EP0046133A1 - Holder for carrying containers having flanged portions or edges, and blank therefor - Google Patents

Abstract

The recesses (60) in the carrying plate (3, 4) are surrounded by tongues (25) directed towards the edge collar (45) in the manner of barbs and the carrying plate consists of at least two layers (3, 4) which overlap each other at least partially, there being provided at the opening (59) in the counter-plate (6) at least one tab (8) which is folded out of said counter-plate, which tab forms a reinforcement element between the counter-plate (6) and the side wall (5) of the device. The blank made of a rectangular strip of cardboard or an appropriate material is distinguished by a centre field (6) arranged transversely to the strip axis and bounded by bending lines (2), intermediate fields (5) of approximately equal height (h) adjoining said centre field on both sides, and an end piece (3, 4) adjoining each of these intermediate fields and being separated from the intermediate field by a bending line, at least one of the end pieces having recesses (60) lying adjacently parallel to the bending line and having edge tongues (25) or openings (59) on a common axis (14) in each case with an opening or a recess in the centre field and a resting region, with which it is adjoined to the other end piece in the position of use of the device. <IMAGE>

Description

The invention relates to a support device for laterally projecting edge collars or the like. Containing edge parts, in particular bottles with a crown lid as an edge collar, in the form of a sleeve made of cardboard or a corresponding material strip with side walls on a support plate with recesses provided therein, which the mouths inserted into them - Or edge areas of the vessels below their edge collar, as well as with a counter plate adjoining the side walls, which has openings opposite the recesses of the support plate, the invention also detects a suitable cut.

Support plates with a plurality of circular recesses arranged next to one another are known, into which ice or yoghurt cups are inserted and held by their ring edge; this rests all around on the edge delimiting the recess, the diameter of the recesses roughly corresponding to the outer diameter of the cups below the ring edge.

It is also common to place ice cream or yoghurt cups in crates with internal compartments for fixing the cups. Such internal infills can also be designed in the form of the support plates described.

As is well known, there are bottle crates for carrying beverage bottles in standard dimensions with internal filling, which offers a square-shaped compartment for each bottle. The bottles are kept at a distance from one another in the compartments; they are separated from one another by thin infill walls, which extend approximately to the base of the bottle neck, where the cylindrical bottle body gradually tapers towards the actual bottle neck.

It is not possible to take several bottles as a group from that bottle crate. Bottle groups, however, are increasingly desired by beer drinkers in particular, which has led to the well-known triple or six-packs - i.e. outer cartons with a pull tab on the side, in which three or six beer cans or bottles are on the bottom of the carton and held by the rest of the outer carton.

In view of these circumstances, the inventor has set himself the goal of creating a carrying device of the type mentioned in the introduction, in particular for beer bottles with a crown closure, in which these vessels can be fixed without problems and can also be accommodated in groups in bottle crates. In addition, this support device should be easy and inexpensive to manufacture and connect to the bottles or the like. Within the scope of this objective, it was also necessary to develop an inexpensive cut for such a carrying device.

To achieve this object, the recesses of the support plate are surrounded by barbs directed against the edge collar and the support plates consist of at least two layers, which at least partially overlap each other, and that the opening of the counterplate has at least one flap which is folded out of it forms a stiffening element between the counterplate and the side wall of the device.

The blank for the carrying device according to the invention is characterized by a rectangular strip of cardboard or a corresponding material with a central field arranged transversely to the strip axis and delimited by folding lines, to which intermediate fields of approximately the same height are connected on both sides, with each of these intermediate fields - by a folding line partitioned by him - one end piece connects. According to the invention, at least one of the end pieces with recesses lying next to one another parallel to the fold line is provided with edge tongues or with openings on a common axis each with an opening or a recess in the middle field and has a contact area with which it is connected to the other end piece in the position of use of the device connected, for example glued.

According to a further feature of the invention, the blank has at least two rows of openings or recesses in the middle field and at least one associated row of recesses or openings in each of the end pieces.

In a preferred embodiment of high stability, the recesses are provided with the edge tongues in the end pieces, but the openings in the middle, so that the bottles hang on the then multi-layered support plate and are adjusted by the single-layer counterplate - the middle field of the blank. It has been shown that a very precise adjustment of the suspended Fla each other can be achieved, which allows the bottles combined by the device - preferably six in two rows - to be inserted into a bottle crate without collisions with the infill of the crate. The device, which sits on the group of bottles like a collar, is in any case above the infill of these standard groups, which accommodate these groups of bottles.

