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
  • 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
  • B65D71/70—Trays provided with projections or recesses in order to assemble multiple articles, e.g. intermediate elements for stacking
• • 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
  • B65D1/34—Trays or like shallow containers
  • B65D1/36—Trays or like shallow containers with moulded compartments or partitions

Definitions

• the invention relates to a tray or a carrier for holding containers, in particular yoghurt pots, according to the preamble of claim 1.
• trays are usually used, which are made from a folding carton and can usually hold up to twenty yoghurt pots.
• These trays made of folding cardboard usually have a cardboard base with an intermediate plate made of cardboard placed thereon, which is supported by cardboard webs and which, according to the number of yoghurt cups to be accommodated, is equipped with circular openings for holding the yogurt cups inserted into the tray.
• this cardboard tray is usually provided with an outer packaging made of a shrink film after filling with the yoghurt cups, which has to be torn off on site so that the yogurt cups can be transferred from the folding box to the shelves.
• the object of the invention is to enable receptacles, in particular yoghurt beakers with a large range of diameters, to be handled without any problems with regard to the handling, storage and transport function of the tray, while maintaining the reusable function of the tray. According to a further aspect, even with different cup diameters, it should be ensured that the cups, when inserted manually or mechanically, get into the tray and touch the bottom of the tray.
• the spring tongues are designed in such a way that their front free ends elastically yield to the yogurt cup sitting in the tray on the bottom of the tray, ie in an area on or just above the bottom of the cup to back up.
• the spring tongues are designed like a ridge roof, that is to say in the manner of an isosceles triangle with an acute angle, with the roof-like, essentially isosceles formation of the spring tongues pointing toward the inside of the compartment and thus towards the yogurt cup used ⁇ pointing roof leg of the spring tongues essentially up are led down to the tray bottom.
• the lower or front free ends of these inner roof legs engage the yogurt cup on its lower section.
• the ribs on the underside of the tray floor in the intermediate area between adjacent sections of the tray, which were required for previous stackable trays for the stacked assembly of the loaded trays, which, when the uppermost tray is pulled off, damage the yoghurt cups, in particular the lid of the yogurt cups by contact with the ribs can be replaced according to the invention in that bead-like depressions are now provided in the tray bottom, which protrude downwards and between which the upper part of the Yogurt cups in the lower tray layer grip. It is expedient to adapt these beads to the shape of the yogurt cups in the area of the holding surfaces opposite the yogurt cups, in particular to form them in the form of a segment of a circle.
• a stack shoulder is provided on the side walls of the tray.
• This stacking shoulder also prevents the stacked empty trays from being set too tightly together.
• the section of the side wall located below the stacking shoulder can be conically shaped inwards.
• the narrow end walls of the tray In the sense of stiffening the trays, it is particularly expedient to equip the narrow end walls of the tray with a profile-shaped edge strip, in particular with an inverted U-profile, this profile strip being able to be used as a handle.
• the mechanical gripping is further simplified in that recesses are provided in the area of the profile web.
• securing tongues are provided in the lower area of the side walls, mainly in the corner areas, which extend from top to bottom and to the outside and can be formed in one piece with the tray. As a result, strapping and other fastening means are held and cannot slide off the tray.
• FIG. 1 is a view of the narrow side of a yogurt tray, of which only half is shown,
• FIG. 2 is a top view of the yogurt tray shown in FIG. 1, again showing only a part, namely a corner part of the tray,
• FIG. 3 shows a partially sectioned side view of the yogurt tray according to FIG. 2,
• FIG. 4 shows a further sectional view of the yogurt tray, the section being laid parallel to the long side of the yogurt tray, the tray again being shown only partially,
• FIG. 6 shows a partial view in section of two yoghurt trays stacked one above the other in a purely schematic representation, the section being drawn perpendicular to FIG. 5.
• the tray shown in the figures which serves to hold yoghurt cups, has a tray base, generally designated 1, with a rectangular plan in the exemplary embodiment shown and four side walls surrounding the edge of the tray base those in Fig. 1 the narrow Side wall 2 and a longitudinal side wall 3 can be seen from FIG. 3. It goes without saying that the two narrow side walls and the two longitudinal side walls are arranged opposite one another to form the box-shaped tray.
• the tray only serves to hold a total of 20 yoghurt pots, five cups in four longitudinal rows 4 parallel to the longitudinal side wall 3 and four cups perpendicular to it in five transverse rows 5 parallel to the narrow side wall 2 in a total of twenty compartments 6 are included.
