FR2810637A1 - Packing case for bottles of champagne, comprises two palettes acting as base and end wall with gutters for receiving stoppers of bottles - Google Patents

Abstract

A packing case comprising a slatted palette acting as a base on which wine bottles can lie flat, a second palette with gutters for receiving the stoppers of the bottles and sidewalls, where the second palette and its gutters are both perpendicular to the first palette, is new. Each gutter may be defined as the space between three rods extending from the base. A stopper lies between two of them and can abuts the third rod. The palettes and two sidewalls ad an end wall bolt together. An inflatable cushion lies against the end wall opposite. The case has a lid made from two panels. The panels have hooks engaging the sidewalls.

Description

The present invention relates to a box usable for the storage and storage of bottles containing a wine that can be subjected to a treatment according to the Champagne method.

These boxes, described for example in documents FR-2 456 776, <B> 2562508 </ B> 2 614 007, are generally designed to accommodate a single type of bottle, bottles for champagne and champagne only.

These bottles are stored in the crate by being laid flat on a bottom which is lathed, and the necks of the first series of bottles are wedged a second bottom, perpendicular to the first, equipped with ribs or gutters, which gutter bottom carries the bottles when they are vertical at the riddling operation, before the disgorging operation.

The present invention provides a box of the same type as the boxes described in the aforementioned documents, with the great advantage of better accommodating variations in the dimensions of the bottles and in particular their diameter, which also allows to accept bottles of substantially different as for example bottles of champenoises light.

crate according to the invention comprises: - a first pallet-shaped bottom, provided with laths for setting bottles flat, and - a second bottom perpendicular to the first, also arranged in the form of a pallet and provided with gutters for wedging the necks said bottles forming the dihedral assembly associated with side walls and, in this dihedron, the gutters are arranged perpendicularly with respect to the slatted bottom, which gutters are centered on the median planes of the pairs of slats used for setting the bottles on said first slatted bottom.

Still according to the invention, the gutters are delimited by son and particularly a base wire serving as support, and two lateral son between which positions the neck of the bottle.

According to the invention, the gutters form a real wall made son, which wall is fixed to the structure of the second bottom and, from one side, the base son are embedded in the cross of the first bottom which is at its end , in correspondence with said second bottom, said structure of the second bottom consists of folded sheet sections, with a U section.

Still according to the invention, the lathed bottom and the chute bottom are in the form of a pallet and they each comprise at their adjacent ends, a cross member for their assembly by bolting, said chute bottom being supported on said bottom latte and the latter has feet that extend in line with those of said chute bottom.

According to another embodiment of the invention, the side walls of the box have, on their periphery in correspondence with the bottoms, angles whose wings cover two sides of the longitudinal members of said bottoms, allowing their assembly by bolting on said longitudinal members.

In order to effect effective bottling of the bottles and to prevent their movements during the riddling operation, the box has a wall called the fifth face which constitutes the upper wall when the box is in a position such that the bottles are flat, horizontal the bottom slatted , which fifth face is parallel to said battened bottom and it comprises means for its attachment to the longitudinal members of the side walls, locked on these longitudinal members by self-locking under the effect of cushioning means of the type (s) inflatable (s), interposed between said fifth face the last layer of bottles.

Still according to the invention, the box may comprise a sixth face, parallel to the gutter bottom, also provided with fastening means on uprights or longitudinal members of the side walls, and its locking is performed as for the fifth face, by self-locking under the effect of wedging means consist for example of inflatable cushion (s) interposed between the last bottle bottoms and said sixth face.

Still according to the invention, the attachment of the fifth or sixth face to the longitudinal members or uprights of the side walls, is effected by means of hooks disposed on the edges of said faces, and notches arranged on said longitudinal members or uprights with, in more, at each notch, a wedge cooperating with each of said hooks to remove the games to lock and block the different faces, thereby realizing a true assembly of said faces together.

According to another embodiment of the invention, the fifth face preferably consists of two panels each having on their rim, a pair of hooks, which panels provide selective access to the different layers of bottles when the body is placed on its bottom to gutters.

Still according to the invention, the side rails or side wall uprights are made of folded sheet metal profiles, with a C section, comprising a flat wing forming the inner face and angled edges with returns, all assembled by mechanosoldering around the wall. a lattice, which lattice is formed on the one hand, of parallel profiles to the slatted bottom and, other profiles perpendicular to the latter, distributed so as to be in correspondence with the bodies of bottles.

