Classifications

• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
  • B65D1/00—Rigid or semi-rigid containers having bodies formed in one piece, e.g. by casting metallic material, by moulding plastics, by blowing vitreous material, by throwing ceramic material, by moulding pulped fibrous material or by deep-drawing operations performed on sheet material
  • B65D1/12—Cans, casks, barrels, or drums
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
  • B65D21/00—Nestable, stackable or joinable containers; Containers of variable capacity
  • B65D21/02—Containers specially shaped, or provided with fittings or attachments, to facilitate nesting, stacking, or joining together
  • B65D21/0209—Containers specially shaped, or provided with fittings or attachments, to facilitate nesting, stacking, or joining together stackable or joined together one-upon-the-other in the upright or upside-down position
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
  • B65D71/00—Bundles of articles held together by packaging elements for convenience of storage or transport, e.g. portable segregating carrier for plural receptacles such as beer cans or pop bottles; Bales of material
  • B65D71/0088—Palletisable loads, i.e. loads intended to be transported by means of a fork-lift truck
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
  • B65D71/00—Bundles of articles held together by packaging elements for convenience of storage or transport, e.g. portable segregating carrier for plural receptacles such as beer cans or pop bottles; Bales of material
  • B65D71/02—Arrangements of flexible binders
• • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
  • Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
  • Y02A—TECHNOLOGIES FOR ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE
  • Y02A40/00—Adaptation technologies in agriculture, forestry, livestock or agroalimentary production
  • Y02A40/90—Adaptation technologies in agriculture, forestry, livestock or agroalimentary production in food processing or handling, e.g. food conservation
• • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
  • Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
  • Y02W—CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO WASTEWATER TREATMENT OR WASTE MANAGEMENT
  • Y02W30/00—Technologies for solid waste management
  • Y02W30/50—Reuse, recycling or recovery technologies
  • Y02W30/80—Packaging reuse or recycling, e.g. of multilayer packaging

Definitions

• the invention relates to a reusable container made of thermoplastic material, with at least one filling and removal opening in the top floor or container lid and with an upper and a lower circumferential stacking ring.
• a similar plastic container is known for example from DE-A 26 29 630.
• This known container with an extruded thin-walled side wall has a comparatively poor stacking capacity, can only be insufficiently emptied and is not suitable for multiple use.
• the upper stacking ring has a slightly larger diameter than the lower stacking ring, and in that the upper stacking ring on the inside has an indentation adapted to the diameter of the lower stacking ring on the inside and an upstanding flange ring on the outside such that when stacked one on top of the other, the lower stacking ring of the upper container is set into the indentation of the upper stacking ring and is positively centered from the outside by the upstanding flange ring, safe multiple stacking of containers according to the invention is made possible while avoiding stacking pallets.
• the larger diameter of the upper stacking ring also allows better handling and manipulation of such filled containers. Further advantageous design variants of the present invention are contained in the subclaims.
• the container according to the invention in particular also for comparatively dangerous liquids such.
• B. pesticides (herbicides, pesticides) are well suited and reusable.
• the container wall is multi-layered and consists of at least two or more different plastic materials (CoExtrusion)
• the container has a limited capacity of approximately 70 liters and is equipped with at least two handles in the top stacking ring, so that the container is still by hand is manipulable or portable, in a single interchangeable blow mold according to the invention by inserting ring pieces of different heights in the fully cylindrical region of the container body, containers of different heights (with the same diameter, top and bottom) with a capacity of e.g.
• B. 25 I, 30 I, 50 I, 60 I or 70 I can be made by providing appropriate openings (z. B. holes) in the connecting web of the lower stabilizing ring above the angled foot ring, the possibility of mutual fixing of the lower foot ring of a stacked container with the upper stacking ring of a stacked container is given, with appropriate fasteners (such as wire clips or plastic cable ties) can be passed through an opening and a handle opening, at least two containers next to each other are aligned so that their Handle openings lie in alignment so that an elongated fastening means (such as a tensioning strap or a wooden slat or a board) can be inserted through the handle openings, and the containers can be fixed against one another, to increase the stacking security during storage and transport a pallet opened stacked containers can be fixed against each other and / or on the pallet itself by means of fasteners inserted through the handle openings in the upper stacking ring and / or through the openings in the lower footring.
