EP1621468A1 - Slender container - Google Patents

Abstract

The barrel has an open upper end with a device (20) designed to keep a radial distance between barrels which have closed lids (2) and are transported side by side. At least two circumferentially spaced carrying handle devices (30) are provided on the container body at an axial distance from an upper closure edge (10). The spacer device is mounted in the axial space between the upper closure edge and carrying handle device. The barrel body is cylindrical but slightly conical so that with the lids removed the barrels can be stacked up when empty.

Description

The invention relates to a container for filling with a chemical-technical fluid, which container has a container body having a bottom and an upper open end. A protective device on the container body is formed and is suitable to achieve a cover position assurance of - sealed with a lid - transported side by side containers. This protective device is intended to prevent transported containers, which are next to each other on a transport surface, so unhappy positioned by relative movement to each other that affect each other and deteriorate the seal seat of an applied lid, up to a complete levering of the lid from the container edge on the lid edge is fixed with a clamping seat.

Particularly in such containers, in which the lid is formed with "DS lid shape", so only with its own clamping force of the lid edge seated on the container edge and the seal seat achieved by a compound so, there are increased risks of Deckelabhebens or the Abhebelung ( therefore also called "Lever Protection"). After neither clamping rings nor folding rings are present, which the sealing seat by their clamping effect by pressing together cover edge and container edge, there are virtually no additional security measures available, which are the transport against each other quite movable sealed containers available.

The known container, of which Figure 1 shows one, are designed as buckets or hobbocks for a large volume content, so not only small paint pots, but large buckets for chemical technical content, such as paints, glaze, wood preservatives, paint or solvents. In such a large container, which is in its volume but far below that of barrels, a prominently formed abdominal bead is provided (see reference numeral 41, 41a, 41b in Figure 1), with a Abhebelschutz is achieved. This strongly extending in the radial direction and clearly in the axial direction circumferential bead assembly additionally receives the task of internal stacking and resting on the edge of the container when the containers are not yet filled and only stored. Due to its large shape, the bead thickness not only affects the visual impression in the sense of a crowded, voluminous container shape, but also hinders a large part of the printing surface below carrying handles, which can not be used well for visually meaningful presentations due to the radial deformation of the sting.

The invention has therefore taken on the task to modernize this squat-looking container of the prior art with the prominently formed belly bead and give it an elegant, sleek and large appearance, yet not give up the Abhebelschutz and continue to provide available. The container wall as a printable information surface should be larger and safety should not be neglected.

The invention solves these objects with a container according to claim 1 or 17, or also with a production method for a container body according to claim 20.

The pronounced thickness of the sting disappears. It is replaced by a less strongly formed, so both in the radial and in the axial direction reduced molded peripheral bead in the region of the container head, ie above the container belly (claim 1). This head portion is characterized in a container with carrying handles characterized in that it lies between the upper end of the carrying handle means and the lower end of the closure edge. This axial distance range between said devices adopts a safety device, which provides the lever guard as a "distance-holding device".

If no carrying handles are arranged, this protective device, in particular as a circumferential bead, is arranged "close to the closing edge", ie much closer than the strong and clearly pronounced in the axial and radial direction of the bead thickness, which is not required.

The proximity of the protector to the container rim may be described as having the protector disposed in an axial spacing that is less than ten times the radial and / or axial extent of the occlusion edge. If the closure edge is formed as a curl, the diameter is the determining measure for the axial region which lies between the lower edge of the closure edge on the container body and a lower end, which is substantially higher than the bottom of the container body, but not further from the closure edge is ten times the axial or radial extent of this closure edge (claim 17).

Thus, an area is defined which can be described as being "near the edge of the container", or in other words "higher than the thickness of the stomach", which is no longer in the bulky form in the containers according to claim 1 or 17, as the state the technique still showed.

The description of an axial distance range does not say that the entire area of this new distance device (protection against leverage of the closure cap) must be taken, but the area is limited and within these limits is the protective device. It does not extend outside this area, where you can go out of both carry handles, as well as those without carrying handles.

According to the invention, a better printing on an axially higher surface is possible, in particular in the case of almost cylindrical containers, which are only slightly conical (claim 3). A weak conicity is understood to mean a range between 5% and a maximum of 10%, based on the diameters at the upper closure edge and in the vicinity of the container bottom. The slight conicity assures stackability and allows the unfilled containers to be nested and stacked, for which stacking a small, weakly defined stacking bead is used (claim 14, claim 21), which in the stacked condition ensures that the further inner container rests with this stacking bead on the closure edge. For this purpose, a stacking bead which is only axially weaker and radially aligned with the diameter dimension of the closing edge is required. It is located in the height of the handle assembly and can serve as a secondary stiffener and as an investment support for a handle, which can rest in drooping on her and so a small distance from the rest of the container body is achieved with the handle portion of the handle to this to be able to seize better.