Still according to the invention, the notches for fixing hooks of the fifth face consist of notches in the wing profiles forming longitudinal members or uprights of the side walls, which notches are U-shaped asymmetric branches with the end of the largest branch, a notch arranged on the edge of said profile, allowing the introduction of the corresponding hook.

According to another embodiment of the invention, the small branch of the U forming the notch, stops at the lower part of the wedge wedge, which corner is located in the thickness of the profile forming a spar or upright walls, under the edge of this profile, welded for example on the wing of this profile, outer side.

According to another embodiment of the invention, the sixth face may also consist of a simple safety wedge, with hooks and / or latches for attachment to the side wall jambs.

The invention will be further detailed with the aid of the following description and accompanying drawings, given for information only, and in which - Figure 1 is a perspective view showing the essential elements of the body according to the invention; - Figure 2 shows the positioning of the bottles in the angle of the dihedron; - Figure 3 is a partial view, from above, bottles placed on the slatted bottom whose necks are set on the bottom provided with gutters; - Figure 4 shows schematically, the wedging and locking means of the fifth and sixth faces; - Figure 5 shows the establishment of the fifth or sixth face on the side walls, to achieve its establishment and locking, or achieve its withdrawal.

1, the box is constituted first reference base on which the bottles 2 are positioned flat and second reference bottom perpendicular to said first bottom 1, on which the bottles are in support of their neck and in particular their cap or capsule, when the tilted box, placing the bottles upright.

funds 1 and 3 are arranged in the form of pallets to allow the handling of the box by means of forklifts, that is to say they have feet 1 'and 3' respectively.

bottom 1 has slats 4 which allow to stall a precise first layer of bottles laid flat. slats 4 are made of son welded to the structure of the bottom 1.

bottom 3 includes a bottle bottleneck system. It comprises in fact gutters 5 detailed in FIGS. 2 and 3, which allow vertical alignment of the necks and which, especially when the bottles have different dimensions, make it possible to absorb the variations in level of the necks relative to the first bottom 1 while maintaining a guiding wedging of these necks.

Gutters 5 are therefore perpendicular to the slatted bottom The box has side walls: the side wall 6 to the left of the inlet is normally shown and - the side wall 7 is simply sketched in fine mixed lines to avoid overloading the figure. These side walls 6 and 7 comprise longitudinal members or uprights according to the position of the body. Thus there is a spar 8 parallel to the bottom 1 to the upper part of the wall 6 and an amount 9 parallel to the bottom 3 at the cash entrance.

These spars and uprights consist of profiles made of folded sheet and will be detailed below.

The funds 1 and 3 and the walls 6 and 7 form individual elements are for example assembled by bolting.

Thus the bottom 1 has at its end, the side of the bottom 3, a cross member This cross member 10 and the adjacent cross member 11 of the bottom 3 are assembled bolting.

Note that the feet 1 'of the bottom 1 extend under the feet 3' bottom 3. In fact, the side members 12 of the bottom 1 have a length significantly greater than the length of the slats 4 while the longitudinal members (or uprights) bottom 3 have a length equal to that of the gutters 5.

The side walls 6 and 7 comprise, on their ends in contact with the funds 1 and 3 respectively, brackets 14 which cover two longitudinal ribs 12 and 13 of said bottoms and allow their assembly on said longitudinal members.

The bottom 1 and the bottom 3 form a dihedron consisting of two planes at the equerre and this dihedron is stiffened by the side walls 6 and 7.

These side walls are formed of a lattice consisting of sections 5 parallel to the bottom 1 and profiles 16 perpendicular to the bottom 1, arranged in correspondence with the bodies of the bottles 2. These profiles 15 and 16 are examples made of folded sheet metal, section in U.

To allow the stacking of the boxes, the rails 6 and uprights comprise tabs 17 and 18 respectively which allow centering to stall the adjacent box. These tabs are for example made of wire, U-shaped, welded to the outside.

The body is closed by an upper wall parallel to the bottom commonly called fifth face. This fifth face 21 is, in embodiment shown in Figure 1, constituted two panels which are fixed on the side members 8 of the side walls 6 and This attachment is effected by means of a pair of hooks 22 arranged on each side of the panels , which hooks cooperate with notches arranged on said longitudinal members 8.

