WO2005048779A1 - Bottle rack - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention relates to a bottle rack (11) comprising a wall (13) and cavities (17) for receiving the neck of a bottle that run through said wall and have two opposing edges (26, 27). When the wall (13) is upright, the edges (26, 27) of said cavities comprise a region (33) of a first cavity edge (27) that slopes downwards and a region (31) of the other cavity edge (26) that slopes upwards. Said regions (31, 33) are placed at a maximum distance of 6 cm from one another in the vertical direction and in the axial direction of the cavity (17) at a minimum distance of 2 cm and a maximum distance of 8 cm from one another. The fact that the grid dimensions of the cavities are smaller in a first direction than in a second direction and that the rack therefore must be filled from both sides (11), enables the bottles to be tightly packed.

Description

 bottle rack

The invention relates to a rack for storing bottles for drinks, in particular a wine bottle rack.

Glass bottles, especially wine bottles with 0.7 or 0.75 liter content, 1 liter content or larger, have a bottle belly and an elongated bottle neck. The bottle neck is closed with a cork, a crown cork or a screw cap. In the area of this closure and the pouring rim of the bottle neck, the neck generally has a larger outside diameter than between the closure area and the bottle belly. The bottle belly can be cylindrical, conical or approximately spherical in shape. Such bottles are usually provided with a label. The main labels are usually attached to the bottle belly, less often on the bottle neck or at the transition between the bottle belly and the bottle neck.

Many wine racks carry the bottles by means of rods or surface elements in the area of the bottle belly. The bottle is lying down and supported under its focus. This has the disadvantage that the labels are usually insufficiently visible when the bottle is stored in the frame. To view the label, pull the bottle out of the rack. Such racks are suitable for bottles with a cylindrical bottle belly, but bulbous bottles, conical or larger bottles cannot be stored in such racks, or only with difficulty.

A bottle rack is known from EP-A-0066 005, which has a front wall and a rear wall made of boards. These two walls are attached at the front and rear to two vertical uprights arranged side by side. Openings are formed in the boards and between the boards of each wall. The openings in the two walls are aligned. The openings in the front wall have a larger diameter than the openings in the rear wall. A bottle neck of a bottle can be inserted from the front wall through the larger opening in the front wall into the narrower opening in the rear wall. The distance between the front wall and the rear wall is chosen such that, in the case of a bottle inserted in this way, the edge of the edge of the bottle head can hook behind the rear upper edge of the rear opening. The openings of a first and a second row above or below can be arranged offset from one another. From the same document, a bottle rack with only one wall on vertical uprights is known. This wall is provided with holes or openings into which bottle necks can be inserted. With this wall, the bottle necks or bottle heads advantageously do not protrude the spars to the rear. The bottles then only hang in one wall.

So that such a wall can be inserted from two sides, it is proposed to arrange two such walls that can be fitted on one side on a pair of spars. To do this, the perforations in the walls must be offset from one another. It is also suggested that a single wall can also be inserted from two sides.

A disadvantage of these double-sided bottle racks is that the number of bottles that can be stored in the wall is not increased when the wall is loaded on both sides. Rather, equipping a simple wall on both sides even requires more space than one-sided equipping.

It is an object of the invention to provide a bottle rack, in which the bottle bellies are as freely accessible as possible, and in which the shape of the

Bottle belly is insignificant for storage and compared to conventional racks a smaller space requirement per bottle is required. Other tasks include good writing on the inventory, simple and appealing construction and design of the bottle rack, and secure mounting of the rack in a room.

The object of the invention is achieved by a bottle rack having the features of claim 1.

Such a frame has a vertical wall and a plurality of holes of the same type penetrating the wall in the wall.

The wall to be set up vertically preferably has a thickness of between 4 and 7 cm.

The length of the bottle neck determines the maximum distance between the points of contact between the bottle neck and the edge of the opening. The weight of the bottle and the load-bearing capacity of the bottle neck determine the minimum distance between them two points of contact. Since the greatest possible security should be sought, the greatest possible distances between the hole edges are preferred.

