EP3683163A1 - Récipient pourvu de pare-chocs - Google Patents

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EP3683163A1
EP3683163A1 EP19152320.8A EP19152320A EP3683163A1 EP 3683163 A1 EP3683163 A1 EP 3683163A1 EP 19152320 A EP19152320 A EP 19152320A EP 3683163 A1 EP3683163 A1 EP 3683163A1
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Theodoor Henk Vincent VOS
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Priority to US17/423,541 priority patent/US20220111998A1/en
Priority to US17/423,523 priority patent/US20220119151A1/en
Priority to PCT/EP2020/051100 priority patent/WO2020148416A1/fr
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  • the present disclosure relates to a container, in particular a nestable or interchangeable large load carrier, with a bottom and side walls that expand conically and / or in steps, in particular from the bottom, to a peripheral container edge.
  • Nestable containers are known from the prior art, which have side walls widening towards the container opening and thus enable a plurality of unfilled containers to be put into one another to reduce the transport volume during empty transport.
  • the object of the present invention is to provide a container with a more robust construction.
  • a container which has a, in particular rectangular, bottom and side walls which extend from the bottom to a container edge. At least one of the side walls of the container has on its outside a bumper or damper, which, viewed in the container height direction, is arranged below the container edge and preferably at a distance therefrom and protrudes from said outside at least so far that it has a plane that lies between an outer edge the bottom and an, in particular lower, outer edge of the container edge which is spanned, tangent or cuts at least one side wall.
  • the bumper hits a flat floor in front of the edge of the container when the container is tilted about the associated outer edge of the base.
  • the bumper is structurally designed and adapted to at least partially dissipate a shock acting laterally on the container under elastic and / or plastic deformation, i.e.
  • the structure of the bumper and / or its material selection is adapted to absorb the energy that occurs in the event of an impact, for example by internal friction losses.
  • the bumper can be hollow or a clear width can be formed between the bumper and the outer surface of the associated side wall.
  • the at least one bumper can be of hollow profile design, in particular enclosing a cavity or a clear space together with the shielded side wall.
  • the at least one bumper can be arranged in the upper third of the container when viewed in the container height direction, in particular at a distance of 180 to 240 mm from the upper container edge.
  • the side walls can extend from the bottom in the direction of the container edge, in particular conically and / or in steps.
  • the container cross-section which widens in the height of the container, allows nesting or nesting of several identical containers. With such nestable containers, a bumper is particularly advantageous since the edge is particularly exposed due to the conical shape of the walls.
  • the bumper can be designed such that it does not project further in the direction parallel to the floor than the outer edge of the container edge of the container side protected / shielded by it, in order not to enlarge the external dimensions of the container.
  • the bumper can preferably be flush with the outside edge of the container edge or flush with the container in the vertical direction.
  • the container can have four side walls and four bumpers can each be arranged in corner regions of the container. In this way, impact forces can be introduced well into the corner regions of a container, which are reinforced anyway.
  • the bumpers can preferably be arranged on two mutually opposite side walls of the container. It is advisable to provide bumpers on the longer side walls, for example in the case of containers with an essentially rectangular base area, since the containers tend to tip over the longer bottom edge. In the case of large load carriers, there is often a predetermined engagement direction or engagement sides for forklift trucks and the like. In this case, it is advantageous to arrange the bumpers on side walls facing away from the engagement sides, since a stack of nested containers will usually tip away from the forklift.
  • the bumper can have a predetermined impact absorption or crumple section which is designed to dissipate impact energy in the event of an impact with elastic and / or plastic deformation.
  • a predetermined impact absorption or crumple section which is designed to dissipate impact energy in the event of an impact with elastic and / or plastic deformation.
  • the impact absorption section can be a folded section of the bumper.
  • the impact absorption section can be a deliberately introduced predetermined breaking point that dampens the impact force.
  • the bumper can have an elastomer section for better shock absorption.
  • the bumper can be suspended from the container via an elastic spring section, for example an integral plastic leaf spring section, and can thus be arranged on the container in a spring-biased manner relative to the container side wall.
  • an elastic spring section for example an integral plastic leaf spring section
  • the bumper can taper towards the outside of the container or in the direction away from the container. In this way, impact forces can be absorbed at a predetermined, comparatively small-area section of the bumper and distributed in a larger area of the container.
