EP3875385A1 - Stacking crate and transport and / or storage system comprising two or more stacking crates - Google Patents

Abstract

Disclosed is a stacking box (1) with a base (2), an in particular circumferential wall (3) delimiting a receiving space (4) together with the base (2) and a receiving opening delimited by an edge (5) of the wall (3) (6). On the stacking box (1) between a rest position and a support position back and forth displaceable erecting elements (7) are attached. In the support position, the erecting elements (7) are positioned in such a way that they provide a storage area for the stacking crate (1) and another stacking crate (1) to be stacked on top of one another to form a stacked stack of crates. In the rest position, the erecting elements (7) are positioned in such a way that they allow the stacking box (1) and another stacking box (1) to be nested to form a nested stack of boxes. According to the invention, the erecting elements (7) are designed and attached to the stacking box (1 ) that when the stacking box (1) is placed on the floor (2) on a base, they are moved into the support position driven solely by gravity. When the stacking box (1) is set up on the edge with the receiving opening (6) pointing downwards on a base, the setting-up elements (7) are moved into the rest position, driven solely by gravity.

Description

The invention lies generally in the field of logistics and relates in particular to a stacking box with the features of the preamble of claim 1 and a transport and / or storage system which includes two or more such stacking boxes.

In the field of logistics, boxes are often used to arrange and store objects to be transported or stored. Such boxes are often, even regularly, set up to be stacked to form stacks of boxes of largely identically formed boxes. This can be done in particular without the intermediate storage of a lid that closes the receiving opening of a lower box and accommodates the bottom area of an erected box by providing support structures in the area of the upward-facing opening of a lower box of a box stack to be formed, on which an upper box to be stacked is placed and can be parked without being inserted into the box below. In this way, such boxes with objects or goods arranged therein can be stacked on top of one another without the load of the stacked boxes resting on the objects or goods stored in the boxes. Such boxes, which in such a way form a stacked stack of boxes with objects located therein can be stacked, can also be referred to as stacking boxes.

In order to store such stacking boxes in an empty state in a space-saving manner or to transport them in a space-saving manner, provision is often also made for these stacking boxes to be placed one inside the other and to be able to be joined together in a nested stack of boxes. Here, further stacking boxes are inserted in the receiving space of a stacking box placed at the bottom with the floor on a storage surface, or in the receiving space of a stacking box already placed in such a stacking box, thus forming a nested or nested stack of boxes.

In order to be able to achieve this with a set of similar stacking boxes, i.e. to be able to form stacked stacks of boxes as well as stacks of boxes encased or nested in one another, there are various proposals to modify the stacking boxes as required in order to stack the stacking boxes on top of one another to form a respective receiving space Stacking boxes leaving box stack or a nesting nesting of the stacking boxes of empty stacking boxes to make a space-saving stack possible.

For example, one way to achieve this is in the U.S. 6,047,853 described. The stacking crate described there is asymmetrically formed with regard to the design on two opposite end faces, namely in such a way that, due to the structures provided there, nested, nested stacking in a first orientation of the crates based on a rotation about one perpendicular to the crate bottom extending axis is enabled, a stacking of the stacking boxes to form a stack of stacked boxes in a second position of the stacking box to be set up rotated by 180 ° to the first position about the axis of rotation perpendicular to the floor. So, in order to put these stacking boxes together, nested in one another, the respective boxes must first be in relation to the axis of rotation, which runs perpendicular to the floor, selected rotation position and can then be nested and nested and stacked. If these stacking crates are to be stacked on top of one another, in particular after they have been filled with goods that are to be transported or stored, they must be rotated 180 ° with respect to the axis of rotation running perpendicular to the crate bottom and can then be stacked on top of one another will.

This procedure is simple to the extent that it does not require any further handling of the stacking crates other than the aforementioned appropriate alignment in relation to the rotation about the axis of rotation running perpendicular to the floor. However, it is precisely this alignment that is laborious and exhausting for a person handling it, particularly stressing the back, when a person holds a stacking box in front of him that has already been loaded with goods and has to rotate the said 180 ° around an axis of rotation that is perpendicular to the bottom of the box, before the person can further form the stack of boxes by placing the box on a lower box. This applies all the more, the higher the weight of the loaded stacking box. Automated handling is also complex, since a manipulation unit always has to correctly align the stacking boxes in the rotational alignment and can only then be placed in order to form a stacked stack.

