EP2682190B1 - Transporteinheit, umfassend Halteplatten und Gefäße und Vorrichtung, umfassend eine Halteplatte, einen Halter und Gefäße, sowie deren Verwendung - Google Patents

Transporteinheit, umfassend Halteplatten und Gefäße und Vorrichtung, umfassend eine Halteplatte, einen Halter und Gefäße, sowie deren Verwendung Download PDF

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EP2682190B1
EP2682190B1 EP12005044.8A EP12005044A EP2682190B1 EP 2682190 B1 EP2682190 B1 EP 2682190B1 EP 12005044 A EP12005044 A EP 12005044A EP 2682190 B1 EP2682190 B1 EP 2682190B1
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Philip Müller
Daniel Voss
Thomas Kamps
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B01—PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
    • B01L—CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL LABORATORY APPARATUS FOR GENERAL USE
    • B01L9/00—Supporting devices; Holding devices
    • B01L9/06—Test-tube stands; Test-tube holders
    • 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
    • B65D25/00—Details of other kinds or types of rigid or semi-rigid containers
    • B65D25/02—Internal fittings
    • B65D25/10—Devices to locate articles in containers
    • B65D25/108—Devices, e.g. plates, presenting apertures through which the articles project
    • 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
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B01—PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
    • B01L—CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL LABORATORY APPARATUS FOR GENERAL USE
    • B01L2200/00—Solutions for specific problems relating to chemical or physical laboratory apparatus
    • B01L2200/02—Adapting objects or devices to another
    • B01L2200/021—Adjust spacings in an array of wells, pipettes or holders, format transfer between arrays of different size or geometry
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B01—PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
    • B01L—CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL LABORATORY APPARATUS FOR GENERAL USE
    • B01L2200/00—Solutions for specific problems relating to chemical or physical laboratory apparatus
    • B01L2200/02—Adapting objects or devices to another
    • B01L2200/025—Align devices or objects to ensure defined positions relative to each other

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  • the invention relates to a transport unit comprising holding plates and vessels and to a device comprising a holding plate, a holder and vessels, as well as to their use.
  • vessels are used for the preparation of reagents and samples of various sizes and materials.
  • Widely used are disposable plastic containers that are used only for use with a special liquid or liquid mixture and then disposed of.
  • the containers can be supplied by the manufacturer in a certain state of purity or autoclaved before use.
  • the use of disposable plastic containers avoids contamination of reagents and samples.
  • the vessels are preferably provided with plug-like lids or with screw caps.
  • Disposable plastic containers are available in particular with a nominal volume in the range from a fraction of a milliliter to 100 ml.
  • vessels with a nominal volume of 0.5, 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, 15 and 50 ml are commonly used
  • the present application relates to vessels having a closure element and a nominal volume of at least 10 ml.
  • the nominal volume of the vessel is preferably at most 100 ml.
  • the nominal volume of the vessels is in particular 15 and 50 ml.
  • These vessels have a cylinder area, a cone area at the bottom of the cylinder area and one with respect to the cylinder area radially outward protruding closure element at the top of the cylinder area.
  • the cylinder area is ideally cylindrical or with a slight conical taper from top to bottom.
  • the slight conicity of the cylinder area has entformungstechnische and handling reasons.
  • the taper favors a defined seat of the vessel in a receptacle.
  • the half opening angle of the conical taper is preferably at most 5 °, preferably it is 1 °.
  • the vessel lid is a screw cap
  • the cylinder area at the top of the outer circumference has an external thread onto which the screw cap is screwed.
  • These tubes with closure element are also referred to as " conical tube " and marketed under the trade name Falcon® tubes. In this application, they are referred to below as “lidded vessels” or simplistically as “vessels”.
  • lidded containers are shipped as bulkware in a plastic bag or on a carrier (rack) with a plastic film wrapper.
  • the carrier is made of styrofoam or a compact plastic.
  • carriers in the form of a thick plate of Styrofoam with deep shots in which the vessels are kept upright.