• the new blow mold for producing a reusable container according to the invention is characterized in particular by the fact that an insert is provided in each of the two blow mold halves, by means of which the handle openings arranged in the upper stacking ring are punched out.
• the blow mold is also designed as an interchangeable blow mold, the blow mold halves being horizontally divided in the fully cylindrical part for the central region of the container, so that different container sizes with the same diameter, but with, can be easily replaced by appropriate replacement and insertion of a respective ring piece different heights can be produced.
• By inserting a respective middle ring piece in a single blow mold different container sizes with a filling volume of 25 to 70 liters can be produced.
• FIG. 1 shows a 50 l sheet container according to the invention in a perspective view
• FIG. 2 shows the reusable container according to FIG. 1 in a partial sectional side view with a micromatic pump tube inserted
• FIG. 3 shows a bottom view of the reusable container according to FIG. Fig. 1
• FIG. 4 shows a screw cap container according to the invention in perspective view
• FIG. 5 shows a 60 I screw cap container in a partial sectional side view
• FIG. 6 shows a 25 i reusable container in side view
• Figure 7 is a plan view of the screw cap container acc. Fig. 4,
• FIG. 8 shows a plan view of a rectangular multi-way container
• FIG. 9 shows a partial section side view of the head and foot region of two stackable reusable containers
• FIG. 10 shows a partial section of the upper stacking ring with a handle opening
• FIG. 11 shows a partial section side view of the head and foot region of two stacked reusable containers with mutual stacking fixation
• FIG. 12 shows a partial sectional side view of the head and foot area of stacked reusable containers with different stacking fixtures
• FIG. 13 shows a top view of a pallet with nine reusable containers
• FIG. 14 shows a side view of palletized reusable containers
• FIG. 15 shows a top view on a container with a square basic shape
• Figure 16 is a plan view of a container with a hexagonal basic shape
• Figure 18 in partial section side view of the head region of a lid container.
• On the upper edge of the barrel there is an integral circumferential stacking ring 12 (carrying and transport ring) which is integrally connected to the container body and has two diametrically opposed the handle openings 14 attached.
• a corresponding base ring 16 is formed on the lower edge of the container body.
• two opposing 2-inch bung sockets with an internal thread, which are closed with bung plugs 18, are formed.
• FIG. 2 an inserted pump tube 62 (micromatic tube) can be seen which stands below the bung in the pump sump 66 formed there on the underbody 64. From the top view of the underbody 64 in FIG. 3 it is clear that in the area of the pump sump 66 four centering cams 68 projecting inwards are formed, which center the lower end of the pump tube 62 or position it in the pump sump.
• the upstanding threaded connector can be designed as a 2-inch or 3-inch bung with an internal thread and closed with a corresponding bung plug with an external thread, or the threaded connector is provided with an external thread and is closed with a screw cap with an internal thread.
• the diameter can be approx. 80 mm (for screw cap K 80) to approx. 400 mm for large screw caps. Common diameter sizes of 150 mm, 220 mm or 250 mm are particularly preferred.
• the reusable container can be made of transparent plastic material (without color additive) or, in the case of colored plastic material, with a viewing strip 72; then a fill level scale is expediently provided on the outer wall of the container. If necessary, two outwardly projecting circumferential rolling rings can be provided in the transition area between the cylindrical wall and the arched wall areas.
• Figure 6 shows a small 25 liter reusable container with an H / D ratio of 0.97.
• Figure 7 shows a top view of a screw cap barrel 22 with a central filling and emptying opening for the large screw cap 24, whereby the upper stacking ring 12 in the area of the right handle opening 14 is shown broken through in a partial sectional view.
• leadership variant of the multi-way container according to the invention shown as a canister version 26 with an upper L-ring-shaped stacking ring 12.
• This canister version 26 (L-ring jerrican) has an essentially rectangular basic shape, the handle openings 14 in the upper stacking ring 12 being arranged on the two opposite longer side walls, and the filling and emptying opening closed with the screw cap 28 on the outer edge of the upper floor 20 is arranged on one of the two shorter side walls in between.
• the upper stacking ring 12 is not designed to run all the way round, but instead has an interruption or cutout 30 in front of the filling and emptying opening for unhindered pouring out of the liquid filling material. If a large filling and emptying opening is arranged centrally, the upper stacking ring is also designed to run continuously.
• FIG. 9 shows a detail in a partial sectional view of the corner areas of two containers stacked one on top of the other.
