EP0664760B1 - Tray zur aufnahme von behältern, insbesondere joghurtbechern - Google Patents

Tray zur aufnahme von behältern, insbesondere joghurtbechern Download PDF

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EP0664760B1
EP0664760B1 EP94924235A EP94924235A EP0664760B1 EP 0664760 B1 EP0664760 B1 EP 0664760B1 EP 94924235 A EP94924235 A EP 94924235A EP 94924235 A EP94924235 A EP 94924235A EP 0664760 B1 EP0664760 B1 EP 0664760B1
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Hans Umiker
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    • 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

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  • the invention relates to a tray or a carrier for holding containers, in particular yoghurt pots, according to the preamble of patent claim 1.
  • trays which are made from a folding box and can usually hold up to twenty yogurt cups.
  • These trays made of folding cardboard usually have a cardboard base with a cardboard intermediate plate placed on it, supported by cardboard webs, which, according to the number of yoghurt cups to be accommodated, is equipped with circular openings for holding the yogurt cups used in the tray.
  • this cardboard tray is usually provided with an outer packaging made of shrink film after it has been filled with the yoghurt cups, which must be torn off on site so that the yoghurt cups can be transferred from the folding box to the shelves.
  • Yogurt cups are currently available on the market, the diameter of which in the base area ranges from approx. 45 mm to 57 mm and the diameter of which is 50 mm above the base of the cup with a diameter range of 53 up to 67 mm. This range cannot be covered by the currently known plastic trays. Furthermore, the previously known reusable plastic trays do not provide adequate protection against the yogurt cup falling out during transport, for example when the transport vehicle is being braked, where the yoghurt cups can slip out of the trays as a result of the containers tipping over here.
  • the object of the invention is to enable receptacles, in particular yoghurt beakers with a wide range of diameters, to be handled perfectly 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, reach the tray bottom and sit there.
  • the spring tongues are designed in such a way that they attack and secure with their front free ends the yogurt cup sitting in the tray on the tray bottom in an elastic manner on its lower cup section in an area at or just above the cup bottom.
  • the spring tongues are formed like a ridge roof, that is, in the manner of an isosceles triangle with an acute angle, with the roof tongues of the spring tongues lying on the inside of the compartment and thus facing the yogurt cup used, essentially up to in this roof-like, essentially isosceles configuration are led down to the tray bottom.
  • the lower or front free ends of these inner roof legs attack the yogurt cup at its lower section.
  • a stack shoulder is provided on the side walls of the tray.
  • This stacking shoulder also prevents the stacked empty trays from nesting too tightly together.
  • the section of the side wall located below the stacking shoulder can be conically shaped inwards.
  • openings in the area below the spring tongues which at the same time ensure that the spring tongues function properly and at the same time allow cleaning water to be removed.
  • openings in the middle of the compartment are preferably circular or with circular corners, so that any damage to the yogurt cups during transport or when the trays are removed from the stack is prevented.
  • the tray shown in the figures which is used to hold yoghurt cups, has a tray base, generally designated 1, with a rectangular plan in the exemplary embodiment shown and four side walls running around the edge of the tray base, of which in Fig. 1 the narrow one 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 is used only as an example to hold a total of 20 yoghurt cups, 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 .
  • 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 cups, for example as twelve-piece trays.
  • the spring tongues are provided per compartment 6, namely four spring tongues 8, 9, 10 and 11 per compartment 6 in the exemplary embodiment shown, the spring tongues being arranged opposite each other in pairs.
  • the spring tongues have a roof-like cross-section, with the roof leg 12 facing away from the compartment 6 pointing upwards from the tray floor to the ridge 13 and the roof leg designated 14 pointing towards the interior of the compartment extends from ridge 13 to tray bottom 1.
  • a yogurt cup 15 is shown schematically in dash-dot lines in FIG. 4.
  • 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 exposed 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 wide 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 legs 12, 14 are pressed correspondingly far outward and then hold the cup received in the compartment 6 due to the spring preload built up.
  • the lower sections of the inner roof legs attack the yogurt 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 beads are thus arranged between the roof legs 12 of the spring tongues located on the outside of the compartment. 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 yoghurt cups of the lower tray engaging 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 in the form of 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 bottom and bottom of the tray are smooth and flat. The beads ensure a very good stackability of loaded trays and a very good pulling of the trays from the stack without damaging the yogurt cups or their lids of the trays underneath.
  • each narrow side 2 of the tray is formed by an edge strip with a U-shaped cross section directed downward, the U profile being shown in FIG. 3.
  • the U-profile extends over the entire narrow side of the tray.
  • recesses 21 corresponding to FIGS. 1 and 2 are provided in the area of this edge strip 20 on the narrow side of each tray, a recess being provided on the left and right near the corners is.
  • 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 center of the narrow side 2, which results in better gripping of the trays.
  • a horizontally outwardly extending transverse web 23 can be provided at the lower end of the inwardly displaced U-web 22. 5 can also be omitted.
  • an inwardly offset stacking shoulder 24 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 secure 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 has a securing device in the corner areas for strapping and the like known per se, such as are used for holding stacked trays together on pallets.
  • the securing device here consists of tongues 27 directed downward in the lower wall section 26, through which slippage of 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 the removal of 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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EP94924235A 1993-08-25 1994-07-05 Tray zur aufnahme von behältern, insbesondere joghurtbechern Expired - Lifetime EP0664760B1 (de)

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DE4328585 1993-08-25
DE4328585 1993-08-25
DE4332623A DE4332623A1 (de) 1993-08-25 1993-09-24 Tray zur Aufnahme von Behältern, insbesondere Joghurtbechern
DE4332623 1993-09-24
PCT/EP1994/002197 WO1995005982A1 (de) 1993-08-25 1994-07-05 Tray zur aufnahme von behältern, insbesondere joghurtbechern

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