The attachment of this stacking bead is located below the head region, in which head region of the container body the safety device is placed, which prevents the levering.

Both as a stacking bead, as well as a safety device circumferentially molded beads are provided, but need not have the same geometry in cross-section. For the stacking bead suffices a slightly rounded bottom bead; for the safety device to prevent the levering off the radial shape (bead) in cross-section have a rectangular course, wherein the cross-section is seen as an axial section through an axis of the container (claim 6, 7). The circumferential radial formation (claim 4) can also be described as having a substantially cylindrical center section and above and below each arcuate transition sections, which in the rest of the container body in the head area overflow (claim 6). Due to the manufacturing process, no sharp edges are created, but rounded transitions.

If the circumferentially extending security bead is arranged in the head area, one does not need a broad, axially high abdominal thickness more below the head area in the trunk area (claim 2). The carrying handle devices serve to distinguish the head region from the body region, wherein a strap and a mounting strap belong to a respective carrying handle device.

Several, in particular two opposite carrying handle means are circumferentially distributed, arranged at substantially the same height of the container body. The retaining tab contains an arcuate portion and two substantially straight webs, which serve for welding these retaining tabs. These retaining tabs are intended to serve as a boundary between the head area and the belly of the container in the further course of the description. Therefore, the definition of the head bead (to secure the Abhebelschutzes) and the no longer present Bauchsicke that was used in the prior art for these purposes.

For a stackability now a small, only slightly conspicuous circumferential bead is used.

The thus formed slimmer container (claim 27) with a larger pressure surface, less voluminous-looking bead arrangement below the head area and with an even larger volume, is visually pleasing and eye-catching, if only because of its geometric shape. However, the better appearance, the slimmer shape and the greater height thus formed do not entail any technical disadvantages. Rather, if one proceeds from the same amount of sheet metal, which are needed for the production of such a container from a Ronde and a blank with subsequent forming, it can be taken in the absence of prominent Bauchicke care that the height can be increased by more than 10%, at constant amount of sheet metal.

A higher education this container is at the same time in favor of a higher capacity and thus an improved volume, despite the same material weight of the sheet used.

The conicity of the container can be maintained, wherein the higher arranged safety device (the distance-holding device for creating the Abhebelschutzes) may be slimmer or narrower, after they no longer have to bridge an axially longer conical region.

The distance holding device is to be rewritten in other words. The gap is not actually created in the form of physical distance along the entire height of the container hulls, but only minimized with respect to those portions of the container hull that are below the safety device (the spacer device). In this case, one starts from juxtaposed transported, closely spaced containers, which are displaced relative to one another, in particular in the axial direction by the movement during transport. Such movements entail that the container edges not only next to each other, but also temporarily overlap and they could influence each other so that a lid edge of a container under the bottom of the lid edge of the other container engages and this from its lid seat solves. This undershot minimum distance should be avoided, so that the safety device must be regarded as a device that ensures this minimum distance, even with an axial displacement of the container. Standing side by side at the same height, the edges of the lid can touch each other. In an axially offset height, the distance-holding devices may well touch each other, but this contact represents the boundary layer of two adjacent containers that can not take a smaller distance from each other, as to the touch of "distance-maintaining facilities".

In other words, the Abhebelschutz can also be displayed so that it is a position assurance of a sealed container, based on the lid. The lid is secured in position. It is therefore also a locking device, while maintaining the closure state.

Not disregarded remains the possibility of twisting the transporting container against each other, in addition to the possibility of an axial displacement by transport influences. In each relative circumferential position to each other must be given the Abhebelschutz, the position assurance of the lid work reliably.

To the two circumscribed bead formations in the head region and in the carrying handle region, a further bead can occur as an inwardly directed inner bead, which is preferably formed between stacking bead and the retaining tab of the carrying handle assembly. On it, an inner lid can come to rest, when used as a two-component container. Also, this bead is visually hardly on and is arranged in a height range, which is located slightly below the head area.

Preferably, a curl is used as the container edge (as a closure edge), which is a circular curving in cross-section, with a substantially 360 ° curled upper wall portion of the container (claim 22). The edge portion of the lid engaging around this container curl is a curved arc portion which is formed radially at its lower end so that it can engage beneath the median plane of the closure edge curl of the container and thereby independently apply holding forces of an elastic nature which hold the lid in place but at the same time does not make it too difficult for the user to open the lid. A compound layer within the lid edge provides a tight seal under existing radial and axial clamping pressure of the lid, which is also called DS lid.

The above-described spacer means for securing the position of the lid and to create the Abhebelschutzes in the head area should be further circumscribed in their geometry and their location. It can serve as a starting point and comparative scale of the closure edge of the fuselage, which is largely independent of the container size in its geometric extension in the radial and axial directions. If you take a curl (as described above), you can define the radial and axial extent as a diameter, but this should not be a mandatory restriction.