To this end, it is also helpful that the recesses - or the openings - of one end piece correspond to edge recesses of the other end piece, each of which or on a common axis with the recess. the breakthrough - the other end piece and the breakthrough - or the recess - of the midfield. The result of this cutting arrangement is that, in the finished device, the longitudinal recesses, that is to say each end piece, emanate from the longitudinal recesses which partially surround the recesses of the other layer.

Although there are devices with at least two recesses and openings associated therewith within the scope of the invention, it has proven to be particularly advantageous, as already mentioned, to combine six bottles each, for which purpose each end piece has a series of recesses parallel to the crease line and at a distance for this purpose has a series of edge recesses, the latter partially surrounding the recesses of the other end piece in the position of use of the device; each end piece is therefore preferably provided with a row of three recesses with edge tongues and - at a distance from this - a row of three edge recesses.

If the height of the middle field is slightly greater than the height of the end pieces, these overlap one another almost completely in the finished device; the support plate is particularly stable here.

In order to facilitate the handling of the device, at least one folding tab is provided in a grip hole in the end piece of the blank and is separated from the end piece by a bending line. In addition, a folding tab of one end piece corresponds to a folding tab of the other end piece with respect to the position of use of the device, so that the two folding tabs in the device lie on top of one another with their bending lines and can be pressed together towards the interior of the device. Since - according to a further feature of the invention - the top of the two long flaps has laterally projecting corners, horns or the like, they can reach behind the edge of the lower grip hole after bending the flaps and thus hold the long flaps in their bent position.

It is also within the scope of the invention that each recess - preferably arranged in the end piece of the blank - is produced by a circular bending line, from which radial cutting lines crossing a circular intersection towards the center of the circle produce sector tongues.

The finished device is placed on the prepared bottle groups by mechanical fingers; To engage these fingers in the device, according to the invention, partially circular or U-shaped cutting lines are applied to the kink lines delimiting the middle field, which cut-out tongues from the adjacent intermediate field cut out. These tabs are placed by the fingers on the middle field or the counter plate and reinforce them during pressing by the fingers.

A particularly well-balanced blank, which leads to a device of particularly high stability, has an axis of symmetry which coincides with the center line of the center field.

In the finished device, which obviously has to be adapted to the size of the bottles to be accommodated with regard to the diameter of the recesses or openings, the distance between the support plate and counterplate should correspond approximately to the distance between the edge collar of the bottle and the upper end of the actual bottle body; this end can be seen where the usually cylindrical bottle body tapers to the bottle neck and thus offers an outer surface inclined to the bottle axis, on which the counterplate of the device is supported. It is also within the scope of the invention that the perpendicular side wall of the device can be supported on the inclined outer surface of the bottle neck.

Of particular importance for the stability of the device according to the invention are the pairs of tabs which arise when the openings are created and which protrude into the interior of the device on both sides. Each of these tabs results in a reinforcement angle between the bottom of the device - that is to say the middle field of the blank - and the adjacent side wall - the intermediate field of the blank. It has even proven to be advantageous to have one on the edge of the tab facing the side wall To provide a protrusion which reaches into the intermediate field in the blank and lies against the side wall in the finished device and curves it a little outwards; if you lift the device with a bottle load, the side wall is firmly supported against the tab; there can therefore be no side wall that is curved toward the interior of the device.

Overall, the carrying device, which is produced in a simple manner from a cardboard blank, offers an inexpensive possibility of combining several bottles in a group, each of these groups being able to be accommodated without problems in conventional bottle crates. Since the so-called one-way bottles that were important in the past - which are housed in the above-mentioned cartons - are re-used in favor of reusable bottles, they are increasingly packed back in bottle crates; As a result, the outer cartons mentioned have lost their meaning, but can be replaced by the carrying device according to the invention.

