Receptacles – Horizontally attached receptacle sets – Detachable
Patent
1987-05-01
1988-12-13
Foster, Jimmy G.
Receptacles
Horizontally attached receptacle sets
Detachable
206203, 220 236, 220 94R, B65D 604, B65D 2504, B65D 2528
Patent
active
047904437
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The invention concerns a multiple, especially two-part, plastic bottle carrier with divisions paralleling one wall, each half of the carrier being demarcated by an auxiliary partition with interlocking fasteners in the form of hooks that project beyond the partition at one corner, of recesses that match the hooks and end in a shaft at the other corner, and of a bolt that is accommodated in the shaft and that engages behind the hook on the corresponding half of the carrier with corresponding areas, and with handles that pivot on the ends of the halves of the carrier against the halves, whereby the free ends of the flanks of the handle extend beyond the pivot, at least the free end of the handle has an extension on the side of the half of the carrier that has the shaft, the wall of the shaft has an opening that faces the extension, the bolt has a recess in the vicinity of the opening, and the opening and recess are shaped and positioned such that, when the handle is pivoted against the particular half of the carrier, the extension can engage the recess in the bolt and raise the bolt into the locking position.
A plastic bottle carrier of this type is described in German Patent No. 3 034 650. Whereas the original intention in relation to this carrier was that each of the handles would act in conjunction with only one of the two bolts, specifically with the bolt associated with the half of the carrier that the handle is pivoted to, it was developed to the extent that both handles would act in conjunction with each bolt. If it is to be possible to generally stack the carriers, when they are in the assembled state, that is, the handles that constitute a component of the carrier must extend horizontally in both cases in the locking position, in which they are pivoted down against the halves of the carrier, and must not project beyond the upper edge of the carrier while they are in that position because, if they did, they would have a detrimental effect on the potential for stacking the assembled carriers. The handles are pivoted up out of the horizontal locking position into the vertical releasing position to allow the carrier to be transported. The free ends of the flanks are simultaneously disengaged from the bolt. The motions that entail the reciprocity between the handles and bolts, the pivoting motions of the handles and the vertical motions of the bolts, that is, in conjunction with the absolutely dictated mode of articulation of the handles to the halves of the carrier, determine on the one hand the extent to which the free ends of the flanks of the handles extend beyond the pivots on the halves of the carrier and on the other the height of the opening in the bolt that the ends of the flanks of the handle act in conjunction with. The opening in the bolt must be located such that, when the handle is pivoted out of the vertical releasing position into the horizontal locking position, the end of the flank of the carrier that engages the openings in the bolts must come to rest against the upper edge of the opening and the bolt will travel far enough up when the handle enters the locking position for the assembled halves to be securely locked together The position of the bottom edge of the opening in the bolt is determined by the height of the opening. The opening must be high enough that, when the handle is pivoted up into the releasing position, the ends of its flanks will encounter the bottom edge of the openings in the bolts, and the bolts will travel down far enough to result in release before the ends of the flanks of the handle disengage from the openings in the bolts. The height of the openings is accordingly necessarily limited. The result is that, even at a slight displacement of the bolt into the locking position, a slight upward displacement, that is, before the ends of the flanks of the handle begin to act in conjunction with the bolt, the ends of the flanks will not be able to enter the openings provided for them in the bolts. The handles can therefore no long be pivoted down all the way against th
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Dipl.-Kfm. Cremer Peter
Fogiel Max
Foster Jimmy G.
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