EP0094530A2 - Plastic bottle case and bottle packaging obtained with this case - Google Patents

Abstract

To solve the problem, the previous bottle crates for twenty euro bottles with a bottle diameter of 70.5 mm, in which the bottles are arranged in five rows of four bottles and which have the outer dimensions 400 mm x 330 mm, so that For bottles standing in straight rows, the outer dimensions can be reduced to 400 mm x 300 mm in order to be able to stack these bottle crates tightly using the standardized pallet dimensions, a bottle crate is formed in the interior of which bottle storage spaces are formed by spacers arranged in free spaces between the bottles are, each consisting of two equal, 180 ° offset columns, designed so that each column has three corners, two corners of which are arranged on the side of the column facing the adjacent column of the pair of columns, while the third corner on one imaginary line that is perpendicular to the connecting line of the other two corners that j Each column is made up of two obtuse-angled walls, which converge at an acute angle on the side remote from the space between two columns of a pair of columns and that each corner is provided with a bead running perpendicular to the box floor.

Description

The invention relates to a bottle crate made of plastic, in its free of partition walls interior Flascheneinstellplätze fixed by the bottle bottom of the box and are formed perpendicular to desem extending, arranged in free spaces between the bottle spacer body, each consisting of two equal to 18 ₀ ° to one another twisted by far there are pillars that run away from each other and run out into roof-shaped surfaces, which are arranged in opposite gaps of the free space between four bottles in such a way that the free spaces between two columns of a pair of columns lie on an imaginary line that runs between two rows of bottle storage spaces. The invention further relates to a flat packaging, which consists of a bottle crate with these features and can be used in this bottle crate, at least a number of bottles receiving cardboard packaging, in the bottom of which holes are provided for the passage of the spacers.

Such a bottle crate is from the

DE-OS 29 14 993 become known. The advantage of this bottle crate is that it can also be used in bottle carriers made of cardboard or cardboard bottle groups can be used together with this bottle carrier, both bottle carrier for a row and bottle carrier can be used for several rows of bottles. These bottle carriers cry for the spacers only bottom holes, but no recesses in the side walls, which is very beneficial to the stability of these bottle carriers and at the same time fully preserves the advertising surfaces on the side walls of the bottle carriers.

The present invention is about the solution to the problem, the previous bottle crates for twenty euro bottles of a bottle diameter 7 ₀ , 5 mm, in which the bottles are arranged in five rows of four bottles and the outer dimensions 4oo mm x 33o mm have to be designed in such a way that the dimensions of bottles standing in straight rows can be reduced to 400 mm x 3oo mm so that these bottle crates can be stacked tightly using the standardized pallet dimensions.

Many sides have attempted to solve this problem. So far, however, all attempts to arrange the bottles in straight rows have failed because the long side walls of the bottle crate had to be made too thin. Such a crate can be designed and also manufactured, but it does not outlast the rough operation that the bottles have boxes are not only exposed in the packaging and unpacking machines, but are also exposed during transport and storage in high stacks. The lack of stability of the very thin long side walls could not be avoided by special stabilization measures, which are avoided, for example, by a special design of the dividing walls inside the bottle crate and special constructions for connecting these dividing walls to the long side walls. For this reason, bottle crates were created in which the bottle storage spaces in the interior are not arranged in straight rows. With the honeycomb-shaped partition walls inside the bottle crate, the width dimension of 300 mm could be achieved with sufficient stability of the long side walls, but this arrangement of the bottle storage spaces in non-straight rows has the disadvantage that the gripper heads in the packaging and unpacking machines have to be changed and then difficulties occur when gripping bottles running in straight lines to the packaging machines.

It is the object of the invention to provide a bottle crate in which at least the bottles standing in rows parallel to the end walls of the bottle crate are extremely narrow without touching one another.

