Classifications

• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B62—LAND VEHICLES FOR TRAVELLING OTHERWISE THAN ON RAILS
  • B62B—HAND-PROPELLED VEHICLES, e.g. HAND CARTS OR PERAMBULATORS; SLEDGES
  • B62B3/00—Hand carts having more than one axis carrying transport wheels; Steering devices therefor; Equipment therefor
  • B62B3/006—Hand carts having more than one axis carrying transport wheels; Steering devices therefor; Equipment therefor for stacking objects like trays, bobbins, chains
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
  • A47F—SPECIAL FURNITURE, FITTINGS, OR ACCESSORIES FOR SHOPS, STOREHOUSES, BARS, RESTAURANTS OR THE LIKE; PAYING COUNTERS
  • A47F5/00—Show stands, hangers, or shelves characterised by their constructional features
  • A47F5/0018—Display racks with shelves or receptables
  • A47F5/0025—Display racks with shelves or receptables having separate display containers or trays on shelves or on racks
  • A47F5/0037—Display racks with shelves or receptables having separate display containers or trays on shelves or on racks being rotatable or tiltable
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
  • A47F—SPECIAL FURNITURE, FITTINGS, OR ACCESSORIES FOR SHOPS, STOREHOUSES, BARS, RESTAURANTS OR THE LIKE; PAYING COUNTERS
  • A47F5/00—Show stands, hangers, or shelves characterised by their constructional features
  • A47F5/10—Adjustable or foldable or dismountable display stands
  • A47F5/12—Tiltable stands

