RU2519918C1 - Holder of set of thin-walled metal beverage cans - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: packaging industry.

SUBSTANCE: holder of set of thin-walled metal cans comprises a housing made of polymeric material, in which at least two circular-shaped openings are made with sidewalls oriented vertically downwards. Each opening comprises resiliently deformable lock tangs directed obliquely upwards, located on the inner surface of the vertical side walls, which bases are connected to the lower edges of the vertical side walls of the openings, and the apexes are located on a circle with a diameter smaller than the outer diameter of the annular canted collar in the upper part of the can with the ability of placing and retaining one pot in each of the openings. And bases of the lock tangs in the openings in the housing are arranged along a circle with a diameter not smaller than the outer diameter of the cans with the possibility of removal of cans from the holder when their movement through the openings in the housing from below upwards. Along the edges of the central part of the housing the reinforcement ribs are formed vertically oriented downward with a height equal to the height of the vertical side walls of the openings and mating with the outer surfaces of the vertical side walls of the openings in the housing to form the closed outer stiffness loop located around the perimeter of the housing. The holder handle is located outside the housing edges and is integrally connected by the ends with the midpoints of the side edges of the housing with the ability of movement from its original position essentially parallel to the plane of the housing to a position at an angle to the plane of the housing in its operational position.

EFFECT: such holder has a greater load carrying capacity, provides the ability of multiple packaging, carrying, transporting or stacking a set of thin-walled metal beverage cans in both closed and open state, the ability to remove the cans from the holder without efforts damaging or deforming the thin-walled metal cans, it is easy to use.

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Description

Technical field

The invention relates to consumer goods, in particular to means for packaging, carrying, transporting and / or stacking a set of thin-walled metal cans for drinks, such as beer, cocktails, juices, carbonated drinks and other food, household and industrial products in metal cans with upper seamed edges.

State of the art

Currently, with thin-walled metal, mainly aluminum, cans for drinks are widespread, due to the fact that with their help it is possible to ensure reliable storage and convenient consumption of drinks poured into them. At the same time, consumers are often offered cans with linings that protect the top surface of cans from contamination during storage and transportation, as well as cans with lids, which, in addition to hygiene requirements for storage and transportation, provide protection from dirt and from the risk of spilling the contents of the can after opening it.

Lids for metal cans are known which, for the convenience of the consumer, are also equipped with can transport devices.

Known plastic cover for a metal can with a drink, which contains the upper part and a skirt made with the ability to click on the sealed edge of the can, and is also equipped with gripping means in the form of a ring pivotally connected to a plastic cover at its periphery at the points of articulation of its ends with the cover [one].

A device for carrying vessels is known, comprising a housing made of plastic made with the possibility of mounting on a vessel by means of a snap, and an annular handle pivotally mounted on the housing in a radial protrusion extending from the side surface of the housing in a radial direction. The diameter of the ring handle exceeds the diameter of the housing, and the end of the housing has a hole or is made solid. The vessel is a metal can for drinks, in the upper surface of which there is a pouring hole closed by an opening means in the form of a tear-off tongue [2].

A device for carrying cans having an annular, for example, rolled, collar in the upper part of the can is known, which comprises a housing with upper and side walls, configured to mount and fix on the upper part of the can to be carried, and also contains a handle located outside the side body walls. The annular handle has ends permanently attached to the housing and is movable from its first position, essentially parallel to the lower edge of the side wall of the housing, at an angle to the first position. The device is equipped with at least one additional means of connecting the handle to the housing, and this means of connection is made with the possibility of its destruction when moving the handle from its first position. In another embodiment of the invention, in addition to the above, the upper wall of the case has a central part and a peripheral part that connects to the side wall of the case with the formation of a hollow annular rib designed for installation in it with the possibility of fixing the shoulder of the upper part of the can to be carried. The specified peripheral part forms with the specified Central part an annular groove for installation in it an annular protrusion on the bottom of another can. [3]

The disadvantage of these devices is not sufficiently reliable to fix them on the banks, the inability to use them to pack a set of cans, the suitability for carrying in each device only one can.