  • the bottom plate has an enclosure opposite each hole of the perforated plate.
  • the vessels are held at their cylinder areas in the holes of the perforated plate and at their cone areas of the enclosures.
  • the resistance of styrofoam carriers to chemicals and elevated temperatures is low.
  • the plastic carriers are expensive to manufacture and associated with an increased amount of waste.
  • the vessels in the carriers are arranged very close together. As a result, only small free spaces remain between the vessels. This complicates the accessibility of vessels on the carrier. This is particularly disadvantageous if the carriers are used in the laboratory to provide the vessels for opening and closing, filling and removal. Furthermore, it is disadvantageous in the known vascular packs that large amounts of waste are produced. Finally, the customary carriers often impart an inferior quality impression.
  • the GB 2 478 703A describes a vascular pack having a first carrier and a second carrier each having an array of receptacles for holding a portion of a vessel.
  • the jars have a screw cap threaded onto a tapered neck such that the screw lids do not protrude radially outwardly of the bottom of the jars.
  • the receptacles of each carrier inwardly and the receptacles of the first carrier are arranged offset to the receptacles of the second carrier. Therefore, each receptacle of each carrier can hold one receptacle and will not contact the receptacles when the packaging is closed.
  • the vessels are held at both ends in receptacles of the two carriers.
  • the US 1,858,856 A describes a packaging for shotgun cartridges, which keeps the cartridges at a distance from each other so that they are not damaged.
  • two oppositely aligned and nested groups of shotgun cartridges are held at one end in a spacer at a distance from each other.
  • the spacers with the shotgun cartridges held therein are held together by a carton.
  • the US 2007/0253870 A1 describes a holder and shipping container for sample tubes.
  • Several multi-well holders for holding sample tubes are stackable so that multiple groups of sample tubes are stacked on top of each other.
  • the DE 25 23 826 A1 describes a package for pipette tips with two perforated plates in which from top to bottom and comb-like intermeshing pipette tips are arranged in a gap to each other.
  • the DE 10 2010 033 181 A1 describes a method for recognizing a laboratory vessel or other confusable object.
  • the present invention seeks to provide devices that simplify the transport of vessels and working with vessels while reducing the production costs and waste quantities.
  • the transport unit comprises two parallel holding plates, each having an arrangement of means for holding lid vessels, and a plurality of lid vessels, each having a tubular vessel and a projecting closure element at the top of the vessel, wherein lid vessels of a group of lid vessels of means for holding the one holding plate are held parallel to each other and another group of lidded vessels are held by means for holding the other holding plate parallel to each other, the lidding vessels of a group opposite to the lidded vessels of the other group aligned and nested, wherein by the one another nested Anordnugn the two groups of lidded vessels between the lidded vessels of different groups frictional forces act, which hold the transport unit together.
  • the lid containers of one group are aligned opposite to the lid containers of the other group.
  • the holding plates each have means for holding.
  • the radially outwardly of the vessels protruding closure elements do not hinder close contraction of adjacent lid vessels.
  • different groups are oppositely oriented so that their closure elements are located apart from one another next to different holding plates and not next to each other next to the same holding plate.
  • the lidded containers can thus be arranged very close to each other in the transport unit.
  • the cost of materials for the holding plates is low. These can be thin-walled.
  • the transport unit has a high stability, because each lidded vessel is held on at least one holding plate and by the nested arrangement of the two groups of lidded vessels.
  • the holding plates can be pulled apart with the group of lidded containers held thereon and the lidded containers can be removed from the respective holding plate.
  • the holding plates can be disposed of or reused after removal of the lid containers.
  • the transport unit has an outer packaging enclosing the two groups of lid containers and the two holding plates. This can improve the cohesion of the transport unit and the vessels are protected from contamination and other adverse environmental influences.
  • the outer packaging may in particular be a bag or a foil made of plastic, a blister tray or a folding box. Combinations of the aforementioned outer packaging can also be used.
  • the closure element protrudes radially outward with respect to the vessel.
