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.
Claims20
A container multipack carrying arrangement configured to permit carrying of multipacks of containers, such as bottles, cans, and similar containers configured to hold or contain a beverage, such as water, soft drinks, beer, wine, and juices, or a similar product, said container multipack carrying arrangement comprising:
- a container base support structure configured to be disposed under the containers of a 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;
- said container base support structure being configured to support the containers of a 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 being configured to extend from said container base support structure 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.
A container multipack arrangement comprising a multipack of containers, such as bottles, cans, and similar containers configured to hold or contain a beverage, such as water, soft drinks, beer, wine, and juices, or a similar product, and a container multipack carrying arrangement being configured to permit carrying of said container multipack and comprising:
- 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;
- 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 being configured and disposed to extend from said container base support structure 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.
A method of packaging multipacks of containers comprising 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, said method of packaging multipacks of containers comprising:
- moving filled, closed containers to a container packaging machine;
- forming multipacks of filled, closed containers by arranging filled, closed containers in groups of at least four containers, then connecting or joining pairs of filled, closed containers to one another by applying a connecting structure to and between adjacent portions of the outer surfaces of pairs of filled, closed containers;
- forming and connecting a container multipack carrying arrangement to each multipack of filled, closed containers, either in said container packaging machine during formation of said multipacks or in a separate multipack handling machine after formation of said multipacks, which container multipack carrying arrangement is configured to permit manual carrying of a container multipack by a worker or consumer;
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- said step of forming and connecting said container multipack carrying arrangement comprising moving a base support structure of said container multipack carrying arrangement under the containers of each multipack and positioning at least one carrier structure of said container multipack carrying arrangement, which said at least one carrier structure is connected to said base support structure, to extend from said container base support structure over a height greater than or equal to the height of the containers of said container multipack, such that a projecting portion of said at least one carrier structure is disposed past the tops of the containers of said container multipack.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.