  • the bumper can be designed tapering or rounded toward the outside of the container (in the direction facing away from the inside of the container).
  • the bumper can have a projection on the outside of the container for the defined introduction of force of impact forces, which protrudes obliquely away from the container and downwards (towards the floor) from the bumper.
  • the container edge can be designed to protrude towards the container exterior.
  • the cantilevered container edge can more preferably cantilever at least on two opposite sides by more than 10 mm, so that said cantilevered edge is adapted from one side for engagement of a fork of a lift truck or other industrial truck.
  • the container can particularly preferably be a large load carrier with a pallet-shaped base part which is adapted for engagement of a fork of a lift truck or other industrial truck.
  • large forces act when a stack of containers is tipped over, so that a bumper according to the invention is particularly advantageous.
  • the bumper can be designed as a bumper bar arranged on the outside of the associated side wall.
  • the container can be made of plastic, in particular in an injection molding or rotomoulding process.
  • the container can be made in one piece and the bumper integrally molded on it.
  • Figures 1A and 1B show a perspective view of a container 1 according to a preferred embodiment of the invention.
  • the container 1 shown is a large plastic load carrier with a pallet-shaped base 2 with recesses 3 for the engagement of the fork of a lift truck and four side walls 4, 6, 8, 10.
  • the container 1 shown is designed as a nestable container 1, ie the four side walls 4, 6, 8, 10 flare conically towards the container opening in order to enable containers 1 of identical construction to be nested (see, for example, Figure 2A ). More precisely, the container 1 shown is a so-called rotary stacking container, which can either be stacked or nested with an identical container, depending on the relative rotation of the two identical containers to one another.
  • the container 1 shown has a cantilever defining its container opening and structurally reinforced with a circumferential rib ring Container rim 12.
  • the rib structure of the container rim 12 forms recessed areas (not designated here in more detail), which enable one or more containers 1 to be lifted out of a stack of nested containers 1 by means of a lift truck. Especially in such separation operations with forklifts, it is often the case that stacked containers 1 are knocked over.
  • the container 1 of the Figures 1A and 1B also has in its corner areas horizontally or parallel to the floor protrusions or ribs 13, which are arranged lower than the circumferential rib rings of the container edge 12 and serve as a stop to limit the depth of the nest when nesting several identical containers 1.
  • FIGS. 2A, 2B and 2C illustrate the behavior of a stack of nested large load carriers 1, 1 'when tipping over. It has been determined by the applicant that due to inertia and due to the play between the individual nested containers 1, the lower edge of the projecting container edge 12 'of the bottom container 1' of the stack often forms the first point of impact of such a container stack. This is usually not designed for such loads, which causes the container edge 12 'to break and the container 1' to become unusable.
  • Figure 2B shows an end position in which the stack comes to rest on the container edges 12 of the container 1.
  • the container edge 12 of the lowermost container 1 of a tipping stack of nested container 1 receives a disproportionately large proportion of the impact force and the exact impact point of impact of the individual containers 1 varies with their position in the container stack. As a result, it is difficult to design the container rim 12 for this load.
  • the container 1 according to the preferred embodiment of the invention has a bumper structure or a bumper 14. Like in Figure 2A As can be clearly seen, the bumper 14 'is designed such that it projects beneath the container edge 12' and far enough from the side wall that when a stack of nested containers 1 tips over, the bumper 14 'of the lowest container 1' hits the floor in front of its container edge 12A . The same applies to the containers 1 arranged somewhat further up in the stack.
  • the container 1 according to the preferred exemplary embodiment has four such bumpers 14, which are each arranged in corner regions and essentially shield two opposite side walls 4, 6 of the container 1 or from project this (cf. Fig. 1A ).
  • the bumper 14 is designed as a bumper structure spaced from the container edge 12 towards the underside of the container and projecting in profile over the side wall 4, 6. More precisely, the bumper projects so far from the associated outside of the container that it spans an imaginary plane E, which extends between the lower outer edge 24, 26, 28, 30 of the projecting container edge 12 and the outer edge 16, 18, 20, 22 of the base 2 is, pierces.
  • the bumper 14 protrudes from the outside of the associated side wall 4, 6, 8, 10 to such an extent that it projects beyond the imaginary plane E and thus when it tilts (with the outer edge 16, 18, 20, 22 of the base 2 as the instantaneous pole) in front of the lower outer edge 24, 26, 28, 30 of the projecting container rim 12 on the floor.