The holes are arranged in a grid. In this grid, the spacing of the holes is at least in one direction smaller than the largest diameter of a bottle belly of a bottle to be stored therein. This is only useful if you want to insert hashes into the holes from both sides. If the bottles are inserted alternately from one side and the other into the holes in the wall, the holes may have half the grid spacing compared to a rack in which the bottles are only inserted from one side. This results in a very dense arrangement of the bottles because the bottles overlap in the neck area.

This advantage of the small space requirement when the wall is equipped on both sides is surprisingly large. For example, the space required for 216 normal wine bottles is only 58 x 58 x approx. 225 cm, i.e. approx. 0.75 m3. This is achieved by 36 rows of six holes (rectangular grid), which offers space for 18 rows of bottles on each side of the wall. The bottles are arranged in the frame with a space of about 2 cm horizontally and 4 cm vertically and are therefore easily accessible. Each bottle is individually visible, so that bottles from different origins or different vintages can be stored in a row without sacrificing clarity. In comparison, a rack made up of 36 rack stones requires a total of the same number of bottles of 0.94 m3, with 6 bottles in a stone being stacked on top of each other and therefore less accessible.

The holes are advantageously arranged in a rectangular grid. In the case of a rectangular grid, the grid spacings are preferably smaller in the direction of the wall height than in the direction of the wall width. This allows the bottles to be arranged in horizontal rows from both sides. Rows on one side of the wall are each offset by half a row spacing between two rows arranged on the other side of the wall. This favors a clearly assignable labeling of each row. It also allows the rows to have the same number of holes. Such a row is preferably formed by six or twelve holes.

A bottle rack of this type advantageously has a first layer, which has a first surface of the wall, and parallel to the first layer, a second layer, which has a second surface of the wall. The two layers point Holes, which first holes in one layer are arranged opposite the second holes in the other layer. The first holes have the first hole edge and the second holes have the second hole edge. The layers are advantageously spaced apart from one another by spacers and held together by connecting parts. For example, pipe pieces or profile pieces can be provided as spacers, screws, carriage bolts or rivets can be provided as connecting parts. In the case of larger walls, a U-profile can be inserted along the edge of the two layers, which is connected or can be connected to the layers.

U profiles are advantageously arranged between the layers along an outer edge of the wall. These can be attached to a floor, a wall or a ceiling. The wall can then be pushed over the U profiles anchored to a room surface and the two layers can be connected to the legs of the U profile. Screws or rivets are suitable as connecting means

In order to form the pressure points on the bottle necks as gently as possible, the perforated edges can advantageously be padded. This is particularly easy to carry out if the two hole edges are in two thin layers which are separated from one another by a space.

A plurality of descriptive plates are advantageously arranged one above the other on a free, vertical edge. These preferably take up half a row spacing in height. This allows the shifted against each other

Rows of bottles arranged on one side and on the other side of the wall are clearly labeled. For this purpose, the labeling plates are expediently aligned with the rows of bottles or the rows of holes.

The inscription panels can preferably be detachably suspended in the wall. This allows the panels to be written on when they are detached from the wall, e.g. by engraving.

The grid dimensions between the holes can advantageously be larger in one area of the wall than in another area of the wall. This allows the storage of bottles with different circumferences. The shape of the holes is advantageously round. However, the shape can also be hexagonal or square. If one corner is directed upwards and one downwards, then a bottle neck lies at the top and bottom at two points of contact on a hole edge. This increases the stability of the position of the bottles in the hole.

The holes are preferably horizontal when the wall is erected. However, the holes can also be slightly inclined. The inclination can be in one direction so that the bottles come to lie horizontally or with the bottle neck down, or in the other direction so that the bottles are more inclined with the bottle neck up.

Even in a top view, the bottles do not necessarily have to be arranged perpendicular to the wall. In a plan view, the holes can therefore also be passed through the wall at an angle deviating from 90 degrees.

The hole can be further formed in a tube piece projecting above the wall, so that the distance between the hole edges is considerably larger than the distance between the wall surfaces.

The layers need not be formed in one piece. They can also be formed, for example, by horizontal slats, which are at a protective distance from one another.

The invention therefore creates, for example, a bottle rack with a two-layer wall and holes in the layers opposite to receive

Bottlenecks. The holes are arranged in the wall in such a way that a large number of bottles can be arranged in a tight arrangement with the bottle necks in two holes on each side of the wall.

Brief description of the figures:

1 shows a side view of a double-sided wall.