• the upper container stands with its base ring 16 with the downward-facing horizontal support surface 50 of its foot ring 48 on the horizontal, upward-facing support surface 36 of the bend 32 of the upper stacking ring 12 of the lower container.
• the upstanding flange edge 38 is not loaded in the axial direction (no leverage).
• the container wall 40 is formed below the connection point 42 of the connecting web 44 of the upper stacking ring as well as above the connecting point of the connecting web 46 of the lower standing ring 16 over a height of approximately 100 mm up to the cylindrical barrel body region with a slightly inclined or curved shape.
• the largest angle of inclination is about 15 ° to 20 °.
• the connecting web 44 of the upper stacking ring 12 (angle of inclination approx. 5 ° -8 °) and the connecting web 46 of the lower stabilizing ring 16 are also slightly inclined to the outside.
• the upper edge or the bend 32 of the upper stacking ring is comparatively thick, ie solid, to increase the radial rigidity.
• a broad, substantially horizontal or slightly inclined contact surface 34 is formed for the lower claw of a gripper gripper.
• the upper claw of the gripper pliers comes to rest on the inside of the bend 32 as a counter bearing in the extension of the connecting web 44.
• the partial view in FIG. 10 shows a handle opening 14 in the stacking ring 12.
• the containers are preferably produced in one piece using the blow molding process in one blow in a blow mold with two mold slides for upsetting the two rotating stacking rings, the handle openings in the upper stacking ring being simultaneously in the blow mold by means of two circumferential punch rings are punched out.
• FIG. 1 a way of securing the container of the invention is shown.
• a plurality of openings 52 are provided which are equally spaced from one another.
• This can e.g. B. be simple holes. But it can also be transverse slots that are already impressed during the blow molding process when upsetting the foot ring 48.
• a fastener such.
• B. a binding wire or - as drawn here - a cable tie 54 can be pulled, by means of which the two stacked containers can be firmly fixed against each other. The cable tie is simply pinched to remove the fixation.
• FIG. 12 shows a further possibility of securing the transport by means of a wooden slat 56 inserted through the aligned handle openings as fastening means for containers according to the invention.
• the top view in FIG. 13 illustrates this type of fastening of containers standing next to one another on a base pallet 58.
• 3 ⁇ 3 ⁇ 3 27 pieces of containers 10 stacked on a base pallet 58 are shown in triple direct stacking (without additional intermediate pallets), which serve to increase the height the stack security, especially against vibrations from transporters z.
• B. by means of vertically through the handle openings in the upper stacking ring and below the pallet deck as well as by means of horizontally running, the container wrapping tensioning straps 60 against each other and fixed on the pallet 58 itself.
• the multi-way containers according to the invention can also have an approximately rectangular or square or hexagonal basic shape with a round stacking and standing ring in the container body.
• a rectangular container 74 is shown in FIG. 15 and a hexagonal container 76 is shown in FIG.
• the rounded corner areas can also have a larger radius or a larger curve.
• a special portrait format container 78 with a capacity of approximately 70 liters is shown in FIG.
• the vertical format container 78 is equipped with a filler and emptying nozzle 80 (diameter 80 mm) with an external thread for a K 80 screw cap.
• the opening connector 80 could also be arranged centrally in the top floor.
• FIG. 1 A special design of a container according to the invention in the form of a cover barrel 82 is shown in detail in FIG.
• the removable cover 84 is equipped with the stacking ring 12 (and handle opening 14) and at least one side bung 86.
• the cover 84 has a U-shaped cover flange edge 88 which is open at the bottom and into which a sealing ring 90 is inserted or foamed.
• the lid flange 88 lies on a jacket flange 92 at the upper mouth of the barrel body. Cover flange 88 and jacket flange 92 are held together in a gas-tight and liquid-tight manner by a clamping ring 94 in the closed state.
• This lid barrel 82 is particularly suitable for multiple use of viscous or granular filling goods. Larger containers can also have a larger capacity of z. B. 100 I, 120 I, 150 I, 200 L or 220 I have. However, these containers can no longer be manipulated by hand in the filled state, but are preferably to be handled by means of a pallet truck or forklift truck with appropriate barrel gripper tools (parrot beak). The described features can easily be exchanged or / and combined with one another. Related digit list
• Screw cap 88 rim flange
• Container wall (10/22/26)

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