Another procedure, on the one hand to enable stacking boxes to be stacked to form a stack of boxes from stacked boxes on top of one another, on the other hand to allow nested, nested formation of a space-saving stack of empty stacking boxes, is for example in FIG WO 1998/056668 A1 shown and described. The stacking boxes shown there have support elements that can be moved between a support position and a rest position, which in the support position allow a further stacking box to be placed on the support elements, which, when brought into the rest position, allow a further stacking box to be placed in the receiving space of a stacking box underneath to form a nested stack of boxes from empty stacking boxes. This type of design of stacking boxes, which depicts the preamble of claim 1, no longer requires the stacking boxes to be rotated by 180 ° about an axis of rotation running perpendicular to the bottom of the stacking box. For this, however, it is necessary that the erecting elements, which are actively brought from the rest position to the resting position in the known stacking crates, or vice versa, are shifted from the resting position to the resting position, in each case according to the resulting requirement, namely the erecting elements in the resting position to move when a stack is to be formed from stacking boxes filled in particular in the receiving spaces, stacked on top of one another, or to move into the rest position when the boxes are to be nested and nested to form a space-saving stack of empty stacking boxes.

Against this background, it is the object of the present invention to provide a stacking box that, with simple handling and without special intervention by a user, enables the formation of a stacked box stack formed from stacked boxes as well as storing the empty stacking boxes in a nested, nested and thus space-saving stack.

This object is achieved, on the one hand, by a stacking box with the features of claim 1, whereby advantageous developments for this solution are given in the dependent claims 2 to 9. A further aspect of a solution to this problem is formed by a transport and / or storage system which comprises at least two, in particular several, stacking boxes of the type according to the invention.

According to the invention, a novel stacking box initially, and this in general agreement with known stacking boxes, has a floor, a wall extending from the floor transversely to it in one direction, in particular circumferential, together with the floor delimiting a receiving space of the stacking box and a wall through a Bottom opposite edge of the wall limited receiving opening. On the stacking crate, erecting elements that can be displaced back and forth are also attached between a rest position and a support position. These erection elements are like this in the support position positioned so that they enable a storage area for a stacking of the stacking box and another, essentially structurally identical, stacking box to form a stacked box stack. In the rest position, on the other hand, the erecting elements are positioned in such a way that they enable the stacking box and another, essentially structurally identical, stacking box to be placed one inside the other to form a nested stack of boxes.

The wall and the floor can - as a whole or in parts - be of solid construction and uninterrupted, in particular in order to store and transport small-sized objects therein. But it is also possible to provide the wall and / or floor at least in parts with openings, for example to save material for the production of the stacking box, to reduce the weight of the stacking box, to allow easy cleaning of the stacking box and / or ventilation of to secure goods stored in the stacking crate, e.g. food such as fruit or vegetables.

Up to this point and as described above, the stacking box according to the invention is still similar to one as shown in FIG WO 1998/056668 A1 is described. The special thing about the stacking crate according to the invention is that, unlike the stacking crate known from the above document, the erecting elements do not have to be actively displaced by a corresponding intervention by the user, but rather that the erecting elements are designed and attached to the stacking crate in such a way that When the stacking box is placed on the floor with a substantially horizontal orientation of the floor on a base and is oriented with the receiving opening pointing substantially vertically upward, the positioning elements are displaced into the supporting position driven solely by gravity. Furthermore, the set-up elements are designed and attached to the stacking box in such a way that the set-up elements, when the stacking box is set up on the edge with the receiving opening in an essentially horizontal orientation, and with the bottom oriented essentially vertically upwards, is solely due to gravity are driven into the rest position.

