Receptacles – Arrangements of plural receptacles – Receptacle having rigid – removable inner container
Patent
1988-03-14
1989-12-05
Lowrance, George E.
Receptacles
Arrangements of plural receptacles
Receptacle having rigid, removable inner container
206427, 206429, B65D 124, B65D 148
Patent
active
048847127
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The present invention relates to a bottle case according to the introductory part of claim 1.
Different constructions of bottle cases are known. What they have in common, however, is that the side walls are designed to have not only a protective function for the bottles during transport and handle openings of various sizes but also sufficient width and height to bear large labels indicating the origin and/or the contents of the bottles contained in the case.
Manufacturers of beverages rarely offer just one product nowadays, but rather a number of different products which are filled in bottles of the same size and also supplied in cases of the same size. This makes it necessary to provide the conventional bottle cases with corresponding product-related information in the form of labels and the like, and to use appropriate sorting machines for packaging to ensure that the bottles leaving the bottling unit are packed in the bottle cases provided with the appropriate labels or printing. This product-related marking of the bottle cases, however, involves not only extra expenses for bottling and packaging but also the disadvantage that when the labels are worn off or damaged the bottles contained in the cases cannot be immediately recognized by the consumer from the outside; he must first remove a bottle from the case or look into the case from the top. This is unfavorable in particular for marketing reasons. There have been attempts to build cases with large openings as display windows in the side walls, but these constructions have not gained acceptance due to insufficient stability of the case frame and thus poor stackability.
The invention is thus based on the problem of providing a bottle case having a display function, which is sufficiently stable and rigid and allows for good stackability.
This problem is solved according to the invention by the features contained in the characterizing part of claim 1.
The invention is characterized by the fact that the side walls of the case are designed with display windows which are open, in particular open without any interruption, from the bottom strip to the handle strip on the upper edge of the case. This gives the case itself an immediate display function, since the design of the case itself exposes the bottles and thus the labels on both their necks and bodies to the consumer, so that the case allows the bottles alone to show the product-related marking important to the consumer. Further markings are thus actually unnecessary on the bottle case since the bottle itself is completely included in the product-related marking due to this design of the bottle case.
Of course, it should nevertheless be possible to provide the case with labels and printing in the interests of optimal advertising. This can be done on the handle and bottom strips and on the relatively wide corner support profiles, which together form a one-piece rigid case frame. The handle strip, bottom strip and corner support profiles thus frame, in conjunction with support strips, the display window or windows. The invention is advantageously applicable in particular to bottle cases for large-size bottles, the labels on the bottles already being relatively large due to the bottle size.
The compartment divisions inside the case are expediently hidden from the outside by vertical support strips in the area of the side walls of the case, i.e. in the area of the display window and thus on the plane of the side walls of the case. These support strips can extend from the bottom strip only as high as is required for supporting the bottles contained in the case. The free ends of the support strips are then spaced from the upper, handle strip. In this way the support strips cover the compartment divisions from the outside or cover the gaps between the bottles and may furthermore be used advantageously as supporting surfaces for holding the bottles. For this purpose the support strips are expediently disposed at the bottle gaps and cover the bottles only slightly without concealing the labels on their bodies and
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Schoeller Christoph
Schoeller Martin
Lowrance George E.
Taylor Reese
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