• the circumference of a yogurt cup accommodated in the tray is shown schematically at 7 in FIG. 2. Instead of a twenties tray, however, these can also be designed to hold a different number of yoghurt pots, for example as twelve-piece trays.
• each compartment namely four spring tongues 8, 9, 10 and 11 per compartment 6 in the exemplary embodiment shown, the spring tongues being arranged in pairs opposite one another.
• the spring tongues have a roof-like cross-section, the roof leg 12 facing away from the compartment 6 extending upward from the tray floor to the ridge 13 and the one labeled 14 Indicating interior roof section extends from ridge 13 to tray bottom 1.
• a yogurt cup 15 is shown schematically in dash-dot lines in FIG.
• the four roof-like spring tongues 8 to 11 are connected to the tray floor with their roof legs 12 located outside the compartment, whereas the inner roof legs 14 are freely supported at their lower end.
• corresponding recesses 16 ' are formed on the tray bottom below each spring tongue.
• the roof leg 14 extends with its front end into the cutout 16 ′ of the tray base 1.
• the spring tongue 11 is provided with the reference numerals 12 to 14 to represent the roof leg and the ridge, but all other spring tongues are designed analogously.
• a yoghurt cup is inserted into a compartment 6 from above, a large range of cup diameters can be excluded due to the very wide spring travel caused by the large lower distance between the two roof legs 12 and 14.
• the roof limbs 12, 14 are pressed outward correspondingly far and then hold the cup received in the compartment 6 due to the spring preload that has been built up.
• the yogurt cups There is also easy removal of the yogurt cups.
• the lower sections of the inner roof legs attack the yoghurt cup on its lower section, which is not apparent from the purely schematic representation in FIG. 4, which is only intended to illustrate the arrangement of a cup in a compartment.
• beads 17 are formed in the intermediate areas designated 16 in FIGS. 4 and 2 between adjacent compartments 6, which are thus arranged between the roof legs 12 on the outside of the compartments of adjacent spring tongues. These beads 17 protrude from the bottom of the tray and serve to hold loaded trays arranged one above the other in a stack, the yogurt cups of the lower tray reaching between the beads 17 of the tray above.
• the beads 17 are formed with holding surfaces 18 adapted to the cup shape, which are shaped like a segment of a circle in the exemplary embodiment shown.
• the beads 17 are connected to the tray base 1 via inclined surfaces 19, although rounded surfaces are also conceivable. For the rest, however, the tray bottom is smooth and flat at the top and bottom.
• each narrow side 2 of the tray is formed by an edge strip with a U-shaped cross section directed downwards, the U profile being shown in FIG. 3.
• the U-profile extends over the entire narrow side of the tray.
• cutouts 21 are provided in the area of this edge strip 20 on the narrow side of each tray in accordance with FIGS. 1 and 2, with one recess on the left and one on the right is provided near the corners.
• a mechanical gripper for lifting the trays can be inserted through this recess 21 in the outer U-web of the edge profile strip 20.
• the outer U-web 22 of the edge profile strip 20 is offset inwards in the area of the middle of the narrow side 2, which results in a better grip of the trays.
• a horizontally outwardly extending cross-web 23 can be provided at the lower end of the inwardly offset U-web 22, a horizontally outwardly extending cross-web 23 can be provided. 5 can also be omitted.
• a stack shoulder 24 offset inwards is provided all around the four side walls, by means of which the trays are placed one on top of the other in the stacked position, as best shown in FIGS. 5 and 6.
• the wall section 25 above the stacking shoulder 24 is preferably vertical, that is to say perpendicular to the plane of the tray bottom 1, which enables reliable mechanical gripping without the grippers slipping off.
• the lower wall section, designated 26, on the other hand, is conical for the purpose of stackability from top to bottom.
• the tray also has a securing device for strapping and the like known per se, as are used for holding stacked trays together on pallets.
• the securing device in this case consists of tongues 27 directed downward in the lower wall section 26, through which slipping of a strapping of a rubber band and the like is prevented.
• these securing tongues 27 are each mounted on one corner side, so that two securing tongues 27 are provided in the corner region for each side wall.
• These securing tongues 27 can be formed in one piece with the tray. Openings 28 are preferably formed in the side walls above the securing tongues 27.
• openings 29 in addition to the openings 16 'are provided in the tray bottom for removing water obtained during cleaning. It is expedient here that the openings 29 and the openings 16 'are each formed with rounded corners in order to avoid any damage to the yoghurt cups. In the illustrated embodiment, the drain openings 29 are circular.

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