EP0252017A2 - Zusammenlegbare Kiste, insbesondere für Obst oder Gemüse - Google Patents

Zusammenlegbare Kiste, insbesondere für Obst oder Gemüse Download PDF

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EP0252017A2
EP0252017A2 EP87830168A EP87830168A EP0252017A2 EP 0252017 A2 EP0252017 A2 EP 0252017A2 EP 87830168 A EP87830168 A EP 87830168A EP 87830168 A EP87830168 A EP 87830168A EP 0252017 A2 EP0252017 A2 EP 0252017A2
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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
    • B65D11/00—Containers having bodies formed by interconnecting or uniting two or more rigid, or substantially rigid, components made wholly or mainly of plastics material
    • B65D11/18—Containers having bodies formed by interconnecting or uniting two or more rigid, or substantially rigid, components made wholly or mainly of plastics material collapsible, i.e. with walls hinged together or detachably connected
    • B65D11/182—Containers having bodies formed by interconnecting or uniting two or more rigid, or substantially rigid, components made wholly or mainly of plastics material collapsible, i.e. with walls hinged together or detachably connected comprising two side walls hinged along the sides of a base panel and to an upper frame and two other side walls being hinged only to the upper frame
    • B65D11/1826—Containers having bodies formed by interconnecting or uniting two or more rigid, or substantially rigid, components made wholly or mainly of plastics material collapsible, i.e. with walls hinged together or detachably connected comprising two side walls hinged along the sides of a base panel and to an upper frame and two other side walls being hinged only to the upper frame and one or more side walls being foldable along a median line