• Fig. 1: die Draufsicht auf einen Zuschnitt zur Herstellung einer erfindungsgemäßen Vorrichtung;
• Fig. 2: eine Schrägsicht auf ein vergrößertes Detail der Fig. 1;
• Fig. 3: eine Schrägsicht auf einen vergrößerten Ausschnitt der Fig. 1;
• Fig. 4: ein Detail der Vorrichtung in geschnittener Schrägsicht;
• Fig. 5: eine Schrägsicht auf die Vorrichtung;
• Fig. 6: den vergrößerten Schnitt durch Fig. 5 nach deren Linie VI-VI;
• Fig. 7: ein Detail aus Fig. 6 zu einer anderen Ausführungsform;
• Fig. 8: die Seitenansicht der Vorrichtung in Gebrauchslage.

Further advantages, features and details of the invention emerge from the following description of preferred exemplary embodiments and with reference to the drawing; this shows in

• 1: the top view of a blank for producing a device according to the invention;
• FIG. 2: an oblique view of an enlarged detail of FIG. 1;
• 3: an oblique view of an enlarged section of FIG. 1;
• 4: a detail of the device in a sectional oblique view;
• 5: an oblique view of the device;
• FIG. 6: the enlarged section through FIG. 5 along the line VI-VI; FIG.
• FIG. 7: a detail from FIG. 6 for another embodiment;
• Fig. 8: the side view of the device in the use position.

A strip 1 of, for example, width b of 190 mm from a cardboard sheet of approximately 1 mm in thickness has a long-fiber structure by means of fold lines 2 in two end pieces 3, 4 of a height i of approximately 95 mm, two subsequent intermediate fields 5 of the same height h from here 80 and divided a middle field 6 of height m of about 110 mm.

The center field 6 has on each side of its transverse axis Q three pairs of tabs 7. Each of these plate pairs 7 is formed by two plates 8, which are each connected to the central field 6 along a bending line 9 which is perpendicular to the transverse axis. A short cutting line 10, parallel to the transverse axis Q, runs from the bending line 9 on each side of the flap and ends at the contact point 11 with a circular line 12 of radius r around a center point M, on which the cutting line continues as a curved piece 13 up to one parallel to the bending line 9 extending radial line 14 through the center of the circle M. This is also the dividing line for the tabs 8.

While the arc pieces 13 adjacent to the transverse axis Q extend up to this radial line 14, the opposite arc pieces (13 _a in FIG. 2) end at a distance n from the radial line 14 on an angled cutting line 16 forming a tongue 15. This tongue 15 engages over the Kink line 2 so that in the position shown in FIG. 2 at 8 _{k of} the flap 8 folded up in the direction z, it projects beyond that kink line 2 by a dimension e.

Between each two spaced-apart tongues 15, partially circular punched lines 17 are provided on the folding line 2, which produce corresponding folding tongues 18 on the folding line 2 in the intermediate field 5. The intermediate field 5 is - apart from the buckling tongues 18 - intact.

In the end piece 3, 4 circular bending lines 20 with the radius ^{q are provided} around a circle center P, which lies on an extension of that radial line 14, near the respective bending line 2.

The distance f of the center of the circle P from the fold line 2 corresponds to the distance c of the center of the circle M of the tabs 8 from the adjacent fold line 2.

Within the described circular bending line 20, a cutting line 21 creates an inner circular hole 22 and an annular cardboard strip 23 which is divided by radial cuts 24 into sector-like tongues 25 of height a of approximately 3 mm.

Fig. 3 also shows that the middle circular hole 22 is adjacent to an elongated flap 27 which is folded out of the cardboard plane 3 along a bending line 28 directed perpendicular to the crease line 2; the intersection line 29 for the long flap 27 is essentially in the form of an arc of a circle with corners 30 drawn back toward the bending line 28, which require wing ends 31 which are pointed at the long flap 27.

The end piece 4 is also provided with such long tabs 32; the die lines 28 _k are shorter than the bending lines 28 for the long flaps 27, so that the associated cutting line 29 _k - otherwise of the same shape - is also shorter and connected by almost straight side cutting lines 33 to the bending line 28 _k . If the end piece 3 is now placed over the other end piece 4 in such a way that the cutting lines 29 and 29 _{k of} two tabs 27 and 32 overlap, the position illustrated in FIG. 4 arises: the overlapping long tabs 27, 32 are bent downwards together ( Arrow y in FIG. 4), each projecting wing end 31 of the upper long flap 27 engages behind the cardboard part 34 delimited by the side cutting line 33 on the lower long flap 32; the long flap 27 is thus automatically held in the position shown against its restoring force.