  • the means for holding and the lid containers are dimensioned such that the lid containers are held clamped by the means for holding.
  • a particularly stable transport unit is achieved. Further, this disassembly of the transport unit is facilitated in two separate and equipped with lidded holding plates.
  • Lid vessels having a nominal volume of 50 ml and / or vessels having a nominal volume of 15 ml are preferably held by the means for holding the transport unit.
  • the transport unit according to the invention is held together by the fact that the two groups of lid containers are arranged nested one inside the other. As a result, between the cover vessels of different groups frictional forces, which hold the transport unit sufficiently.
  • the transport unit can be stabilized by an outer packaging, which had the two holding plates and / or held groups of lidded vessels, so that their displacement is prevented within the transport packaging.
  • the two holding plates each have first means for holding lid vessels at a first diameter and second means for holding lid vessels at a second diameter, wherein first and second means for holding the two holding plates face each other in pairs, the lid vessels the one group on the vessels or the closure elements are held by the first means for holding the one holding plate and the vessels by the second means for holding the other holding plate and the lid containers of the other group on the vessels or the closure elements from the first means for Holding the other Holding plate and are held on the vessels of the second means for holding the one holding plate.
  • the lid containers of both groups are held on both holding plates.
  • both holding plates each have first and second means for holding, wherein the first means for holding each hold a lid vessel further up the vessel or on the closure element and the second means for holding a lid vessel further down the vessel.
  • the first and second means for holding are also referred to in this application as "means for holding" when the description concerns both the first means for holding and the second means for holding.
  • the invention comprises a transport and working device with the features of claim 12.
  • This device consists of a transport unit according to claim 1 and a holder for forming a working unit.
  • the working unit comprises at least one holding plate having an arrangement of lid vessel holding means, a holder having a base and base-upstanding support means on which the at least one holding plate is seated, and a plurality of lid vessels each having a tubular shape Vessel and with respect to the vessel radially outwardly projecting closure element at the top of the vessel and are held at the top of the vessel or closure element of means for holding the holding plate.
  • the work unit allows a very good operability and accessibility of the lidded vessels in the laboratory.
  • the lidded vessels are stably held in a predetermined orientation by the means for holding the holding plate.
  • the vessels can be at a distance from one another, which facilitates gripping, opening and closing and filling of individual lidded vessels.
  • the working unit can be advantageous by a lidded containers equipped holding plate of the transport unit according to the invention be completed.
  • the holding plate can be placed on the support means of the holder with the lid containers held by the means for holding. Clearances on unoccupied means for holding the holding plate can be used here to control the correct alignment of the holding plate on the support means.
  • the holder is reusable. He can be of high quality and visually appealing.
  • the holding plate After removal of all lidded vessels, the holding plate can be removed from the holder and disposed of or reused. Thereafter, another, equipped with lidded containers holding plate can be placed on the holder, for example, the second holding plate of a transport unit.
  • the work unit saves manufacturing costs and reduces waste volumes.
  • the work unit can also be used to hold used lidded containers to collect them in the holding plate and dispose of them together with the holding plate.
  • the lidded vessels have slightly conical cylindrical areas, the means for holding and the slightly conical cylindrical areas are dimensioned such that when the holding plate is removed from the holder, the lidding vessels can be inserted into a deep position in the holding means, in which they are easily attached conical Zylinderballons are held clamped by the means for holding, and the support means and the slightly conical cylindrical portions are dimensioned so that when resting on the support means holding plate, the holding plate with respect to the slightly conical cylindrical portions of the lidded vessels is lowered so that the lidded vessels with a game of the means for holding the holding plate are held.
  • the lidding vessels are firmly held by the holding plate before the holding plate is placed on the holder.
  • the holding plate is easily held with the clamping Lidded containers alignable and attachable to the support means. In the remote holding plate, the lidded containers are held only loosely in the holding plate, so that they can be easily removed from the working unit.
  • the holding plate comprises first means for holding lid vessels at a first diameter and second means for holding lid vessels at a second diameter, and of the first means for holding large lid vessels at a large diameter and / or from the second means Keep small lidded vessels at a small diameter.
