EP0368595B1 - Palette mit Elementen, um Behälter festzusetzen - Google Patents

Palette mit Elementen, um Behälter festzusetzen Download PDF

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EP0368595B1
EP0368595B1 EP89311480A EP89311480A EP0368595B1 EP 0368595 B1 EP0368595 B1 EP 0368595B1 EP 89311480 A EP89311480 A EP 89311480A EP 89311480 A EP89311480 A EP 89311480A EP 0368595 B1 EP0368595 B1 EP 0368595B1
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Christopher Simon Courtenay Wheaton
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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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  • the present invention relates to a container-locating pallet, particularly for locating a plurality of generally-cylindrical containers so that they can be stacked in groups on top of each other.
  • the invention is particularly applicable to beer containers, and the term "generally-cylindrical container" is intended to include beer barrels.
  • the object of the present invention is to provide a container-locating pallet which is sufficiently strong to withstand the considerable stresses to which such pallets are subject in use but which is arranged to allow at least a limited degree of relative pivotal movement between adjacent parts.
  • a container-locating pallet defining positions for supporting and positively locating generally-cylindrical containers on its upper surface, the positions being interconnected by hinge means which allow them to pivot relative to each other to a limited extent.
  • Such a pallet may be arranged to rest on a flat surface but is preferably arranged to rest on one group of containers and to support a second group of the containers directly above the first.
  • the number of containers supported by the pallet may vary but preferably comprises multiples of two: a pallet arranged to support four containers in a square arrangement is convenient.
  • each position preferably has a circular base, which may be solid or consist of an open framework, with upstanding and dependent flanges around its periphery for engaging the lower and upper edges respectively of containers on and beneath the pallet.
  • the circular bases are preferably slightly spaced from each other and interconnected by members formed with the hinge means for allowing the desired relative pivoting
  • the hinge means used may vary according to the material used for the pallet itself but, in a preferred embodiment, the pallet is moulded from plastics material and the hinge means are preferably constituted by integrally-moulded hinges. Each such hinge is preferably formed at the junction of the periphery of a circular base with a web of plastics material which connects that base to the adjacent base either directly or with the interpositioning of a strengthening strut.
  • Connecting webs and/or struts are preferably provided between adjacent portions of the bases at the centre of the pallet and near the periphery of the pallet.
  • the webs and/or struts may also be arranged to provide supports for supporting the pallet on a flat surface.
  • the preferred plastics materials for the pallet is a high-density polyethylene, or a polypropylene but a polyamide (e.g. NYLON) or acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) copolymer is also usable.
  • the pallet is preferably made by injection moulding.
  • a container-locating pallet is shown generally indicated 1 for use with beer barrels indicated 2 in Figure 2.
  • the pallet 1 is integrally moulded from plastics material and defines a support plane indicated X-X with four container-locating positions each indicated 3 arranged in a square formation, that is, with their centres arranged at the corners of a square.
  • Each position 3 is formed for lightness, strength and economy of material by a circular locating frame 3a constituted by two concentric circular members 4, 5 joined by radial connectors 6.
  • the inner member 4 is of simple square section but the outer member 5 is formed with projecting flanges 7 which project alternately upwardly and downwardly out of the support plane X-X, in the normal orientation of use of the pallet 1.
  • the outer surfaces 8 of the flanges 7 are substantially perpendicular to the support plane X-X but the inner surfaces 9 are inclined and arranged to contact the inclined surface of a barrel 2 located in the respective position 3 above or below the pallet 1.
  • the flanges 7 may be solid, as shown, but are preferably channel-shaped, and provided with internal reinforcing struts.
  • the four locating frames 3a are slightly spaced from each other and interconnected by four inner connecting strut members 10, each of which interconnects the frame members 5 of two adjacent frames 3a such that the four strut members form a square framework in the centre of the pallet 1.
  • the frames 3a are also interconnected by four outer connecting strut members 11, each of which interconnects two adjacent frame members 5 such that the four strut members 11 lie on a square near the outer periphery of the pallet 1.
  • Each strut member 10, 11 includes a strut proper 10a, 11a which is connected to a locating frame 3a at each end by flat webs 12 and 13 of plastics material, each of the order of 1mm-2mm thick: each web 12 lies in the plane X-X and is connected to the external periphery of the respective frame member 5 along one edge while each web 13 is dependent from the opposite free edge of the web 12 and supports the respective end of a strut 10a or 11a which thus lies beneath the plane X-X.
  • the struts 10a, 11a may be solid, as shown, but are preferably constituted by downwardly-open channel sections with their lower edges terminating in flat bases.
  • the lower edges 14 of the strut members 10, 11 are, in any case, parallel to the plane X-X and at the level of the lower edges of the lower flanges 7: the pallet 1 can thus be rested on a flat surface supported by the edges 14 and the lower flanges 7.
  • connection of the webs 12 to the respective frame members 5 constitute hinges, the axes of some of which are indicated Z-Z in the drawings.
  • the webs 12 are in fact notched along these line to form the hinges.
  • These hinges Z-Z allow each locating frame 3a to be pivoted through a few degrees relative to the other three frames, out of the plane X-X, without this pivoting disturbing the other frames.
  • each frame 3a can be displaced up to about 100mm out of the plane X-X.
  • This feature enables the pallets 1 to be used with beer barrels of slightly different sizes as made by different manufacturers. It is, in fact, found that such barrels, which are nominally the same size, differ in height by as much as 10mm or more: in palleted stacks, eight barrels high, the base of one barrel on the top pallet is frequently 100mm higher than the bases of the other barrels. When it is tried to use prior art pallets in such stacks, they are found to be unstable whereas the pallets of the present invention accommodate such differences while still having sufficient strength and rigidity to support the stack.

