EP3009366B1 - Transport container - Google Patents

Description

The invention relates to a transport container for bottles, glasses or the like with a bottom from which corner columns extend, which are interconnected by side walls, wherein the side walls, the end faces and the side walls form the longitudinal sides, and at the end facing away from the bottom with a End edge is provided and provided on the floor a compartment.

Transport container of the type mentioned, according to the preamble of claim 1, are known for example in the form of crates (see, for example. DE 1 259 770 A ). They are used to safely receive bottles to enable non-destructive transport. At the same time the transport container should have a sufficiently high stability to allow their stackability even in the filled state of the bottles.

In order to ensure non-destructive transport of the bottles or jars in the containers both when filled and when empty, compartments are provided at the bottom of the containers. The compartments are usually webs that simulate the cross section of the bottles or glasses and allow their adjustment. As an alternative to the compartments, equally effective sleeves can be provided. The quills are columns that are vertical from the bottom and only partially reproduce the cross section of the bottles or jars to be placed in the container.

In transport logistics, the problem increasingly arises in reusable systems in particular that more empty bottles or glasses are collected at collection points than filled bottles or jars are sold. It follows that there are fewer transport containers at the collection point for the return transport of the empty bottles or jars than is necessary. As a result, it is necessary to transport empty transport containers to collection points to ensure the damage-free return transport of empty bottles or glasses. This is basically not a problem. However, the number of transportable containers is limited by their transport volume. Thus, the respective vehicle can only one maximum number of containers, regardless of whether the containers are filled or empty. This is disadvantageous because in the case of the transport of empty transport containers, the permissible load weight of the respective vehicle is far below.

To avoid this disadvantage is from the DE 20 2013 101 031 U1 a transport container is known in which in the longitudinal sides of the container forming side walls are formed quadrangular recesses which interrupt the end edge in the side walls. The recesses allow a composite-like stackability. In this case, the crosswise arrangement of the transport container in an empty state means that two containers arranged one above the other in a composite manner merely have the height of a conventional transport container. It follows that the transport height of empty transport container is reduced by half, whereby the transport volume of the empty container is also reduced by half.

The known transport container meets the requirements in terms of reducing the transport volume in empty containers. However, it has proved to be disadvantageous that, when the container is filled, the transported material in the form of bottles, glasses or the like is essentially unprotected in the region of the recesses, so that the risk of damage to the transported product is increased. In addition, due to the recesses on the longitudinal sides of the container, the area on which advertising can be placed is substantially reduced.

The invention aims to remedy this situation. The invention has for its object to provide a transport container for bottles, glasses or the like, which allows a space-saving arrangement in the empty state, but at the same time provides protection for the goods to be transported, which is comparable to containers whose longitudinal sides have no recesses. According to the invention, this object is achieved in that in the second side walls in each case two, vertically extending and rectangular slots are formed, which interrupt the end edge in the side walls, and that the slots are arranged adjacent to the corner pillars and have a depth, the substantially equal to half the height of the container. With the invention, a transport container for bottles, glasses or the like is created, which meets the usual requirements for stability and manageability of transport containers. At the same time, the container according to the invention offers the Possibility to stack several containers in an unfilled state with a very small volume. Nevertheless, the container provides against the known from the prior art space-saving stackable containers maximum protection for the transported goods. This is caused by the closed except for the slots formation of the longitudinal sides of the transport container.

Figur 1

die stirnseitige Ansicht eines erfindungsgemäßen Transportbehälters in Form eines Flaschenkastens;

Figur 2

die Seitenansicht von links des in Fig. 1 dargestellten Transportbehälters;

Figur 3

die Draufsicht auf den in Fig. 1 dargestellten Transportbehälter;

Figur 4

die dreidimensionale Darstellung des in Fig. 1 dargestellten Transportbehälters;

Figur 5

die Darstellung von drei verschachtelt übereinander angeordneten leeren Transportbehältern;

Figur 6

die Seitenansicht der in Fig. 5 dargestellten Anordnung;

Figur 7

die Draufsicht auf die in Fig. 5 dargestellte Anordnung und

Figur 8

die dreidimensionale Darstellung der in Fig. 5 dargestellten Anordnung.

Other developments and refinements of the invention are specified in the remaining subclaims. An embodiment of the invention is illustrated in the drawings and will be described in detail below. Show it:

FIG. 1

the frontal view of a transport container according to the invention in the form of a bottle crate;

FIG. 2

the side view from the left of the in Fig. 1 illustrated transport container;

FIG. 3

the top view of the in Fig. 1 illustrated transport container;

FIG. 4

the three-dimensional representation of in Fig. 1 illustrated transport container;

FIG. 5

the representation of three nested superimposed empty transport containers;

FIG. 6

the side view of in Fig. 5 arrangement shown;

FIG. 7

the top view of the in Fig. 5 illustrated arrangement and

FIG. 8

the three-dimensional representation of in Fig. 5 illustrated arrangement.

The transport container chosen as the exemplary embodiment is a bottle crate. It has a bottom 1, from which corner pillars 2 extend vertically. The corner pillars 2 are interconnected by side walls 3, 4, wherein the side walls 3, the end faces and the side walls 4 form the longitudinal sides of the bottle crate. The bottle crate is provided at its end facing away from the bottom 1 with a terminal edge 5. In the region of the side walls 3, the terminal edge 5 connects the corner pillars 2 at their end facing away from the bottom 1 with each other. In the two end-side side walls 3 each have a handle opening 6 is formed.

