US3487948A - Holder for flanged containers - Google Patents

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US3487948A
US3487948A US707694A US3487948DA US3487948A US 3487948 A US3487948 A US 3487948A US 707694 A US707694 A US 707694A US 3487948D A US3487948D A US 3487948DA US 3487948 A US3487948 A US 3487948A
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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
    • B65D21/00—Nestable, stackable or joinable containers; Containers of variable capacity
    • B65D21/02—Containers specially shaped, or provided with fittings or attachments, to facilitate nesting, stacking, or joining together
    • B65D21/0209—Containers specially shaped, or provided with fittings or attachments, to facilitate nesting, stacking, or joining together stackable or joined together one-upon-the-other in the upright or upside-down position
    • B65D21/0216—Containers with stacking ribs in the side walls
    • 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
    • B65D25/00—Details of other kinds or types of rigid or semi-rigid containers
    • B65D25/02—Internal fittings
    • B65D25/10—Devices to locate articles in containers
    • B65D25/107—Grooves, ribs, or the like, situated on opposed walls and between which the articles are located
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10S—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10S206/00—Special receptacle or package
    • Y10S206/832—Semiconductor wafer boat

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  • the invention concerns a holder or support comprising two upright walls spaced from each other and held together at their lower ends by elastically yieldable yokes, the inner side of said walls are grooved to receive flanges of containers to be stored, means being provided in said grooves for releasably retaining the flanged containers.
  • the invention relates to holders open towards the top to receive flanged containers or the like, particularly light containers for small parts, such as, e.g., watch parts.
  • the bodies of these containers consist for instance of aluminum or of a transparent plastic material such as, e.g., polystyrene or PVC. These bodies have a flange extending all over the upper circumference of the body, and a cover, e.g. of light cardboard or paper is fixed to the flange either by beading or cold or heat sealing. On the cover are printed all the indications necessary for the watch repairers about the contents of the containers or packings. Hitherto, a plurality of such containers has been filled into a box, specially a pasteboard box. These boxes were stored until they were dispatched. The contents of the containers in the boxes had to be indicated by imprints on the boxes.
  • the containers consists of very thin aluminum or of breakable plastic material and therefore, are very easily deformable as well as the pasteboard boxes containing them, a great danger of the containers getting crushed occurred. Moreover, the containers were loosely piled one upon another in the boxes and, therefore, only similar or equal containers could be adequately stored in one and the same box.
  • the invention aims at the removal of all these inconveniences.
  • the holder or support according to the invention is characterized in that it comprises two opposed holderparts, such as, e.g. walls elastically connected together for being moved away from and approached to each other, these holder-parts having rests for receiving flange portions of the containers to be stored.
  • the two holder-parts in the shape of walls are connected with each other only by two elastically yieldable yokes which are preferably flush with the respective end faces of the holder, so that the holder, if desired, can even be put upright on a support by means of one of its end faces. Since the "ice end faces, with the exception of the yokes, are open, the indications on the cover of the foremost container can be read, which is of especial advantage if the holder contains only equal or similar containers. If the walls of the holder are transparent and if the holder is open at its underside over its Whole length, it is very easy to recognise the kind of containers stored in the holder.
  • means can be provided allowing an easy and safe piling of several holders one above another.
  • the drawing illustrates by way of example, one embodiment of the object of invention, this embodiment serving the purpose of receiving light containers for watch parts.
  • FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the holder or support, substantially in actual size.
  • FIG. 2 is a front view of the holder, on an enlarged scale.
  • FIG. 3 is a vertical longitudinal section along the line IIIIII of FIG. 2 and FIG. 4 illustrates a cross-sectional view of two superimposed holders, likewise on an enlarged scale.
  • the entire holder consists of either transparent or nontransparent plastic material.
  • Two opposed side parts form walls 1.
  • the only connection between these two walls 1 consists of two elastic yokes 2 being flush with the end faces of the holder and having reinforcing ribs 3 below their webs. In consequence, especially the lower portions of the legs 4 of the yokes 2 are elastic-ally yieldable.
  • Grooves 5 running vertically on the inside of the walls 1 form rests for receiving portions of the containers to be stored. For securing the stored containers from falling out of the holder e.g.
  • FIG. 3 illustrates, how three containers 11, 12 and 13 of different height are received in the holder.
  • the covers of all these three containers are of rectangular shape, preferably with rounded corners.
  • the bodies of the containers may either be cornered or round in cross-section.
  • the flanges 14 of the container bodies, to which the covers are fixed engage opposed grooves 5 of the two walls 1.
  • the containers are secured in position by the flanges 8 of the holder towards the bottom and by the cams 7 towards the top.
  • the container flange 14 is supported from the top onto the upper side of opposed cams 7 and then pressure is applied to the containers from the top. Due to the elastically yieldable ad tensible yokes 2 the walls are forced away from each other until the flanges 14 of the downwardly moved container lies entirely beneath the cams 7, whereupon the elastically spanned yokes 2 automatically approach the spread walls 1 to each other. On removing a container by applying a pull to its upper flange portion towards the top the corresponding phenomena occur. However, while spreading the walls 1 from each other on inserting or removing a container, the other containers remain secured in place in the holder since the depth of the grooves 5 is greater than the height of the cams 7.
  • the holder or support according to the invention may also be used for other containers or the like than those for watch parts.
  • a holder for flanged containers two upright walls at a distance from each other, elastically yieldable yokes connecting the ends of said upright walls near the lower ends of said walls, groove-shaped upright rests on the inner side of said upright walls adapted to receive flanges of containers to be stored, stop means at the lower end of said walls to limit said groove-shaped rests towards the holder bottom, and cam means at the upper ends of said groove-shaped rests, said cam means projecting from the bottom of and into said groove-shaped rests over a part only of the depth of said groove-shaped rests for securing said stored flanged containers against dropping out of the holder.
  • a holder according to claim 1 in which bosses are provided on said upright walls disposed between adjacent groove shaped rests and projecting from the upper end of said upright walls towards the space between said walls.
  • a holder according to claim 1 in which bosses are provided on said upright walls disposed between adjacent groove-shaped rests and projecting from the upper end of said upright walls towards the space between said walls, teeth are provided on the lower ends of said upright walls, several holders being stackable one upon another, the bosses of one holder engaging between teeth of the adjacent holder.
  • a holder according to claim 1 in which bosses are provided on said upright walls disposed between adjacent groove-shaped rests and projecting from the upper end of said upright walls towards the space between said walls, teeth are provided on the lower ends of said upright walls, several holders being stackable one upon another, the bosses of one holder engaging between teeth of the adjacent holder, said stop means being formed as internal flanges on the lower ends of said upright walls, said teeth being provided on the lower surfaces of said internal flanges.