The erecting elements are therefore displaced solely by the action of gravity depending on the orientation of the stacking box according to the invention with respect to a rotation about an axis of rotation running in or parallel to the plane of the floor. They move, driven by gravity, into the support position when the stacking box is placed on a base with its opening pointing upwards. They move to the rest position when the stacking box is turned upside down, so to speak, i.e. H. with the opening pointing downwards and lying with the bottom vertically above it. In contrast to the otherwise known stacking boxes, the nested, nested stacks of empty boxes are now formed in a space-saving manner by first placing a box located at the bottom upside down, i.e. on its edge that delimits the receiving opening, and then placing further stacking boxes with the receiving opening facing downwards pointing across the floor of the stacking box below. This is easily possible because in this orientation, as already mentioned above, due to the displacement of the erecting elements caused by gravity, they are in the rest position, i.e. they do not prevent the stacking crates from being nested one inside the other in a space-saving stack. If a stacking box according to the invention is now to be used, in particular in that goods, goods or other objects to be arranged there are brought into the receiving space, it must be rotated by rotating through 180 ° about the axis of rotation lying in the floor plane or running parallel to it and with the opening facing aligned upwards. Here, again driven solely by gravity, the erecting elements are automatically shifted into the support position so that now appropriately aligned stacking boxes according to the invention, whether they are filled or even empty, can be placed on top of one another and stacked on top of one another to form a stack of boxes with one upper stacking box is not inserted into the receiving space of the respective stacking box underneath.

A user of a stacking box according to the invention no longer has to pay special attention to actively moving the erecting elements from the rest position to the support position, see below, depending on the currently intended use of the stacking box relocate or vice versa. This happens entirely automatically driven by gravity alone, solely through the correct alignment of the stacking box with the receiving opening pointing upwards or with the receiving opening pointing downwards. A rotation of the stacking box about an axis of rotation running perpendicular to the plane of the floor by 180 ° in order to enable stacking is not necessary with the stacking box according to the invention. A user only has to note that the stacking crate according to the invention can only be nested in one another and stacked in a space-saving manner in a nested state in which it is placed in reverse, i.e. with the opening pointing downwards, in contrast to the previous one known procedure of nesting such stacking boxes with openings pointing upwards.

In principle, it is irrelevant in which position of the stacking box the erecting elements are located. However, a stacking crate according to the invention can be implemented particularly easily if the erecting elements are arranged in such a way so that they can be displaced between the resting position and the rest position in the area of the edge of the wall of the stacking crate that the erecting elements in the resting position in the area of the receiving opening in such a way protrude that a further, essentially structurally identical stacking box for forming a stacked box stack can be placed with its bottom on the support elements located in the support position, and that the support elements in the rest position clear the area of the receiving opening in such a way that a further, essentially structurally identical stacking box for forming a nested stack of boxes can be introduced into the receiving opening with its bottom first and can be guided into the receiving space of the stacking box.

The erecting elements can for example be formed in the manner of a plate, for example by such elements arranged pivotably on the wall of the stacking box in the area of the receiving opening and / or in the area of the floor. If they are arranged in the area of the edge of the wall, the positioning elements can, for example, be limited to positions in the corners of a be arranged in particular a rectangular plan having stacking crate, but they can also over further, in particular over the entire; Areas of longitudinal and / or transverse edges of the stacking box extend along the upper edge of the wall.

The erecting elements can be arranged on the stacking box, for example, with hinge joints, on the basis of which they can be pivoted between the resting position and the resting position. Other types of articulated arrangement or displaceable arrangement are also conceivable here. What is essential is the purely gravity-driven displacement of the positioning elements from the rest position to the resting position and vice versa when the stacking box is "turned over" about an axis of rotation running in the plane of the floor or parallel thereto.

In the case of the stacking box according to the invention, the bottom and the wall can in particular be formed from a plastic, in particular in one piece, but other materials, such as metals or wood, are also possible. However, plastic here has the advantage of low weight with high strength and stability at the same time, which is of particular advantage in the field of logistics, transport and storage and the associated handling.

The erecting elements can in particular be formed from a metal in order to provide them with sufficient stability to absorb the forces when stacking boxes filled with objects are placed on top of one another. However, other materials are also possible, such as plastic, for example a reinforced, in particular fiber-reinforced, plastic. The stacking crate according to the invention is in particular formed mirror-symmetrically to a first and to a second, each orthogonal to the floor and perpendicular to each other central plane. Alternatively, a point-symmetrical structure of the cross-section, which is parallel to a plane of the base, can also be selected with advantage, each with a center of symmetry of the point symmetry forming the center point of the cross-sectional contour. In the case of the stacking box according to the invention, it is just not necessary, here one Provide asymmetry, as in the case of the stacking boxes to be separately aligned by rotation about an axis of rotation running perpendicular to the plane of the floor for stacking one on top of the other U.S. 6,047,853 is required.

