WO2001087718A2

WO2001087718A2 - Reinforced reticulated bucket

Info

Publication number: WO2001087718A2
Application number: PCT/MX2001/000026
Authority: WO
Inventors: Ramón PEREZ NIETO
Original assignee: Envases De Plastico Zapata, S.A. De C.V.
Priority date: 2000-05-16
Filing date: 2001-05-16
Publication date: 2001-11-22
Also published as: SV2002000445A; PE20011343A1; GT200100085A; MXPA00004782A; AU2001258917A1; WO2001087718A3

Abstract

The invention relates to a bucket comprising a reticle on its inner wall, said reticle having a geometric figure in the form of a row of vertical rhombuses which is produced by diagonal ribs in opposite directions, wherein said ribs serve as reinforcement for lateral stress and compression, in addition to at least one horizontal reinforcement on the same inner wall of the bucket, which segments the row of rhombuses dividing them in such a way as to from successive triangles placed in a conventional or inverted position with the purpose of making the bucket more resistant.

Description

REINFORCED REINFORCED CUBET FIELD OF THE INVENTION

The present invention is closely related to the field of construction, very useful in industry, the field, agriculture, decoration, at home, and in many other activities, and specifically it is a bucket of special characteristics for save, stow, and store a variety of materials, which is specially designed with additional horizontal ribs to the cross-linked form of original ribs arranged diagonally mentioned in my previous application number 982203, in a plurality of directions forming a series of alternating diamonds, along the entire vertical wall of the body of the cuvette, thereby increasing its resistance to lateral and compression stresses, and improving its ability to support the weight of other cuvettes stacked on it.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

Over the years buckets of various types have been manufactured, with various models and materials, having initially used buckets made of wood that presented the inconvenience of needing to be held by metal rings which tended to rust and the wood to decompose, and by Moreover, its stacking was not appropriate because it was not designed for this purpose. Also in the past, metal cuvettes were used that presented the previous defects, in addition to their greater weight and cost, - and plastic buckets with designs and protective elements are currently manufactured to try to solve the above problems, but the tendency is to incorporate more efficient designs, to save material, time and work, to give the cuvette greater resistance to bad treatment in its operability However, as one of the most delicate parts of a cuvette is its walls, which during its handling are continuously damaged, cracked or broken, which is why the vital need to make these walls so that their design provides greater resistance, so that the user does not have to be frequently suffering from its fragility, but without increasing its thickness, which would imply greater weight and therefore greater cost for the user. Among the most recent priorities in which a cuvette that approximates that of my invention is detailed, is the Mexican patent application number 982203 entitled "Bucket with an improvement in its rigidity and resistance to lateral and compression stresses" dated March 20, 1998, of πu property. But in both there is a big difference since in the original cuvette only diagonal ribs appeared, while in this new cuvette, horizontal reinforcements are incorporated, which provides greater resistance to both the lid and the bucket container during handling , transport, and stacking, which will become apparent in the course of the description.

Also, as detailed in my aforementioned patent, there are other problems that daily occur to those who handle a small class of buckets, such as: when handling or stacking several buckets, since they cannot be handled by their handles, have to maneuver through its walls, and if they do not have enough firmness, their walls crack, or they slip from their hands because they do not have enough grip ribs, which results in poor functioning and sometimes even dangerous hazards for the user, as there have been cases in which when diving, the buckets can crash into the floor and cause dangerous accidents. Therefore, a much more resistant functional cuvette should be sought than those existing in the market, taking into account the avoidance of falling into the aforementioned faults, which is the case of the present invention, in which the mechanical characteristics of effectiveness are preserved in the elaboration of the ribs of the walls, but the way to reinforce them has been substantially improved, achieving with this an enormous capacity of resistance never before achieved, - especially when comparing it with my previous patent application - which is a Powerful motive to protect my new bucket, which has been studied in a professional way the optimization of the reinforcements to its walls, taking into account the safety, and durability, for the economic benefit of the user. Although in my previous patent application mention is made of the manufacture of a cuvette with a highly effective improvement in stiffness, it is necessary to refer to it

^• to understand the true scope of the present invention with regard to a new, much more resistant cuvette, but at the same time as reliable as the previous one.

Indeed, in the Mexican patent application number 982203, there is basically talk of a cuvette resistant to lateral and compression stresses whose internal wall has a series of diagonal ribs in two or more directions, describing an angle to each other, forming a grid by most of the surface of the wall, which extends from the bottom of the cuvette to the height of a peripheral edge, where the thickness of the ribs is greater than the rest of the cuvette wall.