  • the support plate is preferably provided with large vessels held by first means for holding, or with small vessels held by second means for holding and / or first means for holding, or with large vessels held by first means for holding be held, and with small vessels, which are held by second means to hold, equippable.
  • first means for holding or with small vessels held by second means for holding and / or first means for holding, or with large vessels held by first means for holding be held, and with small vessels, which are held by second means to hold, equippable.
  • the large vessels have a preferred nominal volume of 50 ml.
  • the small vessels are preferably vessels with a nominal volume of 15 ml.
  • the support means on the base projecting posts and / or projecting from the base side walls.
  • the posts are preferably located at the corners of the base.
  • the design with posts is particularly material-saving.
  • the design with side walls is particularly stable.
  • the support means on top alignment means and the holding plate further alignment means, on which the holding plate is aligned with the alignment.
  • the alignment means the holding plate and the holder are combined to form a stable arrangement.
  • the holding plate and the support means latching means and / or clamping means for latching together or clamped connecting the holding plate and support means.
  • positioning means are arranged on the upper side of the base, which are arranged opposite to the means for holding the holding plate, and the lidded vessels held by the means for holding are held at their lower ends by positioning means.
  • the lidded vessels are held particularly stable in a predetermined orientation.
  • the positioning means comprise the lower ends of lid receptacles receiving recesses on top of the base and / or a coating of the top of the base with increased static friction to the lower ends of the lid vessels.
  • the coating can also counteract co-rotation of the lid vessel when unscrewing or tightening a designed as a screw cap closure element with only one hand.
  • the holder on the underside of the base feet which consist at least at the lower end of an increased static friction against a work surface in the laboratory having material.
  • the work surface is a surface made of plastic, ceramics, stoneware, glass or another, commonly used in the laboratory material. Through the feet is the Working unit prevented from unintentional slipping on the work surface, especially in the removal of vessels.
  • the working unit has a housing surrounding the holder and the vessels used and / or the holding plate equipped with vessels.
  • the housing has a rectangular base area with one or more edge lengths of each 130 mm or an integer multiple or divisor thereof.
  • the housing allows the storage of the vessels in the holder, for example in the refrigerator or in a freezer.
  • a housing with the specified footprint can be used in freezerboxes with one or more edge lengths of 130 mm or an integer multiple or divisor thereof.
  • the housing has a lid which, in the open position, enables removal and insertion of the working unit and / or the holding plate equipped with containers and protects them from environmental influences in the closed position.
  • the housing is preferably reusable.
  • an outer packaging of the transport unit can be used as a housing.
  • the means for holding are arranged in rows and columns.
  • the rows are at a constant distance from one another and the columns are at a constant distance from one another.
  • the rows have the same distance from each other as the columns.
  • first and second means for holding in each row and in each column are arranged alternately first and second means for holding and the first means for holding and the second means for holding in adjacent rows and columns are arranged offset to each other.
  • This embodiment makes it possible to form a transport unit with two identical holding plates. Furthermore, a particularly high packing density can be achieved by the arrangement of the first and second means for holding.
  • the distance between adjacent holding means 55 to 65 mm - preferably 59 mm - and / or the holding plate and / or the holder have a rectangular base area with one or more edge lengths of 130 mm or an integral multiple or divider thereof on. At this distance of the means for holding each other a particularly high packing density is achieved. Furthermore, the base surface of the holding plate or the holder allows the arrangement of holding plate or holder in a Freezerbox. Freezerboxes typically have a footprint of one or more edge lengths of 130mm or an integer multiple thereof.
  • the holding plate is formed in the first variant of the means for holding as a perforated plate.
  • the perforated plate is preferably provided with first holes for a first diameter of the lid containers and with second holes provided for a second diameter of the lidded vessels.
  • the first holes are preferably larger than the second holes.
  • the first holes and the second holes are collectively referred to as "holes" in this application.
