US3349943A - Bottle carrying and stacking case - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to stackable bottle carrying cases, also known as tote boxes, preferably though not limitatively to cases of this type molded in a single unitary operation from a suitable high-impact plastic, such as polyethylene, polypropylene, or a similar synthetic resinous thermoplastic or thermosetting material.
- a suitable high-impact plastic such as polyethylene, polypropylene, or a similar synthetic resinous thermoplastic or thermosetting material.
- the invention is concerned with bottle cases for the storage, transport and distribution of beverages, liquid foods and the like substance-s of the special type, wherein the bottles or the like containers are stored in a preferably compartmentalized case in predetermined relative position, such as in longitudinal and transverse rows, with the tops or caps of the bottles projecting above the upper edges of the side and end walls of the case and coinciding with a horizontal plane, to enable the positioning or stacking thereon of another similar case with the bottom wall of the latter resting upon the tops or caps of the bottles in the case below forming a base or supporting surface,
- Beverage bottle cases of the foregoing type have already become known which are provided with means to position one case upon another case, said means consisting essentially in the provision of recesses in the undersurface of the bottom wall of the cases conforming to or being adapted to receive the tops or caps of the bottles disposed in the case immediately below in a stack comprising a multiplicity of cases superposed upon each other.
- the caps of the bottles completely nest within the recesses of the case immediately above in the stack.
- a seriously felt disadvantage and defect of beverage cases of the latter type is due to the necessity of first lifting a case from the case below before it can be safely withdrawn or removed from the stack without the danger of damage to or breakage of the tops or caps of the bottles disposed in the case immediately below the case being withdrawn.
- an important object of the present invention is the provision of an improved bottle carrying and stacking case of the referred to type constructed to minimize or substantially eliminate the foregoing and related disadvantages and difliculties inherent in the previously known plastic carrying cases of similar construction according to the prior art.
- a more specific object of the invention is the provision of a bottle stacking and carrying case of the referred to type designed to substantially eliminate the danger of breakage of or damage to the bottles upon pulling or withdrawing a case horizontally from the case immediately below in a stack.
- Yet another object of the invention is the prevention of breakage of or damage to the bottles while removing a case from a stack of cases in the manner pointed out, substantially without foregoing the advantages of stiffening and reinforcing ribs or the like projections upon the bottom wall of the cases.
- FIG. 1 is a schematic top view of a bottle case of the type forming the subject of the invention
- FIG. 2 is a section taken on line 2-2 of FIG. 3, show- I ing the improved bottom construction of the case and the stacking of the cases according to the invention;
- FIG. 3 is a bottom view of the case shown in the preceding figures.
- FIG. 4 is an enlarged fragmentary view of FIG. 2;
- FIG. 5 is a bottom view of FIG. 4;
- FIGS. 6 and 7 are partial top and bottom view, irrespectively, of a practical form of a bottle carrying and stacking case constructed in accordance with the principles of the invention
- FIG. 8 is a sectional view taken on line 88 of FIG. 6, furthermore showing the stacking of two cases upon one another in accordance with the invention
- FIG. 9 is a fragmentary view showing an improved construction of the separating walls of a case according to FIGS. 6 and 7;
- FIG. 10 is another fragmentary section view illustrating the stacking of a pair of empty or unloaded cases of the type according to the preceding figures.
- the invention involves essentially the provision of a bottle carrying and stacking case of the referred to type comprising a pair of side walls, a pair of end walls, and a bottom wall having a substantially smooth outer surface provided with a multiplicity of preferably spherical-shaped and relatively shallow dishshaped depressions or recesses, said depressions being distributed over said surface or relatively aligned and spaced from each other such as to register or coincide with the tops or caps of the bottles stored in a case below upon which the first case is to be positioned or stacked.
- the depressions serving merely as locating or aligning means for the upper case of the stack, are insufiicient to retain the cases in the stacked position independently of or free from the effects of vibrations and the like impact and other forces to which the cases and bottles stored therein are subjected during handling and shipping.
- special retaining means in the form of sets of discreet retaining ribs or projections extending radially outwardly from the periphery of said ribs and having wedge-shaped inner end portions forming ramps of gradually increasing height from a point near said periphery to the full height of the ribs.
- the retaining ribs may be continuous or throughgoing from depression to depression, to additionally act as reinforcing or stiffening means of the bottom walls of the cases, to thereby increase the mechanical strength and stability of the cases and to enable a reduction of the wall thickness to a minimum.
- the depressions in the bottom walls of the cases may be dispensed with, in which case the radial retaining ribs encircling spaced circular areas of the bottom wall serve both as locating and retaining means of a case positioned upon the tops of the bottles in a lower case of a stack, in the manner as will become further apparent from the following description in reference to the drawings.