On the other hand in the present invention only reinforcements are used in not only diagonal ribs, but also horizontally which also when integrated properly function as a single cross-linked rib something similar to those cited in my previous patent application number 982203, everything else being similar to that described in said application. This, although at a glance light modification to the original design of my previous application, is not obvious to those skilled in the art, but is designed in a technical way applying parameters of Physics, Mechanics, and the concepts of Resistance of Materials, which results in an outstanding reinforcement in stiffness and in the final resistance to lateral and compression stresses in the cuvette wall, especially when comparing them between the previous and the present cuvette, which represents a remarkable improvement to what is specified in said patent application.

The outstanding fact of only using a combination of diagonal and horizontal ribs, strengthens the body of the cuvette, giving it greater strength, durability, and safety, compared to my previous cuvette, is more than enough reason to request the protection of my invention, based on the fact that it is an operation of improvements to a product, where better results of resistance, rigidity, and durability are obtained, which is an advantage for the user and a large propaganda motive for competing with other manufacturers in the market.

OBJECTIVES AND ADVANTAGES OF THE INVENTION

Below are the objectives and advantages offered by my reinforced reticulated cuvette over other similar cuvettes that currently exist in the market, where the benefits of my invention are highlighted, emphasizing that although materials and techniques are commonly used in its manufacture known, is the ingenious disposition of the widely studied professional design of its ribs and how to distribute them, which are not obvious, which helps to obtain a reticulated, efficient, reinforced, durable and novel cuvette.

Therefore, the main objective of the present invention is to provide a bucket, other than those known, intended for rough work, which is more. resistant and economical both in its manufacture and in its. operability and that works better than other similar cuvettes. Another objective of the present invention is to provide a reinforced cuvette that, while efficiently storing products, prevents inopportune sliding during transport or storage, adding to the body of the bucket a series of structural elements that improve the design of walls giving it greater resistance, to reinforce its ability to resist lateral and compression stresses, and to support the weight of other cuvettes on it, with a more efficient structural support that provides additional resistance to the walls, by means of a special type with design of alternating diamonds in diagonal rows and spaced horizontal reinforcement.

One more of the objectives of my invention is to provide the greatest operational safety for the user, providing a cuvette that can be handled more reliably due to its resistance.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

The characteristic details of this reinforced reticulated cuvette are clearly shown in the following description, as well as in the accompanying drawings, as a more accurate means of illustrating my invention and where the reference numbers will serve to illustrate the same parts in the indicated figures, and where: Figure number 1 is a front sectional view of the reinforced reticulated cuvette of my invention where its design of ribbed ribbons alternated in diagonal rows with novel horizontal reinforcements is observed by the cuvette wall.

Figure number 2 is a cross-sectional view of the reinforced cross-linked cuvette shown in Figure number 1.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

To significantly note the scope of the present invention, it is necessary to refer to the detailed description of my previous patent application number 982203 of March 20, 1998, to then assess the novel part of the present, incorporated into my previous bucket, by or in a preferred embodiment, but in no way limiting, and taking as reference base the numbers of the aforementioned figures, the reinforced reticulated cuvette (10) made from a resistant plastic material of my present invention, consists of a container that generally presents the traditional shape of an elongated cylinder with a slight chronicity, which begins at the top and gradually decreases its diameter until it reaches the bottom (3), from where a Terminal Edge begins ( 11) with a slight inclination that projects towards the center. This terminal edge (11), is practically the support area of the cuvette (10), and also where it engages and surrounds the lid (not shown), of another lower cuvette of the same type, preventing its sliding, when performs the stacking of cuvettes. The design of the base and the lid of the cuvette (10) should be such that when stacking closed cuvettes, the weight of the upper cuvette causes its base to embed freely on the lid of the lower cuvette, thus preventing the cuvettes from sliding and falling.

In the upper part, the cuvette (10) has a lip

(12), as a kind of projection, with a diameter slightly larger than the internal diameter of said bucket (10).

This lip (12) is divided into two parts

(13,14) through a lateral channel (15) of low depth, and that is where the bottom of the cuvette initially penetrates and is intended to engage tightly with the lid (not shown) of the cuvette (10) to keep it tightly closed, the lid also having a series of vertical openings throughout its periphery.

In order to provide greater rigidity and resistance, the cuvette (10) has a series of peripheral edges (16,17,18) parallel and horizontally arranged, with diameters greater than the internal diameter of the cuvette

(10) and that of the lip (12), the first peripheral edge (16) being located closer to the lip (12), while the peripheral edges. (17, 18) are integrated into two lateral headlands (19) in the form of diametrically opposed trapezoids. The diameter of the peripheral edge

(17) is almost equal to that of the peripheral edge (16) while that of the peripheral edge (18) is slightly larger, giving the lateral headlands (19) a slightly inclined surface (20) with respect to the wall (24) of the bucket (10). Likewise, each lateral promontory (19) has a perforation (21) through which the ends of a thick arc-shaped wire (22) are inserted, and a cylindrical handle (23) in the middle of said wire (22), thus operating the entire assembly, as a handle to facilitate transport and operability of the bucket (10).