This fifth face 21 is locked on side walls 6 and 7 automatically by means of cushions 24. Cushion 24 is shown in FIG. 1. It is in the form of a sheet, made of paper for example, provided with a valve 25 for inflating, which inflation causes self-locking of the fifth face on the side walls 6 and 7. The cushion 24, by swelling, exerts pressure on the last layer of bottles 2 and on the fifth face 21 consisting of two panels stiffening this face 21 and consequently the entire body. At the same time, the bottles are set and immobilized; this makes it possible to perform the riddling operation safely.

The details of the attachment means of the fifth face 21 on the side walls 6 and 7 will be completed further in connection with Figures 4 and 5. Still Figure 1, there is also the sixth face 26 which is for example constituted of a frame provided with a lattice consisting of son or profiles perpendicular to each other.

This sixth face also has hooks 27 which cooperate with notches 29 arranged in the uprights 9 of the side walls 6 and 7.

This sixth face 6 can be in the form of a simple security grille or, as represented in FIG. 1, be used in association with a cushion 30, to contribute to the setting and locking of bottles 2, especially during the riddling phase of the process of champagnization.

FIGS. 2 and 3 show in a more detailed manner the means for setting the bottles 2. These bottles 2 are placed on the slats 4, which slats are in fact welded on transverse wires and form a sort of assembled and assembled grid. on the bottom structure. slats are arranged in pairs with a pitch that corresponds to the dimensions of champagne or light champenoises bottles as appropriate.

the bottom 1, the bottles are arranged in line and all in the same direction, with the neck of the first bottle resting on the bottom 3. bottom structure 1 consists of cross members 32 which extend between longitudinal members 12. These sleepers 32 are parallel to the end cross member 10 and are made of folded sheet.

bottom 3 as shown in Figures 2 and 3, comprises a wedging structure bottlenecks. This structure is in the form of gutters 5 which consist of a base wire 35 and side wires arranged on either side to wedge the neck. The base wire 35 serves as a support for the bottles when the body rests on the bottom 3. The side wires make it possible to maintain the alignment of the bottles when, for example, the body pivots on its sides or during the riddling operation.

son 35 and 36 are assembled on transverse son 37 and the assembly forms a kind of structure or grid, assembled on the bottom found in Figures 2 and 3, the crossbars 10 bottom 1 and 11 of the bottom 3. are the sleepers that allow the assembly two funds by bolting.

positioning of the bottom 3 on the cross member 10 of the bottom can also be performed by the ends 38 of certain basic son 35 which can be embedded in orifices 39 arranged on said crossbar 0.

son 35 as well as the son 36, are perpendicular to the bottom 1 and the gutters formed by these son are in planes perpendicular to the funds 1 and 3. These gutters are aligned on the pairs of slats 4 wedging; gutters and pairs of slats are in the same median plane.

Figures 4 and 5 show in a more detailed manner, the mounting of the fifth and sixth faces of the box between the side walls 6 and 7 and in the examples shown, on the side wall 7.

Found on this side wall 7, at the spar 8 and the amount 9, the notches 23 and 29 respectively. These notches are both in the form L or rather a U with asymmetrical branches. These notches are arranged in the constituent sections of the longitudinal members and uprights, which sections have a section C with a flange 40 which forms the inner wall of the box flanges 41 for the outside and 42 for the inside each provided with a return respectively .

The notches are formed of notches or cuts made in the flanges 40 and in the outer edges 41. The cutout in the edge 41 allows the passage of the corresponding hook for the fifth face 21 or the corresponding hook 27 is the sixth face 26.

The small branch stops at the end of the shim 50. This shim 50 is housed in profile of the longitudinal members and uprights, under the flange 41, welded for example on the wing 40.

This wedge 50 serves corner. It has a slope p, visible in Figure 5, identical to that of the hooks 22 and 27 as appropriate to eliminate the clearance at the hooks between the fifth face and the spar 8 and between the sixth face 26 and the amount thus obtains a true assembly fifth and sixth faces on the side walls, under the effect of the cushioning cushions, the cushions 24 as appropriate, which cushions lock said faces and in particular their hooks on the wedges 50.

The positioning movement of the fifth and sixth faces is illustrated in FIG. 5. Firstly, for the fifth face for example, the hooks are introduced vertically into the notches 23 and in particular into the notch 51 made on the edge 41, then the hook descends into the notch 52 made in the wing spar 8. Then, this fifth face is pushed horizontally into the notch 53 which corresponds to the bottom of the notch, being then in front of the small branch 54 of the U, and in front of the blocking wedge 50. Then, during the inflation of the cushion 24, the fifth face 21 automatically locks under the effect of the hooks 22 which go up in the small branch 54, which hooks 22 thus realize an assembly by self-locking of the fifth face on the side walls 6 and 7. This operation is performed in the same way for the sixth face with the additional advantage of gravity placement.