Known closing group, made in one piece from plastic and containing arranged in rows of lids for closing cans, and these lids are interconnected by jumpers, configured to separate the cans from each other without removing the lids, each jumper contains at least one weakened line located transversely in the middle of each jumper. The closing group contains jumpers connected to adjacent banks by weakened lines, each cover has a skirt extending downward, and at least a part of the covers is provided with at least one ventilation opening. When packing, they cover the top of each can with a lid, group the cans on a pallet, wrap the pallet with a group of cans with a film and seal it, and closing the top of each can of the group is carried out simultaneously after grouping the cans by means of a closing group [4].

This closing group is used in the packaging of beverage cans together with a pallet with a group of cans installed on it, however it is practically unsuitable for carrying a set of cans by individual consumers.

Known holder for vessels, adapted to carry sealed vessels equipped with a neck, hiding said holder for vessels is formed by a plate having at least two openings, each of which has a diameter smaller than the maximum diameter of the neck, characterized in that the plate is made of cellular polypropylene having a density of at least 330 g per square meter of area, the friction created by this plate in relation to this vessel is such that at the level of the closure cap or cr The force required to remove a given vessel from the holder plate is at least 1.5 times greater than the force required to fix this vessel in the holder, the friction between the holder plate and this vessel is such that, at the neck level, the extraction force of this vessel and its fastening in the holder is at least 2.5 daN. The plate contains at least four holes and at least one grip tab located strictly in the center of the plate hole system, the grip tab is formed by a cutout in the holder plate material itself. The holder plate is bent in the shape of a U-shaped figure and provided with an even number of holes, each time pairwise located on the same line running along the axis of the neck of the vessel, for fixing which these holes are intended. The holder contains at least two rows, each of which has at least three holes, we hide the holes of the same row are located in one straight line in the same direction as the cells used for the manufacture of this plate material [5] .

A device for carrying bottles with an annular girdle on the neck, comprising an annular element made in the form of an integral plastic part, capable of being worn on top of the annular girdle on the neck of the bottle and containing elastically deformable stop lobes on its inner surface, and a handle made with the possibility of bending in places the junction with the annular element, in which the elastically deformable stop lobes are inclined to the plane of the annular element, on the outer surface of which, with p The sides opposite the handle, the guides are made, the handle has a curved shape with sweeps under the fingers, stiffening ribs are made on the ring element and on the two extreme deflections of the handle, while the device is symmetrical about a plane passing through the center of the ring element and the middle of the middle deflection of the handle, and perpendicular to the plane passing through the stiffener of the annular element [6].

A device for carrying bottles with an annular belt on the neck [7], containing a handle and an annular element that can be worn on top of the annular belt on the neck of the bottle, is made in the form of an integral plastic part, in which the junction of the handle with the ring element is located in the median plane of the annular element, the height of the handle corresponds to the height of the annular element, while the handle is bent at the junction with the annular element, and the annular element on its inner surface It comprises a resiliently deformable locking pins whose tops are arranged on a circle with a diameter smaller than the standard diameter of the annular rib on the bottle neck.

The disadvantages of these devices are their applicability only for the transfer of bottles having ring belts on the necks, one bottle in each device and their unsuitability for transferring a set of individual cans or sets of cans.

In addition, in the manufacture of locking petals thin, not rigid enough, the effort of putting the device on the neck of the bottle decreases, but the bearing capacity of the device, in particular for carrying heavy bottles, for example, 1.5 liters, 2.5 liters or more) also decreases. In the manufacture of stopper lobes, the load-bearing capacity of the device increases rigidly, but the effort of putting it on the neck of the bottle and removing it from the neck significantly increases. All this determines the unsuitability of these devices for holding and carrying sets of thin-walled metal cans for drinks, which are relatively easily deformed when subjected to mechanical loads.