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  • the present invention relates to a folding crate, particularly suited for carrying fruit and vegetable products. More particularly, ' the invention relates to a parallelepiped shaped crate,'in'plastic material, which, when open, has the look of an usual crate for fruit, but which can be closed, by folding its side walls, when empty, in such a way as to occupy an extremely reduced volume.
  • Said packing implies undoubtedly some great advantages, such as the greater ease of products' handling, while safeguarding their integrity, the possibility of selling the goods at a controlled net weight, as well as of highly respecting the hygienic-sanitary rules, during all handlings from the moment of harvest to that of consumption.
  • Fruit and vegetable products are usually forwarded to distribution on heavy transport vehicles, mostly by land, such as lorries, trailer trucks or box-cars, in which the crates are stowed, by stacking them in piles, so as to obtain a compact and stable load, just thanks to the parallelepiped shape of containers.
  • plastic material crates which, when empty, can be disassembled and folded so as to occupy a minimum possible of space, thus allowing to gather the empty crates, corresponding to several loads of goods, in just one return load.
  • the four side walls are each hinged to a side of the base, and are completely separated one from another, in such a way that they can be individually folded to lay upon the base wall, turning around their hinges.
  • the crate is opened by lifting the four walls in a vertical position, fastening them mutually along the vertical edges, so as to lock them in the open shape.
  • Said structure however appears to be unreliable when loaded, since, not being a rigid unit, it tends to open in correspondence with the vertical corners under the stress of the contained weight, and mostly, owing to same cause, it cannot be stacked in rather high piles.
  • the crate On that purpose it is suggested according to the invention to manufacture the crate with a new . fold system, and to supply it with a one piece rigid upper edge which keeps safely joined the four side walls.
  • the crate is folded by turning over two of the walls, mutually opposed, inwardly through rotation around said upper edge, and by folding the other pair, still inwardly, thanks to a hinge dividing them by half of their height; through such operation the rigid upper edge is lowered down to nearing the base wall and the crate takes up the shape of a rectangular plate whose thickness equals that of the bottom wall plus that of the edge.
  • a folding crate particularly suitable for carrying fruit and vegetable products, made out by a rigid, rectangular bottom wall, by a rigid, rectangular upper edge, by two first, opposed side walls, being each subdivided at half height by one horizontal hinge and being hinged, each of them, along the lower side to the bottom wall and along the upper one to the upper edge, and by two second, opposed side walls, each one being hinged only to the upper edge and separated from the other walls along the remaining three sides, there being provided first blocking means for fastening each one of the second side walls to the bottom one as well as to the first side walls.
  • first side walls On each of first side walls second blocking means are provided, in correspondence with the middle hinge, in order to secure the vertical position of the wall, thus 'avoiding that it might bend outwardly, in correspondence with the hinge.
  • First blocking means are formed by several cogs projecting from the surfaces of first side walls as well as of bottom wall, which fit in suitable seats provided on the corresponding surfaces of second side walls.
  • Second blocking means are formed, on their turn, by a set of cogs projecting, alternately, from either of the two parts in which is divided each of the two first side walls, which fit in suitable seats, alternately provided on both said parts, each one from the side opposed to its appropriate cog.
  • First side walls 3 are hinged, by their upper part 4, to edge 2, and by their lower part 5, to bottom wall 1, while the second side walls 7 are only hinged to edge 2.
  • Hingings can be provided in several ways, by placing along the appropriate lines some hinge's stretches of a variable length and differently spaced; for instance along line 6 one can see two hinges 8 placed at both ends, while other hinges can be seen in 9 and 10.
  • the first one is implemented with end hinges 9 and with intermediate couplings 11, while the second one is formed by several hinges of the same type as 10 and 12, placed at regular intervals.
  • the first motion for closing the crate is to turn both sides 7 around their hinging line with edge 2, towards the inside and upwardly.
  • both walls 7 have taken up the horizontal position, then walls 3 can be folded, by pushing inwardly hinging line 6, as shown in figure 3.
  • some blocking means are provided, fastening the three free sides of each of the walls 7 to adjacent walls 3 .and 1.
  • Said means can be differently shaped as coggings,particularly as shown in figure 6, where can clearly be seen cogs 13 on the edge of bottom wall 1 and cogs 14 on the vertical surface of side walls 3.
  • Said cogs mate with suitable seats on walls 7, some of which are shown by 15 in figures 1 and 2.
  • cog type blocking means 16 are provided between the two parts 4 and 5 of side walls 3 (shown in figures 1 and 2 and, better, in figure 6) in order to avoid that walls bend outwardly owing to load's push.
  • a crate of the type now described preferably made out of plastic material, can be used to contain and to carry any type of objects, whenever it be desirable to avoid the burden of empty crates.
  • the crate's walls When used for carrying fruit and vegetable products, the crate's walls can be advantageously holed for ventilation, in correspondence with the zones marked in the figures by dash and dot lines, which can be occupied by holes of sundry shapes and dimensions and differently arranged.

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EP87830168A 1986-05-22 1987-05-06 Zusammenlegbare Kiste, insbesondere für Obst oder Gemüse Withdrawn EP0252017A3 (de)

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IT3583886U IT210873Z2 (it) 1986-05-22 1986-05-22 Cassetta pieghevole,adatta in particolare per il trasporto di prodotti ortofrutticoli
IT3583886U 1986-05-22

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EP0252017A2 true EP0252017A2 (de) 1988-01-07
EP0252017A3 EP0252017A3 (de) 1989-05-10

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Cited By (9)

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WO1993003968A1 (de) * 1991-08-13 1993-03-04 Schoeller-Plast S.A. Behälter aus kunststoff zur aufnahme von gegenständen, insbesondere von obst und gemüse
DE4317300C1 (de) * 1993-05-25 1994-09-01 Delbrouck Franz Gmbh Kastenförmiger aufeinander und ineinander stapelbarer Behälter aus Kunststoff
GB2288387A (en) * 1994-04-07 1995-10-18 Appax Co Ltd Foldable box
EP1050475A1 (de) * 1999-05-06 2000-11-08 Polimer Plast S.r.l. Kiste für Handelsware
CN101941555A (zh) * 2009-07-03 2011-01-12 邱文政 蔬果收纳用容器
EP2448256A3 (de) * 2010-10-27 2013-10-30 PeTa Bearbeitungstechnik GmbH Zusammenklappbarer Modulkörper sowie aus dem Modulkörper gebildete Wand
CN106742520A (zh) * 2017-04-01 2017-05-31 陈烁 折底式果蔬周转筐
CN107572089A (zh) * 2017-09-28 2018-01-12 浙江正基塑业有限公司 快速拆装的快递箱
RU199191U1 (ru) * 2020-01-24 2020-08-21 Алексей Викторович Тимофеев Складной контейнер