  • the engagement means engaged with the closure means comprise, for example, a collar projecting from the inside of the support plate and receiving a closure element, and / or a projection projecting from the inside of a support plate and engaging a recess on the outside of the closure element.
  • the engaging means engaged with the lower ends of lidded vessels have, for example, a collar projecting from the inner side of a holding plate and receiving an end portion of the cone portion, and / or a recess disposed on the inner side of a holding plate and receiving an end portion of the cone portion.
  • the means for holding are designed according to a further variant in such a way that they have a contact surface on the inside of a holding plate for the lower end of the lidded vessel.
  • the contact with the lower end of the contact surface lidded vessels are supported by the contact surface in the axial direction.
  • the lidded containers are laterally supported by the adjacent lidded containers, which are held by the holding plate with the contact surface.
  • the various variants of the first and second means for holding may also be present in any combination in a transport unit and / or in the work unit.
  • the means for holding the lid containers are holes
  • the lid containers held in these holes are arranged with their closure elements on the outside of the holding plate facing away from the base.
  • the means for holding in each case in a recess of the holding plate arranged webs, between which an opening region is present, in which a lid vessel can be inserted For example, three or four of such webs project radially inwards from the edge of the recess in order to limit the opening region with their inner ends.
  • the webs can also limit the opening area tangentially.
  • the webs may be rigid or elastic.
  • the holding plate and / or the holder and / or the lid vessels made of at least one plastic.
  • the holding plate and / or the holder and / or the lid vessels made of at least one plastic.
  • autoclavable and / or chemical resistant materials are used.
  • the holding plate and / or the holder made of a bio-based plastic in order to reduce the problem of waste.
  • the lidded vessels have a tubular vessel with a cylinder area and a bottom at the lower end.
  • the cylinder region is slightly conical, ie it tapers from top to bottom.
  • the half cone angle of the cylinder area is a maximum of 5 °, more preferably a maximum of 1 °.
  • the vessel may have only the cylinder area with bottom at the lower end.
  • the vessel has a cone region tapering downwards on.
  • the bottom of the lidded vessel is at the bottom of the cone area.
  • the vessel may only have the cone area with bottom.
  • the cone region adjoins the bottom of the cylinder region.
  • the vessel at the bottom has a bowl-shaped bottom.
  • the closure element is a housing cover.
  • the closure element is a snap cap or a plug.
  • the closure element is a screw cap and has the vessel at the top of a thread.
  • the screw cap has an internal thread and the cylinder portion at the top of an external thread.
  • the invention comprises the use of a transport and operating device of one of claims 12 to 22 according to claim 23.
  • the transport unit is dissolved by separating the holding plates with the respective groups of lid vessels inserted therein from each other and placed at least one holding plate with a group of lidded vessels inserted therein on the holder.
  • the transport unit of any one of claims 1 to 11, the apparatus of any one of claims 12 to 22, and the use of claim 23 may also be embodied with lidded vessels in which the closure element does not protrude radially outwards with respect to the cylinder area but, for example, with the cylinder area is flushed or springing back.
  • lidded containers have, for example, a closure element with an external thread which is screwed into an internal thread at the upper end of the cylinder region or a closure element in the form of a plug which can be pressed into the cylinder region.
  • bottom and top refer to a transport unit and to a work unit in which the vessels are vertically aligned with the axes of their cylinder sections.
  • this information refers to a vertical orientation of the lidded vessel with the closure element above and the vessel below.
  • Fig. 1 to 4 comprises a transport unit 1.1 two mutually parallel holding plates 2 and mutually parallel large lidded vessels 3.1.
  • the large lidded vessels 3.1 each have a vessel 4.1 which has a cylinder area 5.1 and a cone area 6.1 with a bottom at the lower end.
  • the cylinder area 5.1 is not ideal cylindrical, but tapers from demoulding reasons and for reasons of handling easily from top to bottom.
  • the cylinder area 5.1 has an external thread at the upper edge.
  • the cylinder area 5.1 and the cone area 6.1 are hollow and together form a receptacle for liquid.
