Receptacles – Horizontally attached receptacle sets – Detachable
Patent
1988-09-27
1991-04-16
Pollard, Steven M.
Receptacles
Horizontally attached receptacle sets
Detachable
215 10, B65D 2102
Patent
active
050075519
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The invention relates to receptacles, packaging elements or packs for contents having special problems of storage or transport or designed to serve purposes other than packaging after being emptied of their content, specifically containers produced from a plastic suitable for the product to be packaged.
These containers serve for packaging by-products of milk,
In this sector, the prior art is described by the documents summarized below.
The document FR-A-2,063,175 describes a spherical bottle carrying cylindrical cells of a size identical to that of the stopper. The stopper of another similar bottle can be introduced and secured in one of these cells. The assemblies formed by these bottles can be made more complex by the use of spacers of the same diameter as the stoppers and of double length.
To assemble these bottles, it is necessary to use an accessory piece.
The document FR-A-2,574,757 describes a modular plastic bottle characterized by the assembly of successive modules, the said modules being joined to form a single assembly.
These bottles are assembled by screwing in an exclusively linear manner.
The document FR-A-2,276,236 describes packs, containers or pots convertible into toy elements, characterized in that they consist of hollow parallelepipeds which can be assembled together on at least three faces, each assembly being obtained as a result of the engagement of a male outer projection formed on one face of a parallelepiped into an outward-facing female recess formed on one face of another parallelepiped.
The assembly of these containers does not have any means for retaining the packs to one another.
The document DE-A-2,115,693 describes containers, characterized in that an assembly of two or more containers is made possible by the presence of corresponding reliefs and cavities on their faces.
The assembly of these containers does not have means for retaining the packs with one another other than the friction of the reliefs in the corresponding cavities.
The object of the invention is, in particular, to provide containers, the form of which allows a juxtaposition and/or superposition, without loss of space and without the addition of an outer packaging or a grouping wrapper, in order to provide a plurality of conventional capacities.
To achieve this, these containers each consist of a hollow modular cell comprising at least one neck and at least one recess serving as a receptacle for an identical neck of another cell, each modular cell being connectable to at least one other modular cell, the assembly being held together by snapping means activated as a result of the engagement of a neck of one cell into a recess of the juxtaposed cell.
In one embodiment, the modular cell is spherical.
In another embodiment, each modular cell is a hollow rectangular parallelepiped, at least one side of which is equipped with a circular neck concentric with the geometrical center of the side supporting this neck. At least one other side of the rectangular parallelepiped has a circular recess concentric with the geometrical center of the side equipped with the recess. The inside diameter of the recess is at least equal to the outside diameter of the neck.
In a preferred embodiment, the modular cells are cubic, and three consecutive faces of the cube are each equipped with an identical neck, the other three consecutive faces each being equipped with an identical recess, the outer dimensions of the necks corresponding to the inner dimensions of the recesses.
The main advantage of these containers is that, when a neck of one of the containers is placed in a recess of another identical container, the packaged-product capacity is doubled, the volume occupied by the containers so assembled being scarcely larger than the volume of product accommodated in these containers.
Other advantages will emerge from the description of preferred embodiments, given by way of non-limiting example, and from the drawing in which:
FIG. 1 is a view of a container according to one embodiment,
FIG. 2 is a diagrammatic view of grouped contai
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