FIG. 2 shows a top view of the wall according to FIG. 1.

3 shows an alternative top view of a wall of a bottle rack. Fig. 4 shows a plan view of a wall of a bottle rack with bottles arranged obliquely. Fig. 5 to 11 show different hole cross-sectional shapes. 12 and 13 show arrangement variants for holes in a wall with two separate layers. 14 shows a longitudinal section through a hole in a wall, in which the distance between the hole edges is smaller than the distance between the wall surfaces. 15 shows a longitudinal section through a hole in a wall, in which the distance between the hole edges is greater than the distance between the wall surfaces. Fig. 16 shows a view of a wine rack for 216 ordinary wine bottles. Fig. 17 shows a view of a wine rack for 138 ordinary and 35 larger wine bottles. Fig. 18 shows a detail section through a preferred construction of the wine rack. 1 shows a section of a view of a bottle rack with a triangular perforation in the triangular grid and partially filled with bottles,

The bottle rack 11 according to Figures 1 and 2 has a vertical wall 13 with 12 holes 17 in a rectangular grid. The holes 17 are formed normal to the surface of the wall 13. The grid spacing in the vertical direction is smaller than in the horizontal direction. A practical grid dimension is 5.8 cm vertically and 9.5 cm horizontally. In this hole pattern, six bottles 10 can be inserted into the corresponding holes 17 from both sides, as shown. Bottles 10 are alternately arranged vertically one above the other, the bottle bellies 30 of which are arranged on opposite sides of the wall 13. However, the bottles 10 are arranged horizontally next to each other on the same side of the wall 13.

FIG. 3 shows an arrangement in which the rows of bottles are arranged on both sides of the wall 13 at the same height. However, the row on one side of the wall 13 is shifted in the horizontal direction by half a pitch compared to the row on the other side of the wall. The holes 17, not shown, in the wall 13 are therefore arranged horizontally at a smaller distance from one another than vertically.

The top view of FIG. 4 illustrates that the axes of the hash 10 do not necessarily have to lie in a vertical normal plane to the wall. The holes 17 can also be designed to penetrate the wall at an angle such that the bottle axes, such as shown, in a plan view at an angle deviating from 90 degrees (for example 75 degrees) to the wall 13 Hegen.

The holes are advantageously formed in full material by drilling. The simplest cross-sectional shape of the holes 17 is therefore circular or circular-cylindrical, as shown in FIG. 7. Other hole shapes must be milled or punched out of the material. The shapes according to FIGS. 6, 7 and 10 could be achieved by milling with a rotating milling head. However, the wall can advantageously be formed from two spaced-apart layers. These layers can consist of wood, metal, mineral glass, organic glass, cement fiber boards, wood-based panels, plastic etc. Depending on the material, the holes can be punched out, which enables other hole shapes to be produced economically. AUe hole shapes shown, and much more, can be obtained by punching the hole from a sheet metal.

The formation of a wall from two spaced-apart layers also allows the holes 17 in the two layers, as shown in FIGS. 12 and 13, to be displaced relative to one another. The punching of the holes 17 can nevertheless be carried out vertically. But the penetration direction becomes oblique to the wall surface. The hole edge 26 on the bottle side, as in FIG. 12, can be higher than the hole edge 27 on the cork side in order to store the bottle 10 as horizontally as possible or with the cork directed downward. The edge of the hole 26 on the bottle side can also be deeper than the edge of the hole 27 on the cork side in order to store the bottle 10 with the bottle bottom directed downward.

Since the holes 17 are continuous, they are basically accessible from both sides of the wall. It may therefore be desirable for the hole edge 26 on the bottle side to be distinguishable from the hole edge 27 on the cork side. With a wall made of two layers 15, 16, this can be achieved by a different shape of the hole 17 formed in each layer. In FIG. 13, the hole 17 in one layer 15 is square, the hole 17 in the other layer 16 is circular.

