Stackable bottle crate made from plastic material
AssigneeSchoeller-Plast SA
InventorHans Umiker
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Abstract
In a stackable bottle crate from plastic material, the side walls are reinforced by vertical hollow profiled columns which are extended up to the upper marginal edge of the crate side walls and together with the upper marginal edge from a circumferential piling edge for load reduction.
Claims30
A bottle crate from plastic material with four side walls, a crate bottom, an upper and lower marginal rim and compartment walls disposed in the interior of the crate for bordering accommodation compartments for bottles, comprising, vertical side walls having inner vertical and outer faces substantially filling the area between said upper and lower marginal rims reinforced by vertical hollow profiled columns protruding from said inner face of said side walls into the interior of the crate, said columns extending between said upper and lower marginal rims to form a circumferential piling edge for load reduction;
- a continuous circumferential band having an inner and outer face;
- parallel, horizontally extending ribs formed on said outer face of said band and extending outwardly there from;
- said vertical outer faces of said side walls bordered by said circumferential, said outer band face of said band protruding outwardly farther than said vertical outer side faces;
- said vertical inner side faces supporting bottles thereagainst;
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- crate corner edges formed by rounded faces.
A plastic bottle crate comprising:
- a crate having upper and lower circumferential edges and corner edges formed by inclined faces;
- side vertical walls having vertical inner and outer faces substantially filling the area between said upper and lower circumferential edges and supporting bottles thereagainst reinforced by vertical hollow profiled columns on said inner side wall face, said columns extending to said upper and lower edges of said crate;
- a continuous circumferential band having an inner and outer face, said band having several parallel, horizontally extending ribs, said rib formed on said outer face of said band and extending outwardly therefrom, said outer face of said band protruding outwardly farther than said outer side faces of said sidewalls.
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