Receptacles – Compartmented container – Cells
Reexamination Certificate
1997-06-26
2001-08-28
Pollard, Steven M. (Department: 3207)
Receptacles
Compartmented container
Cells
C220S513000, C206S501000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06279770
ABSTRACT:
The present invention is related to a tray adapted to rest on bottles and also to receive bottles to a stack of bottles with intermediate trays.
Bottles containing mineral water or such traditionally have been sent out to retail shops in cases or boxes which had to be returned, empty or with empty bottles. Such boxes thoroughly have been used and initially were designed to protect bottles of glass. With the change to bottles of plastics, boxes have been used based on the same principle even if the purpose of the boxes, namely to protect bottles, now is made in quite another way as opposed to earlier, concerning transportation and storing at retail as well as wholesale dealers.
When disposal bottles of plastic are sent out, especially where a system of bottle deposit exists for such bottles, there exists a need for new solutions to replace the earlier type of boxes for bottles. Such boxes are transported out to the whole sale dealer and to the retailer with filled bottles, however are returned as empty boxes, thereby claiming unnecessarily large volume in relation to weight and function. The bottles of plastic as such are packed together on site and returned as a bulk.
Therefore there exists a need to provide packings adapted for recycling, which assumes substantially less space without bottles than with bottles, which certainly will be of importance as to storing and transportation for recycling.
Tests have been made to send out the bottles arranged on flat disposal trace may of cardboard or such, it has however shown that the stability is too poor with longer transportations. Likewise it has shown that costs for the retailers are too high to get rid of the disposable packaging. Here are included fees for delivering waste, cardboard, disposable package etc to official deposits.
Attempts have been made to produce trace of plastics with where the bottles are stacked in a pattern and the top of the bottles are extending a certain height up adjacent or between bottles in the layer above. This as such provides good stability, but the area used on pallets has too poor utilization. Using a Europe pallet there only will be possible to place 88 standard bottles of 1,5 1 with a diameter of 94 mm in each row. Such a solution furthermore is difficult to handle as the trace must be turned around 180° each time a new tray is placed on a row to stack a new layer in the height.
It is known to stack bottles standing on each other with a tray in between where the tray comprises upwardly protruding cups to receive the bottom of the bottle and the underside of the cups being adapted to receive the top of the bottle, with or without bottle cap. The total height of a bottle and the diameter of the bottle top, however, varies with bottles with or without cap. Considering this, the tray, e.g. the cap must have a corresponding shape. The result is that a stack with bottles with trays in between, must be strapped to ensure stability during handling and transportation. This is the case whether all bottles are with or without caps or the stack as such consists of a mixture of bottles with and without caps.
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Lerum Bjarne
Osbakk Georg
Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe
Pollard Steven M.
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