Preferably, the safety device (the minimum distance holding device for creating the Abhebelschutzes) has a radial extent, in which substantially corresponds to the radial extent of the closure edge on the container body (claim 5). The area of substantial equality extends at ± 15%. If the security bead is too bulky radially, it damages the optical shape, if it is too weak radially, the lever protection can not be ensured.

Another description of the radial projection of the Abhebelschutzes in turn is the size of the closure edge. The radial formation can be radial further protrude outward than the closure edge (claim 8), in particular, while the maximum projection is given so that the retaining tab of the handle is not exceeded in its projection. It rarely happens that the retaining tabs to each other justify the distance of the container, after they occupy only a very short circumference, so that the space provided or the minimum distance between two adjacent container bodies with assumed touching the security bead in the head area still is sufficient to take a retaining tab of a carrying handle. He does not touch the adjacent container, does not harm or damage its visual appearance.

To describe the axial extension of the arranged near the container edge safety device to create the Abhebelschutzes, in turn, the closure edge can be used. In the axial direction of the Abhebelschutz is in training as a bead longer than the axial extent of the closure edge. Alternatively or cumulatively, in turn, the retaining tab can be used as a comparative scale, and also here, the axial extent of the security bead is greater than the axial extent of the retaining tabs of the carrying handle devices.

Other definitions of axial height (axial extent) and radial extent with respect to the spacing device are within the scope of ranges within which any choice and combinations of dimensions may be selected (claim 16). However, the entire axial height extent of the spacer device is above the handle-device (claim 15), which is apparent from the definition of the head area and the abdominal area.

The selection from the circumscribed areas serves to optimize the lever protection, while at the same time safeguarding the function.

However, it should again be made clear that the choice of ten times the amount of radial and / or axial extent of the closure edge is used as an axial distance range to concretely rewrite the proximity of the protective device to the closure edge. The "proximity to the occlusion margin" is thus not an indefinite relative term, but has an area that manifests this proximity.

In this area, a preferred central arrangement can be selected (claim 10). A central arrangement is a relatively central arrangement, which may well be displaced in the range of ± 20% and also related to which axial extent the securing bead in the circumscribed axial region (the Head portion of the container) has. As a comparative scale can serve the center of the trained as a bead position assurance, compared with the lower end of the container edge and the upper end of the carrying handle devices, here the retaining tabs for the pivotal attachment of the carrying handles.

The proximity to the container edge and the description "suitable and trained" circumscribes the concrete placement and geometric design of the security bead for Abhebelschutz (claim 19, claim 16). The reduction of a maximum of ten times the distance (relative to the closure edge) to a maximum of six times the distance (claim 19, c) is a limitation towards even closer to the closure edge security beads.

The support bead and the stack bead are preferably arranged in the height region of the handles of the carrying handle devices (claim 23, 24, in particular in combination with claim 21).

In addition, a crush protection can be provided for a user's hand (claim 25).

Despite the downward displacement of the handles, to create the distance range in the fuselage head (claim 18), these handles of the handle assembly in the swung-up state still have such a large distance from the container edge that a user's hand without the risk of crushing when lifting the filled (heavy) Can take hold of container. In other words, remains in the folded state of the swiveling carrying handles a distance of more than 20mm (claim 26), in particular more than 30mm, for the penetration of a strong builder's hand. This is not clamped when lifting the container (the open fuselage with filling) between the horizontal handle portion of the carrying handle and the stiff, solid container curl as a closure edge.

In the folded-down state, the pivotable carrying handle rests against the weakly formed stacking bead and is therefore slightly inclined from the vertical, with an exposed horizontal grip section for easier gripping. The carrying handles thus act slimmer and larger, support the slim and high impression of the container, wherein only a very small portion of the printed portion of the container wall is covered by the longer carrying handle.

Figur 1

ist eine Seitenansicht (linkes Halbbild) und eine Schnittdarstellung (rechtes Halbbild) eines heute gängigen Gebindes mit einer ausgeprägten Bauchsicke 41, 41a, 41b und einem abgehoben dargestellten Verschlussdeckel 2, über einem Behälterrumpf 1. Der Verschlussrand 10 definiert das obere offene Ende des Behälterrumpfes 1, dessen Wand 1a leicht konisch geneigt ist, bei im Wesentlichen zylindrischer Form des Behälters.

Figur 2

ist ein erstes Ausführungsbeispiel der Erfindung, wobei gleiche Bezugszeichen gleiche Elemente bezeichnen. Dargestellt ist ein Ausschnitt des Behälters im axialen Schnitt, mit einer Randeinrollung 10 und einer Tragegriff-Einrichtung 30. Der übrige Bereich des Behälters ist leicht vorstellbar und nicht gesondert dargestellt. Die Behälterhöhe H wird in z-Richtung mit z0 benannt. Die radiale Richtung r steht senkrecht auf der Höhenrichtung z, zur Definition von Zylinderkoordinaten. In ϕ-Richtung (phi) ist der Behälter rotationssymmetrisch, mit Ausnahme der Griffanordnungen 30, die an zwei umfänglich beabstandeten Stellen, meist gegenüberliegend, angeordnet sind.