The invention solves this problem based on a bottle crate of the type mentioned in that each column has three corners, two corners of which are arranged on the side of the column facing the adjacent column of the column pair, while the third corner lies on an imaginary line which is perpendicular to the connecting line of the other two corners, that each column consists of two obtuse-angled walls are constructed, which converge at an acute angle on the side remote from the space between two columns of a pair of columns and that each corner is provided with a bead running perpendicular to the box bottom.

If you want to arrange bottles very closely in rows that run parallel to the end walls of a bottle crate, then you must not have partition walls inside the bottle crate, because these partition walls require three times the space between them because of the necessary play between them and the bottle circumference two bottles without a partition wall is minimally required. The invention achieves this by constructing the columns from two obtuse-angled walls, the columns also being reinforced by three beads running perpendicular to the bottom of the box. This special shape of the columns enables the distance between the individual bottles to be effectively reduced to almost 0.5 mm and this distance to be maintained even during dynamic loads during transport. As a result, the bottles are extremely tight without touching. The advantage has been preserved that bottles can be used both individually and in bottle carriers with any number of rows in the bottle box.

For a high stability of the bottles, which are arranged directly in front of the end walls, it is particularly advantageous if a row of individually standing columns is arranged in front of each end wall, which are aligned with the rows of pairs of columns inside the box and where the apex of the angular cross-section is directed into the box interior.

In order to give the bottles adjacent to the longitudinal side wall a good stability, it is expedient if pairs of ribs are arranged on each longitudinal side wall, the gaps of which they enclose align with the row of gaps between the pairs of columns.

• 1. In jeder parallel zu den Stirnseitenwänden verlaufenden Reihe von Flascheneinstellplätzen sind die Flascheneinstellplätze durch die säulenförmigen Abstandskörper mit einem Abstand von o,5 bis 1,5 mm angeordnet.
• 2. Jeder Abstandskörper besteht aus zwei um 18₀° zueinander verdrehten, mit Abstand voneinander stehenden, oben in dachförmige Flächen auslaufenden Säulen, die in gegenüberliegenden Zwickeln des Freiraumes zwischen je vier Flascheneinstellplätzen derart angeordnet sind, daß die Freiräume zwischen je zwei Säulen eines Säuleinpaares auf einer gedachten Linie liegen, die zwischen zwei Reihen von Flascheneinstellplätzen verläuft.
• 3. Jede Säule weist einen winkelförmigen T-förmigen oder Y-förmigen Querschnitt auf.
• 4. Jede Säule läuft seitlich im Querschnitt in drei Ecken aus, von denen zwei Ecken auf der der benachbarten Säule des Säulenpaares zugewandten Seite der Säule angeordnet sind, während die dritte Ecke auf einer gedachten Linie liegt, die senkrecht zu der Verbindungslinie der beiden anderen Ecken verläuft.
• 5. Vor jeder Stirnseitenwand ist eine Reihe von einzeln stehenden Säulen angeordnet, die mit den Reihen von Säulenpaaren im Inneren des Kastens fluchten.
• 6. Die Ecken des Flaschenkastens sind als Hohleoksäulen ausgebildet, deren durchgehende Innenwand in der Ecke benachbart zur Längsseitenwand angeordnete Flascheneinstellplätze teilweise umfaßt.
• 7. Jeder Flaschenträger aus Karton ist an seinen vertikalen Ecken zumindest im Bodenbereich abgerundet und weist Laschen auf, die die Eckflaschen bzw. Endflaschen an der Stirnseite des Trägers zumindest im Bodenbereich umfassen.