Advantageously, one or more supports for supporting the positioning elements in the support position can be formed on the wall and / or on the floor. These supports can have support surfaces that run essentially parallel to the floor, but also those that run obliquely. It is essential that they offer a secure support for the support elements and a stop with regard to the gravity-driven movement of the support elements into the support position. Such supports can be used to derive the weight of a stacking crate according to the invention arranged in a stack of crates underneath via the erecting elements, and further up to the base or the ground. Such a support can, for example, be a kind of column-like projection which is formed in the wall of the stacking box and on the end face of which a positioning element rests in the support position and is supported by it.

In order to enable a securely centered and, in particular, displacement-free stacking of stacking boxes of the type according to the invention, centering structures formed on the erecting elements can advantageously be provided and counter-structures formed on the stacking box outside the erecting elements, the centering structures being essentially identical to the counter-structures Stacking box cooperate in the stacked state in order to center the stacked stacking box in relation to the stacking box below and also to fix it in a plane parallel to the bottom of the stacking box.

In order to move the erecting elements by gravity alone, arrangements can be chosen, for example, in which the pivot point of a rotary or pivoting movement is offset from a projection of the center of gravity of the respective erecting element on the plane of the bottom of the stacking box or on the through the the edge delimiting the receiving opening spanned plane is arranged. Separately arranged weight elements shifting the center of gravity or the like can be provided. It is also possible to provide positioning elements with a cranked shape, which, due to this shape, are then displaced, driven solely by gravity, in the manner according to the invention between the support position and the rest position. The person skilled in the art will easily be able to shape the positioning element and / or its attachment to achieve the effect according to the invention within the framework of a structural design; corresponding solutions are known to him.

Two, in particular several, stacking boxes as described above can be contained in an advantageous transport and / or storage system according to the invention. The stacking boxes contained in this system can now either be stacked with their openings pointing upwards (filled or empty) in a stacked stack, with the support elements then being in the support position, or they can be placed nested in one another to save space and nested, if they are placed with their receiving opening pointing downwards with a stacking box placed at the bottom and placed on top of one another in a hat-like manner with other stacking boxes placed thereon.

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eine schematische Schnittansicht einer erfindungsgemäßen Stapelkiste in einer aufrechten, zum Aufeinanderstapeln von mehreren erfindungsgemäßen Stapelkisten geeigneten Position;

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in einer vergrößerten Ausschnittdarstellung das Aufstellelement in der Auflagestellung;

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schematisch das Vorgehen zum Aufeinanderstapeln von zwei erfindungsgemäß gebildeten Stapelkisten zu einem Kistenstapel;

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schematisch einen aus zwei aufeinander aufgesetzten erfindungsgemäßen Stapelkisten gebildeten Kistenstapel;

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schematisch einen aus zwei umgekehrt angeordneten, ineinander geschachtelten erfindungsgemäßen Stapelkisten gebildeten genesteten Kistenstapel;

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in einer vergrößerten Ausschnittdarstellung das Aufstellelement in der Ruhestellung;

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schematisch eine Aufsicht auf eine zum Aufstapeln mit der Aufnahmeöffnung nach oben weisend ausgerichteten erfindungsgemäßen Stapelkiste; und

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schematisch eine Ansicht von unten auf eine zum verschachtelten und nestenden Ineinanderstellen mit der Aufnahmeöffnung nach unten weisend ausgerichteten erfindungsgemäßen Stapelkiste.

Further features and advantages of the invention emerge from the following description of exemplary embodiments on the basis of the attached figures. Show:

Fig. 1

a schematic sectional view of a stacking box according to the invention in an upright position suitable for stacking several stacking boxes according to the invention;

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in an enlarged detail view of the positioning element in the support position;

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schematically the procedure for stacking two stacking boxes formed according to the invention to form a stack of boxes;

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schematically, a stack of boxes according to the invention formed from two stacking boxes placed on top of one another;

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schematically a nested stack of crates formed from two stacked crates according to the invention which are arranged in reverse and nested one inside the other;

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in an enlarged detail view of the positioning element in the rest position;

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schematically a top view of a stacking box according to the invention, which is aligned with the receiving opening pointing upwards for stacking; and

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schematically a view from below of a stacking box according to the invention which is aligned with the receiving opening pointing downward for nested and nesting nesting.

