which can result in containers falling out of the container carrier.

In practice, the container carriers are therefore placed on the ground which, however, is problematic due to the material if the floor is moist and the cardboard box loses its load-bearing capacity due to this. In addition, the container carrier is often overlooked and tipped over unintentionally.

The object of the invention is to create a possibility of being able to suspend the container carrier onto stationary objects in particular without any problems and without any further aids .

According to the invention, this task is achieved by means of a container carrier in accordance with features of Claim 1. The other embodiment of the container carrier can be taken from the subclaims.

According to the invention, in the case of the container carrier, the end walls each have a recess equipped with a through-opening to introduce an object in a region above the adjacent upper lip of the longitudinal walls with a coinciding distance from the bottom surface. By means of this, in a surprisingly simple manner, a permanent or only temporary arrangement of the container carrier becomes possible on a stationary projection, in particular, a horizontal element. Thereby, for example, it is not necessary to introduce the projection through the recess on the end side by means of an essentially translational feed movement. Rather, the through-opening makes a quick arrangement of the container carrier on the elements running horizontally possible, for example, on a handrail or a railing, by means of a radial feed movement in relation to the recess. By means of the arrangement of the recesses on the end walls, which, according to the invention, have the greatest distance away from each other, a stable fixation is achieved due to the mere hanging onto the stationary element, which then also only slightly tilts due to the effect of the load caused by bottles, glasses or other containers that are unevenly distributed with reference to the entire bottom surface. Furthermore, it has been shown that the container carrier itself resists external forces to the furthest extent possible without limiting its usability so that no overload of the container carrier scarcely occurs in the containers can also be stored securely in the container carrier in the case of strong wind on board a water vessel subject to intense heeling. In principle, with reference to the terms stated above and below, it shall apply that these refer to the function of the container carrier, according to which the bottom surface in the direction of gravity is located under the longitudinal walls and the end walls, and the containers can be inserted into the from above, meaning in the direction of gravity. In the case of a simple embodiment, the recess is formed in the upper region by an angling of the end wall orientated horizontally or diagonally downwards.

In itself, the container carrier can be designed in such a way that it can be transported in a commercially available beverage crate.

Although the through-openings of the two end walls can be arranged facing different longitudinal walls, in practice, the handling of the container carrier has proven to be particularly simple if the through-openings are arranged on the end wall arranged facing the same longitudinal wall.

The desired effect of the invention is furthermore achieved by means of the through-opening being bounded by a formation of the respective end wall designed as a projection, which is arranged under a boundary face of the recess forming an upper lip. As a result, the container carrier must be lifted according to the vertical distance of the projection with relation to the upper boundary face in order to attach it from the stationary element accordingly. Thereby, and undesired radial slipping or sliding off of the recess from the stationary element is rule out to the furthest extent possible. An undesired translational movement on the stationary element can be prevented by suitable dimensions of the recess by the boundary face lying, for example, on the circumferential region of the stationary element in a clamping manner. For this purpose, a particularly elastic deflection of the formation out of the plane of the end wall can be provided. Furthermore, for example, the clear span of the through-opening can be smaller than the minimum diameter of the recess so that the through-opening is elastically deformed during introduction of the stationary element and the position is accordingly secured by means of this.

Furthermore, the attachment and detachment of the container carrier to and from the stationary element is furthermore simplified by means of arranging the formation and the recess above the plane of the upper lip of the longitudinal walls so that the container carrier filled with the containers can be attached to the stationary element without any effort and without any undesired contact of the containers.

Thereby, it has been proven to be particularly favourable if the through-opening is bounded by two straight edges located opposite to one another, for example, cut edges or stamp-outs so that the introduction of the stationary element or object through the through-opening is made easier. For this purpose, the edges preferably have an orientation inclined toward each other so that the clear span continuously decreases in the direction of the recess.

In the broadest sense, the formation is bounded by a hookshaped recess of the respective side wall. Thereby, it is particularly practice-orientated if the formation is bounded at least in sections by a bent, in particular, arc-shaped edge or by a polygonal edge, which is continuously connected to the recess so that the formation is an introduction aid for the stationary element at the same time.

The recess could have a polygon will shape so that the upper boundary face of the recess only lies on the element in small sub-regions, thereby resulting in a clamping connection due to this. In contrast, it is particularly favourable if the recess has a circular or elliptical cross-sectional shape so that this deflects around the longitudinal axis of the element under the influence of gravity to compensate for an uneven distribution of the container load, thereby implementing a stable shape due to this, which only slightly burden the end walls .

The recesses could, for example, be arranged on a plane coinciding with the plane of the longitudinal wall so that, in the case of an evenly distributed load on the bottom surface, a tilted orientation of the bottom surface sets in, thereby optimizing access to the container carrier. In contrast, a particularly practice-orientated embodiment of the invention is achieved by arranging the geometrical centre of the recess in a centre longitudinal plane of the cardboard box or the container carrier perpendicular to the bottom surface so that the bottom surface of one empty or evenly loaded container carrier assumes a horizontal orientation.

Another preferred embodiment of the invention is achieved in that the holding portion is formed as a carrying handle spaced apart from and parallel to the bottom surface by in each case one region that connects the end walls together. By means of this, the container carrier can be transported by hand without any effort by the side walls being connected by a material portion .