Figur 2a

ist eine Ausschnittsvergrößerung A des Bereichs der Innensicke 50 unterhalb der Tragegriff-Einrichtung 30 von Figur 2.

Figur 3

ist eine Ausschnittvergrößerung des oberen Randbereichs des Behälters von Figur 2.

Figur 4

ist eine schematische Darstellung von zwei verschlossenen Gebinden im Transportzustand, und zwar nur desjenigen Bereichs dieser beiden nebeneinander transportierten Gebinde, der bei Schüttel- und Rüttelbewegung zueinander in axialer und/oder radialer Richtung verlagert wird, so dass ein Abhebeln eines Deckels geschieht, hier des höher liegenden Deckels 2', gegenüber dem tiefer liegenden Gebinde mit dem Deckel 2. Ersichtlich sind die sich berührenden und Abstand (Mindestabstand) haltenden Einrichtungen 20 im Kopfbereich unterhalb der Verschlussränder 10 der Behälterkörper 1.

Embodiments illustrate and supplement the described (and claimed) invention.

FIG. 1

is a side view (left half) and a sectional view (right half) of a currently common container with a pronounced bead 41, 41a, 41b and a raised cover shown 2, over a container body 1. The closure edge 10 defines the upper open end of the container body. 1 , whose wall 1a is slightly conically inclined, in a substantially cylindrical shape of the container.

FIG. 2

is a first embodiment of the invention, wherein like reference numerals designate like elements. Shown is a section of the container in axial section, with a Randeinrollung 10 and a handle assembly 30. The remaining area of the container is easy to imagine and not shown separately. The container height H is designated z0 in the z direction. The radial direction r is perpendicular to the height direction z, to define cylindrical coordinates. In the φ-direction (phi), the container is rotationally symmetric, with the exception of the handle assemblies 30, which are arranged at two circumferentially spaced locations, usually opposite one another.

FIG. 2a

FIG. 4 is a partial enlargement A of the area of the inner bead 50 below the carrying handle 30 of FIG. 2.

FIG. 3

FIG. 2 is a partial enlargement of the upper edge region of the container of FIG. 2.

FIG. 4

is a schematic representation of two sealed containers in the transport state, and only that portion of these two containers transported side by side, which is shifts in shaking and shaking movement to each other in the axial and / or radial direction, so that a levering off a cover happens, here the higher lying facing the lid with the cover 2. It can be seen that touching and distance (minimum distance) holding devices 20 in the head area below the closure edges 10 of the container body. 1

FIG. 1 shows a hobbock as a large-volume container from container body 1 and container lid 2. Some of the functional elements will be described below. The container is used for filling with a chemical-technical fluid, which can be safely transported and sealed in the closed state after closing the lid. The lid can be removed before use and the removal of the transported fluid, in particular by an opening device attached to the container edge and levered up against the clamping force to gain access to the content.

The handles, which are part of the carrying handle devices, are arranged on both sides at the same axial height, opposite a first gripping device 30 and a second gripping device offset by 180 ° circumferentially. The gripping means are secured to the container wall with retaining tabs 30b and at the upper edge of the container body, where the latter is open, a closing edge 10 is provided which has a 360 ° curl. The container body is slightly conical, on average between 5% and 10%, but generally has a cylindrical format. Only at the lower edge region of the hull 1, which is formed by the wall 1a, a more conically inclined portion is provided, which leads into a Randfalz and a bottom-closing bottom 1b.

The upper opening has an opening width of d0, which closes the contents safely after placing the lid 2 with a corresponding lid edge width d0 'and after reaching over the lid edge 2a over the closing edge 10.

At a distance from the closure edge 10, the retaining tabs are arranged, which attach the pivotal handles on the container wall and below the handles is a strong axially and radially protruding circumferential Bordierung which is substantially trapezoidal with two leaking semi-circular beads 41 a, 41 b at the top and The lower edge region of the main bead 41. This "bead thickness" called bead combination serves to stiffen the container, when stacking the container for stackability, so holds a small axial distance in the stacked state and serves to create a Abhebelschutzes, so that adjacent containers, despite their conical design and despite holding their own power lid hold a minimum distance and the Deckelbordierung in their overlap on the Rumpfbordierung 10 (the closure edge) can not be accidentally solved if ge during transport the sealed container ge move axially and / or radially.

A first embodiment of the invention is shown corresponding to the figure of Figure 1 in Figure 2 in a section which corresponds to a side view. The container is substantially rotationally symmetric, has the slightly conical shape in a cylindrical main format, has the bottom 1b, the cylinder wall 1a and the closing edge 10 as a 360 ° rolled container bordering. The container, here in the form of the container body, has laterally arranged carrying handle means 30, which are not rotationally symmetrical, but only opposite arranged when two carrying handle means are provided.