  • a screw cap 7.1 is screwed with an internal thread.
  • the screw cap 7.1 has a circular disc-shaped lid bottom 8.1 with a downwardly projecting from the outer edge of the cover casing 9.1, the rippled on the outside.
  • the screw cap 7.1 projects radially outward slightly with respect to the cylinder area 5.1.
  • a holding plate 2 has a rectangular plate 10 in which a plurality of first holes 11.1 and a plurality of second holes 11.2 are arranged.
  • the first holes 11.1 are larger than the second holes 11.2.
  • the first holes 11.1 and the second holes 11.2 are arranged in a matrix-like arrangement with four rows and six columns. In each row alternately first holes 11.1 and second holes 11.2 are arranged. Furthermore, first holes 11.1 and second holes 11.2 are alternately arranged in each column.
  • the first holes 11.1 and the second holes 11.2 are arranged offset in adjacent rows to each other. Further, the first holes 11.1 and the second holes 11.2 are arranged offset in adjacent columns to each other.
  • the holding plate 2 has twelve first holes 11.1 and twelve second holes 11.2.
  • the center-to-center spacing of adjacent holes 11.1 and 11.2 is constant in the rows and columns. In the example, it is 59 mm.
  • the diameters of the first holes 11.1 and the second holes 11.2 are selected such that a large lidded vessel 3.1 with screw cap with a nominal volume of 50 ml can be clamped with its cylinder area 5.1 into the first holes 11.1 and that a small lidded vessel is inserted into the second holes 11.2 3.2 with screw cap with a nominal volume of 15 ml with its cylinder area 5.2 einklemmend is used.
  • the relevant diameter and diameter ranges of the screw cap 7 ( ⁇ Deckel) of the cylinder portion 5 at the upper end ( ⁇ cylinder opening), the cylinder portion 5 at the lower end ( ⁇ cylinder cone neck), the first holes 11.1 of the holding plate 2 (Rack: Large ⁇ ) are exemplified.
  • the second holes 11.2 of the holding plate 2 (rack: Kleiner0) for the 50ml lidded vessels 3.1 and the 15ml lidded vessels 3.2 summarized.
  • the diameters of the screw cap 7, the upper end of the cylinder portion 5 and the lower end of the cylinder portion 5 are outer diameter.
  • the diameters of the first holes 11.1 and the second holes 11.2 are inner diameters.
  • the holding plate 2 at its four corners 12 each have a guide hole 13.
  • the two holding plates 2 are arranged so that in each case a first hole 11.1 of a holding plate 2 is aligned with a second hole 11.2 of the other holding plate 2.
  • the transport unit 1.1 has a group 14.1 of large lidded vessels 3.1, which are inserted with the cylinder area 5.1 into the first holes 11.1 of the holding plate 2 so that they are held clamped therein.
  • the screw cap 7.1 of the lidded vessels 3.1 of this group 14.1 are on the outside the same holding plate 2 is arranged.
  • the conical areas 6.1 of the large lidded vessels 3.1 of this group 14.1 are inserted into the second holes 11.2 of the opposite holding plate 2.
  • the transport unit 1.1 comprises a second group 14.2 of large lidded vessels 3.1, which are inserted with the cylinder area 5.1 into the first holes 11.1 of the other holding plate 2, so that they are clamped therein.
  • the lidded vessels 3.1 of this group 14.2 are arranged with their screw caps 7.1 on the outside of the other holding plate 2. Furthermore, they are used with their conical portions 6.1 in the second holes 11.2 of a holding plate 2.
  • the lidded containers 3.1 are packed together particularly tightly in the transport unit 1.1.
  • the lidded vessels 3.1 can be packed together so tightly, with a suitable choice of the distances between the holes 11.1, 11.2 of the holding plate 2, that they touch the sheaths of their cylinder areas 5.1.
  • Fig. 4 overlap the screw cap 7.1 of the lidding vessels 3.1 of the various groups 14.1, 14.2 each other without colliding with each other, since they are arranged on different outer sides of the two holding plates 2.