The characteristics of this bottle crate make it possible to produce a stable crate that meets all the usual stability requirements for a bottle crate and whose base area is not larger than 300 mm x 4oo mm, with a straight-line arrangement of the rows for 4 x 5 = Euro bottles of a bottle diameter of 70.5 mm. The features of this bottle crate can even be used to produce a bottle packaging that, with these narrow dimensions, allows the bottles to be placed not only individually in the bottle crate, but even in the bottle crate that can be inserted into the bottom of the bottle crate, in the bottoms thereof Holes are provided for the passage of the columnar spacers. This bottle packaging is characterized by the combination of the following note times:

• 1. In each row of bottle storage spaces running parallel to the end walls, the bottle storage spaces are arranged at a distance of 0.5 to 1.5 mm by means of the columnar spacers.
• 2. Each spacer consists of two rotated by 18 ₀ ° to each other, spaced from each other, tapering into roof-shaped surfaces, which are arranged in opposite gaps of the free space between four bottle storage spaces so that the free spaces between two columns of a pair of columns an imaginary line that runs between two rows of bottle storage spaces.
• 3. Each column has an angular T-shaped or Y-shaped cross section.
• 4. Each column runs laterally in cross section into three corners, two corners of which are arranged on the side of the column facing the adjacent column of the pair of columns, while the third corner lies on an imaginary line which is perpendicular to the connecting line of the other two corners runs.
• 5. A row of individually standing columns is arranged in front of each end wall, which are aligned with the rows of column pairs inside the box.
• 6. The corners of the bottle crate are designed as hollow locomotive columns, the continuous inner wall of which in the corner, adjacent to the longitudinal side wall, partially includes bottle storage spaces.
• 7. Each bottle carrier made of cardboard is rounded at least in the bottom region at its vertical corners and has tabs which comprise the corner bottles or end bottles on the front side of the carrier at least in the bottom region.

This bottle packaging is characterized in that the individual external dimensions of 3oo mm x 4oo mm can be maintained with full stability of the bottle crate, without the individual bottles touching during transport in cardboard packaging as individual bottles during transport.

The bottle crate of this bottle packaging receives its high stability to a large extent via the corner pillars. It is therefore expedient if the corner pillars of the bottle crate protrude upwards over the upper edge of the side walls and / or protrude downwards over the lower edge of the side walls and the bottom. Because then the loads are diverted downwards through the corner pillars alone.

In order to facilitate this stacking of the bottle crates and to ensure that the bottle crates of a stack cannot move against each other, it is expedient if the corner pillars are directed upwards by an inwardly directed heel of the wall thickness of the corner pillars, which are in a transverse plate merges, are closed.

If the spacer columns are angular in cross section have, it is expedient if each pillar angular in cross section is constructed from two obtuse-angled walls which converge at an acute angle on the side remote from the space between two pillars of a pair of pillars. This gives these columns excellent stability against vertical loads.

It is advantageous if two pairs of ribs are arranged in the bottle crate on each long side wall, the gaps between them being aligned with the row of gaps between the pairs of columns. These ribs give the long side walls stability and the bottles guidance and stability at the same time.

• Fig. 1 eine Ansicht des Flaschenkastens von oben,
• Fig. 2 einen Querschnitt durch Abstandskörper längs der Linie II-II,
• Fig. 3 eine Ansicht eines Abstandskörpers entsprechend einem Querschnitt längs der Linie III-III,
• Fig. 4 eine Ansicht einer Säule eines Abstandekörpers entsprechend einem Querschnitt IV-IV,
• Fig. 5 eine Ansicht von oben auf ein Viertel eines Flaschenkastens,
• Fig. 6 eine Ansicht von unten auf ein Viertel des Bodens eines Flaschenkastens,
• Fig. 7 einen Querschnitt durch ein Viertel eines Flaschenkastens oberhalb des Flaschenkastenbodens,
• Fig. 8 eine Ansicht eines einreihigen Flaschenträgere,
• Fig. 9 eine Ansicht des Bodenteiles des Kartonzuschnittes dieses Flaschenträgers,
• Fig. lo eine Ansicht eines zweireihigen Flaschenträgers,
• Fig. 11 eine Ansicht des Bodenteiles des Kartonzuschnittes des Flaschenträgers,
• Fig. 12 eine Seitenansicht des Flaschenkastens der Fig. l.