At the axial height of the container with the basic height H or z0 has a higher education, which acts slimmer than the container of Figure 1. This is not least due to the arrangement of an axial distance range between the closure edge 10 and the handle assembly 30. The head area above the handle assembly is axially extended (in the z-direction) over the prior art, and the distance-maintaining means for securing the kill guard, also called guard bead or deck-sheet backup, has a smaller height extent in the z-direction than the bullish and bulbous bead assembly 41, 41a and 41b of Figure 1.

An inwardly formed inner bead 50 is disposed below the retaining tab of the handle assembly, as well as a still axially deeper stacking bead 40, but both in the height direction have only a small expression, as well as they have a much lower expression in the radial direction, as the Sickenverbund 41, 41a, 41b - "Bauchsicke".

The total height z0 is greater than the height z0 'of the bulbous container of Figure 1. The distance z3 of the retaining tab of the handle assembly is greater than the distance z3' of Figure 1. The axial extent of the beads 40, 50 and 20 respectively significantly smaller than the axial extent of the bead 41, 41a, 41b, which is designated z41 in Figure 1.

The details from FIG. 2 can be found with regard to the inner bead 50 in FIG. 2a. The sectional view measured from the outside shows an inwardly directed deformation, which is asymmetrical and serves to support an intermediate cover. It has an inwardly directed shape of r50, which is formed steeper in the upper third inward, as in the weaker extending lower residual portion, for returning to the wall dimension 1a. The overall intended indentation r50 corresponds to less than the radial dimension of the upper Closure edge 10, which is named at a rolled container edge with d1. In concrete form, the indentation in the upper third to about 40% to 60% of serving as a comparative size container roll 10 is made.

The inserted intermediate cover is not shown separately, but easy to imagine.

The enlarged detail of Figure 3 illustrates the concrete formation, geometric arrangement and the size relationships of the distance-holding device 20 as a security bead with an axial extent z21. It is circumferentially rotationally symmetrical and has a radial extension r20 on the outside, wherein the illustrated sectional view shows the geometric shape of a nearly-rectangle for the shape of this bead, which has a cylindrical portion 20a on the radial dimension r20 (plus the diameter of the container wall at this Point) and two curved portions 20b above and below the cylindrical portion 20a.

The axial distance b between the lower edge of the closing edge 10 and the upper edge of the attachment tab 30b is the area in which this securing bead 20 is introduced. It serves to protect against Abhebein the lid and keeps a minimum distance between device, as described above and explained in more detail later in the figure 4.

The handle assembly 30 has a bracket (not shown in side view) as a handle with a lower nearly horizontal portion 30a 'and two vertical transition portions opening into a web portion held in a semicircular socket 30g to pivot about the bracket 30a hold. At the semicircular portion of the retaining tab are two rectilinearly extending edge pieces 30c and 30d, which are welded to the container wall 1a. The arc-shaped curved tab portion 30b protrudes further radially than the substantially rectangular-shaped securing bead 20. However, this is only one embodiment, their possibilities for modification and adaptation will be discussed later. In Figure 3, the height ratios, the distances and the orders of magnitude are clearly visible. The distance of the stack bead 40 from the upper container rim is z4. The distance of the inwardly formed inner bead 50 from the upper container rim is z5. The distance of the retaining tab 30b (with edge pieces 30c, 30d) from the upper edge of the container is z3. The placement of the radial distance retaining securing bead 20 is indicated with respect to its horizontal center plane with z2 from the upper edge of the container. The lower edge of this securing bead 20 is z2a from measured upper edge of the container. The closure edge 10 has a radial dimension d1 and, in the case of a substantially round design, an axial dimension d1.

Above the handle assembly, the container head is provided and in this container head is an area or an axial section available, which is dimensioned with b. It begins below the closing edge 10 and ends at the upper end of the retaining tab 30b. Here, the securing bead 20 is arranged and has a height dimension which is formed between twice and three times the axial extent of the container edge. Their radial extension r20 is between 100% to 120% of the radial extent of the closure edge 10. Provided with other design rules, the axial extent z21 is greater than the axial extent d1 of the closure edge. In a further rating, however, it is not greater than substantially half of the axial distance range, which is designated b in Figure 3.

The extension z30 of the handle is larger than with conventional handles and pivoting the handle in the storage area (the arcuate portion 30b of the retaining tab) ensures that the horizontal handle portion 30a 'protrudes sufficiently far beyond the container rim 10, so that a hand without danger the squeezing this section above the closure edge 10 and take the filled container without risk of trapping can transport. Of these carrying handle devices, only the left one is shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the right one, corresponding to FIG. 1, lies opposite in the section of the container body 1 (not illustrated here).