  • Fig. 7 comprises a working unit 16.1 a holding plate 2, large lidded vessels 3.1 and a holder 17.1.
  • the holder 17.1 has a base 18 in the form of a rectangular plate.
  • the base 18 has recesses 19 on the upper side, which in the example expand conically from bottom to top.
  • the upper side of the base 18 is provided with a coating 20, which has an increased static friction with respect to the lidded vessels 3.
  • the depressions 19 are arranged in rows and columns in a matrix-like arrangement which corresponds to the arrangement of the holes 11 in the plate 2.
  • the depressions 19 are designed such that they can optionally accommodate the cone region 6.1, 6.2 of a large lidded vessel 3.1 or a small lidded vessel 3.2.
  • the base 18 has feet 21 projecting from the underside.
  • the feet 21 preferably have at least on their underside a material which has an increased static friction against a work surface.
  • the posts 22.1 From the corners of the base 18 are supporting means 22 in the form of posts 22.1 up.
  • the posts 22.1 have at the top a support area 23 for a plate 2. Of each support area 23 is above the corner of the base 18, a guide pin 24 upwards.
  • Each post 22.1 is L-shaped in a horizontal section, with each post 22.1 expanding from bottom to top.
  • the support region 23 is in each case plate-shaped, connected at the outer edge with the two legs of the post 22.1 and has a radius at the inner edge.
  • Each support area 23 is slightly offset with respect to the upper edge of the post 22.1 down, wherein the offset corresponds approximately to the wall thickness of the support plate 2.
  • the guide pin 24 protrudes approximately as far as the upper edge of the post 22.1 from the support area 23 upwards.
  • Fig. 7 is a holding plate 2 with a group 14.1 or 14.2 lidded vessels 3.1 placed on the holder 17.1.
  • the lidded vessels 3.1 are inserted with their conical areas 6.1 in the recesses 19 of the base 18.
  • the holding plate 2 is displaced downwards on the cylinder areas 5.1 of the lid containers 3.1 the guide pins 24 engage in the guide holes 13 and the support plate 2 rests on the support areas 23. In this position, the holding plate 2 is guided at the corners of the over the support areas 23 protruding portions of the posts 22.1.
  • the screw cap 7 can be unscrewed and screwed on by the user with one hand, since the coating 20 prevents the lid containers 3.1 from rotating.
  • the lid containers 3.1 are easily removed from the working unit 16.1, since they are supported due to the lowered position of the holding plate 2 with a small clearance at their cylinder areas 5.1.
  • small lidded vessels 3.2 can also be provided in the second holes 11.2 and, if necessary, the first holes 11.1 inserted in the working unit 16.1.
  • the holding plate 2 After consumption of the lidded vessels 3 provided in the holding plate 2, the holding plate 2 can be removed and a further holding plate 2 with lidded vessels 3 inserted into the holder 17.1.
  • the emptied holding plate 2 can be disposed of or reused.
  • the holder 17.2 of Fig. 11 to 13 differs from the above by the fact that the support means 22 are formed as closed side walls 22.2.
  • the side walls 22.2 form a peripheral frame.
  • the holder 17.2 is particularly stabilized.
  • the support areas 23 are formed as in the holder 17.1 and offset with respect to the upper edge of the side walls 22.2 slightly downwards.
  • the guide pins 24 are upstanding from the support area 23 to the upper edge of the side walls 22.2.
  • a holding plate 2 with lidded vessels 3 arranged therein can be inserted into the holder 17.2 as in the holder 17.1.
  • the holding plate 2 is guided laterally on its entire outer circumference.
  • a transport unit 1.2 has two holding plates 2, which are provided with first holes 11.3 and second holes 11.4, which hold the lid containers 3.1 at their cylinder areas 5.1.
  • first holes 11.3 are slightly larger than the second holes 11.4 in this embodiment.
  • the lid containers 3.1 of the various groups 14.1, 14.2 with their screw caps 7.1 are arranged on mutually remote outer sides of the various holding plates 2.
