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US3628684A
US3628684A US863059A US3628684DA US3628684A US 3628684 A US3628684 A US 3628684A US 863059 A US863059 A US 863059A US 3628684D A US3628684D A US 3628684DA US 3628684 A US3628684 A US 3628684A
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  • the bottle racks manufactured up to this day are not easily handled and show different drawbacks, namely because of the lower rabbet usually provided for allowing the stacking of the bottle racks one above the other, the said rabbet-causing cracks, after a certain time, particularly on the lower bottle racks of the various stacks, resulting from the weight of the superposed bottle racks which is only transmitted through the peripheric part of these bottle racks.
  • the present invention is intended to avoid these drawbacks, and has for its object an improved type of bottle racks, made of plastic, showing a certain number of features facilitating namely the handling and the use of these bottle racks as regards their delivery, their storage and the dripping of the empty bottles, storage which must be also expected to be performed in an horizontal position.
  • the upper part of the new bottle racks is provided on its edge, close to the angles of this bottle rack, with lugs in the shape of the frustum of a pyramid, with a rectangular base, having slopes with inclinations and intended for engaging with recesses in the shape of passages, provided in the base of said bottle racks, in order to enable the nesting of the bottle racks superposed one above the other, to ensure their vertical alignment whilst making their disengagement and their longitudinal displacement in relation to a lower bottle rack easier.
  • the present invention is also intended to add another improvement to the new bottle rack, by presenting rounded corners showing vertical ribs, the central rib of which is not so thick, on one part of its height, than the other horizontal and vertical reinforcement ribs, this central rib ending externally in the shape of a rounded bulb, which facilitates the gripping of the bottle racks and their disengagement in relation to the neighboring piles of bottle racks, namely allowing the lifting of these bottle racks by holding the lower part of a median horizontal rib, placed at the level of said rounded corners.
  • a third important improvement consists in the fact that the bottle rack, bored in the longitudinal direction of ports enabling the passage of lifting forks, includes on its lateral faces, close to its upper part, median ports in a general trapezoidal shape, wider at their lower part than at their upper part and enabling the lifting of the bottle rack by holding same by one slanting side of said trapezia, which facilitates its handling when the said bottle rack is filled with full bottles.
  • edges of the above mentioned trapezoidal median ports show an undulated outline, which enables the storekeeper to locate his fingers more easily, and increases the surface of contact between his fingers and the bottle racks to be lifted.
  • a further improvement added to the new bottle racks concerns the use of a perforated and cellulated bottom provided on the sides of each cell, with openings and guiding internal ribs, and at their lower part, with radial elements made of plastic material showing a certain elasticity used as bottle support, the said radial elements being integral with bowls provided with a central aperture enabling the dripping of the empty bottles turned upside down the spouts of which have been centered by the said bowls, joined one to the other by longitudinal and transversal crossmembers connecting the parallel sides of said bottle -rack one to the other, and holding the solid parts of the walls of said cells.
  • the new bottle rack can also include at the upper part of its long sides, between the two horizontal ribs provided above the trapezoidal ports already mentioned, and very close to the lowest rib, groups of lugs and recesses of an elliptical shape, which can cooperate with recesses and lugs provided on superposed bottle racks, the various vertical and slanting ribs joining the two above-mentioned horizontal ribs being hollowed, in order to allow the eventual passage of said lugs when a bottle rack is disengaged in a vertical position, from two piles of adjoining bottle racks.
  • a further new feature of the present invention consists in the fact that the vertical walls of the said bottle rack are in fact slightly slanting in order to form a pyramid with a rectangular base tending to send the empty bottles towards the bottom of said bottle racks, when the latter are stacked in an horizontal position one above the other.
  • the superposed bottle racks cannot slide, one in respect to the other, and remain vertically aligned in a horizontal position.
  • FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the new bottle rack
  • FIG. 2 is a partial section according to lIII of FIG. 5 showing the nesting between two superposed bottle racks.
  • FIG. 3 is a top view showing the partitioned bottom of said bottle rack
  • FIG. 4 is a section view at the level of the lugs and recesses provided for the storage in a horizontal position, according to IV-IV of FIG. ll;
  • FIG. 5 is a partial section according to V-V of FIG. 2, showing also the said nesting
  • FIG. 6 is an elevation view of the bottle rack shown in FIG. l;
  • FIG. 7 is a section view according to VIIVII of FIG. 3;
  • FIG. 3 is a perspective view of a partitioning cell pertaining to the perforated bottom of the bottle rack corresponding to the cell referenced by VIII of FIG. 3;
  • FIG. 9 is a diagrammatic view of a bottle rack according to the invention, showing the manner in which it may be lifted, particularly when empty, and
  • FIG. 10 is a diagrammatic view comparable with FIG. 9, showing the position of the storekeepers fingers along two slanting slides of two parallel trapezoidal windows or openings.
  • FIG. ll illustrates a bottle rack ll including at its lower part eight perforations, four of which can be seen under reference 2 on FIG. I.
  • the bottle rack includes, at its upper part, four trapezoidal openings 4, with undulated edges without sharp angles, the latter openings, as said above, facilitating the handling, on the one hand, due to the increased contact surface existing between the storekeepers fingers and the bottle rack, and on the other hand, due to the inclination of the slanting sides of the said trapezoidal openings, as it will be particularly seen by examining FIG. 10.
  • the bottle rack includes, slightly above its median part, an horizontal reinforcement rib 5, also facilitating the disengagement of the bottle racks placed sideby-side, when they are pressed one against the other.
  • the corners 6 of the bottle rack are rounded, which enables the easy location of the hands, on both sides of the bottle rack, under said rib 5, even when it is pressed between two adjoining bottle racks, in order to ensure its disengagement by longitudinal sliding.
