EP0260698A1 - Receptacle hand grip, especially for crates - Google Patents

Abstract

1. Bottle case of plastic material having at least one grip for transporting the case, characterised in that at least one grip of the case is designed with a plurality of closely spaced lamellas (7) on at least one section of said case.

Description

The invention relates to a plastic bottle crate according to the preamble of claim 1.

In bottle crates, which are predominantly injection-molded in one piece from plastic, the most varied of embodiments are known, but all of them have in common that at least one handle, primarily in one of the side walls, is provided, which facilitates the handling of the crate, in particular its transport. The predominant handle design is that a through opening is provided in a side wall near the upper edge of the box, which delimits a spar-like handle body between itself and the upper box edge. To grasp the box, take your hand from above over the upper edge of the box and put your fingers through the handle opening so that the hand encloses the spar-like upper edge of the box so that the box can be lifted and transported. For crates that are filled with full bottles, especially the 20-way crates that are mainly used, this presents difficulties due to the weight. The ideal shape of a handle as fully solid trained handle can not reasonably be realized due to the necessary material savings in plastic injection molded boxes. In addition, certain cycle times are specified in the manufacture of bottle crates, which do not allow a handle to be fully shaped as a full profile on the bottle crate, particularly since such a handle would also experience cooling difficulties. A fully trained handle would also lead to a corresponding increase in weight and thus run counter to the efforts to make the bottle crate as light as possible.

Another disadvantage of the conventional bottle crate for the carrying behavior is that the upper crates of the crate are mostly profiled for reasons of stabilizing the side walls and also the grip areas of the crates, so that when the crates are gripped, the profile edges of the profiles are gripped by hand, which press into the hand with the appropriate weight of the boxes.

The object of the invention is to provide a bottle crate which, with sufficient stability, guarantees a material-saving handle design compared to a full profile, which enables bottle crates to be carried comfortably.

This object is achieved by the features contained in the characterizing part of claim 1.

According to the invention, the grip areas of a handle are divided into a plurality of closely spaced lamellae, which makes the ideal form of a full profile with a closed handle surface, but nevertheless achieves a material-saving effect and a technically reasonable implementation of these handles, taking into account the cooling cycles of plastic injection molded boxes. The lamellae, which are preferably designed with round edges, provide a quasi-closed grip surface, which makes it easier to carry even heavy bottle crates. Furthermore, the lamella formations in the area of the grip areas, which are endangered anyway for reasons of stability, lead to an increase in stability, which has an overall positive effect on the rigidity of the bottle crates. Compared to a conventional handle of a bottle crate with a U-shaped handle bar, a handle with slats only increases the weight by about 10 to a maximum of 30%, which is extremely cheap compared to the full profile and nevertheless guarantees the advantages of the full profile.

The lamellae can be raised in relation to the handle body, and they can be arranged on only one or more surfaces of the handle body and in part or over the entire circumference of the body. According to an alternative embodiment, the lamellae are formed in that corresponding recesses are formed next to one another in the handle body, two adjacent recesses between them delimiting the lamellae, which advantageously runs flush with the rest of the handle body, ie. H. the generators of the slats merge flush into the box wall sections adjacent to the grip area.

To increase the grip area, it is preferred that the free slat edges are thickened in the manner of knobs. However, the lamellar edges are rounded in a structurally simple manner.

According to an advantageous development of the invention, the slats are formed in a carrier element which can be retrofitted into a correspondingly profiled grip body, the protruding slats then forming the actual gripping surface of the bottle crate.