Thereby, it is preferred if the holding portion is formed by two angled portions or bent portions of the end walls, which comprise a more or less large overlapping region depending on the load to be expected. In favour of a detachable connection that can be produced with a low level of effort, both angled portions are, for example, connected by means of at least one tuck-flap connection.

Thereby, in addition, in a particularly favourable way, it is possible to produce the container carrier out of an individual cardboard blank so that the costs associated therewith are comparably low. Thereby, the cardboard box manages without or with comparably few adhesion connections.

Although the basic shape of the container carrier can be adapted to almost any various applications, it has however been proven to be particularly practical if the container carrier has a rectangular basic shape to hold an even number of, for example, six or eight containers, particularly preferred however, a square basic shape for four containers.

The invention allows various embodiments. To further explain its basic principle, one of these embodiments is illustrated in the drawing and described below. The figures show

Fig. 1 a perspective illustration of the container carrier according to the invention;

Fig. 2: another perspective illustration of the container carrier;

Fig. 3 a perspective illustration of the container carrier from below;

Fig. 4 a cardboard blank for the container carriers shown in Figures 1 to 3.

The container carrier according to the invention consisting of cardboard box 1 for storage and transporting six bottles (not shown) will be explained in further detail based on Figures 1 to 4. The cardboard box 1 produced from a cardboard blank 2 shown in Figure 4 has a bottom surface 3, which can be recognized in Figure 3, which can also be used as a stand space to assemble the cardboard 1. The cardboard box 1 has a rectangular basic shape, on the bottom surface 3 of which a plurality of container receptacles separated by compartments 4 are formed, as well as two parallel longitudinal walls 5 forming the outer contour and, for this, angular end walls 6 that are parallel among each other. In a consistent manner, the end walls 6 raise considerably higher over the plane of the bottom surface 3 on both sides than the longitudinal walls 5 with their upper lip 7 respectively.

According to the invention, the end walls 6 in this region 8 above the upper lip 7 of the adjoining longitudinal walls 5 have a circular recess 9 respectively with a through-opening 10 to introduce an elongated not obligatorily straight element 11, which is only shown as an outline, for example, a hand rail. The cardboard box 1 can be orientated in the same way on the element 11 by the recesses 9 being arranging on a joint plane parallel to the bottom surface 3. In order to avoid the undesired slipping even in the case of deflection of the cardboard box 1 associated with removing the bottles, according to the invention, the through-opening 10 is furthermore bounded by the formation 12 designed as a projection of the respective end wall 6, which is arranged under the upper boundary face 13 of the recess 9. The formation 12 is connected to the recess 9 by means of two continuously parallel edges 14, 15 that are opposite to each other. In order to carry the cardboard box 1, the end walls 6 are connected to each other in a region of the respective horizontal angled portion 16 in an overlapping region 17 by means of a tuck-flap connection 18, which form a holding portion acting as a carrying handle.

Claims

A container carrier for storing or transporting individual containers, in particular bottles, the container carrier being formed as a box (1) of a cardboard cutout (2), the container carrier having a polygonal bottom surface (3) and a plurality thereof (4). ) formed container receptacles, a holding section, two in particular parallel longitudinal walls (5) and two in particular parallel end walls (6), the end walls (6) facing the bottom surface (3) extending above the level of the upper edge end (7) of the longitudinal walls ( 5), the end walls (6) in an area (8) above the level of the edge end (7) of the longitudinal walls (5) each having at least one notch (9) equipped with a passage opening (10) at a corresponding distance from the bottom surface (3), characterized in that the passage opening (10) is defined by a projection (12) of the respective end wall (6), which is located below a delimiting surface (13) on the notch (9) forming the n upper rim, and that the passage opening (10) allows the container carrier to be positioned quickly on horizontally extending elements (11) by means of a radial supply movement based on notched (9).

Container carrier according to claim 1, characterized in that the configuration (12) and the notch (9) are located above the level of the edge end (7) of the longitudinal walls (5).

Container carrier according to at least one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the passage opening (10) is defined by two opposite edges (14, 15).

Container carrier according to at least one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the configuration (12) is each defined at least sectionally by a bent, in particular circular rim, which is connected in a continuous course to the notch (9). ).

Container carrier according to at least one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the notch (9) has a circular, elliptical or angular cross-sectional shape.

Container carrier according to at least one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the geometric center of the notch (9) is located at a middle length level of the container carrier.

Container carrier according to at least one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the holding section is formed by means of an overlap area (17) connecting the end walls (6) to each other, as a carrier grip spaced parallel to the bottom surface (3). ).

Container carrier according to claim 7, characterized in that the carrier handle has a polygonal cross-sectional shape.

Container carrier according to at least one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the holding section is formed by interconnected angles (16) or bends of the end walls (6).

Container carrier according to at least one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the box (1) consists of a single cardboard punch cutout (2).

Container carrier according to at least one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the container carrier has a square, in particular square, basic shape for receiving an equal number of containers.

Container carrier according to at least one of the preceding claims, characterized in that said notch (9) is formed as an angle of said end wall (6) in the area (8) above the level of the edge termination (7).

A cardboard cutout (2) for producing a container carrier according to at least one of the preceding claims.