- FIGS. 1-3 there is shown collectively by the numeral 10 a simple compartmentalized carrying case having a pair of side walls 10'a, a pair of end walls 10b and a bottom wall 10c, said case being fitted with sets of intersecting partition or separating walls 11 and 12 for the positioning therein and storage of a multiplicity of beverage containers or bottles 13 having tops or caps 14 which project above the upper edges of said side and end walls and coincide with a horizontal surface adapted to serve as a base or support for another similar case 10 to be positioned or stacked upon the case 10, in the manner shown in FIG. 2.
- the outer surface of the bottom wall 100 of the case is provided, in the example shown, with a multiplicity of spaced and relatively shallow spherical or dish-shaped depressions or recesses 17 (see also FIGS. 4 and from the peripheries of which extend a number of radial retaining ribs or projections, preferably four ribs for each depression being parallel to the side and end walls a and 10b of the case, as shown at 15 and 16 respectively, in the drawing.
- the inner end portions of the ribs 15 and 16 adjoining the depressions 17 have a gradually decreasing height in the direction towards said depressions, whereby to form inclined surfaces or ramps 15 and 16, respectively.
- the incline angle of the ramps 15 and 16' may be suitably chosen, such as about 45, whereby to result in the camming of the edges of the tops or caps 14 of the bottles 13 with said ramps upon horizontally pulling or withdrawing the upper case 10 from the case 10, in'such a manner as to cause a slight lifting of the case being withdrawn and to enable its easy and ready removal substantially without involving the danger of damage to or breakage of the bottles or other containers.
- the incline angle of the ramps 15, 16' may be chosen independently of the depressions 17, while the latter may be of any suitable shape or depth insufficient to retain the bottles, or to serve as positioning or aligning means therefor only.
- the ribs 15 and 16 may extend over the entire length and width, respectively, of the cases, being interrupted only at the spaces of the recesses 17, in the manner shown in FIG. 3.
- FIGS. 610 there is shown a practical form of a carrying and stacking case constructed according to the invention, wherein the end walls 101) are provided with a pair of outer vertical and inwardly directed stiffening channels or corrugations 20 and a central recess 21 in the lower part of said walls, to provide room for a pair of hand or carrying holes 22.
- openings 23 are advantageously provided in the bottom wall adjoining the intersection prints of the partition or separating walls 11 and 12.
- the recesses 17 in the bottom wall in the example illustrated are in the form of a dish-shaped depressions of said wall, as shown more clearly in FIG. 8.
- partition walls 11 and 12 may be provided with vertical recesses or cut outs 11' and 12. respectively, adjoining the openings 23, as shown in FIG. 9.
- the bottom wall 10c is advantageously provided with a rectangular ridge 24 having side sections 24a and end sections 24b adjoining and being spaced from the outer edges of the case to enable stacking of two empty or unloaded cases with the ridge of the upper case nesting with the top edge of the lower case in a stack, in the manner shown in FIG. 10.
- ridge sections 24a (not seen in the figure) nest with the edges of the side walls 10a, in a manner readily understood.
- bottles While the invention has been described with specific reference to a storage and stacking case for bottles it is understood that the containers stored may be of any other type subject to damage by excessive impact or the like forces.
- bottle as used for the purposes of the specification and claims is, accordingly, intended to include all equivalent types of containers for the storage and shipping of liquid or the like substances.
- said bottom wall having a substantially smooth outer surface provided with a multiplicity of relatively shallow dish-shaped recesses spaced from each other and distributed over said surface such as to register with and engage the tops of the bottles stored in the case below of a stack, whereby said recesses act as aligning means of the cases stacked upon each other, and
- a bottle case as claimed in claim 1 said retaining ribs being mutually spaced by angles of 90 and extending in directions parallel to the side and end walls, respectively, of the case.
- a bottle case as claimed in claim 1 said retaining ribs being mutually spaced by angles of 90 and extending in directions parallel to the side and end Walls, respectively, of the case, and the outer ends of the aligned ribs extending from adjoining recesses being interconnected, to form sets of intersecting throughgoing reinforcing ribs upon said bottom wall interrupted by gaps bridged by said recesses.
- a stack-able bottle case comprising in combination:
- each of said sets comprising a predetermined number of ribs extending radially outwardly from the periphery of a circular area with the areas enclosed by the different sets of ribs being spaced from each other and distributed over said surface such as to substantially register with and to engage the tops of the bottles stored in the case below of said stack,
- a bottle case as claimed in claim 5 ribs being mutually spaced by angles of 90 and extending in directions parallel to the side and end walls, respectively, of the case, and the outer ends of the aligned ribs extending from adjoining areas being interconnected, to form sets of throughgoing intersecting reinforcing ribs upon the bottom wall of said case interrupted by gaps bridged by said areas.
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