Multiple bottle carrier structure
AssigneeNiagara Bottle Washer Manufacturing Co., a division of The Salangmack Company
InventorMichael Vamvakas
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Abstract
A carrier for transportation of a plurality of bottles comprising a rigid rectangular frame enclosing a plurality of generally hexagonal forms, each form provided with a plastic liner for supporting a bottle while transporting the same through a bottle washing machine.
Claims7
A carrier for transportation of a plurality of bottles, comprising a substantially rectangular frame having metal sides and ends and being longer than it is wide and having a height between about 3 and 4 inches, a honey-comb type structure substantially filling said frame, said structure including a plurality of tightly assembled rows of generally six-sided forms, the contacting sides of said forms with each other and with said frame being firmly and permanently attached, and means at each end of said frame to relate said carrier to a flexible conveyor, said forms being of metal and of a height to enclose a good portion of a wider generally cylindrical part of a bottom of a bottle, and a plastic liner in each form secured to said metal form and of a length to encompass said bottle.
A carrier for transportation of a plurality of bottles, comprising a substantially rectangular frame having metal sides and ends and being longer than it is wide and having a height between about 3 and 4 inches, a honey-comb type structure substantially filling said frame, said structure including a plurality of tightly assembled rows of generally six-sided forms, the contacting sides of said forms with each other and with said frame being firmly and permanently attached, and means at each end of said frame to relate said carrier to a flexible conveyor, said honey-comb type structure including a plurality of rows of generally hexagon steel plate forms assembled in said frame with abutting sides of said forms normal to the longer sides of said frame, and there welded together, said honey-comb type structure being formed of a plurality of individual steel plates, each individual plate shaped to form onehalf of three hexagons in a row extending generally crosswise of the narrower dimension of said frame, every other one of said individual plates being reversed whereby to form complete generally hexagon forms between adjacent plates.
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