EP0726206B1 - Pièce de manutention du type emboítable ou superposable - Google Patents

Pièce de manutention du type emboítable ou superposable Download PDF

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EP0726206B1
EP0726206B1 EP19960400217 EP96400217A EP0726206B1 EP 0726206 B1 EP0726206 B1 EP 0726206B1 EP 19960400217 EP19960400217 EP 19960400217 EP 96400217 A EP96400217 A EP 96400217A EP 0726206 B1 EP0726206 B1 EP 0726206B1
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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
    • B65D21/00—Nestable, stackable or joinable containers; Containers of variable capacity
    • B65D21/02—Containers specially shaped, or provided with fittings or attachments, to facilitate nesting, stacking, or joining together
    • B65D21/06—Containers specially shaped, or provided with fittings or attachments, to facilitate nesting, stacking, or joining together with movable parts adapted to be placed in alternative positions for nesting the containers when empty and for stacking them when full
    • B65D21/066—Containers specially shaped, or provided with fittings or attachments, to facilitate nesting, stacking, or joining together with movable parts adapted to be placed in alternative positions for nesting the containers when empty and for stacking them when full the movable parts being supports or feet, e.g. retractable feet, pivotable supports

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  • the invention relates to the general field of parts for handling products, trays or bins, which can either be positioned in the interlocking of parts one inside the other, for their storage and vacuum transport under reduced volume, either stacked on the others, when they are full.
  • DE-A-2613958 describes a handling part according to the preamble of claim 1
  • a proposed solution consisted of a tank not comprising more than the bottom and the two side walls opposite bearing support flaps.
  • the invention provides a handling part according to claim 1.
  • the user will be able to have a room of simple construction and economical, which enables variable requirements to be met which arise between the place of packaging of the products and the place of sale, being able to be closed peripherally, if necessary, to protect its content or, on the contrary, open to ventilate it properly and highlight, while being superimposable with other identical empty or full rooms, thanks to (x) mobile means (s) associated with the pillar (s), this (s) pillar (s) stiffening the room and ensuring in particular the balance of the stacks.
  • the piece of the invention will present itself from preferably in the form of a tray practically devoid, with the exception of its pillar (s), of walls erected sideways significantly limiting lateral access to the box.
  • the part is thus usable both for the transport of products from the harvesting site only to the point of sale, since it has a very structured open and resistance at the same time, which allows a particularly attractive and neat presentation of vegetables or fruit (in particular), with easy access to these, saving time and reducing handling costs.
  • the support means comprises at minus a removable panel which, in the first state, is stands on the periphery of said bottom, closing laterally the part and, in the second state, releases notably the lateral access to said part.
  • the part thus ensures even better protection of products it contains up to the point of sale where the panel can be removed.
  • the pillar (s) advantageously comprises at least one upright element longitudinal consolidation which has sections profiles, on one side, in groove and, facing, in rib, so that, when nesting two overlapping parts, the rib of one of the parts engages in the groove of the other part.
  • the support means may be located substantially at the end of connection of the pillar (s) while being carried by the bottom or the pillar (s) in the active and non-active states.
  • the part can perfectly meet the requirements combined with a very open structure and a safe nesting / stacking of several identical parts.
  • retractable support means everything means which, when in an active state, maintains two Identical stacking parts stacked (spacing between the bottoms of the pieces) and which, when in a retracted or inactive state, no longer constitutes a obstacle for maximum engagement of the pillars of a room in those in the other room, which pieces are so nested.
  • the part referenced in its set in 1 includes a bottom 4 supposed to be horizontal, here quadrilateral (for example, dimension 400 x 800 mm for easy palletizing), of which stands at least one essentially hollow pillar, height H and axis substantially vertical 8; in this case, three pillars 6a, 6b and 6c arranged at the bottom edge.
  • quadrilateral for example, dimension 400 x 800 mm for easy palletizing
  • these pillars are included in the volume delimited by a fictitious vertical straight line moving along the edge of the bottom 4, the pillars 6a and 6b being here placed on a long side of the rectangular bottom 4, substantially at opposite ends of this large side, the third pillar 6c being placed along the edge of the large opposite side, substantially in the middle of this side.
  • These three pillars are advantageously arranged in a triangle.
  • the bottom and the pillars will be made in one piece, for example plastic molded, the part 1 being presented as a tray of wide open handling between its pillars (see completely open between some of the pillars).
  • the product support bottom 4 is essentially planar, with an opening under each pillar for accessibility from below inside pillars that are hollow.
  • This bottom has a belt drooping 12 substantially vertical, discontinuous on the short sides of the bottom to form handles 14 of gripping the tray 1.
  • the bottom On its upper face 4a, the bottom has advantageously an erect border, or wall primer, 16 for the stiffening of the part.
  • This border includes the species two portions that extend peripherally, one between pillar 6a and pillar 6c and the other between pillar 6b and pillar 6c.
  • This border of low height (for example 2 to 5 cm approximately), may include (as illustrated) a longitudinal groove 18 for engaging and holding panels in position or partitions 42 detailed below.
  • the pillars here have a quadrilateral section rectangle and have walls inclined to axis 8, so that their base 22 for connection to bottom is more important than their upper end opposite 24.
  • the pillar wall is essentially full, the end 24 being closed here and the end 22 being open.
  • the pillars 6a, 6b and 6c have the general shape of a truncated pyramid and each advantageously comprises at least one element longitudinal reinforcement 26.