  • both holding plates 2 only have first holes 11.5 and beyond bearing surfaces 25 on the inner sides of the holding plates 2, which are arranged between first holes 11.5.
  • the lidded vessels 3.1 of the various groups 14.1, 14.2 are each held on their cylinder area 5.1 in a first hole 11.5 of a holding plate 2 and are supported axially on a contact surface 25 with the end of their cone area 6.1.
  • the lid containers 3.1 are also radially supported by the adjacent lid vessels 3.1 of the other group 14.2, which are arranged in the first holes 11.5 next to the contact surface 25.
  • the transport unit 1.3 can additionally be stabilized by an outer packaging. In addition or instead, it can be stabilized by an intermediate plate 26 which has further holes 11.6, which hold the lid vessels 3.1 of both groups 14.1, 14.2 at their cylinder areas 5.1.
  • the optional intermediate plate 26 is shown in dashed lines in FIG Fig. 15 shown.
  • a lidded vessel 3.1 is held at a large diameter of its cylinder area 5.1 in a first hole 11.1 or 11.3 or 11.4 or 11.5.
  • a spring element 27 on the holding plate 2 is present, which secures the lid vessel 3.1.
  • Fig. 18 has a holding plate 2 from the inside projecting circular cylindrical collar 28, in each of which a screw cap 7.1 can be inserted or clamped.
  • a holding plate 2 has first holding means in the form of pin-like or pin-like projections 29, each engaging in a trough-shaped depression 30 in the screw cap 7.1 of the lid vessel 3.1.
  • FIGS. 20 and 21 show a further transport unit 1.4, which consists of two parallel holding plates 2 and inserted into these small lidded vessels 3.2.
  • the geometry of the small lidded vessels 3.2 basically corresponds to the geometry of the large lidded vessels 3.1.
  • the small lidded vessels 3.2 likewise have a cylinder area 5.2 with a cone area 6.2 at the lower end and an external thread at the top of the cylinder area 5.2. Further, cylinder area 5.2 and cone area 6.2 are hollow and together form a receptacle for liquid.
  • a screw cap 7.2 is screwed with an internal thread on the external thread.
  • the length of the small lidded vessels 3.2 is consistent with the length of the large lidded vessels 3.1. However, the small lidded vessels 3.2 have a smaller diameter than the large lidded vessels 3.1.
  • the small lidded vessels 3.2 also form two groups 14.1 and 14.2.
  • the lidded vessels of a group 14.1 are clamped with their cylindrical areas 5.2 in the first holes 11.1 of a holding plate 2 and clamped with the lower ends of their cylindrical areas 5.2 in the second holes 11.2 of the other holding plate 2.
  • the lidded vessels 3.2 of the other group 14.2 are clamped with their cylindrical areas 5.2 in the first holes 11.1 of a holding plate 2 and clamped with the lower ends of their cylindrical areas 5.2 in the second holes 11.2 of the other holding plate 2.
  • the screw cap 7.2 have a larger diameter than the first holes 11.1, so they do not slip through them.
  • the transport unit preferably comprises an outer packaging 15.
  • the transport units 1.1 and 1.4 are shown with an outer packaging 15.1, 15.2 made of cardboard.
  • the lidded vessels 3 and the holding plates 2 are preferably made of plastic.
  • the lower vessel parts 4 are made of polypropylene, for example, and the screw cap 7 made of polyethylene.
  • the holding plates 2 are made for example of polypropylene or polycarbonate.
  • the first holes 11.1 and second holes 11.2 of the transport unit 1.5 are matched to the diameter of the cylinder areas 5.2 and the cone areas 6.2 of the small lidded vessels 3.2.
  • the stocked with lidded containers 3 holding plates 2 of the transport units 1.2 to 1.4 are also pulled apart and can be used in a holder 17 to form a working unit 16.

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CN201310280265.7A CN103786974B (zh) 2012-07-06 2013-07-05 包括保持板和容器的运输单元以及包括保持板、支架和容器的工作单元
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