In the figures, possible design variants of a stacking box according to the invention and a transport and / or storage system formed from at least two such stacking boxes are shown in highly schematic drawings. The figures are highly schematic representations and serve only to illustrate the principle according to the invention and the essential elements. They are by no means to be understood as complete construction sketches and also not to scale.

In Figure 1 initially a stacking box 1 according to the invention is shown in a first position. The stacking box 1 has a base 2 on which the stacking box 1 in the in Figure 1 position shown is parked, for example on a surface. Starting from the base 2, in this first position facing upwards, a wall 3 extends around the outside of the crate, with the base 2 and wall 3 surrounding a receiving space 4. In principle, however, further sections of the wall 3 delimiting the receiving space 4 can also be provided, which are separated from the outer circumferential wall, for example in the form of walls from an inner section from the floor towering pillars or the like. The wall 3 ends at a circumferential edge 5 which surrounds a receiving opening 6. On the wall 3 in the area of the edge 5, offset slightly below the upper edge of the edge, erecting elements 7 are arranged, here articulated via hinge joints 8 with the wall 3 of the stacking box 1. In the as in Figure 1 The position of the stacking box 1 shown, the erecting elements 7 are driven solely by gravity and thus forcibly moved into the in the Figure 1 Shown support position spent or relocated. As will be described below, the erecting elements 7 can also be displaced into a rest position in that they are pivoted about the hinge joint 8.

Figure 2 shows an enlarged section for better illustration of the support position in which the positioning element 7 is in the in Figure 1 The position of the stacking box 1 shown is located. It can also be seen here that the erecting element 7 in the resting position on a column 9 formed on the wall 3 of the stacking box 1 on the upper side on a bearing surface 10 (cf. Figure 6 ) rests and is supported by this column 9.

Figures 3 and 4 show that two essentially structurally identical stacking boxes 1 according to the invention in one as in FIG Figure 1 position shown and can be stacked accordingly with the positioning elements 7 moved by gravity into the support position. In Figure 3 this is illustrated by the arrow indicating the movement for stacking, Figure 4 shows the stacked state. In this way, two and more of the stacking crates 1 according to the invention can be stacked on top of one another, whereby objects to be kept or transported can be arranged and stored in the receiving spaces 4 of the stacking crate 1.

In Figure 5 is a "stack of empty crates" according to the invention formed with an "empty crate stack" according to the invention which is rotated 180 ° around an axis of rotation that runs within the plane of the base 2 or lies parallel to it, that is, upside down, in which the stacking crate 1 is nested in one another are shown. Here, stacking boxes 1 according to the invention are hat-like stacked on top of one another, the wall 3 and bottom 2 of a lower stacking box 1 penetrating into the receiving space 4 of a stacking box 1 placed thereon.

This is possible because in the as in the Figure 5 shown opposite that in the Figure 1 Position shown rotated by 180 ° around said axis of rotation, so turned upside down, position of a stacking box according to the invention, the erecting elements 7 driven solely by gravity and thus automatically from the in the Figures 1 to 4 support position shown in the Figures 5 and 6 shown rest position are shifted. Driven by gravity, the positioning element 7 folds around the hinge joint 8 from the support 10 on the column 9, on which it was previously resting in the support position, so that it is for a floor 2 sliding into the receiving space 4 of a stacking box 1 placed on it an underlying stacking box 1 is no longer in the way, the stacking box 1 can be nested in the upside down position.

Also a comparison of the Figures 7 and 8 With the schematic representations shown there, it is once again clear how the displacement of the erecting elements 7 functions solely driven by gravity. In Figure 7 is a plan view of a stacking box 1 set up with the receiving opening aligned vertically upwards, ie in a position as in FIG Figure 1 shown. The erecting elements 7 are pivoted into the support positions so that a further stacking box 1 can be erected on them with the bottom 2 first. the Figure 8 however, shows a view from below of an upside-down stacking box 1, in which now - again driven solely by gravity - the erecting elements 7 in the manner shown in FIG Figure 8 are in the rest position shown, so that a stacked box 1 rotated in this way can be placed on a stacking box 1 underneath, also arranged upside down, in order to form a nested and thus space-saving stack of empty stacking boxes 1.