The holes 17 with two hole edges 26, 27 converging into a pointed or rounded corner 37 (FIGS. 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 19) have the advantage that the bottle neck 20 is on both sides of the corner 37 at the hole edge 26, 27 works. This counteracts the tendency of the bottle to roll in the hole. The bottle 10 is practically immovable in hole 17. In full material, in particular a wall made of solid wood or wood material, the edge of the hole 26, 27 can be laid from the surface of the wall back into the interior of the wall. This is achieved in FIG. 14 by the hole 17 being widened toward the exit point in the wall 13. This widening can be carried out on one or on both sides of a hole. In the case of double-sided design, these widenings can be designed differently. An insertion direction can also be identified by such widenings. The hole formation shown in FIG. 15 allows the wall to be made thin. The hole is present in a pipe section 39 which extends through the wall 13 and projects on one side or on both sides of the wall surface. An asymmetrical design again allows the bottle side and the cork side of the hole 17 to be identified.

The holes 17, however shaped and executed, are formed in a grid in the wall 13. FIGS. 16 and 17 show two exemplary embodiments of bottle racks 11 in which the grid is a rectangular grid. In the exemplary embodiment according to FIG. 17, 216 holes are provided. These are arranged in 36 rows of 6 holes. The hole spacing within a horizontal row is 60mm, the hole diameter 35mm, which leads to a grid dimension of 95mm horizontally. The vertical hole spacing is 23 mm, the vertical grid spacing is therefore 58 mm. The hook frame is composed of two 2mm aluminum panels 15, 16. The distance between the two panels is 48 mm, so that the surfaces of the panels facing away from one another are 15.1652 mm apart.

The two plates 15, 16 are perforated identically. In addition to the holes 17 for the bottle necks, punchings 41 for connecting screws 21 (FIG. 18) are provided. These cutouts 41 are arranged between the holes 17 at a grid spacing of 190 mm horizontally and 290 mm vertically

An edge profile 45 (FIG. 18) is arranged all around between the two panels 15, 16. The edge profile 45 is a U-profile, the opening of which is directed inwards, and whose web connecting two legs is arranged along three edges of the panels flush with the edges of the panels 15, 16. The edge profiles 45 are riveted to the panels 15, 16 ( Rivets 49, Figs. 16 and 17). Along the third edge of the panels 15, 16, the panels project beyond the edge profile 45 by 10 mm. In this protruding area, cutouts for hanging in labeling plates 47 are formed. On the descriptive panels, cuts are formed in which the panels 15, 16 can engage. As a result, the inscription panels 47 can be detachably attached to the panels 15, 16. each horizontal row of holes 17 is associated with a label 47.

In FIG. 18, the upper 23 rows are identical to those in FIG. 17. However, the lower rows of holes 17 are replaced by those with a further grid dimension. The grid dimension is 11.4 cm. Accordingly, only 5 holes are provided in a row. However, the diameter of the lower holes 17 is the same as the diameter of the upper holes 17.

The structure of such a bottle gesture 11 is visible from FIG. The panels 15, 16 connected with pipe pieces 19 and connecting screws 21 are connected to one another at a fixed distance. As a result, the edge profiles can also be removed without the wall 13 becoming unstable. Therefore, the edge profiles, at least where they adjoin a building, can be attached to the building independently of the wall 13. For this purpose, the profiles 45 are fastened to a wall or a floor, or to a wall and a ceiling, or to a ceiling and a floor, for example with screws and dowels. The walls can also be fastened to one another at an angle, so that the wine rack is self-standing and does not need to be fastened or only has to be fastened to the floor. The wall 13 can then be placed over the legs of the U-profiles 45 and the panels 15, 16 can be fastened to the legs of the U-profiles 45 by means of rivets 49. This enables a practically invisible attachment of the wine rack to a building. The wine rack can also be hung up.

FIG. 20 shows a hole arrangement in a triangular pattern. Not only are the holes 17 themselves formed as triangles, but also the triangular holes 17, which are aligned in the same way, are each arranged in a triangular grid. The bottles are to be inserted into the triangular holes, which have a downward corner 37. Opposite these, a triangle with an upward corner 37 is formed in the opposite table. Through this triangular hole 17, the closure area of a bottle neck protrudes out of the wall 13 again. As a result, the bottle neck bears at both points 33 and 31 on the hole edges 27 and 26, both at the contact point 29 near the cork and at the contact point 25 near the stomach. The triangular arrangement of the holes 17 results in a very dense arrangement of the bottle bellies 30 next to and above one another. On the same side of the wall 13, the holes and thus the bottles in rows one above the other are each shifted by half a pitch. Likewise, two rows of identically oriented holes 17, accessible at different heights from different sides of the wall 13, are displaced by half a grid dimension. There are therefore always two differently oriented holes 17 both one above the other and opposite each other in the wall 13. This results in the densest packing of bottles in which each individual bottle can be removed from the frame without having to move another bottle.

