DE7503830U - Bottle crate and bottle carrier - Google Patents

Description

ADDRESS FOR SERVICE: 20OO HAMBURG 36 NEW AVALL 41 PLEASE REPLY TO: TELEPHONE (04O) 3Q 74 28 AND 36 411S TBL] JQH. NEGEDAPATENT BAMBURQ

2000 Hamburg 1 ^{TELEPHONE (08e) ö 38 OB 8e}

TELBGR. NEGBDAFATBNT MUNICH

Spitalerstr. 11th

Hamburg. February 6, 1975

Lawyer files: 26 113 - 19

Bottle crate and bottle carrier

The innovation relates to a bottle crate with individual compartments for holding individual bottles and one with the Bottle crate combinable bottle carrier made of cardboard, plastic or similar material to hold a fraction the number that can be accommodated in the bottle crate.

Especially for beer v / ground with the help of bottle carriers made of suitable material, such as cards, plastic film or strips, zv / ei, four or six bottles are made and especially offered in this form for sale in shops. This is based on the consideration that, for reasons of transport, the customer often only receives a limited number wishes to take away from bottles. Otherwise, however, bottle crates are used for the storage and transport of beverage bottles Made of plastic, wood, sheet metal or other material used, plastic material has essentially prevailed.

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Beverage bottles that are packaged in units are usually in turn packed and transported in cardboard boxes. For the producer of beverages, such as breweries, however, it would be mean a considerable reduction in workload and a considerable reduction in the cost of transport if the bottle container could be packed and transported in the usual bottle crates. However, this is the case with conventional bottle crates and Bottle carriers not the case. The individual compartments for inclusion the bottles in bottle crates are separated by a longitudinal and Lattice formed by transverse webs is limited, so that a box height is required when the beverage bottle container is inserted into a box which goes beyond the normal height by the amount corresponding to the distance between the top of the grille and the bottom of the box. So that bottle packs can also be packed in bottle crates It is therefore necessary to have their walls correspondingly higher to pull. However, higher bottle crate walls mean more transport volume, so that this solution is hardly useful in practice It comes into consideration, although the combination of known bottle crates used with known bottle carriers in individual cases will.

The innovation is based on the task of creating a bottle crate and a bottle carrier that can be combined with it, which does not lead to an increase in the transport volume of conventional bottle crates,

j This task is solved in that the compartments of individual,

upright projections arranged on the box floor to a limited extent

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and do ^r Cor rodon ' ¹ ^ s'"" I ore' -or tr ' ^v frn rit ".ur.nrhr-unqcn vernn! icn is, flor" η Γ' -ton «·" οι iVr "orr ^ r ^ r. ^ e urd whose '"" rcßc rin.lestons the. "ucrschr.it-1 dor Vorrr-rüno-c corresponds.

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In one embodiment of the innovation is vergesehen that me least a P.eihe equally spaced projections arn caste floor is arranged so that the projections each zwisci four adjacent bottles of two parallel rows of bottles, and in that the recesses in the bottom of the bottle carrier sized] accordingly and so are arranged so that they come to lie between the bottles that have been picked up. This Ausgestc is particularly suitable for bottle carriers in which the I are arranged in two rows to form a container.

The design of the projections can suit the respective situation entities are adjusted. Their height and outline must only: ensure the same or similar function as the b: usual longitudinal and transverse webs of conventional bottle crates, each individual shelf a separate compartment if possible] to prevent the bottle from being damaged by knocking it against the other during transport. In this : In context, a further embodiment of the innovation vi sees that the projections are shaped like a spike. Your height will expediently chosen so that it is at least a third of the height of a box.

A further embodiment in this context provides that the projections have a circular cross-section. At di Design of a projection or mandrel finds a line between the mandrel and the respective bottle. This is also the case with square compartments in conventional bottles boxes the case. In an alternative to this, the Neu

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suggests that the projections are shaped longitudinally with fillets are whose rounding is adapted to that of a bottle. In this embodiment there is no longer any line contact, but a surface contact, which improves the safe reception of a bottle. The projections are expediently tapered slightly upwards to make it easier to insert a bottle. At the same time, this simplifies the shaping of a mandrel, when the bottle crate is molded from plastic material is.