  • the rounded angles 6 of the bottle rack are provided with reinforcement vertical ribs 7, 8 and 9, located on the longitudinal sides as regards ribs 7, on the lateral sides as regards ribs 9, and in the middle of the rounded part itself as regards ribs 8.
  • the various ribs 7 and 8 depressed approximately between two horizontal ribs 10 and 11 provided at the upper part of the bottle racks, in order to allow the passage of lugs 12, 13, 14 and 15, the utility of which will be explained later on, during the longitudinal displacement of a bottle rack between two stacks of adjoining bottle racks.
  • lugs 12, 13, 14 and 15 similar to those of the front wall, and recesses 12a, 13a, 14a, and 15a provided for cooperating with the lugs 12, l3, l4 and 15 of an adjoining bottle rack.
  • the ribs 8 show at their median part 8a a reduced thickness compared to the thickness of the ribs 7 and 9 and to the upper and lower parts'of the rib 8.
  • these ribs end in a rounded thickened edge facilitating the location of the storekeepers fingers.
  • This arrangement allows one, on the one hand, to grip the part 8a of the rib 8 at the level of the said thickened edge, and on the other hand to insert the hand above the said horizontal rib 5, between the said thickened edge and the external part of said horizontal rib angle, in order to lift one bottle rack in relation to a lower bottle rack.
  • lugs 16 which can be seen on a larger scale on FIG. 2 and 5, are provided for cooperating with the elongated recesses 16a made in the base of the bottle rack and which open in 17 at the periphery of the base 18 of the bottle rack 1.
  • the lugs 16 in the shape of the frustums of a pyramid, include in the longitudinal direction, two slopes of difierent inclination, i.e. a slope showing a slight inclination l9 and a substantially vertical slope 20.
  • FIG. 1 and 3 at the level of the bottle rack bottom, elementsk22 in the shape of a star, on which the bottles bottoms are expected to rest, or, as it will be seen further on, regarding FIG. 7, the spouts on the empty bottles which are to be drained.
  • gussets 25 In the angles of the cells formed by the said walls, are provided gussets 25 ensuring the rigidity of the said walls; these gussets can be seen on FIGS. 3 and 8.
  • star elements 22 include a bowl 22a comprising a central recess 22b, showing an opening 22c bored in its center, allowing the dripping of an empty bottle turned upside down 27.
  • the gussets 25 do not exist on the periphery of the bottle rack l and that, on the contrary, the walls 23 are not perforated on the side of the lateral walls of the bottle rack, with which they are integral on their whole length, the distance and the location of the ribs 24 being then a little different.
  • checkered arrangement shown by the crossmembers 26 stops in the angles and is replaced by slanting crossmembers 28 making this checkered arrangement integral with the angles walls of the bottle rack.
  • FIG. 6 One finds again on FIG. 6 the ports 3 allowing the passage of a lifting fork which can be seen in 3a, and also one of the openings 4 and the lower perforations 2, as well as the reinforcement ribs 7 and 8 and the various horizontal ribs.
  • FIG. 8 illustrates four walls 23 in the shape of a Y provided, on their two faces, with reinforcement ribs 24.
  • the cells angles existing on both sides of the central bars of the said Y-shaped walls, are perforated at their lower part, as seen on reference 29, FIG. 8, on which are also seen the gussets 25 ensuring the rigidity of the various walls, as a whole.
  • the perforations 29 are suppressed near the walls of the bottle rack, and the solid central bar 23a of the walls then runs on its whole height, up to the sidewalls of said bottle rack.
  • Bottle rack made of a plastic material in the shape of a parallelepiped having four vertical sides, and a trapezoidal opening near the top of each side adapted to admit a human hand;
  • each lug having four upwardly extending surfaces including a first surface transverse to the side which carries it and a second transverse surface opposite the first, said first transverse surface sloping upwardly more gently than any other of said upwardly extending surfaces,
  • Bottle rack as claimed in claim 1 in which the gently sloping surfaces on each of said pairs of lugs are on the sides of those lugs most remote from each other, and said recesses of each pair being open at the ends thereof remote from each other.
  • Bottle rack as claimed in claim 1 comprising rounded vertical ribs at its four vertical corners, the central portion of each rib being depressed with respect to the remainder of that rib and thickened along its outer edge to form an abutment which facilitates hooking of a person's fingers over said thickened edge.
  • Bottle rack as claimed in claim 1 comprising a pair of horizontal lugs projecting outwardly from each of two opposed sides of said rack, said lugs being spaced horizontally by a distance at least equal to the length of each lug and vertically by a minimal clearance, whereby two racks may be placed side-by-side with each lug on one side of one rack lapping a lug on the adjacent side on the other rack, to inhibit relative vertical motion between said racks.
  • Bottle rack as claimed in claim 4' comprising two of said pairs of horizontal lugs on each of said opposed sides of said rack.
  • Bottle rack as claimed in claim ll having a bottom comprising a plurality of individual bottle supports connected by transverse crossbars, each individual support consisting of an annular member defining a central aperture surrounded by a rim which curves outwardly and upwardly, together with four arms which radiate outwardly from said rim and are supported only at the ends thereof attached to said rim 7.
  • Bottle rack as claimed in claim 6 comprising perforated vertical walls separating the spaces above each individual support from each other, the lower parts of said walls integral with said crossbars.
  • Bottle rack as claimed in claim l in which each of said opposed vertical sides defines a pair of horizontally spaced apertures, dimensioned to receive the arms ofa forklift, each aperture being positioned in the upper part of the side in which it is located, near one end of that side.

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