FI70857C - FLASKKORG - Google Patents

Description

1 70857

The present invention relates to a bottle basket having openings in the side wall through which the bottles can be removed from the basket and having a tray formed at the bottom of the vertical partitions and the outer walls of the basket to support the bottoms laterally, each outlet having at least three adjacent compartments and the walls of the compartments perpendicular to the plane of the outlet of the bottles 10 have support members supporting the bottles in the direction of said walls, projecting from said walls, and whereby the partitions located at the outlet of the bottles and perpendicular to its plane can flex laterally.

15 Such a bottle basket is known from FI publication No. 65 203. The partitions of the compartments have support members projecting on both sides, which according to one embodiment can be formed by bumps. The bottles can be removed through the outlet one at a time, because the partitions 20 at the bumps can bend so that they move in the direction of the adjacent compartments when the bottle is removed from the basket. If, on the other hand, all the bottles in the row parallel to the level of the outlet open at the same time out of the opening, the support members cannot move out of the path of the bottles 25 because the displacement forces caused by the adjacent bottles on the support members cancel each other out. As a result, the bottles do not fall out of the basket when it tilts, e.g. during transport, because the basket is then full.

Said publication discloses a bottle-30 basket having an outlet opening four compartments wide, i.e. four bottles at the outlet opening. In addition to this type of basket, smaller bottles are known, e.g. for bottles of about 0.3 liters, which can hold six bottles in the longitudinal direction of the basket and have a vertical column at the center of the side opening 35, so that the long sides of the basket have two outlets with three compartments.

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The bottle locking system disclosed in the above-mentioned announcement can also be successfully used in the latter basket type. However, the present invention is based on the realization that it is in this type of basket that the bottle locking system can be further simplified and at the same time made more secure. Namely, in the known locking system, the support members can give in to a very strong impact-like force on the bottles and, in addition, the bumps can wear to such an extent that the locking of the bottles is weakened after long-term use.

The object of the present invention is to provide a bottle basket with three-compartment wide outlets, in which the locking of the bottles is more secure and in which the wear of the support members 15 is not as detrimental as in the known system. The bottle basket according to the invention is characterized in that the support members of the middle or tray or middle compartments of the trays located at each outlet opening are located at a different distance from the level of the outlet opening 20 than the support members of the outermost trays.

By positioning the support members in the manner described above, the effect is obtained that the bottles tilt in their compartments differently as the full basket tilts during transport, whereby the partitions of the compartments bend in the lateral direction. The openings in the compartment or compartments in which the bottles remain farther from the outlet taper as a result of the deflection of the partitions, while the width of the openings in the other two or third compartments increases. Thanks to the structure described above, the structure of the bottle basket can be simplified, since the support members of the bottles can be completely or partially omitted from the compartments whose opening narrows when the basket is tilted without the need to significantly increase the support members of the expanding tray or compartments.

The structure according to the invention provides a more secure locking of the bottles in the bottle basket. In addition to this 11 3 70857, the wear of the support members does not cause the same problems as in the known solution.

The support members are preferably arranged so that the support members of the middle compartment are located farther from the outlet opening than the support members of the outermost compartments.

This embodiment ensures good locking of the bottles, as the outermost bottles wedge the middle bottle into place by bending the partitions with their weight towards the middle compartment.

According to a very preferred embodiment, the support members of the flat compartments are formed by a fixed shoulder known per se connected to the wall of the car. According to this embodiment, the support members according to said publication can thus be completely omitted from the flat compartments, which naturally simplifies the structure. A further advantage of this embodiment is that since the support member of the compartment is a fixed shoulder of the wall, the bottles are forced to move towards the center of the outlet as they tilt towards the outlet, thereby increasing the wedge effect of the bottles 20.

At its simplest, the shoulder may be an edge of the outlet projecting from the inner surface of the end wall of the car or from the surface of the fixed partition.

One preferred embodiment of a bottle basket according to the invention will now be described in more detail with reference to the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 shows a bottle basket according to the invention in a side view, Figure 2 shows a bottle basket in plan view, Figure 3 shows a situation when bottles are expensive in section III-III. along and Fig. 4 shows a part of the partition wall in a side view.

Preferably, the plastic bottle basket has two side walls 1 and 2 and two end walls 3 and 4.

35 The end walls have small openings (not shown) and the side walls 4 70857 4 each have two openings 5 and 6 separated by a side wall vertical column 7. The openings 5, 6 act as bottle outlets when the bottle baskets are stacked on top of each other in the store. 5 Jin is normally located below the top of the openings, as shown in Figure 1. The bottles are marked with the reference number 8. The lower edge of the openings 5, 6 is wavy so that the distance between the wave peaks corresponds to the diameter of the bottle.

The basket has a base 9 formed of cross-plastic strips and above it there is a compartment 10 separating the bottles. This compartment consists of longitudinal or partition walls 11 parallel to the plane of the outlets 5, 6 and thus partitions 12 perpendicular to the plane of the outlets 15. waveform than at the bottom of the outlets. The upper edge of these partitions is located at a somewhat higher level than the lower edge of the outlets. The minimum height of the partitions 11 corresponds to about 20% of the height of the bottles 20. The transverse partitions 12 are higher than the other partitions and are connected to the longitudinal walls 1, 2 as shown in Figure 4, according to which there is a gap 13 between the top of the partitions and the side walls, which facilitates lateral movement of the partition to the side walls 1,2. At the vertical pillars 7 there is a partition wall 14 which is more stable than the other partitions and which does not spring laterally.