A further exemplary embodiment can be explained with reference to FIG. 3, without it having to be shown separately. If the container body is provided without mounting brackets, or if it has other carrying devices than those carrying handle devices 30, then the position of the spacer-holding bead (the securing bead 20) can nevertheless be defined in the head region. The starting point here is the axial or radial dimensioning of the closure edge 10, which is relatively independent of the container size, in this case a 360 ° emulation of the upper edge of the hull. The placement of the securing bead 20 with height dimension z21 is then in a distance range b, which is smaller than ten times the amount of radial (or axial) extension of the closing edge 10, preferably in an area which is smaller than the sixfold distance, measured from the Lower edge of the closure edge 10 and oriented at the radial or axial extent of this closure edge. This area b should also be called head area in this embodiment, even if none Carrying handles are provided, which divide the head area of the abdominal area mentally.

In the described range between the lower edge of the closure edge and a lower end (as the lower edge of the region), the securing bead 20 is fully accommodated. It can have different extension dimensions here in the radial and axial directions, but lies completely in the stated range.

As a first approximation, it can be stated that the extent r20 essentially corresponds to the radial extent of the closure edge 10. The more detailed representation in a strong detail enlargement according to FIG. 4 shows further ranges and their range limits. Thus, it is possible that the embodiment variant shown there, with the same function of the head bead 20 (as a backup bead or distance holding circumferential beading device). Here, the beading device 20 protrudes more radially outward than the outermost radial Maßes closure edge 10. The latter is specified with the annular surface x0, while the Sickle order 20 is shown for the right, sealed with lid 2 container with x2. This is a range between about 100% and 120%. In a supplementary region up to the annular surface x1, the securing bead 20 can also be reduced radially, up to about 85% of the extent d1 of the sealing edge 10, represented by the annular surface x1.

The respective resulting radial formation r20 for the annular surface x2 and the minimum radial projection r20 'for the innermost annular surface x1 shows that function continues to exist in this region. The extension also beyond the annular surface x2 also provides reliable function of protection against Deckelabhebeln, only thereby the lean and narrow trained bead stronger and clearer emerge. One possibility of a design dimension is between the annular surface x1 and the axial projection of the arc portion 30b of the retaining tab of the carrying handle device 30th

The attachment of a narrow protective bead 20 in the region b may be selected substantially centrally, wherein the figure of Figure 3 shows a placement which is slightly offset downwards relative to the central arrangement.

Also, the two other beads, the inner bead 50 and the stack bead 40 are limited to the range of the height extent of the handle 30 a, so are used in terms of Stacking bead 40 as an attachment for the lying in a stationary rest position handle and also has a stiffening function. The placement and training does not harm the slim and high-acting container. The upwardly spaced handles 30a are not shown separately, but create the described grip space between the closure edge 10 and the handle portion 30a ', which is greater than 20mm, in particular greater than 30mm, to sufficiently secure a reach-through space for a user's hand. On the basis of the dimensions and the dimension lines can be followed. The distance difference z30-z3 gives the overhang and thus the gap for the penetration of the user's hand.

The above-mentioned, first deferred explanation of the range information will be clarified with reference to FIG. At the same time, FIG. 4 shows the function already explained in the introductory part. There are two containers transported side by side shown only in the area in which the leverage for an unfavorable transport state happens. The levering is to be avoided and can be explained so that the closed containers, which are moved by transport influences against each other occupy an unfavorable relative position to each other while a lid edge 2a (assumed dimensions of the right container) below the lower end 2b 'of the lower folded double layer 2b of the container edge 2a 'matured. After only a separate force as a clamping force by elastic expansion and zurückverlagern the folded end portion 2b causes the cover seat and causes the pressing of the lid in the lid edge 2a 'placed compounds to the closure edge 10 and holds securely, a force component x3 cause this seat is released and the lid 2 'is lifted off the closing edge 10.

This state is not shown, but is symbolically developable if the distance-holding device 20 would not exist as a bead in the left and right containers. Then the containers could come closer, the right container edge 2a engages under the folded lower end of the left lid and releases it from the applied with its own clamping force closure position. After no additional securing clamping ring and no folding ring is present, the lock seat is lost.

In an appropriate application, the annular surfaces x0, x1 and x2 are developed to ensure that for another transport state hypothetically under cover edge 2a reached lid edge 2 'with its upwardly facing surface is not able to have a force corresponding to that of x3 to exercise the folded, lower outer end of the container edge 2a and this closure seat to solve. It must therefore be ensured by the dimensioning of the securing bead 20 that just the surface x1 is not undershot. This area is slightly within the radial extent of the closure edge 10, approximately 80 to 85% of this extension.

In the illustrated embodiment of the radial and axial extension of the securing bead this is in any case suitable, even in the context of the described areas, to prevent the levering. The axially displacing containers are thus moved back by their weight in the parallel and equal high state, the inwardly directed lower edge of Deckelbordierung 2a ', 2a slides down the radially outer edge lying outside and is not levered off in the sense of a release of the seal seat.

