EA005329B1 - Container - Google Patents

Abstract

The proposed invention relates to a container and its variants designed for bottling and storing of water, soft drinks, juices, etc. and can be used for manufacturing not only of bottles but also for other reservoirs such as palettes, gutters, barrels, etc. Said invention is designed for solving the following problems: collecting and accumulation of used containers by household users for further recycling; compression and flattening of used containers for further automatic processing; safe of labour and decrease of cost price of used container's delivery to processing facilities; great increase of container's delivery volume to processing facilities and decrease for motor transport; decrease of expenditures for combustive-lubricating materials; decrease of expenditures for constructing and renting new storing facilities; improve the environmental situation. In the proposed construction the container and its variants such as a plastic bottle or/and a tin are made of an easily deformable material, the walls of containers having bulbs and cavities, the bulbs and cavities forming together a diagonal cellular-honeycomb structure. The bulbs can be made in the form of stiffening ribs positioned diagonally with inclination in different directions. The stiffening ribs can have in cross-section a form of an incomplete circle, semicircle, segment, triangle, polygon and relief configuration. The cavities have a relief or/and a pictorial form.

Description

The present invention relates to containers intended for bottling and storage of water, beverages, juices, etc., and can be used not only in the manufacture of bottles and cans, but also other containers, such as pallets, a ditch, kegs, etc.

The claimed invention is intended to address issues of disposal of empty containers (bottles, cans) made, for example, from polyethylene, metal or some other flexible material.

Known plastic bottles for bottling and storage of various beverages and beer, the design features of which are characterized by the presence of the bottom, walls and neck with a lid. In this case, the walls of the bottle are divided, as it were, into three parts — the upper, middle, and lower.

On the upper, or on the upper and lower parts of the walls, as a rule, some pattern is applied, for example, vertical or horizontal undulating elements. At the same time, the middle part of the bottles remains smooth, without a pattern [1].

The closest in their design features to the claimed invention is a container made in the form of a container containing a bottom, walls and neck, on the walls of which there are convexities and depressions forming labyrinth passages in which the game element moves. In this capacity can be made of any shape - in the form of banks, boxes, pallets, cuvette [2].

However, all known bottles, including the closest to the technical essence, have one common and significant drawback - they are inconvenient for recycling, that is, for recycling.

As a rule, waste empty cans and plastic bottles are thrown away, which naturally litters the environment.

On condition that empty containers are collected, large financial expenses are required for the operation of vehicles that ensure the delivery of these containers to production for recycling, as well as the construction or rental of a large number of storage facilities for collecting used containers.

All this - and pollution of the environment with empty cans and bottles, and exhaust gases of vehicles used to transport empty cans, has a negative impact on the environment.

Today, there is also the problem of the primary collection of used packaging, its storage in the home and at work.

The proposed design of the container and its variants make it quite easy, without any available means, to deform (fold, flatten) the bulk product and reduce the volume of the container by 5-10 times, thereby ensuring the efficiency of its collection and delivery for further recycling (disposal). In addition, this design allows you to solve other equally important problems, namely:

• the problem of the primary collection and accumulation of used containers by consumers at home for their subsequent delivery to reception points;

• the problem of directional deformation (compression, flattening) of the used packaging in order to ensure its identification in order to automate the processing at the receiving points;

• reduction of labor intensity and cost of delivery of used packaging to the place of recycling (disposal);

• a significant increase in the supply of containers for recycling with a significant reduction in vehicle costs;

• reducing the cost of fuels and lubricants;

• Reducing the cost of construction and rental of warehouse space intended for the creation of points of reception of used containers;

• improvement of the environmental situation.

When solving the problem of the primary collection and accumulation by consumers of a large amount of used packaging in a deformed (compressed, flattened) form for subsequent delivery to the collection points for used products, the consumer does not need to purchase special devices for deformation of packaging. Such deformation is quite possible to carry out in the absence of special devices, manually.

All of the above problems can successfully solve the proposed design of the container and its variants.