The closest in technical essence and achieved by using the result (prototype) is a flexible holder for carrying a lot of basically cylindrical containers (as shown in the drawings - cylindrical metal cans for drinks), which to reduce the amount of material, reduce the openings of the containers, improve the recovery of the original size after stretching, improving elongation during application, greater resistance to tearing in the places of notches or scratches, contains flexible ist of a polymeric material and a plurality of container receiving apertures formed in the flexible sheet. Each container receiving opening is designed to accommodate one container and includes a perimeter that increases by more than 42% after being applied to the container and after restoring its original size, provides a fixed fit around the container. The entire flexible sheet is a product of extrusion of a polymer material. A flexible holder may contain at least one pen and display panel, contains a polymer composition of a polymer made of low density polyethylene and high pressure and separately catalyzed ethylene alpha olefin plastomer, to which the separately catalyzed ethylene alpha olefin plastomer contains metallocene [8].

The disadvantage of this holder is the ability to carry containers in an upside down position only, which makes it impossible to carry containers in the open state, unreliable fixation of containers in apertures receiving the container only due to the elasticity of the material when it is stretched, and the inability to use it repeatedly for long periods due to irreversible deformations stretching of the polymeric material during application and its tearing in places of nicks or scratches.

The task and the technical result.

The objective and technical result of the invention:

increasing the bearing capacity of the holder for packaging, carrying, transporting and / or stacking a set of thin-walled metal cans for drinks, such as beer, cocktails, juices, carbonated drinks and other food, household and industrial products in thin-walled metal cans containing the upper sealed edges of cans;

providing the possibility of packaging, carrying, transporting and / or stacking a set of thin-walled metal cans for drinks both in closed and open state;

improving ease of use by simplifying the installation / removal of metal cans in the holder while improving the reliability of holding the cans in the holder;

the possibility of removing cans from the holder without effort, damaging or deforming thin-walled metal cans;

the possibility of long-term reuse of the holder for carrying a set of metal cans.

Disclosure of invention

The goal and the required technical result are achieved by the fact that the holder of the set of thin-walled metal cans for drinks with ring-rolled flanges in the upper part contains a housing made of polymer material with openings for placing and holding one can in each and a handle attached to the housing,

at least two openings are made in the housing, each of which

made round with vertically oriented downward side walls and

contains located on the inner surface of the vertical side walls obliquely oriented upward elastically deformable locking petals,

the bases of which are connected to the lower edges of the vertical side walls of the holes, and

the tops of which are located on a circle with a diameter smaller than the outer diameter of the annular sealed flange in the upper part of the can,

with the ability to place and hold one can in each of the holes,

stiffening ribs vertically oriented downward along the edges of the central part of the body with a height equal to the height of the vertical side walls of the holes and mating with the outer surfaces of the vertical side walls of the holes in the body to form a closed external stiffness loop located around the perimeter of the body,

and the handle is made placed outside the edges of the casing, permanently connected by the ends with the middle of the side edges of the casing with the possibility of moving from its initial position, essentially parallel to the plane of the casing in a position at an angle to the plane of the casing in its working position.

At the same time, the bases of the locking lobes inside the holes in the housing are arranged in a circle with a diameter not less than the outer diameter of the cans with the possibility of removing the cans from the holder when moving through the hole in the housing from the bottom up.

The handle of the holder is predominantly U-shaped and contains ribs at the points of its connection with the housing, as well as stiffeners at the junctions of the ends of the handle with the outer surfaces of the ribs along the lateral edges of the housing, and is located so that the center of gravity of the set of cans is advantageously located the center of the handle in its working position.

The handle is provided with at least one means for fixing the position of the handle in the initial position, essentially parallel to the plane of the plate.

The holder of the set of cans is made in the form of a monolithic product made of a polymeric material, for example polypropylene with an elasticizer and a dye, mainly injection molding,

made with the possibility of holding thin-walled metal cans for drinks, in the upper surface of which there is a pouring hole closed by opening means in the form of a tear-off or folding tongue,

further comprises a lid adapted to be snapped onto rolled beads in the upper parts of the cans.

Moreover, in various versions of the design, shown in detail in the drawings, the holder of a set of cans

configured to hold a set of 2 thin-walled metal cans for drinks;

configured to hold a set of 3 thin-walled metal cans for drinks;

configured to hold a set of 4 thin-walled metal cans for drinks;

made with the possibility of holding a set of 6 thin-walled metal cans for drinks.