• Fig. 1 eine Draufsicht auf einen Teil eines Flaschenkastens entsprechend einem Schnitt längs Linie C-C von Fig. 3,
• Fig. 2 eine Seitenansicht des in den Fig. 1 und 3 dargestellten Flaschenkasten, wobei die rechte Hälfte von Fig. 2 eine Ansicht von außerhalb des Flaschenkastens und die linke Hälfte von Fig.2 eine Ansicht des Flaschenkastens von innen in Richtung auf die Schmalseite zeigt, und zwar entsprechend eines Schnitts längs der Linie B-B von Fig.1
• Fig. 3 einen Teil des in den Fig. 1 und 2 dargestellten Flaschenkastens in Seitenansicht, wobei die linke Hälfte des Kastens nach Fig. 3 eine Schnittansicht längs Linie A-A von Fig. 1 zeigt,
• Fig. 4 eine weitere Ausführungsform eines Flaschenkastens in Draufsicht ähnlich der Fig. 1, wobei das obere linke Viertel eine Ansicht des Flaschenkastens von unten und die untere Hälfte eine Schnittansicht des Flaschenkastens zeigt,
• Fig. 5 eine Ansicht des in Fig. 4 dargestellten Flaschenkastens analog der Ansicht in Fig. 2,
• Fig. 6 eine Seitenansicht des in den Fig. 4 und 5 dargestellten Flaschenkastens in einer Ansicht analog der von Fig. 3,
• Fig. 7 einen Teil eines Flaschenkastens zur Darstellung eines Griffkörpers in Schnittansicht,
• Fig. 8 eine schematische Aufsicht auf einen Griffkörper mit drei alternativen Ausführungsformen von Lamellenausbildungen.

Exemplary embodiments of the invention are described below with reference to the drawing. Show in it

• 1 is a plan view of part of a bottle crate corresponding to a section along line CC of FIG. 3,
• 2 shows a side view of the bottle crate shown in FIGS. 1 and 3, the right half of FIG. 2 showing a view from outside the bottle crate and the left half of FIG. 2 showing a view of the bottle crate from the inside towards the narrow side , namely according to a section along the line BB of Fig.1
• 3 shows a part of the bottle crate shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 in a side view, the left half of the crate according to FIG. 3 showing a sectional view along line AA of FIG. 1,
• Fig. 4 shows another embodiment of a bottle crate in plan view similar to that 1, the upper left quarter showing a view of the bottle crate from below and the lower half a sectional view of the bottle crate,
• 5 is a view of the bottle crate shown in FIG. 4 analogous to the view in FIG. 2,
• 6 is a side view of the bottle crate shown in FIGS. 4 and 5 in a view analogous to that of FIG. 3,
• 7 shows a part of a bottle crate for showing a handle body in a sectional view,
• Fig. 8 is a schematic plan view of a handle body with three alternative embodiments of lamella designs.

In the bottle crate shown in FIGS. 1 to 3, a handle 2, best seen in FIG. 2, is formed in the narrow side designated by 1, the T-shaped handle body 3 of which is delimited by two L-shaped through openings 4a and 4b. The handle body 3 is composed of a handle bar 5 on a vertical handle bar 6. The grip bar 6 is designed as a hollow profile, as can best be seen from the sectional view in FIG. 1.

1 and 2, the handle bar 5 is divided on its surface facing the inside of the box and at the top of the box into individual slats 7, which are closely spaced and parallel to each other are arranged. These slats 7 are formed by corresponding cutouts 8 in the handle body or in the handle bar 5, each slat 7 being delimited by two cutouts 8. 1 to 3, the grip area of the handle bar 5, which is gripped by the hand when carrying the box on the handle bar 5, is broken down into individual, closely spaced lamellae 7. If necessary, the vertical handle bar 6 can be divided into slats.

The shape of the slats 7 or the recesses 8 is best shown in FIG. 3. Thereafter, the handle body 3 is formed in the region of the handle bar 5 from an L-shaped web 9, from the inside 10 of which the slats 7 toward the inside of the box protrude at right angles. 3 runs flush with the upper end 12 of the web 9 and the inner edge 13 of the web 7 runs essentially parallel to the web 9 and flush with the end 14 of the web 9 Gripping the box hand-coming edge 15 of the slats 7 is rounded. The ends 12 and 14 into which the lamella edges merge are also preferably rounded. In the embodiment of FIGS. 1 to 3, the slats 7 are regular, that is. H. Equal to each other and have the same narrow distance from one another, so that a quasi-closed, that is to say largely adapted to a closed grip surface is formed, which allows a comfortable gripping of the bottle crate.