This hole arrangement results in horizontal bands of alternating downward and upward triangular holes. Between these bands are intermediate areas in which no bottles can be inserted. The material of the plate 15, 16 present between the holes in a band, together with the intermediate areas, forms a framework.

In addition to recesses, bores and punchings as holes 17 in plate material made of wood, plastic, metal, etc., the holes can also be designed as meshes of a latticework.

In summary, the present invention is a bottle rack 11 with a wall 13, and holes 17 with two opposite hole edges 26, 27 for receiving a bottle neck through the wall. These perforated edges 26, 27 have a downwardly directed region 33 of a first perforated edge 27 and an upwardly directed region 31 of the other perforated edge 26 in the opened wall 13. These two regions 31, 33 are at most 6 cm in the vertical direction and in the axial direction of the hole 17 at least 2 and at most 8 cm apart. The hole 17 has a passage cross section with at least 3 cm diameter. According to the invention, a tight packing is achieved in that the grid dimension of the holes is smaller in a first direction of the grid than in a second direction. This small grid dimension is smaller than the diameter of a bottle belly of a bottle to be arranged therein. Therefore, the frame 11 must be equipped from both sides. A very dense arrangement of bottles 10 stored therein is obtained if the holes 17 are arranged in double density than is required for one-sided loading of such a frame.

Claims

claims 1. Double-sided bottle rack (11) for a variety of wine bottles (10), with a vertical wall (13) of a certain height and a certain width, which wall (15, 16) for receiving bottle necks (20) penetrating the wall Has holes (17), the holes (17) being arranged in a grid, and a grid spacing of the holes being aligned with the belly diameter of the loops to be stored therein, characterized in that in the erected wall (13) there is an area directed downwards (33) of a first hole edge (27) and an upward region (31) of the second hole edge (26) in the vertical direction of the hole at most 6 cm and in the axial direction of the hole at least 2 and at most 8 cm from each other, that the hole one Has passage cross-section with at least 3 cm diameter, and that in a first direction of the grid the grid spacing of the holes (17) is smaller than in a second direction and smaller than the diameter of a bottle belly of a bottle (10) to be arranged therein, so that the bottle rack must be equipped with bottles (10) from two sides in order to use each of the through holes (17). 2. Bottle rack according to claim 1, characterized in that the wall consists of a first layer (15) which has a first surface of the wall (13), and parallel and at a distance from the first layer (15) of a second layer (16) which has a second surface of the wall (13), which layers (15, 16) for receiving bottle necks (20) have holes (17), first holes (17) in the first layer (15) opposite second holes ( 17) are arranged in the second layer (16), and the first holes (17) have the first hole edge (27) and the second holes (17) have the second hole edge (26). 3. Bottle rack according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the grid is a rectangular grid and in the direction of the wall height the grid spacings are smaller than in the direction of the wall width. 4. Bottle rack according to one of claims 2 or 3, characterized in that the layers (15, 16) are kept at a distance from one another by spacers (19), and are held together by connecting parts (21). 5. Bottle rack according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the perforated edges (26, 27) are padded, 6. Bottle rack according to one of claims 2 to 5, characterized in that edge profiles (45) are arranged between the layers (15, 16) along an outer edge of the wall (13). 7. Bottle control according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the holes (13) are arranged in horizontal rows and on a free, vertically to be placed edge of the wall (13) one of the number of horizontal rows of holes corresponding number of labels (47) one above the other are arranged. 8. Bottle rack according to claim 7, characterized in that the inscription panels (47) releasably connected to the wall (13), in particular in the wall (13) are suspended. 9. Bottle rack according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that both the smaller and the larger grid dimensions between the holes (1) in a first region of the wall (13) are larger than in a second region of the wall (13). 10. Bottle control according to one of claims 2 to 9, characterized in that each layer is formed from a sheet. 11. Bottle rack according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the holes (17) are arranged in double density than is required for the one-sided loading of such a bottle control (11).