ES1063536U - Paletized container for hortofructicolas products (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding) - Google Patents

Abstract

Palletized container for horticultural products, such as watermelons, melons and other rounded products, of the type designed to receive large loads, in the order of 500 kilos, characterized because it is constituted from a conventional pallet, preferably made of wood, which is closed by four cardboard plates constituting its major and minor side walls, it being foreseen that these four cardboard plates are provided in correspondence with their lower edge of a predetermined orthogonal bend of an internal flap of adaptation and fixation to the pallet, by means of those covering the upper face of the pallet, while said plates are fixed to each other with the collaboration of triangular profile strips located internally and in correspondence with their vertical edges, the larger side walls extending with respect to said triangular strips in enough to finish a folding flap h acia the interior, intended to rest on the free end of said triangular slats, and fixed to them by nailing, stapling or other similar means, being located above each of these upper fins respective horizontal slats, which are properly fixed to the upper extremity of the aforementioned ribs of triangular section. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)

Description

Palletized container for products fruit and vegetable

Object of the invention

The present invention relates to a container of the type of those constituted by combining a pallet and a large cardboard box, usable in the transport and dispensing of certain products fruit and vegetable, such as watermelons, with a capacity for load that can reach 500 kilos.

The object of the invention is to achieve a container that is capable of withstanding the lateral pressure exerted for its content against cardboard walls, avoiding unwanted deformations thereof.

Background of the invention

Watermelons, melons and other products Fruit and vegetables of similar characteristics are marketed in large containers consisting of a cardboard box that is fixed conveniently by its base to a wooden pallet, so that These containers not only serve to transport the product from the warehouse of origin to the point of sale, but they are Usable as exhibitors in said sales area, from which users directly take the unit or units they create timely.

The rounded shape of these products fruit and vegetable and its considerable size, makes them occur remarkable lateral efforts against the walls of the box cardboard, so that it deforms, often very accused, bulky bulges appear on its walls laterals, which prevent the container from adapting laterally to other adjacent ones, with the consequent loss of available space that brings with it, in addition to the obvious and negative impact of such deformation at the level aesthetic.

Description of the invention

The container that the invention proposes resolves in a fully satisfactory way the problem previously exposed, with a fully effective solution, which however not It has a considerable impact on the cost level.

For this and deforms more concrete, the container which is recommended also combines cardboard with a wooden pallet, but it also incorporates another series of complementary elements that enhance the rigidity of its structure.

Specifically on the pallet one or two cardboard sheets, constituting the closed bottom of the container, and to each of the edges of said pallet is fixed, by stapling or nailing, a cardboard plate, which in the four cases present an inferior and internal orthogonal bending, for fixing to the pallet, and that in the case of the two walls major lateral, also has another orthogonal bending internal in correspondence with its upper edge.

This internal and upper orthogonal bending It is intended to rest on slats or vertical uprights, of wood, one in arrangement centered on the corresponding plate, and two others in correspondence with the corners or edges verticals of the house, in all cases arranged internally, and whose upper extremity is also fixed by stapling or nailed the fin defined by said orthogonal bending.

In correspondence with these inner slats made of wood, they are placed externally to the cardboard corner plate corners in the corners also of cardboard, and a strip in its area medium, fixing between these wooden elements and of cardboard also by means of stapling or nailing.

The structure described is complemented by others four crossbars, of which two of them are intended for lean on the aforementioned cardboard flaps that in turn support on the vertical uprights, looking analogously, while the other two are placed on the side faces minors, outside the cardboard plates and in correspondence with the upper edge of them.

In this way a total stiffening is achieved from the mouth of the container, through the four slats that assist it, a total stiffening of the vertical aritas of said container and also a stiffening of its middle lateral walls at medium level, which makes the container is virtually deformable despite the notable efforts that your content can generate.

Description of the drawings

To complement the description that is being performing and in order to help a better understanding of the characteristics of the invention, according to a preferred example of practical realization of it, is accompanied as part member of that description, a set of drawings where with illustrative and non-limiting nature, what has been represented next:

Figure 1.- Shows a perspective view and in explosion of the different elements that participate in a palletized container for fruit and vegetable products made of according to the object of the invention.

Figures 2 and 3.-They show paths seen in perspective corresponding to different phases of assembly of the container.

