Method and arrangement for packaging groups of containers, such as bottles, cans, and similar containers, for containing beverages or other products
AssigneeKHS GmbH
InventorsDirk Schiekiera, Sebastian Pieters
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Abstract
A beverage container handling machine, such as a beverage container filling machine or a beverage container closing machine, is used to handle beverage containers, such as bottles, cans, and similar containers, which containers are configured to hold or contain a beverage, such as water, soft drinks, beer, wine, and juices, or a similar product for transport and consumption by consumers of beverages and similar products. Container packages, such as multipacks, are used for transporting groups of beverage containers, such as bottles, cans, and similar containers, for containing beverages or other products.
Claims17
A container multipack arrangement comprising:
- a plurality of at least four containers arranged in a container multipack, with adjacent containers disposed in at least two rows each having two containers connected to one another in pairs by adhesive connecting structures adhesively adhering to mutually facing outer surfaces of said pairs of containers;
- said containers being arranged relatively to one another to leave a space inside said multipack extending vertically from a bottom to a top of said multipack;
- a container base support structure configured to be disposed under said containers of said container multipack;
- said container base support structure being configured to support said container multipack thereon to permit transport or carrying of said container multipack, with said container base support structure vertically supporting said containers without embracing said containers or covering an outer surface of said containers;
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- at least one carrier structure connected to said container base support structure and configured to extend upward from said container base support structure through said space inside said multipack over a height greater than or equal to a height of said containers of said container multipack supported on said container base support structure, such that a projecting portion of said at least one carrier structure projects vertically past the top of said container multipack.
A container multipack arrangement comprising a multipack of containers configured to hold or contain a beverage, and a container multipack carrying arrangement being configured to permit carrying of said container multipack and comprising:
- said container multipack including at least six containers arranged in three pairs of containers, including two outer pairs and one middle pair;
- a container base support structure being disposed under the containers of said container multipack, which containers are connected together by adhesive connecting structures positioned between and connected to adjacent portions of the outer surfaces of pairs of containers, with said adhesive connecting structures being arranged in ring form around said container multipack of said at least six containers, but no adhesive connecting structure between said containers of said middle pair so as to leave a free space inside said container multipack extending from a bottom of said containers to a top thereof;
- said container base support structure being configured and disposed to support the containers of said container multipack thereon to permit transport or carrying of the container multipack with said container multipack carrying arrangement;
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- at least one carrier structure being connected to said container base support structure and extending upward from said container base support structure through the free space inside said container multipack over a height greater than or equal to the height of the containers of a container multipack to be carried by said container multipack carrying arrangement, such that a projecting portion of said at least one carrier structure, upon said at least one carrier structure being positioned at a container multipack, is disposed past the tops of the containers of the container multipack.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.