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US3961877A (en) * 1974-09-11 1976-06-08 Fluoroware, Inc. Reinforced wafer basket
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US5042671A (en) * 1989-09-20 1991-08-27 International Business Machines Corporation Versatile product carrier
US5111936A (en) * 1990-11-30 1992-05-12 Fluoroware Wafer carrier
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US6143087A (en) * 1991-10-04 2000-11-07 Cfmt, Inc. Methods for treating objects
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US3926305A (en) * 1973-07-12 1975-12-16 Fluoroware Inc Wafer basket
US3939973A (en) * 1974-01-14 1976-02-24 Fluoroware, Inc. Wafer basket and easily attached and detached carrier for same
US3923156A (en) * 1974-04-29 1975-12-02 Fluoroware Inc Wafer basket
US3961877A (en) * 1974-09-11 1976-06-08 Fluoroware, Inc. Reinforced wafer basket
US4577650A (en) * 1984-05-21 1986-03-25 Mcconnell Christopher F Vessel and system for treating wafers with fluids
US4633893A (en) * 1984-05-21 1987-01-06 Cfm Technologies Limited Partnership Apparatus for treating semiconductor wafers
US4738272A (en) * 1984-05-21 1988-04-19 Mcconnell Christopher F Vessel and system for treating wafers with fluids
US4740249A (en) * 1984-05-21 1988-04-26 Christopher F. McConnell Method of treating wafers with fluid
US4856544A (en) * 1984-05-21 1989-08-15 Cfm Technologies, Inc. Vessel and system for treating wafers with fluids
US4899892A (en) * 1988-03-08 1990-02-13 Northern Telecom Limited Earthquake-resistant electronic equipment frame
US5042671A (en) * 1989-09-20 1991-08-27 International Business Machines Corporation Versatile product carrier
US5114018A (en) * 1989-09-20 1992-05-19 International Business Machines Corporation Versatile product carrier
US5111936A (en) * 1990-11-30 1992-05-12 Fluoroware Wafer carrier
US6143087A (en) * 1991-10-04 2000-11-07 Cfmt, Inc. Methods for treating objects
US6348101B1 (en) 1991-10-04 2002-02-19 Cfmt, Inc. Methods for treating objects
US6095584A (en) * 1998-10-09 2000-08-01 Walsh; Robert M. Container dispenser and display rack
US6293637B1 (en) 2000-05-12 2001-09-25 Amco Engineering Co. Earthquake-resistant electronic equipment frame
US20090091880A1 (en) * 2007-10-09 2009-04-09 International Business Machines Corporation Assembly And Method For Ruggedizing Computer Racks And/Or Electronic Cage Assemblies
US7848109B2 (en) * 2007-10-09 2010-12-07 International Business Machines Corporation Assembly and method for ruggedizing computer racks and/or electronic cage assemblies
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