EP0162162B1 - Crate - Google Patents

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EP0162162B1
EP0162162B1 EP84303473A EP84303473A EP0162162B1 EP 0162162 B1 EP0162162 B1 EP 0162162B1 EP 84303473 A EP84303473 A EP 84303473A EP 84303473 A EP84303473 A EP 84303473A EP 0162162 B1 EP0162162 B1 EP 0162162B1
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crate
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Michael James Warwick
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Metal Box South Africa Ltd
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Teknol Holdings Inc
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Priority to DE8484303473T priority patent/DE3480788D1/de
Priority to AT84303473T priority patent/ATE48818T1/de
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D71/00—Bundles of articles held together by packaging elements for convenience of storage or transport, e.g. portable segregating carrier for plural receptacles such as beer cans or pop bottles; Bales of material
    • B65D71/70—Trays provided with projections or recesses in order to assemble multiple articles, e.g. intermediate elements for stacking

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  • This invention relates to a bottle crate.
  • Typical crates of the aforesaid nature are disclosed in Belgian Patent No. BE-A-693216 and German Patent No. DE-A-1486412. A further relevant document is WO 82/01536.
  • DE-A-1486412 shows a crate with depending and upstanding formations for engaging bottles.
  • neither type of formation is in the form of a socket for each bottle, and the upstanding formation is only a surrounding rim.
  • WO 82/01536 again has upwardly and downwardly extending formations, necks of bottles being securely gripped (because the crate of WO 82/01536 is a "hang" bottle carrier) but the upwardly extending formations give only slight restraint to bottles thereabove making it unsuitable as a base-like support for bottles.
  • the invention provides a bottle crate comprising a base, a plurality of primary formations, upstanding from the base and defining primary sockets for receiving lower portions of the bottles, a plurality of secondary formations depending from the base and defining secondary sockets for receiving upper portions of bottles, each secondary formation and its socket being disposed beneath and in register with a primary socket (see WO 82/01536) characterised:-
  • the formations defining the secondary sockets may each have any suitably disposed inner surfaces or surfaces for engaging shoulder portions of bottles received in the secondary sockets in such a way that the crate can be supported on the shoulder portions of the bottles.
  • This enables bottles extending into the primary sockets of one crate and into the secondary sockets of a crate located above it to support the upper crate.
  • crates in which bottles are located can be stacked above one another to hold the bottles in position even if the height of each crate body is much less than the height of the bottles and the crates located one above another do not touch each other.
  • the crate may be formed of moulded plastics material, preferably as a unitary crate, the formations then being integral with the body.
  • the crate shown in the drawing is a one-piece crate of moulded plastics material, designed for receiving bottles of a predetermined shape.
  • the crate comprises a body with a base 10 and secondary formations 12 integral with and primarily depending downwardly from the base, ten such secondary sockets 12 being provided in the embodiment shown.
  • the body defines twelve uniformly positioned primary sockets 14.
  • the sockets are bordered by a peripheral wall 16 of the body and hollow pillar- like formations 18 spaced from the wall 16 and extending upwardly from the base.
  • Each primary socket is intended snugly to receive the lower portion of a bottle.
  • each secondary socket 20 being formed within a respective secondary formation 12.
  • each secondary formation 12 is double-walled and is provided with strengthening webs 22.
  • An inner wall of each secondary formation 12 provides an annular, inclined and concave inner shoulder surface 24 for engaging a concave shoulder portion of a bottle having a neck extending into the secondary socket 12.
  • the face 24 is profiled to suit particular bottles with which the crate is to be used.
  • Ribs 26 extend inwardly from the wall 22 of each secondary formation 12 to guide and locate the neck and a closure member of a bottle.
  • Each formation 12 is designed so that, when its surface 24 engages the shoulder portion of a bottle, the closure member on the bottle is spaced from annular flange 28 towards the upper part of the respective formation, thus reducing the likelihood of damage to the closure member.
  • each secondary formation 12 The upper part of each secondary formation 12 is an annular rim 30 which extends upwardly above the level of the base for engaging the bottom of a bottle received in the primary socket 14 if the bottom of the bottle is flat or slightly concave. Similar annular rims 32 are provided in primary sockets 14 which are not above formations 12. However, the base is provided with annular surfaces 34 at the bottom of each of the primary sockets 14 for engaging the bottom of a bottle if the bottom of the bottle is concave to such an extent that the bottle will not rest on a rim 30 or 32.
  • the primary sockets 14 and secondary formations 12 are dimensioned and located so that, when crates similar to that shown are stacked one on top of another, the secondary formations 12 of one crate extending downwardly into the primary sockets 14 of another crate and are substantially wholly received within the primary sockets 14. This means that the total height of the crates, when stacked, is substantially less than the cumulative total of the heights of all of the crates.
  • the lower portions of the bottles are located in the primary sockets 14 and are snugly received therein.
  • One crate containing bottles is then stacked on top of another crate containing bottles so those bottles having their lower portions in the primary sockets 14 of one crate also have their upper portions in the secondary sockets 20 of another crate.
  • the inner surfaces 24 of the secondary sockets 20 engage the shoulders of these bottles, and the upper crate is therefore supported on the bottles of the lower crate.
  • the design of the formations and sockets is such that undesirable tilting or rocking of the stacked crates is limited.
  • two formations 12 have been omitted from locations 36 opposite ends of the crate, as shown.
  • the ends of the crates are provided with square U-shaped ribs 38 each with a hollow central part 40 and spaced limbs 42 to provide a hand grip arrangement on the bottom of the base.

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EP84303473A 1984-02-20 1984-05-22 Crate Expired EP0162162B1 (en)

Priority Applications (5)

Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
ZA841225A ZA841225B (da) 1984-02-20 1984-02-20
GB08410942A GB2158044B (en) 1984-02-20 1984-04-28 Crate
EP84303473A EP0162162B1 (en) 1984-02-20 1984-05-22 Crate
DE8484303473T DE3480788D1 (de) 1984-05-22 1984-05-22 Kasten.
AT84303473T ATE48818T1 (de) 1984-05-22 1984-05-22 Kasten.

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ZA841225A ZA841225B (da) 1984-02-20 1984-02-20
EP84303473A EP0162162B1 (en) 1984-02-20 1984-05-22 Crate

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EP0162162A1 EP0162162A1 (en) 1985-11-27
EP0162162B1 true EP0162162B1 (en) 1989-12-20

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US5660279A (en) 1992-07-29 1997-08-26 Rehrig Pacific Company, Inc. Stackable low depth bottle case
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EP0162162A1 (en) 1985-11-27

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