As can be seen in figure 2, the inner wall

(24) of the cuvette (10), is provided with a series of • ribs (25) arranged parallel and diagonally in two opposite directions - being able to be optionally in more than two directions - forming an angle to each other, which gives rise to a grid formed by rhombuses along virtually the entire surface of the inner wall (24) of the cuvette (10), from the bottom of it, up to the height of where the peripheral edge (17) is located on the outside (See figure 1).

^• As can be seen in Figure 2, the ribs

(25) are of a thickness greater than the thickness of the rest of the wall (24) of the cuvette (10). The angle and arrangement of the ribs (25) in conjunction with the peripheral edges

(16, 17 and 18), provide greater rigidity and resistance, as they distribute lateral and compression tensions more efficiently by opposing greater resistance. On the other hand, the fact of having said ribs (25) avoids the need to thicken the cuvette walls, thereby reducing the manufacturing cost considerably.

The novel feature of the present invention and which advantageously departs from my previous patent application number 982203, lies in the incorporation of at least one horizontal reinforcement (26) located, in the inner wall of the cuvette (10) and which intercepts half to a plurality of consecutive rhombuses formed by the grid of diagonal ribs (25). Even when at first glance, one might think that the previous incorporation of horizontal reinforcements (26) is something obvious to an expert in the field, this is not so, because any expert would think that adding more components - that is, more plastic ' - to a bucket, it would only cause greater consumption of material, which would result in a greater weight to the bucket, and therefore higher cost of it. However, the minimum arrangement of the horizontal reinforcements (26) in the inner wall of the cuvette (10) causes that when the tensions are applied in that instead, they are absorbed in their entirety, and less effort is made in those areas, thus favoring a better execution as regards the resistance of the cuvette wall (10). The set formed by the horizontal reinforcements (26) and the diagonal ribs (25), give rise to a kind of fret formed by a series of geometric figures, which in this modality, resemble a row of vertically arranged complete rhombuses, formed by the diagonal ribs (25), and where the horizontal reinforcements (26) segment another kind of rhombus in an upper or lower row annexed to the first, forming a row of consecutive triangles in the vertical position (26) in a vertical position (27), and at the bottom, a row of consecutive triangles, but in an inverted position (28), all this in order to provide greater resistance to the walls of the cuvette (10).

Although the invention has been shown and described in relation to only one specific modality thereof, it should be understood by those skilled in the art that changes can be made therein, and equivalent elements can be substituted by those indicated herein, which will fall within the spirit and scope of the invention, such as: in the geometry of the cuvette or of the material used, etc., as indicated in the following claims:

Claims

CLAIMS Having described the invention, it is considered a novelty and therefore, it is claimed as' exclusive property, what is contained in the following clauses:

1. A reinforced cross-linked cuvette made from a plastic material, of improved strength, a. lateral and compression tensions, formed by: an inverted conical shaped container having an upper lip divided into two portions by a shallow channel, where it is coupled to a lid; by the outer wall of the container, 'a series of parallel spaced peripheral edges of external diameter, slightly larger than the inner diameter of the container itself, where the first edge is closer to the upper lip, and the second and third peripheral edges are integrated to two diametrically opposite lateral promontories presenting a perforation where a wire and a cylindrical handle is inserted in a handle manner; and a series of ribs in the cuvette wall that extend from the bottom thereof, to at least the height where the second peripheral edge is located, where the ribs are arranged diagonally separated in opposite directions, causing a angle between them, and forming a uniform grid with a rhombus shape on most of the surface of the inner wall of the cuvette; characterized in that at least one horizontal reinforcement located in the inner wall of the cuvette is incorporated between the diamond grid, which halves a plurality of consecutive rhombuses formed by the diagonal ribs, and that the minimum arrangement of the reinforcements is horizontal in the inner wall of the cuvette causes that when the tensions are applied in that place, they are absorbed in their entirety, and less effort is made in those areas, thus favoring a better execution as regards the resistance of the cuvette wall, and in that the set formed by the diagonal ribs that give rise to a first row of vertically arranged complete rhombuses, and the horizontal reinforcements segment another series of rhombuses in a top row or lower, annexed to the First, forming consecutive triangles in the vertical reinforcement in the vertical position, and in the lower part, consecutive triangles in the inverted position.

2. A reinforced reticulated cuvette in accordance with the claim in clause 1, where the horizontal reinforcements are only two, which are distributed separately along the cuvette wall and are located by cutting a row of rhombuses in half horizontally arranged, but respecting without touching two consecutive rhombuses between the space from the base to the first circular flange of the tray.

3. A reinforced reticulated cuvette in accordance with the claims in any of the preceding clauses, where the horizontal reinforcements and diagonal ribs preferably have the same height.