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Claims (10)

  1. Palette zur Unterbringung von Containern (1) mit Positionen (3) zur Unterstützung und zur sicheren Unterbringung von im allgemeinen zylindrischen Containern auf ihrer oberen Fläche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Positionen (3) durch Scharniervorrichtungen (12) verbunden sind, die es ihnen ermöglichen, sich im beschränkten Maße relativ zueinander zu drehen.
  2. Palette nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Positionen (3) Grundbasen (3a) umfassen, die voneinander beabstandet sind und durch Verstrebungsvorrichtungen (10, 11) verbunden sind, wobei benachbarte Basenpaare durch zwei solcher Vorrichtungen verbunden sind, und zwar einer auf jeder Seite einer die Centren von zwei Basen verbindenen Linie und wobei jede Verstrebungsvorrichtung mindestens an einem Ende einer Base drehbar befestigt ist.
  3. Palette nach Anspruch 2, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Palette (1) vier Basen (3a) aufweist, die im Viereck angeordnet sind und daß die vier Verstrebungsvorrichtungen (10) die benachbarten Teile der Basen in Richtung auf die Mitte des Viereckes verbinden, ebenfalls in Viereckform angeordnet sind.
  4. Palette nach Anspruch 2 oder 3, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß jede Verstrebungsvorrichtung (10, 11) eine im wesentlichen starre Strebe (10a, 11a) mit einem flachen Steg oder einer flachen Platte (12) an jedem Ende umfaßt, die mit der zugeordneten Base (3a) drehbar verbunden sind.
  5. Palette nach Anspruch 2 bis 4, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Streben (10a, 11a) jeder Verstrebungsvorrichtung (10, 11) sich unter der horizontalen Tragplatte (X-X) der Palette, definiert durch die Basen (3a) in normaler Lage beim Gebrauch der Palette, befinden und mit jeder zugehörigen Base (3a) durch einen L-förmigen Steg oder eine Platte (12, 13) verbunden sind, wobei ein waagerechter Teil (12) mit der Base (3a) und ein zugehöriger senkrechter Teil (13) mit der Strebe (12a, 11a) verbunden sind, so daß die unteren Kanten der Streben (10a, 11a) coplanar sind und die Palette auf einer flachen Oberfläche stützen können.
  6. Palette nach Anspruch 5, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß jede Base (3a) zugehörige randständige und nach oben zeigende Flansche (7) aufweist, die Vorrichtungen zum sicheren Unterbringen der Container bilden, und daß die unteren Kanten der zugehörigen Flansche (7) coplanar mit unteren Kanten der Streben (10a, 11a) sind.
  7. Palette nach einem der Ansprüche 2 bis 6, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Palettenbasen und die verbindenden Verstrebungen aus Kunststoffmaterial geformt sind.
  8. Palette nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 7, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Palette einstückig mit den Scharniervorrichtungen aus Kunststoffmaterial geformt ist.
  9. Palette nach Anspruch 4 bis 6 und Anspruch 8, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß jedes Scharnier aus einem länglichen Schlitz im Verbindungssteg (12) besteht, wobei der Schlitz sich benachbart zur Peripherie der mit dem Steg verbundenen Base befindet.
  10. Palette nach Anspruch 1 bis 9, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Scharniervorrichtungen so ausgebildet sind, daß eine Position auf der Palette von der Ebene einer benachbarten Position nur um einen Faktor von bis zu etwa 20 % des Durchmessers dieser Position entfernt werden kann.
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WO1992012906A1 (en) * 1991-01-17 1992-08-06 Comalco Aluminium Limited Pallet
US5769003A (en) * 1996-09-05 1998-06-23 Formall, Inc. Keg pallet
WO2000078633A1 (en) 1999-06-18 2000-12-28 Cypherco Limited Container-locating tray

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WO1992012906A1 (en) * 1991-01-17 1992-08-06 Comalco Aluminium Limited Pallet
US5769003A (en) * 1996-09-05 1998-06-23 Formall, Inc. Keg pallet
WO2000078633A1 (en) 1999-06-18 2000-12-28 Cypherco Limited Container-locating tray
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