In the proposed construction of the container in the first embodiment, in a container made in the form of a container, such as a can or bottle, of a thin, easily deformable material, on the walls of which there are convexities and depressions, the convexities together with depressions form a diagonal cellular-honeycomb structure.

In addition, the convexity, made in the form of ribs, placed on the walls of the container diagonally with a slope in different directions.

In the design of the container according to the second variant, which is a container made in the form of a container, for example a plastic bottle, and containing the bottom, walls and neck, on the walls of which there are convexities and cavities, convexities are made in the form of stiffeners placed on the walls of the container diagonally with tilted in different directions and forming diagonal meshes together with depressions

- 1 005329 hundred-honeycomb structure. In this case, the depressions are placed between the ribs, and the bottom of the container is made with a recess, the size and shape of which correspond to the size and shape of its neck with a lid.

In the proposed construction of containers according to the third variant, in containers made in the form of a container, for example banks, on the walls of which there are convexities and depressions, convexities are made in the form of stiffening ribs placed on the walls of the packaging along diagonals with an inclination in different directions and forming together with the depressions diagonal cellular-honeycomb structure, with cavities located between the ribs.

Stiffeners in cross section and in the first, and in the second, and in the third options may have the form of an incomplete circle, semicircle, arc, triangle, polygon, and generally a relief configuration, and the depressions may have a relief and / or graphic shape.

FIG. 1 shows a container (first, second variants), for example, a plastic bottle, which contains a neck 1, a lid 2, walls 3, a bottom 4, protuberances 5, which are ribs, hollows 6 and a recess 7.

FIG. 2 shows the container (the third option), for example a can, on the walls of which there are convexities 8 and depressions 9.

FIG. 3 shows cross-sectional configurations of stiffeners (convexes) 5, 8 (Fig. 1, 2), in the form of an incomplete circle - a, in the form of a semicircle - b, in the form of an arc - c, in the form of a triangle - b, in the form of a polygon - e and in the form of a line of relief configuration - d.

FIG. 4, as an example, are presented the configurations of depressions 6 and 9 (Figs. 1, 2), in the form of lips and n, having a relief shape (for example, for Smilek mineral water bottles) and in the form of the Latin letter -t, having the graphic form (for bottles manufactured by Darida).

The exemplary configurations of n and t (fig. 4) of cavities 6 and 9 (fig. 1, 2) allow consumers to identify manufactured products with the brand name of manufacturers.

A fivefold reduction in the volume of used packaging for option 1 (plastic bottle) is as follows.

First, the lid 2 is slightly unscrewed on the neck 1, then all the cavities 6 located on the walls 3, placed between the protuberances 5 (stiffening ribs), are pressed into the bottle so that steady concavities are formed at the sites of the cavities 6. After that, for convenience, the bottle is placed on a horizontal surface and with a small force is pressed on the neck 1 in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the bottle - from top to bottom.

Depressed inside the bottle of the cavity 6 and convexity 5 (stiffening ribs), placed on the walls of 3 tare diagonally with an inclination in different directions and creating a diagonal cellular-honeycomb structure together with the depressions 6, under the influence from top to bottom, they allow directional deformation (addition, flattening the bottle, after which the neck 1 of the bottle tightly tighten the lid 2.

As a result of this deformation, the volume of the bottle is reduced by 5 times.

The deformation of the second, third, and so on bottles is carried out in the same way.

The deformed (flattened) and closed bottle caps are connected to each other so that the neck 1 with the cap 2 of each subsequent bottle tightly fits into the recess 7 of the bottom 4 of each previous bottle.

With this design of the bottle, the length of five bottles flattened and tightly packed into each other is equal to the length of one empty non-flattened bottle.

The simplicity of the design of the proposed container allows you to manually perform a fivefold reduction in the volume of such containers.

The container design (cans or keg) according to the third variant makes it possible to reduce the volume of used container by ten times.

To do this, all the banks located on the walls, depressions 9, placed between the protuberances 8 (stiffening ribs) (Fig. 2), press the inside of the can in such a way that stable concavities are formed at the places of the depressions.

