EP2522588A1 - Bouteille empilable en matière plastique - Google Patents

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EP2522588A1
EP2522588A1 EP11165899A EP11165899A EP2522588A1 EP 2522588 A1 EP2522588 A1 EP 2522588A1 EP 11165899 A EP11165899 A EP 11165899A EP 11165899 A EP11165899 A EP 11165899A EP 2522588 A1 EP2522588 A1 EP 2522588A1
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Stefaan De Backer
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La Seda de Barcelona SA
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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
    • B65D21/0201—Containers specially shaped, or provided with fittings or attachments, to facilitate nesting, stacking, or joining together stackable or joined together side-by-side
    • B65D21/0202—Containers specially shaped, or provided with fittings or attachments, to facilitate nesting, stacking, or joining together stackable or joined together side-by-side and loosely interengaged by integral complementary shapes
    • 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
    • B65D1/00—Containers having bodies formed in one piece, e.g. by casting metallic material, by moulding plastics, by blowing vitreous material, by throwing ceramic material, by moulding pulped fibrous material, by deep-drawing operations performed on sheet material
    • B65D1/02—Bottles or similar containers with necks or like restricted apertures, designed for pouring contents
    • B65D1/0223—Bottles or similar containers with necks or like restricted apertures, designed for pouring contents characterised by shape
    • 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
    • B65D2501/00—Containers having bodies formed in one piece
    • B65D2501/0009—Bottles or similar containers with necks or like restricted apertures designed for pouring contents
    • B65D2501/0081—Bottles of non-circular cross-section