It should be particularly clear at this point that the configurations of the stacking crates shown in the figures and their components are shown in a highly schematic manner and in one possible example. So here are mounting elements shown, which are arranged only in the four corner areas of the rectangular plan of the stacking box. Strip-like arrangements that extend, for example, along the narrow front edges or also those that run along the longitudinal edges or also circumferentially along the entire edges are just as conceivable. There are no limits to the person skilled in the art as long as the erecting elements are moved between the rest position and the resting position, driven by gravity alone, by turning the stacking boxes 1 upside down or upright, and in the resting position the erecting elements carry a further stacking box 1 with the objects arranged therein and the load can safely endure.

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Stacking box

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floor

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Recording room

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edge

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Hinge joint

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pillar

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Claims (10)

Stacking box (1) with • a floor (2), • a wall (3), starting from the base (2) and extending transversely thereto in one direction, in particular circumferential, together with the base (2), delimiting a receiving space (4) of the stacking box (1) • and a receiving opening (6) delimited by an edge (5) of the wall (3) opposite the bottom (2), wherein erecting elements (7) which can be displaced back and forth are attached to the stacking box (1) between a rest position and a resting position, the erecting elements (7) being positioned in the resting position in such a way that they provide a storage area for the stacking crates to be stacked on top of one another to form a stacked stack of crates (1) and a further, essentially identical stacking box (1) allow
wherein the erecting elements (7) are positioned in the rest position in such a way that they enable the stacking box (1) and a further, essentially structurally identical stacking box (1) to be nested to form a nested stack of boxes,
characterized in that
the erecting elements (7) are designed and attached to the stacking box (1) in such a way that the erecting elements (7), when the stacking box (1) is placed on the floor (2) with the floor (2) oriented essentially horizontally, is placed on a base and is aligned with the receiving opening (6) pointing vertically upwards, driven solely by gravity, are displaced into the support position Alignment of the receiving opening (6) placed on a base and aligned with the bottom (2) pointing essentially vertically upward, are displaced into the rest position driven solely by gravity. Stacking box (1) according to claim 1, characterized in that the erecting elements (7) are arranged in the region of the edge (5) of the wall (3) of the stacking box (1) such that they can be displaced between the resting position and the rest position, • that the erecting elements (7) in the support position protrude into the area of the receiving opening (6) in such a way that a further, essentially structurally identical stacking box (1) to form a stacked box stack with its bottom (2) on the in the Support elements (7) that are in the support position can be parked, • and that the positioning elements (7) in the rest position clear the area of the receiving opening (6) in such a way that a further, essentially structurally identical stacking box (1) for forming a nested stack of boxes with its bottom first enters the receiving opening (6) introduced and guided into the receiving space (4) of the stacking box (1). Stacking box (1) according to one of the preceding claims, characterized by plate-like erecting elements (7) which are pivotably arranged on the wall (3) of the stacking box (1) in the area of the receiving opening (6) and / or in the area of the floor (2) . Stacking box (1) according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the erecting elements (7) with hinge joints (8) are arranged on the stacking box (1) such that they can be pivoted between the resting position and the rest position. Stacking box (1) according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the bottom (2) and wall (3) are formed from a plastic. Stacking box (1) according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the erecting elements (7) are formed from a metal. Stacking crate (1) according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that it is formed mirror-symmetrically to a first and to a second, each orthogonally to the bottom (2) running and mutually perpendicular central plane or that it is in a plan view from above with point-symmetrical cross-sections is formed with in each case a center of symmetry of the point symmetry which forms the center point of the cross-sectional contour. Stacking box (1) according to one of the preceding claims, characterized by supports (9, 10) formed on the wall (3) and / or on the floor (2) for supporting the erecting elements (7) in the support position. Stacking box (1) according to one of the preceding claims, characterized by centering structures formed on the erecting elements (7) and by counter-structures formed on the stacking box (1) outside the support elements (7), the centering structures with the counter-structures of an essentially structurally identical stacking box (1 ) cooperate in the stacked state in order to center the stacked stacking box (1) in relation to the stacking box (1) below. Transport and / or storage system comprising at least two, in particular several, stacking boxes (1) according to one of the preceding claims.

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