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US2755955A (en) * 1955-08-29 1956-07-24 James M Gordon Collapsible lug box
US3709396A (en) * 1971-04-23 1973-01-09 H Cole Collapsible cargo container
US3796342A (en) * 1972-06-05 1974-03-12 Pinckney Molded Plastics Collapsible container
US3870185A (en) * 1972-06-05 1975-03-11 Pinckney Molded Plastics Collapsible container
EP0067323A2 (de) * 1981-06-12 1982-12-22 Uwe W. Friedrich Zusammenklappbarer Transportkasten
EP0075655A1 (de) * 1981-09-30 1983-04-06 Stucki Kunststoffwerk und Werkzeugbau GmbH. Zusammenklappbarer Kasten aus Kunststoff
GB2119759A (en) * 1982-05-08 1983-11-23 Kibble Anthony W Collapsible carrying container
DE3510541A1 (de) * 1984-04-13 1985-10-24 Kunimori Kagaku Co. Ltd., Nagoya, Aichi Faltbarer behaelter

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US2755955A (en) * 1955-08-29 1956-07-24 James M Gordon Collapsible lug box
US3709396A (en) * 1971-04-23 1973-01-09 H Cole Collapsible cargo container
US3796342A (en) * 1972-06-05 1974-03-12 Pinckney Molded Plastics Collapsible container
US3870185A (en) * 1972-06-05 1975-03-11 Pinckney Molded Plastics Collapsible container
EP0067323A2 (de) * 1981-06-12 1982-12-22 Uwe W. Friedrich Zusammenklappbarer Transportkasten
EP0075655A1 (de) * 1981-09-30 1983-04-06 Stucki Kunststoffwerk und Werkzeugbau GmbH. Zusammenklappbarer Kasten aus Kunststoff
GB2119759A (en) * 1982-05-08 1983-11-23 Kibble Anthony W Collapsible carrying container
DE3510541A1 (de) * 1984-04-13 1985-10-24 Kunimori Kagaku Co. Ltd., Nagoya, Aichi Faltbarer behaelter

Cited By (12)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
WO1993003968A1 (de) * 1991-08-13 1993-03-04 Schoeller-Plast S.A. Behälter aus kunststoff zur aufnahme von gegenständen, insbesondere von obst und gemüse
DE4317300C1 (de) * 1993-05-25 1994-09-01 Delbrouck Franz Gmbh Kastenförmiger aufeinander und ineinander stapelbarer Behälter aus Kunststoff
DE4317300C2 (de) * 1993-05-25 2000-03-23 Delbrouck Franz Gmbh Kastenförmiger Behälter aus Kunststoff
GB2288387A (en) * 1994-04-07 1995-10-18 Appax Co Ltd Foldable box
GB2288387B (en) * 1994-04-07 1997-11-12 Appax Co Ltd Foldable box
EP1050475A1 (de) * 1999-05-06 2000-11-08 Polimer Plast S.r.l. Kiste für Handelsware
CN101941555A (zh) * 2009-07-03 2011-01-12 邱文政 蔬果收纳用容器
EP2448256A3 (de) * 2010-10-27 2013-10-30 PeTa Bearbeitungstechnik GmbH Zusammenklappbarer Modulkörper sowie aus dem Modulkörper gebildete Wand
CN106742520A (zh) * 2017-04-01 2017-05-31 陈烁 折底式果蔬周转筐
CN106742520B (zh) * 2017-04-01 2018-05-18 陈烁 折底式果蔬周转筐
CN107572089A (zh) * 2017-09-28 2018-01-12 浙江正基塑业有限公司 快速拆装的快递箱
RU199191U1 (ru) * 2020-01-24 2020-08-21 Алексей Викторович Тимофеев Складной контейнер

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