In addition to the T-shaped handle 2 in the narrow side 1 of the box, a further handle, formed by a passage opening 16, is formed in the longitudinal side wall of the box, the upper handle bar 17 of which can also be designed with lamellae 18, but which is only shown schematically table are shown in Fig. 3 without further details. Fig. 3 shows, however, that the slats 18 are of different lengths and thus adapted to the gripping surface of the hand.

The embodiment according to FIGS. 4 to 6 differs only slightly from the embodiment according to FIGS. 1 to 3, as far as the formation of the L-web 9 and the slats 7 adapted to it are concerned. Specifically, the L-leg 19 of the web 9 is angled upward at its front end, but here again the inner edge 13 of the lamella 7 runs flush with the rounded front end 14 of the web 9. Fig. 5 shows that in the area of the transition between handle bar 5 and vertical handle bar 6, the slats 7 are formed with increasing length.

Fig. 7 shows the upper part of a box edge, which forms a U-shaped handle body 3, which is delimited below by a recess 19 in the side wall of the box. Slats 7 extend at a short distance from one another within the profile of the handle body 3, a slat 7 being visible on the basis of the sectional illustration in FIG. 7. The lamella 7 is convexly curved outwards in the region of the grip surface at 20.

FIG. 8 shows only schematically different designs of lamella edges, the lamellae 7 being expanded like a mushroom at 21 at the upper end in accordance with the illustration on the left. The lamellae shown in the middle are round at their free lamella edges at 22, whereas the lamellae shown at the right are lump-shaped at 23 at their ends. Due to the lateral expansion of the free lamella edges 21 and 23, these embodiments are through one of the closed gripping surfaces largely approximated gripping surface. Of course, further deviations of the slat shape and the slat arrangement are possible. In particular, the slats can be aligned horizontally and / or vertically and / or diagonally, intersect and. Like ..

Claims (15)

1. bottle crate made of plastic, which is designed with at least one handle for transporting the crate,
characterized by
that at least one handle of the box is formed on at least one section with a plurality of closely spaced lamellae (7). 2. Box according to claim 1,
characterized by
that the slats (7) are arranged parallel to each other. 3. Box according to claim 1 or 2,
characterized by
that the lamellae are formed by spaced recesses (8) in the handle body (3), two lamellae (7) delimiting between them. 4. Box according to one of the preceding claims,
characterized by
that the lamellae (7) are lamellar. 5. Box according to one of the preceding claims,
characterized ekennzeichnet g,
that the slat edge (11, 13) with the handle body (3) is flush. 6. Box according to one of the preceding claims,
characterized by
that the slats (7) have rounded edges. 7. Box according to one of the preceding claims,
characterized by
that the lamellae (7) are formed on one or more surfaces of the handle body (3), primarily on one or both broad surfaces of the handle body (3). 8. Box according to one of the preceding claims,
characterized by
that the slats (7) extend vertically, horizontally and / or diagonally with respect to the bottle crate. 9. Box according to one of the preceding claims,
characterized by
that the slats (7) protrude at right angles from the handle body (3). 10.box according to one of the preceding claims,
characterized by
that the lamellae (7) are of different heights in adaptation to the hand curvature or to the finger limbs. 11.Box according to one of the preceding claims,
characterized by
that the handle body (3) is formed in the region of the lamella section by a web-like profile (9) and that the lamellae (7) protrude from at least one side of the web. 12.Case according to claim 11,
characterized by
that the web-like profile is formed by an L-shaped web (9), from the inside (10) of which the slats (7) protrude, the length and width of the slats corresponding to the web height and the length of the L-leg, such that the The lamellar edges (11, 13) merge flush into the ends (12) or (14) of the web (9). 13.Box according to one of the preceding claims,
characterized by
that the lamellae (7) are arranged at such a distance from one another that a quasi-closed gripping surface is formed. 14.Box according to one of the preceding claims,
characterized by
that the slats are rounded at their free slat edges or with knobs (21, 23). 15.Box according to one of the preceding claims,
characterized by
that the slats (7) are formed on a carrier element which can be inserted into a correspondingly profiled handle body (3) in such a way that the slats (7) form the gripping surface.

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