Brief Description of the Drawings

The essence of the holder of a set of thin-walled metal cans for drinks, hereinafter referred to as the “holder of a set of cans”, is illustrated by the drawings of variants of its design for sets of 2, 3, 4 and 6 cans.

Figure 1-10 shows the types, sections, sections and axonometrics of the holder of a set of 2 cans, which show: handle 1, body 2, elastically deformable locking tabs 3, ribs 4 at the points of attachment of the handle to the horizontal parts of the body, ribs stiffness 5 at the points of attachment of vertically and horizontally oriented parts of the housing.

Figure 1 - shows a side view of the holder of a set of 2 cans in an inverted 180 ° position relative to its working position.

Figure 2 is a bottom view of the holder of a set of 2 cans in its working position.

Figure 3 is a side view of the holder of a set of 2 cans from the side of the handle in an inverted 90 ° position relative to its working position.

Figure 4 is a side view of the holder of a set of 2 cans from the side opposite to the side of the handle, in a 90 ° inverted position relative to its operating position.

Figure 5 is a top view of the holder of a set of 2 cans in its working position, which shows the cut lines AA, section BB and section BB.

Figure 4 - image of a section of the holder of a set of 2 cans along the line BB.

Figure 6 is a sectional image of the holder of a set of 2 cans along the BB line.

Figure 7 is a sectional view of the holder of a set of 2 cans along line AA.

On Fig - axonometric image of a top view of the holder of a set of 2 cans in an inverted 180 ° position relative to its working position.

Figure 9 is a perspective view of a bottom view of the holder of a set of 2 cans in its working position.

Figure 10 is a perspective view of the holder of a set of 2 cans in an inverted 90 ° position relative to its working position.

11-21 depict views, sections, sections and axonometrics of the holder of a set of 3 cans, which show: handle 1, body 2, elastically deformable locking tabs 3, ribs 4 at the points of attachment of the handle to the horizontal parts of the body, ribs stiffness 5 at the points of attachment of vertically and horizontally oriented parts of the housing.

11 is a side view of a holder of a set of 3 cans in an inverted 180 ° position relative to its operating position.

11 is a bottom view of the holder of a set of 3 cans in its working position.

On Fig is a side view of the holder of a set of 3 cans from the side of the handle in an inverted 90 ° position relative to its working position.

On Fig - side view of the holder of a set of 3 cans from the side opposite to the side of the handle, in a 90 ° inverted position relative to its working position.

On Fig is a top view of the holder of a set of 3 cans in its working position, which shows the cut lines AA and GG.

On Fig - image of the incision of the holder of a set of 3 cans along the line GG.

On Fig - image of the incision of the holder of a set of 3 cans along line AA.

On Fig - axonometric image of a top view of the holder of a set of 3 cans in an inverted 180 ° position relative to its working position.

On Fig - axonometric image of the bottom view of the holder of a set of 3 cans in its working position.

In Fig.20 is a perspective view of a top view of the holder of a set of 3 cans in an inverted 180 ° position relative to its working position.

In Fig.21 is a perspective view of a bottom view of the holder of a set of 3 cans in an inverted 180 ° position relative to its working position.

On Fig-33 shows views, sections, sections and axonometrics of the holder of a set of 4 cans, which show: handle 1, body 2, elastically deformable retaining tabs 3, ribs 4 at the points of attachment of the handle to the horizontal parts of the body, ribs stiffness 5 at the points of attachment of vertically and horizontally oriented parts of the housing.

On Fig - shows a side view of the holder of a set of 4 cans inverted 180 ° relative to its operating position.

On Fig is a bottom view of the holder of a set of 4 cans in its working position.

On Fig is a top view of the holder of a set of 4 cans in its working position, which shows the cut lines LJ, 33, EE.

On Fig - image of the incision of the holder of a set of 4 cans along the line

33.

On Fig - side view of the holder of a set of 4 cans from the side of the handle in an inverted 90 ° position relative to its working position.