The essence of the invention is explained below with reference to an embodiment shown schematically in the drawing. Show it:

• 1 is a top view of the bottle crate,
• 2 shows a cross section through spacers along the line II-II,
• 3 is a view of a spacer corresponding to a cross section along the line III-III,
• 4 is a view of a column of a spacer according to a cross section IV-IV,
• 5 is a top view of a quarter of a bottle crate,
• 6 is a bottom view of a quarter of the bottom of a bottle crate,
• 7 shows a cross section through a quarter of a bottle crate above the bottle crate bottom,
• 8 is a view of a single-row bottle carrier,
• 9 is a view of the bottom part of the cardboard blank of this bottle carrier,
• Lo is a view of a two-row bottle carrier,
• 11 is a view of the bottom part of the carton blank of the bottle carrier,
• 12 is a side view of the bottle crate of FIG. L.

The bottle crate has end side walls 1 and longitudinal side walls 2, and a bottom which is formed from annular webs 3 and straight webs 4. The annular webs 3 are connected by the individual straight web pieces 4, further straight web pieces 4 connect annular web pieces to the longitudinal side walls 2. Semicircular web pieces 31 are connected to the end wall 1. The annular and annular web pieces 3, 31 carry the spacers in the form of the columns 5. These columns 5 are arranged in pairs and enclose a free space 6 between them which, when bottles packed in bottle carriers are used in the bottle crate, the side walls of the Bottle carrier can accommodate. At its lower end, the two columns 5 pass directly into the ring web 3 through horizontally extending surface pieces 7. Accordingly, the individual columns 5 on the semicircular webs 31 in front of the end faces 1 of the bottle crate are at a distance 61 arranged so that in this space 61 between the inside of the end wall 1 and the outward side of the column 5, a sufficient space is created for receiving the side wall of a bottle carrier.

In order to give the bottle crate sufficient stability, the corners in particular are made very strong. This is done in that the bottle crate located in the corner is surrounded on the outside by a double-walled corner column which is formed from the inner wall 8 and the outer wall 9 and encloses a cavity which is formed from the two parts lol, lo2, which are connected to one another can be related, of which the part lol lies directly in the corner, while the cavity lo2 extends into the gusset between the two bottles standing in the corner on the long side wall. The inner wall 8 nestles against the dashed lines lo shown in dashed lines.

In the line of alignment 11 of the interspaces 6 between each pair of columns 5, on the longitudinal side wall there is the interspace between two ribs 12 formed in an inclined position on the longitudinal side wall, which end in a vertically extending bead 13.

Each column 5 is constructed from two obtuse-angled walls 14 which are located on the space 6 between two columns 5 Side converge at an acute angle and here are provided with a bead 15 at this point forming a corner of the column. The two other free ends of the obtuse-angled walls 14 are also each provided with a bead 16. In the walls 14 there is a narrow, elongated recess which serves to save weight.

Each bottle carrier 18 has openings 19 in its bottom for the passage of the columns 5 when it is placed in the bottle crate. On the end faces of the base, tabs 20 are attached, which after the bottles have been placed on the base are pushed upwards and pressed against the cylindrical part of the bottle wall before the side walls are pushed upwards. As a result, the corners of the bottle carrier are somewhat rounded, so that such bottle carriers can be used well in the bottle crate shown here in the drawing.

A side view of the bottle crate is shown in FIG. It can be seen here that the longitudinal side wall surfaces 2 in the area of the corner pillars each have an upward extension above the upper edge 22 of the longitudinal side wall 2, which ends in a shoulder 23 which serves to center a bottle crate stacked above it. The paragraph 23 is closed at the top by a horizontal plate. This paragraph 23 and the horizontal plate adjoining it enter the corner column of the bottle crate stacked above from below. With 24 a handle hole in the side wall 2 is designated.

