Bottle packing
OwnerUlrich Heinrich Prodelinventor
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Abstract
A bottle packing comprises a plastic bottle case receiving a plurality of cardboard or plastic bottle carriers. The case is divided by wedge-like compartment walls having sloping sides in which cutouts are provided to receive lower portions of bottles. The bottle carriers have a narrow bottom and sloping sides conforming to the compartment walls of the case and likewise having cutouts for the bottles. The carriers may also have cutouts for upper portions of the bottles and cutouts near the top to provide a handle. The carriers may receive one or two rows of bottles. The bottles can be placed in the case with or without carriers. When no carriers are used, the compartment walls prevent the bottles from striking one another.
Claims14
A bottle packing comprising a plastic case having two spaced parallel upright side walls and a plurality of parallel elongate trough-like compartments extending between said side walls, each of said compartments being defined by two downwardly converging inclined walls which at their upper edges are spaced apart a distance greater than the diameter of bottles to be packed and at their lower edges are spaced apart a distance less than said diameter, said inclined walls being of lesser height than said side walls and having in lower portions thereof apertures shaped to receive lower portions of bottles and thereby position bottles apart from one another in said case, means at the lower edges of said inclined walls to support bottles received in said apertures, and a plurality of bottle carriers received in said case, each of said carriers having inclined walls engaging and conforming to said inclined walls of said case with apertures registering with said apertures in the inclined walls of said case to receive said bottles and a bottom to support bottles received in said apertures, whereby said case is adapted alternatively to receive bottles in carriers or individual bottles not in carriers and to position said bottles against lateral displacement whether or not in carriers.
An integral molded plastic case for bottles comprising two spaced parallel upright side walls and a plurality of parallel trough-like compartments extending continuously between said side walls, each of said compartments being defined by two downwardly converging inclined walls which at their upper edges are spaced apart a distance greater than the diameter of bottles to be received in said case and at their lower edges are spaced apart a distance less than said diameter, said inclined walls being of lesser height than said side walls and having in lower portions thereof spaced apertures shaped to receive lower portions of bottles and thereby position bottles apart from one another in said case, pairs of said inclined walls between adjacent compartments being joined at their upper edges to form in cross section an inverted V-structure, and means at the lower edges of said inclined walls to support bottles received in said apertures, whereby said case will receive individual bottles and will also receive bottles in carriers having apertured inclined sides conforming to said inclined walls of said case.
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