Special receptacle or package – Portable segregating carrier for plural cylindrical... – Pendent from handle
Patent
1998-05-26
1999-10-12
Gehman, Bryon P.
Special receptacle or package
Portable segregating carrier for plural cylindrical...
Pendent from handle
206427, 206477, 206560, 206564, B65D 2102, B65D 7500, B65D 136
Patent
active
059643439
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The invention relates to a carrying plate for beverage cans which have a seamless transition between base and casing, can receiving means being provided on the upper side of the plate with resilient holding devices for the beverage cans distributed over the perimeter and protruding from the upper side of the plates.
Beverage cans are normally packed in self-supporting containers or in box-like receiving bases and this has advantages for the transport and storage of goods of this kind. Packing in self-supporting containers requires not only comparatively expensive receptacles but also necessitates the same storage volume for the full and the empty receptacles. By using box-like receiving bases in which the beverage cans are held securely, for example with the aid of shrink-films, this disadvantage can admittedly be avoided, however problems arise with stacking up the individual storage units on top of one other because it is scarcely possible to prevent lateral displacement of the stacked storage units. As an advantageous way of forming the stack, the method is already known (WO 92/16430) of inserting carrying plates both on the upper side and on the underside with centering devices for receiving canned goods, such that, in order to form a pile of canned goods with a base area stretching over a plurality of carrying plates, the carrying plates provided between the individual layers of the stack can be disposed offset in relation to the carrying plates of the adjacent layers, at least in groups. The centering devices for the lower end faces of the canned goods on the upper side of the carrying plate guarantee that the individual canned goods are received without slipping, the centering devices for the upper end faces of the cans on the underside of the carrying plates creating the possibility of stacking the storage units determined by the carrying plates the one above the other without having to fear any lateral displacement of the individual layers in relation to one another. In order to obtain packaging units which may be handled easily, the carrying plates can have a connecting device for a carrying handle provided with at least one holding down device for the canned goods. These packaging units, however, require an additional carrying handle which has to be taken away again in order to form the stack.
Finally a method is known (U.S. Pat. No. 4,120,396) of providing in the region of the receiving means for the cans of a carrying plate resilient holding devices protruding from same in the form of snap-in hooks which overlap the undercut can edge like a snap-on cover. This produces a simple connection between the carrying plate and the beverage cans received by it, but this pre-supposes beverage cans with a base which protrudes radially in relation to the can casing. Since this presumption cannot, however, be made with the traditional and generally deep-drawn beverage cans with a seamless transition between casing and base, carrying plates of this kind are not suitable for receiving these beverage cans which are seamless in their base region.
Thus the purpose underlying the invention is to create a carrying plate for beverage cans which have a seamless transition between base and casing, it being possible to guarantee that there will be sufficient cohesion between the carrying plate and the beverage cans for normal handling.
Proceeding from a carrying plate of the type depicted initially, the invention fulfils the required purpose in that the resilient holding devices form gripping jaws for resiliently pressing in the casing of the cans, and in that the can receiving means have, as well as these resilient holding devices, rigid axial guide webs for the beverage cans which are to be received.
When a beverage can is inserted into a can receiving means of the carrying plate, the gripping jaws of the resilient holding devices are resiliently pressed away from one another by the base of the can, which, because of the transition into the casing, is stiff in the edge region, until they come into contact with the
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Gehman Bryon P.
Steiner Technology GmbH
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