In order to keep the areas of the circular bending lines 20 free in the overlap position of the end pieces 3 and 4 described in FIG. 5, three edge recesses 36 are provided on the strip end edges 35, which are separated by a semicircular line 37 of radius t ≧ q around a center point N on FIG. 14 and short subsequent straight line segments 38 are generated.

When the end piece 3 is placed on the end piece 4, a sleeve-like cardboard carrier 40 without end walls with circular holes 22 pointing upwards is formed. The center point P of each circular hole 22 of the end piece 3 lies with the center point N of the associated semicircular intersection line 37 of the end piece 4 and the center point M of the circular line 12 of the center field 6 on a vertical R. The situation is similar with the circular holes 22 of the end piece 4 or with their center points P and the assigned center points N, M.

The strip end edges 35 run at a distance s of, for example, 15 mm from the adjacent fold line 2. The distance f of the vertical R from the fold line 2 is dependent on the height h of the box girder 40. This is bent from - to the box interior 41 Folding tongues 18 attacking fingers (not shown) of a packaging machine are pressed onto six bottles 46, which are adjacent to one another in two rows (FIG. 5) and are closed by crown covers 45. The pairs of tabs 7 open towards the inner carrier groove 41 and thereby open approximately circular openings 59 for the bottles, the necks 47 of which bend the sector tongues 25 upward and remain in collar recesses 6o which are determined by those bending lines 2o. The upwardly directed sector tongues 25 engage like barbs behind the edge 44 of the crown cover 45 and hold the bottles 46 in place when the box girder or the cardboard sleeve 4o is raised by means of the grip holes 42.

At the same time, the intermediate field 5 - which also offers an advertising surface 43 - presses against the bottle necks 47 and additionally stabilizes against the outer edges 48 of the tongues 15. These are part of the tabs 8 between the - forming the bottom of the sleeve-like carton carrier 40 - Middle field 6 of the blanking strip 1, on the one hand, and on the other hand its intermediate field 5, which has become a side wall of the cardboard carrier 40, are arranged as tensioning elements.

The height h of the carton carrier 40 can be chosen so that its vertical side wall 5 lies directly against the bottle neck 47 (FIG. 6) or ends at a distance k (FIG. 7). The distance f of the vertical R from the kink lines 2 also changes accordingly.

The carton carrier 40 ensures a precise fit of the bottles 46 at a distance g from one another, so that the bottles 46 can easily be accommodated in a bottle crate 51 with a standardized compartment 52; due to the height h of the carton carrier 40, this lies according to FIG. 8 also above the upper edge 43 of that compartment division 52 of a height u.

8, the cardboard carrier 40 can easily be lifted by its grip holes 42 and moved with the bottles 46 firmly attached to it; The grip holes 42 either arise during the described packaging process by pressing down the long tabs 27, 32 by means of mechanical fingers - so that the grip holes 42 can already be used when the bottles 46 are inserted into a bottle crate 51 - or only when the long tabs are actuated 27, 32 through a user's fingers.

Claims (15)

