FI113362B - Cage - Google Patents

Description

113362

CAGE

Technology background

The invention relates to goods transport cages having a rectangular bottom and hinged sidewalls and end walls which can be pivoted inwardly to the bottom of the cage in an empty cage. In vertical position, the walls are locked at each other at their corners. Stuffed cages can be stored on top of each other. For this purpose, there are sufficiently stable uprights at the corners. Empty cages folded empty are stacked on top of each other for transport. At the corners of the bottom there are 10 corner pieces with bottom stacking paws, on which the stacks are formed.

Cages are also used, which also have a loose level as a midsole, which is placed on the cage walls between the bottom and the top of the walls. The purpose of the midsole is to prevent harmful stacking of goods placed in layers in the cage. Such goods may include, for example, empty packages, such as food-15 cartons, which are transported empty from the manufacturer of the package to their user. In known cages, the walls are made of wire mesh and the bottom and midsole is made of perforated plate or of denser wire mesh.

The walls of the Kim empty cage are unlocked and the walls folded together, the midsole is intended to be placed on the bottom of the cage before the walls. However, this is often forgotten, whereby the midsole, when transported loose, is easily lost or damaged.

*:: General description of the invention »f *»; A cage according to claim 1 has now been invented. Other claims, ...: disclose certain embodiments and uses of the invention.

In the cage according to the invention, the midsole covering the cage consists of two pivoting spacer shelves hinged to opposed walls. When filling the cage, the shelves are lowered to a horizontal position. When the empty cage is folded in, the intermediate shelf is turned vertically against the wall, then the wall is turned against the bottom.

.: The midsole attached to the cage always travels with the cage. In addition, such a midsole is easy to handle and is not easily damaged during return transport. In addition, when. With 30 midsole shelves turned upright, the cage can be filled using the midsole, · · ·. in the system.

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The walls, as well as the base and midsole, can be made of a suitable mesh. The midsole may also be, for example, a perforated plate. A metal such as steel or aluminum may be suitably surface-treated. The material is best that is washable and that dirt is as badly adhered as possible.

5 Most preferably, the non-shelf walls are hinged so that the upper portion forms a lower folding half gate. When turning to the bottom, the shelf can first be folded. Walls with an intermediate shelf are best hinged higher than an intermediate shelf, whereby they are swiveled to the bottom over non-intermediate shelves. Spacers are best located on shorter end walls.

10 The spacer shelf and associated wall preferably have a locking mechanism for locking the spacer shelf in its vertical position. The locking mechanism may be part of the spacer hinge hinging mechanism. It may have a groove and a pin fitted thereon.

The intermediate shelf can be removable, so that the same basic cage can be delivered and used without the intermediate shelves if desired.

15 The wall of the cage, which does not have a spacer shelf, is best equipped with a support for supporting the horizontal spacer shelf. The spacer shelf may have a special bracket counter piece. The bracket and counterpart may be, for example, a recess and a corresponding pin.

The walls in which the spacer shelves are hinged preferably have corner posts 20 formed at the edges, between which the spacer shelf is pivoted.

I ·:: Cages can be used, for example, for storing and transporting empty packages such as food containers.

I ·. ..: Description of the Drawings' ·· * Some embodiments of the invention will now be described in detail. The accompanying drawings are included as part of the description.

Figure 1 shows an open cage of the invention.

1 'Figure 2 shows a cage stacked.

Figure 3 shows the side wall and the end walls of the cage from the side.

...: Figure 4 shows the end wall of the cage.

; . Figure 5 shows the walls of the cage and the midsole from above.

···. Figure 6 shows a spacer shelf for a cage.

Figure 7 shows the upper end of the corner post of the cage end wall.

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Detailed Description of an Embodiment of the Invention

The cage shown in the figures has a rectangular base 1, side walls 2, end walls 3 and a midsole 4.

At the corners of the base 1 there are corner pieces 5 and associated 5 paws 6 made of corner iron. The corner pieces have upper extensions 7 which extend some distance above the base. Side beams 8 and end beams 9 at the bottom edges.

The side wall 2 has a lower part 10 hinged to the bottom side beam 8 and an equally high upper part 11 hinged to the lower part forming a downwardly foldable half gate. When the side wall is folded to the bottom, the lower part is turned inwards to the bottom 1 and the upper part outwards onto the lower part ίο.

The height of the end walls 3 is less than the length of the bottom (parallel to the side wall).

The end wall 3 has a corner post 12 made of angular iron at each side edge. The corner post is disposed inside the top extension 7 of the base corner piece and hinged from above the bottom by means of horizontal pins so that the end wall 15 can be pivoted over the bottom side walls 2.

The intermediate floor 4 has two shelves 13 hinged to the mid-plane of the end walls 3 for hinging. There is a hole 14 in the sidewall of the upright 12 and a groove 15 parallel to the plane of the shelf at the lateral edge of the shelf. and is given; 20 to lower freely, with the bolt resting against the top, the shelf will remain upright. When the shelf is desired in a horizontal position, the shelf is lifted so that the man »* · • ;; the lower end comes into contact with the bolt and the shelf can pivot. There is a recess 17 on each side of the shelf at the front. The upper edge of the lower part 10 of the sidewall, respectively, has a pin 18 on the inner side up, where the recess of the lowered shelf sits.

* · 25 In each upper corner of the sidewall 11 there is a pivotable locking latch 19 and a vertical lock. in the passage, a corresponding locking slot 20, by means of which the upward facing walls can be locked together.

The upper end of the corner post 12 is internally suitably angled with the end wall! # dividing surface that makes it easy to place the shelf upright and back.

Claims (10)

113362 Cage having a rectangular bottom (1) having side edges (8) and end edge structures (9, 7), a side wall (2) hinged to each side edge and an end wall (3) hinged to each end edge structure, characterized in that the silicon opposed walls (3) each have a hinged shelf (13) hinged above each bottom, which together form the intermediate shelf (4). Cage according to Claim 1, characterized in that the end edge (9) is shorter than the side edge (8) and that the intermediate shelf (13) is hinged to the end wall (3). Cage according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the end edge (9) 10 is shorter than the side edge and that the end wall (3) is hinged higher than the side wall (2). Cage according to one of Claims 1 to 3, characterized in that the intermediate shelf (13) and the wall (3) have a locking mechanism (14, 15, 16) for locking the shelf which is tilted upwards in an upright position. Cage according to Claim 4, characterized in that the locking mechanism has a groove (15) and a pin (16) inserted through it. Cage according to Claim 5, characterized in that the groove (15) is in the intermediate shelf and that the pin (16) is in the y-hole in the corner post (12) on the side of the wall. • ·: ··: 20 Cage according to one of Claims 1 to 6, characterized in that the wall (2) on which the intermediate shelf is not hinged has an inside bracket (17) for supporting the lowered shelf in a horizontal position. . ··. Cage according to Claim 7, characterized in that the wall (2) in which the intermediate shelf is not hinged and the intermediate shelf has a shape of a recess (17) and a pin (18). . 25 this bracket arrangement. Cage according to one of Claims 1 to 8, characterized in that the wall in which the intermediate shelf is hinged is formed by an angle iron at the side edges! corner posts (12). Use of a cage according to any one of claims 1 to 9 for the storage of empty packages. • · · 113362