The inner walls of the bottle crate expediently define the limits for the outer rows of compartments. However, in order to obtain sufficient delimitation, in particular for the corner compartments, a further embodiment of the innovation provides that lateral projections are arranged on the inside of the box. The side projections prevent a bottle from slipping out, for example in a corner compartment. The lateral projections only need to extend over a limited length in the vertical direction. However, they can expediently also be shaped as a symmetrical half of the projections otherwise used, the plane of symmetry coinciding with the inner wall,

Another embodiment of the innovation looks in this context suggests that the side projections are each aligned with a row of the other projections and that the bottom of the Bottle carrier is additionally provided with incisions on the free sides for the purpose of receiving a lateral projection on the

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Inner wall of the box or part of another protrusion.

As mentioned at the beginning, it must be ensured for the recesses in the Eoden of the bottle carrier that a projection is passed through can be. In the case of spike-like projections with a circular or also a different cross-section, the recesses are expedient rectangular or square.

Another embodiment of the innovation provides that the projections a row that runs parallel to a second row, are arranged on a gap to the projections of the second row and the bottle carrier laterally on the projections of a row is applied. In this embodiment, two abut each other Bottle carriers arranged in the box are not directly adjacent to one another, but from opposite sides against the projections of the second row. With the help of the projections of the second row, an adaptation can accordingly be made with given bottle dimensions to predetermined dimensions of the bottle crate can be achieved by making the projections more or less wide.

One embodiment of the innovation is to be used below with reference to Describe drawings in more detail.

Fig. 1 shows in perspective a bottle carrier with six recorded Bottles viewed from the bottom.

FIG. 2 shows the top view of a bottle crate with an inserted bottle carrier according to FIG. 1.

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FIG. 3 shows a section through the arrangement according to FIG. 2 along the line 3-3

The bottle carrier 10 shown in FIG. 1 is folded from a one-piece blank made of cardboard material, the symmetrical fold line running on the upper edge, not shown, of the upper handle 11. The carrier 10 is closed at its bottom in that a flap 13 folded over it is connected to the section below by means of suitable closure means known per se and not shown here in detail. The bottle carrier 10 takes six beer bottles 1 ^ in two rows. This is done by placing or folding the bottle carrier around the six bottles provided and then closing it. The bottle necks partially protrude laterally and outwardly through corresponding recesses 15 in the upper section of the bottle carrier, while the bottle base protrudes a little through recesses 16 in the area of the carrier base 12 and is thus held against lateral displacement to the outside.

Two square recesses or openings 16 are provided in the support base 12, each of which is arranged below the free space between four adjacent bottles Ik . In addition, the carrier base 12 has triangular incisions 17 on the free sides, which are arranged below the intermediate space, which is gusset-shaped in cross-section, between two opposite bottles. The size of the patties; - · »of the incisions 17 corresponds to one

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diagonally divided half of the openings 16.

As mentioned at the beginning, it is neither the material nor the special Design of the bottle carrier 10 for the innovation of particular importance) with the exception of the design of the Bottle bottom. Therefore, for example, bottle carriers can also be provided in which the bottle necks freely pass through the Straps protrude on both sides of a middle handle,

In Fig. 2, a beer crate 18 is shown in plan view for receiving twenty-four bottles lh. In contrast to conventional bottle crates, the individual compartments for the bottles lk are not formed by longitudinal and transverse webs, but by first and second spike-like projections 19, 20. In the present case, two rows of spike-like projections 19 are provided, which together with the corresponding inner walls of the Box 18 form twelve bottle compartments. The bottles ik in these compartments each lie in line contact once on the inner wall of the box and twice on corresponding projections 19. The projections 19 therefore form a system for four adjacent bottles 1 * 4 ·. On the narrow sides, the box walls also have four lateral projections 21 which extend over the same height as the projections 19 and are also aligned with them. These form an additional compartment delimitation for the bottles in the corner compartments of the case 18. While the spike-like projections 19 have a circular cross-section, the projections 20, which are arranged with gaps in relation to the former, are ellipsoidal in cross-section. Their width determines the distance between the two middle ones

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Rows of bottles, so that bottles of predetermined dimensions with boxes of predetermined external dimensions by varying their width can be combined.

The Iß beer crate shown in FIG. 2 is able to accommodate four containers as shown in FIG. In Fig. 2, the use of the bottle carrier 10 is shown simply. As can be seen, two spikes 19 are received by the recesses 16 in the bottom of the carrier 10 and protrude into the space between four adjacent bottles 1h. A lateral projection 21 is received by the lateral incision 17, while on the opposite side half of a mandrel is inserted into the incision 17 19 ₀ The other half would be received by a corresponding recess of a second bottle carrier used. It can be seen that it is expedient to form the incisions 21 as a symmetrical half of a spike-like projection 19.