  • the bumper 14 is spaced down in the container height direction from the container edge 12 and projects so far in the direction parallel to the floor that it ends flush with a projection A of the outer surface of the container edge 12.
  • this serves the purpose that the bumper does not unnecessarily enlarge the external dimensions of the container 1 and, on the other hand, the outer surface of the container edge 12 and the bumper 14 can both serve as support points in a tilted container stack (see also Figure 2C ).
  • bumpers 14 A number of preferred exemplary embodiments for bumpers 14 according to the present invention are explained below. All of these embodiments have in common that their overall structure or predetermined impact absorption sections 32 are designed to at least partially absorb or dissipate impacts. Mechanisms for such dissipation of impact energy are mainly internal friction losses in the case of elastic deformation and / or in the plastic deformation of components.
  • the bumper 14 shown is designed in its basic structure as a hollow profile and in each case arranged in the corner regions of the container 1.
  • Said hollow profile shape includes a cavity or a clear space R between the side wall and the bumper 14.
  • the hollow profile-shaped bumper 14 is integrally formed on the container 1 and, due to its overall structure or due to the clear space R enclosed towards the wall, exhibits an elasticity and a defined spring travel / a defined crumple zone for absorbing impact forces.
  • the hollow profile shape of the bumper 14 forms a defined butt section 15 at its end (seen from the crimped side wall 4) on the outside of the container, in this case a flattened end section.
  • the structure of the bumper 14 (of the hollow profile) widens in the direction towards the container or in the direction towards a container center plane M.
  • This has the advantage that impact forces at the impact section 15 can be introduced into the bumper 14 in a defined manner and then distributed over a larger area and introduced into the container 1.
  • the expanding hollow profile structure supports a defined elastic deformation of the bumper 14.
  • the hollow profile-shaped bumper 14 is molded onto the container 1 in such a way that the hollow profile is open in the direction of the side wall 8, 10 adjacent to the shielded side wall 4, 6. This enables good demoldability during production in a plastic casting process.
  • An essentially horizontal or parallel to the floor lower cut of the bumper 14 (or its hollow profile shape) is formed by the rib 13, which also serves to limit the depth of the nest.
  • Fig. 5 shows a detailed view of a hollow profile-shaped bumper 14 according to a second embodiment, which is similar in shape and function to the bumper 14 according to the first embodiment.
  • the main distinguishing feature of the bumper 14 according to the second embodiment compared to the first embodiment is the rounded or substantially semicircular hollow profile-shaped bumper section 15.
  • the semicircular profile shape creates a higher point of impact in the event of a tipping over and thus an advantageous introduction of force into the hollow profile structure of the bumper 14 which widens in the direction of the container center plane M.
  • the bumper 14 shown according to a third exemplary embodiment of the invention has, like the bumper 14 according to the second exemplary embodiment, a round / rounded bumper section 15.
  • the bumper 14 has, on the lower half of its semi-circular profile-shaped bumper section 15, a projection 34 which points obliquely away from the interior of the container and points downwards for a defined introduction of force into the bumper 14.
  • the semicircular butt section 15 is made above the projection 34 with a reduced material thickness in order to provide a defined predetermined breaking point 35 in this area.
  • the bumper 14 according to the in Figure 6 shows a spring section 36 via which it is suspended on the container 1 (here on the container edge 12). Due to the resilient suspension already provided by the spring section 36, the bumper 14 according to the third exemplary embodiment can be designed with a less widening hollow profile structure.
  • Fig. 7 shows a fourth embodiment of a bumper 14 according to the invention.
  • This has an impact absorption section 38 in the form of a folded section 38. Similar to comparable structures in cars, the folded structure enables a defined deformation with increased energy dissipation per compressed route.
  • the folded section 38 is in the horizontally running section or the rib 13 of the hollow-profile-shaped bumper 14 and arranged adjacent to the impact section 15 in order to absorb impact forces that occur during the impact as directly as possible.
  • Fig. 8 shows a fifth preferred embodiment of a bumper 14, which is manufactured in a 2-component injection molding process.
  • the impact section 15 of the bumper 14 projecting away from the interior of the container is coated with an elastomer section 40, which absorbs the forces that occur during the impact.
  • an elastomer cushion 40 is molded onto the bumper 14 on the outside of the container.
  • the impact section 15 thus forms the impact absorption section 32 per se.

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