As can be seen from the figures, the distance between the outlets 5, 6 and the partitions 11, 12 is dimensioned so that there are three compartments at each outlet. Curved recesses 15 are formed in the inner surface of the end walls 3, 4 to support the bottles located at the corners of the side walls and the end walls 30. The partitions 12 perpendicular to the bottle outlets 5, 6 also have protrusions 16 acting as support members for the bottles.

According to the invention, of the compartments located at each outlet 5, 6, the support members 16 of the middle compartment 70857 are located at a different distance from the outlet than the support members of the outermost compartments. In the embodiment shown in the drawings, this is realized in such a way that the bumps 16 acting as support members are placed on the surfaces of the partitions 12 delimiting the middle compartment of each outlet-5 opening facing the middle compartment. The bumps are arranged so that the upright bottle 8 placed in the compartment presses lightly against the bumps, so that the bumps are located at a short distance from the side walls 1, 2 of the basket 10.

In contrast, the outermost compartments, i.e. adjacent to the end walls 3, 4 and the central partition 14, have no support members of the type described above, but the only support member for the bottles in these compartments is the vertical edges 17 and 18 of the outlets 5, 6. from the inner surface of the end walls 3, 4, forming a shoulder at the opening of these compartments. As a result of these shoulders, the width of the outermost trays at the outlets is somewhat smaller than the width of the middle 20 trays.

When using the bottle basket according to the invention, it is filled in a brewery full of bottles 8, which can hold 24 bottle baskets shown in the drawing. When transporting baskets from a brewery to stores, e.g. by truck, the load 25 may oscillate so that the bottles tend out of the outlets 5, 6. Such a situation is shown in Figure 3. Due to the oscillating movement, the outermost bottles 8 tilt outwards due to lack of obstacles. that their closures 30 are substantially at the level of the outlet. At the same time, due to the vertical edges 17, 18 of the outlets, the bottles also turn towards each other, as a result of which they press the flexible partitions 12 delimiting the middle compartment closer to each other. Under the influence of the support members 16, the middle bottle 35 cannot be tilted as much as the outermost bottles 6 70857, so that it does not prevent the partitions 12 from bending as shown in Fig. 3.

It can be seen from Figure 3 that the outermost bottles wedge the middle bottle into place. The width of the outermost compartments at the outlet has been made so small that the bottles in them cannot escape from their compartments, even though they are tilted relatively much. As a result of the above, the bottles remain in the bottle basket during transport despite the oscillations of the load.

10 With the bottle basket in the store, one bottle can be removed from it through the outlets by grasping the neck of the bottle by hand, tilting the bottle outwards and pulling it out of the basket through the outlet. The easiest way to start removing bottles is from the bottle located in the middle tray-15. When this bottle is removed, the partitions 12 move slightly apart at the support members 16, thus allowing the bottle to move past the support members. The bottles in the side tray, when placed in an upright position, do not prevent the partitions from bending. After removing the middle bottle 20, the other two bottles can be easily removed from their compartments due to the bending of the partitions 12.

Contrary to the above, the support members may be positioned so that the support members of the middle compartment are located closest to the outlet and the support members of the outermost compartments 25 are further away from the outlet. In this case, the support members of the middle compartment must be dimensioned so that the middle bottle remains in its compartment, while, as it tilts, it presses the partitions away from each other to wedge the outermost bottles into place. The shape of the support members may differ from that shown in the drawing.

Although the invention has been described in connection with a bottle basket, it is clear that the solution according to the invention can generally be used in transport boxes in which liquid-like objects are transported. If desired, the basket can be shaped 7 70857 so that there are only one side wall with outlets. Furthermore, it is clear that the basket can be made larger than the basket shown, if desired, so that the side wall has three or more outlets in a row. The invention also works in the case that there are four compartments at each outlet.

Claims (4)

70857 A bottle basket having openings (5, 6) in the side wall (1, 2) through which the bottles (8) can be removed from the basket, 5 and in the bottom of which are formed by vertical partitions (11, 12) and outer walls (1 to 4) of the basket a tray for laterally supporting the bottoms of the bottles, with at least three adjacent compartments at each outlet (5, 6) and bottles in the walls (3, 4, 12) of the compartments perpendicular to the plane of the bottle outlet (5, 6) wall support members (16, 17, 18) projecting from said walls, and wherein the partitions (12) located at the bottle outlet and perpendicular to its plane can flex resiliently laterally, characterized in that each outlet (5, 6) ), the support members (16) of the middle tray or middle trays are located at a different distance from the plane of the outlet opening (5, 6) than the support members (17, 18) of the outermost trays. Bottle basket according to claim 1, wherein there are three compartments at the outlet opening, characterized in that the support members (16) of the middle compartment are located farther from the outlet opening (5, 6) than the support members (17, 18) of the outermost compartments. Bottle basket according to Claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the support members of the outermost compartments are formed by a fixed shoulder (17, 18) connected to the wall of the basket and known per se. Bottle basket according to claim 3, characterized in that the shoulder is an outlet edge (17, 18) projecting from the inner surface of the end wall (3, 4) of the basket or from the surface of the fixed partition wall (14).