In the area of the bottom 1, an erecting and stacking aid 7 is formed on the bottle crate. The set-up and stacking aid 7 is arranged in the embodiment only in the corners of the bottom 1 and formed in the manner of a quarter circle. In a modification of the embodiment, it is also possible to connect two adjacent set-up and stacking aids 7 below the end-side side walls 3.

On the floor 1, a compartment 8 is provided in the bottle case. The compartment 8 comprises Gefachewände 9, which extend perpendicularly from the bottom 1. The Gefachewände 9 are designed to save material and thus to save weight web-like and support during transport the bottles set in the compartment. The height of Gefachewände 9 corresponds to about half the height of the bottle crate. The Gefachewände 9 are aligned with each other so that they form in the top view Einstellplätze for the bottles.

In the longitudinal sides of the bottle crate forming side walls 4 slots 10 are formed, which are rectangular in the embodiment. The slots 10 are each arranged adjacent to the corner pillars 2 and extend perpendicularly in the side walls 4. The side walls 4 each have two slots 10 in the exemplary embodiment. Due to the slots 10, the end edge 5 is interrupted in the side walls 4. The slots 10 each end in a slot bottom 11. They have a depth that corresponds to substantially half the height of the bottle crate. Each slot base 11 is therefore located approximately at the height of the free ends of Gefachewände 9. Side slits 10 are bounded by cheeks 12.

On the side facing away from the bottom 1 10 recesses 13 are provided in the longitudinal sides of the bottle crate forming side walls 4 between the slots. In the embodiment, three recesses 13 are provided in each case. The recesses 13 as well as the slots 10 lead to an interruption of the terminal edge. 5

The transport container according to the invention in the form of a bottle crate is comparably usable and thus stackable both in the filled and in the empty state to known transport containers. In usual stacked condition the Aufstellund moves Stacking aid 7 of the upper bottle crate in the area of the end edge 5 in the bottle case below. Despite the slots 10 in the side walls 4, the transport container has sufficient stability to be able to stack several containers one above the other even when filled.

In the empty state in the transport container according to the invention additionally has the ability to stack this space-saving. For this purpose, it is only necessary to turn on a standing on the ground container, a second container upside down and rotated by 90 ° to put on the lower container. This alignment of two containers arranged one above the other has the consequence that the slots 10 provided on both containers intermesh. In this way, the transport containers dive into each other, as in the FIGS. 5 to 8 is recognizable. In this state, the containers are each supported by the slot bottom 11 of each slot 10 from each other. At the same time, the respective cheeks 12 of the containers stacked in this way are positioned in close proximity to each other, so that only a small clearance between the containers is anticipated.

Like that FIGS. 5 to 8 can be seen, the twisted and inverted transport containers form a composite. As a result, the stability of the stacked containers is additionally increased. This is also because, due to the dimensions of the two-sided slots, the upper-upturned-transport container rests with its end edge 5 on the floor, for example, a Euro pallet. At the same time, the embodiment according to the invention makes it possible for a further transport container to be stacked in a conventional manner on the transport container forming the composite (cf. FIGS. 5 to 8 ). This is also arranged to save space on the lower transport container, as forming the bottom 1 and the compartment 8 replicating circular ridges, partially enter the recesses 13, whereby the height of the stacked containers is additionally reduced by the depth of the recesses 13. In turn, a further twisted and reversed transport container can be arranged in the upper container. Thus, with the invention designed according to the transport containers at the same height twice as many containers are stacked, as is the case with conventional transport containers.

And even taking into account the increased space requirements of stacked transport containers results due to the significantly improved use of space height by about one-third increased transport capacity of empty transport containers. By providing only slots is compared to the prior art, a nearly closed formation of the longitudinal sides forming side walls 4 caused, as is present in conventional containers. As a result, on the one hand, the goods to be transported in the container are just as well protected against damage, as is the case with completely closed containers. On the other hand, the long sides are due to their almost completely closed configuration also available as advertising space, which is particularly advantageous when used as a bottle crate. In addition, the container according to the invention is just as easy to handle as the known closed container. This offers the particular advantage that an automated cleaning, conveying, emptying, filling, etc. can be done in the same way as is the case with conventional, ie closed containers.

Claims (4)

1. Transport container for bottles, glasses or similar objects, having a bottom (1) from which corner columns (2) extend, which are connected to one another by side walls (3, 4), where first side walls (3) form the end sides, and second side walls (4) form the longitudinal sides, and the end facing away from the bottom (1) has a top edge (5), and the bottom is divided into compartments (8), characterised in that two vertically extending rectangular slots (10) are formed in each of the second side walls (4), which interrupt the top edge (5) of the side walls (4), and that the slots (10) are arranged adjacent to the corner columns (2) and are of a depth which corresponds substantially to half the height of the container.
2. Transport container in accordance with claim 1, characterised in that each of the slots (10) ends in a slot base (11).
3. Transport container in accordance with either of the preceding claims, characterised in that the slots (10) are bordered at the side by cheeks (12).
4. Transport container in accordance with any of the preceding claims, characterised in that recesses (13) are provided between the slots (10) on the side of the side walls (4) facing away from the bottom (1).

Images