To achieve these functions, the axial dimension z21 is provided. It is variable in the large area, as long as it remains in the head area. The cylindrical section z20 is smaller, after above and below each two radii of curvature 20b in the head region or the container wall over. To ensure the minimum distance and avoid the levering touch the two cylindrical portions 20a in the illustrated case of Figure 4 and thus achieve a minimum distance, which just does not lead to a levering of the lid 2 '.

In the description of the areas where this arranged in Kopfbreich Abhebelschutz works, it should be stated that the axial height of this distance-holding device 20 should not be greater than four times the axial extent of the closure edge 10. It then fits well into the general or more limited range of the axial distance b, which corresponds to ten times, in particular six times the axial extent of the closure edge height height b. In a curl 10 can refer both to the radial, as to the axial dimension. In order to make the orientation comparable, the vertical extent of the closure edge and, for the radial extent of the protective bead 20, the radial dimensioning of the closure edge 10 has been used for vertical extension in the z-direction.

A reasonable upper limit of the radial extent of the securing bead 20 is 200% of the radial extent of the closure edge 10, the preferred range was explained in Figure 4 between 100% and 120%.

The geometric shape of the protective bead 20 may be arbitrary in nature. The preferred embodiment as a rectangular cross-sectional shape with rounded transition areas is not to be understood as limiting. Likewise substantially semicircular formations, as well as geometrically unbalanced formed, radially outwardly projecting Sickenkonfigurationen be realized, which differ from the illustrated exact form.

A manufacturing method for ensuring a container, in particular the container body according to Figures 2 and 3 operates with the indentation of the bead 20 as a circumferential bead in the head area, above the retaining tabs 30b. If no such retaining tabs 30b are provided and no four arranged carrying handles 30a, the area is such that it can be defined with a maximum of ten times, preferably below six times the axial extent of the curl 10. This head area carries the distance-retaining safety device to create the Abhebelschutzes for a later-mounted closure cover 2, which must not be released (levered out) during transport and relative displacements in the axial direction of his seat.

The container is produced by forming a bottom wall 1b, an initially plan formed, already printed container wall whose curl to a cylindrical structure which is vertically connected to a weld. Then a conical expansion is made and introduced the circumferential beads. The conical expansion can be made even after the introduction of the beads by an expanding mandrel.

Subsequently, the closure edge is introduced and the carrying handles by welding the retaining tabs 30b, 30c, 30d attached to the container body.

The resulting container is visually appealing, slim and tall, has little bulbous beads and those beads that are functionally reliable, lie in an area that is close to the closure edge 10.

Preferably, such containers are designed with the described method, have the quantities of more than 30 liters, but have to absorb less volume than barrels of 100 liters. These are not barrels and cans or containers that are not small in color, but larger bucket or hobbocks carrying volume. These are particularly by their slim design over those of the prior art in volume and in height increased, ie above 10% to 15% more volume and more height, with the same diameter. The height is preferably over 400 mm, in particular over 450 mm, so that volumes of more than 30 liters, preferably over 33 liters can be filled. Despite the increased height and the increased volume, the production does not require a larger amount of sheet metal (material volume) to realize this larger capacity. The printed blank for the wall 1a can be reduced while maintaining the volume and the previous height rather in the volume of material, or can - be increased in height - with the same volume. The elimination of the pronounced thickness of the pancake ensures the possibility of better material utilization, relative to the container volume achieved.