Definitions

• the invention concerns a packaging system of the type defined in the introductory portion of claim 1.
• the transport box is so adapted that one or more transport boxes may be placed in the transport roller container.
• the individual elements are constructed in a manner which enables rational packaging, handling and transport of everyday commodities.
• the transport boxes have a bottom stacking edge which is so constructed as to enable stacking with existing transport boxes with the same standardized outer measures.
• the transport boxes forming part of the packaging system of the invention can therefore be nested in other known standardized trans ⁇ port boxes or in so-called whole cheese boxes having square measures.
• the packaging system of the invention may expediently comprise an additional element, viz. the refrigerator display case stated in claim 13, in which, according to the invention, the handling trays, both the handling trays with the full measures or the small handling trays, may be placed in an inclined or horizontal position.
• the products placed in the handling trays may easily be placed in and removed from the transport boxes and be placed in a transport roller container ready for sale, or they may be placed in a refrigerator display case, likewise ready for sale. During this movement of the products, these will remain positioned on the same handling trays so that the entire packaging system is constructed very rationally.
• fig. 1 is a perspective view of a transport box forming part of the packaging system of the invention and two uniform handling trays above said box,
• fig. 2 shows the same elements as fig. 1, but the lower ⁇ most tray is here placed on the bottom of the box, while the uppermost tray is ready to be positioned in the middle of the box height,
• fig. 3 shows in perspective, downwardly, a transport box with two trays inserted, and, upwardly, four small trays which may be inserted in the transport box instead of the handling trays already inserted,
• fig. 4 is a perspective view of a handling tray, seen from one side,
• fig. 5 shows the handling tray of fig. 4, seen from the other side, fig. 6 shows in perspective how a show card may be placed on the tray in fig. 4,
• fig. 7 shows, likewise in perspective, the positioning of a product in a handling tray with a wrapper in the longitudinal direction of the handling tray
• fig. 8 is a perspective view of a transport roller con ⁇ tainer, forming part of the packaging system of the in ⁇ vention, with a transport box of the invention and above said box a known box which has the same standardized outer measures and below said box two other known boxes which may be placed on the bottom of the transport roller container when a bottom bracket supports the outermost one of these boxes,
• fig. 9 is a perspective view of the transport roller container in fig. 8, but with handling trays instead of transport boxes,
• fig. 10 shows in perspective how the handling trays in the transport roller container in fig. 9 may be inclined
• fig. 11 is a perspective view of the transport roller container with transport boxes of the invention and addi ⁇ tional transport boxes with the same standardized measures as well as a top bracket in the position in which the top bracket serves as a shelf which moreover serves to stiffen the transport roller container upwardly, and
• fig. 12 is a perspective view of a refrigerator display case, forming part of the packaging system of the inven ⁇ tion, and having inclined, small handling trays.
• Fig. 1 shows a transport box 1 having vent holes 2 in the bottom. Further, the drawing shows two uniform handling trays 10, one of which is rotated through 180° with re- s ect to the other about an axis at right angles to their bottoms. Approximately in the middle of the box height, the transport box 1 has carrier means 3 on each of the internal long sides, and on the outer sides of two opposed long sides the handling trays 10 have stacking pins 11,
• the handling tray 10 for cooperation with the carrier means 3 of the trans ⁇ port box 1 when the handling tray 10 is oriented as the uppermost handling tray in fig. 1.
• the carrier means 3 of the transport box do not cooperate with the stacking pins 11, 12 of the handling tray 10.
• the transport box 1 has a gable opening 4 in one gable to facilitate removal of handling trays 10.
• a shown plurality of handling trays may be stacked direct ⁇ ly on top of each other inside the transport box so that the lowermost handling tray rests on the bottom of the transport box. This position is generally used when the handling trays 10 are empty and are just to be stacked as densely as possible inside the transport box. If, however, the handling trays 10 contain products which cannot stand the pressure from the handling trays stacked thereon, just a single handling tray is placed on the bottom of the transport box, as shown in fig. 2.
• An addi ⁇ tional handling tray 10, rotated through 180°, is placed above the mentioned tray, as shown in fig. 2, so that the stacking pins 11, 12 of said additional tray will rest on the carrier means 3 of the transport box.
• the transport box just contains two handling trays.
• the gable opening 4 of the transport box may be closed, as shown in fig. 2; by the application of a cardboard plate 5, either by passing pins 6 in the gable opening 4 through holes 7 in the cardboard plate 5, or by moving the cardboard plate 5 down into a slit 8 in the edge of the gable opening 4.
• This cardboard plate may be used for marking the transport box 1.
• the transport box 1 has moreover recesses 9a in both gables for use for automatic registration of the contents of the transport box 1 when the contents are the same on all the handling trays 10. Above these recesses 9a, the transport box has diagonally positioned handles 9b, likewise in both gables.
• two small handling trays 10a and 10b may be placed so that the transport box 1 may contain two handling trays 10 or four small handling trays 10a, 10b, or optionally a handling tray 10 and two small handling trays 10a, 10b.
• Figs. 4 and 5 show a handling tray 10 from one and the other side, respectively.
• the handling tray 10 like the transport box 1, has vent holes 12 in the bottom. Further, the handling trays have recesses 13 for carrier handles at both ends and in both long sides. The bottom of the handling trays 10 is provided with two holes 14 at both ends for use for fixing a show card 15, as shown in fig. 6.
• Fig. 7 shows a handling tray 10 on which a product 16 is placed, protected against dirtying by the application of a wrapper 17 which is wrapped in the longitudinal direction of the handling tray 10. It is noted that this wrapper does not interfere with the stacking pins 11, 12 and thus do not restrict the cooperation between the carrier means 3 of the transport box and these stacking pins 11, 12. The importance of the stacking pin 12 in particular will appear from the following in connection with the positioning of the handling tray 10 in a trans- port roller container 20 forming part of the system.
• Fig. 8 shows a transport roller container 20 whieh forms part of the packaging system of the invention and has four vertical, rotatable rods 21, each of which has a plurality of carrier brackets 22, here nine.
• the rods 21 with the carrier brackets 22 are shown in fig. 8 in their inactive passive position so as to make room for the positioning of both a transport box of the invention and other transport boxes 23, 24 having corresponding standardized measures.
• the transport roller container has an extension bracket 25, which is shown in its extended position in fig. 8 to support the outer ⁇ most transport box 24.
• the transport roller container is used for supporting handling trays 10 instead of transport boxes 1.
• the extension bracket 25 is retracted into the transport roller container so as to lie on the bottom of said container. It is shown in dashed lines how this extension bracket 25 may be extended to extend the bottom.
• Each handling tray 10 preferably has just one stacking pin 12 with the L-shaped depression. This is sufficient to ensure that a handling tray secured in the transport roller container 20 cannot move to and fro in the horizontal plane.
• the handling trays 10 may also be stacked obliquely, as shown for the two uppermost handling trays 10. This is done quite simply in that the second-from-the-top handling tray 10 is supported in its rear end facing away from the opening of the roller transport container 20 by carrier means 20 disposed higher than in its front end. Although these rear carrier means 22 then will not engage over the stacking pin 11, it is sufficient for this display purpose that they support the handling trays 10.
• Fig. 11 shows a transport roller container 20 with a large number of transport boxes, some of which are trans ⁇ port boxes 10 of the invention.
• the top bracket 27 has been pivoted inwardly over the upper side of the transport roller container 20 and thus serves as a cover for the retail products in the uppermost handling tray 10 in the transport roller container 20 and as a shelf to support boxes (not shown), which may be stacked on top of the transport roller container 20.
• the shelf may be locked to two long sides 20 of the trans ⁇ port roller container 20, as shown at 31, so that this top shelf 27 serves to stiffen the transport roller con ⁇ tainer, its two long sides 30 being connected by means of the shelf 27.
• Fig. 12 shows a refrigerator display case 40, which like ⁇ wise forms part of the packaging system of the invention and has removable horizontal shelves 41, whose width corresponds to the width of the handling trays 10 or the length of the small handling trays 10a, 10b.
• the shelves 41 have a plurality of holes 42 which form a modular grid of holes in which may be secured top brackets depending from the shelves or bottom brackets 44 protruding from the shelves.
• the top brackets are bent so that when mounted they assume an inclined position to support small handling trays 10a, 10b, as shown in fig. 12.
• Two small handling trays 10a, 10b may thus be inclined very close to each other, with stacking pins on one handling tray extending into spaces between the other handling tray.
• the same top bracket 43 may serve to support both the tray to the left of the top bracket and the tray to the right of the top bracket.
• the bottom brackets 44 may support the front lower edge of such an inclined tray.
• the handling trays may be adjusted horizontally on the shelves 41.
• the small 10a, 10b, and the large 10 handling trays in juxtaposed relation.
• the shelf 45 is removed when a large handling tray (not shewn) s to be positioned.

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