On Fig is a side view of the holder of a set of 4 cans from the side opposite to the side of the handle, in a 90 ° inverted position relative to its working position.

On Fig - image of the incision of the holder of a set of 4 cans along the LJ line.

On Fig - image of the incision of the holder of a set of 4 cans along the line EE.

On Fig - axonometric image of a top view of the holder of a set of 4 cans in an inverted 180 ° position relative to its working position.

On Fig - axonometric image of a bottom view of the holder of a set of 4 cans in its working position.

On Fig, 33 is a perspective view of a bottom view of the holder of a set of 4 cans in an inverted 90 ° position relative to its operating position.

On Fig-44 shows views, sections, sections and axonometrics of the holder of a set of 6 cans, which show: handle 1, body 2, elastically deformable retaining tabs 3, ribs 4 in places where the handle joins the horizontal parts of the body, ribs stiffness 5 at the points of attachment of vertically and horizontally oriented parts of the housing.

On Fig - shows a side view of the holder of a set of 6 cans in an inverted 180 ° position relative to its working position.

On Fig - bottom view of the holder of a set of 6 cans in its working position.

On Fig - top view of the holder of a set of 6 cans in its working position, which shows the cut lines AA, KK and AI.

On Fig - image of the incision of the holder of a set of 4 cans along the line QC.

On Fig - image of the incision of the holder of a set of 4 cans along the line of AI.

On Fig - image of the incision of the holder of a set of 4 cans along the line AA.

On Fig - side view of the holder of a set of 6 cans from the side opposite to the side of the handle, in its working position.

On Fig - side view of the holder of a set of 6 cans from the location of the handle in its working position.

On Fig is a perspective view of a top view of the holder of a set of 6 cans in an inverted 180 ° position relative to its working position.

On Fig - axonometric image of a bottom view of the holder of a set of 6 cans in its working position.

On Fig - axonometric image of the bottom view of the holder of a set of 6 cans in a rotated 90 ° position relative to its working position.

The implementation of the invention

The inventive can holder from sets of at least 2 cans (FIGS. 1-44) is made in the form of a single monolithic product from a polymeric material and contains a handle 1, a housing 2 with at least 2 round holes, elastically deformable retaining lobes 3 in the round holes of the body, ribs 4 at the points of attachment of the handle to the horizontal parts of the body, ribs 5 at the points of attachment of vertically and horizontally oriented parts of the body.

In addition, the device may also contain, not shown in the drawings, means of initial fixation of the handle relative to the housing in the form of destructible jumpers located in the gaps between the edges of the handle and the housing, as well as additional covers on the upper part of the cans.

The bases of the elastically deformable retaining tabs 3 in the openings of the housing are connected to the bottom of the inner surface of the vertically oriented walls of the openings in the housing 2.

The holder is mounted on the can with the drink by putting it on the top end of the can by moving the holder from top to bottom or by inserting the can into the holder by moving from bottom to top. In this case, the annular collar of the can at first spreads the elastically deformable locking petals, and then is fixed by the locking petals in the opening of the housing.

With this fixation, thin-walled metal cans with a relatively small thickness of the protruding parts of the rolled flanges are reliably fixed with locking tabs in the openings of the housing.

Both closed and open cans from the holder can be removed by moving the cans from the bottom up. The locking petals are then moved apart and the can is removed without significant effort and without damaging the thin walls, which are especially easily deformed in open cans.

Perhaps installed over the lid will protect the upper surface of the cans, as well as their contents from contamination and ingress of foreign objects.

Handle 1 is designed for convenient carrying a set of cans by the user. In the initial position, parallel to the outer plane of the casing 2, the handle 1 can be held in its original position due to its rigidity or can be held in its original position by means of destructible jumpers between the handle and the casing to protect against displacement under various external mechanical influences, for example, during stacking and transportation . If necessary, thin jumpers can be easily destroyed by the user, and the handle 1, connected only by its ends to the body due to their elastic deformation, is transferred to the working position, convenient for carrying by the user.

The design of the device was developed taking into account the requirements of mass production of similar parts by one of the common methods. So, the device can be made as a whole by injection molding, characterized by high productivity, the possibility of full mechanization and automation.