Preferred Embodiment of the Invention

In view of the figures outlined you can be observed as the palletized container for products horticultural that the invention proposes is constituted from of a wooden pallet (1), with any classical structuring and with the normalized and appropriate size, on whose upper base they establish two cardboard plates (2) that mostly cover the pallet and that must constitute the bottom and the major walls (4) of the container, leaning on the perimeter of said pallet flaps (3) defined on cardboard plates (5), constitutive of the walls minor sides of the container itself, so that these flaps (3), angled orthogonally inwards are fixed by stapling or similar to pallet (1).

The walls (4) and (5) remain stable in vertical position with the collaboration of profile slats (6) triangular corresponding to the vertical edges of the container, and that affect such edges in all their height, collaborating with these triangular slats (6) a couple of prismatic slats (7) intended to be placed on the vertical average of each of the major side walls (4).

These slats (6) and (7) can also be fixed to to the pallet (1) by stapling or the like.

The cardboard plates (4) corresponding to the larger side walls of the container, are taller than plates (5) corresponding to its minor side walls, and turn in turn on another top flap (8) foldable on the upper end of the slats (6) and (7) and fixed to the themselves by stapling.

Finally on the flaps (8), after the abatement on the upper end of the slats (6) and (7), is establishes a horizontal crossbar or slat (9) that is stapled to both the flap itself (8) as to the upper end of the slats (6) and (7), making this part of the mouth completely rigid of the container and complementing said stiffening by other slats (10), or in this case fixed by stapling or similar to the upper and outer marginal zone of the cardboard plates (5), overlapping the slats (9), at their ends, to the slats (10), and looking at the latter also by clamping or by any other appropriate means.

The structure described is complemented by four cardboard corners (11), designed to adapt externally to the vertical edges of the container, in correspondence positional and dimensional with triangular and inner slats (6), to which said corners (11) are fixed by stapling, There are also cardboard strips (12), vertical and also exterior, intended to be attached to the major side walls (4) of the container, in correspondence with the intermediate slats (7), to which they are also fixed by stapling or similar.

According to the structuring described, the wooden pallet (1), slats (6) and (7) and crossbars (9) and (10), configure a rigid and reticular, prismatic structure rectangular, which keeps the configuration perfectly stable prismatic-rectangular itself provided initially for the container, perfectly supporting the stresses due to the load, without deformations or the ribbons themselves, as is logical, nor in the cardboard plates (4) and (5) to which they are associated.

It only remains to note finally that, for that matter particular to use the container for two different products, such as watermelons and melons, it is expected that on a same pallet (1) two boxes or containers with the structure described above, but obviously with a volume half.

Claims (4)

1. Palletized container for fruit and vegetable products, such as watermelons, melons and other rounded products, of the type provided for receiving large loads, of the order of 500 kilos, characterized in that it is constituted from a conventional pallet, preferably of wood, which is closed by four cardboard plates constituting its major and minor side walls, having provided that these four cardboard plates are provided in correspondence with their lower edge of an orthogonal bending determining an internal flap of adaptation and fixation to the pallet, by those that cover the upper face of the pallet, at the same time that said plates are fixed together with the collaboration of triangular profile slats located internally and in correspondence with their vertical edges, the major side walls extending with respect to said triangular slats in Enough to finish a flip flap towards to the interior, intended to rest on the free end of said triangular slats, and to be fixed thereto by clamping, stapling or other similar means, being placed above each of these upper fins respectively horizontal slats, which are duly fixed to the upper extremity of the mentioned triangular section slats. 2. Palletized container for fruit and vegetable products, according to claim 1, characterized in that, on the inner side of the cardboard plates constituting the major side walls, two slats of rectangular section are established, in vertical and centered arrangement, of length coinciding with that of the triangular section slats of the vertical edges, and which also receive at their upper end the upper and collapsible flaps of said major side walls. 3. Palletized container for fruit and vegetable products, according to previous claims, characterized in that externally it incorporates angular corners of cardboard in correspondence with the vertical edges of the container, and also strips of cardboard arranged in correspondence with the intermediate and prismatic-rectangular slats of the internal face of the container, to which it is fixed, like the corners of the vertical edges, by means of staples or similar. 4. Palletized container for fruit and vegetable products, according to previous claims, characterized in that the mouthpiece of the container itself is further stiffened by a pair of slats or stringers that rest on the layered flaps of the larger side walls, being fixed to the upper end of the slats vertical by means of a clamping or similar, two other ones collaborating with these stringers that are located on the outer face of the major lateral walls, in correspondence with their upper edge, so that these four stringers corresponding to the mouth of the container intersect at the vertices of the same and they are fixed to each other by means of clavazón or by any other appropriate means.