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A container for filling with a chemical-technical fluid, which container has a container body (1) having a bottom and an upper open end; in which - A device (20) is provided, which is formed (R20, Z20, Z21) and is adapted to maintain a radial distance of transported side by side, with a lid (2,2a) sealed containers; - At an axial distance (b) from an upper closure edge (10) at least two circumferentially spaced carrying handle means (30; 30a, 30b) are arranged on the container body (1); - The distance-holding device (20) in the axial distance range (b) between the upper closure edge (10) and the carrying handle means (30) is arranged. Container according to claim 1, wherein in an axial region below the carrying handle means (30) no device suitable for holding a distance, in particular no broad (axially high) bar bead (41, 41a, 41b) is arranged. Container according to claim 1, wherein the container body (1) is substantially cylindrical, but slightly conical, so that it is stackable in an empty state (without attached lid). A container according to claim 1, wherein the means (20) is a circumferential radial formation. A container according to claim 1 or 4, wherein a radial extent (r20) of the device (20) substantially corresponds to a radial extent of the upper closure edge (10). A container according to claim 4, wherein the radial formation (20) has a substantially cylindrical portion (20a) and above and below each at least one arcuate portion (20b). Container according to claim 4 and / or 6, wherein the device (20) is formed in an axial section substantially rectangular with rounded corners. A container according to claim 4, wherein the radial formation (20) is adapted to protrude radially further outwardly than the closure edge (10) but in particular less radially outwardly than a retaining tab (30b) associated with the handle assembly. Container according to claim 1 or 4, wherein the distance-holding device (20) has an axial extent (z20, z21) which is longer in the axial direction than an axial extent of the closure edge (10) and / or an axial extent of retaining tabs ( 30b) of the carrying handle means (30). A container according to claim 1 or 4, wherein the spacing means (20) is disposed substantially centrally between a retaining tab (30b) of a carrying handle of one of the carrying handle means and the closure edge (10). Container according to claim 1, wherein in the upper head area an additional bead (20) is arranged as a device, which prevents a levering off with its own clamping force on the closure edge (10) holding lid, in particular in a container body (1) without a wide bead thickness (distance bead ) and without a clamping or folding ring for holding the lid (2) on the closure edge (10). Container according to claim 1 or 4, wherein to prevent a levering off of an attached lid in a sealed container on the container body (1) a securing bead (20) is provided as a distance-holding device, which compared to a conventional large bead, below the head region, in particular below mounting tabs (30b) of the carrying handle assemblies (30) are made smaller (r20, z20) and attached to an axially higher position of the container body (z2). Container according to claim 1, wherein the carrying handle means comprise pivotable mounting brackets (30a), pivotable about a respective retaining lug (30b), and underneath the retaining tabs (30b) a circumferential formation (40) is arranged in the container body, for bearing the in a rest position mounting bracket (30a). A container according to claim 13, wherein the contact bead (40) as a stacking bead is axially no further from the retaining tab (30b) than the length of the support bracket (30a) and for stacking container bodies, thereby engaging with the locking edge (10). stacking together. A container according to claim 1, wherein the entire axial height extent of the spacer means (20) is placed above the handle assembly. A container according to claim 1, 5 or 8, wherein one or more of the following sizes are valid: (A) the distance-holding device (20) has an axial height of less than four times the axial extent of the closure edge (10), in particular between the two and three times the axial extent (d1); (b) the spacing means (20) has a radial extent comprised between 85% and 200% of the radial extent of the closure edge (10), more particularly in the range of substantially 100% to 120%; (C) an axial extent of the device (20) is greater than that of the closure edge (10) and less than substantially half of the axial distance (b). A container for filling with a chemical-technical fluid, which container has a container body (1) having a bottom and an upper open end; in which - A protective device (20) on the container body (1) is provided, which is designed and adapted to a cover position assurance of - with a cover (2; 2a) closed - to achieve side by side transported containers; - An axial distance range (b), between an upper closure edge (10) on the container body (1) and a lower end is determined in which distance range the protective device (20; 20a, 20b) is arranged to secure the lid position; - The axial distance range (b) between the upper closure edge (10) and the lower end is not greater than ten times a radial and / or axial extent, in particular a diameter (d1), the closure edge (10) and the lower end accordingly is determined. A container according to claim 17, wherein carrying handles (30a) are arranged on the container body (1) in an axial region below the axial spacing region (b). A package according to claim 17, wherein the guard (20) is a circumferential radial formation having a radial (r20) and an axial (z20, z21) extension;
in which (A) the radial extent of the device (20) is greater than 85% of a radial extent (d1) of the upper closure edge (10);
and or (b) the axial extent (z20, z21) is longer in the axial direction than an axial extent of the closure edge (10) and / or smaller than four times the axial and / or radial extent (d1) of the upper closure edge (10) ;
and or (C) the axial distance range (b) between a lower end of the upper closure edge (10) and the lower end is not greater than six times, in particular up to ten times the axial extent (d1) of the closure edge (10). A method of manufacturing a container according to claim 1, in particular a container body (1), in which in the head region a circumferential bead (20) is formed, which is placed between a closure edge (10) and laterally arranged carrying handle devices (30), - To create a Abhebelschutzes or a position assurance for a later attached closure cap (2). The method of claim 20, wherein axially below the head region (b) a stacking bead (40) is formed circumferentially, suitable for stacking an inner container body (1) on a closure edge (10) of an outer container body. The method of claim 20, wherein the closure edge (10) is a curl to substantially 360 °. The method of claim 20, wherein in the region of the carrying handle means (30) a support bead (50) is formed radially inwardly. A method according to claim 23 and 21, wherein the stacking bead and the supporting bead (50, 40) are introduced in the height region of the carrying handle devices. Container according to claim 1 or 17, wherein pivotable carrying handles (30a) of the carrying handle devices (30) are formed so long (z30) that they protrude in the swung-over state over the closure edge, in particular so clearly that a user's hand grip the handle and the hull ( 1) can be worn without being trapped between the handle portion (30 a) and container edge (10). Container according to claim 25, wherein there is a distance (z30-z3) for reaching through more than 20 mm, in particular more than 30 mm, when the carrying handle (30a) is pivoted upwards. Container according to claim 1 or 17, with a slim tall shape.

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