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  • the invention relates to plastic bottles that can be stacked one onto the other in a horizontal position.
  • Said stackable plastic bottles can be used for storing any kind of products, and more especially for storing food products, beverages.
  • Rigid plastic bottles are widely used for storing different kinds of product, and more especially, but not only, liquid products, and in particularly beverages, such as wine, beer, carbonated soft drinks, milk...
  • Plastic bottles that are stackable one onto the other are disclosed in US patent 4,308, 955 and in US patent 5,002,199 . These bottles have a general rectangular shape in cross section that enables to stably stack the bottles one onto the other, each bottle being positioned horizontally, i.e. its main longitudinal axis being substantially horizontal.
  • the plastic bottles comprises interfitting means in the form of a quadrangular recess made in one face of the bottle and adapted to fit into a corresponding quadrangular protruding portion made on the opposite face of the bottle.
  • Such a technical solution is suitable for stacking bottles having a quadrangular shape in cross section with two opposite flat faces, but cannot be used with bottles having for example a cylindrical body with a circular transverse cross section or the like. Furthermore, when several bottles are stacked one onto the others, it is difficult to take out one bottle in the middle of the stack, and one is obliged in practice to take out first the bottles on top of the stack by lifting upwardly the bottle in order to disengage the interfitting means.
  • the objective of the invention is to propose novel plastic bottles that can be easily stacked one onto the other in a horizontal position.
  • the bottle of the invention defines a major longitudinal axis and comprises a base terminated by a closed bottom end, a main body, a shoulder part and a neck terminated by an opened mouth.
  • the outer face of the bottle comprises a longitudinal recess extending longitudinally from the closed bottom end into at least the main body.
  • the shape in transverse cross section of said longitudinal recess and the shape in transverse cross section of the opposite portion of the bottle outer face diametrically opposite to the longitudinal recess are complementary, in such a way that the bottle can be stacked in a stable horizontal position onto another lower identical horizontal stackable plastic bottle with the said opposite portion of the lower bottle fitted into the longitudinal recess of the upper bottle, and the lower bottle prevents the upper stacked bottle from rotating around its longitudinal axis.
  • horizontal or “horizontally” means therein that the bottle is positioned in such a way that the longitudinal axis A of the bottle is substantially horizontal.
  • transverse cross section means therein the cross section of the bottle in a plane perpendicular to the major longitudinal axis of the bottle.
  • the stackable plastic bottle B define a major longitudinal axis A and comprises along the said axis A :
  • the base 1 is knowingly designed in order to support the bottle B onto a flat surface in a stable vertical position.
  • the neck 4 is a cylinder of small diameter, centered on the longitudinal axis A, and a having substantially a circular transverse cross section. Said neck 4 comprises a thread 41 for closing the bottle with a threaded closure (not represented). This thread 41 is however not mandatory for the invention.
  • the main body 2 is the part of the bottle of highest transverse cross section i.e. the part of the bottle of largest dimensions in a plane perpendicular to the longitudinal axis A. More especially, in the particular embodiment of figures 1 to 6 , the outer face of the main body 2 is substantially cylindrical.
  • the outer face of base 1 is also cylindrical and is centered on the longitudinal axis A. This cylindrical outer face of the base 1 has a diameter in transverse cross section that increases progressively towards the main body 2.
  • the outer face of the shoulder part 3 is also substantially cylindrical and is centered on the longitudinal axis A. This cylindrical outer face of the shoulder part 3 has a diameter in transverse cross section that decreases progressively towards the cylindrical neck 4 of smaller diameter.
  • the different parts 1 to 4 of the bottle B have been designed in order to make the bottle B look like a "Bordeaux" wine glass bottle.
  • This particular bottle B is thus adapted to be used as a plastic wine bottle for storing wine.
  • the invention is however not limited to this particular bottle shape, and is not limited to the use of such a bottle for storing wine.
  • a bottle of the invention can be used for storing any kind of product, including notably any kind of food product, any kind of beverage, etc...
  • the plastic bottle B can be made in any known thermoplastic material.
  • the preferred candidates for the plastic material of the bottle are polyester or polyolefin polymers, in particular homo or copolymer of PET, or homo or copolymer of polypropylene or polycarbonate. But the invention is however not limited to these particular thermoplastic polymers.
  • the plastic bottle B can be a monolayer or multilayer bottle.
  • the rigid plastic bottle B can be manufactured by any known moulding technique, including injection moulding, injection stretch-blow moulding, extrusion blowmoulding.
  • the outer face of the bottle has been designed in order to make the bottle B stackable in a stable horizontal position onto another lower identical horizontal stackable bottle B'.
  • the outer face of the bottle B comprises a longitudinal recess 6 extending longitudinally (i.e. in a direction parallel to the longitudinal axis A) from the closed bottom end 10 into at least the main body 2.
  • the longitudinal recess 6 is extending longitudinally on the whole length of the main body 2 and is also extending into the shoulder part 3.
  • the longitudinal recess 6 could extend only, from the bottom end 10, in the base 1 and partly in the main body 2 without necessarily reaching the shoulder part 3
  • the shape in transverse cross section (i.e. in a plane perpendicular to the longitudinal axis A) of said longitudinal recess 6 and the shape in transverse cross section of the opposite portion 5 of the bottle outer face diametrically opposite to the longitudinal recess 6 are complementary substantially on the whole length of the recess 6, in such a way that the bottle B can be stacked ( figures 5 and 6 ) in a stable horizontal position onto a lower identical horizontal stackable plastic bottle B' with the said opposite portion 5 of the lower bottle B' fitted into the longitudinal recess 6 of the upper bottle B, and the lower bottle B' prevents the upper stacked bottle B from rotating around its longitudinal axis A.
  • the upper bottle B cannot rotated around its longitudinal axis A and is thus stable, but can slide in an horizontal plane parallel to its longitudinal axis A in a direction F ( figure 5 ) parallel to its longitudinal axis A. During this sliding movement, the upper bottle B is continuously guided in translation in this horizontal plane by the lower bottle B'. It is thus very easy either to stack the bottle B on bottle B' or to take out bottle a B from a stack of bottles. In particular, for taking out one bottle B from a stack of bottles, one does not need to lift the bottle B upwardly but needs only to seize the neck 4 of the bottle B and to draw the bottle B in the direction F parallel to its longitudinal axis A.
  • the shape in transverse cross section of the longitudinal recess 6 and the shape in transverse cross section of the opposite portion 5 of the bottle outer face diametrically opposite to the longitudinal recess 6 are not only complementary, but are also more particularly congruent.
  • the longitudinal recess 6 is in contact with the portion 5 on the whole cross section of the longitudinal recess 6, which advantageously increases the contact surface between two stacked bottles B and B', and improve the stability of the upper bottles B.
  • the invention is however not limited to congruent transverse cross section shapes for the longitudinal recess 6 and the diametrically opposite portion 5, but theses transverse cross section shapes need at least to be complementary in such a way that the bottle B can be stacked in a stable horizontal position onto a lower identical horizontal stackable plastic bottle B' with the said opposite portion 5 of the lower bottle B' fitted into the longitudinal recess 6 of the upper bottle B, and in such a way that the lower bottle B' prevents the upper stacked bottle B from rotating around its longitudinal axis A.
  • figures 7, 8 and 9 are other examples of transverse cross section shapes for the longitudinal recess 6 and for the diametrically opposite portion 5 that are complementary within the meaning of the invention, but that are not congruent.
  • the outer face of the base 1, the outer face of the main body 2, and the outer face of the shoulder part 3 are cylindrical, and more particularly have a circular transverse cross section with the exception of the longitudinal recess 6.
  • the shape in transverse cross section of the portion 5 that is diametrically opposite to the longitudinal recess 6 thus forms a convex arc, and more particularly an arc of circle (CD) ( figure 4 ) .
  • CD arc of circle
  • the shape in transverse cross section of the longitudinal recess 6 forms a concave arc of circle (EF) having a radius substantially equal or smaller than the radius of the diametrically opposite portion 5.
  • portion 5 and the longitudinal recess 6 can form in transverse cross section a convex arc (CD) and a concave arc (EF) respectively that are not necessarily arcs of circle.
  • CD convex arc
  • EF concave arc
  • transverse cross section of the longitudinal recess 6 and/or the transverse cross section of diametrically opposite portion 5 do not necessarily form an arc.
  • the particular embodiment of figure 8 is an example of a transverse cross section shape for the diametrically opposite portion 5 that is convex but does not form an arc.
  • the longitudinal boundaries 6a of the longitudinal recess 6 define a base plane P that is parallel to the longitudinal axis A and suitable for putting the bottle B ( figure 4 ) in a stable horizontal position on a flat horizontal surface S.
  • Identical bottles B, B' can thus be stacked horizontally one onto the other onto a flat surface S in a stable way and without using any casing or the like.
  • the invention is not limited to the particular bottle shape of figures 1 to 8 , but encompasses any stackable plastic bottle having at least the technical features defined in the main appended claim.
  • the length of the neck 4 could be shorter, the length of the base 1 could longer and the shape of the shoulder part 3 could be different.

