Container, assembly, set, and kit of parts
AssigneePagter Innovations B.V.
InventorsRuud van den Heijkant, Janus Adriaan Willem de Pagter
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Abstract
The invention relates to a container for cut flowers, the container being nestable, the container comprising a container body which at an upper region is provided with a channel-shaped sleeve holder for holding a protective sleeve arranged to protect cut flowers. The channel-shaped sleeve holder is open at its top. Further, the channel-shaped sleeve holder has an outer channel wall. The container further comprises at least one anti-interlocking flange extending downwardly from the channel-shaped sleeve holder. The anti-interlocking flange, or at least a bottom section of the anti-interlocking flange, is staggered with respect to the outer channel wall, or at least a top section of the outer channel wall.
Claims17
A container for cut flowers, the container being nestable, the container comprising a container body which at an upper region is provided with a channel-shaped sleeve holder, which the channel-shaped sleeve holder is open at its top, and which the channel-shaped sleeve holder is for holding a protective sleeve arranged to protect cut flowers, the channel-shaped sleeve holder having an outer channel wall, the container further comprising at least one anti-interlocking flange extending downwardly from the channel-shaped sleeve holder, the at least one anti-interlocking flange preventing the channel-shaped sleeve holder of the container from becoming unintentionally interlocked with a first container located adjacent the container, wherein the at least one anti interlocking flange, or at least a bottom section of the at least one anti interlocking flange, is staggered with respect to the outer channel wall, or at least a top section of the outer channel wall, to such extent that, when seen from above, the at least one anti-interlocking flange, or at least the bottom section thereof, is not even partially overlapping with the outer channel wall, or at least not even partially overlapping with the top section of the outer channel wall, and wherein a combined height of the outer channel wall and the at least one anti-interlocking flange is larger than a nesting height of the container when the container is nested with a second container, such that when the container is nested into the second container, the bottom of the at least one anti-interlocking flange of the container does not rest on an outer wall of a channel-shaped sleeve holder of the second container, but falls aside the outer wall of the channel-shaped sleeve holder of the second container, thereby facilitating that the nesting height is relatively smaller as compared to the combined height of the outer channel wall of the container and the at least one anti-interlocking flange of the container.
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