  • the pillars 6a, 6b and 6c have the general shape of a truncated pyramid and each advantageously comprises at least one element longitudinal reinforcement 26.
  • three reinforcing elements arranged in a triangle are formed on each of the pillars 6a, 6b and 6c.
  • These elements 26 preferably extend substantially over the entire height pillars, to stiffen them and prevent their deformation by heavy loads (heavy products or stacking of parts over significant heights).
  • each element 26 has sections which form, on the inner face 30 of the wall of the pillar, a rib or projection 32 and which, on the face outside 34 of the pillar wall, form a groove 36.
  • the section of element 26 increases regularly from the end 22 towards end 24.
  • the rib could be formed on the face 34 and the groove on the face 30, the section of the element 26 then decreasing by the base end 22 towards the vertex end 24.
  • the shape of the groove is complementary to that of the rib, so that a rib of a pillar of a piece slides and engages in the pillar groove of a identical part, when these two parts fit together.
  • the element 26 has four sides forming a corner V in pairs variable opening, the two V being nested.
  • each pillar has internally, towards its end 24, stop means in maximum nesting of a pillar of an underlying part in a pillar of room 1.
  • stop means consist here in a vertical partition 50 which extends across the interior passage of each pillar.
  • the tray advantageously includes an element 10 for stiffening the part, the height h of which is here less than H (alternatively h could be equal to H).
  • This reinforcement stands from the bottom and extends in this case between pillars 6a and 6b, with which it will be formed of molding.
  • This element 10 is hollow, open at its base for that its cavity is accessible from below the bottom, and has walls inclined to the vertical of so that its base is more important than its Mountain peak.
  • the cavity of this element 10 communicates with the interior passages of pillars 6a and 6b.
  • element 10 of a underlying piece is nested in that of the overlying piece.
  • Tray 1 also includes at least one means retractable support, functionally linked to a pillar. This means is arranged across at least part of the pillars and forms a horizontal support surface for the piece 1 when placed on another identical piece 1 '( Figure 5), in the first previously active state defined, clearing the interior of the pillars in the second not active state.
  • three means of support are provided which are respectively associated with pillars 6a, 6b and 6c, being located substantially at their end of connection 22.
  • these means include three flaps 38 fixed to the lower face 4b of the bottom, being each mounted articulated in rotation around an axis 28 by example substantially parallel to the bottom.
  • these shutters could have been carried by the pillars.
  • the three flaps 38 give off, in their non-state active, the opening of the pillars 6a, 6b and 6c while extending, substantially parallel to the bottom, in a housing 20 open down from the latter.
  • the background presents advantageously orifices 39 for viewing the flaps in their non-active state.
  • flaps are kept in this position retracted thanks to all known temporary locking means, such as for example a flexible tab 40 terminated by a flap blocking hook 41, this vertical tab being formed by molding with the bottom.
  • temporary locking means such as for example a flexible tab 40 terminated by a flap blocking hook 41, this vertical tab being formed by molding with the bottom.
  • This shutter is maintained in this active state in being, on the one hand, in abutment against the lower end 32 has ribs 32 which form a stop and, for example, by rubbing its edge against the inside of the belt 12 or by any equivalent means, such as hook.
  • Room 1 also includes panels sides arranged peripherally, standing up from the bottom 4, to close it between its pillars, when it is not is not fitted with other identical parts.
  • These panels 42 are mounted here removable, or separable, on the formed one-piece body essentially by the bottom, the pillars and the element 10. They are here two in number, of a height h 'lower at the height H of the pillars (h 'could possibly be substantially equal to H, the panels can then participate somewhat in the maintenance of stacked pieces, the main part of the effort remains nevertheless borne by the pillars).
  • One of the panels extends between the pillars 6a and 6c, and the other extends between pillars 6c and 6b.
  • Each panel 42 is held substantially vertically thanks to its lower edge 42b which is received in the groove 18 of the bottom edge.
  • the pillars 6a, 6b and 6c they have on the outside of their wall of vertical grooves 44 forming slides sliding engagement of the lateral edges of the panels.
  • These panels that temporarily close the room 1, between its pillars (this part then presenting itself as a tray) will for example be made of plastic molded or in cardboard and can be perforated or full. Preferably, these panels will be sufficiently flexible to be removed while being deformed.
  • flaps 38 of the part 1 are placed in their active state where they close the pillars 6a, 6b and 6c. Then place part 1 on the piece 1 '(orienting them in the same way) so that the flaps 38 bear on the top of the pillars 6 'of room 1 '. It will be noted that the flaps 38 being in abutment against the lower end of the ribs 32 they communicate to them the efforts to which they are submitted. It is possible to have panels 42 on the sides of parts 1 and 1 ', preferably before stacking, for the convenience of their installation.
  • room 1 could have a background any shape (square, circular) and understand more than three pillars distributed on the bottom (towards its periphery or in the central part) in a way that allows a safe superposition of the parts.
  • the part 1 could have a single pillar, erected substantially from the bottom center 4.

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  • Packging For Living Organisms, Food Or Medicinal Products That Are Sensitive To Environmental Conditiond (AREA)
  • Packaging Frangible Articles (AREA)
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EP19960400217 1995-02-08 1996-01-31 Pièce de manutention du type emboítable ou superposable Expired - Lifetime EP0726206B1 (fr)

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FR9501464A FR2730215A1 (fr) 1995-02-08 1995-02-08 Piece de manutention du type emboitable ou superposable
FR9501464 1995-02-08

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