It should be borne in mind that certain features of the proposed variants of the invention can be combined in other populations.

The detailed disclosure in the drawings and in the description of the essential features of the invention show in detail a causal relationship and the possibility of achieving a technical result of a utility model, namely:

increasing the bearing capacity of the holder (device) for packing, carrying, transporting and / or stacking a set of thin-walled metal cans for drinks, such as beer, cocktails, juices, carbonated drinks and other food, household and industrial products in thin-walled metal cans containing over rolled the edges of the cans;

providing the possibility of packaging, carrying, transporting and / or stacking a set of thin-walled metal cans for drinks both in closed and open state;

improving ease of use by simplifying the installation / removal of metal cans in the holder while improving the reliability of holding the cans in the holder;

the possibility of removing cans from the holder without effort, damaging or deforming thin-walled metal cans;

the possibility of prolonged reuse of the device for carrying a set of metal cans.

The proposed holder is simple in design, reliable in operation, convenient to manufacture, for example, by injection molding.

The holder can be made in industrial production using standard equipment, modern materials and technologies, with the possibility of serial multiple reproduction.

Information sources

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Claims (10)

1. The holder of a set of thin-walled metal cans for drinks with ring-rolled flanges in the upper part, comprising a housing made of polymeric material with holes for placing and holding one can in each and a handle attached to the housing, characterized in that
at least two openings are made in the housing, each of which
made round with vertically oriented downward side walls and
contains located on the inner surface of the vertical side walls obliquely oriented upward elastically deformable locking petals,
the bases of which are connected to the lower edges of the vertical side walls of the holes, and
the tops of which are located on a circle with a diameter smaller than the outer diameter of the annular sealed flange in the upper part of the can, with the possibility of placing and holding one can in each of the openings,
stiffening ribs vertically oriented downward along the edges of the central part of the body with a height equal to the height of the vertical side walls of the holes and mating with the outer surfaces of the vertical side walls of the holes in the body to form a closed external stiffness located around the entire perimeter of the body,
the handle is made placed outside the edges of the casing, one-piece connected with the midpoints of the side edges of the casing with the possibility of moving from its original position, essentially parallel to the plane of the casing in a position at an angle to the plane of the casing in its working position,
and the bases of the lobes inside the holes in the housing are arranged in a circle with a diameter not less than the outer diameter of the cans with the possibility of removing cans from the holder when moving through the hole in the housing from the bottom up. 2. The holder of the set of cans according to claim 1, characterized in that the handle is predominantly U-shaped and contains ribs in the places of its connection with the body, as well as stiffeners in the joints of the ends of the handle with the outer surfaces of the ribs along the lateral edges of the housing , and is located so that the center of gravity of the set of cans is predominantly located in the center of the handle in its working position. 3. The holder of the set of cans according to claim 1, characterized in that the handle is provided with at least one means for fixing the position of the handle in the initial position, essentially parallel to the plane of the plate. 4. The holder of a set of cans according to claim 1, characterized in that it is made in the form of a monolithic product of a polymer material, for example polypropylene with an elasticizer and a dye, mainly injection molding. 5. The holder of a set of cans according to claim 1, characterized in that it is made with the possibility of holding thin-walled metal cans for drinks, in the upper surface of which there is a pouring hole closed by opening means in the form of a tear-off or folding tongue. 6. The holder of the set of cans according to claim 1, characterized in that it further comprises a lid made with the possibility of their snapping on rolled beads in the upper parts of the cans. 7. The holder of a set of cans according to claim 1, characterized in that it is arranged to hold a set of 2 thin-walled metal cans for drinks. 8. The holder of a set of cans according to claim 1, characterized in that it is arranged to hold a set of 3 thin-walled metal cans for drinks. 9. The holder of a set of cans according to claim 1, characterized in that it is arranged to hold a set of 4 thin-walled metal cans for drinks. 10. The holder of a set of cans according to claim 1, characterized in that it is arranged to hold a set of 6 thin-walled metal cans for drinks.

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