Claims (10)

1.Bottle case made of plastic, in the interior of which there are free partition walls, bottle storage spaces are formed by spacers attached to the bottom of the bottle crate and extending perpendicularly to it and arranged in free spaces between the bottles, each of which is made up of two identical, spaced from one another by 18 ₀ ⁰ , there are columns that run out into roof-shaped surfaces at the top, which are arranged in opposite gaps of the free space between four + bottles each such that the free spaces between two columns of a pair of columns lie on an imaginary straight line that runs between two rows of bottle storage spaces,
characterized,
that each column (5) has three corners, two corners of which are arranged on the side of the column (5) facing the adjacent column (5) of the column pair, while the third corner lies on an imaginary line (22) which is perpendicular to the connecting line of the other two corners runs that each column is made up of two obtuse-angled walls (14) which converge at an acute angle on the side remote from the free space (6) between two columns (5) of a pair of columns and that each corner has a perpendicular to it Box bottom extending bead (15, 16) is provided. 2. Bottle crate according to claim 1,
characterized,
_d ate a narrow, elongated recess (21) is provided in at least one wall (14) of the column (5). 3. Bottle crate according to claim 1,
characterized,
that in front of each end wall (1) a row of individually standing columns (5) is arranged, which are aligned with the rows of pairs of columns (5) inside the box. 4. Bottle crate according to claim 1,
characterized,
that pairs of ribs (12) are arranged on each longitudinal side wall (2), the gaps of which they enclose are aligned with the row of gaps (6) between the pairs of columns (5). 5.Bottle packaging, consisting of a plastic bottle crate with straight rows of bottle storage spaces, without dividing walls on the inside with spacers attached to its bottom, perpendicular to the floor, arranged in free spaces between the bottle storage spaces and with at least one row that can be inserted into it Bottle-containing cardboard packaging, in the bottom of which holes are provided for the passage of the column-shaped spacers, characterized by
the combination of the following features: 1. In each row of bottle storage spaces (lo) running parallel to the end walls (1), the bottle storage spaces (lo) are arranged by the columnar spacers (5) at a distance of 0.5 to 1.5 mm. 2. Each spacer consists of two rotated by 180 ° to each other, spaced from each other, at the top in roof-shaped surfaces tapering columns (5), which are arranged in opposite gussets of the free space between four bottle storage spaces (lo) such that the free spaces between each two columns (5) of a pair of columns lie on an imaginary line that runs between two rows of bottle storage spaces (lo). 3. Each column (5) has an angular, T-shaped or Y-shaped cross section. 4. Each column (5) ends laterally in cross section in three corners, two corners of which are arranged on the side of the column (5) facing the adjacent column (5) of the pair of columns, while the third corner lies on an imaginary line, which is perpendicular to the line connecting the other two corners. 5. In front of each end wall (1) a row of individually standing columns (5) is arranged, which are aligned with the rows of pairs of columns inside the box. 6. The corners of the flash box are designed as hollow corner pillars, the continuous Inner wall (2) in the corner adjacent to the longitudinal side wall arranged bottle adjustment places partially. 7. Each bottle carrier made of cardboard is rounded at least in the bottom area at its vertical corners and has tabs (2o) which comprise the corner bottles or end bottles on the front side of the carrier at least in the bottom area. 6. bottle packaging according to claim 5,
characterized,
that the corner pillars of the bottle crate protrude upwards over the upper edge of the side walls (1, 2) and / or protrude downwards over the lower edge of the side walls and the bottom. 7. bottle packaging according to claim 5,
characterized,
that the corner pillars are closed at the top by an inward shoulder from the wall thickness of the corner pillars, which merges into a transverse plate. 8. bottle packaging according to claim 5,
characterized,
that each cross-sectionally angular column (5) is constructed from two obtuse-angled walls (14) which converge at an acute angle on the side remote from the free space (6) between two columns (5) of a pair of columns. 9. bottle packaging according to claim 5,
characterized,
that a narrow elongated recess (17) is provided in at least one wall (14) of the column (5). lo. Bottle packaging according to claim 5,
characterized,
that on each longitudinal side wall (2) two pairs of ribs (12) are arranged, the spaces between them enclosed with the row of spaces (6) between the pairs of columns (5).

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