After that, for convenience, the bank is placed on a horizontal surface and with a small effort is pressed on the upper end surface of the can in the direction of its longitudinal axis from top to bottom.

Cavity 9 depressed inside banks and placed in diagonals with inclination in different directions on its walls, convexities 8 (stiffening ribs) creating diagonal cellular-honeycomb structure on walls together with depressions, under the influence from top to bottom, allow directional deformation (addition, flattening ) banks, after which its volume is reduced by 10 times. In this case, the flattened bank takes the form of a ring or a small disk.

Thus, the proposed design of the container and its variants allow the directional deformation of the container, reducing the volume of used plastic bottles of any shape (in cross section

- 205 times the circumference, triangle, rectangle, polygon, etc.) five times, and the volume of canned goods used (cans from drinks, juices, beer, etc.) ten times.

The proposed design of the container and its variants also allow such deformation to be done manually, that is, immediately after using the container, which provides undoubted convenience during the initial accumulation of such container by the consumer for subsequent delivery to reception points and improves the environment around us.

In addition, directionally deformed packaging, plastic bottles, for example, allows you to identify all the deformed products, which is particularly important in automating the process of receiving such containers at reception points.

On the other hand, directionally deformed containers obtained as a result of the deformation of cans from beer or drinks, for example, also identify all the deformed products and make it possible to use them in machines designed to issue filled, unused cans instead of used (flattened). The creation of such machines is planned in the near future.

Thus, if there are reception points for used deformed plastic bottles and automatic machines for receiving used deformed cans, the consumer will be interested in collecting directionally deformed containers for delivery at home for subsequent use in automatic machines or delivery to reception points. And this means that there will be much less domestic waste and a much cleaner habitat around us.

In addition, the proposed design not only opens up a niche for creativity in the field of creating various kinds of stationary, portable, automatic and semi-automatic devices intended for deforming and storing containers, but also makes it possible to solve the following issues:

• the problem of the primary collection and accumulation of used containers by consumers at home for their subsequent delivery to reception points;

• the problem of directional deformation (compression) of the used packaging in order to ensure its identification in order to automate the processing at the receiving points;

• the possibility of reducing the complexity and cost of delivering used packaging to the disposal site;

• the possibility of a significant increase in the volume of deliveries of packaging for recycling with a significant reduction in the cost of vehicles;

• the possibility of reducing the cost of combustible materials;

• the possibility of reducing the cost of construction and rental of warehouse space, designed to create points of reception of used containers;

• the possibility of a significant improvement in the environmental situation.

The container design proposed as an invention (for example, tin and / or plastic cans, bottles) and its variants can be easily manufactured in industrial conditions. The need for such production and the widest introduction into production is obvious.

Information sources

1. Patents RB №№ 265, 266 on industrial designs; MKPO 9-01:

Official Bulletin number 2; 30.06. 2000

2. Patent No. 159I for a utility model; IPC H 65Ό 1/10; publ. Official Bulletin number 3, 30.09. 2000 (prototype).

Claims (4)

CLAIM 1. A container made in the form of a container, for example a can or bottle of thin, deformable material, on the walls of which there are convexities and depressions, characterized in that the convexities together with the depressions form a diagonal-cellular structure. 2. The container according to claim 1, characterized in that the convexity is made in the form of stiffeners and placed on the walls of the container on diagonals with an inclination in different directions. 3. A container made in the form of a container, for example a bottle containing a bottom, walls and a neck with a lid, on the walls of which there are convexities and depressions, characterized in that the convexities are made in the form of stiffeners placed on the walls of the container diagonally with different angles sides and forming together with the troughs a diagonal-cellular structure, the troughs being placed between the stiffeners, and the bottom of the container is made with a recess, the size and shape of which correspond to the size and shape of its neck with a lid. 4. A container made in the form of a container, for example a can, on the walls of which there are convexities and depressions, characterized in that the convexities are made in the form of stiffeners placed on the walls of the container diagonally with an inclination in different directions and together with the depressions form a diagonal cellular structure, while the hollows are placed between the stiffeners.