IL35588A - Crate for packing and transporting foodstuffs or other products,in particular fruits and vegetables - Google Patents

Description

pro Crate for packing 33640 The present invention concerns a crate for packing and transporting in particular fruits and or conventional crates used for this purpose are mostly made of cardboard or wood and The main drawback of these conventional type crates lies in that they allow no safe stacking so that the crates in in a rambling way with ropes or other such to the transporting Another drawback of the traditional type crates is that the tare weighs on the total weight of the products normally contained by more than Object of this invention is that of providing a crate for packing and transporting foodstuffs or other more particularly fruits and which ensures easy and stacking and which makes up less than total weight o normal Still other objects and advantages will become quite evident through the following detailed description of a crate for and transporting in particular fruits and or other that is composed of two distinct sections of which one forms a supporting structure and the other forms an inner According to this said supportin structure consists of a frame of plastic material with a formed by four vertical corner stanchions protruding above the long side walls of the crate and at the long y two horizontal ribs i the short walls the stanchions are connected by three ribs and b a secondary horizontal the horizontal ribs of long side wall being connected by two secondary vertical while the horizontal ribs the short side walls are connected by two secondary vertical The bottom the crate consists of two longitudinal ribs and of two transversal said ribs of the side walls and of the bottom of the crate supporting a series flat respectively vertical and said vertical slats of equal height and leaving free in the upper part the short walls of the crate spaces that facilitate the gripping of the crate said inside lining of a wrapper of cardboard or of other material in thin The crate object of this will now be illustrated in detail with re erence to attached given for exemplifying not limiting represents a longitudinal view of the supporting structure of the partially sectioned along the line of 2 represents a side view of the supporting structure of partially along line of represents a top plan o the supportin structure of 1 and 4 represents an inner lining for the supporting structure of 2 and reference to 2 and the supporting structure the crate of a frame of plastic having a rectangular outline and delimited by four vertical stanchions protruding above the long side of the crate indicated under mark as to allow an eas and safe stacking of the crates O e o avoiding squashing of the eontent and allowing a thorough ventilation of the content Stanchions are each fitted with three vertical ribs and are in correspondence with long side to each other by two horizontal ribs and b one secondary horizontal rib intermediate with respect ribs with respect to each one the short side b three horizontal ribs and a secondar horizontal rib tha is intermediate with respect to the two lower ribs Horizontal ribs of each long side wall are connected to each other by two secondary vertical ribs The horizontal ribs of each short side wall are connected to each other by two secondary vertical ribs The bottom of the supporting structure s of two longitudinal ribs and two transversal ribs besides of the lower ribs and of the side the bottom ribs thus form nine quadrilaterals arranged in three The ribs of the side and of the bottom of the crate support a series of respectively vertical and transversal flat slats which form a sort of gratin which allows Slats of the side walls are all of equal As far as the short side walls are these slats extend just between the two lower horizontal ribs In this in the upper part of the short side walls empty spaces are provided that facilitate the gripping of the Each stanchion is connected to the adjacent long side throug a guide connecting stay which facilitate the stacking of the crates on each when loaded stored in storehouses or on transporting Standhions are also provided with supportint feet consis of ribs traneversally interconnected at the bottom of the supporting The distance of the lateral surfaces of the supporting feet from the vertical axis of symmetry of the crate is smalle tha that of the corresponding points of the side walls of the so that when a crate is stacked another the external of the suppor ing feet of the former will fit within the short side walls of the latter crate and the stacking thus takes place in the most satisfactory The ribs of the supporting structure may be double channel sectioned or possess any other a triangular suitable for supporting the changed The ribs and of the bottom may have either a uniform or a variable in this latter case it is advisable that increases from the eripher towards the crate centre and that the thickenin of the in the upper section of the ribs and so as to confer to the bottom a pyramidal shape apt to the stresses on the thereby reducing the possibility of under the content to supporting can manufactured in various sizes is preferably made of propylene and ethylene polymers or possibly reinforced with fiber glass or with asbestos fibres or with any other suitable With reference to it will be remarked1 that inne lining consists conveniently of a sheet of corrugated cardboard or other flexibl material made of one single piece sheet has two foldings and which allow its to the interior of the supporting structure This inner lining may also be of several pieces and may also be perforated in orde to ensure a better ventilation of the Said may be either completely loose from the supporting structure or applied to it either by of plastic material may also used without the special inner lining cardboard or of other ial some for wheii apricots ruits similar must stored content of the crate placed into the frame by means of structured plastic In other especially when the content consists of strawb rr ra eating grapes and the use is often o one or more or of other such types of all however with dimensions smaller than those Of supporting which are made of plastic material The inner lining may also be made cardboard sheet with a also fixed to the supporting frame either by glueing or by metal as obtain a completely enclosed insufficientOCRQuality

Claims (1)

1. 35588/2 - 8 - CLAIM Crate for packing a d transporting foodstuffs, particularly fruits and vegetables, or other products, composed of two distinct sections of which one la a supporting structure while the other is an inner lining, characterised in tha said supporting structure is a frame of plastic material of a rectangular outline, consisting of four vertical corner stanchions protruding above the long side walls of the crate, said corner stanchions being provided with supporting fee and being connected to each other at each of the long side walls by two horizontal, ribs and by a secondary intermediate horizontal rib, at each of the short side walls by three horizontal ribs and by a secondary horizontal rib, the horizontal ribs of each long side wall being connected to each other by two secondary vertical ribs, while the horizontal ribs at each of the short side walls are connected to each other by two secondary vertical ribs, the bottom of the crate being formed by two longitudinal ribs and by two transversal ribs; said ribs of the side walls and of the bottom of the crate supporting a series of respectively vertical transversal flat slats, said vertical slats being all of equal height and leaving free, in the upper part of the short side walls of the crate, some spaces that facilitate the gripping of the crates themselves, said inner lining consisting, moreover, of a wrapper of corrugated cardboard or of another material in thin sheets. Fo the Applicants