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Cited By (2)

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
WO2015080576A1 (fr) 2013-11-26 2015-06-04 Plato, Product Consultants Récipient et procédé d'emballage
US12012253B1 (en) * 2023-03-02 2024-06-18 Verre Vert, Inc. Lightweight polymer wine bottle suitable for use with natural cork or synthetic stoppers

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US4308955A (en) 1980-05-27 1982-01-05 Liqui-Box Corporation Interfitting, stackable bottles
EP0322259A1 (fr) * 1987-12-21 1989-06-28 Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien Conditionnement rigide ou semi-rigide pour produits liquides notamment pour produits d'entretien
US5002199A (en) 1986-05-05 1991-03-26 Reid Valve Company, Inc. Stackable bottle
DE29907258U1 (de) * 1999-04-23 1999-07-29 PLM Glashütte Bad Münder GmbH, 31848 Bad Münder Bauchiges Hohlgefäß

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US4308955A (en) 1980-05-27 1982-01-05 Liqui-Box Corporation Interfitting, stackable bottles
US5002199A (en) 1986-05-05 1991-03-26 Reid Valve Company, Inc. Stackable bottle
EP0322259A1 (fr) * 1987-12-21 1989-06-28 Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien Conditionnement rigide ou semi-rigide pour produits liquides notamment pour produits d'entretien
DE29907258U1 (de) * 1999-04-23 1999-07-29 PLM Glashütte Bad Münder GmbH, 31848 Bad Münder Bauchiges Hohlgefäß

Cited By (2)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
WO2015080576A1 (fr) 2013-11-26 2015-06-04 Plato, Product Consultants Récipient et procédé d'emballage
US12012253B1 (en) * 2023-03-02 2024-06-18 Verre Vert, Inc. Lightweight polymer wine bottle suitable for use with natural cork or synthetic stoppers

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