For disassembly of the fifth and sixth faces, it is sufficient to deflate the cushions and 30 which allows their release from the side rails and uprights 6 and 7. The displacement in the notches, hooks 22 or 27 as appropriate, then allows to clear these fifth or sixth faces.

This box allows to carry out the treatment of the bottles and it also allows to store these bottles for the aging treatment. These cases have a character of versatility and universality that prevents producers to have special cases for treatment according to the Champagne method and crates for aging treatment.

Claims (1)

- CLAIMS - .- Case for bottles of wine likely example of being subjected to a treatment according to the Champagne method, type comprising - a first bottom (1) in the form of a pallet, provided with slats for setting the bottles flat, and - A second bottom (3) perpendicular to the first floor, also arranged in the form of a pallet and provided with gutters (5) for wedging the necks of said bottles, the assembly thus forming dihedron at right angles, supplemented by side walls ( 6 and 7), characterized in that said gutters (5) are arranged perpendicular to said lathed bottom (1). - Case according to claim 1, characterized in that the gutters (5) are delimited by son and in particular a base wire (35) serving as a support for the end of the neck of the first bottles and two lateral son ( 36) for centering said neck and its maintenance when tilting the body on one or the other of the side walls (6, 7). - Case according to any one of claims 1 or 2, characterized in that the slatted bottom (1) and the bottom (3) troughs are in the form of a pallet, which funds have at their adjacent ends, a cross-member (10) for the bottom (1), (11) for bottom (3), allowing their assembly by bolting, said chute bottom being supported on said slatted bottom, the latter having feet which extend in line with those said trough bottom. - Case according to claim 3, characterized in that the side walls (6 and 7) comprise, on their periphery, in correspondence with the bottoms and 3), angles (14) which cover the longitudinal members of said walls, allowing their assembly by bolting on the longitudinal members of said bottoms. - Case according to any one of claims to 4, characterized in that the upper wall (21) called fifth face, parallel to the first slatted base (1), comprises means for its attachment to the side members (8) of the side walls ( 6, 7), which upper wall is locked on these longitudinal members, by self-locking under the effect of cushioning means type (s) inflatable (s) (24), interposed between said fifth face and last layer of bottles. Box according to any one of claims 1 to 5, characterized in that the sixth face (26), parallel to the bottom (3) with gutters, comprises fastening means on the uprights (9) or longitudinal side rails 7), and means locking by self-locking under the effect of wedging means constituted by inflatable cushion (s) (30) interposed (s) between the bottoms bottles and said sixth face. Crate according to any one of claims 5 characterized in that the attachment between the fifth face (21) and / or sixth face (26) on the side members (8) or uprights (9) of the side walls 7), s' carried out by means of hooks (22, 27) respectively, disposed flanges of said faces, and notches (23, 29) respectively, arranged on said spars or uprights with, in addition, at each notch, a shim (50). wedge-shaped cooperating with each of said hooks to remove the game and block said faces on said walls. Box according to claim 5 characterized in that the fifth face) consists of two panels each having, on their sides, a pair of hooks (22). - Case according to any one of claims 5 to 8, characterized in that the side members (8) or uprights (9) of the side walls (6, 7) consist of folded sheet sections, C-section, comprising a wing plane (40) forming the inner face of said walls and flanges (41, 42) at right angle with returns (43, 44), and. in that the notches (23, 29) for fastening the hooks 27) respectively, consist of notches in said planar wing (40) of said longitudinal member profiles (8) or uprights (9) of the side walls 7), which notches are U-shaped asymmetrical wings with, on the end of the largest branch of the U, a hook introduction notch, which notch is arranged on a portion of the width of the outer flange (41) of the profile. 0 - Case according to claim 9, characterized in that the small branch of the U forming the notch (23, 27) stops at the lower part of the wedge (50), which wedge is located in the thickness of the profile forming a spar or amount of the side walls, under the edge (41) of this profile, against the wing (40). 1. Case according to any one of claims 10, characterized in that the sixth face (26) consists of a simple safety clamping grid with hooks (27) and / or latches for fixing to uprights (9). ) side walls (6, 7).