1. Carrying device for laterally projecting edge collars or the like. Containing edge parts, in particular bottles with a crown lid as an edge collar, in the form of a sleeve made of cardboard or a corresponding material strip with side walls on a support plate with recesses provided therein, which the muzzle or Edge areas of the vessels encompass below their edge collar, as well as with a counterplate adjoining the side walls and having openings opposite the recesses in the support plate,
characterized,
that the recesses (60) of the support plate (3, 4) are surrounded by barbs (25) directed towards the edge collar (45) and the support plate consists of at least two layers (3, 4) which at least partially overlap one another, and that At least one flap (8) folded out of it is provided on the opening (59) of the counterplate (6) and forms a stiffening element between the counterplate (6) and the side wall (5) of the device. 2. Blank for a carrying device according to claim 1 made of a rectangular strip of cardboard or a corresponding material, characterized by a central field (6) arranged transversely to the strip axis and delimited by folding lines (2), intermediate fields (5) of approximately the same height adjoining this (h) and with an end piece (3, 4) adjoining each of these intermediate sections and separated from the intermediate section by a kink line, at least one of the end pieces having recesses (60) lying next to one another parallel to the kink line with edge tongues (25) or openings (59) each has a common axis (14) with an opening or a recess in the middle, and a support area with which it is connected to the other end piece in the position of use of the device, in particular the recesses (60) surrounded by edge tongues (25) in the End pieces (3,4) and the openings (59) are provided in the middle field (6). 3. blank according to claim 2, characterized by at least two rows of openings (59) or recesses (60) in the middle field (6) and in each case at least one assigned series of recesses or openings in each of the end pieces (3 or 4), and that If necessary, the recesses or openings of one end piece (3 or 4) correspond to edge recesses (36) of the other end piece (4 or 3), each of which on a common axis (14) with the recess or the opening of the other end piece and the opening or the recess of the middle field (6) lies. 4. Blank according to claim 2 or 3, characterized in that each end piece (3,4) parallel to the crease line (2) has a series of recesses (60) and a distance from it a number of edge recesses (36), the latter in the position of use the device partially surrounds the recesses of the other end piece, the height (m) of the central field (6) possibly being slightly greater than the height (i) of the end pieces. 5. Cutting according to at least one of claims 2 to 4, characterized in that in the end piece (3 or 4) at least one flap (27 or 32) is provided in a grip hole (42) and divided by a bending line (28) from the end piece is, preferably a flap (27) of one end piece (3) corresponds to a flap (32) of the other end piece (4) in relation to the position of use of the device, that the bending lines (28) of the end pieces running in the longitudinal direction of the flap are aligned with each other, whereby the contour of the one flap (27) with the formation of wing-like projections (31) on both sides of the bending line projects beyond the edges (29) of the associated flap (32) of the other end piece (4). 6. Blank according to claim 4 or 5, characterized in that the flap (27 or 32) of an end piece (3 or 4) on both sides of a recess (60) with mutually facing bending lines (28) are arranged. 7. Cutting according to at least one of claims 2 to 6, characterized in that each of the openings (59) in the middle field (6) is generated by a pair of tabs (7), which by an approximately in the common axis (14) with the / the assigned cut (s) (60) falling line is divided into its two tabs (8), each of which is attached to the center field via a bending line running approximately parallel to the cutting line. 8. Cutting according to claim 7, characterized in that at least parts of two cutting lines, which run on both sides of the bending line (9) to the central cutting line, determine the edge (13) of the opening (59) and optionally the outer cutting line (13) of the pair of tabs (7th ) partly lies on a circular line (12). 9. blank according to claim 7 or 8, characterized in that each of the two tabs (8) of a pair of tabs (7) at least on the next fold line (2) facing edge is provided with a projection directed towards the fold line (15), which optionally in the adjacent intermediate field (5) is sufficient. ₁ 0. Cutting according to at least one of claims 2 to 9, characterized in that on the fold lines (2) delimiting the middle field (6), part-circular or U-shaped cut lines (17) of the intermediate field (5) are attached and tongue-like tabs on the fold line (18) generate. 11. The device according to claim 1 for beverage bottles with a bottle neck tapering from the bottle body to the edge collar, characterized by a distance (h) between the support plate (3, 4) and counterplate (6), which is approximately the distance between the edge collar (44) and the corresponds to the upper end of the bottle body. 12. The apparatus according to claim 11, characterized in that from the longitudinal edge of each layer (3 or 4) emanate edge recesses (36) which partially surround the recesses (16) of the other layer, where appropriate the distance (s) of the longitudinal edge of the Layers (3 or 4) from the adjacent fold lines (2) of the other layer is shorter than the distance (f) from their common center line for their recesses (60). 13. The apparatus according to claim 11 or 12, characterized in that the layers (3, 4) have overlapping grip holes (42) which produce long flaps (27, 32) overlapping bending lines (38), the long flap of the upper layer ( 3) The edge of the lower grip hole projects laterally. 14. Device according to one of claims 11 to 13, characterized in that each opening (59) of the counterplate (6) is flanked by a pair of tabs (7) folded out of it and the tab (8) is directed towards the side wall (5) Has projection (15), the outer edge (48) can be applied to the inner surface of the side wall. 15. The apparatus according to claim 14, characterized in that the side wall is slightly curved outward by the tab (8) in the unloaded state.

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