The fact that between the individual before jumps 119, 20 and Free spaces are created, a bottle carrier 10 can when used in the box 18 down to the bottom be lowered. It therefore makes no difference for the transport volume whether the box 18 has twenty-four bottles individually or in the form of containers, e.g. consisting of six bottles, takes up

The lateral delimitation lines 22 of the bottle carrier are shown protruding somewhat. The from carrier 10 to »

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The bottles taken or the outer wall of the carrier 10, however, rest against the projections 10. The projections 20 protrude not into the bottle carrier, as could perhaps be deduced from the illustration alone. Basically it would be However, it is also conceivable to design the bottle carrier so that the projections 20 also from corresponding recesses of the Bottle carrier are included.

The shape of the projections 19 and 21 can be seen in FIG. 3. The projections 19 », which have a circular cross-section, taper conically upwards and are slightly rounded at the end to make it easier to insert the bottles and the containers to ensure. The same is true of the design of the lateral projections 21, which are formed as half-split, mandrel-like projections on the inner wall of the box 18. When using plastic material for the box 18, the spike-like projections 19 are expediently hollow. At this point, however, we will not go into the details of the structural design. Furthermore As already mentioned above, other shapes can also be used for the projections.

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Claims (1)

1. Bottle crate with individual compartments to accommodate individual bottles and a bottle carrier made of cardboard, plastic or which can be combined with the bottle crate The same material for receiving a fraction of the number that can be received by the bottle crate, characterized in that that the compartments of individual, arranged on the box bottom, upright projections (19 »20 and 21) are limited and that the bottom (12) of the bottle rack (1O) is provided with recesses (i6, 17), the distance between them that of the projections (19-21) and whose size corresponds at least to the cross section of the projections. 2. Bottle crate with bottle carrier according to claim 1, characterized characterized in that at least one row is equally spaced he projections (19) is arranged on the box bottom so that the projections (19) each between four adjacent Bottles (i * l ·) of two parallel rows of bottles lie and that the recesses (16, 17) of the bottle carrier appropriately sized and arranged so that they are between four bottles (1 * 0 to come lying down 3. bottle crate with bottle carrier according to claim 2, characterized characterized that the outside of the outer fan : rows of the box (18) is limited by the inner wall. H. Bottle crate with bottle carrier according to claim 1 or 2, - 12 - 7503830 07/10/75 characterized in that on the inside of the box (18) aeltllohe protrusions (21) are arranged. 5 «bottle crate with bottle carrier according to claim 2 and k, characterized in that the lateral projections (21) are each aligned with a row of the other projections (19) and that the bottom (12) of the bottle carrier (10) is additionally is provided with notches (17) for the purpose of receiving a lateral projection (21) on the inside wall of the box or part of another projection (19) 6. Bottle crate with bottle carrier according to one of claims 2 to 5 »characterized in that the projections (19) a row which runs parallel to a second row, spaced apart from the projections (20) of the second row and the bottle carrier (1O) rests laterally against the projections (20) of a row. 7. Bottle crate with bottle carrier according to one of the claims 1 to 6, characterized in that the height of the projections (19-21) is at least one third of the height of a box (18) is. 8. Bottle crate with bottle carrier according to one of the claims 1 to 7, characterized in that the projections (19 »20) are shaped like a mandrel ₀ 9. bottle crate with bottle carrier according to claim 8, characterized - 13 - 7503830 07/10/75 characterized in that the projections (19) have a circular cross-section 10. Bottle crate with bottle carrier according to claim 8, characterized in that characterized in that the projections are formed in the longitudinal direction with fillets, the roundness of which is that of one Bottle is adapted. 11. Bottle crate with bottle carrier according to one of the claims 7 to 9 »characterized in that the recesses (i6) in the bottom (12) of the bottle carrier (10) square, preferably are square. 12. Bottle crate with bottle carrier according to one of claims 1 to 11, characterized in that the bottle carrier (1O) receives bottles (lh) in parallel rows in a manner known per se and that the recesses (i6) in the bottle carrier base (12) each remain free Area between four adjacent bottles (i * l ·) are arranged and that the bottom (12) of the bottle carrier (10) has incisions (17) on the free side, which are arranged in the gusset formed by two opposite bottles. 13. Bottle crate with bottle carrier according to one of Claims 1 to 12, characterized in that the bottle carrier (1O) in on. as is known, has an upper handle (11) which can be folded over to the side. " 7503830 07/10/75